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(2017-07-10)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation examines the ways in which the increasingly negative feelings that Americans harbor toward their political opponents influence the way they understand politics. Though the conventional understanding of ...
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(2019-06-26)Department: PsychologySince Ebbinghaus’ (1885) work more than a century ago, there has been substantial interest in understanding how people store and retrieve information in order. The field has largely relied on the serial recall procedure ...
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(2014-12-03)Department: Community Research and ActionThis paper explores the intersection of religious and sexual identity formation amongst Muslim-American youth, employing psychological theories of identity, sociological theories of performance, and theological perspectives ...
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(2019-04-11)Department: Community Research and ActionA school-based enterprise (SBE) is an entrepreneurial operation managed and operated by students in a school setting. School-based enterprises reinforce classroom instruction through practice-based learning and can enhance ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis research examines the digital communication and composing practices of a group of preschoolers with touchscreen tablets. Four year-old children were invited to take on the role of digital composer as they used an ...
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(2017-12-08)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyWhile healthcare research has examined how social and emotional factors complicate treatment of chronic disease, practitioners often have few resources to assess and address the impact of non-biological influences on patient ...
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(2018-10-18)Department: EnglishJames Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind” received an unprecedented number of letters to the editor when it was published in the November 17, 1962 issue of The New Yorker. A cluster of these reader responses located ...
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(2015-07-29)Department: Computer ScienceAs the meteoric rise of publicly available web service APIs enables access to increasing amounts of useful data via network requests, and network requests are best handled asynchronously, asynchronous and concurrent ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: ReligionMy dissertation explores the otherness of minor characters in the Gospel of John beyond a model of binary opposition. The recent trend of Johannine scholarship is to perpetuate negative portrayals of the minor characters, ...
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(2009-08-12)Department: ReligionRELIGION JESUS THE BORDERLANDER: HYBRIDITY AS SURVIVAL STRATEGY AND MODEL FOR POLITICAL CHANGE——A CULTURAL REPRESENTATION FROM THE GOSPEL OF JOHN LETICIA AÍDA GUARDIOLA-SÁENZ Dissertation under the direction of Professor ...
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(2008-03-20)Department: ReligionRELIGION JOHN COTTON: THE ANTINOMIAN CALVINIST GREGORY ALLEN SELMON Dissertation under the direction of Professor James P. Byrd This project is a theological assessment of John Cotton’s life and ministry. This ...
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(2005-04-24)Department: PhilosophyPHILOSOPHY JOHN DEWEY AND PRAGMATIC ECONOMICS JENNIFER K. THOMPSON Dissertation under the direction of Professor John Lachs The study of economics and economic life was important to John Dewey throughout his work. In ...
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(2012-07-18)Department: PhilosophyUtilizing a brand of pragmatism influenced very largely by John Dewey, Pragmatism and Modern American Democracy examines the state of American democracy and the ways in which it falls short of its purported ideals. By ...
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(2011-07-29)Department: ReligionThe relationship of the Gospel of John to the Synoptic Gospels has been a perennial question since the patristic era, and yet there has been little sustained focus on John's connection to Matthew. Scholars have predominantly ...
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Joint Music Making and Prosocial Behavior in Preschoolers: Lyrics, Vocal-Motor Imitation, & the Beat (2018-03-29)Department: PsychologyResearch has shown that active musical engagement promotes prosocial behavior in preschool-age children under some conditions but not others. The current study consists of two experiments designed to examine preschool-age ...
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(2010-04-13)Department: ReligionThis study argues that the story of the book of Jonah may be interpreted as a transformation of a familiar topos in which the protagonist undergoes a rite de passage during a quest that takes him towards a foreign land. ...
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(2015-04-06)Department: Law and EconomicsEach branch of the federal government has a role in enforcing the federal nondiscrimination statutes. Congress creates and amends the statutes; the federal courts apply the law when parties file lawsuits under the statutes; ...
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(2005-12-02)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis study uses a theoretical model of education finance adequacy that combines the concept of qualitative and quantitative adequacy described by Ladd and Hansen with the concept of differing student needs addressed by ...
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(2008-12-30)Department: Microbiology and ImmunologyDiverse families of viruses bind immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) proteins located in tight junctions and adherens junctions of epithelium and endothelium. However, little is known about the roles of these receptors in ...
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(2018-07-31)Department: SociologyBefore the cementation of Jim Crow laws, free black women tried to gain access to upper-class ‘Ladies Cars’ by asserting their status as ‘ladies’ upon the railroad, with some success. I am studying the legal ambiguity ...