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ADOPTING AND RESISTING EVIDENCE-BASED CALLS FOR CHANGE: DISCURSIVE RESOURCES IN ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES TO INSTITUTIONAL PRESSURES
(2019-05-10)
Institutional forces often pressure organizations to conform and behave in similar manners even when those actions go against an organization’s best interests. One particular U.S. football organization, known as the team ...
Expressing the kami (deities): A study of Washinomiya Saibara Kagura
(2010)
This dissertation explores WASHINOMIYA SAIBARA KAGURA as a communication site where religious beliefs, values, and ways of life are interwoven with human expression. The kagura is one of the oldest forms of Shinto folk ...
RADICAL REACTIONS: THE FIRST RED SCARE IN THE GREAT PLAINS AND THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDERLANDS, 1918-1920
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation will focus on the First Red Scare in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The First Red Scare was a wave of mass panic and hysteria directed against suspected radicals, leftists, anarchist, and Communist ...
MODELLING AND VERIFICATION OF THERMOACOUSTIC MEDICAL IMAGING FROM NANOSCOPIC TO MACROSCOPIC RESOLUTIONS
(2019-12-13)
In this thesis, three main questions regarding the potential of thermoacoustic imaging are answered: 1) what are the conventional resolution limitations of photoacoustic imaging and how can they be extended to enable ...
Galaxy Clusters Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
(2016-12)
Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the Universe.
From radio to X-ray, we have observed these objects across the electromagnetic
spectrum. Formation theories suggest that clusters even emit ...
Novel, low-cost aluminum (hydr)oxide based materials for fluoride-impacted drinking-water: Batch and column studies
(2016-05)
Simple aluminum (hydr)oxides and layered double hydroxides were synthesized using common chemicals and equipment by varying synthesis temperature, concentrations of extra sulfate and citrate, and metal oxide amendments. ...
High-Fidelity and Perfect Reconstruction Techniques for Synthesizing Modulation Domain Filtered Images
(2016-12-16)
Biomimetic processing inspired by biological vision systems has long been a goal of the image processing research community, both to further understanding of what it means to perceive and interpret image content and to ...
ASSESSMENT OF ONE-MOMENT AND TWO-MOMENT BULK MICROPHYSICS AND SPECTRAL BIN MICROPHYSICS SCHEMES USING IDEALIZED SUPERCELL SIMULATIONS AND REAL DATA CONVECTIVE-SCALE PREDICTIONS
(2019-05)
Optimal hydrometeor parameterization and their associated processes in microphysics schemes (both spectral bin and bulk) continue to evolve as these schemes attempt to match observed hydrometeor complexity. This dissertation ...
Equivariant Piecewise-Linear Topology and Combinatorial Applications
(2011)
For G a finite group, we develop some theory of G-equivariant piecewise-linear topology and prove characterization theorems for G-equivariant regular neighborhoods. We use these results to prove a conjecture of Csorba ...
EXAMINING WORK RELATIONSHIPS AND BEHAVIORS THROUGH A CONSTRUCTIVE-DEVELOPMENTAL LENS
(2011)
In 1979 Weick suggested that managers should strive to broaden their perspective on their organizations and their environment and develop an ability to look at situations from multiple perspectives. Building on this idea, ...