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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Grand Rapids"”.
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Saints of Grand Rapids
These stories examine the lives of working class people in light of the current economic and social climate. They address and attempt to empathize with the despair and disillusionment many working class Americans express in response to their economic and social realities, and the stories attempt to …
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Hydrogeology at a Hydroelectric Installation on Paleozoic Dolomites at Grand Rapids, Manitoba
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T20:34:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6500820.pdf: 9633048 bytes, checksum: bc4bb4e30068a5ba68ccbee839a2b2b8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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The evolution of Catholic schools in the diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan: A case study
… of Catholic schools in the Diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan. The purpose of this study was to understand how the Catholic schools evolved over time.</p> <p>Four eras between 1833 and 2005 were investigated and described. Each era corresponds with changes to the physical size of the …
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Depositional Architecture of Confined Meander Belt Deposits, Lower Cretaceous Grand Rapids Formation, east-central Alberta
The Cretaceous Grand Rapids Formation in east-central Alberta is comprised ofprograding deltaic to marginal marine deposits incised by fluvial to marine-influenced fluvial bodies at several stratigraphic levels. Facies mapping and a high-resolution allostratigraphic framework are used to map the 3D …
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Selected Variables Related to the Knowledge of, Attitude Towards, and Utilization of Bilingual Education Services by Spanish American Parents in Two Michigan Cities
… (kindergarten to twelfth grade) in the cities of Grand Rapids and Holland. A sample of 205 was selected from Grand Rapids and 164 from Holland by a simple-random method. Data were collected from 204 and 156 from each respective city.</p> <p>Results. In Grand Rapids, the knowledge of …
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Indigenous art in urban renewal: The emergence and development of artistic communities in midwestern post-industrial cities
… cities: Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Through intensive site visits to these Midwestern cities conducted over a six-month period in 2011 as well as interviews with artists, community leaders, and urban planners with expertise in the …
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Beliefs about parenting and how it affects a child's education
… within Kent County, the majority of whom live in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The null hypothesis states: Environmental and cultural beliefs do not affect generational parenting beliefs or risk factors within the Kent County and Grand Rapids area. Cultural factors and four areas of the mothers’ lives …
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It's In Minnesota's Nature: An Exploration Into Building Social Capital Through Place Branding
… identity. A case study was conducted in Grand Rapids, Minnesota where 30 residents were interviewed from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. Through the lens of the seven community capitals, discussed in Flora and Flora (2009), interview transcriptions were analyzed and five stages in the …
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Variables That Discriminate Between Persisting and Nonpersisting, First-Year Undergraduate Students in an Open-Admissions, Multicampus, Commuter College System
… campuses: South Bend and Merrillville, Indiana; Grand Rapids, Alma, and Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Davenport College New Student Survey and the Hines College Student Persistence Inventory, which were developed for this study, were group administered during several sittings at the various campuses …
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Apostles for Capitalism: Amway, Movement Conservatism, and the Remaking of the American Economy, 1959-2009
… four decades, underscoring the importance of Grand Rapids to the conservative movement.</p>
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KINETICS, REGULATION AND PURIFICATION OF L-PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA-LYASE FROM GERMINATING LETTUCE SEEDS (PHENYLPROPANOIDS, ENZYME, ALPHA-AMINOXY - BETA-PHENYLPROPIONIC ACID)
… in germinating lettuce (Lactuca sativa cv. Grand Rapids) seeds was investigated. The Km of the enzyme was determined to be 4.2 x 10('-5) M. PAL in lettuce seeds did not show tyrosine ammonia-lyase activity. The nature of inhibition of PAL by various substrate analogues and phenylpropanoid …
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Manipulation of ascorbic acid levels in Arabidopsis thaliana
… It was shown that transforming lettuce (cv. Grand Rapids and Black Seeded Simpson) and tobacco (cv. Xanthi) with the terminal enzyme in the animal biosynthetic pathway (GLO; L-gulono-gamma-lactone oxidase) increases the ascorbic acid content between 4 and 7 fold. It was also shown through …