Background/Objectives: According to the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry (PRCCR), during the period 2010-2014, colorectal cancer was the second leading cancer with the highest incidence in both sexes. Previous studies ...

Throughout this work, bird-strike events are studied using three approaches in LSDYNA: Lagrangian, Arbitrary Lagrange Eulerian (ALE), and Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). A simple one-dimensional beam centered impact ...

In spite of the multimodality of texts with which students interact nowadays, reliance on print-based literary textbooks in English classrooms prevails. This qualitative action research adopted a poststructuralist framework ...

The purpose of this research was to identify the role of the social worker in the implementation of the public policy of the established programs to achieve student retention, especially in their work with the indicators ...

This thesis explores the manner in which Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s nineteenth century transcendentalist thought as described in his essays, Nature, The American Scholar, and Self Reliance, is present and appropriated in Alan ...

Analyses of the concentration of the eicosanoid 12-hydroxyeicosatrienoic acid (12- HETE) and heat shock proteins in response to stress conditions were studied in the common Caribbean benthic marine alga Murrayella ...

Recent experimental verifications of predicted intrinsic room-temperature ferromagnetism in transition metal doped-ZnO nanostructures have increased their attractiveness as promising candidates for optoelectronic and ...

Since their introduction in 1815, Grimm’s Children’s Stories and Household Tales have been retold and refashioned many times in American popular culture. Closely studying these retellings helps readers understand the ...

This thesis examines divergences, motives and issues incorporated in current narrative styles that break away from the older femenine–figure–oriented work. This investigation was done with Gabriela Mora’s theory of literary ...