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Pianistic Analysis of Bedřich Smetana's Piano Cycle Dreams, Six Characteristic Pieces for Piano
(2016)
This document provides a study resource for teachers and performers concerning Bedřich Smetana’s piano cycle Dreams, a musical work that played a key role in the development and recognition of a distinctly Czech style. The ...
Clara Schumann's Character Pieces: A Pedagogical Approach to Selected Works
(2016-05-13)
This study explores pedagogical aspects of Clara Wieck Schumann’s piano works through a discussion of selected character pieces. Although Clara composed over sixty piano pieces, only a few are standards of the repertoire, ...
Maternal Identity, Grief, and Creative Subjectivity in Niño y sombras by Concha Méndez
(2016-12)
The poetry of Concha Mendez reflects the human condition, particularly motherhood and grief in a Spanish context. This dissertation examines the embodied, relational, dynamic, and adaptable maternal identity; the mother’s ...
X-RAY CRYSTAL STRUCTURES AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PRODUCTS FROM THE INTERACTIONS OF MYOGLOBIN WITH NITROGEN OXIDES AND ARYLHYDRAZINES, AND NITROREDUCTASE INTERACTIONS WITH ORGANIC NITRO COMPOUNDS
(2016-05)
This thesis describes research into the roles that metalloproteins and non-metalloproteins play in the biological inorganic/organic chemistry of common nitrogen oxides. There are three main chapters on this work: the first ...
MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ROLLER DRUM AND PAVEMENT MATERIAL DURING COMPACTION
(2016)
The problem of ensuring real time control of compaction quality during pavement construction is considered in this dissertation. Asphalt pavements are complex, multilayer, heterogeneous structures where different layers ...
THREE ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH
(2016-05-13)
My research explores important issues associated with development and growth. Chapter 1 aims to obtain an accurate estimate of China's intergenerational income mobility and to present evidence on its distributional pattern. ...
Women Superintendents: The Effects of Gender on Leadership
(2016-12)
The superintendency is one of the most heavily masculinized roles in American culture (Brunner & Grogan, 2007). It is documented that women are underrepresented in the position of superintendency. Approximately 20% of the ...
APPLICATION OF COGNITIVE PRINCIPLES WITHIN AN ONLINE STATISTICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
(2016-12)
Three experiments were conducted in order to further investigate optimal learning procedures within an online statistical learning environment. Experiment 1 exposed learners to retrieval practice learning conditions with ...
STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL WITH DIABETES: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURAL FACTORS IMPACTING HEALTH DISPARITIES AND CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT
(2016-05)
This study was designed to 1) discover the strategies diabetes patients employ as they negotiate the economic and other structural factors influencing their everyday lives and 2) find out about participants’ ability to ...
Essays in Public Finance
(2016)
Chapter one presents a novel approach for analyzing spatially differentiated impacts of a variety of large, geographically anchored entertainment attractions, including professional sports venues, convention centers, ...