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It is the process, not the test: A mixed method study of a professional learning community at one elementary school in Oklahoma.
(2006)The juxtaposition of the quest for reaching accountability benchmarks and the desire for meeting students' individual needs has created a problem for district administration, site principals, and school staff. As a result, ... -
IT personnel sourcing decisions in IT projects.
(2006)The evolutionary growth of information technology, during the past few decades, has created the impetus for change in the organizational workplace from a focus on narrow and specific tasks, carried out by individuals, to ... -
"It Seemed Like a Wonderful Way to Influence the World and to Touch Lives": Exploring Reasons Teachers Stay in the Classroom
(2020)Retaining experienced, effective teachers in the classroom is essential. In fact, research shows it is the most significant factor in student achievement and the stability of the learning environment (Carver-Thomas & ... -
“It Takes a Village”: A Re-examination of Black-Interest Advocacy, Collective Representation, & the Modern Congressional Black Caucus
(2020)This project has three explicit goals in mind. First, I aim to uncover how the CBC constructs and communicates their collective worldview to the institution. Existing literature has been essential to improving our understanding ... -
"It Turns You Inside Out": The Emotional Effects of Working Within the Capital Punishment System
(2022-08-04)While previous literature on the emotional effects of capital punishment has examined the experiences of the family members of victims and the family members of accused or convicted capital murderers, little research has ... -
It's my party...: Examining women as partisans within the United States Congress.
(2002)The present work utilizes multiple data sources and methodological approaches to offer a more thorough analysis of the nuances of women's legislative behavior. In the first section, interview data is combined with Member- ... -
"It's Not A Treaty, It's A Legal Binding Agreement": Fort Lawton, Red Power, and the Struggle for Indigenous Land Reclamation
(2023-05-12)In 1970, over one hundred Native American activists occupied the Fort Lawton military base in Seattle, Washington. The protestors, disgruntled over the federal government’s termination of tribal lands and lack of support ... -
It's Not About Cowboys: Cowboys as Subject in Contemporary Art
(2015-05)Images of American cowboys are examined in a selection of lens-based artworks including Richard Avedon’s In the American West (1984), Laurie Simmons’ Cowboys (1979), David Levinthal’s The Wild West (1987-89), Matthew ... -
It's not my fault, but I know how you feel: Influences of leader empathy on trust repair following an integrity-based trust violation
(2014-05)Prior research on trust repair has focused primarily on investigating verbal and substantive responses to breaches of trust. Although consistently implicated in violations, the role of affect in the repair process has been ... -
Italian American identity: A hermeneutic examination of Tampa's Italian community.
(2007)This study focuses on how diverse interpretations of ethnicity within the United States produce meaning for Italian Americans. Research regarding Italian Americans and the effects of negative stereotypes, cultural products, ... -
Item Difficulty Sequencing and Response Style: a Follow-Up Analysis
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Iterative decoding for magnetic recording channels.
(2000)The success of turbo codes indicates that performance close to the Shannon limit may be achieved by iterative decoding. This has in turn stimulated interest in the performance of iterative detection for partial-response ... -
Iterative model-guided post stack seismic imaging and interpretation of halokinetic structures: Ras Banas area, offshore northern Red Sea.
(1998)Offshore northern Red Sea salt basins are dominated by complex halokinetic features and variable seafloor topography. The resulting severe imaging distortions observed on seismic profiles from these basins mask the salt ... -
Ittibaapishiꞌat Ittachapa: Chickasaw and Choctaw Relations in Indian Territory, 1839-1856
(2022-05-13)My thesis explores the relations between the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations from 1839 to 1856. In 1839, the majority of Chickasaws were living in Indian Territory under the Choctaw Nation tribal government and in 1856, the ... -
IT’S ALL GOOD—BUT FOR WHOM? EXAMINING THE PRESENCE OF PUBLIC GOOD WITHIN DISSERTATIONS FROM PUBLIC RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
(2018-05)The purpose of this exploratory research project is to explore if university research extends “beyond the walls” of research universities and seeks to address the social matters relevant to the greater community. The ... -
It’s Hard, but I Can Do It: How an Independent Engineering Fair Project Can Affect Student Perceptions Of Science
(2021-09-07)Incorporating authentic engineering practices into educative experiences in elementary school has the potential to positively impact student consideration of STEM careers ... -
It’s Fun to Interview Him, If You Can Catch Him: an interview with Robert Wedgeworth
(Information Development, 1999-03-01)Robert Wedgeworth, President of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA) from 1991–1997, was interviewed August 20, 1998, Hotel Okura, Amsterdam, during the 64th General Conference of ... -
IV-VI LEAD SALT MID-INFRARED LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE DESIGN, FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONIV-VI LEAD SALT MID-INFRARED LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE DESIGN, FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION
(2009)The research detailed by this dissertation has demonstrated the design, fabrication, and characterization of lead salt semiconductor mid-infrared light emitting devices. A scrupulous theoretical model has been described ... -
IV-VI MATERIALS & DEVICES FOR THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC (TPV) POWER GENERATION
(2016-12-16)IV-VI semiconductors, with direct gap conduction and valence band extrema at the L-point in k-space, are characterized by four-fold L-valley degeneracy. Prior work [1] has shown that this degeneracy can be removed with ... -
IV-VI semiconductor structures for laser fabrication of silicon.
(1998)This dissertation describes experiments undertaken to develop techniques required to develop IV-VI lasers grown on silicon. A review of the IV-VI materials system, diode laser structures, recent IV-VI laser results, epitaxial ...