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The Grignard Reaction
The Grignard reagent, with its variety of useful reactions, has long been recognized as one of the fundamental tools of organic synthesis. [11] It should, for this reason, be of interest to inspect the topic as a compact ... -
The Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon: A Quest for Dignity
The purpose of this paper is the examination of the various factors that contributed to the Palestine Liberation Organization's presence in Lebanon, and its role throughout the recent civil war. In order to do this, I have ... -
Negotiating with the Enemy: Kennedy and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Many scholars have examined the test ban. Several books were written shortly after its adoption, but they lack much of the documentary evidence that is now available. In 1981 Glenn Seaborg published one of the best accounts. ... -
The Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference Case
On January 29, 1963 the Consolidated Edison Company of New York (hereafter referred to as Con Ed) [1] filed an application before the Federal Power Commission for a license to construct a pumped-storage hydroelectric ... -
Steinhaus Graphs and Pendent Vertices
Steinhaus graphs have many interesting properties, yet there are many things about them that are not yet known. In [1 ], a formula was discovered for the total number of Steinhaus graphs on n vertices with at least one ... -
Quaternary Glaciation of Middle Roaring Creek Valley Spar City Quadrangle, Colorado
Major morphological features associated with Quaternary glaciation of Middle Roaring Creek Valley, Spar City Quadrangle, Colorado divide the valley into three regions of varying topography. Analysis of weathering rind ... -
South Carolina Politics: A Re-Evaluation of Key
Obviously, many of,the statements which Key made about South Carolina are now obsolete. The politics of color has disappeared and blacks are today an important and influential part of the South Carolina political scene. ... -
Beyond Just the Words
Human communication is embodied -- facial expressions, gestures, and prosody (tone of voice and rhythm) add layers of important information to just the words used by a cognitive agent. In fact,just the use of words often ... -
"Look what I can do!" : Ameliorating the Effects of Poverty with Preschool Education
Previous studies have documented the positive effects of early education in highrisk children. A screening measure was created to determine if there were any significant differences between the performance of scholarship ... -
In Search of a Good Job: Mobility in a Dual Labor Market
Dual labor market theory developed in the late 1960 's as economists tried to explain how and why labor market outcomes deviated from neoclassical expectations. The theory held that the labor market was divided into a ... -
A Method of Estimating by Infrared Spectroscopy the Relative Abundance of Polymeric Components in Complex Polymer Blends
In this Honors Thesis, I describe a method created by Profesor Van Ness and myself which effectively differentiates regions of unique polymer composition within comingled products. My goals are two fold. First, in order ... -
Roosevelt and Yalta: The Myth and the Reality (A President Gambles for Peace)
Because the Crimean happenings have had far-reaching consequences, it is my purpose to place Yalta in a more accurate and meaningful perspective. Because the United States seems to be moving toward a new rapprochement with ... -
Design of Bridge over North River as an Entrance to Lexington, Virginia
The problem of this thesis is to provide some kind of a suitable approach across North River from the Lee Highway, as an entrance to Lexington, Virginia. . . . The solution of this problem as presented in this thesis, ... -
Lexical Disambiguation in Machine Translation with Latent Semantic Analysis
This paper examines a possible solution to the problem of disambiguating polysemous nouns in machine translation. Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) , a statistical method of finding and representing word sense, is used to ... -
Beyond Stereotype: Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt had a distinctive relationship with her Presidential husband. They often related through memos, meetings, and go-betweens rather than through face-to-face contact. As strange as this was for a married ...