The design of a mutual inductance coil assembly and its use as the detection device of an inductance bridge (modified Hartshorn bridge) is described. The coil was used to measure the superconducting transition temperature ...

This thesis consists of work involving use of computational chemistry for studying the reactions of heteroatomic systems. It is interesting to observe how the reaction mechanism for classical organic reactions are affected ...

The way in which people abandon a site affects the patterning of artifacts and the other materials that make up the archaeological record. This thesis analyzes the way in which abandonment behavior can be seen archaeologically ...

Of all the arts in America, the theatre has perhaps the largest number of participant organizations. There are some fifteen thousand non-professional and educational theatres in the United States. The present study attempts ...

During 1981, 10 inmates of the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland went on hunger strike in pursuit of "political prisoner status." Their action was an effort to establish the legitimacy of the use of violence to achieve ...

The accuracy of mapping derived from of General Land Office survey (GLO) data for a portion of Lake County, Illinois is assessed. This study is based upon similar research conducted by Iverson and Risser in 1987. Due to ...

Work motivation theorists have only recently addressed the importance of studying nonconscious motivation in addition to conscious motivation and the relationship between the two. The primary purpose of the current ...

Bronze drums are important to the culture of the Karen people, who live mainly in Burma and the mountainous region between Burma and Thailand. A Karen bronze drum, which is cast in one piece, consists of an overlapping ...

The hammered dulcimer is a folk instrument of trapezoidal shape that is played with two hand-held hammers. For this thesis, the acoustics of two professionally made and two home-made hammered dulcimers were studied. Using ...