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To be Indian (hyphen) American: Communicating diaspora, identity and home.
(1998)This idea of cultural fusion is best examined utilizing Jean Gebser's theory of civilizational expression. In his text, The Ever-Present Origin (1949/1985), Gebser explains the structures of consciousness as ways of being ... -
`To Be Of Use': Contemporary American Women's Poetry of Work and Workers
(2009)In this dissertation, I examine three genres of contemporary women's poetry of work and workers: the historical long poem, the lyric poem, and the hybrid lyric-narrative; identify the poetic devices and imagery which are ... -
To Cuba and Back: The Origin and Evolution of the Polyphonic Choral Habanera
(2020-12-18)The habanera is a music and dance form originating in Havana, Cuba, during the eighteenth-century Spanish colonial period. The Spanish travelers returned to the Iberian Peninsula with the sensual habanera rhythm and ... -
To journey into creativity.
(2005)Every year, in schools across America, children walk past framed statements asserting that one of the primary missions of their school is to foster creativity in its students. School districts, in addition to stating their ... -
To laugh in the face of death: An examination of the connection between death attitudes and sense of humor from an existential perspective.
(1999)This study examined the relationship between sense of humor and death attitudes from an existential perspective. Participants in the study were 274 undergraduate students who completed a brief demographic instrument the ... -
To Prove Who You Are: Freedmen Identities in Oklahoma
(2008)Amidst political challenges to Freedmen citizenship in the Five Tribes, Freedmen communities in Oklahoma struggle to prove their identities. This ethnographic and ethnohistorical work examines Freedmen identities through ... -
To The Angel of Schooling, Write: Redeeming the Telos of Schooling as a Liturgical Institution, And the Role of the School Administrator as Peace-Weaver, Through the Lens of Prophetic Imagination
(2015-05-08)The purpose of this dissertation is to critique the institution of mass schooling by holding up the failure of both its liturgy and its pedagogies as part of the larger failure inherent in the overarching telos of the ... -
To Think Different: The Unexpected Consequences of Personal Computer and Internet Use
(2010)This study examines the contemporary user patterns that emerged when a new medium--the personal computer and the Internet--was introduced into the user's media ecology. The study focuses on the introductory period and ... -
To what extent is slack conditioned on munificence? Extending the behavioral theory of the firm.
(2004)This dissertation studies the accumulation and "spending" of organizational slack dependent on environmental munificence. Over five decades have passed since the "behavioral theory of the firm" formally introduced the idea ... -
Toeing the party line: Identity misclassification and behavorial inflexibility in political decision making.
(2007)Although social role norms serve as helpful guides to appropriate social behavior, they can also limit people's behavioral flexibility. When role violators expect to be mistaken as a member of a devalued out-group (i.e., ... -
Tolerance and Intolerance in Political Discourse on Twitter during the U.S. 2016 Presidential Election
(2017-08-26)This study explored tolerance and intolerance in political discourse on Twitter during the U.S. 2016 election. It was a combination of social network analysis of four Twitter networks the day before the election, the day ... -
Tom Connally and the New Deal /
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TonB dependent transport processes through Escherichia coli FepA.
(2007)One of the previously proposed mechanisms of TonB is called the "shuttle hypothesis" which states that TonB shuttles from the inner membrane to the outer membrane. The data presented here demonstrates that TonB does not ... -
Tone Development Through Non-Traditional Techniques: A Pedagogical Resource for Trombonists
(2017-08)Sound development is arguably the most important aspect of trombone pedagogy. Over time, most brass players arrive at a daily routine of exercises specifically focused on improving sound; however, certain exercises straying ... -
Tones: An analysis of Atli Heimir Sveinsson's "21 Sounding Minutes" for solo flute with interpretive implications
(2013-05)Among the most significant and prolific Icelandic composers, Atli Heimir Sveinsson (b. 1938) has created music in virtually every style and genre. He has composed a diverse assortment of works for flute, and his formally ... -
Topics in feedback control stabilization.
(1997)In this dissertation, we first show that for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems, the robust output feedback stabilizability is equivalent to the existence of robust output Lyapunov functions with the small control ... -
Topics on the Scalar Casimir Effect
(2010)Recently the Casimir effect has been getting more popular because of -
A topological approach to database theory /
(1984)The data modeling techniques which are currently used to construct the logical view of data have made use of trees, graphs, and sets, as underlying data structures. However, these structures have certain limitations when ... -
Topological convexity structures and the Krein-Milman theorem /
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Topological Transport in Sb Quantum Wells
(2015-05)The following dissertation will cover the initial studies of Sb quantum wells as topological insulators. The theoretical background and previous studies of topological insulators are covered first, to set the foundation ...