The aim of the study is to determine factors contributing to satisfaction with orthognathic surgery. It was hypothesized that specific factors contribute to the patient's perception of success. 37 patients who had orthodontic/orthognathic surgery...
This thesis describes 1) the kinetics of vapor phase place exchange reactions on films of gold monolayer protected clusters (Au MPCs) to alter the functionality of the Au MPCs, 2) applications of the reaction for altering chemiresistive sensing...
The past decade has brought about major advances in the realms of both
healthcare and biometrics. New technologies and techniques in the field of biometrics
has allowed for the quick and efficient identification of people, while new...
The fundamental question of the exact nature of the role played by TNF in the failing myocardium remains one of contention. Many preclinical studies have demonstrated beneficial effects with TNF antagonism and recently the dichotomous role played...
Background: Dental caries is the most common childhood ailment and one of the most prevalent chronic diseases of people worldwide. Approximately 91% of dentate adults 20 years or older have experienced dental caries. Carious lesions on proximal...
Coal-fired power plants--Environmental aspects--United States; Mercury wastes--Environmental aspects--United States
This dissertation tests whether or not mercury emissions from electric power plants are not a significant contributor to mercury measurements in rainfall and argues that the current United States (U.S.) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
Educational tests and measurements--Social aspects--Kentucky; Test bias--Kentucky; Academic achievement--Social aspects--Kentucky
This study investigates the progress of standards-based accountability in eliminating the effects of student background and school composition factors on student achievement and school performance in a large, urban district in Kentucky. The factors...
A group of young girls wearing hoop skirts, petticoats, and bonnets poses beneath a historical marker reading "Johnston Birthplace / Near here on February 3, 1803, General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate leader, was born. He resigned from...
A group of young girls wearing hoop skirts, petticoats, and bonnets poses beneath a historical marker reading "Johnston Birthplace / Near here on February 3, 1803, General Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate leader, was born. He resigned from...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; Chicago Cubs (Baseball team)
Harry McIntire or John Reid McIntire (1879-1949). Color portrait of Harry McIntire with the Chicago Cubs. A bear is in the top left corner and 'Cubs' is in the right. Verso: Harry McIntire. Harry McIntire commenced playing professional ball with...
Schools; Children; Group portraits; People; Buildings
Address: 1713 W. Madison Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Students pose for a group portrait at the entrance to the Madison Street School. The entry has an extra large arch with "Madison St. School" and decorative leaves carved above it. In...
Portrait of actor, writer, and director Willie (William) Collier wearing a three-piece suit with black bow tie. Collier was born in New York City on November 12, 1866, and died January 13, 1944 in Beverly Hills, California. He married actresses...
Portrait of actor, writer, and director Willie (William) Collier wearing a mustache, suit jacket, and cravat. Collier was born in New York City on November 12, 1866, and died January 13, 1944 in Beverly Hills, California. He married actresses...
Monument for Daniel Boone in the Frankfort Cemetery in Franklin County, Kentucky. Boone died in 1820 in Missouri, but his and his wife's remains were reinterred in Kentucky in 1845. ULPA 1999.36.91 is a duplicate image on a yellow card.
“Moreau has rendered Salome as an enchantress, the archetypal femme fatale who seduces Herod into performing her will. Moreau was very careful to avoid endowing the figure of Herod with any magisterial dignity but rather shows him as an old man,...
Paintings; Body parts; Genitals; Urination; Obscenity; Censorship; Corruption; Political issues; Politics & government
"The exposed genitalia in Baselitz's uncompromising paintings and graphics of this period are essentially attempts to bring into the open, to make public, the effects of official 'cover-ups' and repressed emotions in post-Holocaust West...
