Central Valley Engineering proposes the construction of a soccer stadium and parking facilities in Downtown Fresno, CA. Beginning in Spring 2018, Fresno’s newly acquired professional soccer team will play its home fixtures at Chukchansi Park. Although . . .

The eleventh-century miniature family portrait of Christian King Gagik- Abas is the only known Armenian painting of a Bagratuni dynastic family. Established interpretation of the image suggests that indicators of rank and status are displayed within t . . .

Results of a search for the electroweak associated production of charginos and next-to-lightest neutralinos, pairs of charginos or pairs of tau sleptons are presented. These processes are characterised by final states with at least two hadronically de . . .

The ratio of production cross sections of the W and Z bosons with exactly one associated jet is presented as a function of jet transverse momentum threshold. The measurement has been designed to maximise cancellation of experimental and theoretical un . . .

For this study, the researcher sought to gain further insight into the higher education aspirations of the Salvadoran population living in the United States. Utilizing a qualitative, narrative inquiry research method, the researcher conducted semi-str . . .

Deep Learning is a branch of Machine Learning which involves complex learning with massive data sets. It is implemented with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The ANNs, in turn, are inspired by the biology of the Human Brain. ANNs mimic the functioni . . .

The aim of this research was to test the Shame Resilience Theory (SRT) in a higher education setting by replicating specific processes of the Difference-Education Intervention (DEI). The literature reviewed in this study examined four non-cognitive sk . . .

Mites and leafhoppers are important pests of grapevines and can sometimes be hard to control. In this study, various levels of deficit irrigation were applied to Merlot grapevines during the summer to determine if mite and leafhopper populations could . . .

Most city planners will undoubtedly acknowledge the commitment of their profession to local and national housing goals. These goals have for years been partially expressed by local programs to raise the quality of housing to a minimum standard for all . . .

Evelyn Millis Duvall, Ph.D., has long been recognized as a powerful spokesman in the field of family relations. In this paper, it will be the desire of the writer to consider much of what she has written regarding the adolescent or teenage period of l . . .

La UNESCO ha reconocido a Venezuela como uno de los países con mayor acceso a la educación superior. El estado venezolano, al menos en papel, garantiza la gratuidad y obligatoriedad de la educación entre edades de 6 a 15. Igualmente gratis es la en . . .

Many teachers have voiced their dissatisfaction with the type of in-service growth programs which they have been experiencing. This study was designed to provide basic information which could be used in improving the organization, financing, location, . . .

In 1926, a religious counter-revolutionary movement began in Mexico known as the Cristero Rebellion. Mexican Catholics across western-central states rose-up against the government, upset in the implementation of what they considered to be anticlerical . . .

The following study chronicles how flow from individuals participating in fantasy sports affects consumer behavior, and how marketers can use this to improve the overall experience of fantasy sports. Using a modified version of Hoffman and Novak s Con . . .

One of the major economic problems now confronting California farmers is locating the sources of sufficient funds to finance the rapid increase in the operating capital required for efficient production in agriculture. Changes in production techniques . . .

In this paper, a measurement of tau polarization in W -> tau nu decays is presented. It is measured from the energies of the decay products in hadronic tau decays with a single final state charged particle. The data, corresponding to an integrated lum . . .

Although many factors to the overall effectiveness of a high school counseling program, it is generally accepted that students from socioeconomically disadvantaged homes present a special problem for school guidance personnel. The purpose of this stud . . .

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of variables, including measures of cardio respiratory fitness, adiposity, and muscular strength, in predicting altered gait biomechanics in overweight and obese children. Methods:Twenty-nin . . .

Thus the problem for study focused on the medical characteristics of patients referred for discharge planning which might yield some tentative answers regarding the nature of resistance encountered in discharge planning. If differences are determined . . .

This collection of essays explores physical movement and the role it has played in my life. Subjects include raising my hyperactive son, my attraction to foreign travel, my career as an orientation and mobility teacher for the visually impaired, and m . . .

This paper reports a detailed study of techniques for identifying boosted, hadronically decaying W bosons using 20.3 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy root s = 8 TeV. A range o . . .

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of involuntary mentally ill patients at Patton State Hospital toward services developed within the provisions of the Lanterman, Petris, Short Act, which became law on July 1, 1969. The act had a . . .

A calorimeter is used to make measurements of the internal energy of a material in order to probe its thermodynamic properties, such as crystalline lattice stiffness, electronic effective mass, phase transitions, and entropy. Rare-earth metallic compo . . .

Cuba tuvo el privilegio, y a la vez honor, de haber producido dos de los mas grandes poetas modernistas y al mismo tiempo precursores de este gran movimiento: Jose Marti(1853-1895) y Julian del Casal (1863-1893)• Sin embargo, teniendo en cuenta el hec . . .

During the 1920's, China was torn by multiple civil wars—wars among provincial or regional military governors, called tuchuns, or more commonly, warlords. During the 1930's, several Chinese Communist historians charged that various tuchuns had been un . . .

A singular knot is an immersion of a disjoint union of circles into three-dimensional space that admits only nitely many singularities that areall transverse double points. A singular knot diagram is a projection of a singular knot into a plane, and c . . .

The problem is to determine “what techniques and procedures most effective orient and indoctrinate high school seniors and college freshmen to the advantage of enrollment in the Air Force reserve officers training Corps”. The problem was especially ac . . .

Public school teachers are required to have specialized training to appropriately address discipline problems and foster positive school culture. Despite good intentions, many teacher-training initiatives fall short of creating an unbiased school atmo . . .

The purpose of this study was to examine farmers' needs for agricultural assistance to help improve production, marketing, and farm finance. Though agricultural assistance has become more available to China's rural farming communities, little if any, . . .

Using data recorded in 2011 with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, a search for evidence of extra spatial dimensions has been performed through an analysis of the diphoton final state. The analysis uses data corresponding to an integrat . . .

A search is presented for dark matter produced in association with a hadronically decaying W or Z boson using 3.2 fb(-1) of ppcollisions at root s = 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with a hadronic jet compati . . .

We report the direct observation of the excited L=1 state B-s2* in fully reconstructed decays to B+K-. The mass of the B-s2* meson is measured to be 5839.6 +/- 1.1(stat)+/- 0.7(syst) MeV/c(2), and its production rate relative to the B+ meson is measur . . .

The 200-mile long San Joaquin Valley of California has a population of approximately one million persons in its seven counties. This valley is regarded as one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.''* Although one of the wealthiest agric . . .

We present a measurement of the top quark pair (t (t) over bar) production cross section (sigma(t (t) over bar)) in pp collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV using 230 pb(-1) of data collected by the DO experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We select . . .

This paper presents evidence thatJapanesehas prosodic scrambling of phonologicalphrases(ɸ)in additionto the well-studied syntactic scrambling of XPs.All cases of scramblingin Japaneseinvolve fronting constituents, be theysyntactic XPs or phonologicalɸ . . .

A search for heavy Majorana neutrinos in events containing a pair of high-p(T) leptons of the same charge and high-p(T) jets is presented. The search uses 20.3 fb(-1) of pp collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Coll . . .

A search is reported for the pair production of a new quark b' with at least one b' decaying to a Z boson and a bottom quark. The data, corresponding to 2.0 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity, were collected from pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV with the . . .

A recent paper by Erik Verlinde [1] argues that gravity should be viewed not as a fundamental force, but as an emergent thermodynamic phenomenon due to some yet undetermined microscopic theory. Using well-established thermodynamic principles along wit . . .

We are developing a method for the production of rare-earth (RE) nanoparticles, (NPs). A reliable production method will ease future investigation of emergent electrical and magnetic properties that may arise when applying quantum confinement to rare-e . . .

A blind analysis searching for the decay B-s(0) -> mu(+)mu(-) has been performed using proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. With an integrated luminosity of 2.4 fb(-1) no excess of e . . .

We present a measurement of the cross section for Z production times the branching fraction to tau leptons, sigma.Br(Z ->tau(+)tau(-)), in p (p) over bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV in the channel in which one tau decays into mu nu(mu)nu(tau), and t . . .