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Thomas H. Brewer and the Struggle for Civil Rights
<p>The winter of 1956 was a turbulent period in the deep South. Blacks were demanding their rights and finally obtaining some of their goals at the nationa1 level. The 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown Topeka. Kansas Board of Education case was the prime VS stimulus.1 While the blacks in the …
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Between God and Man: Community's Place in Virtue, Practical Reason, and Transcendent Good
Talbot Brewer's Retrieval of Ethics and Robert Adams's Finite and Infinite Goods present distinct theories in ethics and metaethics. Brewer begins with the fundamental ethical perspective of the practical deliberator who experiences his practical deliberations as a continuous, unified, and …
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An examination of Teach For America's impact on the teaching profession, hiring practices, and educational leadership
… 2016-07-07T19:53:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 BREWER-DISSERTATION-2016.pdf: 1309400 bytes, checksum: b3ebafeaf336e7335dd20b394e1c9418 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4211 bytes, checksum: a006720eb1c782d7c25a7af457e6642c (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4557 bytes, checksum: 6aaefceec92399064fc56e4d82355d9d …
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Attachment Anxiety, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Sexual Compliance: A Replication and Extension
… it) and the causes of sexual compliance. Brewer and Forrest-Redfern (2022) hypothesized that attachment anxiety (AA) and rape myth acceptance (RMA) influence perceptions of unwanted sex and influence individual experiences of sexual compliance. The researchers found women who scored high …
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The effect of cooling on brewer's yeast quality
The primary concern of a brewer is to produce beer of a desired flavour and quality, in an economic and efficient manner. In large scale brewing operations, process efficiency and beer quality rely on consistent fermentation. Stewart (1977) reports that improper handling of yeast in the brewing …
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An Examination of Psychological Variables Affecting Injured Athletes Prior to Returning to Play
… bringing upon feelings of anger and depression (Brewer, 1993; Fortunato & Marchant, 1999). As athletes begin to re-enter sports, lower levels of sport-confidence are exhibited (Johnston & Carroll, 1998). Social support has been shown to motivate individuals as well as aid in the overall progress …
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Athletic Training Students' Perceptions and Use of Sport Psychology Services
… interventions in treating injured athletes (Brewer, Van Raalte, & Linder, 1991; Ford & Gordon. 1997; Francis, Andersen. & Maley. 2000; Larson. Starkey. & Zaichkowsky, 1996; Wiese. Weiss, & Yukelson. 1991). Limited research has examined athletic trainers' education of sport psychology and how …
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Exploring Social Identity Complexity and the Possible Impact on Stereotype Threat
… representation of multiple ingroup identities (Brewer, 2008; Roccas & Brewer, 2002). The main hypothesis was that possessing a more complex social identity will provide protection against stereotype threat by providing increased availability of salient non-threatened identities. The findings of …
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Validation of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale With a Hong Kong Sample
… the person processes self-related information (Brewer, Van Raalte, & Linder, 1993). Being one of the domains of the self-concept, athletic identity is the “degree of importance, strength, and exclusivity attached to the athlete role that is maintained by the athletes and influenced by …
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Development and Improvement of Spectroscopic Techniques for Atmospheric Composition Measurements from Ground and Space
… methods and analyzing data produced by the Brewer Spectrophotometer. Stray light in the Brewer instrument causes an underestimation of daily ozone values especially in the northern latitudes where, at certain times of the year, measurements must be made at large solar zenith angles. This …
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Tragic philosophy and human desire : bringing Nietzsche and Plato into conversation with contemporary ethics.
In his Retrieval of Ethics, Talbot Brewer complains of a fundamentally inadequate moral psychology within contemporary ethics, most importantly the limitation of human desire to the instrumental. In response, Brewer, drawing primarily from Aristotle, develops an account of human desire that finds …
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Development and Validation of a Perceived Legitimacy of Hazing Behavior Scale for College Coaches
… Association (Van Raalte, Cornelius, Linder, & Brewer, 2007), as hazing behaviors are prevalent within the sport community (Alfred University, 1999; Allan & Madden, 2008). While the attitudes and beliefs of student-athletes towards hazing behaviors have been examined (Campo, Poulos, & Sipple, …
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Variation in mental models of text as a function of genre
… the mental models formed from another genre (Brewer, 1980; Johnson-Laird, 1983). Readers of survey texts and route texts were faster and more accurate in verifying spatial information that was presented in the same form as the initial text (Perrig & Kintsch, 1985). The results suggest that the …
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Evaluation of anaerobic soil disinfestation using brewers spent grain and yeast inoculation in annual hill plasticulture strawberry production
… on weed control, evaluating the performance of brewers' spent grain (a promising carbon source) under field conditions, and evaluating whether yeast addition enhanced the effectiveness of ASD treatments. A series of greenhouse trials were conducted at the Southern Piedmont AREC (Agricultural …
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Dealing with cultural diversity: An empirical test of a causal model of intergroup relations
… to the contact hypothesis (Amir, 1969; Miller & Brewer, 1984). A subset of the variables and their inter-relations described by Triandis (1992) was tested using a structural equation modelling approach. Specifically, the study looked at perceived cultural level variables (e.g., history of …
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Pathways to (Prevent) Radicalization: How Uncertainty and Identity Complexity Shape Vulnerability
… introducing social identity complexity (Roccas & Brewer, 2002) as a potential buffer against radical pathways. The current research proposed that complex identity structures – defined as perceptions of having multiple, distinct ingroup memberships – might decrease susceptibility to radicalization …
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Body Image Self-Discrepancies and Compulsive Exercise: Exploring the Role of Approach and Avoidance Motivational Selves
<p>According to Brewer, Davis, Kalmbach, Kaptein, Katzman and Kirsch (1997), problematic exercise occurs in approximately 80% of anorexia nervosa patients and 55% of bulimia nervosa patients. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of unhealthy exercise is necessary for its assessment as well as eating …
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The construction of knowledge amongst expert golf coaches from Europe, working at elite level
… expertise necessary for effectual practice” (Brewer & Jones, 2002, p.139). It has been proposed that to be expert in any domain requires extensive deliberate practice (Ericsson & Charness, 1994; Schempp et al., 2006b). Within the field of expertise, and specifically golf coaching, little is …
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Motivating science learning
… the shape of the Earth interview (Vosniadou & Brewer, 1992) to assess their conceptual change. Students who experienced CR had longer reading times and more conceptual change but lower self-assessed depth of processing. Those students who had an announcement had increased comprehension but no …
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