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Buddhist Poetics, Beat “Cosmo-Politics,” and the Maker Ethos: Asian Americanist Critiques of Whiteness in Midcentury American Beat Writing
(2022-05-13)Buddhist Poetics, Beat “Cosmo-Politics,” and the Maker Ethos: Asian Americanist Critiques of Whiteness in Midcentury American Beat Writing employs Walter Benjamin’s notion of the “ruin”—which is not just a noun or notion, ... -
BUDS, LEAVES, SHOOTS, AND FLOWERS: ANALYSIS OF PLANT PHENOLOGY ACROSS AN ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT
(2017-05-12)Survival analysis was used to investigate the potential roles of temperature, precipitation, and photoperiod in triggering budburst and leaf-out for Quercus marilandica and Q. stellata. We found a high degree of inter-annual ... -
Building a line of inquiry around instructional program coherence: The role of coherence in teacher well-being, turnover intentions, and mental models
(2020-05)Previous studies suggest that instructional program coherence is related to higher student achievement and school improvement. There is little known about the process by which coherence operates in schools, specifically ... -
BUILDING A LINE OF INQUIRY INTO STUDENT PSYCHOLOGICAL NEED FRUSTRATION AND RELATED SCHOOL-SOCIAL CONDITIONS
(2020-07-20)According to Gallup data, U.S. public school students increasingly endorse disengagement from school and hopelessness about the future. Over the years, research around student psychological ill-being has focused on it as ... -
Building cluster control to enable grid reliability and efficiency support
(2022-08-04)Power system operators are actively seeking solutions to increase electric grid power flexibility and inertia, to accommodate deeper renewable integration. Buildings account for 75% of the total electricity use in the US ... -
Building fences around the chromatic coefficients.
(1997)Although these bounding conditions do not allow us to completely predict all chromatic polynomials, they do serve to severely limit the form of polynomials considered to be candidates for the chromatic polynomial of some graph. -
Building reflection in second-year teachers by reading and responding to literature.
(2000)Therefore, this qualitative study was designed to determine the reflection techniques used by second-year and third-year teachers; and to see if formal reflection, promoted through reading and responding to literature, ... -
Building Resistance to Front Group Stealth: A Theoretical Merger Between Inoculation Theory and the Heuristic Systematic Processing Model
(2013)This experimental research tested two motivational factors drawn from the heuristic processing model (Chaiken, 1980) to understand the role of message processing in the success of deceptive front groups. This research ... -
Building school and community connections through leadership, technology, and professional learning community development: A case study of two elementary schools.
(2004)As in any other profession, schoolteachers, principals, and other administrators need a vision to help them toward their goals. The intent of this research was to examine schools that have connected their vision for ... -
Building Teacher Competence through Modeling and Practice in an Instructional Coaching Session
(2017)This study aims to understand how instructional coaching supports novice teachers by examining how to build teacher competence effectively. Using self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2002) as the conceptual framework, ... -
Building the foundation for an American mathematical community: The Bowditch generation, 1800--1838.
(2002)The first third of the nineteenth century was an important period for the development of American mathematics: Nathaniel Bowditch emerged as a new leader with an international reputation; general topic scientific journals ... -
BUILDING TRUST AND EFFICACY THROUGH CRITICAL FRIENDS GROUPS: A PROCESS EVALUATION
(2017)Two ongoing challenges that schools face, particularly urban schools, are finding ways to develop and retain quality teachers and to contribute to student academic success. There are claims that collaborative structures, ... -
Building University Community: A Phenomenological Study of Faculty In Residence
(2009)In this hermeneutic, phenomenological study, the Faculty In Residence (FIR) program at the University of Oklahoma is explored through the following guiding research questions: -
The built environment as communication: Totality, alterity, and dissociation in urban and suburban spaces.
(2003)This study of the contemporary American built environment works applies several concepts in a semiotic study aimed at understanding the values presented in the built environment. In particular Kramer's theory of dissociation, ... -
Buoyancy effects on flow structure and instability of low-density gas jets.
(2004)Linear temporal and spatio-temporal stability analyses of a low-density round gas jet injected into a high-density ambient gas were performed by assuming hyper-tan mean velocity and density profiles. The flow was assumed ... -
Buoyancy-induced heat and mass transport in a porous medium near a buried pipe.
(2006)The heat and mass transport in a porous medium induced by buoyancy from a buried heated pipe has been examined in this study. Due to the complexity and irregularity of geometry involved, body-fitted coordinate systems along ... -
Bureaucracies and the Supply of Information in Higher Education Policy
(2019-04-30)Most discussions of the policy process begin with and focus on the legislative branch, as this is the institution most directly responsible for crafting policies. Many also bring the chief executive or interest group ... -
Burnout among special educators: Do experience, certification, caseload, and school size make a difference?
(2006)The purpose of this study was to address various concerns regarding the burnout rate of special educators in Oklahoma school settings. The provision of a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) to students with ... -
Burnout and Engagement in Correctional Mental Health Professionals: The Role of Organizational Factors
(2013)This study examined the role of organizational factors in the experience of engagement and burnout in a sample of correctional mental health professionals. Specifically, a linear combination consisting of perceived ...