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Extinguishing the Green Fire: Opposition to Environmentalism, 1948-2010
(2011)
This dissertation identifies the origins and characteristics of late-twentieth century opposition to environmentalism in the United States. I argue that a diverse set of critics cultivated a loose network of ideas, tactics, ...
MICRO-STRUCTURE OF GAS SHALES AND ITS EFFECTS ON GAS STORAGE AND PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE
(2011)
This dissertation includes discussions on three fundamental topics that are relevant to gas shale reservoir characterization and engineering. First, pore structure of organic-rich gas shale samples are investigated at the ...
A Case Study of Resilient African American Adults
(2011)
Through a qualitative, case-study, the extensive literature regarding resilience and the historical information regarding the city in which the participants resided rendered the following five factors that constitute the ...
Margery Aber and Her Contributions to the Suzuki Method in the United States
(2011)
Margery V. Aber (1914 - 2001) was a violinist and music educator who was invaluable to the growth of the Suzuki Method movement outside of Japan. Her love and enthusiasm for teaching led her to begin a new job at the ...
Journal of the Faculty Senate, May 9, 2011
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2011-05-09)
Equivariant Piecewise-Linear Topology and Combinatorial Applications
(2011)
For G a finite group, we develop some theory of G-equivariant piecewise-linear topology and prove characterization theorems for G-equivariant regular neighborhoods. We use these results to prove a conjecture of Csorba ...
EXAMINING WORK RELATIONSHIPS AND BEHAVIORS THROUGH A CONSTRUCTIVE-DEVELOPMENTAL LENS
(2011)
In 1979 Weick suggested that managers should strive to broaden their perspective on their organizations and their environment and develop an ability to look at situations from multiple perspectives. Building on this idea, ...
Irreducible non-cuspidal characters of GSp(4,Fq)
(2011)
Admissible non--supercuspidal representations of GSp(4,F), where F is a local field of characteristic zero with an odd-ordered residue field Fq, have finite dimensional spaces of fixed vectors under the action of principal ...
Parent Social Networks and Parent Responsibility
(2011)
Despite benefits of family involvement for student achievement, family-school partnerships are difficult to initiate and sustain in ways that actually promote student learning in high poverty communities. Schools may be ...