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The rural music teacher: An investigation of the relationship between socialization factors and career satisfaction using symbolic interaction theory.
(2004)
The findings from this study revealed that rural music teachers in this study understood the globalized tasks associated with music education. The music teachers in this study were not socialized to their position as music ...
Assessment of semi-parametric proportional intensity models applied to recurrent failure data with multiple failure types for repairable-system reliability.
(2004)
Certain systems experience a substantial period of downtime due to performing maintenance following a major failure. This discontinuity in observation time has been a concern in the accuracy of estimating the covariate ...
Exploring the differences between traditional and alternative schools for educationally disengaged students.
(2004)
The intent of both programs is to intervene with students whose academic and social behaviors are indicators of at-risk characteristics for not graduating from high school. The E.D.G.E. and F.A.M.E. Academies are both ...
Synaptic depression and its relation to behavioral habituation within anterior piriform cortex.
(2004)
The onset, time course, and extent of LOT synaptic depression during both in vitro electrical and in vivo odorant stimulation methods were similar. Similar to the odor specificity of cortical odor adaptation in vivo, there ...
A practicing engineer's perspective on nonlinear finite element analysis techniques for reinforced concrete structures.
(2004)
The research demonstrates the continued progress in finite element analysis of reinforced concrete structures. Increasingly, structural engineers will use this method in their designs, and in research into materials and systems.
Facilitative leadership in public organizations: A study of federal agency supervisors.
(2004)
Using secondary analysis of raw data from two federal government employee surveys, this study examines the concept of facilitative leadership by supervisors within federal agencies. Results from bivariate and multivariate ...
From creekology to geology: Finding and conserving oil on the Southern Plains, 1859--1930.
(2004)
This dissertation tells the story of the oil industry's westward migration from Pennsylvania to the Southern Plains states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and how different environments in these regions influenced prospectors' ...
Effects of process parameters and mold design on resin transfer molded composites.
(2004)
The effects of flow rate and post-fill cure pressure, i.e., packing pressure, on the mechanical properties of resin transfer molded disks are experimentally investigated. Disks are molded at different flow rates and packing ...
Is human resources management in the leading states being reinvented?
(2004)
Reinventing government is an approach to public sector management theory that may be the most influential and significant in the past half century. It claims that the traditional government employment principles of fitness ...
Newspapers and Organizational Development: Management and Journalist Perceptions of Newsroom Cultural Change
(Journalism & Communication Monographs, 2004-03-01)