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Friendship and the Cultivation of Virtue
(2016-05-13)Most theories about the cultivation of virtue fall under the general umbrella of the role model approach, according to which virtue is acquired by emulating role models, and where those role models are usually conceived ... -
Friendship Dissolutions and Relational Aggression in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: The Mediating Role of Friendship Jealousy
(2021)Friendships are significant to social development and offer support in times of transition, such as adolescence and emerging adulthood. However, friendships are not always stable, and dissolutions occur in two forms, ... -
From 'ordinary' virtue to Aristotelian virtue
(2016-01)In two earlier papers, I began to explore how “ordinary people” acquire virtue. By “ordinary people,” I mean people, not specifically or directly concerned with becoming virtuous, who have goals or aims the pursuit of ... -
From Adolescence to Adulthood: Intimate Partner Violence in Honor Cultures
(2016-05)Intimate partner violence is no new problem. It affects millions worldwide each year. This set of studies was designed to locate the various places within romantic relationships where an influence of culture of honor can ... -
From ambivalence to acquiescence :
(1981)A novelist's success depends a great deal on the reader's memory. Although a work of fiction must tell its own story, the use of structural patterns and devices found in previous and contemporary works can be used by a ... -
From Bagatelles to Capriolen: Eugen d'Albert and his Later Keyboard Works
(2020-07-30)The purpose of this document is to highlight the contributions of pianist and composer Eugen d’Albert (1864–1932) and to function as a practical reference guide for pianists and educators wishing to perform and teach his ... -
From Bedlam to therapeutic jurisprudence: Are judges adequately prepared to make civil commitment decisions?
(2002)Historically, mentally ill individuals have been subject to inhumane treatment. However, the late 1700's and early 1800's saw major changes in the manner in which the mentally infirm were both housed and treated. Beginning ... -
From buffalo to beeves: Cattle and the political economy of the Oglala Lakota, 1750--1920.
(2007)Obstacles such as an unyielding demand by the federal government to implement a farming economy, extensive competition from white ranchers, limited access to regional or local markets, excessive institutional control by ... -
From Cave Art to Cryonics
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From conventional school to democratic school community: A case study of a principal's practices, obstacles, and action plans.
(2001)The purpose of this study was to examine and document a principal's practices, obstacles, and action plans in facilitating a school's movement from a conventional school to a democratic school community. Specifically, the ... -
FROM COOPERATION TO COMPETITION: HOW MICROBES AND INVERTEBRATES INTERACT IN A TROPICAL FOREST
(2018-05)Microbes and invertebrates are “the little things that run the world” (Wilson 1987, Moreau 2017), but the intricacies of how these organisms impact our environment remains underexplored. Here I investigate how microbes and ... -
From creekology to geology: Finding and conserving oil on the Southern Plains, 1859--1930.
(2004)This dissertation tells the story of the oil industry's westward migration from Pennsylvania to the Southern Plains states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and how different environments in these regions influenced prospectors' ... -
From Ethnic to Interethnic: The Case for Identity Adaptation and Transformation
(Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 2006-09-01)The academic literature for the past several decades suggests an increased tendency to conceive “ethnic identity” as an a priori and morally inviolable human condition exclusively attributed to a social group identified ... -
From Home Missions to Social Activism: A Comparative Study of Southern Methodist and Southern Baptist Women during the Progressive Era
(2018-08-02)Evangelical women in the United States have historically engaged in social activism through home missions. Southern Methodist and Southern Baptist women represent two contrasting groups that organized during the Progressive ... -
From individuals to environment: the relative roles of morphology, flight, density, synchrony, habitat structure, and weather on extra-pair paternity
(2016-08)Reproductive success is driven in large part by the mating system of a species, which ultimately determines patterns of gene transmission across generations. In species with socially monogamous mating systems, an important ... -
From it to you: An autoethnographic journey with Chinese users of German in Germany
(2016-08)There are currently several hundred thousand Chinese students studying abroad, yet knowledge about their experiences is mostly limited to anecdote and caricature. This autoethnography provides a more authentic account based ... -
From Marginalized to Maximized Opportunities for Diverse Youths With Disabilities: A Position Paper of the Division on Career Development and Transition
(Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2008-05-01)Current secondary education and transition practices have created differential education and employment outcomes by gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and disability classifications. These differential ... -
From maverick lands to managed lands: Ranching and school lands in Cimarron County, Oklahoma.
(2000)In this dissertation I trace the decisions affecting school lands since 1890, and I try to assess how these decisions impact Cimarron County ranchers. The story is ongoing, and my contribution is to provide a more complete ... -
From nitrite reductase to Alzheimer's disease: Design, synthesis, and reactivity of new nitrogen-, oxygen-, and sulfur-containing ligands and their copper complexes.
(2006)Transition metal ions are essential for a wide range of biochemical transformations and are found in more than one half of all known enzymes. Our interest in the bioinorganic chemistry of copper prompted us to develop new ... -
From Novice Low to Advanced High: Five Decades of Paradigmatic Shifts in Foreign Language Pedagogy
(2013)For me, the search for the optimal method to promote students' oral