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Dangerous eloquence: Hate speech tactics in the discourse of Asa/Forrest Carter from 1954--1974.
(2004)
This study takes as its subject the political life and writings of Asa Earl Carter and the literary writings he produced under the name Forrest Carter during the period of 1954 through 1974. As part of this study, I offer ...
North Atlantic winter surface extratropical cyclone track variability on interannual-to-decadal time-scales.
(2004)
The variability of cyclone activity at interannual and decadal-to-multidecadal time-scales is examined. First, interannual cyclone variability is classified into three major modes based on a VARIMAX Rotated Principal ...
Performance evaluation of the third generation TD-SCDMA system.
(2004)
Firstly, a basic reverse TD-SCDMA system is setup, including a transmitter, a receiver and a channel. Within the receiver model, a specific soft Viterbi decoding algorithm is developed. Secondly, the system synchronization ...
An empirical examination of NYSE liquidity commonality, decimalization, and market microstructure effects within a conditional price duration framework.
(2004)
This study utilizes TAQ data for 40 NYSE stocks to apply a transaction signing, filtering, and aggregation algorithm in order to isolate price durations, defined as the length of time necessary for prices to move in either ...
Construct validity of the People of Color Racial Identity Attitude Scale.
(2004)
This study assessed the psychometric properties of the People of Color Racial Identity Attitude Scale (POCRIAS; Helms, 1995). The factor structure of the POCRIAS was investigated and the relationships between the POCRIAS ...
Speaking about ghosts (cerita hantu melayu): Malay narratives-in-interaction.
(2004)
This dissertation is divided into two parts. In Part One I discuss the literature associated with narrative to make a case for how narrative influences social reality. I find the monologic view of storytelling problematic ...
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 ...
An examination of new ventures going through the initial public offering: The impact of firm capabilities and characteristics on performance.
(2004)
Entrepreneurship as a field of study generally focuses on the pursuit of new opportunities and the activities of firms engaged in bringing new ideas to financial fruition. Due to their liability of newness, growth and ...
The rural music teacher: An investigation of the relationship between socialization factors and career satisfaction using symbolic interaction theory.
(2004)
The findings from this study revealed that rural music teachers in this study understood the globalized tasks associated with music education. The music teachers in this study were not socialized to their position as music ...
Assessment of semi-parametric proportional intensity models applied to recurrent failure data with multiple failure types for repairable-system reliability.
(2004)
Certain systems experience a substantial period of downtime due to performing maintenance following a major failure. This discontinuity in observation time has been a concern in the accuracy of estimating the covariate ...