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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Southern United States."”.
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Incredible Injustice: Lynching in the Southern United States
Fear illuminated by competition legitimized lynching. This practice unequivocally altered the mindset, character, and spirit of the African American male. A societal hierarchy was built off of this practice which owned roots in hatred and fear. It’s by products were racism and “Jim Crow” …
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Tropical cyclone precipitation risk in the Southern United States
… (TCP) climatology throughout the southeastern United States. The TCP climatology is based on a fleet of synthetic tropical cyclones developed using National Center for Atmospheric Research/National Centers for Environmental Prediction reanalysis data from 1980 to 2010 and the Coupled Hurricane …
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Soybean Planting and Risk-Return Tradeoffs in the Mid-Southern United States
… for a set of nine locations across six states using three years of data from field experiments. Because a producer can freely select what MG of soybean to plant and when to plant, risk return tradeoffs were studied for planting portfolios featuring soybeans from MG III to VI and PD …
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Retention of students in a diploma nursing program in the southern United States
… largest group of healthcare professionals in the United States, and forecasts predict a nursing shortage of epic proportions on the horizon. Significant factors include approaching retirement of Baby Boomer RNs, increased demand for care for aging Baby Boomers in the population, approaching …
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Foods and nutrition extension work in the southern United States and Puerto Rico
… of extension work in foods and nutrition in the southern United States was begun. In studying the foods and nutrition extension work of the southern United States and Puerto Rico, as much information as possible was secured from the library. In order to augment this material, a questionnaire was …
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Truth and reconciliation at the grassroots : community truth processes in the Southern United States
… truth projects which have taken place in the Southern United States in the past few years: The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Greensboro, North Carolina, which sought to establish a community reconciliation process 25 years after what has come to be known as the "Greensboro …
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Landscape Scale Habitat Associations of Sprague's Pipit (Anthus Spragueii) Overwintering in the Southern United States
… status of their current wintering range in the United States and Mexico. On the breeding range, Sprague’s Pipits seem very selective in their habitat use, although there are reports that there may be a broader use of habitats on the wintering grounds. My objective was to determine the habitat …
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Building a better burn: Fuel characterization and fire effects in silvicultural systems in the southern United States
… and oak (Quercus spp.) forests in the eastern United States and in the Appalachian Mountain region. The success of restoration efforts involving prescribed fire is heavily influenced by the arrangement and composition of wildland fuels, which influence wildland fire behavior and effects. Fire …
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Ambient seismic noise tomography of the southern United States and seismic inversion with dictionary learning using unsupervised machine learning.
Seismic tomography and inversion are well-established methods to understand deep subsurface structures. These techniques are particularly effective in delineating complex crustal architectures, which often deviate from simplified textbook models. High-resolution seismic tomography enables the …
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Exploring Men who have sex with men’s HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Initiation Decision-making Processes in the Southern United States
… MSM (71% African-American) living in the Southern U.S. consented to an interview between March and August of 2018. Several themes emerged from the inductive content analysis, and these themes were categorized into five broader concepts: (1) acknowledged HIV-risks, (2) HIV concerns, (3) …
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Systematics and Ecology of Mice of the Peromyscus Boylii Species Group From Northern Mexico and Parts of Southern United States
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T01:27:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212369.pdf: 9382161 bytes, checksum: f652119ebd7f526d114c62adb258fc86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Secondary teachers' self-efficacy and years of teaching experience with emergent bilingual students at a southern United States intermediate school : a quantitative study.
Secondary teachers with fluctuating levels of self-efficacy contribute to the opportunity gap for emergent bilingual (EB) students in secondary public schools. These fluctuating levels can occur throughout teachers’ careers, with some teachers not feeling adequately prepared or confident to meet …
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Projecting Carbon Pools in Aboveground Woody Accumulations and Harvested Wood in Loblolly Pine Plantations of the Southern United States: From Stand-level to Regional Scales
… carbon in managed loblolly pine forests in the southern United States was projected over the next half-century, both in terms of in-woods aboveground carbon pools and harvested products, including wood used for energy production. A region-wide data set from the Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) …
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An investigation into the practicality and applicability of the pendandragogic framework: a case study of faculty attitude toward a learner-centered model of teaching and learning at a university in the southern United States
… as a teaching and learning model using a southern university in the United States of America as a case study. It examines its applicability to a multiplicity of academic disciplines, testing the attitudes of faculty towards the implementation of the learner-centered approach in higher …
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Decision Support Software for Palmer Amaranth Weed Control
… [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] producers in the southern United States. The use of herbicide technology remains the most widely used method of weed control, despite the evolution of herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth. Therefore, a need currently exists for research and extension education to …
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Little Paintings
… to my experiences growing-up and living in the Southern United States. The Thesis illustrates the influences of painters such as Jimmie Lee Sudduth and Willie Jinks and how their raw painting methods inspire the development of my films using a tactile approach to filmmaking.
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“Poor forsaken colored girls:” Rebecca Latimer Felton, white supremacy, and prison reform, 1865-1900
… the early prison and convict lease system in the Southern United States, I explore how the racial and gendered ideologies surrounding black womanhood, carried over from slavery, affected the treatment of black women in prisons based on both their race and sex. This caused black women to experience …
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Coasting '71: a memoir
… Massachusetts across Eastern Canada, across the Southern United States and finally up the Pacific Coast in an aborted attempt to drive to Alaska seeking work either in the fish canneries or on the Alaska Pipeline in the summer of 1971. Along this journey of self-discovery they meet a series of …
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Consensus & Colonialism: critiquing technologies of the (de)colonial project
… Wall Street, the Zapatistas of Mexico, and Southerners on New Ground (SONG)—a regionally focused non-profit organization based in the southern United States. I develop techno-seduction as a term to deconstruct the lure of technological determinism promoting static interpretations of …
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