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MULTISCALE NATURAL FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION WORKFLOW FOR UNCONVENTIONAL SHALE, WOODFORD AND BARNETT SHALES AS EXAMPLES
(2019-12-13)
This research presents an integrated methodology and workflow to characterize, interpret and predict natural fracture occurrence in different scales for unconventional shales using the Devonian-Mississippian Woodford and ...
MEANING MAKING THROUGH NEGOTIATING LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES IN MULTILINGUAL WRITING
(2019-05-10)
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain an understanding of the perceptions of multilingual writing from monolingual and multilingual instructors teaching First-year Composition (FYC) as well as international ...
THE DECISION TO TEACH IN AN ERA OF DECLINING ENROLLMENTS IN TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS
(2019-05)
In America, declining enrollments in teacher education programs pose a problem for the future of education. Some studies (Barry & Shields, 2017; Westervelt, 2015) suggest high-stakes testing and top-down education reforms ...
A Compositional and Performer’s Analysis of Dinu Lipatti’s Fugue, Romantic Sonata, and Nocturnes
(2019-12-13)
The purpose of this document is to provide a reference for the single movement solo piano compositions by Dinu Lipatti that explores their overlooked significance to the piano repertoire through a compositional and performer’s ...
Cubulating one-relator products with torsion
(2019-05-10)
Since the resolution of the virtual Haken conjecture in the theory of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, there has been much attention devoted to CAT(0) cube complexes. These non-positively curved metric spaces are powerful tools for ...
Recognition Memory is Fundamentally Continuous, and Strategic Discretization Does Not Change This
(2019-05-10)
Recognition memory research has long focused on whether it is mediated by discrete or continuous processes. Recent research has shown that the picture is more complex. Recognition memory is not continuous or discrete, but ...
Perceptions of Occupational Crime: Sentencing Recommendations and the Attribution of Responsibility for Occupational Offenses
(2019-05-10)
This dissertation examines how offender and case attributes affect criminal perceptions, responsibility attributions, and recommended sentencing outcomes for occupational and organizational crimes. I use affect control ...
EDUCATIONAL RESPONSES TO THE CANCER INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX PINK WAR MACHINE: THEORIZING GENDER INSUBORDINATION FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF BREAST AND GYNECOLOGICAL CANCERS
(2019-04-24)
Premised upon John Dewey’s contention that dualist notions of minds isolated and elevated from bodies are an “evil” perpetuated in education (1916), this study applies Jane Roland Martin’s theories of education as encounter ...
A REDUCIBILITY PROBLEM FOR EVEN UNITARY GROUPS: THE DEPTH ZERO CASE
(2019-05-10)
We study a problem concerning parabolic induction in certain p-adic unitary groups. More precisely, for $E/F$ a quadratic extension of p-adic fields the associated unitary group $\mathrm{U}(n,n)$ contains a parabolic ...
Impact of Co-Requisite Mathematics Remediation on Students' Perceptions of Mathematics
(2019-05)
Every year a significant portion of the college population is considered deficient in their mathematical skills and are deemed as needing some form of remediation before they can enroll in credit bearing courses. Traditional ...