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COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID AND THE U.S. MEXICO SECURITY FENCE
(2015)
Powerful semiotic signs like the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall served significant communicative functions. The modern culture of nation state wall building continues despite the fact that the security fences are ...
Integrated Production Data Analysis of Horizontal Fractured Well in Unconventional Reservoir
(2016-12-16)
This thesis presents a novel analytical solution to predict the expansion of drainage volume for compound transient linear flow system consisting of stimulated-reservoir volume (SRV) and unstimulated shale/tight sandstone ...
An Experimental Investigation into Using Electro-Chemical Properties to Measure Permeability in Low Permeability Formations
(2016-12-16)
Permeability is one of the most important property in the study of rock formations. Different permeability measurement techniques have been used in the industry, some of which are based on modelling while others on ...
Journal of the Faculty Senate, March 12, 2012
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2012-03-12)
Social Studies Teachers' Attitudes Concerning Convtroversial Public Issues Instruction and State Mandated Tests
(2012)
This transcendental phenomenological qualitative study examines attitudes toward Controversial Public Issue instruction by teachers who used mandated standards and state tests. After the interviews of 11 social studies ...
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 ...
The Influence of Storytelling on the Identity of Children of Adolescent Parents
(2018-12)
Grounded in Communicated Narrative Sensemaking, this dissertation examines the influence stigma and storytelling have on those born to adolescent parents. Analyses based on a survey completed by 141 individuals found those ...
LEADERSHIP FOR STUDENT SUCCESS OUTCOMES: A CASE STUDY OF PRESIDENTIAL AND COMMITTEE ACTIONS AT EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
(2018-12-15)
In American Higher Education, retention and graduation rates have grown in their prominence as institutional quality indicators. Yet, when measures are interrogated for parity across racial groups, inequity in outcomes is ...
How K-12 school district officials made decisions during 2011 National Weather Service tornado warnings
(2012)
School district officials are responsible for the safety of large populations of students and staff. Yet, few have meteorological training to accurately interpret severe weather information to make the best decisions during ...
Soil Trace Metals Concentrations in A Mining Impacted Agricultural Watershed: Comparison of Analytical Methods, Geospatial Distribution, and Evaluation of Risk
(2018-05-11)
This study investigated four aspects surrounding lead, zinc, and cadmium soil trace metals concentrations within a mining impacted watershed: (1) a comparison of three soil trace metal quantification methods relating ...