Vehicles--Environmental aspects; Traffic flow--Environmental aspects; Motor vehicles--Motors--Exhaust gas
The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a methodology to estimate the temporal Environmental Traffic Capacity (ETC) for urban streets. The approach constitutes the main procedure of ETC calculation and an experimental process of developing...
Rising concerns about dependency on fossil fuels in the 21st century has sparked a growth in research for renewable energy sources. One renewable energy production process of interest is the reduction of cellulose into fermentable sugars by means...
Dentists can play a key role in helping patients quit tobacco use by providing tobacco cessation treatment (TCT) in their practice. Although the majority of dentists receive training in TCT, most do not provide adequate intervention. Many feel they...
Autistic children--Rehabilitation; Social skills in children; Autistic children--Behavior modification; Group work in education; Peer-group tutoring of students
Social reciprocity deficits are a core feature of the autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and a major source of impairment regardless of cognitive or language ability (Carter, Davis, Klin, & Volkmar, 2005). Since these impairments do not naturally...
This problem originated in an attempt to make methyl glyoxal in quantity. Several methods of making methyl glyoxal are mentioned in the literature but in none of them is acetone used as a starting point. Since this seemed a new field it was decided...
Background. Progression of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is associated with an increase in fibrin extracellular matrix (ECM) and inflammation. Previous studies have shown that this accumulation of fibrin in ALD is mediated by impaired fibrinolysis....
This thesis looks at the optimization of fluid flow and mass transfer using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in a micro fluidic coulter counter. CFD will be used to solve equations of fluid flow and mass transfer to see how molecules within the...
Dermal wounds, including bed sores, pressure ulcers, and diabetic ulcers have a large impact on American healthcare costing up to $7 billion per year. Adequate pharmaceutical remedies applied at constant rate could prove to increase the healing...
Background: Emerging circulatory support devices that operate in counterpulsation to the native heart require synchronized timing of device ejection and filling on a beat-to-beat basis with the native heart using a patient's ECG. Surface leads are...
Character portrait of actor Robert Rowlett in costume for the role of Richard Harrigan in George Broadhurst's play "The Man of the Hour," which was performed at Macauley's Theatre three times between December 1907 and January 1909. He...
African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Race relations; Public relations; Discrimination in housing; Housing; African American legislators; Insurance agents; Women legislators; African American legislators; Kentucky--Politics and...
Oral history interview conducted with legislator Mae Street Kidd on October 10, November 11, and December 5, 1978 by Ken Chumbley. Ms. Kidd discusses her life, including her childhood growing up in Bourbon County. Kidd attended the Lincoln...
Address: 413 W. Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. A two ton Nash truck with a sign on the side reading, "Idle Hour Stock Farm (Lexington, Ky.)" sits outside the Henrie Barrett Montfort home.
Many conflicting reports have been given in the literature concerning the effect of various factors on the rate of reversal of figure and ground in reversible perspective.
Flugel (7, 8) suggested that changes in eye movement increased the number of...
Jean Thomas (seated, left, with typewriter on her lap) shows her 1938 book about Jilson Setters, "The singin' fiddler of Lost Hope Hollow," to a man and woman outside her brick "Wee House in the Wood" in Ashland, Kentucky. The...
Jean Thomas (seated, left, with a typewriter on her lap), a man in suit and tie, and a woman (standing, right) examine manuscript pages outside Thomas' brick "Wee House in the Wood" in Ashland, Kentucky. A copy of Thomas' 1938 book about...
Jean Thomas (seated, center, with a typewriter on her lap) shares her 1938 book about Jilson Setters, "The singin' fiddler of Lost Hope Hollow," with a man and woman seated on the ground outside her brick "Wee House in the Wood"...
Jean Thomas (seated, center, with a typewriter on her lap) shares her 1938 book about Jilson Setters, "The singin' fiddler of Lost Hope Hollow," with a man and woman seated in the yard of her "Wee House in the Wood" in Ashland,...
Jean Thomas (seated, right, with a typewriter on her lap) shares her 1938 book about Jilson Setters, "The singin' fiddler of Lost Hope Hollow," with a man and woman seated in the yard of her brick "Wee House in the Wood" in...
African Americans; African American singers; African American musicians; Jazz; Jazz singers; Women jazz musicians
Oral history interview with Helen Humes, a jazz singer from Louisville, conducted on June 12, 1979 by Mary Bobo, for the University of Louisville Archives and Records Center. In this interview, Ms. Humes discusses her career, including her start in...
Oral history interview conducted with Nelson Goodwin on January 10, 1979 by Kenneth Chumbley. Mr. Goodwin, a nursery owner and local historian from Louisville, Kentucky, discusses his ancestors and other African Americans who lived in the...
