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Shortwave broadcasting in a new world order: An historical examination of the influences of satellite radio and Internet radio on shortwave broadcasting since the end of the Cold War.
(2004)
From the application of shortwave frequencies to broadcasting in the 1920s until the last decade of the 20th century, international broadcasting was synonymous with shortwave broadcasting by state-run radio stations. For ...
The life and work of Gretel Karplus/Adorno: Her contributions to Frankfurt School theory.
(2004)
This dissertation uses the insights of contemporary rhetorical theory and feminist biography to acknowledge the contributions of Gretel Karplus/Adorno to the productivity of her husband, Theodor W. Adorno, of her dear ...
The effects of dispositional hope on coping with career indecision in a sample of undergraduate students.
(2004)
The purpose of the present study was to provide further evidence of the distinct ways by which dispositional hope affects career indecision and coping with vocational choice among undergraduate students. Using a sample of ...
Late night political comedy, candidate image, and inoculation: A unique test of inoculation theory.
(2004)
Additionally, this study assessed the viability of using inoculation treatments to protect against late night political ridicule (monologues and parodies). Previous research beginning in the late 1980s has revealed inoculation ...
Red Scare rhetoric and composition: Early Cold War effects on university writing instruction, 1934--1954.
(2004)
This dissertation investigates composition and communication philosophies and practices from the years 1934--1954. Generally speaking, writing instruction suffered during the Cold War because the political climate reduced ...
Buoyancy effects on flow structure and instability of low-density gas jets.
(2004)
Linear temporal and spatio-temporal stability analyses of a low-density round gas jet injected into a high-density ambient gas were performed by assuming hyper-tan mean velocity and density profiles. The flow was assumed ...
The clearings of authentic learning in mathematics.
(2004)
This study is a hermeneutical phenomenological qualitative investigation of authenticity in mathematics learning. In the applicable literature the uses of the words "authentic" and "authenticity" are found to be problematic. ...
Antimodern strategies: Ambivalence, accommodation, and protest in Willa Cather's "The Troll Garden".
(2004)
In this project I argue that Willa Cather's earliest collection of stories, The Troll Garden (1905), demonstrates the antimodern ethos of the American fin de siecle period as characterized by both progressive rhetoric and ...
Systematics and paleoecology of trilobites from the Late Ordovician Viola Group, south-central Oklahoma.
(2004)
The Upper Ordovician Viola Group of south-central Oklahoma records deposition on a carbonate ramp that extended from platform settings to a basin within the Southern Oklahoma aulacogen. Lithofacies analysis allows inner, ...
The emergence of objects: A study in constitution.
(2004)
In this dissertation I first motivate the need for the constitution relation by raising what Michael C. Rea has called the problem of material constitution and arguing that many of the so-called solutions of the problem ...