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"Creation Care is a Matter of Life": The Rhetoric of Pro-Life Evangelical Environmentalism
(2017-05-12)Evangelical groups have often been considered politically conservative on issues such as climate change and abortion. However, some evangelical groups employ pro-life rhetoric as a tool to influence pro-life evangelicals ... -
The Creation of Natural Motherhood: A Call for a Rebirth of the Maternal
(2017-12)There is considerable intricacy associated to the maternal identity in the modern western culture. One of the most distressing issues with mothering is that it is subject to external influences that conceptualize an idealized ... -
Creative Self-Efficacy, Technology Acceptance, and the Theory of Planned Behavior: Antecedents to a Maker's Intention to Return to Make
(2016-12)Fab Labs, Makerspaces and Hackerspaces are part of a decentralized global Do-It-Yourself movement providing unique resources to tinkerers, hobbyists, inventors and artists to make almost anything. Individuals who use these ... -
Creeping Wave Propagation On Cylindrical Radiating Structures
(2019-08-01)Weather radar is a powerful tool for detecting hazardous weather that may impact the lives of many. Most weather radars used by meteorologists today rely on a mechanical sweep to obtain volumetric data. This mechanical ... -
Criterial Variability in Eyewitness Identifications
(2022)Lineups typically induce superior performance compared to one-person identification procedures or showups. Understanding what makes the lineup a superior procedure is important to reduce identification errors, as these can ... -
Cross Cultural Medical and Natural Knowledge Exchange on the Mississippi Frontier between Gideon Lincecum and the Choctaw Nation: 1818 to 1833
(2016-12-16)This paper closely investigates the natural and medical exchange of knowledge and its social and historical context between Gideon Lincecum (1793 – 1874) and his Choctaw neighbors in Mississippi between the years 1818 and ... -
Cross-education of the repeated bout effect after unilateral eccentric exercise with and without mirror visual feedback
(2023-08-04)Previous research has demonstrated evidence of the cross education of the repeated bout effect (CL-RBE) to the untrained contralateral limb, however, it has been shown to be weaker in magnitude when compared to the ipsilateral ... -
CrossFit Athletic Identity's Relationship to Sponsorship Recall and Recognition
(2017-08)Introduction: The CrossFit Open is possibly one of the most inclusive participation sport events ever, as it allows CrossFit athletes from across the world to compete against each other to test their fitness abilities. The ... -
Crossing to Care: Movement and Flexibility in Mexican Massage Healing
(2020)Transnationalism and border studies have often rightly focused on the movement of people, materials, and ideas across national lines as well as issues of migration such as along the U.S.-Mexico border. This thesis examines ... -
Cultural Health Capital and the Doctor-Patient Encounter: An Exploratory Analysis
(2021-08-05)Doctor-patient interactions look different than they did 30 years ago. Who has the power and influence in doctor-patient relationships? The doctor, the patient, or a shared power? In recent decades, doctor-patient interactions ... -
Culture of Honor and Female Incarceration
(2023-05)Some states in the U.S. maintain higher than usual rates of female incarceration. Prior research suggests that these incarceration rates are determined by poverty, education, or racial makeup. However, these explanations ... -
Cuyamungue Black-on-tan: Establishing Diversity in Tewa Pueblo Biscuitware to Improve Dating of the Protohistoric Period in Northern New Mexico
(2018-08-02)Researchers know that during the Late Classic period (A.D. 1500-1598) Tewa Pueblo people living in the Lower Chama watershed started moving southeast towards the Rio Grande, a process that eventually lead to the depopulation ... -
Dachau And Ravensbrück: A Comparative Analysis of Concentration Camps From 1933 to 1945
(2022-05)Comparing and contrasting the two infamous camps, Dachau and Ravensbrück, is fundamental in understanding the true nature of the two camps. Additionally, this research indirectly focuses on the question of ‘what defines a ... -
The Dancer As Entrepreneur: A New Course In Higher Education That Guides Young Dancers In Developing Community Dance Organizations
(2019-05-11)The purpose of this study is to develop a course in higher education that will guide dance artists in developing community dance organizations, a process which will benefit the artists as well as their communities. The ... -
DANCING BEYOND THE PATRIARCHY: BALLET’S CAPACITY TO BE REIMAGINED FOR A NEW GENERATION OF WOMEN
(2020)Ballet, an artform conceived in the French courts of royalty, is rooted in elitist European and patriarchal ideals. In the United States today, and particularly in the field’s highest echelons, these ideals are often ... -
Dancing with the Spirit Realm: An Iconographic Analysis of Renewal Imagery on the Engraved Shells from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma
(2023-05-12)The goal of this project was to determine whether or not a set of reproducible criteria could be developed and employed to identify depictions of dance in Spiroan iconography. Combining the previously identified depictions ... -
Data Driven Network Design for Cloud Services Based on Historic Utilization
(2022-03-31)In recent years we have seen a shift from traditional networking in enterprises with Data Center centric architectures moving to cloud services. Companies are moving away from private networking technologies like MPLS as ... -
Data Driven Optimization of Inter-Frequency Mobility Parameters for Emerging Networks
(2021)Densification and multi-band operation means inter-frequency handovers can become a bottleneck for mobile user experience in emerging cellular networks. The challenge is aggravated by the fact that there does not exist a ... -
Data Mining Applications in Reservoir Modeling
(2016-08-08)Data science has gained great attentions in many fields over the last decade, in this thesis, I further explored the use of data science technique in oil industry and developed three data mining applications that could be ...