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"Creation Care is a Matter of Life": The Rhetoric of Pro-Life Evangelical Environmentalism
(2017-05-12)
Evangelical groups have often been considered politically conservative on issues such as climate change and abortion. However, some evangelical groups employ pro-life rhetoric as a tool to influence pro-life evangelicals ...
WATER USE TRENDS AND PATTERNS IN THE RIO GRANDE RIVER BASIN: CASE STUDIES IN TEXAS, NEW MEXICO AND COLORADO
(2017-05)
The Rio Grande River Basin spanning over Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico presents a big challenge in terms of efficient water management. Water is allocated by a wide range of relatively autonomous water authorities ...
John Harold Moyer’s "Job": A Conductor’s Perspective
(2017-12)
The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of John Harold Moyer’s
(1927-2012) cantata, Job, as well as a pedagogical method for the modern choral
director to prepare it for performance. The document is organized ...
MULTI-PHOTON TOLERANT QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOLS FOR SECURED GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
(2017-07)
This dissertation investigates the potential of multi-photon tolerant protocols for satellite-aided global quantum key distribution (QKD). Recent investigations like braided single-stage protocol and the implementation of ...
Supercell Predictability: Exploring Ensemble Sensitivity to Initial Condition Spread
(2017-05-12)
The sensitivity of full-physics ensemble forecasts of supercells to initial condition (IC) uncertainty is investigated. The motivation for the study largely stems from the NOAA Warn-on-Forecast (WoF) program, where the ...
The Weapon of Dress: Identity and Innovation in Cherokee Clothing, 1794-1838
(2017-05-12)
In the decades leading up to Removal, Cherokees underwent a variety of sartorial changes. This thesis examines these changes, the resulting tensions, and the use of clothing as a weapon of resistance against Removal. ...
Adsorption of Biomass Torrefaction Vapors on Activated Carbon
(2017-12)
Energy is a growing need for the modern economy; however, global reliance on nonrenewable resources is problematic. The United States transportation infrastructure in particular was built around the combustion of petroleum ...
The Ball Game of the Southeast: Stickball and Cultural Resource Management (CRM) in the Anthropocene
(2017-05)
Forests are an essential source of natural resources in the production of racquets used by Choctaw (Chahta) people to play Kapucha Toli, also known as stickball or the ball game of the southeast. Choctaw efforts to sustain ...
Drones, Ethics, and Pakistan Undergraduate
(2017)
The following article provides an ethical appraisal of the use of armed drones within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan by the Central Intelligence Agency through the prism of Just War theory. This paper ...
THE ROLE OF BIOGEOCHEMISTRY AND CLIMATE IN A NEOTROPICAL ANT COMMUNITY
(2017)
Human activities are rapidly changing nutrient availability and climate across the globe, and this trend is predicted to continue. The effect of biogeochemistry on consumer communities is underexplored in the world’s most ...