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Negotiating Acceptance: A Sociocultural Analysis of Second Language Users’ Constructions of Speakerhood in Cherokee Nation Language Revitalization
(2014-05-09)Language revitalization has the major goal of creating new speakers, and the approaches and ideologies employed in the journey toward this goal are multiple and diverse. This research project presents the experiences and ... -
Negotiating situated roles in a transitional health care system :
(1983)The central problem is the exploration of ways in which varying occupational positions, subjective perceptions of professional identity, and professional commitment determine attitudes toward work roles and environment, ... -
Negotiating the "new country": The cultural politics of exchange in the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache reservation and allotment periods, 1867-1910.
(1998)This dissertation focuses on the cultural aspects of exchange involving the Kiowa and Comanche tribes of western Indian Territory between 1867 and 1910, otherwise known as the reservation and allotment periods. The circulation ... -
Negotiating the Female-Athlete Paradox: Examining Gender Identity and Body Image
(2011)This study examined the influence of gender identity and athletic identity on body image in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and II female athletes. One hundred and thirty female athletes took part in ... -
Negotiating the relationship between religion and public education: Conceptualizing a prophetic pragmatic teacher from Toni Morrison's "Beloved".
(1998)This inquiry participates in continuing philosophical debates over the appropriate relationship between religion and public education (RRPE) and the conceptual consequences of any such relationship for teachers (Purpel, ... -
Negotiating the Tensions of Collective Change Implementation
(2016-05)Given the increasing number of interorganizational collaborations across governmental and private sectors, this study furthers theoretical understanding of these important relationships by focusing on dialectical tensions ... -
Negotiating the Transition: How Secondary English Language Arts Interns Transfer Theory To Classroom Practice
(2009)This qualitative research examined and described the process of transitioning from theory to practice as experienced by 7 English Language Arts (ELA) teacher candidates during their student teaching internship semesters. ... -
The Negro in Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907 :
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NEIGHBORHOOD-LEVEL LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR NONPARAMETRIC SCENE MODELS
(2012)Scene model based segmentation of video into foreground and background structure has long been an important and ongoing research topic in image processing and computer vision. Segmentation of complex video scenes into ... -
A neo-Kantian approach to the ethics of rhetoric /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1965) -
Neo-Populist Party emergence in advanced industrial democracies: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
(2006)This dissertation develops an explanatory model of neo-populist party emergence in advanced industrial democracies, specifically the founding of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in Australia, the New Zealand First Party ... -
Neo-Romanticism in Alejandro Casona /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1974) -
Nervous London: Urban Sensibility in the Romantic Period
(2015-08-14)Nervous London: Urban Sensibility in the Romantic Period traces a continued cultural and scientific interest in sensibility and how it shifted and developed in the Romantic period. This project explores representations of ... -
Net energy analysis of nuclear and wind power systems /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1985)Both static (single-entity analysis) and dynamic (total systems over time) analyses were done and the procedures are shown in detail. It was found that the net-energy yield will be very small and most likely negative. ... -
Netherlands organ music from 1960 through 1977 :
(1980)Chapter Three contains a presentation of twenty organ compositions which were selected for inclusion in the study. The first part of each presentation covers information concerning the difficulty level, performance time, ... -
Network epistemic rhetoric: Composition in the digital age.
(2007)This project will begin with an examination of social epistemic rhetoric in relation to the scholarship of computers and composition, complexity theory and the post-process movement. Next, the critical methodology suggested ... -
Networks of Meaning: Identity Productions across Digital and Print Media
(2015)Managing organizational identity evolution is critical for identity coherence and consequent legitimacy. The complexity of identity evolution management has increased with the widespread adoption of digital media. In ... -
NEURAL CORRELATES OF DETECTION AND DECISION IN AUDITORY CORTEX DURING FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION
(2013)This dissertation presents the results of a series of experiments designed to expand our understanding of the role that auditory cortex plays in threshold-level frequency discrimination. The unifying hypothesis of this ... -
Neural network and analytical modeling of slope stability.
(2002)A semi-analytical method is developed for analysis of slope stability involving cohesive and non-cohesive soils. For sandy slopes, a planar slip surface is employed. For clayey slopes, circular slip surfaces are employed ...