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One of the heritages of Romanticism is the concept of song as Lied, a song in which voice and piano have equal responsibility in conveying the deepest meaning of a poem. Brazilian classical composers have a particular attraction for this...
Leucine Metabolite, Beta-Hydroxy Beta-Methylbutyrate (HMB) as an Intervention to Maintain Lean Body Mass and Performance during Sustained Military Operations
Soldiers in combat conduct sustained operations (SUSOPS) characterized by prolonged physical activity coupled with inadequate recovery and nutrition. This high operational tempo creates a catabolic condition in soldiers causing...
Disarming Athena: militarism from Homeric epics to Callimachus
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Within the Homeric epics, Iliad and Odyssey, and Callimachus' Hymn to Athena, two contradictory depictions of Athena are presented. The Homeric poet represents Athena as a warrior goddess, while Callimachus focuses on her femininity. The...
The purpose of this study is to test a perfect prognosis scheme used to develop lightning guidance for the warm season (May-September) for three regions of the country (Colorado, Washington, D.C., and Oregon). This guidance product is...
The study of interfaith interactions in medieval Spain often follows one of two sweeping schemes of historical explanation. One usually either subscribes to the idea of an antagonistic Clash of Cultures in the vein of Samuel Huntington...
How do children's career aspirations come to reflect the social inequalities among their elders? One theorist, Linda S. Gottfredson, 1996 was interested in explaining how at-risk children come to define themselves professionally and...
This dissertation examines a previously under-researched factor in second language (L2) lexical processing, namely, grammatical class. Although a wealth of research using monolingual and brain-damaged participants suggests that this...
A Preliminary Investigation into the Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Induction on Perceptions of Attention, Aesthetic Response, and Flow during Music Listening
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a brief mindfulness induction technique on subjective reports of attention, aesthetic response, and flow during music listening as measured by Continuous Response Digital...
One of the reported problems in the Honduran education system is teacher absenteeism. Although precise rates have not been provided, it is generally understood that the absenteeism rates tend to be higher in rural schools because of...
This study created a model to assess the general retirement literacy and level of intention to save for retirement of recent Millennial college students about to graduate from four-year public universities in the United States. The study...
Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) tend to perform more poorly on tests of reading and mathematical performance than their typical peers. Quantitative genetic analyses allow for a better understanding of the...
While formal and empirical studies of international relations have investigated the conditions under which weak states win conflicts against strong countries, there has been little systematic examination of how weaker states' incentives...
A path integral Monte Carlo investigation of the role of defects in ordered 4He systems has been conducted. We find that interstitial defects in two- and three-dimensional solid 4He can lead to a small but non-zero superfluid fraction, ...
My project investigates an ancient Greek myth concerning the Titan Prometheus. I have taken the play that Aeschylus wrote on behalf of Prometheus and molded it into a devised piece of theatre. My actors have improvised with relationships...
High magnetic fields are used to kill superconductivity and probe what happens to system when it cannot reach the ideal ground state, i.e. what is the normal-state ground state? Early work in High-Tc, where the application of magnetic...
It is clear that the genetic networks that control the shape and patterning of important phenotypic traits are much more important to trait evolution than was previously thought. This study addresses the ability of the Drosophila...
Manual (draft) for Safe Zone Tallahassee, FL. Includes information about member expectations, organization mission, list of terms and definitions, suggestions for "reducing homophobia, facts about the LGBTQ community, stages of sexual...
In 2005, Polish-born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, known for using video projections to animate existing public monuments and architecture in more than a dozen countries, exhibited his first large-scale indoor video projection titled "If...
This dissertation investigates Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström's Five Pictures from the Bible, set for six-part unaccompanied chorus and baritone solo, by examining the historical antecedents of the work's creation, and analyzing...
Synthesis and characterization of the self-assembling Alzheimer's [beta]-amyloid protein
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The self-assembling beta-amyloid (Aβ) protein has long been linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD). It may exist in various amino acid lengths, two of which (Aβ1-40 and Aβ1-42) are most commonly found in vivo. The 35th residue, methionine-35...
The aim of the present study was to further the conceptual understanding of exertion-pain anxiety. Specifically, the purposes were to induce exertion-pain anxiety, evaluate the effect of wait times on exertion-pain anxiety, and...
Three Portraits is the working title of an opera in one act. The complete work is broken into three scenes. The plot concerns a young artist who is introduced to fame nearly overnight. The opera, however, is not about his actual story...
The modern percussion ensemble has emerged as a vital medium of music performance and education, and continues to receive more recognition as a viable artistic medium. Perhaps less well-known is a type of percussion ensemble (abbreviated...
An on-going debate in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) concerns the role of explicit information (EI) about language in language acquisition. This study explores the role of EI in how instructed second language learners of...
My dissertation broadly examines the impact of legal inequality on planned lesbian families, and particularly on co-parents. Data come from in-depth interviews with 27 women in planned lesbian families who conceived a child (themselves...
Recent increased popularity in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) has been influenced by their ability to relieve the economic dependence on oil, meanwhile reducing the carbon footprint through the decreased level of harmful...
The purpose of this research was to examine the writing responses generated by students if they were provided with manipulatives which could potentially stimulate ideas for descriptive writing responses. The participants of the study...
The goal of this dissertation is to present a new perspective on the economic, political, and social implications of food procurement in Early Formative Period (1600 â 900 BC) Mesoamerica. The dataset consists of archaeobotanical...
This is a book review essay, using Daniel Callahan's 2009 book, Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System, as the jumping off point. Kapp takes strong issue with Callahan's proposal...
Introduction: The purpose of this study is to examine the connection between culture and psychopathology to determine if, belongingness and burdensomeness are more predictive of suicidality risk than multicultural inclusiveness, African...
Traditional histories have credited the Beat Generation writers with helping to bring about the counterculture of the 1960s by challenging the mainstream cultural mores of the 1950s. In this oft-cited and tired interpretation, the Beats...
This dissertation is entitled "Essays in Fiscal Policy: Computational Accuracy and Optimal Investments in Public, Private, and Human Capital." The dissertation tries to answer three questions. First, how good are linearization and higher...
The chief objective of this study is to establish the sources of Gyorgy Kepes's visual theory as expounded in his 1944 book Language of Vision, and examine his synthesis of these sources in a form that was so popular that his theoretic...
This study offers a useful step toward conceptualizing and understanding control-motivated IPV as a device to control partners within specific motivating and facilitating contexts. The research literature suggests that desire for control...
The Confederate flag is a symbol rich with meaning. While public debate has focused largely on which perception of the Confederate flag is the most appropriate, it is equally important to understand the consequences of being exposed to...
The purpose of this study was to examine whether dialogic reading, an evidence based intervention involving interactive storybook reading, improved the basic concept knowledge of preschool children using flap books or storyline books. A...
The Mental Illness Beliefs Inventory (MIBI) measures the extent to which an individual subscribes to the medical model of mental illness. This paper reports the results of two preliminary validation studies. The first study establishes...
This article explores the association between employment and recidivism for parolees released from Texas prisons. Along with determining whether obtaining employment on release from prison is associated with decreased odds of...
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