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THE HEDGE FUND NEWSPAPER OWNERSHIP ERA: FACTORS THAT MAKE THE INDUSTRY VULNERABLE, AND THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON MEDIA MANAGEMENT AND THE ROLE OF JOURNALISM IN DEMOCRACY
(2024-05-11)
This dissertation sheds light on the relationship between ownership and media management, particularly focusing on the impacts of hedge fund ownership in journalism. While the effects of hedge fund ownership have been ...
Exploration of Factors Influencing the Teacher Self-Efficacy in Educators of Justice-Involved Juveniles in Special Settings: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study
(2024-05)
Juveniles involved with the justice system are a population of youth with extensive needs who are historically underserved. Legal mandates have attempted to ensure these students are receiving a quality education, but ...
Only the Young: The Rhetoric of Youth-Led Social Movements In the 21st Century
(2024-05-10)
In this dissertation, I examine several examples of contemporary youth-led protest in conjunction with some of the specific challenges of organizing in the present day. In each chapter, I pair one circumstance that makes ...
Coevolution of a male novel genital trait and female reproductive response in Drosophila melanogaster sister species
(2024-08-01)
Novel morphological structures have always fascinated scientists. Developmental processes give rise to structures and morphologies that are often functionally necessary for an organism’s survival and reproduction. But how ...
AUTHORIAL CUSTODY AND STORY STEWARDSHIP: CENTERING RELATIONALITY AS AN INDIGENOUS APPROACH TO TEXTS
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation looks to position authorial custody and story stewardship as useful tools for author, audience, and critic. As a critical creative methodology, it can be used to identify custodial markers indicating the ...
Investigating the Leptinergic Regulation of Weakly Electric Fish Communication Signals
(2024-05-10)
Animals expend energy to gain information from their environments and communicate information to conspecifics. Understanding these energy-information tradeoffs is critical for understanding the constraints that shape animal ...
[GAUI [GUT YA[BAHE:GAU: KIOWA WORD WARRIORS AND THEIR LITERARY PURPOSE
(2024-05-10)
This work examines select literature created by Kiowa authors, poets, and playwrights as an extension of their traditional role as warriors, members of warrior societies, and the values that these warriors still uphold ...
EVALUATION OF METHANE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CHANGES IN OXYGEN CONCENTRATION, INTERACTIONS WITH NON-METHANE-OXIDIZING HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIA, AND THE TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION OF METHYLOCYSTIS SUFLITAE SP. NOV.
(2024-05-10)
This work describes an in-depth investigation into how the methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) respond to changes that allow them to effectively function in their ecological role. This includes understanding their response ...
CONTEMPORARY DROUGHT MONITORING WITH THE STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX: EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF NONSTATIONARY PRECIPITATION REGIMES IN THE CONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES ON THE CHARACTERIZATION OF DROUGHT
(2024-05-10)
I would like to sincerely thank my family and friends who supported and encouraged me over the past several years. Especially my dad, David Spade, and my dear friend and mentor, Kris Bowline. You two saw me across the ...
A Seasonal to Subseasonal Examination of Synoptic and Local Drivers of Flash Drought
(2024-05-10)
Flash drought is the rapid intensification of drought like conditions. Initiated by meteorological processes that quickly desiccate soil they can be devastating to agriculture and local ecosystems. Flash droughts are driven ...