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National health insurance and the American Dream: Cultural influences and public opinion.
(1997)This study tests James Davison Hunter's cultural polarization thesis which suggests members within religious denominations are more influenced by "progressive" or "traditional" value frameworks rather than earlier ... -
National Identity in Higher Education: The Guardianship of a Kingdom
(2016-12-17)Changes in the structure of higher education in Saudi Arabia and through advanced scholarship programs abroad have resulted in an educational reformation within the country. Though the Saudi Monarchy desires to create a ... -
National stereotypes about Germans in American travel writings, 1815--1914.
(2000)In the early nineteenth century, Americans believed Germans were sluggish, phlegmatic, kind, and devoted to beer-drinking. By the end of the nineteenth century Americans perceived Germans as efficient, hard-working, ... -
National Symbols and Social Change: A Case Study of Poland
(2014-05-09)This study focuses on national symbols and the communicative role they play in social change as it manifests itself in social movements and revolutions. Symbols in social movements and revolutions play a crucial role in ... -
Native American and Anglo use of compliance-gaining strategies /
(1984)The findings uncover some important information which hopefully will stimulate researchers to investigate populations in other locales in the continental United States. -
The Native American estate :
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Native American Influence in the Piano Music of Louis W. Ballard
(2008)Louis Wayne Ballard (1931-2007) combined his experiences in Native American music with his knowledge of Western art music to form a unique compositional style. As a Quapaw/Cherokee Indian he worked to synthesize Western ... -
The Native American postmodern-mimetic novel.
(2000)This dissertation examines a new literary phenomenon---the Native American Postmodern---Mimetic novel. This genre is heralded by N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, and it is exemplified by his subsequent novel, The ... -
NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH EXPLORING AND EXPRESSING WHO THEY ARE THROUGH DIGITAL STORYTELLING
(2020-05)This holistic single-case study aims to understand the impact of digital storytelling on the identity development of Native American youth. The question that guides the study asks, “How do Native American adolescents in a ... -
NATIVE STORIES: AMERICAN INDIAN REPRESENTATION AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN RHETORIC AND LITERATURE
(2018-05-11)ABSTRACT In this dissertation, American Indian Representation and Self-Representation in Rhetoric and Literature, I examine both positive and negative representations of American Indians in the genres of poetry, fiction, ... -
The natural history of the mosquitoes of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge /
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Natural magic :
(1980)Though integration rather than alienation is the aim of Wharton's ironic method, alienation is a crucial unifying theme threaded throughout her best work, a motif so insistently explored that it, rather than manners or ... -
NATURAL PRODUCTS AS A SOURCE OF NEW THERAPIES FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE AND EFFORTS TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF A METABOLOMICS-BASED DRUG DISCOVERY PLATFORM
(2010)Natural products have traditionally played an important role in drug discovery research. They have been particularly important in the search for therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Although there are numerous forms ... -
The naturalistic humanism of Matthew Arnold :
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Naturalized virtue ethics.
(2003)In Chapter 5, I place NVE is the space of contemporary virtue theories and also contrast it with eudaimonistic or welfare-based ethics and with evolutionary ethics. NVE is a good-based virtue theory, but it is neither a ... -
Naturalness in Supersymmetry
(2015-06)Weak scale supersymmetry solves the Big Hierarchy problem of the Standard Model. But recent severe sparticle mass limits from the LHC accentuate the Little Hierarchy Problem: Why are the W , Z and h masses so small (∼ 100 ... -
Nature and catalytic role of extra-framework aluminum and partially coordinated aluminum in MFI zeolite
(2023-05-12)Zeolites are extensively employed in the chemical and petroleum industries as an acid catalyst for cracking, isomerization, and alkylation reactions. Recently, they have also gained attention as potential catalysts for ... -
The Nature, Determinants, and Consequences of Congressional Distributive Politics
(2024-08-01)The allocation of public resources is a core responsibility of the United States federal government, and geographically targeted spending is both practically important and central to major theories of the US Congress. This ... -
Navigating political identity in the big red dot: Political conversations among rural Oklahoman college students
(2021-08)This study examines ways in which rural Oklahoman college students navigated their various layered identities in political conversations during a year fraught with political events, including those leading up to the 2020 ... -
Nazi Germany and the Vatican, July, 1933-January, 1935 /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1971)