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Cetaceousness and global warming among the Inupiat of Arctic Alaska.
(2007)
Based on my 2004-2007 ethnographic fieldwork in Barrow and Point Hope, Alaska, this dissertation reveals how collective uncertainty about the environmental future is expressed and managed in Inupiaq practices, and by ...
Impact of interparental conflict on adjustment of African American college students from divorced and intact families.
(2007)
This study examined the impact of parent's interparental conflict on the adjustment of African American college students. Studies in this area showed that conflict prior to and after divorce, age at time of divorce, and ...
Effects of resistance training on arterial elasticity and C-reactive protein in premenopausal women.
(2007)
Endurance training has been shown to increase elasticity of the arteries; however, the effect of resistance training on arterial elasticity is unclear. Purpose. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a ...
Going beyond care, concern, and connection to create a classroom environment of compassionate connectivity.
(2007)
Many scholars show that we are falling back on teaching practices which concentrate on academic matters such as: reading, writing, and arithmetic. These ideals of schooling were crucial in the conception of education in ...
A study comparing student achievement in a full-service school and a non-full-service school.
(2007)
Student achievement indicators in the two schools were compared. The schools were similar in enrollment, community type, percent low-income students, and percent minority students. Data gathered from the schools was retrieved ...
Genetic and biochemical characterization of hydroxamate transporters in Listeria monocytogenes.
(2007)
Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive bacterial pathogen that can cause severe opportunistic infection in humans and animals, and iron is a virulence determinant in this pathogen. By sequence homologies, the genome of ...
Stress, coping behavior, and social support in Japan and the United States.
(2007)
The purpose of this research is to examine cultural similarities and differences in perceptions of stress, coping behavior, and social support within the theoretical framework of two cultural factors (individualism/collectivism ...
Adolescent males' motivations to enroll or not enroll in choir.
(2007)
Abstract not available.
Socratic definition in Plato's dialogues: Conditions on an adequate answer to "what is F-ness?".
(2007)
Socrates recognizes a distinction between formal and material definitional conditions. In this dissertation, I concentrate on the material conditions rather than the formal ones for two reasons: Socrates allows a great ...
Synthetic utility of phenyl radicals generated in situ and a mechanistic study of the unusual reactivity of 2-oxazolines with aldehydes.
(2007)
There are few references to this unusual reaction in the literature and no mechanistic studies. Therefore, a mechanistic study has been carried in order to provide a better understanding of the reaction. These studies ...