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A Balancing Act: Reconciling Organizational Change with a Tradition of Uniqueness in Countercultural Liberal Arts Colleges
(2008)
The current investigation explores the impact of societal shifts in commercialism and consumerism on lesser-known colleges with a tradition of liberal arts education. I present a descriptive case study that examines the ...
Parallel & cluster computing : linear algebra
(2008-08-10)
A systematic study of genus
(2008)
First, pollen grains of tribe Sanguisorbeae (Rosaceae, Rosoideae) were examined using scanning electron microscopy in order to identify useful characters in the tribe, test taxonomic and phylogenetic hypotheses among genera, ...
Discrimination of Tornadic and Non-Tornadic Severe Weather Outbreaks
(2008)
Outbreaks of severe weather affect the majority of the conterminous United States. An outbreak is characterized by multiple severe weather occurrences within a single synoptic system. Outbreaks can be categorized by ...
Rural Teachers' Best Motivating Strategies: A Blending of Teachers' and Students' Perspectives
(2008)
This paper extracts and elaborates rural secondary teachers' most effective reported motivating strategies. From the data generated by two years of mixed method research in rural secondary schools, these strategies emerged ...
Advanced Voice and Multimedia Communications System for the ODOT ITS Network (FHWA-OK-08-04 2204)
(2008-9)
Across the State of Oklahoma there are a multitude of agencies, at the federal, state, and local levels, all responsible for responding to emergency situations. Many of these agencies have a presence on the private ODOT ...
Constructing an Ethos in the Borderlands
(2008)
Since the 1960s, classical rhetoric has been a significant site for theorizing composition pedagogy in the United States, informing scholarly work in the field and generating textbooks and teaching practices for first-year ...
Conversational correlates of children's acquisition of mental verbs and a theory of mind
(First Language, 2008-11-01)
The purpose of this study was to conduct a detailed examination of the ways mothers use mental verbs in conversations with three- and four-year-old children, and to link these usages to the children's developing understanding ...
To Prove Who You Are: Freedmen Identities in Oklahoma
(2008)
Amidst political challenges to Freedmen citizenship in the Five Tribes, Freedmen communities in Oklahoma struggle to prove their identities. This ethnographic and ethnohistorical work examines Freedmen identities through ...
Monte Carlo Simulation (SC '08 Education Program's Workshop on Parallel & Cluster Computing)
(2008-08-10)
An application is known as embarrassingly parallel if its parallel implementation:
can straightforwardly be broken up into roughly equal amounts of work per processor, AND
has minimal parallel overhead (e.g., communication ...