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Political Independents of the Hoover Era: The Progressive Insurgents of The Senate
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Hoover bus : an input bus optimized for multiple real-time data streams
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Polyploidy in Brodiaea Elegans Hoover (LILIACEAE, SENS. LAT.) and the geographic distribution of the chromosome races
<p>This investigation of <em>Brodiaea elegans</em> was undertaken to determine if there were any previously undetected chromosome races within the species and to map their distribution. Chromosome races with 2<em>n</em> = 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, 42, and 48 are reported. The new races 2<em>n</em> = 40, …
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The Role of Herbert Hoover in the Formulation of the American Response to the Far Eastern Crisis of 1931-1932
… The problem concerns the extent to which Herbert Hoover formulated the American response to the Far Eastern Crisis of 1931-1932, since most historians credit Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson for the major contributions and dismiss Hoover as too preoccupied with the domestic financial crisis to …
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Economic Revolution From Within: Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt And The Emergence Of The National Industrial Recovery Act Of 1933
<p>ECONOMIC REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN: HERBERT HOOVER, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT OF 1933</p> <p>By</p> <p>Angella LaNette Smith</p> <p>August of 2015</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Faue</p> <p>Major: History</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of …
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Biology of the Rare Woodland Perennial Trillium Pusillum Micheaux (Liliaceae) in Southwest Missouri
… of each population-Barker, Heckmaster, and Hoover Woods-and measured light levels, vegetation cover and diversity, soil characteristics, seed dispersal, and flower-visitation rates at each site. Populations at Baker and Heckmaster were large (approximately 6500 and 14,900 total stems, …
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Early Leader Effects on the Process of Institutionalization Through Cultural Embedding: The Cases of William J. Donovan, Allen W. Dulles, and J. Edgar Hoover
… Donovan and Allen Dulles at CIA and J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI, provide evidence that these early leaders explicitly and implicitly used several of the cultural creation and embedding mechanisms identified by Schein to entrench their beliefs and predispositions into their organizations. These …
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Promoting Parental Involvement and Students Success in School: What Teachers Can Do
… with student success in school (Abel, 2012; Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler, 1997; Zhan, 2005). Despite the benefits of parent involvement (PI), a variety of factors limit and discourage parents from taking an active role in their child’s education. This analytic literature review examine 1) what …
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‘A gem in the water’: a contribution to contemporary Pentecostal theology on Baptism of the Holy Spirit from a study of Willis Hoover’s Chilean Methodist Pentecostalism
… defines and categorises the theology of Willis Hoover, with particular emphasis on his understanding of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and his theological transition from sanctification Methodism through an initial Azusa-style Pentecostalism to his eventual Methodist Pentecostal position. This …
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Big Men in the Big Black Valley: Small Scale Late Prehistoric Community Organization in Central Mississippi
… settlement system was characterized by the Old Hoover platform mound (22Ho502) and its outlying non-mound support population of homesteads, referred to as a two-tiered hierarchical settlement system.
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Educational equity for all : a qualitative case study exploring the perceptions of Hispanic parents regarding parental engagement at a rural Title I high school in Southwest Texas.
… education for all students (Epstein, 1995; Hoover‐Dempsey et al., 2005). Emphasizing parental involvement is necessary to reduce the achievement gap and support students from racially minoritized groups. This study investigated the perceptions of Hispanic parents and the factors that …
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“Professionals in a Soviet America” Federal Housing Policy, the Popular Front, and Architects in Los Angeles, 1919–1947
… model homes, and local events. Herbert Hoover, the then-Secretary of Commerce, served as the organization’s first president, operated it as the propaganda wing of the United States’ Commerce Department, and relied on it to rhetorically hitch “American values” to detached, single-family …
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Moonscape
… seventies, with flashbacks to the thirties when Hoover Dam was built. The thesis relies on first person narratives to incorporate three points of view; two feminine, one masculine. The inspiration for the novel comes from William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!, but the form and setting for the …
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Tara
… she had a definite impact on their lives. Jeff Hoover was teased by Tara in high school and wants revenge. Allan Washington, one of Tara's stoner friends from college, experiences troubles visited upon him by religious fanatics. Jeremy Harrison once asked Tara out on a date in high school, but …
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Creating the Role of Dabby Bryant in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good
… from the director of the production, David Hoover, also my major professor. I also had to use the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally as this is the text from which the Wertenbaker play is taken. The process also includes the journal kept during the rehearsal process and performance run …
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Alternative monetary regimes : are they operational?
… (1984), McCallum (1985), O' Driscoll ( 1987) and Hoover ( 1988), we are not aware of any systematic and coherent critical appraisal. The main motivation for this paper is that neither the originators nor the critics seem thus far to have provided satisfactory treatments of the 'operationality' of …
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Interpersonal control in dating relationships: how is it affected by trust in one's partner and adult attachment style?
… Measure of Emotional Abuse (Murphy & Hoover, 1999), Control Scale (Stets, 1993), Dyadic Satisfaction Scale (Spanier, 1976), Trust Scale (Rempel & Holmes, 1986), and Trust in Interpersonal Relationships (Larzelere & Huston, 1980). Results showed that high relationship satisfaction was …
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From Mission to Megacity: The Changing Concentration of the Los Angeles City-system
… within the region between 1769 and 2000. The Hoover Index of Population Concentration is used to determine the population concentration, and major shifts in the concentration are illuminated by the geography and historical events of the Los Angeles area. The main factors contributing to the …
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"WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING": THE FBI AND POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE, 1908-1941
… Under the close scrutiny of Director J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI publicly promoted its criminal investigation capabilities and highlighted dramatic episodes such as the Dillinger case. At the same time, however, the FBI unilaterally created a covert code of political crimes and conducted numerous …
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Distribuição espacial do emprego: uma análise para a indústria do Estado do Paraná no período de 1994 a 2012
… appears the municipalities of Paraná, the Hoover coefficient and coefficient of Specialization. In addition, the study also aimed to draw a profile of one of the industrial sectors, taking into account characteristics of the average size of establishments, age, education level, gender of …
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