Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 143
Women and the avant-garde: Sexual difference in discourse and art, 1900--1950.
(2002)
This study seeks to understand the critical influences shaping the literary and artistic exchanges between women and the modernist avant-garde. It analyzes texts disclosing expressions of gender and sexual difference ...
Emerging leadership among African American female educators.
(2002)
The purpose of this study is to understand the process of why African-American female teachers seek administration early in their teaching career. This study examines the chronological stages of five women teachers that ...
Successful socialization of an organizational culture: A critical analysis of the messages of student members of Southern Nazarene University.
(2002)
The purpose of this study is to examine students' messages, gathered through post-exit interviews, in order to compare how they talk about membership in the organizational culture of Southern Nazarene University with the ...
We still tell stories: An examination of Cherokee oral literature.
(2002)
A primary objective of the study is to show that Cherokee Indians are not antiquated human beings stuck in history, but a modern, contemporary people with deep ancestral connections to their heritage. The stories they tell ...
The structure of cost and demand in the United States telecommunications industry.
(2002)
This dissertation provides an analysis of cost and demand structures in the U.S. telecommunications industry from 1960--1999. The research is primarily concerned with the effects of deregulation, competition and technology ...
Democratic virtues: Solidarity, tolerance, and reflective obedience.
(2002)
To defend itself, a liberal democracy should promote three virtues: solidarity, tolerance, and reflective obedience. Each helps avoid the conditions Plato fears. Solidarity builds a sense of community to overcome factionalism. ...
Evolutionary and environmental effects on thermoregulation among complex lizard communities.
(2002)
A community of ten sympatric lizard species was studied in a mountain canyon in southern Arizona to determine the effect of phylogeny on habitat use and thermoregulation. Habitat use, body temperatures ( Tb) and operative ...
Mandatory child abuse reporting practices of Oklahoma educators.
(2002)
This study investigated why, despite mandatory reporting laws, Oklahoma elementary teachers failed to report suspected child abuse and neglect cases. Variables included years taught, grade level taught, general knowledge ...
Neural network and analytical modeling of slope stability.
(2002)
A semi-analytical method is developed for analysis of slope stability involving cohesive and non-cohesive soils. For sandy slopes, a planar slip surface is employed. For clayey slopes, circular slip surfaces are employed ...
Synergistic argumentation in a problem-centered learning environment.
(2002)
This research looks at argumentation in the whole-class sharing portion of a second grade problem-centered classroom learning environment in which making sense of mathematical ideas was the accepted norm. This research ...