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Exploring the spatiotemporal relationships among population, land use, and water use in the United States portion of the Rio Grande River Basin
(2022-05)Water use in the United States is uncertain as our climate warms and our population continues to grow. As such, it is imperative that we understand the drivers of water use in order to better plan for this future. The Rio ... -
Exploring the toxic triangle: the effects of leadership, team mental models, and core self evaluations on follower sensemaking and ethical decision making
(2023)Leadership is an omnipresent aspect of daily life, particularly in organizational settings. While research has extensively examined constructive leadership and its effects on follower and organizational performance, there ... -
Exploring the transition from a pre-modern to modern conceptualization of the natural world: Implications for a more connected approach to contemporary education.
(2006)Modernist science is a discourse that separates us externally from our environment, socially from one another, and internally within ourselves. This study not only examines the role education plays in developing our ... -
Exploring Tornado Debris Signature Hypotheses Using Radar Simulations and Large-Eddy Simulations
(2021)Tornadoes can loft various types and sizes of debris, sometimes resulting in a polarimetric radar signature called the TDS (Tornado Debris Signature). The presence of a TDS in the radar data can help confirm the occurrence ... -
Exploring Tornadogenesis with High-Resolution Simulations Initialized with Real Data
(2012)Despite large advances in our understanding of tornadogenesis over the past fifty years, a comprehensive dynamical understanding of the processes behind tornado formation remains elusive. The purpose of this dissertation ... -
Exploring transparency: a new framework for responsible business management
(2016-02-08)The purpose of this paper is to critically review the relevant literature on transparency, provide a comprehensive definition of transparency, and present a new framework for facilitating the adoption of transparency as ... -
Export alliances as a mechanism of dependence control in the world-system :
(1983)The results of this study call for some revisions in the premises of the two models. World-system theory needs to consider the internal conditions of the periphery as one of the parameters accounting for underdevelopment. ... -
EXPORTING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR TO “OUR NEIGHBOR TO THE SOUTH”: THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL WAR CENTENNIAL AND COLD WAR MEXICO, 1961–1965
(2019)This project is about the California Civil War Centennial Commission’s (CWCC) articulation of California’s contemporary state identity through the lens of Civil War commemoration in the early 1960s. In its task to commemorate ... -
Exposure of Soil Microbial Communities to Chromium and Arsenic Alters Their Diversity and Structure
(PLos One, 2012-06-29)Extensive use of chromium (Cr) and arsenic (As) based preservatives from the leather tanning industry in Pakistan has had a deleterious effect on the soils surrounding production facilities. Bacteria have been shown to be ... -
Expressed Confidence and Skepticism: The Effect of Expressed Confidence on Auditor Judgments
(2012)I examine the effects of clients' expressions of confidence on auditor judgments. The confidence heuristic suggests decision makers use expressions of confidence as a cue for reliability (Price and Stone 2004). However, ... -
The expressed faculty preference for collective bargaining related to selected measures of job satisfaction, perceptions of collective bargaining, and attitudes toward unions and union officials.
(1982)This study analytically assessed variables related to faculties' expressed preferences for collective bargaining. The variables identified for the purpose of this study were socio-economic, job satisfaction, perception of ... -
The expressed reading interests of third and fifth grade children in selected Oklahoma schools.
(1982)This dissertation investigated the relationship of sex, grade level, and demographic characteristics on the individual reading interests of third and fifth grade students in rural, urban, and metropolitan areas of Oklahoma. ... -
Expressed reading preferences of children enrolled in grade two in selected schools in Colorado /
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Expressing political and administrative values through stories: A semiotic analysis of the National Performance Review.
(1998)The argument presented here is that the stories in NPR are effective at communicating the values intended by the authors of the report. This finding supports what many administrative theorists have recently postulated about ... -
"Expressing the Inexpressible": Art Posters, Graphic Modernism, and the American West, 1890–1925
(2020-05)The “art poster” movement swept the United States during the 1890s, generating enthusiasm and commentary for advertising posters designed by fine artists. While American art posters prompted much discussion in their time, ... -
Expressing the kami (deities): A study of Washinomiya Saibara Kagura
(2010)This dissertation explores WASHINOMIYA SAIBARA KAGURA as a communication site where religious beliefs, values, and ways of life are interwoven with human expression. The kagura is one of the oldest forms of Shinto folk ... -
Expression profiles and the identification of the clock-controlled genes in two time-of-day-specific cDNA libraries of Neurospora crassa.
(2001)In the group of genes that were detected from both cDNA libraries, the highest three of the top ten highly expressed genes were clock-controlled genes (ccgs). That these ccgs are so highly expressed in Neurospora implies ... -
Extended Observation Particle Filter with SVD Template Generation Implemented for GPU
(2018-12)This work presents a novel template updating strategy based on singular value decomposition (SVD) together with an expansion and extension of previous work combining observations across temporally adjacent frames to implement ... -
Extended Surfactants: Characterization and Microemulsion Properties
(2008)Extended surfactants are surfactants with intermediate polarity groups, such as polypropylene oxide (PO) and polyethylene oxide (EO), inserted between the hydrophilic head and the hydrocarbon tail. With this unique molecular ...