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Climate for Creativity: The Use of Storytelling to Influence Climate Perceptions
(2014-12)
Storytelling may represent an effective approach to organizational communication. The present study examines the efficacy of a storytelling intervention intended to influence perceptions of organizational climate, where ...
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, ...
FUNDAMENTAL HYDRAULIC FRACTURING CONCEPTS FOR POORLY CONSOLIDATED FORMATIONS
(2012)
This dissertation examines -by means of the discrete element method- the mechanisms that govern hydraulic fracturing in poorly consolidated formations. The motivation to take on this project was the widely reported ...
An Overview of the Piano Concerto in Canada Since 1900 with Stylistic Analyses of Works Since 1967 by Eckhardt-Gramatte, Dolin, Louie, Kuzmenko, and Schmidt
(2013-12-13)
This study provides an overview of the piano concerto in Canada since 1900 with stylistic analyses of five concertos written in the five decades since 1967 by five Canadian composers: Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Samuel ...
Randomly and Non-Randomly Missing Renal Function Data in the Strong Heart Study: A Comparison of Imputation Methods
(PLos One, 2015-09-28)
Kidney and cardiovascular disease are widespread among populations with high prevalence of diabetes, such as American Indians participating in the Strong Heart Study (SHS). Studying these conditions simultaneously in ...
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 ...
It's Not About Cowboys: Cowboys as Subject in Contemporary Art
(2015-05)
Images of American cowboys are examined in a selection of lens-based artworks including Richard Avedon’s In the American West (1984), Laurie Simmons’ Cowboys (1979), David Levinthal’s The Wild West (1987-89), Matthew ...
Elicitors and Effects of an Awe Experience
(2017)
While efforts have been made to define the nature and effects of experiencing awe (e.g., Keltner & Haidt, 2003; Shiota, Keltner, & Mossman, 2007), there is still much about the emotion which remains unexplored. One of the ...
Keeping Calm and Carrying On: Relating Proactive Personality, Affect Spin, and Affect Pulse to Learning and Adaptive Task Performance
(2018-07-20)
The purpose of this laboratory study involving 214 undergraduate students learning a complex videogame was to address the gaps in the empirical literature regarding the non-cognitive traits that comprise the construct of ...