Item response theory; Goodness-of-fit tests; Monte Carlo method
Item response theory (IRT) is expanding to diverse research settings, without accompanying access to easily implemented model fit methods. One simple model fit approach involves x2/df ratios. However, its utility is not known across several...
Externalizing behavior problems in very young children are associated with an array of negative and costly long-term outcomes. Pediatric primary care is a promising venue for implementing screening practices to improve early identification of this...
Exocytosis of intracellular granules is critical for conversion of inactive, circulating neutrophils to fully activated cells. The p38 MAPK pathway plays a central role in neutrophil exocytosis, although its mechanism of action is unknown. We used...
Activity-based rehabilitation is important for clinically treating spinal cord injury (SCI). Advances in SCI research are dependent on quality animal models, which rely on our ability to detect functional differences in animals following injury....
Cortical and tectal inputs to the caudal LPN in the rat were examined using anatomical and physiological techniques. Pyramidal cells in layer 6 of the visual cortex and wide-field vertical cells in the stratum opticum of the superior colliculus...
Pancreatic beta cells are extremely vulnerable to the destruction of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS). In both type 1 and type 2 diabetes ROS are involved in the loss of U+000DF-cells. We hypothesized that the deficiency in ROS detoxifying system of...
Medical education; Medical students; Kentucky School of Medicine
Catalog for the Kentucky School of Medicine for 1885. Includes list of board of regents and faculty, program information, graduating class for 1894, and students enrolled for 1884. Printed on cover: Kentucky School of Medicine Twenty-Ninth Annual...
Pancreatic beta cells are extremely vulnerable to destruction by Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS). In type 1 diabetes and islet transplantation ROS are thought to be involved in the loss of beta cells. To test the role of antioxidant in islet...
Medical education; Medical students; Louisville Medical College
Catalog for Louisville Medical college for 1878-1879. Includes list of board of trustees and faculty, program information, class list of 1877-1878, commencement information and list of graduates, and advertisements. Printed on cover: Annual...
Medical education; Medical students; Kentucky School of Medicine
Catalog for the Kentucky School of Medicine for 1883. Includes list of board of regents and faculty, program information, and medical class 1882. Printed on cover: Twenty-Seventh Annual Announcement of the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville,...
Medical education; Medical students; Kentucky School of Medicine
Catalog for the Kentucky School of Medicine for 1884. Includes list of board of regents and faculty, program information, matriculates 1883, graduation information, graduates of the Kentucky School of Medicine from 1851-1883. Incomplete catalog....
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. There are an additional four pages included in this issue that make up the Gravure Weekly, so this issue is twelve pages,...
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); African American universities and colleges; African Americans--Education (Higher); Education
Missing cover and title page. Includes names of faculty and students and information about the university and its courses. The catalog includes fold-out photo of student body on the campus and photos of campus and buildings, President Reverend C....
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); African American universities and colleges; African Americans--Education (Higher); Education
Includes names of faculty and students and information about the university and its courses. The catalog includes photos of campus and buildings, new dormitory for young men, and President Parrish. The university has gone by many names since its...
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); African American universities and colleges; African Americans--Education (Higher); Education
Includes names of faculty and students and information about the university and its courses. The catalog includes fold-out photo of student body on the campus and photos of campus and buildings, President Reverend C. H. Parrish, President's office,...
This dissertation is a hypothesis-driven research oriented study to determine the role of the pituitary-tumor transforming gene (PTTG) in ovarian cancer, specifically if it is involved in neoplastic transformation leading to tumorigenesis through...
The purpose of this research is to understand how the process parameters surrounding the Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) process affect the properties of the deposition. The powder used in this research is pre-alloyed titanium powder (Ti-6Al-4V),...
Elementary school teachers--Kentucky; Mathematics--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Kentucky
This dissertation was a quantitative study with a sample of preservice elementary teachers from four universities in Kentucky. The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice elementary teachers' achievement goal orientations for learning...
Student counselors; Problem youth--Education; Academic achievement
"If this generation of youth is lost, much of the hope for an economically, socially and technologically strong nation will also be lost." - Kuykendall, 1992 When youths become convinced that they will not be able to make it in mainstream...
Medical education; Medical students; Kentucky School of Medicine
Catalog for Kentucky School of Medicine for 1893. Includes list of faculty and hospital staff, school and program information, and a list of enrolled students for 1892, with those who graduated in June 1892 indicated by an asterisk. Printed on...
