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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Ellington"”.
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Training and Equipping Parents of Youth in the Student Ministry at First Baptist Church, Ellington, Missouri, to Disciple Their Children at Home
… IN THE STUDENT MINISTRY AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, ELLINGTON, MISSOURI, TO DISCIPLE THEIR CHILDREN AT HOME Daniel James Kitinoja, D.Ed.Min. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017 Faculty Supervisor: Anthony W. Foster Chapter 1 argued that based on the needs of the community it was necessary …
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Civic Sounds; A Music Conservatory for D.C
"If it sounds good, it is good." - Duke Ellington "Like music, a work acquires its value only through the love it manifests." - Eileen Gray "...but in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings." - R.W. Emerson
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The Development of an Emergency Response Plan for Medical Contingencies during Commercial Spaceflight at the Houston Spaceport
… Houston Spaceport, a new spaceport located at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas, in developing a medical response plan for contingency scenarios during its mission operations. With appropriate infrastructure development, the Houston Spaceport could become a leader in the commercial spaceflight …
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Me, Myself, and Mingus
… of Mingus' two primary musical influences, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, also occurs. The paper's second half consists of an analysis of Paul Thomas Musser's arrangements and works for quartet (""Red Tango"") and sextet (""10--500 B.C."" and ""Nardis""). Connections to Mingus' compositional …
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Animate Structures: The Compositions and Improvisations of the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
… for the group which draws on styles from Duke Ellington to John Cage and uses various forms of compositional and notational techniques to explore the different improvisatory possibilities that they afford, thus blurring the distinction between improvisation and composition both in name and in …
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It's All Been Done
… consonance. I have always admired how Duke Ellington and Maria Schneider filled their ensembles with individuals that have developed an idiosyncratic sound and language on their respective instruments. With that aesthetic in mind, It’s All Been Done was composed for a specific group of …
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A comparison of the effects of non-normal distributions on tests of equivalence
<p>Statistical theory and its application provide the foundation to modern systematic inquiry in the behavioral, physical and social sciences disciplines (Fisher, 1958; Wilcox, 1996). It provides the tools for scholars and researchers to operationalize constructs, describe populations, and measure …
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Exploring the Dimensionality of Performance in the Army Special Forces
The purpose of this research was to explore the dimensionality of performance in the Army Special Forces (SF) using three separate data sources. A job analysis of the SF revealed 15 categories of performance common to all SF soldiers, in addition to 47 human attributes necessary to perform the …
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Enhanced Frequency-Selective N-Path Filters and Receivers.
North Carolina State University Theses Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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Properties of a high-current discharge in alkali-metal-seeded rare gases.
This thesis is an account of a detailed investigation of the properties of a recently-discovered gas discharge - a discharge that operates at a few volts or tens of volts, and which carries a current of the order of amps through a mixture consisting of a hot, atmospheric-pressure rare gas (the …
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The Council of the Indies and Religion in the Spanish New World
<p>The Council of the Indies was responsible for the governing of the Spanish Empire, including issues of religion. During the reign of Philip II, the Council gained independence from the Council of Castile and was able to take more control of the Spanish territories. In response to outside …
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The Relationship Between Decayed, Missing, and Filled Teeth (DMFT) and Microbial Screening in the Oral Cavity
<p>The objective was to determine if a correlation exists between <em>Streptococcus mutans</em> and DMFT in the oral cavity. This study examined the feasibility of microbial screenings as an additional caries predictor tool. The sample included 108 participants (ages 18-25) in low, moderate, and …
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Effects of social context on endocrine function and Zif268 expression in response to an acute stressor in adolescent and adult rats
There is a paucity of studies comparing social buffering in adolescents and adults, despite their marked differences in social behaviour. I investigated whether greater effects of social buffering on plasma corticosterone concentrations and expression of Zif268 in neural regions after an acute …
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The Effects of a Purified B-Group Soyasaponin Fraction on the Proliferation, Cell Cycle Progression and Induction of Macroautophagy in Hct-15 Human Colon Adenocarcinoma Cells
Colon carcinoma is the second largest cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States. Diet has been recognized as an important modifier of colon cancer development for decades. Specifically, dietary patterns that include legumes, such as soybeans, may reduce colon cancer progression. High …
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Differential perceptions of prejudice: an analysis of social attribution
Studies have found disparate perceptions of race relations and discrimination between black and Asian students at institutions of higher education. A linkage is made between perceptions of race relations and attributions of prejudice as a motivation. Attribution theory is developed as a foundation …
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Symptoms of Depression, Symptoms of Anxiety, and Motivation for Treatment as Predictors of Post-Substance Abuse Treatment Support Group Attendance: A Path Analysis
In 2007, an estimated 22.3 million people in the United States, aged 12 or older, were classified as meeting the criteria for either substance dependence or abuse. Therapists have long sought to discover the most effective way to address these disorders in therapy; though short-term gains are often …
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The optimization of General Motors' warranty system by reducing mean time to discover failure
Warranty is an important part of many organizations. Warranty costs take money directly away from corporations' bottom line. General Motors Corporations warranty liability costs its shareholders upwards of billion dollars annually. General Motors currently uses RedX, a systematic design of …
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The Independent Turn in Soviet-Era Russian Poetry: How Dmitry Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman and Evgeny Rein Became the 'Avvakumites' of Leningrad
… here include Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Eartha Kitt, Gerry Mulligan, Valery Mysovsky, Charlie Parker, Nonna Sukhanova. In Chapter 4 I discuss how Anna Akhmatova became the culminating shaping force on the young Avvakumites. Akhmatova was a living bridge to the …
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Jazz and the cultural transformation of America in the 1920s
In the early twentieth century jazz was a regionally based, racially defined dance music that featured solo and collective improvisation. Originating in New Orleans, jazz soon spread throughout the country as musicians left the South for better opportunities-both economic and social-elsewhere in …
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Rock Becomes Jazz: Interpretations of Popular Music by Improvising Artists in the 1960s
The advent of rock and roll changed the jazz world’s relationship to itself and its musical public. The popularity of jazz, in decline since the rise of bebop in the mid-1940s, was further eroded by rock and roll’s rise to prominence in the mid-1950s. By the mid-1960s, the jazz world seemed to be …