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FUTURE OF FAILURE? STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF A SHORTENED SCHEDULE ON THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS OF STUDENTS
(2018-05-12)
This study examines the effects of changing from a five-day to a four-day school week on academic achievement for public schools in Oklahoma, a state which ranks high on poverty and near the bottom on educational quality ...
Considering the exceptions: How should leaders think about experience?
(2018-12-14)
Prior research suggests that leaders produce their best and most impactful solutions to organizational problems when they use relatively simple mental models. A critical question which remains, however, is how do leaders ...
Correcting, Improving, and Verifying Automated Guidance in a New Warning Paradigm
(2018-05-11)
The prototype Probabilistic Hazards Information (PHI) system allows forecasters to experimentally issue dynamically evolving severe weather warning and advisory products in a testbed environment, providing hypothetical end ...
CATALYTIC ACYLATION, HYDROGENATION AND HYDRODEOXYGENATION OF LIGNIN-DERIVED AROMATIC MOLECULES
(2018-05-12)
Lignin-derived phenolic molecules are studied for three different chemistries including acylation, hydrogenation and hydrodeoxygenation. Acylation is an effective C-C bond forming reaction to condense acetic acid and ...
PALEOECOLOGY OF MEDIAL CRETACEOUS DINOSAURS FROM WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
(2018-08)
This dissertation is broken into four chapters. In chapter I, I cover background literature and set the framework for the following chapters by describing the relationship between dinosaur ecology and ontogeny. In chapters ...
Fabrication and Characterization of Porous CNF/PDMS Nanocomposite for Sensing Application
(2018-08-02)
Electrically conductive polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer-based materials are growing as one of the critical needs for the emerging field of wearable electronics due to its high elastic limits and good biocompatibility. ...
The Question of Women's Agency in Iranian Cinema Undergraduate
(2018)
Trying to pinpoint individual acts of agency within cinema can be difficult. This is especially true within Iranian cinema because agency takes different forms than viewers would assume. The term agency itself is ambiguous. ...
Extended Observation Particle Filter with SVD Template Generation Implemented for GPU
(2018-12)
This work presents a novel template updating strategy based on singular value decomposition (SVD) together with an expansion and extension of previous work combining observations across temporally adjacent frames to implement ...
The Changing Hydroclimate of the United States Great Plains: Meteorological and Climatological Impacts on Water Resources
(2018-12-14)
In the United States Great Plains (GP), understanding precipitation variability is key in developing an understanding of the present and future availability of water in the region. Numerous studies have investigated the ...
Teaching Virtue
(2018)
Can virtue be taught? The question is a controversial one, harking back to Confucianism and the Platonic dialogues. We assume that virtue can be taught in the sense that teachers can influence character development in ...