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Showing 1 to 20 of 397 for “"Courtney"”.
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A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE COURTNEY-ANDERSON CEMETERY
… cemetery is located on land once owned by the Courtney and Anderson families, who farmed the area until it was taken under eminent domain by the United States government in 1942. The purpose of this thesis is to present three osteobiographies created from human remains and material culture …
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Characterization of biotic and sodic lawns of the Kruger National Park using the framework of the positive feedback loop / Courtney Moxley
The classical grazing lawn model is an intensely-grazed patch composed of short-statured, grazing-tolerant grass species. The formation and maintenance of these communities is controlled by positive feedbacks between grazers and the high-quality resource forage that the component grass species …
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The rape of Mary Raymond : a radical view of rape in Mary Hays's The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice
… first and second novels, The Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) and The Victim of Prejudice (1799) in order to claim a reworking of political and gender constructions of women that underwrite rape narratives produced in the Long Eighteenth Century. To discuss ways in which Hays's novels challenge …
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Separation of phosphorus uptake and carbohydrate storage for intensive algal treatment processes
The student, Courtney Ackerman, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-11 at 13:59.
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Evaluating Trauma-Informed Educational Practices With Trauma-Exposed, Female Students
… their academic success (Burley & Halpern, 2001; Courtney et al., 2001; Courtney, Terao & Bost, 2004; Pecora et al., 2005). For court-involved students, many of whom come from racial/ethnic minority backgrounds (Brandt, 2006; Lawrence & Hesse, 2010; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, …
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Literary Praxis and Pedagogic Philosophy in British Educative Fiction after Rousseau
… Belinda (1801), Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1798), and Godwin’s Fleetwood (1805), this thesis examines how Rousseau’s educational model was adapted towards the end of the 1790s as a philosophy of literary reception that was grounded in active, practical experimentation and literary …
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Refining the multi-field effects of Higgs inflation
… of the evolution of field perturbations by Courtney Peterson and Max Tegmark [6], the results suggest that the turn rate of the fields' combined velocity through field space has been sufficiently small since Hubble crossing that it may be excluded as a source of the amplification of …
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This Book Will Destroy You: A Critical Comparative Analysis of YA Heroines
… Hunger Games) – and compares them to YA author Courtney Summer’s protagonists, Parker (Cracked Up to Be), and Sadie (Sadie). This work challenges the makings of a YA protagonist and explores the representation of an “unlikeable” female character in order to provoke a broader understanding of …
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Models of Claim, Resistance, and Activism in the Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, and Frances Burney
… The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Francis Burney’s The Wanderer. By tracking the frequency of “claim” and its collocates through corpora, this thesis explicates each author’s distinct construction of the term and the ways in which it is used to explore the conditions …
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The meaning of murder: newspaper framing of hate crimes against lesbians.
… of Talana Quay Kreeger and the 2010 murder of Courtney Elizabeth Bright are analyzed in order to illustrate the divergence between these crimes based on location and time. Although lesbians have been identified in both government statistics and previous research as being less likely to …
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Understanding the impact of school inspection: An analysis of how school leaders in Wales interpret and respond to inspection outcomes
… in earlier studies (Ball, 2003; Perryman, 2009; Courtney, 2016; Page, 2017), relates to the way in which school leaders slavishly follow inspection criteria to such an extent that their behaviour and practice is driven almost entirely by the inspection process. New evidence obtained through this …
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The Operations and Activities of Better Business Bureaus with Special Emphasis on North Dakota
… G. Anderson, approved by Oswald M. Hager and Courtney F. Schley as members of the examining committee, of which Dr. Anderson was chairman.</p><p>This thesis describes the operations and activities of the Better Business Bureaus. Information was largely compiled from the bulletins and …
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What We Wish We Knew: Foster Alumni Reflect on Lessons Learned in College
… Foundation, 2014; Casey Family Programs, 2010; Courtney et al., 2011; Pecora et al., 2003; Sarubbi, Parker, & Sponsler, 2016; Wolanin, 2005). This purpose of this qualitative study was to gain an understanding of how former foster youth navigate college barriers so they can continue to persist …
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A study of the experience of dramatic performance for drama students
… were interviewed. Drawing on research by Courtney on the importance of drama for cognitive and aesthetic learning and the writing of Carr and Miller on the importance of the spiritual in education, this study describes the experience of dramatic performance for eight senior secondary …
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A Dialectical Methodology For Decision Support Systems Design
… aesthetic factors (Mitroff and Linstone, 1993; Courtney, 2001). Decision environments such as these are decidedly "wicked" (Rittel and Webber, 1973). Designing decision support systems in such environments where there is a high level of interconnectedness, issues are overlapping and a …
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USING ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING THEORY AS A MEANS OF MOBILISING KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES IN THE CONTROL OF INFECTION
… the value of other learning theories (Courtney 1998). This study is based upon an investigation of the utility of situated learning within clinical infection control practice. The situated learning is based upon a combination of underpinning learning theories including community of …
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Performative Possibilities in the Development of Protagonistic Agency Among Graduate Students in China
… While Dorothy Heathcote, Gavin Bolton, Richard Courtney and others have helped to legitimize the fecund role that drama plays in learning, there has, to date, been a dearth of studies utilizing interdisciplinary approaches such as playbuilding (a participatory arts-based research methodology) in …
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A study of English-language sacred solo literature by selected twentieth-century composers
… programming: Leo Sowerby, Edwin Childs, Craig Courtney, Mark Hayes, and Eric Thiman. Arrangers of African-American spirituals are represented by two composers whose reputations rest primarily on their settings of African-American or Negro spirituals: Harry T. Burleigh and John Carter.
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The Negative Halo Effect of Oppositional Defiant Behaviors on Teacher Ratings of ADHD: Impact of Child Gender
… genders: teacher-based rating bias. Abikoff, Courtney and Pelham (1993) showed elementary teachers two tapes of a male child in a fourth grade classroom, then had the teachers complete ADHD and ODD rating scales. One tape depicted a normal child; another depicted a child exhibiting either ADHD …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) and Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) demonstrate the futility of educating women, given Britain's law of coverture; they expose the impracticality of ideal women presented in Jean Jacques Rousseau's Émile (1762) and James …
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