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Sacramento Valley Ultra Mafic Soils and Air Samples as Potential Health Hazards
(2010-04)The Sacramento Valley in California is bordered by two mountain ranges; the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevadas. Both ranges contain extensive exposures of ophiolites now exposed as serpentenites. These ophiolites are ... -
Safety of Radon Concentrations in Wisconsin Homes : A Statistical Investigation
(2021-04)Exposure to high levels of radon (above 4 pCi/L) has been linked to several diseases, the most prevalent of these being lung cancer. The purpose of this study is to determine if the radon concentrations in Wisconsin homes ... -
Sahara's Ancient Network of Drainages and Streams (SANDS) : The Libyan Testimony
(2025)Libya lacks a permanent natural body of water, causing it to rely on fossil water from underground aquifers that originate more than tens of thousands of years ago. The ancient aquifers are a relic from a time when the ... -
Samuel Barber's Use of the Texts of James Joyce.
(2009-01-30)Samuel Barber, one of the most respected composers of American twentieth-century art song composed nine songs to texts written by Irish authors James Joyce. Due to the complex nature of Joyce's writing, performers of these ... -
Sand Mine Particulate Analysis
(2017-02-15)Concern has arisen about levels of silica in ambient particles near frac sand mines. In order to assess these levels of silica, we have adopted an XRD analysis to test real air samples. Calibrations were constructed with ... -
Sand Mine Particulate Analysis
(2015-04)This project aims to measure the quantity of respirable silica particles in area sand mines. Research has shown a correlation between the presence of silicon dioxide air particulates and both silicosis and lung cancer, so ... -
Sand Stringers in southeastern Minnesota and west-central Wisconsin : A Progress Report
(2019-05)Reconstructing Great Lakes regional wind regimes during the terminal Late-Pleistocene (~15 ka to 10 ka) is an important component of paleoenvironmental research in the western Great Lakes Region and for testing global ... -
SANDS : Sahara’s Ancient Network of Drainages and Streams : The Case of the Nile River in Sudan
(2025-04)This project aims to map buried river channels beneath the desert sands to identify potential agricultural sites, particularly focusing on areas within irrigatable distance of the Nile River in Sudan. With fertile land ... -
#SayTheirNames : A Departmental Analysis of Police-Civilian Critical Encounters
(2022-04)Since the 1980s, society has marched into the era of community-oriented policing (COP) that mainly deals with citizens’ problems and concerns, emphasizing public cooperation and trust and reducing police-citizen conflicts. ... -
Scalable Distributed Image Transcoding Using Python-WorkQueue
(2013-05)Transcoding large amounts of digital media from one format to another is a common data intensive workflow. The purpose of this study was to present a scalable image transcoding system based on Python-WorkQueue that ... -
Scaling of Plant Functional Diversity Across Stress Gradients
(2017-11-17)Scale has an incredible ability to influence biological patterns. Well-known examples include the change in metabolic rate with body size and the increase in biodiversity with area. Community assembly addresses how the ... -
Schadenfreude : Contexts in Which Men and Women Feel Pleasure in Response to Others' Misfortune
(2014-04)"Schadenfreude" is a German word used to represent a feeling of pleasure in response to another person's misfortune. Systematic research suggests that schadenfreude is felt most often toward same-sex peers who are disliked ... -
Schedule Induced Procrastination in College Students.
(2009-02-10)When the frequency of Congess' bills production is plotted as a cumulative function across a congressional term, the result is a positively accelerated curve which is reminiscent of a fixed-interval scallop (Critchfield ... -
Schematic Illustrations of Evolving Tholeiitic and Calc-Alkaline Magmatic Systems: New Models
(2016-10-21)The dramatic contrast in the geochemical evolution of tholeiitic and calc-alkaline magmatic systems has remained an enigma since their original characterization nearly a century ago. Recently, two new models that describe ... -
School Bullying: Discrepancy Between Students' and Staff Members' Reports and Perceptions.
(2009-04)Many studies have shown that bullying has become a growing concern for teachers, parents, and students alike, and that awareness of the pervasiveness of such aggression has increased. Although the literature to date ... -
School Wide Early Literacy Screening : A Comparison of PALS-K and AIMSweb Tests of Early Literacy
(2015-04)The purpose of this study was to examine the differences between PALS-K and AIMSweb assessments. -
Science Literacy Among University Students: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Students in Eau Claire, WI and Students in Stirling, UK
(2012-04)Acceptance of evolution in America is relatively low according to absolute standards, with an estimated one in 20 Americans meeting basic requirements for science literacy (Miller, 1998). However, the U.S.A. ranks high ... -
Scientific and Unscientific Aspects of Buddhism
(2010-04)In the West, for most American Buddhists, it is assumed that Buddhism -- as a philosophy and practice of awareness -- is both psychological and scientific. Why is this so? Why would an ancient Asian religion seem to be in ... -
Scientific Literacy and its Correlates : Knowledge of Evolution, Genetics, and the Physical Sciences in UWEC Freshmen
(2010-04)Rates of basic scientific literacy in adult America are low--in fact, they are lower than rates of scientific literacy in 32 European countries and Japan. Researchrs have identified education as a key positive correlate, ... -
Scientists as News Sources in the Aftermath of Disasters : Trends in News Coverage Following Two Devastating Tsunamis
(2013-05)Natural disasters are becoming more frequent in the United States (NCDC, 2013), and this increase will result in more people being affected. To mitigate the loss of life, it is important that as many people as possible ...