The purpose of this study was to determine if stress relieving techniques have an effect on the level of success an athlete achieves in the sport of swimming at the collegiate level. The participants in this study consisted of twenty student-athlete swimmers at a NCAA Division III school in Maryland. This study involved the use of a survey to perform a causal-comparative analysis of the data. The results determined no significant difference between the success...

The Norwegian Polar Institute is a governmental institution for scientific research, mapping and environmental monitoring in the Arctic and the Antarctic. The institute’s Polar Data Centre (NPDC) manages and provides access to scientific data, environmental monitoring data, and topographic and geological map data from the polar regions. The scientific datasets are ranging from human field observations, through in situ and moving sensor data, to remote sensing products. The institute's data holdings also include photographic images,...

The Media Repository is a web-based digital asset management system to store, organize and share digital media files. Not only images and documents are directly supported – audio and video content is supported as well. The data can be re-used in other systems. The system manages a variety of file formats and metadata schemes. It stores and organizes media data and helps to manage workflows with them. Public web presentations are possible as well as...

The Climate Change Centre Austria - Data Centre provides the central national archive for climate data and information. The data made accessible includes observation and measurement data, scenario data, quantitative and qualitative data, as well as the measurement data and findings of research projects.

The RDSC provides researchers access to selected microdata from the Bundesbank's data records for independent and non-commercial scientific research projects on basis of the legal requirements. The RDSC is the mediator between the Bundesbank’s wide range of different micro data in various departments and – on the other side – researchers or analysts. In connection with this, the RDSC is responsible for the methodological improvement, the access of and the comprehensive documentation of the high-quality...

Build thermoplastic polymer chains and run LAMMPS to relax the chains and study mechanical properties

This capstone outlines an exhibition proposal which combines oral histories and community narratives with more traditionally viewed historic collections to create a different look at Kansas City history. Based on the idea of a participatory museum exhibition, this capstone explores how to bring an interactive aspect to local history.

Based on Bowerman & Pederson’s Topological Relations Picture Series (TRPS), the author has researched the semantic space of static spatial prepositions of Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian (Egyptian, Afro-Asiatic), Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. This repository publication publishes the raw data.

COW seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations. Key principles of the project include a commitment to standard scientific principles of replication, data reliability, documentation, review, and the transparency of data collection procedures. More specifically, we are committed to the free public release of data sets to the research community, to release data in a timely manner after data collection is completed, to provide version...

The Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) is a repository of detailed election results at the constituency level for lower house legislative elections from around the world. Our motivation is to preserve and consolidate these valuable data in one comprehensive and reliable resource that is ready for analysis and publicly available at no cost. This public good is expected to be of use to a range of audiences for research, education, and policy-making.

The present research examines whether Baltimore County Public Schools [BCPS] are disproportionately disciplining African American students through both in-school and out-of-school suspensions. This study utilizes data from Maryland State Department of Education Division of Accountability and Assessment for the academic school year 2008-2009, which is considered public record. Units of analyses include 172 schools within the Baltimore County Public School System, consisting of 105 elementary schools; 27 middle schools; 21 high schools and 19 non-traditional...

Presently, text is the most common medium of accessible content offered to the Deaf1 community that otherwise would be presented in an audio format if the recipient were not deaf. However, this fails to address the high incidence of low-level literacy within the Deaf community. As news, education and entertainment content are increasingly presented through online, often interactive, channels addressing multiple input modalities including text, a significant portion of the Deaf community has been left...

The range of health information available to consumers today has the ability to empower patients to take control of their health care and improve patient-physician relations. User-generated content and the existence of patient communities is changing the way individuals are able to interact with health information and connect with others experiencing similar diagnosis. This study looks at how individuals are searching for health information and what the potential impact the information they encounter has on...

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Over the last three decades, many innovations have been undertaken in American policing to improve organizational performance and accountability structures, and effectively and efficiently fulfill police missions and meet the needs of communities they serve. Compstat, an organizational innovation, represents a high point in the evolution of policing. Compstat is not only a crime control model but also a performance management system that focuses on changing organizational structure and culture. Like other policies or innovations,...

Due to a global increase in smartphone ownership and an exploding use of wireless services, mobile phones have become an important means of Internet access. However, the constraints (e.g. small screen, weak network connections, etc.) of such mobile devices limit the usability of information browsing. This paper presents research on the existing constraints of mobile devices, user activities on such devices, mobile Web usability issues, methodologies for optimizing user interaction, best practices for mobile Web...

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People with Multiple Sclerosis may suffer from fatigue, painful muscle spasms, and decreased coordination that may increase the difficulty of simple tasks such as holding a newspaper or turning a page in a book. Although there are many assistive technologies for persons with disabilities available, none are so accessible as iPads and Tablets. I intend to use these available technologies to design and research an e-reader application for persons with disabilities. By utilizing swipe technologies...

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The traditional approach to application design that operated effectively for those who interacted with desktop computers must be re-evaluated when approaching design for the mobile environment; the constraints users may encounter must be considered in order to create successful applications. Mobile devices require different sets of physical and mental interactions, in countless settings and under myriad conditions, introducing distractions and accompanying cognitive load effects that traditional approaches cannot mitigate. Through review of existing work and...

Objectives: This comparative retrospective study examined the health care access, health care status, and health service utilization of children from birth to seventeen years whose mothers self identified as native-born and foreign-born blacks from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH). In addition, it investigated whether the Medicaid provision for immigrants in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) (Public Law No. 104-193) was associated with differential utilization of dental, medical,...

This thesis provides a critical analysis of tourism trends in the northeastern corner of Tennessee. My intended audience is policymakers at the regional and local level, who can use this document to understand the effects of policy trends on localities. I present a literature review on cultural heritage and eco-tourism as they pertain to cultural sustainability, and more specifically on Appalachian Tourism. After an introduction to the region (both culturally and geographically) and to sustainable...