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Goodloe Harper Bell, Pioneer Seventh-day Adventist Christian Educator
… part in laying its foundations was Goodloe Harper Bell (1832-1899).</p> <p>Bell was a public school teacher in central Michigan from 1851 through 1866. He became a Seventh-day Adventist in 1867 and was subsequently invited to open a small private school in Battle Creek, Michigan. The success …
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Rate of Food Consumption of Acris Crepitans Blanchardi Harper in South-Central Iowa
… was not known for Acris crepitans blanchardi Harper, Blanchard's cricket frog, nor had the rate of food passage through the stomach of this species been calculated. This study determined these factors and calculated a yearly insect consumption figure for Acris in southcentral Iowa. Procedure. …
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Scouting for a Tomboy: Gender-Bending Behaviors in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
<p>In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch challenges gender stereotypes in her determination to remain a tomboy. Scout interacts with five parental characters (Atticus, Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, and Boo Radley), who offer models for Scout's behaviors. Though primarily …
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A Fighter To The End: The Remarkable Life and Career Of Laura Jane Harper
This study is an investigation of Dr. Laura Jane Harper's tenure, achievements, and contributions to Virginia Tech from 1949-1980. Throughout Virginia Tech's history, examples of leadership, scholarship, and service have been recorded about students, faculty, and administrators; however, female …
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Demographic and Genetic Consequences of Small Population Size in Remnant Populations of Arabis georgiana Harper (Georgia Rockcress)
… size in remnant populations of Arabis georgiana Harper (Georgia Rockcress). Specifically, 1 ) traits associated with phenological progression, fitness and reproductive success were compared between naturally occurring "native" plants and plants grown ex situ and subsequently restored to one of …
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Probing and preparing novel states of quantum degenerate rubidium atoms in optical lattices
… thesis describes a new scheme to realize the Harper Hamiltonian. The Harper Hamiltonian is a model system which effectively describes electrons in a solid immersed in a very high magnetic field. The effective magnetic field manifests itself as a position-dependent phase in the motion of the …
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Ultracold bosons in optical lattices for quantum measurement and simulation
… I first discuss our work in simulating the Harper-Hofstadter Hamiltonian, which describes charged particles in high magnetic fields, and has connections to topological physics. To simulate the charged particles, we use laser-assisted tunneling to add a complex phase to tunneling in the …
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The fox and the hedgehog: Liberal education at the University of Chicago
… two most influential presidents, William Rainey Harper (1891-1906) and Robert Maynard Hutchins (1929-1951).
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HIV/AIDS Prevention: Educating Future Generations
… Institute’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program at Harper High School in Chicago, Illinois. The researcher administered questionnaires to the students at Harper High School. The researcher analyzed this data using descriptive statistics to explain the research phenomena of implementing effective …
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An Experimental Investigation of the Differences in Subjective Pilot Workload across Simulated and Real Flight Conditions
… conditions. The results from the Modified Cooper-Harper and NASA-TLX did not show significance, however, the theoretical implications from the NASA-TLX subscales were of interest. As this is the first study comparing these two environments utilizing subjective workload measures, more research …
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Evaluation of workload estimation techniques in simulated piloting tasks emphasizing mediational activity
… included opinion measures (modified Cooper-Harper rating scale and multi-descriptor rating scale), spare mental capacity measures (time estimation and tapping regularity), primary task measures (mediational reaction time and control movements per unit time), and physiological measures (pulse …
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The effects of modification of a decision tree rating used for mental workload estimation in a communication task
… scales utilized in workload research the Cooper-Harper scale is the most popular. This decision tree rating scale and modifications of the scale have provided sensitive measurements by discriminating among various mental workload levels. This research is an investigation into the characteristics …
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A novel way to learn: black educational fiction from reconstruction to the Harlem renaissance
… education in the novels of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sutton Griggs, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Jessie Redmon Fauset, I reveal an underexplored genealogy of black educational thought from initial calls for educational access to more independent, ideological, and pragmatic modes embodied in the texts …
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Exploring Appreciative Advising as an Equity Approach for African American Students: A Grounded Theory Study of Academic Advisors at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs)
… INSTITUTIONS (PWIs)</p> <p>By</p> <p>Valerie J. Harper</p> <p>October 28, 2019</p> <p>Dissertation supervised by Professor Gretchen Givens Generett</p> <p>African American matriculation into postsecondary education continues to rise, but degree conferral remains low (Hoston, Graves, & …
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The Apologist Tradition: A Transitional Period in Southern Proslavery Thought, 1831-1845
… of social organization. Thomas R. Dew, William Harper, and James Henry Hammond each expressed a social philosophy in which slavery had a crucial role in preserving social order. They argued from the basis of social organicism, the idea that society should have an elite that controlled the …
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Don't Put Your Shoes on the Bed: A Moral Analysis of <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>.
<p>Harper Lee wrote a remarkable novel which provides a great deal of moral insight for its readers; through a use of history, moral instruction, and character development, Lee establishes a foundation for how people in an often intolerant world should live peacefully together. Moreover, she …
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Small Fires
… language. The novel is inspired primarily from Harper Lee's Bildungsroman, To Kill a Mockingbird. Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita provides further inspiration, inasmuch as the concept of exploring an illicit sexual relationship between an adult male and girl child is concerned, but Small Fires seeks …
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Social importance of recognizing the victimization for mothers of school shooters
… Klebold, Monique Lépine, Terri Roberts, Laurel Harper, and Parvinder Sandhu as secondary victims of school shooting homicides. With the application of Becker’s (1963) labelling theory, there is an opportunity to examine the potential ramifications these secondary victims suffer as the result of …
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An Investigation and Selective Assessment of Secondary School Reading Programs in Illinois
… vs. the San Francisco Unified School District (Harper and Killarr, 1977) have spawned an outburst of public criticism directed at the public schools. Reading instruction and students' reading abilities are at the center of the controversy. But a question crucial to understanding the situation …
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Evaluation of Pilot and Quadcopter Performance from Open Loop Mission Oriented Flight Testing
… from time and frequency domain analysis, Cooper-Harper rating scale is used by the pilots to rate the UAV based on ease of control. Along with time and frequency domain variables, Cooper-Harper rating is included as predictors in the modeling of evaluation of pilot and quadcopter performance. The …
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