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CLASSICAL BALLET PRE-POINTE EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PEDAGOGY FOR THE TRAINING OF YOUNG DANCERS
(2016-05-13)The concept of preparing young female dancers for pointe work is not new to ballet education; however, attention to specific pre-pointe training has become more focused in recent years. Pre-pointe as a defined course of ... -
Classifying Wi-Fi from Raw Power Measurements Using a Neural Network Adapted from WaveNet
(2021-08-05)Research to identify coexisting wireless devices is becoming increasingly important, in part due to the yearly increase in internet users and wireless devices. Various machine learning algorithms, including neural networks, ... -
Climate Change Drives Divergent Outcomes for Stream Fishes in the Red River
(2018-12-14)Climate change is expected to alter the distributions of stream fishes in ecosystems around the world, but climate projections vary widely among competing climate models. Conservation practitioners face the challenge of ... -
Climate Threats from Kyoto to Paris: Framing and Images in Securitizing Climate Change Discourses
(2017-08-01)Climate change is an issue that presents many threats that are dispersed according to geography and vulnerability. Climate change exists within separate discourses and is framed uniquely in each discourse. The question ... -
CLOSING THE GAP: TINY HOMES, SOCIAL CAPITAL, IMPLEMENTATION, AND DISASTER RECOVERY
(2019)Over the last fifteen years, the United States has experienced an exceedingly high number of devastating hurricanes; these storms have affected the nation in ways that are still being examined and dealt with years after ... -
Cloud, Calf, and Cannon: An Ecological Reading of "War and Peace"
(2022-05-14)This essay engages in an ecocritical–spatial reading of Leo Tolstoy’s "War and Peace" focused on the narrator’s conscientious and equitable treatment of nature, animals, and topography. Where traditional historical–temporal ... -
Cloud-radiative feedbacks within the Madden-Julian Oscillation
(2021)The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) affects weather and climate globally, however it has been challenging to accurately represent it in Global Circulation Models (GCMs) which can lead to uncertainties with future climate ... -
Cloudy with a Chance of Conservation: How Perception Shapes Conservation Behavior
(2024-05-10)With disruptive natural events such as hurricanes, flooding, and drought-based wildfires affecting ecosystems and human communities more frequently than ever, environmental conservation is a critical issue now and going ... -
Clustering Techniques in Multi-Objective Optimization: Applications in Climate-Driven Refugee Relocation
(2022)As climate change becomes increasingly concerning around the world, and with large uncertainty falling on the aspects of displaced people, a need for planning is prevalent. This complex problem—of which there is little to ... -
Co-Occurrence and Dispersion Patterns of Mussel Species Within Beds
(2017-07)To aid in the conservation of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia, Unionidae), a better understanding of how mussel communities are structured is needed. While we know a great deal about the distribution and abundance of mussels ... -
The Co-Production of Technoscience and Social Science in Green Revolution Mexico, 1956-1979
(2018)In 1943 the Rockefeller Foundation, nominally in partnership with the Mexican government, initiated its Mexican Agriculture Program (MAP). Over the subsequent decades, a complex network of worldwide inter-governmental/NGO ... -
CO2 HUFF-N-PUFF IN UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES PLAYS – AN INTEGRATED MODELING APPROACH FOCUSING ON PERMIAN BASIN
(2019-08-01)Despite the recent growth in oil production from unconventional reservoirs, existing hydraulically fractured horizontal wells face challenges of poor recovery with the rapid production decline over a short life span. ... -
COALBED METHANE COMPREHENSIVE CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING – BIG GEORGE COAL, POWDER RIVER BASIN, WYOMING
(2019-05-10)Over the past two decades, coalbed methane (CBM) has become one of the major unconventional gas resources in the US, Canada, Australia, and other countries. Despite substantial advances in CBM exploitation technologies, ... -
COLLECTING ARCHITECTURE: A CASE STUDY OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS HELD BY THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM
(2017-12-15)Museums care for millions of objects, and therefore cannot possibly put their entire collections on display. Often, it is the grander objects that are pushed into service to illustrate the past while the broken and ... -
Collecting During the Indian Craze: Analyzing the Harry L. George Collection of Native American Art
(2018-05)This thesis examines the concepts of primary and secondary markets utilized by artists and collectors of Native American art at the turn of the 20th century. This time period was coined by art historian Elizabeth Hutchinson ... -
Colorful Language: Investigating the Interpretation of the Storm Prediction Center's Convective Outlook by Broadcast Meteorologists and the US Public
(2020-07-30)Though severe weather forecast products, such as the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) convective outlook, have shown to be significantly more accurate than climatology at day-to-week time scales, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms ... -
Comanche Food Attitudes
(2019-05-10)Food has always been important to societies and cultures from everyday life and over generations. Yet, very few societies still eat the same way that they did 500 years ago. Today, indigenous people are challenged by settler ... -
Combining Classification and Bayesian Methods to Better Model Drug Abuse
(2018-12)Illicit drug use in the United States has shown no signs of abating, and the morbidity from drug abuse has risen sharply over the last several years. This is primarily due to a rise in the abuse of opioids, including ... -
Combining Text Analysis and Concept Mapping for Conceptual Model Development
(2020-05)The Rio Grande/Río Bravo River (RGB) stretches through Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, spanning a politically, socio-economically, and environmentally diverse region. Management ... -
Combustion Characteristics of Three-component Fuel Blends in a Porous Media Burner at Lean Conditions
(2017-05)The increasing energy demand and the growing concern over the environmental impact caused by the combustion of fossil fuels require the development of effective alternative fuel sources. Biodiesels and bio-alcohols are ...