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Teaching in the Digital Age: Exploring the Integration of Educational Technology in Social Studies Classrooms
(2024-05-10)Teaching in the digital age presents many unique challenges that previous generations of educators did not have to consider during their careers as classrooms teachers. This research study was designed to aid social studies ... -
Teaching Music Theory Through Musical Theatre Repertoire
(2020-05)This document uses musical theatre repertoire to both reinforce and extend music-theoretical concepts typically taught in undergraduate theory sequences. Three such concepts—modulation, form, and counterpoint—are examined ... -
Techniques for Simultaneous Transmit and Receive with All-Digital Arrays
(2021-05-14)The increased flexibility provided by all-digital array architectures allows for the development of improved techniques toward achieving multi-function capability. In an all-digital array, element-level control can be ... -
Techno-optimization of CO2 transport networks with constrained pipeline parameters
(2023-05-13)In planning large scale carbon sequestration projects, one of the key parameters affecting project economics is the selection of optimal pipeline transportation networks connecting physical locations of carbon sources to ... -
Tectonics, sedimentation, and hydrocarbon potential of the Reelfoot aulacogen
(1985)The Reelfoot aulacogen, an early Paleozoic failed-rift basin, lies concealed beneath the Gulf Coastal Plain strata of the upper Mississippi Embayment. Many similarities exist between the geologic history of the Reelfoot ... -
Temperature Swing Solvent Extraction for Selenate and Selenite Removal from Industrial Wastewater
(2022)Coal-fired power plants provide more than one fifth of the electricity generated in the United States. Flue gas desulfurization (FGD) of the products of coal combustion is necessary to prevent emissions of SO2, which is ... -
Temporal and Spatial Variations in Sediment Trace Metal Concentrations in Streams, Rivers, and a Reservoir near a Derelict Lead-Zinc Mining District
(2021-05)Historic lead and zinc mining in the Tri-State Mining District has ceased, but the legacy of trace metal contamination (Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn) throughout the region still exists. This thesis focuses on stream sediments ... -
Tenderhearted
(2023-05-12)This is a collection of non-fiction essays and one fictional short story that began with the idea of the psychological phenomenon of undermothering but eventually took shape around ways in which my coming of age was impacted ... -
Tensile Behavior of Ultra-High Performance Concrete Under Direct Tension
(2020-07-30)Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) is a product that has improved mechanistic properties as compared to traditional concrete and is defined by the Federal Highway Administrations (FHWA) as having a post-cracking tensile ... -
TEST OF DIFFERENT TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS TO HYDROMETEOR AND WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIOS FOR DIRECT VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION OF RADAR REFLECTIVITY DATA
(2021-05-14)Many issues exist when using highly nonlinear radar reflectivity forward observation operator in three-dimensional variational data assimilation methods (3DVAR), especially with hydrometeor mixing ratios as control variables ... -
A Test of the Terror Management Health Model and Psychological Reactance in the Context of Skin Protective Behaviors
(2021)This thesis presents the results of an experiment (N = 206) that utilized sun overexposure prevention messages and a 2 (mortality: salient, control) × 2 (freedom threat: high, low) independent-group design. The study tested ... -
Testing a Dynamic Perspective of Goal Orientation During Complex Skill Acquisition and Adaptation to Unforeseen Change
(2018-05)In the context of learning a dynamic task involving cognitive and perceptual-motor demands, this laboratory study contributed to a multilevel perspective of goal orientation and performance by examining adaptation to a ... -
TESTING STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS FOR FREE VIBRATION TO UNDERSTAND THEIR LINEAR DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS
(2018)Dynamic forces such as strong seismic, wind, and impact loads can cause severe deterioration of structural elements in residential, commercial and other structural systems. In the field of structural health monitoring ... -
The Babylonian astronomical diaries : a contextual survey and graphical analysis of their implied reference system
(2002)Abstract Babylonian scribes nightly observed and recorded celestial events for over six centuries during the first millennium BC. A number of cuneiform tablets containing these astronomical diaries have been recovered and ... -
THE BIG UNEASY: LEADERSHIP FAILURES IN NEW ORLEANS BEFORE AND AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA
(2016)Individuals in positions of leadership should possess certain qualities that allow them to situations of great stress and crisis. These qualities are especially important in extraordinary and overwhelming circumstances ... -
The community in the philosophy of William James
(1999)There are those who have stated that James' social philosophy is of little import, and that the reader of James is, therefore, hard-pressed to find any notion of community therein. My primary purpose in this work is to ...