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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"American Midwest"”.
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Retrofit Solutions to Electric Power Sector Decarbonization in the American Midwest
… options is particularly important for the American Midwest where coal makes up a large portion of the resource mix and where the potential for intermittent wind deployment is high. This thesis enables retrofit modeling in a multi-stage capacity expansion framework and uses it to evaluate …
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French to Frenchness: Language shift and lieux de memoire in the American midwest
… to the language of the former New France in the Midwest; and (2) under what form did it survive, if at all.
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Needles in a Haystack: Perceptions of Deservingness on the Implementation of Harm Reduction Programs in the American Midwest
… Indiana is found to be an outlier even among the Midwestern states in its negative response to opioid epidemic victims due to the continued legacy of three, Indiana-specific historical events and phenomena: the rise and legacy of the Temperance Movement; the development of the Indiana Klan – a …
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Language Socialization of Chinese Children in the American Midwest: Learning to Write in American Preschool, Chinese Sunday School, and at Home
<p>Early literacy studies in American preschool, Chinese school and home settings have reported very different sets of beliefs and practices about writing and learning. However, few studies have explored the cultural underpinnings and the socialization role of such differing beliefs and practices …
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"Go West and Grow Up With the Country": A Study of German and Irish Immigrant Communities in the American Midwest, 1850-1900
… compares German and Irish immigration to the American Midwest by examining migrant settlement in two of its cities during the period from 1850 to 1900. Concentrating on ethnically German and Irish communities in Fort Wayne, Indiana and St Louis, Missouri, this thesis examines these immigrant …
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Varve Chronology, Proxy Calibration, and Holocene Climate of Minnesota
… Holocene paleoclimatic records from the North American continent, few existing records from the American Midwest have adequate chronological controls, marking it problematic to link regional climatic changes to possible larger-scale forcing. With solid 14C chronologies, the multi-proxy records …
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Newspaper coverage of cavalry raiders during the American Civil War
During the American Civil War, military actions took place across a vast distance, from southern Pennsylvania to the future state of New Mexico. While a majority of the war was fought in the Eastern Theater, essentially the region east of the Appalachian Mountains, the Western Theater, roughly …
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Conditions, Contestations, and Pockets of Belonging: Youth Citizenship in Small Town America
Small towns in the American Midwest, undergoing significant demographic, political, and economic shifts, are a microcosm reflecting the broader debate of “who belongs” in popular and academic discourse. This year-long, multi-sited ethnographic research study focuses on the personal narratives of …
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Domesticating sprawl : Dearborn Michigan and the Green Moat
… the most popular and most impenetrable form of American urbanism, issuing discussions ranging from those that raise polar alternatives to those that accept sprawl and meticulously analyze its forms and structure. However, this thesis asserts that the American Midwest is a unique and important …
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Threshold
… journey from childhood to adulthood, from the American Midwest to the American South, and from singleness to marriage. This thesis also contains poems about the journeys of others, from the Irish Papar to a runaway teenager to Rapunzel, and these journeys echo the main speaker's journeys. …
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Priorities and student satisfaction as a function of student persistence for adult online learners
… institution of higher education in the American Midwest. Correlation testing was conducted to determine if there was a relationship between student persistence and the performance gap, determined by subtracting the satisfaction level from the importance level provided on the Priorities …
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Muslim Women on the Catholic Campus: The Search for Identity, Community, and Understanding
<p>American religious diversity has expanded since the 1960s when immigration law changed the geographical map of our immigrant pipeline from Europe to Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (Smith, 2002). This demographic change in immigration patterns has affected the population of students not only …
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Attachment, social support and loneliness in later life
… in a metropolitan area of the non-industrial American Midwest. Response rate was 42% (N = 378).;Results showed mean differences in attachment style, but differences were not consistent with prior findings possibly due to measurement issues. Stagewise block regression (block order determined …
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Understanding Teacher/Coach Role Stressors and Burnout
… across a variety of academic disciplines in the American Midwest completed an online survey related to their feelings of role stressors, burnout, and resilience. These data were analyzed using factorial ANOVAs, exploratory and confirmatory factory analysis, multiple linear regression, and …
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Governing International Criminal Justice: Managerial Practices and the International Criminal Court
… practices from the steel factories of the American Midwest to the structures of the United Nations after decolonization. This genealogy reveals the political significance of management as a set of tools deployed to reinforce extant distributions of institutional power. At the International …
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Blue sail come cover
… geographies of memory, grief, fear, and the American Midwest in search of a kinder ontology, they discover a means by which to stay. While explicit internal and external landscapes remain legible throughout, these poems are rooted most by their assertions of how care can keep us. As the I and …
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Home Movie, Nowhere
… creative documentation of local history in the American Midwest and explores personal ties to homeplace through the aesthetic lens of the Midwestern Gothic. Spotlighting rural Iowa, this work uncovers the historical realities of a place that remains largely absent from the historical record. …
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Modeling land surface processes of the midwestern United States : predicting soil moisture under a warmer climate
… of soil moisture to climate change in the midwestern United States. To assess this response, a dynamic global vegetation model, Integrated Biosphere Simulator, was coupled to Regional Climate Model version 3 (RegCM3- IBIS). IBIS has several key advantages over the native surface physics …
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Picturing the American story: John Steuart Curry’s limited editions club illustrations and the Regionalist vision in American literature
… examines the late-career illustrative works of American Regionalist painter John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), focusing specifically on his commissions for the Limited Editions Club, a subscription book company, between 1940 and 1946. While Curry is most often celebrated for his painted depictions …
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