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"The Wish to be a Red Indian:" Indianthusiasm and Racial Ideology in Germany
(2017-12)
This dissertation analyzes the role of Indianer – Germans (and other Europeans) who wish to be Native American so much that they embody and practice essentialized notions of Native American cultural traditions – in German ...
Polarimetric Measurements of Ice Pellets and Aggregated Snow
(2017-12-15)
The recent upgrade of the National Weather Service WSR-88D radar network to polarimetric capabilities provides the abundance of information about the precipitation microphysics. Even with the plethora of polarimetric ...
Systems analysis of grass cell wall biosynthesis for biofuel production
(2017-05)
Grass cell walls play an important role in plant development, pathogen defense, and are an abundant and sustainable carbon source for biofuel production. Chapter 1 introduces the great impact of cell wall composition on ...
Learning from Student Perceptions: A Dialogical Approach to Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
(2017-05)
As the culture gap between public school students and teachers has continued to grow in the past decade, culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) emerged as a theoretical guide to support classroom practices. Despite support for ...
DEEP LEARNING APPROACHES IN PROBLEMS IN VARIOUS-DIMENSIONAL DATA
(2017)
This thesis develop efficient deep learning based methods for a series of tasks. I believe these problems to be inherently worth developing because of their connections to problems of practical importance. In particular, ...
An Examination of the Relationship Between Academic Achievement and Federal Supplemental Revenue as It Relates to American Indian Students in a Public School District
(2017-05-05)
Using a vertical equity lens this study investigates the effect of federal funding on the academic achievement of American Indian students in a high Indian enrollment (HIE) public school district in Oklahoma. This single ...
SALESPERSON COUNTERPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR: A STUDY OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF COMPLEXITY, ORGANIZATIONAL, AND PERSONALITY-RELATED ANTECEDENTS
(2017-05)
Recent events suggest that counterproductive salesperson behavior—a behavior with the possibility of damaging the organization and its related partners—is a common phenomenon in the professional selling context. Considering ...
APPLICATION OF INTEGRATIVE BEHAVIOR MODEL TO PREDICT INITIATION OR MAINTENANCE OF STOPPING BINGE DRINKING AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY
(2017-08)
With the heightened risk for serious social and physiological consequences, binge drinking is arguably the single most important preventable cause of morbidity and mortality among college students. The negative consequences ...
THE IMPACT OF LONG-TERM ELEVATED ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE ON BELOWGROUND MICROBIAL COMMUNITY AT CONTRAST NITROGEN CONDITIONS
(2017-12)
Global terrestrial ecosystems are subjected to various climate change factors, including the concurrent elevated CO2 (eCO2) and nitrogen deposition (eN). Despite the increasing appreciation that eCO2 and eN can interactively ...
INTERSECTING POLITICS AND HEALTH: REPRESENTATIONS OF A MODERN PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE
(2017)
Public health initiatives are spurred from three dominant political ideologies—neoliberalism, social justice, and pluralism—that influence the policy goals and methods. Neoliberalism, in particular, is the dominant ...