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COMPOSING AGENCY: USING INQUIRY TO PROMOTE SOCIAL ACTION
(2017-08-01)
In Rhetoric/Composition studies, agency has been a highly contested concept, straightaway invoking the tension between two dominant perspectives. Agency is viewed as either an internal quality possessed by an individual ...
Opposition to Authoritarianism: Ideational and Material Resources in Russia and Ukraine
(2017-12)
Why do some opposition movements succeed in deposing authoritarian leaders in the former Soviet Republics, while some others fail? How do regime opponents challenge authoritarian discourses and practices? How do authoritarian ...
CORROSION BEHAVIOR OF TUBULARS IN SOUR GAS ENVIRONMENT
(2017)
The existence of corrosive gases (CO2 and H2S) in oil wells under High-Pressure High-Temperature (HPHT) condition exacerbates the severity of tubular corrosion and increases the need for different corrosion mitigation ...
Webs for Type Q Lie Superalgebras
(2017-12-15)
In the first part of this dissertation, we construct a monoidal supercategory whose morphism spaces are spanned by equivalence classes of diagrams called oriented type Q webs, modulo certain relations. We then prove a ...
THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING AND EDDY COVARIANCE TECHNOLOGIES TO CHARACTERIZE CROPLAND, DROUGHT AND LAND MANAGEMENTS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS
(2017-05-12)
With the increasing population, human needs more food, fresh water, and other ecosystem services, which burdens the agricultural and natural ecosystems. Under the background of climate change, meeting these human needs ...
Biomaterial and Computational Based Strategies for the in vitro Development of Bone Tissue and Tumor Engineered Constructs
(2017-12)
Every year in the United States, more than 500,000 bone graft surgeries are required. In most cases, bone will regenerate after fracture with minimal complications; however, when there is a critical-sized defect or fracture ...
White Women Doing Racism: A Critical Narrative Inquiry of White Women's Experiences of College
(2017-08)
College campuses continue to be inequitable spaces for students as access and experiences are stratified by race, gender, and class, among other social categories. As access to higher education has broadened, white women ...
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Encounter with the Medical Mis-education of Women: A Conceptual and Historical Inquiry
(2017-05-12)
This study of the educational thought of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (BWHBC) uses Jane Roland Martin’s concept of cultural miseducation (2002) to theorize the “medical mis-education of women,” which is revealed ...
DIALOGICAL APPROACHES TO ENHANCING DISCUSSION, WRITING, AND THINKING IN A RURAL UNIVERSITY
(2017-05)
This action research self study explored how dialogic instruction influenced 21 freshman composition students’ quality of discussion, writing practices, and ability to critical think and reflect on their learning. The study ...
On the Potential of Adaptive Beamforming for Phased-Array Weather Radar
(2017-05-12)
As the Weather Surveillance Radar 1988 Doppler network reaches the end of its expected life, a network of multifunction phased-array radars (MPAR) supporting both aircraft and weather surveillance missions has been proposed. ...