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A Convergence Account of Ethics and Aesthetics Through A Composite Understanding of Evaluative Judgments
(2010)In this dissertation, I argue for a convergence account of the ontological status of the fields of ethics and aesthetics. This project is accomplished in three parts. -
A Convergence Account of Ethics and Aesthetics Through A Composite Understanding of Evaluative Judgments
(2010)In this dissertation, I argue for a convergence account of the ontological status of the fields of ethics and aesthetics. This project is accomplished in three parts. -
A COUPLED HYDRAULIC-MECHANICAL ELASTOPLASTIC CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR UNSATURATED SANDS AND SILTS
(2009)Unsaturated soils are three-phase porous media consisting of a solid skeleton, pore water, and pore air. It is well known that the behavior of unsaturated soils is influenced heavily by the matric suction (pore air ... -
A Culture-Based Design Pedagogy for Nigerian and South African Spatial Forms
(2011)Previous authors have discussed non-Western design forms with regards to the significance of integrating global issues, diversity issues in design curricula, and designing in diverse cultural settings. However, there are ... -
A Defense of Nonreductive Mental Causation
(2013)Mental causation is a problem and not just a problem for the nonphysicalist. One of the many lessons learned from Jaegwon Kim's writings in the philosophy of mind is that mental causation is a problem for the nonreductive ... -
A GRAMMATICAL APPROACH TO CUSTOMIZATION OF SHAPE AND COMPOSITE MATERIALS
(2012)With the increasing use of composite materials in Mechanical and Aerospace industries, an approach is required to facilitate designing of components using composite materials, while ensuring customization of the shape such ... -
A Guided Reinvention of Ring, Integral Domain, and Field
(2012)Abstract algebra enjoys a prestigious position in mathematics and the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. A typical abstract algebra course aims to provide students with a glimpse into the elegance of mathematics by ... -
A Historical Case Study of Dropout Recovery Programs in the State of Oklahoma
(2013)The purpose of this historical case study was to gain an understanding of dropout recovery programs from an interpretive historical perspective. Dropout Recovery is an Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education ... -
A HISTORY OF THE LONGVIEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF LONGVIEW, TEXAS FROM 1968-2011
(2012)The Longview Symphony Orchestra is a regional professional orchestra based in Longview, Texas. The orchestra was founded in 1968 under the direction of James Snowden, a local band director who led the charge to develop a ... -
A HISTORY OF THE LONGVIEW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF LONGVIEW, TEXAS FROM 1968-2011
(2012)The Longview Symphony Orchestra is a regional professional orchestra based in Longview, Texas. The orchestra was founded in 1968 under the direction of James Snowden, a local band director who led the charge to develop a ... -
A Hybrid Approach for Container Terminal Operations
(2008)The container trade has increased dramatically in the late decade. Forecast projections indicate that this trend will continue in the future. Thus, effective and efficient operations become more essential for container ... -
A Kin Selection Model of Suicide Risk
(2012)Suicide has rarely been considered from an evolutionary perspective, likely because it appears prototypically maladaptive, and certainly appears to have no adaptive function. The current theory proffers a potential adaptive ... -
A LABORATORY INVESTIGATION AND MODELING OF DYNAMIC MODULUS OF ASPHALT MIXES FOR PAVEMENT APPLICATIONS
(2011)Traditionally, stiffness of hot mix asphalt (HMA) has been used as a measure of the pavement's ability to carry vehicular traffic loads without undergoing excessive deformation. Early deterioration of pavements due to ... -
A LINDENMAYER SYSTEM-BASED APPROACH FOR THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF NUTRIENT DELIVERY NETWORKS IN TISSUE CONSTRUCTS
(2011)A Lindenmayer System-Based Approach for the Design and Fabrication of Nutrient Delivery Networks in Tissue Constructs for Maskless Photolithography -
A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND LEADERSHIP EMERGENCE: THE MODERATING ROLES OF GENDER AND VIRTUALNESS
(2011)This study used a longitudinal study spanning a twelve-week time period and involving 165 undergraduate students to examine the combined impact of gender and impression management strategies on leader emergence by members ... -
A method for calibrating probabilistic forecasts
(2013)One aim of the Warn-on-Forecast initiative is to transform the warning paradigm of rare convective events (RCEs) from warn-on-detection to one where RCE warnings are informed by short-term, high resolution numerical forecasts ... -
A METHODOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF DOMAIN SPECIFIC SIMULATION APPLICATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTS
(2009)In the modeling and simulation (M&S) arena, simulation developers have been exploring the concepts that facilitate modeling real world elements using appropriate simulation artifacts within the context of the domain of the ... -
A MOBILE RADAR BASED CLIMATOLOGY OF SUPERCELL TORNADO STRUCTURES AND DYNAMICS
(2010)Fine-scale-resolution mobile radar observations of supercell tornadoes have been collected by the Doppler On Wheels (DOWs) platform between 1995 and 2010. The result of this ongoing effort is a large observational database ... -
A Model for Developing and Assessing Community College Students' Conceptions of the Range, Interquartile Range, and Standard Deviation
(2011)Traditional curricular materials and pedagogical strategies have not been effective in developing conceptual understanding of statistics topics and statistical reasoning abilities of students. Much of the changes proposed ... -
A Moral Evaluation of Terrorism
(2010)The purpose of my dissertation is to provide a moral evaluation of terrorism from a rights-based perspective. I define terrorism as the use or credible threat of systematically random attacks on the vital interests of ...