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Evaluating the Effects of Collaborative Action Research on Teachers' Basic Psychological Needs, Efficacy and Knowledge
(2020-08-10)
Research offers accounts of the reasons for variation in the quality of experiences across professional development models (Yoon, Duncan, Lee, Scarloss & Shapley, 2007), which has resulted in “a landscape littered with ...
Pursuing an understanding of relationship making within language revitalization: conversations with Indigenous language activists
(2022-05-13)
We are born into a universe of pre-existing relationships (kinship, ancestral lineage, social and interpersonal, environmental, economic, political, etc.), in addition to the many relationships made intentionally or ...
Modelling terrestrial carbon fluxes and crop production with remote sensing and in-situ observations
(2020-08-20)
Plants fix carbon through photosynthesis, sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and substantially mitigating the climate warming effect induced by anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Terrestrial gross primary production ...
Subsidy intermediaries: the role of aquatic plants in storing and transferring resources from aquatic biogeochemical hotspots to terrestrial ecosystems
(2022-05-13)
The roles mobile animals and abiotic processes play as vectors for resource transfers between ecosystems (subsidies) are well-studied. Trophic interactions between mobile animals and their food sources often convey subsidies ...
Looking out for the little guys: how mussels facilitate microbes and scientists facilitate students
(2022-12-16)
Animals can have large impacts on how ecosystems function, from influencing population dynamics of other plant or animal species, to modifying hydrogeological flow dynamics. One ecosystem function that has received widespread ...
Protecting Artists’ Moral Rights in the U.S. Legal Context
(2022-08-04)
The three chapters of this dissertation work together and build on each other to make an argument for stronger uniform artists’ moral rights protections in the United States legal system. The current system provides ...
Environmental allyship: how trusting the government impacts environmental dispositions
(2021-05-14)
In this dissertation, I introduce Environmental Allyship: A new measure to capture pro-environmental dispositions. I use this new measure and analyze its relationship with government trust, also measured in a unique way. ...
A Resource for Composition Pedagogy Within the University Percussion Curriculum
(2021-05-14)
Percussionists are accustomed to utilizing a variety of musical skills in their professional endeavors, composition being one of the most prominent auxiliary skills. This guide provides multiple modular and flexible curricula ...
A study of two piano works and their roots in ancient Chinese poetry and literati music: Two poem classics of the Tang Dynasty by Xu, Zhenmin (b. 1934) and Three preludes by Gong, Xiaoting (b. 1970)
(2022-08-04)
This document studies Xu Zhenmin’s Two Poem Classics of the Tang Dynasty and Gong Xiaoting’s Three Preludes, and discusses how ancient Chinese poetry and literati music influence these two modern Chinese piano compositions. ...
THE GENESIS OF THE SCOTTISH RITE PIPE ORGAN IN THE UNITED STATES THROUGH 1930
(2020-05-08)
At the dawn of the twentieth century, the pipe organ played a coveted role in the civic life of the United States. In the absence of public address systems, pipe organs, with their immense power and tonal capabilities, ...