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The aesthetics of metamorphosis: Ovidian poetics in the works of Maria Luisa Bombal and Elena Garro.
(2004)
The study begins with an analysis of the Ovidian concept of metamorphosis and its effects on the body, identity, and the corpus of the text. Chapter Two addresses the notion of "literary myth, " and contextualizes Bombal's ...
Fatigue and recovery patterns of the mouth muscles used to play the clarinet.
(2004)
For this study the fatigue and recovery patterns of one particular mouth muscle, the orbicularis oris, used while playing the clarinet was studied by using the Biopac MP 150 EMG system with non-invasive surface electrodes. ...
Salt pork and roastin' ears: Food and cooking in a Yuchi community.
(2004)
This study provides biographical sketches of six elder Yuchi women and illuminates their relationship with food and the practice of cooking within the Yuchi food system. Based on ethnographic methods, primarily extensive ...
Partial regularity of weak solutions of quasilinear elliptic systems and weak Harnack inequalities.
(2004)
In this thesis we study quasilinear elliptic systems of p-Laplacian type with a perturbation satisfying a natural (critical) growth condition. First, using test functions recently introduced by R. Landes we deduce ...
Opinions from the field: Graduate assessments of the value of master's degrees in arts administration.
(2004)
Respondents generally reported that the degree helped them in their job searches and prepared them well for work in the arts. Open-ended responses, however, allowed them the opportunity to discuss their misgivings with the ...
4DVAR retrieval of prognostic land surface model variables.
(2004)
The major findings of the first type of retrieval are: Initial soil moisture contents as well as deep soil temperature can all be successfully retrieved, for realistic initial guess errors; the relative difficulty in ...
Journal of the Faculty Senate, February 9, 2004
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2004-02-09)
The effects of conflict role and intensity on preschoolers’ expectations about peer conflict
(International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004-11-01)
Using a puppet procedure depicting hypothetical conflict involving the participant and a peer, 96 preschoolers’ (48 boys and 48 girls; M 1/4 5.14 years, SD 1/4 0.78 years) expectations about peer conflict were assessed as ...
Narratives of hospice volunteers: Perspectives on death and dying.
(2004)
This study found that hospice volunteers' narratives function to make sense of death, warrant decisions for advanced preparation of their own death, illustrated an attempt to control their own death, transformed their ...
Formulating a Communication Strategy for Effective Knowledge Sharing
(Journal of Information Science, 2004-02-01)
Overcoming cultural resistance from a workforce and gaining sufficient buy-in from senior management are both critical to the successful implementation of Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives in any organization. The main ...