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An Ancient Practice in the Modern Age: An Examination of the Camino de Santiago and the Impact of Technology on Modern Pilgrimage
(2017-12-15)
For more than twelve hundred years, sojourners have been walking the pilgrim routes of El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, also known as The Way of Saint James, in northern Spain. With a long and varied history, the Camino ...
John Harold Moyer’s "Job": A Conductor’s Perspective
(2017-12)
The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of John Harold Moyer’s
(1927-2012) cantata, Job, as well as a pedagogical method for the modern choral
director to prepare it for performance. The document is organized ...
MULTI-PHOTON TOLERANT QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOLS FOR SECURED GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
(2017-07)
This dissertation investigates the potential of multi-photon tolerant protocols for satellite-aided global quantum key distribution (QKD). Recent investigations like braided single-stage protocol and the implementation of ...
The Ball Game of the Southeast: Stickball and Cultural Resource Management (CRM) in the Anthropocene
(2017-05)
Forests are an essential source of natural resources in the production of racquets used by Choctaw (Chahta) people to play Kapucha Toli, also known as stickball or the ball game of the southeast. Choctaw efforts to sustain ...
THE ROLE OF BIOGEOCHEMISTRY AND CLIMATE IN A NEOTROPICAL ANT COMMUNITY
(2017)
Human activities are rapidly changing nutrient availability and climate across the globe, and this trend is predicted to continue. The effect of biogeochemistry on consumer communities is underexplored in the world’s most ...
Essays in International Finance
(2017-05-01)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays on the theme of international finance. Chapter 1 compares the takeover premia paid by government-owned and private sector bidders in the oil and gas industry. Using the ...
The Effects of Relational Conditions and Organizational Commitment on Teacher Turnover Intention
(2017)
This study examines organizational commitment’s potential role as a psychological mediator between the relational conditions in schools and individual teachers’ intentions to leave their positions. Although there is a ...
Deriving Operationally Relevant Tornado Probabilities from Convection-Allowing Ensembles
(2017-12)
Hourly maximum fields of simulated storm diagnostics from experimental versions of convection-allowing models (CAMs) provide valuable information regarding severe weather potential. The focus of this work is to extract ...
AN EXPLORATION OF TEACHER AUTONOMY IN RELATION TO ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ SCIENCE INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE
(2017-05-12)
This mixed methods study uses a participant selection model with a qualitative emphasis (Creswell & Plano-Clark, 2007) to examine the science teaching practices of elementary teachers in self-contained classrooms. Their ...
AN EXAMINATION OF ECCENTRIC VERSUS CONCENTRIC UNILATERAL RESISTANCE EXERCISE ON IPSILATERAL AND CONTRALATERAL MOTOR CONTROL STRATEGIES ACROSS AN 8 WEEK TRAINING PERIOD
(2017-05-12)
Traditionally, contralateral training interventions have been applied in the unilateral limb to examine the potential short-term “cross-over” responses and long-term “cross education” adaptations in the contralateral limb. ...