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Late night political comedy, candidate image, and inoculation: A unique test of inoculation theory.
(2004)
Additionally, this study assessed the viability of using inoculation treatments to protect against late night political ridicule (monologues and parodies). Previous research beginning in the late 1980s has revealed inoculation ...
Criterion-Related Validity in Multiple-Hurdle Designs: Estimation and Bias
(Organizational Research Methods, 2004-10-01)
Employee selection often involves a series of sequential tests (or hurdles). However, validation strategies under this complex design are not found in the literature. Missing is a discussion of the statistical properties ...
Red Scare rhetoric and composition: Early Cold War effects on university writing instruction, 1934--1954.
(2004)
This dissertation investigates composition and communication philosophies and practices from the years 1934--1954. Generally speaking, writing instruction suffered during the Cold War because the political climate reduced ...
Buoyancy effects on flow structure and instability of low-density gas jets.
(2004)
Linear temporal and spatio-temporal stability analyses of a low-density round gas jet injected into a high-density ambient gas were performed by assuming hyper-tan mean velocity and density profiles. The flow was assumed ...
The clearings of authentic learning in mathematics.
(2004)
This study is a hermeneutical phenomenological qualitative investigation of authenticity in mathematics learning. In the applicable literature the uses of the words "authentic" and "authenticity" are found to be problematic. ...
Comparison of Void Reduction Methods for Resin Transfer Molded Composites
(2004)
Liquid composite molding (LCM) processes such as resin transfer molding (RTM) have been successfully used to manufacture high performance fiber-reinforced composites at a low cost. However, these composites usually suffer ...
Antimodern strategies: Ambivalence, accommodation, and protest in Willa Cather's "The Troll Garden".
(2004)
In this project I argue that Willa Cather's earliest collection of stories, The Troll Garden (1905), demonstrates the antimodern ethos of the American fin de siecle period as characterized by both progressive rhetoric and ...
Systematics and paleoecology of trilobites from the Late Ordovician Viola Group, south-central Oklahoma.
(2004)
The Upper Ordovician Viola Group of south-central Oklahoma records deposition on a carbonate ramp that extended from platform settings to a basin within the Southern Oklahoma aulacogen. Lithofacies analysis allows inner, ...
The emergence of objects: A study in constitution.
(2004)
In this dissertation I first motivate the need for the constitution relation by raising what Michael C. Rea has called the problem of material constitution and arguing that many of the so-called solutions of the problem ...
WAAS error, integrity and availability modeling for GPS based aircraft landing system.
(2004)
From its initial conception to deployment, the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) was hailed as revolutionary for the navigation industry. However, the WAAS deployment effort has suffered significant delays and budget ...