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The Value of Aesthetic Experience
(2014-08-15)
In this dissertation, I argue that aesthetic experience is a kind of valuing experience that has certain, objective features not dependent on the psychological state of the subject. Accounts of aesthetic experience can ...
AN INVESTIGATION INTO FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO EFFECTIVE BOARD BEHAVIORS WITHIN CONSOLIDATED RURAL DISTRICTS
(2014-05)
The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of two rural consolidated districts through the consolidation process, as well as board effectiveness (post consolidation), in actions using relevant behaviors taken ...
An invitation to use craigslist ads to recruit respondents from stigmatized groups for qualitative interviews
(Qualitative Research, 2014-06-01)
Craigslist.org is a website devoted to classified advertisements as well as discussion forums with locations in more than 700 sites in 70 countries. At an estimated 30 billion page views per month and more than 50 million ...
MEDICAL AND NURSING STUDENTS’ COGNITIVE LEVELS MEASURED BY THE CLASSROOM TEST OF SCIENTIFIC REASONING AND CORRELATION TO KNOWLEDGE GAINED FROM LECTURE, SIMULATION, OR LECTURE WITH SIMULATION
(2014-05-09)
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Various forms of students’ reasoning characteristics have been studied, especially in pre-college students. A principled pedagogical framework reflecting the cognitive processes of health care students has ...
Charro: The Transnational History of a Cultural Icon
(2014-05-09)
This is a transnational cultural history of the charro horseman in Mexico and the United States. It begins with an analysis of the archetype in nineteenth century art and literature, exploring various works of visual and ...
Wister Area Fourche Maline: A Contested Landscape
(2014-05-09)
The Wister area of southeastern Oklahoma was a contested landscape during the Fourche Maline (Late Woodland cultural period). This claim is supported by paleopathological evidence for high rates of skeletal trauma and ...
FORMULATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF VEGETABLE OIL-BASED MICROEMULSION BIOFUELS
(2014-05-09)
Biofuels have been increasingly explored as alternative renewable fuel sources due to the growing global energy demand, petroleum-based fuel depletion, and the negative effects of global exhaust emissions from fossil fuels. ...
AN INTEGRATED GEOMECHANICS AND PETROPHYSICS STUDY OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING IN NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS
(2014-05)
Production enhancement of tight reservoirs requires in-depth analysis of mechanisms governing hydraulic fracturing, especially in naturally fractured reservoirs. This study is dedicated to the optimization of hydraulic ...
Integrating Time Into Family Business Research: Using Random Coefficient Modeling to Examine Temporal Influences on Family Firm Ambidexterity
(Family Business Review, 2014-03-01)
Organizational ambidexterity refers to a firm’s ability to pursue both exploitation and exploration orientations. Despite research that suggests ambidexterity is a critical phenomenon in family firms, few studies directly ...
Interactions Between Coherent Structures and the Urban Canopy Layer
(2014-12-12)
The focus of this dissertation research is to gain further insight into the interaction of coherent structures and the urban canopy layer (CS-UCL interactions). There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that periods ...