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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Dayton"”.
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Amos Cooper Dayton: A Critical Biography
Scanned copy of Taulman's dissertation as part of our digitization on demand service.
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A Feasibility Study of District Reorganization for Dayton, Prescott, and Waitsburg
… reorganization for the school districts of Dayton, Waitsburg, and Prescott, Washington; (2) determine the current existing situations of the school districts regarding size and educational offerings; (3) appraise the educational benefits to be gained by reorganization; (4) examine the …
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Is the Dayton Agreement a model for long-term peace? A problematic case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
… reforms within the constraints of the Dayton Peace Agreement has proved mission impossible and improbable. A major way of resolving this type of problem in the post conflict societies is to perfect the peace treaties ending the conflict. It is important to end violence and humanitarian …
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A Defining Moment for Dayton: The Scopes Trial as an Act in the Theater of the Modern
"Civic leaders in Dayton, Tennessee, played an active role in having John Scopes stand trial for breaking Tennessee's anti-evolution ordinance. This dissertation focuses on their efforts to reject the dichotomy between a modern, forward-looking science and a backward, fundamentalist Christianity. …
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The importance of time during Peace Negotiations: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Dayton Peace Accords
<p>Time is a key component of the mediation process. The amount of time that goes into the process of peace negotiations is just as important as the agreement itself. A successful peace agreement can only be achieved when it is not being rushed. If the implementation of a peace agreement is being …
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Reclaiming the Daylight Factory: The Significance of Versatility in the Preservation of Early Twentieth Century Concrete Frame Industrial Buildings in Dayton, Ohio
… examine three representative case studies in Dayton, Ohio to explore the particular influence of the daylight factory in a particular historic context. The thesis concludes by determining that the most historically significant element of a daylight factory is the versatile industrial space …
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Political ecologies of encounter: mapping enclosures and disruptions in food access
… I look specifically at food access projects in Dayton, Ohio, a city I have personal connections to. In this study, I forefront the concepts of relationality, co-creation, ownership, economic (dis)investment, soil systems, and regeneration as they emerge from my fieldwork on food access in …
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The Conduct of Diplomacy in the 1990S: the War in Bosnia-Hercegovina
… outcome of the conflict, the durability of the Dayton peace accord, and U.S. policy over the matter. The history of the former Yugoslavia pertinent to the break-up of the country and the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina, as well as an overview of the diplomatic initiatives taken are reviewed for this …
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Analysis of Financial Transmission Rights Obligations and Hourly Congestion Prices in PJM Markets
… December 31st, 2018 between PJM Western and AEP Dayton hubs and concluded that there are positive net profits in FTR obligation contracts if someone were to buy and hold the contracts until they were actualized. We applied Schwartz’s one-factor log-model to changes in congestion prices, but our …
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Utilizing Facebook to Articulate Self and Sustain Community: Experiences of Undergraduate Students on a Midwestern Campus
… of undergraduate students at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. The primary question guiding this research is: How do college students use Facebook to fulfill social needs in the creation and maintenance of community while attending college? The methodology used in this qualitative study …
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The structure of experimental clastic-substrate marine communities
… dependent on tidal level.</p><p>Paine (1969) and Dayton (1972) have demonstrated that the structure of some communities is largely determined by the effects of foundation, or keystone, species. It is suggested that the structure of classic-substrate communities may be determined similarly.
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A dictionary of acquisition and contracting terms.
… of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. Published definitions of twenty five terms presently used in Government contracting were examined and a synthesized definition was developed for each term. The synthesized definitions were then scrutinized by a selected group of …
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Thermal and fatigue testing of fiber reinforced polymer tie connectors used in concrete sandwich walls
… polymer (FRP) tie connector produced by Dayton/Richmond, a brand of Dayton Superior. The scope of this program included a matrix of three full-scale 40'-0'' wall panels subjected to a 100°F temperature differential, and a matrix of six elemental specimens, three with the ties oriented in …
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Exploring Best Practices in Developmental Mathematics
… mathematics at an urban community college in Dayton, Ohio. Guiding the study were the following research questions: What are the best practices utilized by a group of developmental mathematics instructors at an urban community college? How do these instructors employ such practices to enhance …
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Vertical zonation of three species of California limpets (Acmaeidae) as a function of predation
… below by predation or competition (Connell 1970; Dayton 1971; Vermeij 1972; Paine 1974; Bertness 1977). The purpose of the present study was to investigate effects of the predators Pisaster ochraceus, Cancer antennarius and Pachygrapsus crassipes on the distributions of the three acmaeid limpet …
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Six Days of Twenty-Four Hours: the Scopes Trial, Antievolutionism, and the Last Crusade of William Jennings Bryan
… location in the rural East Tennessee town of Dayton is further analyzed in order to present a local religious and cultural history of its origins, as well as its immediate and long-term effects on Tennessee and the entire region of the South.
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Development and application of techniques for evaluating the success of local groundwater protection programs
… and one rural. The urban program, developed in Dayton, Ohio, was found to be a comprehensive and effectively implemented program; the rural program, developed in Clarke County, Virginia, was found to be a comprehensive program, but lacked full implementation. The experience gained in the case …
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Public perception and response to extreme heat events
… how well people in Phoenix, Philadelphia, and Dayton responded to extreme heat alerts by changing their behavior.
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The synecology of dense assemblages of the deposit-feeding Polychaete, Axiothella rubrocincta (Maldanidae)
… rocky intertidal (ie Connell 1961, Paine 1966,, Dayton 1971) and terrestrial (i.e~ Harper 1969, Pianka 1973, Cody 1974) communities. In contrast, such interactions have not been clearly demonstrated as determinants of the distribution and abundance of marine intertidal soft-substrate organisms …
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