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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Reese"”.
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The reduction of remediation in the Illinois college and career readiness pilot project act
… Readiness Pilot Project model (Taylor, Linick, Reese, Baber & Bragg, 2012). The study addressed four research questions to analyze the CCR program’s promise to reduce remediation for community college students. The study examined the outcomes of program participants after their matriculation to …
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The use of CPT for calculating axial capacity of drilled shafts
… Meyerhof method, and Gwizdala method. The Reese and O'Neill method is also evaluated for shafts in cohesive soils (using current database), for shafts in cohesionless soils (using q$\sb{\rm c}$/N conversions), and in mixed soils (using Reese and O'Neill database). The influence of geometry …
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Some Issues in Weak Local Independence in Item Response Theory
A method of Pashley and Reese (in press) for simulating locally dependent data, whose item pair dependencies relate directly to local dependence assessment procedures is discussed. This method is extended to allow for the simulation of local dependence that varies in magnitude across the examinee …
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Full Scale Static Lateral Load Test of a 9 Pile Group in Sand
… the computer program LPILE Plus version 4.0 (Reese et al., 2000). The soil profile was calibrated by alternating the input soil parameters until the curves matched between the measured and the calculated results. The new soil profile was then used to model the test on the pile group using …
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Description of Coherent Structures in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer By Model Reduction of the Surface Pressure
… transducers was deployed on the ground at Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas, and the pressure fluctuations were recorded over nearly two diurnal cycles. A program for computation of the dynamic mode decomposition was developed with special consideration for the case of a …
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An Investigation and Comparison of Accepted Design Methodologies for the Analysis of Laterally Loaded Foundations
… full-scale field tests performed by Lymon Reese are compared to computed results using Broms' method of analysis and the p-y method of analysis. Observations are made as to the correlation between the results and recommendations are made as to the applicability of the accepted methods for …
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What do Words Really Say? An Examination of Associations between Preschool Emotion Language and Emotional Development
… understanding and regulation (e.g. Bird and Reese, 2006; Laible, 2011). However, there has been little attention paid to associations of these outcomes with children's emotion language. In this study, I examined associations of children's emotion language on their emotion understanding and …
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Therapist's Use of Continuous Client Feedback to Influence Therapy
… and Sparks, 2009; Norsworthy, & Rowlands, 2009; Reese, Toland, Slone, & Norsworthy, 2010), but according to the literature, additional information was needed on how feedback works (Anker, Duncan, and Sparks, 2009). A qualitative, phenomenological study was chosen to further investigate how …
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Counseling in the Space Between: Counselor Perceptions of Empathy and Therapeutic Alliance during Videoconferencing-Based Teleplay Therapy Sessions
… 2020; Gloff et al., 2015; Jones et al., 2014; Reese et al., 2016; Simms et al., 2011), others demonstrated that some clinicians and clients struggled to connect emotionally using this relatively new modality (Budd et al., 2022; Knowles et al., 2015; Kotera et al., 2021). The purpose of this …
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A study on the relative runability of grid metal alloys
… of Type-Metal Alloys," by H.V. White and F.O. Reese: Bulletin of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, September, 1935, Engineering Experiment Station Series No. 21.
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The effects of memory knowledge on attributions of forgetfulness in younger and older adults
… of Memory Aging Question (KMAQ; Cherry, West, Reese, Santa Maria, & Yassuda, 2000), indicating that the information presented increased knowledge of normal age-related memory changes. Second, individual differences in memory aging knowledge were analyzed by evaluating the relationship between …
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Critique of a dual-system model of category learning
… Verbal and Implicit Systems; Ashby, Alfonso-Reese, Turken, & Waldron, 1998). The work presented here investigates the evidence for this model. In Chapter 1, I describe the main features of the COVIS model and briefly review some of the evidence that supports this model. This section …
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What the Children Are Reading: A Content Analysis of Minority Male Characters in Preschool Children's Libraries
… multicultural children's literature (Mendoza & Reese, 2001). This study had three levels of analysis of classroom libraries: classroom demographics and teacher perceptions, inventory of classroom libraries, and critical content analysis of the role and representation of male characters of …
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Full-Scale-Lateral-Load Test of a 1.2 m Diameter Drilled Shaft in Sand
… were modeled using the computer programs LPILE (Reese et al., 2000), SWM6.0 (Ashour et al., 2002), and FB-MultiPier Version 4.06 (Hoit et al., 2000). Comparisons were made between the measured and computed load-deflection curves as well as bending moment versus depth curves. Soil parameters in …
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Management of annual bluegrass and bermudagrass in creeping bentgrass greens
… control in response to methiozolin at the Reese Golf Course ranged from 54 to 100%, regardless of application rate or timing. Control increased as applications were made later in the fall. Single applications of methiozolin applied in October exhibited 54 to 78% control, while applications …
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Demystifying Racial Monopoly
Through analysis of private, public, and state reactions to the Great Depression and northward black migration, this thesis demystifies four key functions of race constitutive of capitalist racial monopoly: historical availability, division of labor, motivation of surplus absorption, and embodiment …
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The criminal disparity between African American and Caucasian males: Police use of excessive and deadly force in the United States, 1991 - 2014
<p>This research focuses on the use of excessive and deadly force executed by law enforcement agencies in the context of a racial bias operating throughout the United States and its criminal justice systems. America's criminal system past and present, openly displays an enormous amount of …
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Health Communication: Toward a Phenomenological Perspective
This dissertation examines implications for health communication as a rhetorical and philosophical practice by focusing on the various topics in the health communication field today, identifying areas that have been examined qualitatively and/or phenomenologically and hermeneutically. Currently, …
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Movement in Relation to Diction and Imagery in E. E. Cummings' Elegy "My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love"
<p>E. E. Cummings' elegy "my father moved through dooms of love" has been singled out by Theodore Spencer as "one of the finest lyrics America has produced. Several other critics have cited this poem as an example of Cummings' syntactical experimentation and his penchant for endowing commonplace …
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Occupying the Pedestal: Gender Issues in Ellen Gilchrist
<p>Ellen Gilchrist's works shows the struggles of women living in a postmodern South. This dissertation explores Gilchrist's representations of southern women as they transition from the old South to modernity. Gilchrist's work depicts women who attempt to break off the pedestal of white Southern …
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