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Variables In Schools Becoming Learning Organizations, Glenn E. Zederayko

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Instructional Technology Theory Alignment With Practical Application During Student Teaching, Carole S. Robinson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Characterization Of A Cleavage-Defective Hiv-1 Envelope Protein, Kimberly D. Meade-White

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Minute By Minute Heart Rate Monitoring To Estimate Energy Expenditure During Cycling And Running, Justin A. Carlstrom

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Experiencing Wolves In Yellowstone National Park: The Wolf Watching Story, Jessica M. Montag

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Partners In Conservation Education : Scientists Teachers Students And Sea Turtles In Costa Rica, Scott B. Pankratz

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Regeneration Of Subalpine Nothofagus Pumilio In Northwestern Patagonia Argentina, Christopher A. Wall

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Effects Of Natural Variability On The Use Of Macroinvertebrates As Bioindicators Of Disturbance In Intermontane Depressional Wetlands In Northwestern Montana Usa, Vicki E. Ludden

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Influence Of Prey Density On Post-Fire Habitat Use Of The Black-Backed Woodpecker, Hugh D. Powell

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Sedimentary Record Of Upper Cretaceous Through Tertiary Tectonism Northeastern Crazy Mountains Basin Central Montana, Joshua K. Borrell

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Demonstrating Cross-Regulation Compliance For Utility Emission Sources Using A Centralized Database And Opsenvironmental Software : A Case Study Of Colorado Spring [Sic] Utilities Environmental Data Management System, Jim Nolte

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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A Logit Analysis Of Abortion Timing, Susan R. Holmberg

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Wetland Mitigation In Indiana: Policy Practice And Outcomes, Michael D. Hasty

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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An Investigation Into The "Facilitative-Evaluative" Debate Regarding Mediator Styles, Andrew P. Wyckoff

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Reactivity And Ecological Momentary Assessment Using A Sample Of Undergraduate Problem Drinkers, Alan L. Shields

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Five Years After Beijing: A Report Card On Women’S Human Rights, Athena D. Mutua

Journal Articles

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Incorporation Of "Private" Environmental Certification Systems In Formal Legal Systems: The U.S. Case., Errol E. Meidinger

Journal Articles

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Critical Race Theory And International Law: The View Of An Insider-Outsider, Makau Mutua

Journal Articles

This article contends that international law, like national law, is captive to the racial biases and hierarchies that hide injustice under the pretext of legal neutrality and universality. It argues that international law is tormented by racist and hegemonic asymmetries that govern the international order. The piece posits that international law could benefit greatly from the method of critical race theory in unpacking the pathologies of power and race that define it. It focuses on the use of international law to conceive and buttress the exploitation and marginalization of the North by the South. It calls for a reconstruction of …

From Nuremberg To The Rwanda Tribunal: Justice Or Retribution?, Makau Mutua

Journal Articles

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Subsidized Lives And The Ideology Of Efficiency, Martha T. Mccluskey

Journal Articles

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Felony Murder And Mens Rea Default Rules: A Study In Statutory Interpretation, Guyora Binder

Journal Articles

The Model Penal Code's influential approach to culpability included default rules assigning a culpable mental state to every conduct, circumstance and result element of each offense. Such rules have been enacted in half of the American states. The Code's drafters also rejected what they understood to be the felony murder rule's imposition of "a form of strict liability for... homicide." Yet almost every state has retained some form of the felony murder rule and so repudiated the Model Penal Code's proposed reform. Because the Model Penal Code's disapproval of felony murder flows from its general disapproval of strict liability, the …

Framed: Utilitarianism And Punishment Of The Innocent, Guyora Binder, Nicholas J. Smith

Journal Articles

This paper is a defense of utilitarian penology, against the familiar retributivist charge that it promotes framing the innocent, and other charges similarly depending on the notion that utilitarianism encourages officials to deceive the public. Our defense proceeds from the striking fact that utilitarianism's critics do not cite textual evidence that the originators of utilitarian penology in fact endorsed punishing the innocent or deceiving the public. Instead, critics claim that these unsavory policies follow logically from the premises of utilitarianism. Our argument, in brief, is that the charge of framing the innocent rests on a misunderstanding of utilitarian penology. We …

Dance And Doctrine: Shaker And Mormon Dancing As A Manifestation Of Doctrinal Views Of The Physical Body, Lindsy Stewart Cieslewicz

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis compares the dancing of the Shakers (The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearance) and the Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or LDS Church) during the nineteenth century, as it was influenced by their doctrinal beliefs about the human body. Specifically, it examines how the role of the physical body in achieving mortal happiness and immortal salvation was viewed by each group and how these beliefs were reflected in their dancing. It describes the different forms of dancing performed by each religious group and how dance functioned as worship and recreation for the …

Sex & Surveillance: Gender, Privacy & The Sexualization Of Power In Prison, Teresa A. Miller

Journal Articles

In prison, surveillance is power and power is sexualized. Sex and surveillance, therefore, are profoundly linked. Whereas numerous penal scholars from Bentham to Foucault have theorized the force inherent in the visual monitoring of prisoners, the sexualization of power and the relationship between sex and surveillance is more academically obscure. This article criticizes the failure of federal courts to consider the strong and complex relationship between sex and surveillance in analyzing the constitutionality of prison searches, specifically, cross-gender searches.

The analysis proceeds in four parts. Part One introduces the issues posed by sex and surveillance. Part Two describes the sexually …

What Is Twail?, Makau W. Mutua

Journal Articles

The piece seeks to conceptualize the insurgent movement in international law known as Third World Approaches to International Law. Driven by scholars from the Third World, TWAIL rejects the traditional tenets and assumptions of traditional international law and argues for a re-imagination of the law of nations to purge it of racial and hegemonic precepts and biases to create a truly universal corpus that embraces inclusivity and empowerment. The movement turns away from the imperialist and colonialist foundation of international law. It argues that international law must be devoid of oppression, exploitation, and domination. The piece is among the first …

Successful Proposal Preparation, Mariesa Crow

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

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Two Separate Continually Online Trained Neurocontrollers For Excitation And Turbine Control Of A Turbogenerator, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Ronald G. Harley

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper presents the design of two separate continually online trained (GOT) artificial neural network (ANN) controllers for excitation and turbine control of a turbogenerator connected to the infinite bus through a transmission line. These neurocontrollers augment/replace the conventional automatic voltage regulator and the turbine governor of a generator. A third COT ANN is used to identify the complex nonlinear dynamics of the power system. Results are presented to show that the two COT ANN controllers can control turbogenerators under steady state as well as transient conditions and thus allow turbogenerators to operate more closely to their steady state stability …

About Resonant Modes At The Shielded Dielectric Hemisphere, Sergey Kharkovsky, A. E. Kogut, Z. E. Eremenko, V. V. Kutuzov, Yuri F. Filipov

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The resonant modes, which are excited at the shielded dielectric hemisphere, are investigated by the theoretical and experimental methods. The low-Q-factor modes of air cavity and high-Q-factor whispering gallery modes of dielectric structure are existed together in the case of high radial index value. The Q-factor value of the whispering gallery modes of the shielded dielectric sphere with the certain correlation between the sizes of dielectric hemisphere and metal shield can be more great than the Q-factor of the whispering gallery modes of the similar open dielectric resonator.

Analysis Of Intangible Factors In Waste Minimization Projects, Halvard E. Nystrom, William Ralph Kehr

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Continual population growth and rising standards of living that accelerate the consumption of limited resources, are forcing society to encourage conservation of these resources. These resources not only include raw material, but also the areas to dispose of the wastes. As a result, communities are driving industries towards waste minimization by limiting waste generation and landfill availability. Firms'' environmentally friendly strategies can gain competitive advantage by leading in environmental practices. This advantage emanates from the reduction of risk of environmental regulatory overreaction, as well as improved asset utilization and landfill utilization. However, these intangible benefits are difficult to identify and …

Exercising Real Unit Operational Options Under Price Uncertainty, Chung-Li Tseng

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this paper, we use the real options framework to value the operation flexibility of a power plant. The power plant operation is formulated as a multi-stage stochastic problem. We assume that there are hourly spot markets for both electricity and the fuel used by the generator, and that their prices follow some Ito processes. At each hour, the power plant operator must decide whether or not to run the unit so as to maximize expected profit. However, the unit operation is subject to decision lead times and minimum uptime and downtime constraints, so the commitment decision must take into …