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ArticleOng, Paul M.Korean immigrants in the USA rely heavily on ethnic resources to start up small businesses. Ethnic resources include business networks and knowledge, start-up capital and access to labour power, which are embedded in networks of family, friends and co . . . -
ArticleOng, Paul M.Korean immigrants in the USA rely heavily on ethnic resources to start up small businesses. Ethnic resources include business networks and knowledge, start-up capital and access to labour power, which are embedded in networks of family, friends and co . . .
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ArticlePrice, David L.A variation of the local density approximation (LDA)+U method, appropriate for application to cerium f-state localization, and its implementation within a full-potential linear muffin-tin orbital method is described. The method, functionally similar t . . .
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ArticleEvans, BrynWe tested whether the growth rates of small benthic fish (Gillichthys mirabilis) in three southern California estuaries corresponded with the local concentrations of contaminants. Fish originating from each estuary were transplanted to cages in each e . . .
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ArticleBulatov, Vasily V.A novel semidiscrete Peierls–Nabarro model is introduced which can be used to study dislocation spreading at more than one slip plane, such as dislocation cross-slip and junctions. Within this essentially continuum model, the nonlinearity which arises . . .
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Masters ThesisSmith, Sara MichelleSince the turn of the century, the U.S. has become proactive in addressing the obesity epidemic that affects more than two-thirds of the adult population and 17% of children between the ages of two and nineteen (U.S. Dept. of HHS, 2013). However, as p . . .
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Masters ThesisSweeney, Kathleen AnnThis report proposes to increase prevention of childhood onset obesity (COO) through a 41-week afterschool social work lifestyle intervention program teaching nutrition, cooking, and healthy eating habits to middle school students and their families. . . .
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ThesisPatel, Kantilal M.The purpose of this project is to study optimum weight design for the nonprestressed structure, using “compatibility analysis”. The result is then compared with the determinant case. A structural system is described by a set of quantities, some of whi . . .
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ThesisGebauer, SamanthaThe exhumed root of the Triassic to Early Cretaceous continental arc in Fiordland, New Zealand preserves a record of deep crustal arc processes during and following high‐flux magmatism from c. 124‐115 Ma. We present new LASS-ICP-MS and SHRIMP‐RG 206Pb . . .
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ThesisManlulu, ErinChildhood obesity is an increasing public health problem across the United States and is also a challenge in Los Angeles County, which increases the need for prevention efforts to target communities that address racial and socioeconomic disparities. E . . .