In the sultry warmth of the Mediterranean afternoon a crowd of people slowly fills the small tables and more secluded booths of the Cafe La Dolce Vita. The city is Beirut, Lebanon: cosmopolitan in the midst of a region heavy with the past, the regiona . . .

Results are presented of searches for the production of supersymmetric particles decaying into final states with missing transverse momentum and exactly two isolated leptons in root s = 7 TeV proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Sear . . .

The goal of this study is to provide a grammatical sketch of Somali. This sketch should provide a basis from which a more complete grammatical analysis can be made. The format adopted for this study is essentially traditional. No full details are inco . . .

A large body of literature has examined human risky decision making behavior. Previous research has shown that equivalent decision making situations differing only in how they are framed (gain or loss) can influence how someone will make a decision. E . . .

Higher education in the United States has experienced a loss of financial support, accompanied by an increasing criticism of cost and a questioning of effectiveness regarding student success (Gelman, Holland, & Soring, 2018). The level of knowledge an . . .

The purpose of this particular study was to examine selected aspects of services provided and population served by the Valley Children's Guidance Clinic and Fresno County Department of Mental Health, Pediatric Service, and to offer a general compariso . . .

It was the purpose of the this study (1) to determine the trends of delinquency in Kern County during the twenty years between 1934 to 1954; (2) to point out the areas of delinquency in which there is need for extra study and work by social and commun . . .

The aim of this study is to clarify some of the syntactic formalisms involved in Setsuzoku-shi and Setsuzoku-joshi. Japanese conjunctions are not clearly classified and also they are treated in the parts of speech under different classes by different . . .

Research on virginity loss has typically been concerned with the age of first intercourse, and not so much the quality and understanding of the event itself. Realizing the need for further investigation in this area, Carpenter (2002, 2005) conducted 6 . . .

The current visual inspection method for quantifying rot in wine grapes in California is problematic. In an attempt to obtain a method which is both accurate and simple, Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectra and Raman spectra of Chardonnay and Zin . . .

Tropospheric ozone (O3) is a stressor of natural and agricultural ecosystems. Crop and weed species may respond differently to this stress. Effects of O3 levels and water deficit (WD) on stomatal kinetics, nocturnal stomatal conductance (gs), and biom . . .

Background: Medications are one identifiable risk factor that can contribute to the incidence of falls. The aim of this study is to assess if the most frequently prescribed medication categories, psychotropic, opioid, and cardiovascular, are associate . . .

It is not the purpose of this study to determine which form of administrative arrangement in best, but rather, to investigate the duties of department chairmen. For this study the problem was reduced to: what should be the duties of department chairme . . .

The purpose of this study was to design, develop, and organize an ability level framework of industrial education for students in grades seven through twelve. The program was designed to integrate industrial technology, industrial arts, vocational edu . . .

This research draws on contemplative studies within a variety of higher education models that provides the structure for the use of mindfulness-based practices that focus on self-compassion strategies for the writing classroom, centering on this quest . . .

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) provides the sole aqueous conduit for macromolecular exchange between the nucleus and the cytoplasm of cells. Its diffusion conduit contains a size-selective gate formed by a family of NPC proteins that feature large, na . . .

Same-and opposite-sign charge asymmetries are measured in lepton+ jets t (t) over bar events in which a b-hadron decays semileptonically to a soft muon, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1) from proton-proton collisions . . .

This research is based on the conviction that the disadvantaged, who form a large segment of our nation's population, are not fully-understood in sociological, psychological, and economic terms. This lack of understanding about the disadvantaged has t . . .

Background: Pediatric bipolar disorder is a significant mental illness, characterized by changes in mood that can be abrupt, unpredictable, and extreme. The rate of diagnosis of this disorder has been increasing in recent decades. Purpose: A thorough . . .

There is a continuous increase in the English Language Learner (ELL) population in the United States contributing to a growing achievement gap. The ELL population in California is higher than the rest of the nation but California ELL students continue . . .

This study explores how five African American former fostered young people narrate their life stories of being in care by examining their life experiences, thoughts and feelings surrounding the level of disparity they may ormay not have experienced. A . . .

Educational policies over the past two decades have revealed the need for changes in the way teachers are recruited, trained, and retained. While teachers are the most critical component to student learning, not all new teachers have entered the profe . . .

Double-differential dijet cross-sections measured in pp collisions at the LHC with a 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy are presented as functions of dijet mass and half the rapidity separation of the two highest-p(T) jets. These measurements are obtained us . . .

Traditional theories, like those of Marx and Parsons, do not explain why the youth from affluent families’ arc in the forefront of the American reform and revolutionary movements. At the psychological level, a value-expectancy theory seems to be compa . . .

Educators in the state of California have struggled to reduce the number of minorities being suspended and expelled annually and significantly improve overall school climate and culture. To address this area of improvement, educators have begun to tur . . .

In October of 1971, a group of bilingual Filipino adults in Monterey County sought employment in the California elementary school system. They had been professionally trained and certified as elementary school teachers in the Philippines. In addition, . . .

The rapid growth of Latinos in the United States and high prevalence of depression among the population have important implications. Research continues to focus on constructs that may play a role in the elevated risk of depression among Latinos. Famil . . .

In each of two experiments, college students were assigned to two ad hoc groups (Team A and Team B) that competed in a dart-throwing contest. On each trial, one contestant from each team threw a single dart at a standard dart board, trying to come as . . .

This Letter reports a measurement of the muon charge asymmetry from W bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The asymmetry is measured in the W -> mu nu decay mode as a fun . . .

The purpose of this study is threefold: 1) to present an articulatory analysis of the Parisian French language sounds, 2) to present an original systematic representation of the orthograph of these sounds so that the student may recognize and produce . . .

Isotopically-labeled compounds are universally accepted as very useful tracing molecules in chemistry and biology research. They are invaluable to support mechanistic hypotheses and measure reaction rates. Although they did not become mainstream until . . .

The purpose of the thesis is to examine how the U.S. newspapers cover the 2008 financial crisis and recession and how the coverage may set tone on public view about the economy. A total 493 stories were selected between September and December 2008 in . . .

In this Letter we make a critique of, and comparison between, the anomaly method and WKB/tunneling method for obtaining radiation from non-trivial spacetime backgrounds. We focus on Rindler spacetime (the spacetime of an accelerating observer) and the . . .

The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate in what ways forms of cultural capital influenced high-achieving Latina/o students in their decision to attend a selective college or university. Yosso�s (2005) Community Cultural Wealth Model g . . .

Until Mrs. Q. D, Leavis published "Hawthorne As Poet" in 1951, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" had received only minor critical attention. Mrs. Leavis’ reading identifies Robin with the American Colonies in the period before the revolution. She suggests . . .