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Heterozygote detection and genetic analysis of serum amino acid metabolism in Amish and non-Amish families with a phenylketonuric proband
This document only includes an excerpt of the corresponding thesis or dissertation. To request a digital scan of the full text, please contact the Ruth Lilly Medical Library's Interlibrary Loan Department (rlmlill@iu.edu).
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Continuity and Change Among the Old Order Amish of Illinois
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The Effectiveness Of Teaching Methods In Traditional Amish Schoolhouses In Lawrence County, TN
<p>The Amish community at Ethridge in Lawrence County, Tennessee is one of a handful in Tennessee, and, with a population of 1,500 and more than ten church districts, is the largest in the South and one of the top 20 in the nation. This particular Amish community was colonized when three families …
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Understanding the Role of Planning in a Case Study of the Amish Community in Webster County, Missouri
The Amish are a religiously and culturally distinct group of people who reject most forms of technological progress, drive horse-drawn vehicles, and do not use electricity or plumbing. When the Amish constitute a segment of the community there are special issues that arise relating to the …
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Amish and American? : making space for wholeness amidst compartmentalization in a modern liberal democracy
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1992.
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Singing With the New Order Amish: How Their Current Musical Practices Reflect Their Culture and History
The culture of the New Order Amish is a culture, like that of the more traditional Old Order Amish, in which a heritage of singing is very important. Multiple researchers have investigated the culture and the singing of the Old Order Amish, but very few have examined New Order culture and even …
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Amish Childbearing Beliefs and Practices and the Implications for Nurse-Midwives as Servant-Leader Care Providers
… and practices associated with childbearing among Amish women from their perspective are not widely known. The available research on Amish childbearing health practices does indicate that these women are at high risk for problems during the childbearing period. This indication, coupled with both a …
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Education in Paradise: Learning for Profitable Employment Among the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
The Old Order Amish sect is an Anabaptist religious group which can trace its origins back to the Protestant Reformation in Zurich. Forced to flee from persecution, some Anabaptists ultimately found a haven in the German Palatinate. Emigrating from the there to America during the eighteenth …
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Assessing Social Capital and Community Involvement: Social Network Analysis for the Sustainable Amish Community Tourism Development
Action research was incorporated in quantitative methods, qualitative methods, and social network analysis in this dissertation. Action research helps to refine the initial problem statement of the community (advertisement, lack of collaboration mechanism), and improving the local problem-solving …
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Predicting exceptionality, student achievement, and ISTEP scores using pre-school screening scores of Amish and English children
… services by the end of fifth grade for both Amish and English speaking students. School achievement was measured by the student's performance on the third grade ISTEP. Archival educational data was collected for 333 children who participated in SEEK in 1997 and 1998, and then later took the …
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"This wilderness world": The evolution of a New England farm town, 1820--1840
… communal relationships in transition. Using the Amish as a model, the dissertation identifies traditional communal social organization as agrarian, patriarchal, communal, homogeneous, localistic, and consensual -- as well as closed, conformist, and suspicious of difference and innovation. The …
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Teachers' perceptions of bilingualism and bidialectalism: the effect on language arts pedagogy
… language intervention and mostly overlooked the Amish students who spoke a German dialect. The study suggests that although ELLs include several language minority groups, teachers associated language minority students with being Hispanic. Essentially, teachers conflated race/ethnicity with …
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The Frolic Model : transforming single-family homes into urban cohousing
… in major cities across the U.S. "Frolic" is an Amish term referring to shared labor and common vision, used to describe joyous festivals in which over 100 families would come together and raise a barn in one week. In our research, we found that there are several potential mutual gains lost in …
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Voluntary formation of audit committees and their practices : an Australian study
The study has examined the determinants for the voluntary formation of audit committees and analysed their practices using the annual reports for the financial year 2004. The sample size was obtained from the Connect 4 database of companies. Using Agency theory, the study hypothesized that …
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Locally optimal detection and randomization defenses against universal adversarial perturbations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Assessment of a body force representation for compressor stability estimation
This thesis presents a methodology for the integration of blade row body forces, derived from axisymmetric and three- dimensional flow fields, for use in the stability analysis of axial compressors. The body force database represents the body forces as a function of the local flow coefficient times …
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Sustaining tradition through tourism : Zhan-Qi as a model for China
… business, and cultural achievement. Similar to Amish villages In America, these communities share a strong link to the land, minimal upward social mobility, a strong sense of heritage, and an emphasis on collective life. At the same time, they are confronting changes In their agricultural …
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