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The Complexities of Learning Arabic in the 21st Century
(2016-12-16)
Of four levels of difficulty and of hundreds of languages spoken worldwide, Arabic is considered a category 4, which means it is among the most difficult languages to learn. While Modern Standard Arabic (Fusha) is most ...
A comparative study of indigenous content of multicultural teacher education textbooks in Canada and the United States.
(2004)
The focus of the most currently published Canadian textbooks was on indigenous education and, to a lesser extent indigenous history and culture. The focus of the most currently published United States textbooks was on ...
What Are the Different Types of Principals Across the United States? A Latent Class Analysis of Principal Perception of Leadership
(Educational Administration Quarterly, 2014-02-01)
Purpose: Effective styles of principal leadership can help address multiple issues in struggling schools, such as low student achievement and high rates of teacher attrition. Although the literature has nominated certain ...
Minutes of a Regular Meeting, The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, October 23, 2013
(The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, 2013-10-23)
DRYING SHRINKAGE PROBLEMS IN HIGH PI SUBGRADE SOILS
(2014-1)
The main objective of this study was to investigate the longitudinal cracking in pavements due to drying shrinkage of high PI subgrade soils. The study involved laboartory soil testing and modeling. The shrinkage cracks ...
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS OF BANGLADESH AND FINLAND
(2017-05-04)
This thesis compares the educational system of Bangladesh, a democratic South Asian country, with the educational system of Finland, a Scandinavian country that scores high in international comparisons on tests, such as ...
Life After Vouchers: What Happens to Students Who Leave Private Schools for the Traditional Public Sector?
(Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2013-06-01)
Few school choice evaluations consider students who leave such programs, and fewer still consider the effects of leaving these programs as policy-relevant outcomes. Using a representative sample of students from the citywide ...
Knapsack Problems; Methods, Models and Applications
(2009)
Knapsack problem (KP) has broad applications in different fields such as machine scheduling, space allocation, and asset optimization. Meanwhile, it is a hard problem due to its computational complexity, but numerous ...
EMPIRICAL RESEARCHES ON PRICE AND QUALITY COMPETITION IN THE U.S. AIRLINE INDUSTRY
(2017-07)
My dissertation chapters are empirical researches on the U.S. airline industry. In the first chapter, I use different discrete choice models to study major carriers’ decisions on outsourcing their service to smaller regional ...