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From Peasant To Pariah: Changing English Perceptions Of The Irish From The 1820s Through The 1860s, Traci J. Scully
From Peasant To Pariah: Changing English Perceptions Of The Irish From The 1820s Through The 1860s, Traci J. Scully
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While the historiography of English perceptions of the Irish in the later period of the Victorian era is extensive, there is a dearth of research in tracing the origins of these perceptions. The connection between England and Ireland dates back centuries, and the relationship was neutral at best and extremely violent at worst. Historians such as L. Perry Curtis have analyzed the mass media of these later decades to argue that the English saw their neighbors as subhuman creatures in the racial hierarchy.;However, this image did not emerge from a single event, but rather evolved over the tumultuous earlier decades …
In Sickness And In Health, In Good Times And In Bad: A Comparative Analysis Of The Ideologies Governing Health Care Reform In Canada And The United States, 1962--1974, Michael A. Todt
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This study explores the ideology of health care reform in Canada and the United States from 1962 to 1974. During that time, Canada enacted Medicare, which provided a universal physician services program designed by the provinces and supported financially by the federal government. Rejecting a private-sector approach and Quebec's desire for complete autonomy in the program design, the joint federal-provincial program supported the Canadian values of government responsibility for health care (paternal statism) and the belief that Canadians have a responsibility to care for each other (collectivism).;From 1970 to 1974, the U.S. Congress failed to enact any national health insurance …
The Role Of Institutional Structures, Interest Groups, And Framing In Explaining Occupational Road Safety Policy In The European Union And Member States: An Application Of The Advocacy Coalition Framework And Multi-Level Governance, Stephanie G. Pratt
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In addition to being a leading cause of death in the general population, motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of occupational fatalities in most high-income countries and regions, including the European Union (EU). The primary aims of this research were to: (1) assess the development of occupational road safety policy in the EU through the lens of the policy literature, focusing on the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) as a model of policy change, the role of interest groups, and multi-level governance (MLG); and (2) use the United Kingdom (UK), Sweden, and France as EU case studies to illustrate the …
Living With Migraine Headache: A Phenomenological Study Of Women's Experiences, Anthony R. Ramsey
Living With Migraine Headache: A Phenomenological Study Of Women's Experiences, Anthony R. Ramsey
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Multiple studies have addressed migraine headache in recent years. There is little research related to women.s experiences of living with migraine headache. Researchers have explored migraine headache from a pathophysiological perspective and medical treatment perspective. Studies exploring what it is like for women to live with migraine headache on a day-to-day life basis have not been produced. This qualitative study explored the lived experience of eight women who had migraine headache. Participant stories were gathered and analyzed using the middle range story theory and the phenomenological approach described by van Manen. A structure of meaning of living with migraine headaches …
Career And Technical Education At A Crossroads: A Delphi Study, Michael W. Cutright
Career And Technical Education At A Crossroads: A Delphi Study, Michael W. Cutright
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Career and technical education in the United States has reached a critical juncture. A three round Delphi method was used to determine a consensus on the future events of career and technical education to better inform educational decision makers. Forty-one individual experts in the field were invited to serve as panelists for the Delphi study and 19 agreed to participate. The first round asked the panel to respond to a general statement about their views of the future of career and technical education. In Round Two, the panel of experts provided feedback by rating each event regarding the time frame …
Administrative Obstacles To Technology Use In West Virginia Public Schools: A Survey Of West Virginia Principals, David W. Agnew
Administrative Obstacles To Technology Use In West Virginia Public Schools: A Survey Of West Virginia Principals, David W. Agnew
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Public school principals must meet many challenges and make decisions concerning financial obligations while providing the best learning environment for students. A major challenge to principals is implementing technological components successfully while providing teachers the 21st century instructional skills needed to enhance students' utilization of technology. For this study, technology consisted of areas related to infrastructure (facilities, hardware, software, funding), social issues (staffing, staff development, principals' motivation, teacher and student perceptions), and policy affecting how principals implement technology in elementary, middle, and high school environments. These areas of technology are greatly impacted through the administrative decision making process. School systems …
Student Engagement, Alumni Satisfaction, And Alumni Donations At A Public Four Year Institution: An Analysis Of How The Undergraduate Experience Influences Alumni Donations, Vanessa L. Drew-Branch
Student Engagement, Alumni Satisfaction, And Alumni Donations At A Public Four Year Institution: An Analysis Of How The Undergraduate Experience Influences Alumni Donations, Vanessa L. Drew-Branch
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This dissertation study examined the relationships between undergraduate student engagement, alumni satisfaction and alumni willingness to make donations of time and/or money. The research site was an Eastern, public, Master's Colleges and Universities and was considered a larger institution. The Student Engagement and Alumni Satisfaction Assessment (SEASA) was developed for this research study, was electronically delivered to alumni via the college's alumni development office. There were 847 alumni responses. The findings in this study show that there is a statistically significant relationship between student engagement and alumni satisfaction. There is also a significant relationship between alumni satisfaction and alumni willingness …
Opera At The Metropolitan: The 1896--1897 Damrosch Opera Season And Xaver Scharwenka's "Mataswintha", David Joseph Rudari
Opera At The Metropolitan: The 1896--1897 Damrosch Opera Season And Xaver Scharwenka's "Mataswintha", David Joseph Rudari
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Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924), was an enterprising and successful pianist, composer, and teacher in nineteenth century Germany who in 1893 composed an opera, Mataswintha, based on the novel Ein Kampf um Rom by the celebrated German author Felix Dahn. This work, in the style of Richard Wagner, was most earnestly marketed by its publisher Breitkopf und Hartel, yet received only the following four complete performances in its lifetime: an orchestral concert performance and a staged performance in Weimar, Germany and an orchestral concert performance and a staged performance in New York City on April 1, 1897 at the Metropolitan Opera …
An Analysis Of Strategic Interaction Between Government Jurisdictions, George R. Crowley
An Analysis Of Strategic Interaction Between Government Jurisdictions, George R. Crowley
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This dissertation consists of three essays, each examining a type of strategic interaction between government jurisdictions. Specifically, I explore the effect of distributive politics in the legislature on intergovernmental competition, how fiscal decentralization serves as a constraint on Leviathan government, and how state constitutions are designed in response to neighboring institutions. In essay one, I combine the Brennan and Buchanan (1977, 1978, 1980) 'Leviathan' model with the seminal Weingast, Shepsle, and Johnsen (1981) 'Law of 1/n' to show that the effect of increased decentralization on government size is limited by associated increases in legislature size. Essay two employs two distinct …
Examining Sexual Assault Risk Factors In Female College Athletes, Eric Limegrover
Examining Sexual Assault Risk Factors In Female College Athletes, Eric Limegrover
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Sexual assault has been a widely studied occurrence in the United States and continues to be a major problem on college campuses. Recent surveys of college women have found that between 15% and 20% have experienced rape (Flack et al., 2007; McMahon, 2007). Unfortunately, little empirical research has examined specific college populations that maybe at a greater risk of sexual assault. Female college athletes comprise a special population that has been linked to many of the risk factors that are associated with an increased likelihood of experiencing sexual assault. This study examined risk factors associated with sexual assault such as …
Effect Of An Exposure-Indicating Light On Noise Reduction Experienced During Work At A Factory, John A. Frazer
Effect Of An Exposure-Indicating Light On Noise Reduction Experienced During Work At A Factory, John A. Frazer
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It is possible that providing quantitative feedback would help individual workers recognize that their hearing protector device (HPD) is either not properly seated or is not in place when needed. In this study, to test the effectiveness of alerting workers immediately when noise levels in their ears are excessive, noise levels were recorded using noise dosimeters proximal to HPD (SPLear) and at the shoulder (SPLsh) during work. The average noise reduction (NRA) at the ear was calculated at times when a signal light was activated and when it was not. The signal light was positioned below the brim of a …
Ezra Ayers Carman: The Gatekeeper Of Memory At Antietam National Battlefield, Richard A. Hulver
Ezra Ayers Carman: The Gatekeeper Of Memory At Antietam National Battlefield, Richard A. Hulver
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Ezra Ayers Carman was a veteran of Antietam who was employed by the War Department in the last decade of the nineteenth century to write the official history of that battle. As an historian, Carman acted as a gatekeeper of the official memory at Antietam. He created scaffolding in which veterans could remember tactical/military aspects of their participation in the battle of Antietam. Once his framework for memory was set, Carman opened up extensive correspondence with veterans. He then had the responsibility of sifting through the incoming memories and choosing those he would use to create his official history. The …
The Sacred In The Profane: Understanding Andy Warhol's Relationship With The Visual Image, Linda Rosefsky
The Sacred In The Profane: Understanding Andy Warhol's Relationship With The Visual Image, Linda Rosefsky
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For Andy Warhol (1928-1987), images meant for commercial advertisement, tabloid publication, and entertainment were not merely meaningless reflections of a commodity and media-obsessed world -- they were sacred. In 1986, the Pop artist based the last major series of his career on a reproduction of a Renaissance masterpiece, Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (1495-97/98, figure 1). Given the slick packaging of Warhol's oeuvre and his cool public persona, it would be easy to dismiss these late paintings as a cynical comment on the proliferation of images in American society. Viewing The Last Supper series from the perspectives of biography, psychology, …
Meissen Porcelain: Precision, Presentation, And Preservation. How Artistic And Technological Significance Influence Conservation Protocol, Nicole Peters
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invention of Meissen porcelain and how these factors impact certain restoration and conservation protocol. The diversity and range of objects produced at the Meissen studio paired with the artistic genius of their design repositioned European ceramics as a superior craft form among its pottery-producing competitors. The ware's enthusiastic reception amongst upper-class European society established the pieces as being highly-valued and prompted their widespread recognition. What resulted was an efflorescence of creativity, artistic and technical accomplishments, and an original aesthetic quality that initiated a new conceptual reframing of how ceramic media could be presented. Throughout the past three centuries, Meissen porcelain …
The Sustainability Of Hunger Relief: Analysis Of Emergency Food Providers In Low Access Counties Of West Virginia, Juston Chad Morrison
The Sustainability Of Hunger Relief: Analysis Of Emergency Food Providers In Low Access Counties Of West Virginia, Juston Chad Morrison
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Hunger in West Virginia has long been considered a problem that stems from high poverty rates and rural low access communities. The purpose of this study is to assess the stability of emergency food providers in economically distressed counties in West Virginia. Data was collected from Clay and Webster counties, of which Clay is considered low access and Webster is severely low access or a food desert. Administrators of emergency food providers were asked to complete a questionnaire regarding basic information about their program, changes in client usage, and possible threats to the existence of their program. The questionnaires were …
Con[Text], Virginia D. Millard
Con[Text], Virginia D. Millard
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My work explores the relationship of text and image to the creation and perception of our roles in the world, principally from a feminist point of view. I examine the influence of symbols and labels, both imposed and carefully chosen, on the identity women present to the world and ourselves. Through photography and design, I reflect on the roles I fill in my own life as an artist, wife, mother, and daughter and the symbols and words associated with such roles in the hope of revealing a larger truth about communication and relationships through words and images.
Art Educators And Practicing Artists: Strengthening The Curriculum And Building A Creative Community, John Christopher Williams
Art Educators And Practicing Artists: Strengthening The Curriculum And Building A Creative Community, John Christopher Williams
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An artist residency consists of a visiting artist (dance, musical, theatrical, or visual) creating work in and teaching their craft to an audience of participants. Artist residencies take place in a variety of settings, in public and private schools, after-school programs, in day care and preschool programs, community centers, and adult recreational and care facilities. Over time in a school setting artist residencies have evolved to include school curriculum, input and collaboration from the host teacher. I believe artist residences could become a catalyst for school curriculum change to focus on the arts. Arts integrated residencies and curriculum can impact …
Rethinking Modes Of Political Influence: Catherine De' Medici And Her Female Political Network, Kelly A. Benner
Rethinking Modes Of Political Influence: Catherine De' Medici And Her Female Political Network, Kelly A. Benner
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Though previous studies on the political career of Catherine de' Medici have been male-centric, focusing primarily on Catherine's relationships with her sons and male noblemen, it is the contention of this thesis that Catherine amassed a female-based political network during her tenure as Queen mother. Comprised of both her female relatives and the noblewomen that surrounded her at court, Catherine used this system of females to manipulate both domestic and foreign politics. The first chapter of this thesis will focus on Catherine's political purpose for her eldest and youngest daughters, Elisabeth de Valois (consort of Philip II of Spain) and …
The Politics Of Self-Provisioning In North-Central West Virginia, Autumn Long
The Politics Of Self-Provisioning In North-Central West Virginia, Autumn Long
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Provisioning one's own food appears to be the next step in the politicization of food production and consumption choices. In contrast to more convenient forms of "ethical consumption" such as buying organic or local, household-level food production requires a great deal of labor-time, knowledge, and social support. But does food self-provisioning elicit or engender a particular political consciousness? Based on six months of fieldwork conducted during the spring and summer of 2010, this research employs qualitative methodologies, including surveys, semistructured interviews, and ethnography, to examine the political, economic, and cultural dynamics of household-level food provisioning amongst a sample of food …
Runes: Past And Present, Elliott S. Evans
Runes: Past And Present, Elliott S. Evans
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The purpose of this study is to illustrate how the primary function of runes has changed through history. In doing so this study also begins to document the reemergence of runes especially in Asatru circles. Runes were historically employed for utilitarian purposes whereas they have been imbued with magical qualities in the eyes of their modern users. By using a modified version of the speech act theory, the notion of "magic" is linguistically operationalized and used to demonstrate the stark contrast between the primary purpose of historical runic texts and modern ones.
Reform Of Secondary Education In Post-Communist Estonia: Advancing Or Dismantling Social Cohesion, Cassandra Jo Garcia
Reform Of Secondary Education In Post-Communist Estonia: Advancing Or Dismantling Social Cohesion, Cassandra Jo Garcia
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The concept of integration in the most basic of senses refers to intermixing of groups of people that were previously segregated. Estonia, as the focal point of this study as opposed to another post-Soviet nation, is unique in that it is such a small country, and this state possesses a variety of traits that distinguishes it from other states in the process of reform and from other multicultural states. Over 25% of the population of Estonia speaks Russian as their mother tongue, and currently the youth of these Russian-speaking communities are feeling the weight of the integration process. Education reform …
Costume Design Process For "The Compleat Female Stage Beauty", Hannah Wold
Costume Design Process For "The Compleat Female Stage Beauty", Hannah Wold
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This paper documents my process for the costume design of West Virginia University's Fall 2010 production of The Compleat Female Stage Beauty. It required advance organization and planning for a costume shop of our size to produce a show of this scale and depth, and I used a process I had developed on previous productions to keep the scope of the build within the realms of the possible, while maintaining my vision of opulent costumes for the play that aided in creating the setting of the play, in conjunction with the scenic and lighting design.
Tailoring Multi-Component Catalysts On Carbon Supports For Fischer-Tropsch Products In The Kerosene Range, Joshua B. Welshans
Tailoring Multi-Component Catalysts On Carbon Supports For Fischer-Tropsch Products In The Kerosene Range, Joshua B. Welshans
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The effects of varying the loading of four promoters on activated carbon supported iron catalysts were investigated. The base case catalyst studied consists of 6 wt% Mo, 16 wt% Fe, 0.8 wt% Cu and 0.9 wt% K. Molybdenum loadings of 0 wt%, 3 wt%, 6 wt% and 12 wt% were studied along with iron loadings of 0 wt%, 8 wt%, 16 wt% and 32%, copper loadings of 0 wt%, 0.4 wt%, 0.8 wt% and 1.6 wt%, and potassium loadings of 0 wt%, 0.45 wt%, 0.9 wt% and 1.8 wt%. The reactor conditions used were 300ºC, 300 psig, and 6 Nl/gcat/h. …
Implementation Of A Helicopter Flight Simulator With Individual Blade Control, Andrew G. Zinchiak
Implementation Of A Helicopter Flight Simulator With Individual Blade Control, Andrew G. Zinchiak
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Nearly all modern helicopters are designed with a swashplate-based system for control of the main rotor blades. However, the swashplate-based approach does not provide the level of redundancy necessary to cope with abnormal actuator conditions. For example, if an actuator fails (becomes locked) on the main rotor, the cyclic inputs are consequently fixed and the helicopter may become stuck in a flight maneuver. This can obviously be seen as a catastrophic failure, and would likely lead to a crash.;These types of failures can be overcome with the application of individual blade control (IBC). IBC is achieved using the blade pitch …
Prediction Of The Effects Of Compositional Mixing In A Reservoir On Conversion To Natural Gas Storage, Alan Wallace Brannon
Prediction Of The Effects Of Compositional Mixing In A Reservoir On Conversion To Natural Gas Storage, Alan Wallace Brannon
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Most existing gas storage fields have been developed from depleted natural gas and oil production reservoirs. It is not uncommon for gas storage fields to be developed in water bearing aquifer zones where the presence of conventional type reservoirs is limited. Natural Gas Condensate reservoirs are typically not found in the eastern United States where most gas storage facilities are developed close to the colder market and increased population centers. Therefore, data is limited on how the lean dry storage gas will interact with the remaining residual gas condensate liquid and wet gas at reservoir pressure and temperature conditions.;Data concerning …
An Examination Of The Characteristic, Resilience, And Leadership Practices In Public School Elementary Principals, M. Suzanne Offutt
An Examination Of The Characteristic, Resilience, And Leadership Practices In Public School Elementary Principals, M. Suzanne Offutt
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The purpose of this study was to identify relationships among the dimensions of resilience, leadership practices, and individual demographics of elementary school principals in West Virginia. The author was looking for skills that could be identified and enhanced to improve the recruitment and retention of public school leaders. Many school systems report problems recruiting effective school leaders, and many school leaders report feeling discouraged and overwhelmed by the increasing demands to implement changes and improvements in schools. This study examined the characteristic resilience, the capacity to change and return to a state of equilibrium comparing those characteristics with various leadership …
An Investigation Of The Effectiveness Of Developmental/Remedial Education At West Virginia Institutions Of Higher Education, Blake J. Renner
An Investigation Of The Effectiveness Of Developmental/Remedial Education At West Virginia Institutions Of Higher Education, Blake J. Renner
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Underprepared college students are a continuing challenge for higher education institutions. Many students arrive at institutions of higher education with weak academic skills and are unable to do college-level school work. As a result, developmental education programs are required to address these inadequacies in student preparation. The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of these developmental education programs. The goal is to determine the relationship between developmental education programs in West Virginia four-year higher education institutions and the success of the students in these programs as measured by degree completion and the terms to degree required to …
Leadership Frames Of College Presidents, Their Executive Cabinets, And Teams In Public And Not-For-Profit Master's Institutions In West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North And South Carolina, And Florida, Richard B. Pagan
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This study investigated leadership frames of college presidents and members of their executive cabinets (vice presidents for academic affairs, vice presidents for student affairs, and chief financial officers) to determine their predominant leadership frame(s). It also determined if the leadership frames of the presidents' group and the cabinet members' group diverged or converged. Public and not-for-profit master's degree granting institutions, large, medium, and small, in the states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, and Florida participated in this study. Of the 384 senior administrators that were invited to participate, 147 completed Bolman & Deal's Leadership …
Functional Impairments Of College Students With Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder And Necessary Modifications For Higher Education, Sylvia A. Wright
Functional Impairments Of College Students With Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder And Necessary Modifications For Higher Education, Sylvia A. Wright
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This study examines the impact of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) on college age students 18-25 years old. Qualitative research methods, including semi-structured interviews with students and significant others, writing samples and transcript documents, examine functional impairments of students with AD/HD as well as functional impairment impact on relationships, academics and work. This qualitative research, grounded theory, provides a model for future research studies confirming existing theory and provides a basis for new theory.;The conclusion was that functional impairments continue to exist in college age adults with impairments with issues in concentration, organization, time related issues, time management/scheduling and hyperactivity. These …
A Simulation-Based Transfer Function Modeling Approach For Responsive Production Planning, Jingang Liu
A Simulation-Based Transfer Function Modeling Approach For Responsive Production Planning, Jingang Liu
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In this thesis, a novel statistical metamodeling method is proposed to study the input-output dynamic relations of general queueing system, especially when the system going through transient state. This metamodeling approach incorporates discrete even simulation, statistical inference, analytical queueing analysis to estimate a set of transfer function models (TFMs), which fully describe the system dynamic in terms of outputs that are interested: first and second moment of work-in-process (WIP) and first moment of departure rate.;Empirical queueing examples with non-Markov property are studied, including single station-single server system, single-station multi-server with failure system and multi-station multi-server with reentrant flow system and …