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Toward a theoretical construct of the factors of deceptive communication.
(2000)
This study constitutes the fourth phase of a research program designed to explore the factors that influence the choices people make regarding deceptive communication. The research program leading up to this study produced ...
Active vibration control systems in the frequency and sub-band domain.
(2001)
Active noise and vibration control has been the subject of intense study in the last two decades due to the increased speed in digital signal processors and the technological development and manufacture of smart materials. ...
Narratives of hospice volunteers: Perspectives on death and dying.
(2004)
This study found that hospice volunteers' narratives function to make sense of death, warrant decisions for advanced preparation of their own death, illustrated an attempt to control their own death, transformed their ...
Officer trust in Army leadership.
(2003)
The purpose of this research was to assess officer trust in Army leadership during the 1998--2000 timeframe. Research was prompted by a high rate of junior officer resignations, as well as an unprecedented rate of battalion ...
We still tell stories: An examination of Cherokee oral literature.
(2002)
A primary objective of the study is to show that Cherokee Indians are not antiquated human beings stuck in history, but a modern, contemporary people with deep ancestral connections to their heritage. The stories they tell ...
Development and analysis of an expressed sequence tag database from Fusarium sporotrichioides.
(2001)
The comparison of four other fungal cDNA libraries sequenced in our lab, F. sporotrichioides library, two Neurospora crassa libraries and one Aspergillus nidulans library, shows that the percentage of biological function ...
Understanding public school teachers' accounts of conflicts: An ethnographically based, ethnomethodological investigation.
(2001)
The data for this project are narrative descriptions or accounts of conflict episodes written by public school teachers. Two categories of research within the Language and Social Interaction tradition---the ethnography of ...
Leisure piano lessons: A case study of lifelong learning.
(2001)
The importance of the social and emotional benefits of leisure piano study, whether in a private or group setting, should not be underplayed. While all of the participants in this study experienced age-related difficulties ...
"The Three Hermits": Study of an opera by Stephen H. Paulus.
(2003)
Stephen Harrison Paulus is one of today's leading American composers. A versatile and prolific composer of many genres, Paulus finds himself equally at home with works ranging from orchestral music to art songs. His current ...
The structure of cost and demand in the United States telecommunications industry.
(2002)
This dissertation provides an analysis of cost and demand structures in the U.S. telecommunications industry from 1960--1999. The research is primarily concerned with the effects of deregulation, competition and technology ...