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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"McKinley"”.
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The McKinley administration and Cuban independence (March, 1897-April, 1898)
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of History, 1954
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Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and uranium geology of Francis Mesa area, McKinley County, New Mexico
Includes bibliographical references.
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The partisan politics that led to the Spanish-American War
… affairs. After the election of William McKinley the Cuban rebellion became a partisan issue. McKinley, who was also opposed to American intervention in Cuba, persuaded his fellow Republican leaders to abandon their hostile stance on Spain. Democrats and Populists, on the other hand, …
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Diverse women aging in America: Attitudes toward menopause and self-objectification in midlife and beyond
… menopause, and body image may be related (Bloch; McKinley & Lyon, 2008), but more research is needed to further understanding in this area. The current investigation assessed group differences in experiences of menopause and body image at midlife. Women from a community sample (n = 397) completed …
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Layoff Characteristics and Layoff Agents' Cognitions: An Experimental Study
… behaviors (Margolis & Molinsky, 2008; Parker & McKinley, 2008; Sronce & McKinley, 2006). This study builds upon Festinger's (1957) cognitive dissonance theory that individuals experiencing cognitive dissonance have motivation to adopt dissonance reduction strategies, such as changing their …
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Nominations to the Supreme Court, 1893-1908
… of Grover Cleveland and those of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, was selected with a purpose. The nominations during the first sixty years of the Court's existence have already been thoroughly investigated and set forth by Floyd E. McCaffree in his doctoral dissertation undertaken …
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The Visible Dead: A New Approach to the Study of Late Iron Age Mortuary Practice in South-Eastern Britain
… (Fitzpatrick 1997; Pearce 1997a; 1997b; 1999; McKinley 2000).
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication in the Intensive Care Unit
… including tracheostomy, mechanical ventilation (McKinley, Pooke, & White, 2010) and intubation (Radtke, Bauman, Garrett, & Happ, 2011). Being nonverbal in the ICU may lead to poorer health outcomes (Patak, Wilson-Stronks, & Costello, 2009). AAC systems may improve outcomes by allowing patients to …
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AN EXPLORATION OF SKIN TONE RELATED BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES AMONG ASIAN INDIAN WOMEN IN URBAN INDIA
… Objectification Body Consciousness Scale (OBCS, McKinley & Hyde, 1996); the Skin Color Satisfaction Scale (SCSS, Bond & Cash, 1992); Internalization subscale from the Sociocultural Attitudes towards Appearance Questionnaire -3 (SATAQ-3, Thompson, van den Berg, Gurada, & Heinberg, 2004), and a …
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Failure and deformation of rocks in compression for underground design
… and failure of coal obtained from the McKinley Mine and the Twenty Mile Coal Mine were studied by observing the distributions of length, orientation, and spacing of the pre-existing as well as stress-induced cracks. Different types of laboratory tests were employed to observe the …
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Organizational Structure and the Creative Process
… not be effectively reversible (Appelbaum, 1999; McKinley, 1993). Furthermore, reductions in structural complexity and size may not actually enhance organizational creativity (Damanpour, 1995). This study uses a stochastic model to investigate possible causes for this apparent disconnect between …
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Connectionist Modelling of Category Learning
… attention processes (Nosofsky, Gluck, Palmeri, McKinley, & Glauthier, 1994). This thesis focuses on developing configural-cue network models which incorporate these processes. Informed by an information-theoretic approach to modelling the implementation of selective attention using a …
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Culturally Responsive Teaching: An Investigation of Effective Practices for African American Learners
… used in this study were created by Dr. Johnnie McKinley, Professor in Educational Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Furthermore, this study sought to deepen the understandings about the educational challenges of African American students as well as offer insights to teachers …
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The essence of participation training : a phenomenological examination of graduate student experiences
Since Bergevin and McKinley (1966) first wrote about Participation Training as a way to create collaboration among learners, more than 40 years of research has explored, separated, and defined various types of group work and group learning. Themes that emerged in the study were: Participation …
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Impact of violence exposure on urban middle school students
… students of diverse ethnic backgrounds from McKinley Middle School, located in Flint, Michigan. Students were fairly evenly divided between genders (n(boys)=98, n(girls)=112, n(unreported)=12). The independent variable was exposure to violence, as assessed by the Children's Report of Exposure …
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Intrapersonal Grief as a Clinical Entity Distinct from Depression: Does It Exist Among a Medically Ill Parkinson's Disease Population?
… of the Loss Inventory (Niemeier, Kennedy, McKinley, & Cifu, 2004), a newly-developed measure used to assess intrapersonal grief, (2) explore the relationship between grief and depression, and their distinction from one another, using principal components analysis among their respective …
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Resilience, professional quality of life and coping mechanisms in doctors and medical students
Resilience is both difficult to define and to conceptualise. Although no universal definition exists, conceptually the view that it is the ability to adapt well in the face of adversity or significant stress, and return to normal function or even stronger afterwards, would be widely accepted. …
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Large deformation structural performance of double skin composite construction using British Steel's 'Bi-Steel'
Double skin composite construction consists of two relatively thin steel plates with the space between filled with, usually, normal weight concrete. The transfer of shear between the steel and concrete is possible through the use of steel shear connectors that are welded to the steel plates. A …
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Child care by choice or by default? : examining the experiences of unregulated home-based child care for women in paid work and training
This thesis aims to uncover the dynamics, causes and outcomes of women's reliance on unregulated home-based child care in Ontario, Canada, and the implications ofthis form of care for women's equality. Drawing on a longitudinal qualitative study, I examine the diverse experience of 14 women using …
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