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Cubulating one-relator products with torsion
(2019-05-10)Since the resolution of the virtual Haken conjecture in the theory of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, there has been much attention devoted to CAT(0) cube complexes. These non-positively curved metric spaces are powerful tools for ... -
CUCURBIT[7]URIL MEDIATED VIOLOGEN-FLUOROPHORE DYAD FOR FLUORESCENCE OFF/ON SWITCH
(2012)CUCURBIT[7]URIL MEDIATED VIOLOGEN-FLUOROPHORE -
Cue interactions in the attitudinal stereotyping of schematized faces with variations of head and facial hair /
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Cultivating Connections in Twenty-First Century American Opera: The Commissioning of Four New Works at Pioneering Theatres
(2021-12-17)This study investigates selected pioneering American opera theatres and four world premieres from 2000-2019, shedding light on prodigious commissioning histories and twenty-first century new works initiatives of four ... -
Cultural characteristics and Native American student achievement in Oklahoma public schools.
(2004)Indian students have the lowest level of academic achievement, and the highest dropout rates in the nation according to the United States Department of Education. Additionally, Indian students are disproportionately placed ... -
Cultural discontinuities between West African adult learners and print-based distance instructional materials.
(1999)Findings suggest that cultural discontinuities in print materials occur in four areas. These areas include differences in the world views between authors and learners, culturally specific knowledge, linguistic factors and ... -
Cultural diversity and management style /
(1984)Data on the occupational distribution patterns and education of Hispanics in the United States has revealed that the majority may be living in low socio-economic-status (SES) environments. Variance in the acculturation/s ... -
Cultural identification and academic achievement: Validation of the Cultural Connectedness Achievement Measure and its use in understanding motivational characteristics of oppositional, racelessness and primary cultural identification.
(2006)The present study presents evidence regarding the reliability and validity of the Cultural Connectedness Achievement Measure (CLAM). The CCAM consist of three subscales representing three cultural dimensions of African ... -
Cultural identity and personal involvement of community interpreters
(2008)The current study is based on 30 in-depth interviews with Russian professional interpreters. It addresses three broad questions: cultural identity, invisibility / involvement, and the relationship between the two. In doing ... -
The cultural impact of shorthand /
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Cultural Lag, Anomie, and Single Women in Japan
(2010)This study uses Japan as a case study and seeks to contribute to a better understanding and theorizing of the phenomenon of marriage decline in the industrial world. Guided by a theoretical framework that synthesizes the ... -
Cultural Paradigms of Contemporary Indigenous Art: As Found in the Work of Shan Goshorn, Norman Akers, Marie Watt, and Joe Feddersen
(2018-05-11)This dissertation is the product of an ongoing inquiry into the relationships that exist between artists, their Indigenous cultures, and their aesthetic pursuits as materialized in the contemporary art they produce; and, ... -
Cultural Values and Persistence in Muscogee (Creek) College Students: Attrition in Post-Secondary Education
(2011)Cultural Values and Persistence in Muscogee (Creek) College Students: -
Culturally relevant pedagogy in practice: using critical whiteness to create critical consciousness in urban education
(2021-05)This dissertation examines the purpose of urban k-12 public schools and identifies the explicit and implicit ways in which they disrupt and limit urban students’ opportunities. Through interviews with white teachers in ... -
Culturally responsive teaching in one urban school district: a needs assessment
(2022-12-17)There exists a pattern of underperformance in minority children in urban school districts across this country. Nationally, minority students—especially African American students—score lower on standardized assessments than ... -
The culture trait of hierarchy and junior high school socioeconomic status in a large urban school district /
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Culture, conflict and coexistence : American-Soviet cultural relations, 1917-1958.
(1980)Beneath the strained official relationship between Washington and Moscow, American and Soviet cultural representatives have maintained a long standing cultural intercourse. Only at the depths of the cold war did contacts ... -
Culture, politics and television: A cross-cultural comparative study of Korean and United States televised presidential debates.
(2000)This dissertation treats televised presidential debates as a mirror of culture. However, the study sees the televised presidential debate as a traditionally Western or American political event. The televised presidential ... -
Culture-independent characterization of methane-oxidizing microbial communities in unexplored extreme environments
(2021-08-05)Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas in atmosphere. With increasing emissions and more effective in trapping heat than CO2, it contributes up to ~20% of total global warming. Methanotrophs playing a critical ... -
Curiosity and self-directed learning readiness among a sample of baccalaureate nursing students.
(1998)The curiosity materials, based on Berlyne's theory of epistemic curiosity, included ten psychological experiment accounts and participants rated three responses: (1) how surprising or unexpected the results were; (2) how ...