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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Gifford"”.
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Gifford Pinchot's Photographic Aesthetic
Gifford Pinchot’s aesthetic developed in childhood and combined the pictorial considerations of the Hudson River School with the use philosophy of early landscape architecture and the format of early western survey photographers. Pinchot and photography came of age during the American industrial …
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Gifford Pinchot's Photographic Aesthetic
Gifford Pinchot’s aesthetic developed in childhood and combined the pictorial considerations of the Hudson River School with the use philosophy of early landscape architecture and the format of early western survey photographers. Pinchot and photography came of age during the American industrial …
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The Effect of Cognitive Load on Illusory Correlation
… view of illusory correlation (Hamilton & GifFord, 1976); however, if levels of illusory correlation show a curvilinear relationship, this relationship would provide support for the differentiated meaning view (Haslam, McGarty, & Brown, 1996). Cognitive load was manipulated by having …
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Lightning in a Bottle: A History of the Syracuse Writing Program, 1986-1996
… directed by Louise Wetherbee Phelps and Collin Gifford Brooke. This historical study of the Syracuse Writing Program's administrative structures for contingent faculty focuses on professional development and evaluation systems for the Writing Program's part-time writing instructors. The study …
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The psychology of anterior cruciate ligament injury rehabilitation amongst professional rugby union players
… as causing stress (Anshel, 2001; Noblet & Gifford, 2002). Particularly within rugby union where injury has been reported as one of the top four stressors experienced by elite adolescent players (Nicholls & Polman, 2007), and the most frequent stressor by adult professional players (Nicholls …
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Sixteenth-century dialogic discourse: an exploration of Protestant selfhood in the writings of Edmund Spenser and his contemporaries
… his writings. Reading prose dialogues by George Gifford, Gervase Babington, and John Udall alongside Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender and The Faerie Queene Books I and II, this thesis reveals how the dialogue form was uniquely equipped to address spiritual tensions at the heart of late …
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Evaluating Repeat Photography in Documenting Natural and Cultural Landscape Changes: a Changing Crown of the Continent Ecosystem between 1899 and 2010
… of the first United States Forest Service Chief, Gifford Pinchot. This study investigates the role of photography in shaping the landscape of the West by taking a contemporary look at the study area through the repeat photographic survey conducted.
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Evaluating Repeat Photography in Documenting Natural and Cultural Landscape Changes: a Changing Crown of the Continent Ecosystem between 1899 and 2010
… of the first United States Forest Service Chief, Gifford Pinchot. This study investigates the role of photography in shaping the landscape of the West by taking a contemporary look at the study area through the repeat photographic survey conducted.
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Skapandi kennileiti á Íslandi: Rannsókn á menningarlegu gildi listrænna inngripa í almenningsrýmum
… og staðartengsl (Low & Altman, 1992; Scannell & Gifford, 2010). Gögnum var safnað með rafrænni spurningakönnun og greind með lýsandi tölfræði og þemagreiningu. Sjónum er beint að því hvernig íbúar skynja menningarlegt gildi skapandi kennileita í sínu nærumhverfi. Helstu niðurstöður sýna að …
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“Paper Bullets of the Brain”: Satire, Dueling and the Rise of the Gentleman Author
… literary figures such as Samuel Johnson, William Gifford, Thomas Moore, and Lord Byron were involved in literary disputes featuring duels or the threat of physical violence, a pattern indicating a connection between authorship and dueling. This study explicitly examines this connection, …
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Beyond Invention: How Hackers Challenge Memory & Disrupt Delivery
… and Narrating. Drawing on the work of Collin Gifford Brooke and Mary Carruthers, among others, the dissertation examines how texts printed in 2600 present memory not as an inert technology but rather as a practice and a pedagogy—a response to the increasing commercialization of technology. The …
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Bridging the divide : incorporating local ecological knowledge into U.S. natural resource management
… control the natural world will, in the words of Gifford Pinchot, the Nation's first head of the U.S. Forest Service, "support the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men." However, over the past two decades, a growing number of critics have challenged the technocratic …
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James Barke: Politics, Cinema and Writing Scottish Urban Modernity
… field in Scottish Literature edited by Douglas Gifford, Major Operation is identified as one of the Scottish novels 'extending its perspective of ironic social realism to the city' and a novel that 'had no time for non-political and non-economic considerations.' This thesis contends that this is …
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THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD (RCCG), NIGERIA. LOCAL IDENTITIES AND GLOBAL PROCESSES IN AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM
… have side-stepped Africa (Brouwer et al. 1996; Gifford 1998; 2001; Cooper 2001). It builds on, and follows the scholarly tradition of Peel (1968; 2000); Hackett (1987; 1989); Marshall-Fratani (1998). These scholars have worked on the Nigerian religious sphere by combining History of Religions …
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The effects of technology-based graphic organizers to teach reading comprehension skills of students with learning disabilities
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of graphic organizers paired with technology on reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities in grade 8 (n = 8). The data was conducted for a total of 15 weeks including baseline, training, and intervention phases. Students were …
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A Study of the Relationships and Differences Between Students' Scores on Two Individually Administered Reading Tests (Ari and Drs)
In this study, the investigator identified two questions: (1) what relationships and differences exist on students' scores of two comparable diagnostic reading tests and (2) what error count variables may be designated as significant between the two instruments. The subjects were thirty students …
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A Preliminary Analysis of how a Software Organization’s Maturity and Size Affect its Intellectual Property Portfolio
<p>Intellectual property, commonly known as IP, is complex. The four main types of software IP, which is what this thesis will focus on, are patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyright. Patents, trade secrets, and copyrights were all studied by this thesis. Software IP is unique in that it …
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Building Better Bridges: Toward More Effective Strategies for Promoting Teacher Diversity in California Secondary Social Science Classrooms at the Pre-Service Level
<p>The State of California’s teaching corps does not reflect nearly the same level of cultural diversity, as does the student body that it serves. Multiple sources of evidence suggest that the quality and outcomes of the learning experience are compromised for many of the students enrolled in …
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