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Municipal productivity in high-quality service cities /
(1983)In this study, the topic of municipal productivity is taken from its broadest definitional aspects to the identification of specific factors statistically associated with relative productivity in a narrow stratum of United ... -
Municipal, irrigational and industrial future water requirements in Saudi Arabia.
(1982)The future water requirements were matched against the available water resources, and it was found that the limited ground water reserves must play a major role in order to meet the future water requirements. To reduce ... -
Muscular and Vascular Adaptations to Low-load Resistance Exercise with and without Blood Flow Restriction in 40 to 64 Year Olds
(2013)Low-load resistance training with blood flow restriction has been shown to enhance muscular adaptations compared to work-matched low-load resistance training. However, it is unclear if low-load resistance training performed ... -
Museum biomolecules: examining human pathogens and assessing differential collection preservation with dental calculus from the National Museum of Natural History
(2020-05-08)Museum anthropology collections continue to provide insight into human experiences and disease in the past, especially in the era of biomolecular research. Molecular investigations of museum collections have increased ... -
Music education in Central America: A comparative study of educational policies and practices in Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica .
(2007)This study aimed to investigate how music is currently being taught, primarily at the elementary school level, in three countries---Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica---where music education is included in the public ... -
Music Educators' Uses of the Kodály-Approach in U.S. Elementary School Music Learning Environments.
(2018-12-14)In this study, I examined how and why Kodály-trained music educators used pure and blended forms of Kodály-Approach instruction in their music class learning environments. I sent a nationwide music educator survey (N = ... -
Music for Strings, Percussion and Clarinet
(2013)The subject of my dissertation is a concerto for percussion, clarinet, and string orchestra. This concerto, like most concerti, is structured in three movements, with the inner movement being overall more tranquil than ... -
Music Performance Ensemble Participation and the Cultivation of Student Grit
(2020-05-08)Myriad empirical studies show that music participation has numerous cognitive and non-cognitive benefits, but there is limited research studying the influence of music participation on the development of grit. Through a ... -
Musical Mannerism: a Recurring Stylistic Phenomenon in Keyboard Variations by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt
(2016-08)ABSTRACT Mannerism was an artistic style that flourished in the sixteenth century between the High Renaissance and the emergence of the Baroque era. Originating in Rome and Florence in the 1520s, Mannerism eventually ... -
Musical Performance Anxiety in virtual performances: A comparison of recorded and live performance contexts
(2011)The purpose of this research was to compare the level and experience of Musical Performance Anxiety (MPA) in university level piano students performing in a traditional live performance context and a proposed virtual ... -
THE MUSLIM FEMALE BODY IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY DISCOURSES BY ARAB AND ARAB AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
(2014-08-15)Abstract The Muslim Female Body in Twenty-First-Century Discourses by Arab and Arab American Women Writers employs a culturally symptomatic approach in its reading of various modes of representation of the Muslim female ... -
Mutational Analysis of Bacterial Condensins
(2011)Genetic information is carried on chromosomes in all organisms and chromosome is at the center of all life processes. The chromosome must be properly folded to fit into the cells. Moreover, replication and segregation of ... -
Mutual gaze and visual co-orientation between mothers and infants :
(1980)Tapes were coded as to the occurrence of mutual gaze and visual co-orientation, as well as any gestures and/or vocalizations which occurred during these visual interactions. Various visual and vocal measures derived from ... -
My father's name was Zahtah: Constructing the life history of Alfred Chalepah, Sr.
(2003)This work examines the life history project of an elderly Native American man. Narratives were recorded during four years of fieldwork. Analysis examines the ways in which elders construct their own identity and draw past ... -
Mythologies of the migrant caravans: religion, ideology and migration
(2022-12-15)This research study is a semiotic and hermeneutic analysis of the tweets published on Twitter about the migratory caravan that occurred in 2018 under the hashtags #viacrucismigrante, #caravanamigrante #caravanscoming, and ...