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Global civil society and a structural analysis of international NGOs's virtual networks
(2012)This dissertation sought to examine the virtual structure of global civil society via three theoretical frameworks: World System Theory, World Polity Theory and the current discussion of Network Society. Virtual interactions ... -
A global optimization framework for stochastic integrated refinery planning with nonlinear unit models under demand and price uncertainties
(2020-09-11)The refining industry is facing increased volatility in the global market such as lower economic margins. In this situation, refinery production planning becomes a substantial tool to utilize all potentials to extend the ... -
Global vs. Local: Panel Analyses of Environmental, Economic, and Political Gender Inequalities in Late Capitalism
(2022-12-16)This dissertation is an empirical attempt to bridge and synthesize two distinct sets of theories in the sociology of development and the study of cross-national inequalities. Through this study, I gather data on three types ... -
Globalization, New Technologies, and Intercultural Flexibility: Communication and Culture of Korean Adolescents in the United States
(2012)This study aims to comprehend the contextual backgrounds, communicative behaviors, and cultural consequences of South Korean adolescents who are sent to the United States for the purpose of education. Globalization, the ... -
Glocalization of the Korean Popular Culure in East Asia: Theorizing the Korean Wave
(2010)This dissertation examines implications of the Korean Wave in relation to East Asia's contemporary media and popular culture, and discusses complex conditions and processing transformation of the Korean and East Asian media ... -
Glycoprotein biosynthesis :
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Go back the way you came :
(2000)Go Back The Way You Came by Joey Brown is an original, full-length literary novel. The novel is preceded by a critical introduction entitled Writing in the Dirt: A Look at Identity Landscape in the Work of Female Novelists ... -
The goal-setting behavior of cerebral palsy children under success and failure conditions /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1960) -
"God's Objective Truth, As Far As We Know It": Journalism Ideology at an Evangelical News Magazine
(2014-08)This study mixes interviews and textual analysis to explore the ideology, motivations, routines, and content at WORLD, a major evangelical Christian news magazine whose editor-in-chief, Dr. Marvin Olasky, is a well-known ... -
Going beyond care, concern, and connection to create a classroom environment of compassionate connectivity.
(2007)Many scholars show that we are falling back on teaching practices which concentrate on academic matters such as: reading, writing, and arithmetic. These ideals of schooling were crucial in the conception of education in ... -
The Good-natured man :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1972) -
Gothic Modernisms: Aesthetics, Politics, Culture
(2011)I analyze the persistence of Gothic conventions in the works of four major British modernist writers: Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and D. H Lawrence. These writers depict cultural, political, and aesthetic ... -
Gothic Modernisms: Aesthetics, Politics, Culture
(2011)I analyze the persistence of Gothic conventions in the works of four major British modernist writers: Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and D. H Lawrence. These writers depict cultural, political, and aesthetic ... -
GOVERNANCE, IDEOLOGY, CITIZEN PERCEPTIONS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THE NUCLEAR WASTE STALEMATE IN USA
(2020-07-23)This dissertation research examines the prolonged nuclear stalemate in USA by investigating “the NIMBY syndrome” or the local opposition to spent nuclear fuel siting policy options from a public policy perspective. Nuclear ... -
Governing Well-Being for Youth in Child Welfare: What Influences Decisions to Refer to Services and an Evaluation of Social Interventions
(2023-12-15)My dissertation focuses on the well-being of children who have been involved in the child welfare system, which has been understudied within sociology. To conduct this research, I use theories of child welfare involvement ... -
The Government Performance and Results Act and the Department of Defense: A view from the bottom.
(2004)At least five government-wide reform initiatives have been attempted since the end of World War II. The latest is the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) passed into law in 1993. A review of literature on government ... -
Government policy and farming on the Kiowa Reservation, 1869-1901 /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1972) -
Government reorganization for economy and efficiency :
(1980)Government reorganizations both at the national level and the state level are often criticized for failing to save money or reduce government employment. It has been suggested that government reorganizations have a variety ... -
Government, business groups, and corporate entrepreneurial intensity during institutional transition.
(2002)With archival and perceptual survey data from 992 member firms of the largest 250 business groups in the transition economy of China, it is found that formal institutions in various forms of government influence exert ... -
Grade Expectations: Predictive Factors of Academic Entitlement
(2014-08-15)Predictive factors of academic entitlement were explored in this study. Using Object Relations Theory for guidance as well as current literature on entitlement in students, perfectionism, locus of control, self-esteem, ...