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Resolving DNA Using A Bare Open Narrow Capillary without Sieving Matrix
(2014-08)
DNA molecules encode the hereditary information utilized in all living organisms, including humans. Separating DNA fragments is essential in biological research because it informs us how DNA molecules work and eventually ...
Moisture and Thermal Characteristics of Southern Plains Ice Storms: Insights from a regional climatology and high-resolution WRF-ARW sensitivity study
(2014-08-15)
Winter storms, including snowstorms and ice storms, are infrequent in the Southern Great Plains of the United States (SGP), but can produce significant hazard and socioeconomic disruption. During 2000-2010, several severe ...
Technological Innovations Culminating in the American Symphonic Organ, 1880-1920
(2014-05-09)
The middle nineteenth century saw the rise of the Romantic Era and, with it, a change in the prevailing musical aesthetics. Composers expanded musical forms and pioneered new ones with the goal of expressing intense ...
"Possessed of the most Extensive Trade, Connexions and Influence": The Atlantic Intimacies of an Eighteenth Century Indian Trader
(2014-12)
This project examines the life of George Galphin, an Indian trader in Georgia and South Carolina during the eighteenth century. In particular, my work represents a historiographical intervention in Atlantic World scholarship. ...
The Transfer of Training Process
(2014-05-09)
This study tested Marguerite Foxon’s 1993 proposal of a Transfer of Training Process. The transfer of supervisor/management training was evaluated for municipal workers in two southwestern metropolitan areas. The measurement ...
Instructional Coaching in Education: The Metacognitive Process of Refining Past, Present, and Future Teaching Practices
(2014-08-15)
Abstract
Providing high quality on-site professional development opportunities for teachers to rethink teaching practices is growing through instructional coaching. However, little is known as to what components of ...
On the Complexity of Tipping in Super-Modular Games
(2014-05)
The problem of finding the minimum tipping set in a super modular game is known to be NP-hard. Here, I derive an approximation algorithm to find a small tipping set in such a game. In the special case of the uniform game, ...
THE RHETORIC OF CROWDFUNDING: A SOCIAL MOVEMENT FRAMING PERSPECTIVE
(2014-05-09)
Crowdfunding has emerged as a popular funding option for entrepreneurs who cannot or choose not to raise funds through traditional venture funding channels. Drawing from research on social movements, this dissertation ...
National Symbols and Social Change: A Case Study of Poland
(2014-05-09)
This study focuses on national symbols and the communicative role they play in social change as it manifests itself in social movements and revolutions. Symbols in social movements and revolutions play a crucial role in ...
"Red Devil Radicals": The Birth and Growth of Americanism in Chicago, 1870-1919
(2014-05)
In the midst of the struggle to reunite and reconstruct the nation following the Civil War, citizens of the United States also began to renegotiate what it meant to truly be an American. As the nation attempted to recover ...