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TEACHING FOR CITIZENSHIP WITHIN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS
(2016-05-13)
The purpose of this study was to learn more about elementary social studies instruction and its role within citizenship education. In particular, this study focused on gaining insight into the nature of social studies ...
Functional Impairment, Marital Quality, and Their Effects on Marital Dissolution
(2016-05-13)
Numerous studies show evidence that personal health affects marital relationships, and therefore, marital dissolution. However, little work examines the effects of functional impairment on marital dissolution. Moreover, ...
Design Guidance for Installing Vibration Sensitive Equipment in Industrial Facilities
(2016-08)
The need to understand floor vibrations in an industrial facility has increased in recent years as the drive for tighter manufacturing tolerances has increased. This drive has led to an increase in manufacturing equipment ...
Russian-Syrian Relations: Past and Present Undergraduate
(2016)
Drawing heavily on Andrej Kreutz’s Russia in the Middle East and
Robert Freedman’s “Russia and the Arab Spring: A Preliminary
Appraisal” along with numerous news sources, this essay serves a twofold
purpose of sketching ...
Clara Schumann's Character Pieces: A Pedagogical Approach to Selected Works
(2016-05-13)
This study explores pedagogical aspects of Clara Wieck Schumann’s piano works through a discussion of selected character pieces. Although Clara composed over sixty piano pieces, only a few are standards of the repertoire, ...
Maternal Identity, Grief, and Creative Subjectivity in Niño y sombras by Concha Méndez
(2016-12)
The poetry of Concha Mendez reflects the human condition, particularly motherhood and grief in a Spanish context. This dissertation examines the embodied, relational, dynamic, and adaptable maternal identity; the mother’s ...
X-RAY CRYSTAL STRUCTURES AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PRODUCTS FROM THE INTERACTIONS OF MYOGLOBIN WITH NITROGEN OXIDES AND ARYLHYDRAZINES, AND NITROREDUCTASE INTERACTIONS WITH ORGANIC NITRO COMPOUNDS
(2016-05)
This thesis describes research into the roles that metalloproteins and non-metalloproteins play in the biological inorganic/organic chemistry of common nitrogen oxides. There are three main chapters on this work: the first ...
MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ROLLER DRUM AND PAVEMENT MATERIAL DURING COMPACTION
(2016)
The problem of ensuring real time control of compaction quality during pavement construction is considered in this dissertation. Asphalt pavements are complex, multilayer, heterogeneous structures where different layers ...
THREE ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH
(2016-05-13)
My research explores important issues associated with development and growth. Chapter 1 aims to obtain an accurate estimate of China's intergenerational income mobility and to present evidence on its distributional pattern. ...
Women Superintendents: The Effects of Gender on Leadership
(2016-12)
The superintendency is one of the most heavily masculinized roles in American culture (Brunner & Grogan, 2007). It is documented that women are underrepresented in the position of superintendency. Approximately 20% of the ...