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Major themes in the works of Ramóubí/
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Majority Voting On Tax Shares: a Simple Life-Cycle Model
(Public Finance Review, 1981-01-01)This article presents a simple model of majority voting on tax shares in which Abstract voters perceive the tax structure to be chosen as a permanent institution under which each voter's tax burden will be determined ... -
"Make It An Indian Massacre:" The Scapegoating of the Southern Paiutes
(2016-05-13)Overall, this project attempts to move dialogue beyond the cause of the Mountain Meadows Massacre to examine how and why Mormon perpetrators manipulated and covered their tracks in order to frame the Southern Paiutes. This ... -
"MAKING A MAN OUT OF A BOY": MASCULINITY, MALE PRIVILEGE, AND MISEDUCATION IN THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
(2009)This inquiry responds to a perceived "masculinity crisis" by examining the educational meanings and cultural values of "masculinization." (Pollack, 1998, 2000; Sommers, 2000; Gurian, 1996) Claiming that a masculinization ... -
"MAKING A MAN OUT OF A BOY": MASCULINITY, MALE PRIVILEGE, AND MISEDUCATION IN THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
(2009)This inquiry responds to a perceived "masculinity crisis" by examining the educational meanings and cultural values of "masculinization." (Pollack, 1998, 2000; Sommers, 2000; Gurian, 1996) Claiming that a masculinization ... -
Making and Unmaking Masculinity: Paradigms of Success and Failure in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(2016-05-13)This project focuses on the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century depictions of success and failure in prominent fiction and addresses how these concepts played a vital role in the construction of masculinity during ... -
'Making Friends or Making Things?': Interfirm Transactions in the Sheffield Metal-working Cluster
(Urban Studies, 2003-03-01)The paper comprises an examination of the material inputs of a sample of 70 small firms in the Sheffield metal-working cluster and an assessment of the extent to which purchases are accompanied by face-to-face (embodied) ... -
MAKING MEANING OF ALGEBRA 2 TEACHERS: A CASE STUDY OF ONE SCHOOL
(2017-12-16)As the variety of curriculum materials available to teachers multiplies, understandings of the process by which mathematics teachers make meaning of curriculum materials must be revisited and revised. Rather than beginning ... -
Making meaning of barriers and successes: A qualitative study of upper level female educational leaders.
(2006)This study revealed the phenomenological meaning three women in the upper levels of school administration in a military school system overseas made of the barriers (both internal and external) they experienced in their ... -
The making of legislative agents: Interest group influence in congressional policymaking.
(2001)These findings emphasize the importance of interest groups and their lobbyists in congressional policymaking. They make strategic decisions to use their resources to target members in key places along the paths of policymaking, ... -
Making our measures match perceptions: Do severity and type matter when assessing academic misconduct offenses
(2014-09-26)Traditional approaches to measurement of violations of academic integrity may overestimate the magnitude and severity of cheating and confound panic with planned cheating. Differences in the severity and level of premeditation ... -
Making Satellite Sensors Better for Hydroclimatic Applications: Evaluation of NASA SMAP Soil Moisture Using Oklahoma’s Environmental Monitoring Network—MESONET
(2017-12-15)Soil moisture, quantified as the ratio of liquid water to soil in volume or weight, is the measurement of the water that is held in the space between soil particles. Understanding the components of soil, particularly its ... -
Making sense of motivation: Stories of high-achieving African American middle school students.
(2006)The outcomes of this study will exhibit students maintaining high-academic achievements are equally intrinsically and extrinsically motivated. Their meaning making is synonymous with that of the literature, as the students' ... -
MAKING SENSE OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY: VIOLENCE, AGENCY, AND INTERSECTIONALITY IN POLICY, PAST AND PRESENT
(2020-05)Since President Trump took office in 2017, he has implemented dozens of restrictive immigration laws at the expense of women and people of color. The rapid barrage of policies has confounded international and domestic ... -
Making the Business of Death, Business-As-Usual: The Commerce-Care Dialectic in Funeral Planning
(2024-05-10)This dissertation, grounded in relational dialectics theory 2.0 (RDT; Baxter, 2011), aims to illustrate what meanings emerge from the commerce-care dialectic when engaging in funeral planning. The contrapuntal analysis of ... -
Making the Herball: John Gerard and the Fashioning of an Elizabethan Herbarist
(2011)John Gerard (1545-1612) would not be remembered except for the fact that he wrote the Elizabethan book on plants: The Herball or Generall History of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London Master of Chirurgerie (London: ... -
Making TV Commercials as a Teaching Aid for Cognitive Psychology
(Teaching of Psychology, 1992-10-01)Many students approach psychology in general, and cognitive psychology in particular, with serious misconceptions about the scientific nature of the discipline. In order to address this problem and bring laboratory findings ... -
Male Internet pornography consumers and their attitudes toward men and women.
(2001)Grounded in pornography literature from the conservative-moralist, liberal, and feminist perspectives, and utilizing traditional theories of media effects, this study examined habitual male consumers of Internet pornography ... -
Male vs. female criminality :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1974)