Title of Thesis: THE MODERATING ROLE OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONALITY, POSITIVE EMOTIONALITY, AND LOW CONSTRAINT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRAIN AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR Whytnee Foriest, Master of Arts, 2013 Thesis directed by: Professor Denise Gottfredson Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice General strain theory (GST) posits that strain causes crime (Agnew et al., 1992). Individuals who fai...

Nanocrystalline materials show a higher strain-rate sensitivity in contrast to the conventional coarse-grained materials and a different grain size dependency. To explain these phenomenon, a finite element model is constructed that considers both grain interior and grain boundary deformation of nanocrystalline materials. The model consist of several crystalline cores with different orientations...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to identify the relationships between caregiver strain among parents of young adolescents with ADHD and child characteristics during a 1-year period. METHOD Parents of 52 middle-school-aged youth with ADHD participated in this study and completed two evaluations 1 year apart. RESULTS Ratings of oppositional and delinquent behavior best predicted l...

The comprehension of the anisotropy impacts on mechanical properties of the rolled steel sheets was investigated using a non-quadratic anisotropic yield function. In this study, experimental and modelling determination regarding the behaviour of an industrial rolled sheet for a ferritic stainless low-carbon steel were carried out. The parameters of the associated yield equation, derived from th...

The stress-strain behavior of toilet paper is studied. We find that the damaged parts of stress-strain curves possess a self-affine scaling invariance. Moreover, we find that the stress-strain behavior and the rupture line roughness are characterized by the same scaling (Hurst) exponent H, which is not universal: rather it changes from sample to sample. The variations on H are mainly due to flu...

PVP-CMC and PVP-CMC-BA are designated as medicated hydrogels which are elastic in nature like other gels and solids. This present work was focused on the effect of strain on viscoelastic behavior of these medicated hydrogels. Dynamic frequency sweep test at 10% strain and dynamic strain sweep tests at different angular frequencies were performed on these hydrogels. Freshly prepared hydrogels an...

an important concern in rock mechanics is non-homogeneity as joints or fault. this noticeable feature of failures in rock is appearance of slip surfaces or shear bands, the characteristics of that are associated with deformation being concentrated in a narrow zones and the surrounding material remaining intact. adopting the joints as fractures, fractures are well known for their effects on the ...

In this paper, the development of a new variation of Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC) that aims to combine tensile ductility with self-sensing ability is described. ECC is a new type of high-performance fiber reinforced cementitious composite that exhibits strain-hardening under applied tensile load while resisting fracture localization. The self-sensing ability is achieved by incorporat...

It is well known that genes and environment interact to produce behavioral phenotypes. One environmental factor with long-term effects on gene transcription and behavior is maternal care. A classic paradigm for examining maternal care and genetic interactions is to foster pups of one genetic strain to dams of a different strain ("between-strain fostering"). In addition, fostering to a dam of th...