Disrupting Fraternity Culture

Folklore and the Construction of Violence Against Women

by Brandy Taylor Fink

Disrupting Fraternity Culture explores how young men and women perform male and female roles to "fit in" during the college or young adult years. It is arguable that many young men "perform" the role of the hegemonic male to fit in among peers, and that performing the hegemonic male is to perform acts of ...

Toward a Unified Theory of Audiovisual Integration in Speech ...

by Nicholas Altieri

Auditory and visual speech recognition unfolds in real time and occurs effortlessly for normal hearing listeners. However, model theoretic descriptions of the systems level cognitive processes responsible for integrating auditory and visual speech information are currently lacking, primarily because they rely too ...

The Impact of Agricultural Trade Liberalization on National Food ...

by Gbadebo Olusegun Odularu

This study attempts to examine the impact of a trade decontrol policy on food output within the Nigerian macroeconomic context. In other words, the study relates trade liberalization to the national food security situation between 1970 and 2000, by employing descriptive statistics and error correction model (ECM) as ...

Subsurface Evaluation of Source Rock and Hydrocarbon Potential of the ...

by Ugochukwu Princewill Iheanacho

Exploratory activities carried out in the Anambra Basin have revealed that the basin has the potential of generating hydrocarbon. Subsurface core samples obtained from Enugu 1325 and 1331 wells within the Anambra Basin were utilized in this study with the aims of characterizing the organic matter as well as ...

Structural and Seismic Facies Interpretation of Fabi Field, Onshore ...

by Kehinde Oluwatoyin Olowoyo

The Niger Delta is a prolific oil province within the West African subcontinent. Exploration activities have been concentrated in the onshore part of this basin, but as the delta becomes better understood, exploration influences are gradually being shifted to the offshore. Although the geology, tectonics and evolution ...

A Study of Business Decisions under Uncertainty: The Probability of ...

- With Examples from the Oil and Gas Exploration Industry

by Andreas Stark

This dissertation will discuss the uncertainty encountered in the daily operations of businesses. The concepts will be developed by first giving an overview of probability and statistics as used in our everyday activities, such as the basic principles of probability, univariate and multivariate statistics, data ...

Family Needs of Parents of Children and Youth with Cerebral Palsy

Determinants and Unique Profiles

by Nihad A. Almasri

It is important for professionals who provide medical, rehabilitation, educational, and community services for children and youth with cerebral palsy to provide a quality medical home, family-centered, and needs-based services to address their needs and improve child and family well-being. Knowledge regarding ...

A Study on the Tone-Reservation Technique for Peak-to-Average Power ...

by Umer Ijaz Butt

Multicarrier Modulation (MCM) has significant features over Single Carrier Modulation (SCM). Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a special form of Multicarrier Modulation with its key feature of Orthogonality. Along with the several advantages of MCM or specifically OFDM, it has some drawbacks, too, ...