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An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Roadside Instruction in Teaching Children with Visual Impairments Street Crossings
(2010-08-05)
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of verbal rehearsal and graduated guidance as methods of teaching participants who were blind the chained behavior of street crossing. The participants ranged from ...
For Land and Liberty: Black Territorial Separatism in the South, 1776-1904
(2010-08-05)
This dissertation uses social movement theory to examine the participation of black lower class southerners in movements supporting territorial separatism from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. This group ...
Re-Imagining the Jewelled Isle: England and Cross-Media Projects in the Mid-Twentieth Century
(2010-08-05)
My dissertation argues British writers in the 1930s and 1940s all explored the political efficacy of other media in order to create new definitions of Englishness. It aims both to shed light on the relationship between ...
Friction Stir Welded magnesium alloy AZ31B in a lap joint configuration
(2010-08-05)
Friction Stir Welding is a solid state joining process that has been shown to successfully join Mg alloys. However the presence of FSW Mg AZ31B in a lap joint configuration in the literature is largely underrepresented ...
The Paradox of Sovereignty: Authority, Constitution, and Political Boundaries
(2010-08-05)
This dissertation clarifies a tension within the modern ideals of sovereignty that inform the contemporary state system. On one hand, sovereignty is idealized as a kind of authority that constitutes the collective subject ...
Spontaneous Combustion, Starvation, and Chagrin: Disease and Materiality in Bleak House
(2010-08-05)
The importation of Victorian economic discourse into discussions of the human body and, vice versa, the use of biological rhetoric to talk about the economic system result in the muddling of the symbolic and literal registers ...
Modeling Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen in the Cheatham Reservoir with CE-QUAL-W2
(2011-08-03)
Water quality modeling is being used increasingly by decision-making agencies, such as the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), as a tool to predict the behavior of changing water systems. This study documents ...
Morbid Strains in Victorian Literature from 1850 to the Fin de Siecle
(2010-08-09)
“Morbid Strains” studies the development of morbid formal characteristics in Victorian poetry, novels, and life-writing from the mid-nineteenth century to the fin de siècle. During this period, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth ...
Object-Relevant Kinematics Influence Imitative Compatibility
(2012-07-31)
One critical finding from the literature on embodied cognition is that people produce actions more efficiently when observing similar as compared to when observing different actions. This imitative compatibility effect has ...
Pirating Human Rights
(2010-08-12)
ABSTRACT
Pirating Human Rights studies critical theorists’ and activists’ insights on rights in order to bring these two differently situated traditions into productive relation. Arguing the left’s critique of rights has ...