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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Seeger"”.
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Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and the Movement Persona
… discusses how the personas of Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger contribute to the movement persona of those fighting for social change in 1960s America. A textual analysis of three songs of Bob Dylan and three songs of Pete Seeger serve as the artifacts for this thesis. Themes of change, resistance, and …
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Crisis of Man to Crisis of Men: Ray Rice and the NFL's Transition from Crisis of Image to Crisis of Ethics
<p>Using typologies by Benoit (1995), Seeger (2006), and Heath (2006) this study argues that when an organization encounters multiple complications (e.g., perceived guilt, magnitude of harm, nature of the victims, etc.) compounding a crisis situation, that the organization’s best course of action …
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Perceptions Of Social Bonds, Social Engagement And Social Capital By Social Network Site Users
… <p>May 2015</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Matthew W. Seeger</p> <p>Major: Communications</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>In this study we investigated the perceptions of social bonds, social engagement and social capital by users of the social network site Facebook. A survey questionnaire …
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Children's Song-Makers as Messengers of Hope: Participatory Research with Implications for Teacher Educators
<p>Pete Seeger, Ella Jenkins, Suni Paz and six other leading children's musicians in the U.S contributed their experience to this study about the crucial role of music and singing for social justice in children's lives and its shrinking presence in U.S. pre-school and elementary schools. The study …
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An Examination of Missing Person Social Media Engagement Through Data Mining and Experimentation: An Application of the Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Model
… risk communication model (CERC; Reynolds & Seeger, 2005) and its recently clarified propositions (Miller et al., 2021), the purpose of this dissertation was to (a) identify strategies law enforcement use to crowdsource missing person information and (b) experimentally test message …
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Ischaemic preconditioning in exercise and disease: One size fits all?
Ischaemia reperfusion injury (IR-injury) occurs when blood supply to a certain area of the body is blocked, and is subsequently followed by reperfusion. During the period of ischaemia, tissue is damaged as a result of lack of oxygen. Rapid reperfusion is mandatory, but unfortunately causes damage …
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The Incorporation of Emergent Literacy into Head Start Classrooms
Emergent literacy may be described as the process of learning about the environment that leads to the development of meaning and concepts, including concepts about the functions of reading and writing. Research supports certain practices that promote emergent literacy in young children, and federal …
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Parapsychological Beliefs and the Effects of Exposure to Skeptical Inquiry
Belief in parapsychological/paranormal phenomena is widespread in the American public (Gallup & Newport, 1991). Messer and Griggs (1989) reported that misinformation through the media, including uncritical reports of events and pseudodocumentaries about paranormal phenomena, is a possible reason …
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The effect of using a computer assisted career guidance system on career development attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors in students
<p>Computer assisted career guidance systems were designed to combine the power of computers with career development theory to assist students in self assessment, career exploration, occupational and educational planning and decision making. Two systems used at educational institutions are DISCOVER …
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Der arabische Dialekt von il-Xalil (Hebron)
Teil A: Vierzehn transkribierte Texte mit deutscher Übersetzung (Persönliche Erlebnisse, Die israelische Siedlung Kiryat Arbat, Witze, Das Massaker in der Abrahamsmoschee 1994, Sitten und Gebräuche, Essen, Erinnerungen an die Osmanische Herrschaft, Zusammenstoß zwischen israelischem Heer und …
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Umweltpolitik in den 16 Ländern: Wahlprogramme und Regierungshandeln : ein Bundesländervergleich
In der vorliegenden Dissertationsschrift untersucht der Autor die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Einflusses der politischen Parteien auf die Umweltschutzpolitik der von den beiden deutschen Volksparteien SPD und CDU geführten Regierungen der 16 Bundesländer in den 1990er Jahren. Der sog. …
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Cortical Excitability after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children
Introduction: Mild traumatic brain injury is frequently complicated by post-concussive syndrome. It is unknown why these symptoms persist, but recent research suggests that cortical excitability may play a role. Objectives: To determine if cortical excitability is different in pediatric mTBI, and …
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Cytochrome P450 whole cell biohydroxylation of alkanes
Production of higher-value fine chemicals via bio-based catalytic alkane activation are becoming increasingly relevant in the context of sustainability. Linear alkanes, sourced from fossil fuel reserves and as by-products in gas-to-liquid technology and CO2-to-power strategies, both through Fischer …
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Team design and performance : a study of short-term enterpreneurial teams
… number of high-growth firms (Kamm, Shuman and Seeger, 1990). Unfortunately, there has been limited research on team started businesses. The entrepreneurial teams that I study are participants in the MIT $50K Business Plan Competition. This sample is chosen because business plan competitions are …
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Lithology and alteration assemblages of the Boss iron-copper deposit, Iron and Dent Counties, Southeast Missouri
<p>"The Boss iron-copper deposit is the only deposit of the Southeast Missouri Iron Metallogenic Province known to contain appreciable copper sulfide mineralization. Major lithologies of Boss West Dome were characterized by petrologic, petrographic and geochemical methods. Previous lithologic …
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Host cellular defense against metabolic alterations induced by Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin A
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Postwar Culture Beneath the Pines: The Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, 1946-1962
<p>The Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (ISOMATA) was founded in 1946 by faculty of the University of Southern California. Located in Southern California's San Jacinto Mountain region, the school's leaders sought to create a therapeutic refuge for arts education which blended outdoor …
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Can exercise mediate similar beneficial effects on endothelial function and endothelial reperfusion injury as ischemic preconditioning?
… endothelial ischemia reperfusion (IR)-injury (Seeger et al., 2015). However, more research is warranted to further explore the potential of (single bouts of) exercise as a form of preconditioning and to determine the most effective way to employ it. The overall aim of this study was to compare …
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