One of the most nationally-recognized, two-year legislative reform initiatives in the U.S. began in Kentucky with the passage of the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Improvement Act of 1997 (HB1). This exploratory, cross-sectional, correlational...
Universities and colleges--Mergers; Education, Humanistic--United States--Case studies; Community colleges--Curricula; Educational change--United States--Case studies
This dissertation is an examination of the state of the liberal arts curriculum in community colleges in three geographic regions of the United States. From a constructivist paradigm and using globalization theory as a theoretical framework, this...
The Knudsen pump works on the principle of thermal transpiration. As a result of requiring a thermal gradient, channel hydraulic diameter smaller than the mean free path of the gas being pumped, and having no moving parts, the Knudsen pump features...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of Abram Hite Bowman of Louisville, Kentucky wearing glasses and a suit. Bowman Field (airfield) in Louisville was named after him. Stamped on back of image: September 26, 1936. Handwritten on back: credit, The Cusick Studio (Louisville);...
Portraits; Portrait photographs; Men; Business people
Portrait of Abram Hite Bowman of Louisville, Kentucky wearing a pin-stripe suit and solid tie. Bowman Field (airfield) in Louisville was named after him. Handwritten on back of image: President Bowman Transfer & Warehouse; Credit, The Cusick...
Barges; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
ANNA DALE under construction at Howard Shipyard at the bank of the Ohio River. CARRIE HOPE and other boats are also tied to the bank. ANNA DALE, a railroad transfer barge with a wood hull (225 ft. x 36 ft. x 6.7) was built in 1895.
Barges; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Men ride a transfer barge hull down the ways and onto the Ohio River at Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana. The JULIEN POYDRAS is being disassembled at the bank down river from the launch.
Purpose: The initial and long term bond failure rates of two orthodontic indirect bonding methods were compared. Materials and Methods: A review of 191 bondings provided a data base of bond failures for two indirect bonding methods. One method used...
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...
Waterways; Canals; Louisville and Portland Canal (Ky.); Shipping
Dry dock at Dam 41, Portland Canal and Locks, Louisville, Kentucky. To the left are telephone lines and in the water at the right is a barge with a crane. Beyond, the canal curves to the right. Caption on back of image: "Transfer back mix and...
Side wheelers; Steamboats; Launchings; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
DeKOVEN, a side-wheel railroad transfer with wood hull (232.3 ft. x 37 ft. x 6.1 ft.), was built by Howard in 1894. Owned by Ohio Valley Railroad, DeKOVEN operated in the Paducah-Brookport area until 1912 when she was sent to Helena, Arkansas....
Delivery trucks in front of a three-story brick industrial building with a freight train stopped behind the trucks. The building is for Byron Sash & Door Company. Some of the trucks are from Cummins-Collins Distilleries and Horn Transfer Line....
Microelectromechanical systems; Biotelemetry; Strains and stresses--Measurement
Lumbar arthrodesis or spinal fusion is usually performed to relieve back pain and regain functionality from ruptured discs, disc degenerative disease, trauma and scoliosis. Metal rods are often fixed to the spine with screws or hooks, while fusion...
Conducting polymers; Polymers in medicine; Myocardium
Hydrophilic and conductive characteristics in polymers are mutually exclusive of each other. Hydrophilic polymer properties allow absorption of water up to several magnitudes above their dry weight. However, due to their molecular structure, they...
Heat pipes; Solar heating--Passive systems; Solar heating--Research; Solar energy--Research
The one dimensional heat transfer, thermal diode effect of heat pipes makes
them ideal for passive solar applications. Gains in a heat pipe passive solar wall are not
lost during cloud cover or periods of low irradiation. An experimental model was...
Simplified modeling generates a great deal of interest in the area of crashworthiness analysis. Modeling methods used to create simplified computer models for crashworthiness have been well developed. In advanced simplified models, researchers...
Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs), Double Walled Carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) and C60@SWNT (peapods) are three of well-ordered all-carbon nanostructures. Peapods are SWNTs filled with C60 fullerene peas. At high temperatues, C60 molecules coalesce...
This thesis is based on experimental work on electrochemically mediated charge transfer effects on Single-walled carbon nanotube bundles. The study of these effects are very important towards understanding the sensitivity of gases on nanostructures...
Characterization of the optical and electrical properties of organic solar cell materials is of prime importance to organic solar cell design. This thesis describes the use of capacitive photocurrent measurements to study the exciton generation and...
Vicinal dithioethers and alkenyl thioethers were synthesized under environmentally
friendly conditions using alkyne and thiol in water. Alkynes were also used to develop a
multibond-fonning reaction that fonned cyclic ketones or ketoesters through...
