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Tolkien's Faerian Drama: Origins and Valedictions
(2014)
I attempt to define the characteristics of Tolkien’s concept of “Faërian Drama,” and how it differs from the medieval dream-vision, through the way it changes the lives of dreamers such as Scrooge, the Pearl poet, and Smith ...
Unprecedented high-resolution view of bacterial operon architecture revealed by RNA sequencing
(2014-07-08)
We analyzed the transcriptome of Escherichia coli K-12 by strand-specific RNA sequencing at single-nucleotide resolution during steady-state (logarithmic-phase) growth and upon entry into stationary phase in glucose minimal ...
Reflections on the American Lyceum: The Legacy of Josiah Holbrook and the Transcendental Sessions Undergraduate
(2014-10-02)
The American Lyceum Movement became a pivotal foundation of U.S. adult education during the nineteenth-century. Holbrook recognized adult learners’ educational demands diversified during the rise of industrialism. Thus, ...
Some Classes of Jacobi Matrices and Schrödinger Operators
(2014)
This dissertation addresses two classes of Jacobi matrices and Schrödinger operators. First, we consider Jacobi matrices and Schrödinger operators that are reflectionless on an interval. We give a systematic development ...
The Influence of Aging on Cardiovascular Measures After an Acute Bout of Resistance Exercise
(2014)
As individuals age, substantial physiological changes occur. Most notably there is a decrease in muscle mass known as sarcopenia and an increase in arterial stiffness. In order to attenuate declines in muscle mass, ...
Perfectionism, the Thin Ideal, and Disordered Eating: Does Internalized Misogyny Play a Role?
(2014-03-31)
Research has consistently shown a relationship between both perfectionism and the internalization of the thin ideal with disordered eating behavior. The relationship between internalized misogyny and disordered eating ...
THE ROLE OF IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT IN A RESOURCE DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP
(2014)
Venture capitalists (VCs) perform valuable services to entrepreneurs and to the economy as a whole by accelerating innovation through the funding of high potential, nascent ventures. The operational duties of a VC are ...
Denying What Workers Believe Are Unethical Workplace Requests: Do Workers Use Moral, Operational, or Policy Justifications Publicly?
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2014-02-01)
This message-production experiment demonstrates workers’ tendency to use organizational policy justifications when publicly denying what they privately believe are unethical requests. Working adults (N = 234) responded to ...
Modular Open-Source Software for Item Factor Analysis
(Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014-10-31)
This article introduces an item factor analysis (IFA) module for OpenMx, a free, open-source, and modular statistical modeling package that runs within the R programming environment on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft ...
DEVELOP DRAFT CHIP SEAL COVER AGGREGATE SPECIFICATION BASED ON AGGREGATE IMAGING SYSTEM (AIMS) ANGULARITY, SHAPE, AND TEXTURE TEST RESULTS
(2014-1)
The objective of the study is to improve Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) chip seal design and performance through introducing new criteria for the selection of cover aggregate and binder. The study evaluates ...