Engineering

Chloride-based Silicon Carbide CVD

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising material for high power and high frequency devices due to its wide bandgap, high break down field and high thermal conductivity. The most established ...

Computing

Implementation of Health Information Systems

Healthcare organizations now consider increased efficiency, reduced costs, improved patient care and quality of services, and safety when they are planning to implement new information and communication technology (ICT) based ...

Behavioral/Social Sciences

Nanotechnology: Beyond Human Nature?

Nanotechnology plays an important role in today’s society because it allows convergence to the nanoscale, that is to say to the level of atoms and molecules, as part of a ...

Arts/Humanities

Human Rights In Islam: A Pluralistic Approach

Human rights as codified in international documents are claims every human being have by virtue of being a human. Meaning that every state must ensure, through its laws, that each ...

Mathematics

Examining Differential Item Functioning From A Latent Class Perspective

Current approaches for studying differential item functioning (DIF) using manifest groups are problematic since these groups are treated as homogeneous in nature. Additionally, manifest variables such as sex and ethnicity ...

Science

Modeling of nanostructures with complex source and drain

In this thesis we report on calculations for open quantum mechanical and certain microwave systems. The models refer to a quantum point contact and an electron cavity. We model this ...

Management

Culture: A strategy for managing change

Even though companies are facing a continuously changing environment, far from all businesses manage to succeed with their organizational changes. (Olson, 2008) If wanting to meet market demands and avoid ...

Agriculture

Winter annual rye cover crops in no-till grain crop rotations: impacts on soil physical properties and organic matter

Winter annual cover cropping (WCC) is a common management practice subsidized by Maryland to protect water and soil quality. The affect of long-term incorporation of WCC on soil physical properties ...

Medical

On Fixation of Hip Prostheses

This thesis, comprising 5 separate studies, is concerned with fixation of prosthetic components in total hip arthroplasty. The results and conclusions of the studies fol-low;The initial stability of femoral revision ...

Journalism

The Mixtape: A Case Study in Emancipatory Journalism

During the 1970s the rap music mixtape developed alongside hip-hop as an underground method of mass communication. Initially created by disc-jockeys in an era prior to popular "urban" radio and ...

Education

Examining Differential Item Functioning From A Latent Class Perspective

Current approaches for studying differential item functioning (DIF) using manifest groups are problematic since these groups are treated as homogeneous in nature. Additionally, manifest variables such as sex and ethnicity ...

Miscellaneous

Effect of Khartoum City for Water Quality: chemical analyses

This thesis assesses the water quality of the River Nile around the city Khartoum in Khartoum State, Sudan Republic, and investigates eventual influences of the city on the River Nile ...