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Understanding Crude Oil Spot And Futures Prices Dynamics During Major Crises, Miroslava Zavadska Jul 2018

Understanding Crude Oil Spot And Futures Prices Dynamics During Major Crises, Miroslava Zavadska

Doctoral

This thesis examines crude oil, the dominant energy resource worldwide, its historical behaviour and the resulting implications for world economies. It analyses the role of spot and futures oil prices and their dynamics during periods of market uncertainty. The focus of attention is the understanding of the lead-lag relationship of crude oil spot and futures prices during major crises periods (the first Gulf War in 1990/91, the Asian financial crisis in 1997/98, the US terrorist attack in 2001 and the global financial crisis in 2008/9), and its implications for investors and policy-makers. The mix of applied econometric models gives strength …

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Mula Anito Hanggang Kasaysayan Ng Langit: Panimulang Pagbabalangkas Tungo Sa Bagong Kasaysayan Ng Pananampalatayang Katoliko Sa Pilipinas (3000 B.K.-1950), Jose Rhommel B. Hernandez Jun 2018

Mula Anito Hanggang Kasaysayan Ng Langit: Panimulang Pagbabalangkas Tungo Sa Bagong Kasaysayan Ng Pananampalatayang Katoliko Sa Pilipinas (3000 B.K.-1950), Jose Rhommel B. Hernandez

Malay Journal

May tatlong bahagi ang pag-aaral na ito. Una, sinikap na bigyang pansin ang mga naunang pag-aaral sa kasaysayan ng Simbahang Katoliko sa Pilipinas. Tinalakay ang kanilang mga pangunahing punto at paglalarawan sa naging daloy ng kasaysayan ng pagpapakalat ng pananampalatayang Katoliko sa Pilipinas. Ikalawa, binigyang paliwanag ang “Pantayong Pananaw” bílang siyang magiging lente sa pag-aaral ng kasaysayang tinuran at kung paano ring magiging pamamaraan ito sa pagtugon sa suliraning naging epekto ng mga naunang pag-aaral. Ikatlo, sinikap na bumuo ng isang panibagong peryodisasyon ng kasaysayan ng Simbahang Katoliko na hindi nakasentro sa mismong kilos/mga kilusan sa loob mismo ng Simbahan …

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The Third World Women’S Alliance: History, Geopolitics, And Form, Ariane Vani Kannan Jun 2018

The Third World Women’S Alliance: History, Geopolitics, And Form, Ariane Vani Kannan

Dissertations - ALL

This dissertation focuses on the work of the Third World Women’s Alliance (TWWA), a women-of-color-led activist organization that maintained active chapters in New York City and the Bay Area between 1971-80. Drawing on archival research and qualitative interviews, I reconstruct how the group invoked, constructed, and circulated intersecting Third World histories and geopolitical analyses through political education, publications, and cultural events. In addition to this historical study, I seek to understand the ongoing presence of the TWWA in educational spaces through interviews with archivists and professors across disciplines. This project makes three contributions to the field of Rhetoric and Composition: …

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Conversation: Design Education As A Catalyst For Change, Donál Holland, Ramia Mazé, Alex Milton, Ingrid Mulder, Cristiano Storni Jun 2018

Conversation: Design Education As A Catalyst For Change, Donál Holland, Ramia Mazé, Alex Milton, Ingrid Mulder, Cristiano Storni

DRS Biennial Conference Series

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Obituary | Dina Bangdel (1963–2017), Kerry Lucinda Brown Jun 2018

Obituary | Dina Bangdel (1963–2017), Kerry Lucinda Brown

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

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“Breathless Zeal And Careless Confidence”: German Propaganda In World War I (1914-1918), Elisabeth Fondren Jun 2018

“Breathless Zeal And Careless Confidence”: German Propaganda In World War I (1914-1918), Elisabeth Fondren

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This study examines the building and rethinking of German propaganda institutions during World War I. The goal of this dissertation is to illustrate the evolution of German government ideas on propaganda between 1914-1918.

During the war, German military leaders, politicians, and diplomats had ambitions to change, reform and modernize approaches to media governance. They were losing the battle of ideas, they realized early on. And so German officials were desperate to make propaganda fit into the structure of government; they tried to use new media technologies to be more persuasive. Although there was an abundance of ideas, all of their …

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Spatial Thinking In Astronomy Education Research, Merryn Cole, Cheryl Cohen, Jennifer Wilhelm, Rebecca Lindell Jun 2018

Spatial Thinking In Astronomy Education Research, Merryn Cole, Cheryl Cohen, Jennifer Wilhelm, Rebecca Lindell

Teaching and Learning Faculty Research

Multiple studies show that spatial thinking skills contribute to students’ performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. The study of astronomy is no different with the understanding of many astronomical phenomena requiring spatial thinking skills. This paper describes traditional and contemporary approaches to characterizing and measuring spatial thinking skills and suggests how they inform research in astronomy education. It summarizes previous literature in astronomy education research and categorizes the research approaches of astronomy education peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings that explicitly consider the role of spatial thinking. Additionally, it recommends directions and curricular approaches for astronomy education research …

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Producing Ferdinand E. Marcos, The Scholarly Author, Miguel Paolo Reyes Jun 2018

Producing Ferdinand E. Marcos, The Scholarly Author, Miguel Paolo Reyes

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle discusses the compelling evidence—found in various primaryand secondary sources and analyzed through methods drawn from bookhistory and plagiarism detection—that not one of the books authored byPres. Ferdinand E. Marcos was actually written by him. Thearticle alsoshows how many of “Marcos’s” books had either plagiarized content(e.g., republishing contents from previous works) or were “padded” withlengthy appendices. It also explains the seemingly far-reaching distributionnetwork of these books. Lastly, thearticle looks into how these books,although they have not been republished for decades, continue to servetheir intended functions.KEYWORDS: FERDINAND E. MARCOS • BOOK HISTORY • GHOSTWRITING • PLAGIARISM• ADRIAN CRISTOBAL

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Visions Of A Modern Nation: Haiti At The World's Fairs, Hadassah St. Hubert Jun 2018

Visions Of A Modern Nation: Haiti At The World's Fairs, Hadassah St. Hubert

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation focuses on the motivations of successive Haitian governments from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s in participating in world’s fairs abroad and in mounting expositions in Haiti. In particular, it explores why and how world’s fairs became a primary path through which Haitian officials and elites sought to represent and defend the nation’s image internationally. World’s fairs were mostly held in countries of the global north as showcases of national progress, imperial reach and power. Having overthrown French colonial rule in 1804 and been denigrated by detractors abroad for decades thereafter, Haitian governments sought to demonstrate through …

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Using Collaborative Autoethnography To Explore Online Doctoral Mentoring: Finding Empathy In Mentor/Protégé Relationships., Jennifer Duffy, Leah Wickersham-Fish, Linnea Rademaker Jun 2018

Using Collaborative Autoethnography To Explore Online Doctoral Mentoring: Finding Empathy In Mentor/Protégé Relationships., Jennifer Duffy, Leah Wickersham-Fish, Linnea Rademaker

School of Educational Leadership

We used collaborative autoethnography (CAE) to investigate how we, in our prior work as doctoral mentors at an online institution that assigned students to dissertation chairs, navigated the challenges associated with relationship deterioration with some of our student protégés. We explored how the process of reflection and interrogation might shape our future responses to conflict so that we might improve our strategies for successful and satisfying mentoring outcomes. We applied Rusbult, Zembrodt, and Gunn’s (1982) framework, with constructs Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and Neglect (EVLN), to examine specific cases from our work as dissertation mentors. Originally created to help explain responses …

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News You Can Use: Highlights Of Imls-Funded Research And Early Career Development Projects (Presentation For The American Library Association Annual Conference, June 2018), Matthew R. Griffis Jun 2018

News You Can Use: Highlights Of Imls-Funded Research And Early Career Development Projects (Presentation For The American Library Association Annual Conference, June 2018), Matthew R. Griffis

Publications and Other Resources

From the conference program: "In this session, recent award recipients will highlight successful IMLS research projects to educate and encourage others to apply. IMLS program officers will share information about how to develop competitive proposals and get helpful feedback during the application process." (Note: These presentation slides are for Dr. Matthew R. Griffis's portion of the presentation only.)

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Review Of The Book "Deposition, 1940-1944: A Secret Diary Of Life In Vichy France," By Léon Werth (David Ball, Ed. And Trans.), Shannon Lee Fogg Jun 2018

Review Of The Book "Deposition, 1940-1944: A Secret Diary Of Life In Vichy France," By Léon Werth (David Ball, Ed. And Trans.), Shannon Lee Fogg

History and Political Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

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‘Mightier Than Marx’: Hassoldt Davis And American Cold War Politics In Postwar Ivory Coast, Abou B. Bamba Jun 2018

‘Mightier Than Marx’: Hassoldt Davis And American Cold War Politics In Postwar Ivory Coast, Abou B. Bamba

History Faculty Publications

Using the travels of Hassoldt Davis in Ivory Coast to explore the global Cold War in French West Africa in the 1950s, this article argues that the main line of confrontation in the postwar era did not always pit Americans against Russians. In many instances, the struggle for the mind and soul of Africans was between the Americans and the French. The study highlights the role of everyday technology in the expansion of the American informal empire. By focusing on Davis and the significance of low-tech artifacts, the article suggests that in our scrutiny of Cold War science/technology, we need …

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Age And Growth Of Cottonwood Trees Along The Missouri River, North Dakota, Jonathan M. Friedman, Fisher R. Ankney, J. Marshall Wolf Jun 2018

Age And Growth Of Cottonwood Trees Along The Missouri River, North Dakota, Jonathan M. Friedman, Fisher R. Ankney, J. Marshall Wolf

The Prairie Naturalist

The relict plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides subsp. monilifera) forest along the Missouri River between Lakes Sakakawea and Oahe includes trees as large as two meters in diameter. We cored 24 of these trees to determine their age and suitability for flow reconstruction. Because most of the trees were rotten in the center, we developed a method to estimate the date of the center ring that accounts for the increase in ring width toward the center. Estimated center ring dates were as early as 1806. Cottonwood growth at a dry site was correlated with April–August flow prior to construction of Lake …

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Third, Fourth, And Fifth Grade Teachers’ Experiences With Academic Parental Involvement At Denied-Accreditation Elementary Schools In Virginia: A Phenomenological Study, Allison Knappenberger Jun 2018

Third, Fourth, And Fifth Grade Teachers’ Experiences With Academic Parental Involvement At Denied-Accreditation Elementary Schools In Virginia: A Phenomenological Study, Allison Knappenberger

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this transcendental, phenomenological study was to understand third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers’ experiences with academic parental involvement at denied-accreditation elementary schools. Parent involvement refers to two-way communication between parents and teachers. Denied accreditation refers to schools scoring below 70% on state assessments for four or more consecutive years. The theories guiding this study were the Getzels and Guba (1957) social systems theory and Bakhtin’s (1986) theory of dialogism as they influence teachers’ experiences of academic parental involvement through socio-psychological and dialogic environmental interactions. The research questions for this study included: How do third, fourth, and fifth …

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Intersecting Identities: The Lived Experiences Of Gay, Male Catholic College & University Alumni, Todd D. Kleine Jun 2018

Intersecting Identities: The Lived Experiences Of Gay, Male Catholic College & University Alumni, Todd D. Kleine

College of Education Theses and Dissertations

This phenomenological study describes emergent themes related to how gay, male alumni perceive their experiences of attending an American Catholic institution of higher education. Utilizing a modified version of Seidman’s phenomenological interview protocol, six gay, male alumni of various American Catholic institution of higher education were interviewed in an attempt to arrive at the essence of attending a college or university where Church teachings and campus culture intersected with the sexual orientation of certain community members. From the collected data, four clear themes emerged: all alumni experienced pre-college negative messages about their sexual orientation, visibility and support were positive contributors …

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Book Review: Violence As A Generative Force: Identity, Memory, And Nationalism In A Balkan Community, Kjell Anderson Jun 2018

Book Review: Violence As A Generative Force: Identity, Memory, And Nationalism In A Balkan Community, Kjell Anderson

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

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Argument Is War : Relevance-Theoretic Comprehension Of The Conceptual Metaphor Of War In The Apocalypse, Clifford T. Winters Jun 2018

Argument Is War : Relevance-Theoretic Comprehension Of The Conceptual Metaphor Of War In The Apocalypse, Clifford T. Winters

ATS Dissertations

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The Official History Of The Uk Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, Vol. 1, From The V-Bomber Era To The Arrival Of Polaris, 1945–1964, And Vol. 2, The Labour Government And The Polaris Programme, 1964–1970, Myron A. Greenberg, Matthew Jones May 2018

The Official History Of The Uk Strategic Nuclear Deterrent, Vol. 1, From The V-Bomber Era To The Arrival Of Polaris, 1945–1964, And Vol. 2, The Labour Government And The Polaris Programme, 1964–1970, Myron A. Greenberg, Matthew Jones

Naval War College Review

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Tin Can Titans: The Heroic Men And Ships Of World War Ii’S Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron, Blake I. Campbell, John Wukovits May 2018

Tin Can Titans: The Heroic Men And Ships Of World War Ii’S Most Decorated Navy Destroyer Squadron, Blake I. Campbell, John Wukovits

Naval War College Review

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Charting A New Course: The Knox-Pye-King Board And Naval Professional Education, 1919–23, David Kohnen May 2018

Charting A New Course: The Knox-Pye-King Board And Naval Professional Education, 1919–23, David Kohnen

Naval War College Review

By attacking the problem of professional military education openly and without deference to higher-ranking personalities or bureaucratic protocols, the Knox-Pye-King Board helped place the U.S. Navy on the course that would educate the personnel who would secure the strategic victories of the Second World War and lead the service into the Cold War era.

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Japan’S Defense Readiness: Prospects And Issues In Operationalizing Air And Maritime Supremacy, Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi May 2018

Japan’S Defense Readiness: Prospects And Issues In Operationalizing Air And Maritime Supremacy, Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi

Naval War College Review

Facing a fluid regional security environment and the need to strengthen its alliance role, Japan has worked to increase the capabilities of the Japan Self-Defense Forces by adjusting the relevant bureaucratic, political, and operational frameworks and making key investments in new force structures.

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Forgotten Cases: Worthen V. Thomas, David F. Forte May 2018

Forgotten Cases: Worthen V. Thomas, David F. Forte

Cleveland State Law Review

According to received opinion, the case of the Home Bldg. & Loan Ass’n v. Blaisdell, decided in 1934, laid to rest any force the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution had to limit state legislation that affected existing contracts. But the Supreme Court’s subsequent decisions belies that claim. In fact, a few months later, the Court unanimously decided Worthen v. Thomas, which reaffirmed the vitality of the Contract Clause. Over the next few years, in twenty cases, the Court limited the reach of Blaisdell and confirmed the limiting force of the Contract Clause on state legislation. Only …

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Unescorted Guests: Yale’S First Women Undergraduates And The Quest For Equity, 1969-1973, Anne G. Perkins May 2018

Unescorted Guests: Yale’S First Women Undergraduates And The Quest For Equity, 1969-1973, Anne G. Perkins

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

“Unescorted Guests” provides a richly detailed portrait of a fundamental change at one US institution: Yale University’s 1969 transition from an all-men’s to a coed college. This study disputes several dominant narratives about the 1970s youth and women’s movements, and deepens our understanding of three core issues in higher education research: access, the experiences of previously excluded students, and change towards greater equity. I contest the myth of alumni as foes to coeducation, and show that the greatest opposition to equity for women came instead from Yale’s president and trustees. I document how women students, absent as powerful figures in …

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Genuinely Brazilian: Race, Gender And The Making Of Guaraná Soda, Seth Garfield May 2018

Genuinely Brazilian: Race, Gender And The Making Of Guaraná Soda, Seth Garfield

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

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Foods, Foodways And Francisation In Seventeenth-Century Québec, Whitney Hahn, Mairi Cowan May 2018

Foods, Foodways And Francisation In Seventeenth-Century Québec, Whitney Hahn, Mairi Cowan

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

No abstract provided.

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To A Little Girl For Keeping The Poultry Last Year: Food And Fellowship In A Franciscan Community In Georgian Ireland, Dorothy Cashman May 2018

To A Little Girl For Keeping The Poultry Last Year: Food And Fellowship In A Franciscan Community In Georgian Ireland, Dorothy Cashman

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

No abstract provided.

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The Power Behind The Pudding: Hidden Hierarchies In The African Cookery Book, Igor Cusack May 2018

The Power Behind The Pudding: Hidden Hierarchies In The African Cookery Book, Igor Cusack

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

No abstract provided.

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Reconstruction Of Social Studies, William Gaudelli, Megan J. Laverty May 2018

Reconstruction Of Social Studies, William Gaudelli, Megan J. Laverty

Education and Culture

As the world grows increasingly contentious, education for citizenship demands greater attention. Yet at this perilous juncture, social studies has neglected to take up the task of preparing citizens in a democratic and global society. Social studies has become increasingly fragmented and isolated by disciplinary foci that fetishize academic pursuits over broadly social purposes, precisely what Dewey warned against and which represent but a small portion of its functions. The academic-only social studies education has created a temporal disconnection that affirms the preparation for future life rather than, as Dewey preferred, the school as life itself. Dewey tasked the school …

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Discipleship As Means To Reinvent Higher Education, Alan Parker, D.Th. May 2018

Discipleship As Means To Reinvent Higher Education, Alan Parker, D.Th.

The Journal of Biblical Foundations of Faith and Learning

This paper exams the purpose of Adventist Higher Education and how it can be achieved. It suggests that the purpose of Christian education is to transform believers into the image of Christ. It contrasts contemporary Christian education with Ellen White’s vision of education and suggests that current models of education, especially in General Education, fall far short of this ideal. The paper concludes that character development, the transmission of strong biblical values and the holistic development of the overall person should be the purpose of Adventist higher education. The paper then suggests that the most effective way to accomplish this …

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