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Academic Engagement in Alternative Education Settings
(2009)
Self Determination Theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000) and related subtheories provided a theoretical framework for identifying important motivational factors contributing to the academic engagement of academically at risk students ...
Understanding and design of molecular dynamics based simulation methods.
(2006)
Several new strategies for employing modified molecular dynamics (MD) protocols for finding energy minima were developed developed. First, we derived a new method of searching for the lowest energy conformation by employ ...
Journal of the Faculty Senate, January 10, 2000
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2000-01-10)
Clergypersons' Experience of Visiting Church Members in Pain: An Analysis in Terms of the Relational Theory of Pain and Implications for Pain Education and the UCC
(2009)
Using the methodology of narrative inquiry, the principal investigator traces, through her own narrative, the development and refinement of the relational theory of pain, a theory she postulated (Cunningham 1999). She ...
Prediction of cloud-to-ground lightning in the western United States.
(2002)
This dissertation focuses specifically on identifying the thermodynamic environment and forcing mechanisms across the western United States that create precipitation systems with lightning. The majority of these convective ...
The effects of computer-assisted keyboard technology and MIDI accompaniments on group piano students' performance accuracy and attitudes.
(2007)
Recommendations from the results include using CAI such as the Guide Mode to help group piano students improve in pitch accuracy during the early stages of learning new repertoire. After students feel comfortable with the ...
A model of influences on ethical decision-making: Individual and situational effects.
(2007)
Key terms. Integrity, ethical decision-making, individual characteristics, situational characteristics.
A Whiteheadian critique of Jaegwon Kim's analysis of the mind-body problem.
(2001)
The first section of the dissertation examines Kim's views on the nature of physical reality, causation, physical causal closure, and experience. For example, I find that Kim's views of experience are limited by his ...
Fine arts education and religion: An analysis of primary sources of law for Establishment Clause jurisprudence and its implications for practice.
(2003)
The purpose of this study was to present a legal analysis of the past, current, and possible future direction of the courts and administrative agencies on church/state issues related to Fine Arts Education.
A Distant Jaguar: The Civil Society Project in Chimalapas
(Critique of Anthropology, 2001-12-01)
Civil society has become an important unit of analysis in the context of the globalization of politics and political discourse and the decentralization of nation-states. At a discursive level, it is a concept which elides ...