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Using Temporal And Paleogeographic Mapping To Identify Underrepresented Regions And Time Intervals To Aid In Selecting Locations To Search For New Molluscan Species, James Joshua Crowell

Theses and Dissertations

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Lewis Acid Co-Catalyzed Dilute Sulfuric Acid Pretreatment And Enzymatic Hydrolysis Of Lignocellulosic Biomass, John C. Degenstein

Theses and Dissertations

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Ellipitic Functions As Solutions To The Schwarzschild Orbit Equation And A Model For Dark Matter Distributions In Galaxies, Matthew G. Brorby

Theses and Dissertations

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Evaluation Of A Video-Based Training Program On Tutors' Implementation Of Discrete-Trial Teaching, Lindsay A. Deling

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Building Bridges, Building Peace: The Life And Work Of Claudette Werleigh Of Haiti, Bijoyeta Das

Kroc IPJ Research and Resources

In the following pages, you will find narrative stories about a Woman PeaceMaker, along with additional information to provide a deep understanding of a contemporary conflict and one person’s journey within it. These complementary components include a brief biography of the peacemaker, a historical summary of the conflict, a timeline integrating political developments in the country with personal history of the peacemaker, a question-and-answer transcript of select interviews, and a table of best practices in peacebuilding as demonstrated and reflected on by the peacemaker during her time at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice.

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The Trauma Of Race, The Race Of Trauma: American Culture Between Racial Segregation And "Political Correctness"., Luminita M. Dragulescu

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

My dissertation aligns history, trauma, and race studies to shape a conceptual basis for the race trauma inquiry in order to explore the effects of U.S. racial history on both individuals and communities. I argue that the social, political, and psychological mechanisms by which racism, racial exploitation and exclusion function have a traumatic effect on individuals as well as cultures. This project seeks to map the extent to which race identification, racialized life experience, and racism can be traumatic. By the trauma of race I refer to the psychological, somatic, and cultural effects that individuals and groups suffer as a …

The Importance Of School Culture In The Advancement Of 21st Century Learning Environments: A Qualitative Study., Lydotta M. Taylor

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This qualitative study aims to make explicit the importance of school culture and teacher involvement in shaping and implementing reform efforts. Over the past 60 years, a variety of political leaders have led numerous education reform efforts. The importance of school culture has often been missing from the reform efforts. This study reviews the effectiveness of the Who Took My Chalk?â„¢ intervention and the six defining characteristics of the intervention: student engagement, collaboration, goal setting, action planning, assessing attitudes, and engaging openness. The data collected for this study include pre- and post- interview responses from school faculty on the six …

The Livingstons Of Liberty Hall: Changes And Restrictions Of Gender In Eighteenth- Century America., Jennifer M. Tobin

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The Livingstons of Liberty Hall: Changes and Restrictions of Gender in Eighteenth- Century America explore issues of masculinity and femininity during the settlement of New York and New Jersey through the American Revolution. In it, theories relating to social order, economics and law are explored as they pertain to three generations of the Livingston family. Ideas regarding class and cultural diffusion, as well as the transformation of British colonial subjects to American citizens are seen through the education, lives and changes experienced by the Livingston family. Each Livingston son and daughter reacted and participated to the war and the changes …

Parental Influence On Physical Activity Of 7 To 9 Year Olds., Janie Marie Leary

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a minimum of 60 minutes of physical activity every day for children. These recommendations are based on the evidence that physical activity has health benefits beyond weight control. Despite these benefits, most children are not taking part in the recommended levels of physical activity. Understanding factors influencing children's physical activity is important to developing successful intervention programs. Intrapersonal and interpersonal influences were found to have the greatest impact on child physical activity. The extent to which each factor predicts physical activity as children age is less understood. Furthermore, not every developmental age …

Interpretation, Meaning-Making, And Civic Engagement At Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, Sandy Strickland

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Using qualitative methodology, this study investigated interpretation, meaning-making, and civic engagement at Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site. Based upon constructivist learning theory, the research focused on eight research questions including: 1) What memories do visitors recall from their visit to CHSNHS? 2) What kind of knowledge do visitors remember? 3) Are visitors making meaningful connections to the resource? 4) What meanings are visitors making? 5) How are the meanings made? 6) Are these meanings connected to civic engagement? 7) What types of citizens are visitors to Central High School NHS? 8) Longitudinal changes in knowledge, meaningful connections, …

Demographic Response Of American Ginseng (Panax Quinquefolius L.) To Climate Change, Sara Souther

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Ecological response to recent climate change has been documented for a multitude of species worldwide. Climate models predict further increases in temperature, as much as 8 times the degree of warming that has already occurred. Given observations of species response to contemporary climate change and the unprecedented degree of warming expected over the next century, climate change will no doubt determine future ecosystem composition and affect global species diversity. In order to prevent loss of biodiversity, it is necessary to understand and accurately project species' response to climate, and to identify species that are vulnerable to climate change driven extinctions. …

Life Cycle Analysis Of Forest Carbon In The Central Appalachian Region, Pradip Saud

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Forest management and wood product processing activities such as harvesting, transportation, and lumber processing consume fossil fuels and emit carbon dioxide. This emitted carbon dioxide creates credit carbon balance which is usually overlooked while estimating the carbon benefits from woody biomass and wood products. Accountability of carbon stored in woody biomass and wood products varies when such carbon emissions are considered. Factors such as, harvesting intensity, growth rate, dead trees and forest fires all affected the estimation of forest carbon balance while harvesting system determines the carbon emission from fossil fuel consumptions. Energy sources used in sawmills for electricity are …

Assessments Of Marketing And Management Practices Of Appalachian Hardwood Sawmills, David Bradley Summerfield

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

A mail survey was conducted in the fall of 2010 to investigate the profitability aspects of the Appalachian hardwood sawmills. Specifically, the survey focused on changes in production, employment, marketing, export and energy efficiency practices between 2008 and 2010. The majority of the respondents used circle-saw headrigs (57%) and the remaining (43%) used bandsaw headrigs. The results indicated that employees in the Appalachian region had decreased by 28.88 percent while production decreased by 26 percent. Among responding sawmills, the number of employees decreased significantly since the economic downturn (p=0.0267) although four survey respondents reported hiring new employees. The most employment …

Ash Removal From Low Rank Coal, Deepankar Virendra Sharma

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The work presented here is concerned with cleaning of low rank coals such as Texas lignite. As a result, Jewett Texas lignite was cleaned from 28% ash by weight to 8.5%. In the first part of the thesis, it is proved that conventional cleaning techniques used for bituminous and sub-bituminous having pyritic impurities does not work for cleaning lignite coal because of different coal chemistry and the presence of clay impurities. Hence after trying conventional processes, there was a need for a new technique capable of removing clay from low rank coals.;Micronized coal, obtained from DevourX LLC, proved to be …

Comparison Of Parent-Child Interactions In Abusive And Control Families: An Observational Study, Jocelyn F. O. Stokes

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study sought to identify differences in caregiver-child interactions between caregivers with and without prior reports of child physical abuse. Data for the abuse group were made available for secondary analyses by the National Archive for Child Abuse and Neglect via Cornell University. Data for the comparison group were collected for a previous study at West Virginia University. For both studies, caregiver-child dyads participated in a 5---minute, videotaped observation in a situation in which the parent had to exert moderate control over the child. Data that had been coded using the Dyadic Parent---Child Interaction Coding System (Eyberg, et al., 1994; …

Where Have All The Women Combatants Gone? The Realities Of Soviet Female Veterans In The Immediate Post World War Two Period, Jekaterina Tsizikova

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Relying on numerous testimonies of Soviet women combatants, this thesis demonstrates the wartime and post-war realities of Soviet women soldiers. About a million of women combatants took an active part in the war, yet they remained in the shadow of the Great Victory of 1945. This paper explores the unwillingness of the Soviet state to recognize the contribution of Soviet women combatants in the fighting of the Second World War. Why did the myth of the Great Patriotic War exclude women? Why were some women soldiers more worthy of recognition than others? What, compared to female veterans, was the status …

Computational Hybrid Systems For Identifying Prognostic Gene Markers Of Lung Cancer, Ying-Wooi Wan

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Lung cancer is the most fatal cancer around the world. Current lung cancer prognosis and treatment is based on tumor stage population statistics and could not reliably assess the risk for developing recurrence in individual patients. Biomarkers enable treatment options to be tailored to individual patients based on their tumor molecular characteristics. To date, there is no clinically applied molecular prognostic model for lung cancer. Statistics and feature selection methods identify gene candidates by ranking the association between gene expression and disease outcome, but do not account for the interactions among genes. Computational network methods could model interactions, but have …

Development Of High-Power Iii-Nitride Light-Emitting Diodes For Solid-State Lighting, Yi Yang

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

White light sources based on III-Nitride light-emitting diodes (LEDs) hold great promise for developing energy-efficient solid-state lighting (SSL) technologies. However, the optical output power of InGaN-based green and blue LEDs at high driving currents is limited by quantum efficiency (QE) droop and low light outcoupling efficiencies. The former is a phenomenon that LEDs suffer a decline in quantum efficiency as the driving current increases, and prominently occurs in LEDs with high In contents. Poor light outcoupling is a challenge facing LEDs of all colors. Due to a large contrast of refraction index between nitrides and air, the majority of photons …

Bashkirs Between Two Worlds, 1552-1824, Mehmet Tepeyurt

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This dissertation examines the transformation of the Bashkir society from a nomadic and semi-nomadic society to a sedentary society under the Russian empire's control from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. In particular, it analyzes inter-ethnic relations and the consequences of these relations for both Bashkirs and other peoples in Bashkiria.;The historical Bashkir lands formed Russia's southeastern frontier for more than two hundred years and the penetration of non-Bashkir groups into the region was a slow and arduous process. On the one hand, the region was an extremely dangerous place: the nomadic groups were quite hostile to the arrival …

Dwindling Into A Wife: Women And The Culture Of Marriage In Britain, 1760-1820, Lori Halvorsen Zerne

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This dissertation examines women and marriage ideology in courtship novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, specifically novels by Sarah Scott, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen. Instead of focusing on the heroines of these courtship novels, however, this project explores the marginalized female roles that orbit the courtship narrative: the chaperon, the mother-in-law, the governess, and the spinster. These four roles demonstrate the broad scope of female functions and services in the period while also calling into question the ideology that attempts to limit women only to the role of wife. The chaperon reveals the work …

The Effects Of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy On Symptoms And Impairment In Young Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Stephanie M. Wagner

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is an externalizing disorder beginning in childhood with symptoms and impairment persisting into adulthood for many individuals. Although ADHD is identifiable and diagnostically valid during the preschool years, the majority of the research has focused on treating school-aged children. Some research suggests that behavioral parent training (BPT) programs are efficacious in treating young children. Yet, results are inconsistent and previous research has methodological limitations that restrict interpretations of the data. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), a widely-disseminated evidence-based BPT program for young children with disruptive behavior problems, incorporates components (e.g., in vivo coaching) that may be particularly effective …

Biol 4903 Senior Capstone, Steelman Library, Jerm J. Day-Storms Dr.

Syllabus Repository

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An Exploratory Study On International Students' Adjustment To American Universities., Grace M. Atebe

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

College students in the twenty-first century face a different political, economic, cultural, and social world than students faced in the previous century. Technology and business have broken down virtually every barrier between countries. As a result, many colleges believe that they must educate and involve their students in cultures beyond their country's borders in the hope of producing inter-culturally competent students. Despite government policies and available financial assistance that encourage study abroad, the vast majority of students in Western countries do not study outside their own borders. Thus, successful integration of international students and scholars with the campus and its …

Ubps Unraveled: Genetic Characterization Of Three Ubiquitin Specific Protease Subfamilies In Arabidopsis Thaliana., Crystal M. Goldyn

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study investigated the function of three ubiquitin specific protease subfamilies (UBP15-19, UBP12/13 and UBP3/4) in Arabidopsis thaliana via reverse genetic analysis. In the investigation of the UBP15-19 subfamily, T-DNA insertion lines were utilized to determine phenotypic characteristics compared to wild-type individuals, such as reduced inflorescence, leaf, flower and silique size. Phenotypic alterations were also detected that affected development and reproduction. A phylogenetic analysis of this subfamily uncovered three subgroups in the monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants, but a single group in the mosses suggested that subgroup evolution began prior to the separation of dicots and monocots but following the divergence …

Journalism, Steelman Library, Barbara B. Nixon Ph.D. (Abd)

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Theatre Practicum, Steelman Library, Brian D. Macke

Syllabus Repository

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Propofol And Children--What We Know And What We Do Not Know., Ae Rigby-Jones, Jr Sneyd

Peninsula Medical School

The pharmacokinetics of propofol are relatively well described in the pediatric population. Recent work has confirmed the validity of allometric scaling for predicting propofol disposition across different species and for describing pediatric ontogenesis. In the first year of life, allometric models require adjustment to reflect ontogeny of maturation. Pharmacodynamic data for propofol in children are scarcer, because of practical difficulties in data collection and the limitations of currently available depth of anesthesia monitors for pediatric use. Hence, questions relating to the comparative sensitivity of children to propofol, and differences in time to peak effect relative to adults, remain unanswered. K(eo) …

The Cross-Atlantic Law And Economics Divide: A Dissent, Ben Depoorter, Jef De Mot

Faculty Scholarship

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Mission Creep In Military Lawyering, Elizabeth L. Hillman

Faculty Scholarship

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Annotated Brief Of Professors Of Public International Law And Comparative Law As Amici Curiae In Samantar V. Yousuf, Chimène Keitner

Faculty Scholarship

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