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Roman Catholics Developing a Moral Compass: Parochial School Graduates' Experiences and Reflections of Living the Cardinal Virtues
(2015-05-08)
This qualitative study explored moral experiences using personal interviews and oral history narratives gathered from adult participants. The purpose of the research study was to seek a deep understanding of students’ moral ...
Optimizing Lidar Scanning Strategies for Wind Energy Turbulence Measurements
(2015-05-08)
Turbulence has a significant effect on wind farm power production and turbine reliability. Since remote sensing devices, such as lidars, are commonly used in wind energy studies, the accurate measurement of turbulence with ...
A RIVER OF CONTINUITY, TRIBUTARIES OF CHANGE: THE CHICKASAWS AND THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, 1735-1795
(2015-12)
This project examines the relationships between the Chickasaw Indians and the Mississippi River between 1735 and 1795. Chickasaws imagined, managed, and manipulated the river in a number of ways. For them, the Mississippi ...
THE EFFECT OF AN 8-WEEK YOGA EXERCISE PROGRAM AND A 4-WEEK RELAPSE PREVENTION PROGRAM ON PAIN, PHYSICAL FUNCTION, BALANCE, FLEXIBILITY, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVEL AND PREDICTORS OF EXERCISE IN ADULTS WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS
(2015-08-05)
The purposes of this study were to determine (1) the effectiveness of a 4 week relapse prevention intervention on exercise adherence rate, exercise self-efficacy, social support for exercise, and exercise intention and (2) ...
"ALL THE WOMEN...WERE VIOLATED IN THIS WAY: RHETORIC, RAPE, AND MEMORY IN THE DAKOTA WAR
(2015-05)
Over the course of the six weeks of fighting during the Dakota War of 1862, Dakota warriors held more than 200 white women and children captive. In the aftermath of the war, the rhetoric of reporters, policymakers, military ...
Conflict in Journalism: Understanding Emotional Trauma in the Newsroom
(2015-12)
Journalists are exposed to emotional trauma as a result of their work and some of them suffer trauma symptoms following that exposure. Despite this understanding, most journalists and their employers do not view journalism ...
Resource Preferences: Past Costs Affect Future Choices By Least Chipmunks
(2015-08)
When given the choice between stimuli previously associated with equal quality resources, animals tend to choose the stimulus associated with greater deprivation and greater effort. However, past research has generally ...
EXISTENCE AND STABILITY OF SOLUTIONS TO A MODEL RQUATION FOR DISPERSION-MANAGED SOLITARY WAVES
(2015-05-29)
We study the existence and stability of solutions of the initial-value problem for the dispersion-managed nonlinear Schro ̈dinger (DMNLS) equation, a model equation for optical pulses in a dispersion-managed fiber. One ...
SOME RESULTS ON ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS AND MODELING SEASONAL DYNAMICS OF HUMAN INFLUENZA
(2015-08-14)
This dissertation includes two parts: the theoretical study of an elliptic equation, and the practical study regarding the seasonality of human influenza.
In the first part, we focus on the study of an elliptic equation ...
Confronting Mass Incarceration as Cultural Miseducation: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
(2015-05-08)
When strong expectations for societal compliance to societal ills, including miseducation, result in mass incarceration of disenfranchised communities; suffering can occur. The more acerbic the incarceration; the greater ...