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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Lott"”.
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Cornelius P. Lott and his Contribution to the Temporal Salvation of the Latter-day Saint Pioneers Through the Care of Livestock
… in the Mormon exodus of 1846 and Cornelius P. Lott's contribution in the care of cattle and sheep during that time period. At Winter Quarters, the Church and its members depended in large measure for their survival upon the sizeable cattle herds they had acquired prior to their exodus from …
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Kongo to Kings County
… under the garret room floor in the attic of the Lott Farmstead is an extension of Kongo-descended cultural practices. This connection is shown by the presence of several artifacts that taken together, invoke a Kongo Cosmogram called the diKenga, alongside artifacts arranged in what is believed to …
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The Voodoo Gospel and The Christian Gospel
… to the Republic of Haiti as a missionary for the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, U.S.A., I found Voodoo to be far more prevalent there than I had been led to believe, and I was very ill-prepared to cope with it in the rural area where I was assigned to work. I knew also that after …
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"""Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"": The Citizen-Soldier and the Construction of Identity in Northern Civil War Literature"
… of blackface minstrelsy as described by Eric Lott. In the desire to recover a sense of autonomy, soldier-authors reconceived minorities, particularly African-Americans, women, and Irish immigrants, from Others into symbols of a pre-industrial order characterized by spontaneity and an …
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Exploring the associations between racial identity attitudes and social justice outcomes in African American college students: a mixed methods investigation
… from the extant literature (Watts, 1992; Lott, 2008). Three broad thematic categories emerged related to students’ understanding of their Blackness and engagement with racial injustice: Environment and early awareness of race and injustice, Defining Blackness, and Means to dismantling …
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The Effect Of Regulation and Policy Changes On Health and Safety Outcomes: Three Essays In Crime Economics
… by arrest, seeking to replicate and extend Lott (2000) and McCrary (2007). Using a series of modern econometric strategies, including difference-in-differences decomposition and generalized synthetic controls, we do not find a significant effect of court-imposed affirmative action plans on …
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Primary Systems and Voter Turnout: Measuring the Institutional Effect of Primary Type on Voter Turnout
Using the 1990, 1994 and 1998 Congressional mid-term elections, this study looks at whether the type of primary system in a person's state has an effect on whether or not that person will vote in the general election. The five types of primary systems (closed, semi-closed, semiopen, open and …
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The Impact of Involvement in Educational Politics on New Jersey Teachers' Job Satisfaction, Self-Efficacy, and Work Locus of Control: A Survey Research Study
<p>A paradigm shift has occurred for the field of education with a renewed focus on accountability and performance. This increase in accountability along with new mandates and regulations are factors that lead to low teacher retention, especially for young teachers with less than five academic …
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Factors influencing the space use of a nonhunted population of eastern wild turkeys
Wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) have been an economically and culturally important game species in North America for many decades. Recent declines in abundance and productivity in several populations of wild turkeys, have caused widespread concern among researchers and managers. After near …
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Magnetic X-ray Reflectivity
The scope of the thesis is to demonstrate the feasibility to examine magnetization profiles of thin films and multilayer systems via magnetic soft and hard x-ray reflectivity. The focus here is on 3d transition metals, which are used mainly for development of numerous noval magnetic devices, that …
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A political economy analysis of liquid fuel production incentives in South Africa
The purpose of this study is to analyse the development of South Africa's liquid fuels industry from 1930s to the present and the various ways in which the state has extended subsidies and other measures of support to liquid fuels producers. The nature and extent of government support to the South …
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The Mechanics of Regaining Balance in Pirouettes
<p>All forms of dance incorporate examples of the human body in motion or standing in an aesthetically appealing pose. While balancing in a static position, dancers make small adjustments to avoid toppling. Balancing when the body is rotating around a vertical axis with one supporting foot at the …
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Isolation And Characterization Of Human Ribosomal Protein Complementary-dnas
Ribosome biosynthesis serves as a model of organelle assembly and gene regulation in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In Escherichia coli the isolation and cloning of ribosomal RNA genes and ribosomal protein genes was a prerequisite to detailed investigations of expression of these genes. Research …
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Determination of the suitability of MT Gamsberg in Namibia for millimetre wave stronomy by measurements of the precipitable water vapour
Precipitable Water Vapour (PWV) is the amount of water vapour in the atmospheric column above a location equivalent to the amount of liquid precipitation that would result if all the water vapour in the column was condensed. Water vapour is the main source of opacity in the Earth’s atmosphere at …
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Perceptions of College Readiness and Social Capital of GED completers in entry-level college courses
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>Examining the efficacy of literacy improvement, general education development (GED) completion, and GED completers’ perceptions of college readiness and social capital was the purpose of this study. The participant sample (<em>n=321</em>), derived from the target …
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Food Habits of Yellow Perch in Eastern South Dakota Glacial Lakes
From May through August of 1990 or 1991 yellow perch Perea flavesoens were collected fron1 eastern South Dakota lakes with short-term sets of experimental gill nets. Yellow perch food habits were documented and related to population form and function characteristics. A wide range of yellow perch …
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‘Return on[boarding] investment’: Exploring volunteer onboarding experiences on newcomer behaviours and implications for volunteer board performance
Exploration of the onboarding experiences (OE) of newcomer volunteers in a volunteer leadership context is lacking in current volunteer management and governance research. Through a lens of socialization and self-efficacy principles, this study aims to address whether OE can be an interceding …
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