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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Southwest United States"”.
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English Immersion of Middle and High School Korean Students: Linguistic and cultural Experience of Relocation to the Southwest United States
… students experience during this process in the United States; and what linguistic and cultural experiences do Korean students experience as a result of being exposed to English language and American culture. To answer these research questions, I used several types of data collection: classroom …
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TRENDS IN LIFE EXPECTANCY AND MORTALITY: A COMPARISON OF HISPANICS AND NON-HISPANICS IN THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES, 1990 TO 2010
… among Hispanics compared to non-Hispanics in the Southwest United States. Denominators are from the Modified Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Sex file (1990) and Bridged Race Files (2000, 2010) while numerator data are from the mortality detail files and Linked Infant Birth and Death files. The study had …
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THE VARIABILITY OF DROUGHT DYNAMICS IN THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES AND AN ANALYSIS OF DROUGHT RISK IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
… of hydroclimate teleconnections of the southwest United States (SWUS) to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which included observations, paleoclimate records, general circulation models, and statistical models. To categorize the hydroclimate of the SWUS, we used the Palmer Drought …
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CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE GLACIAL CYCLE-II AND TERMINATION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SPELEOTHEM ISOTOPE AND TRACE ELEMENTAL TIME-SERIES DATA, SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES
… records from two speleothems from the southwestern United States (SW USA) are used to constrain the timing and character of the Penultimate Glacial period (NH Glacial-II) and the following glacial termination (T-II) in the northern hemisphere (NH). Speleothems FS-TR3 from Fort Stanton …
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Examining Atmospheric and Ecological Drivers of Wildfires, Modeling Wildfire Occurrence in the Southwest United States, and Using Atmospheric Sounding Observations to Verify National Weather Service Spot Forecasts
… Weather Service spot forecasts across the United States. The final two papers, which are closely related, examine atmospheric and ecological drivers of wildfire for the Southwest Area (SWA) (Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas, and Oklahoma panhandle) to better equip operational fire …
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The Chicano Mural Movement of the Southwest: Populist Public Art and Chicano Political Activism
… rights movement of the late 1960’s in the Southwest United States. This art, the Chicano Murals created as part of el Movimiento in San Diego, California was intended primarily as a didactic communication medium to reach into the barrios and marginalized neighborhoods for the primary …
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Risk Assessment of Post-Fire Floods on Dams and Their Floodplains
… necessary actions to minimize their impacts. In Southwest United States, wildfires are increasing in frequency and magnitude. The literature review shows limited studies in evaluating the impacts of post-wildfire floods on civil infrastructures and residential zones. Earth dams are vulnerable to …
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Effect of pH on the denitrification of activated sludge effluent at high oxygen tensions
… nitrogen. First, in some locations, such as our southwest United States, there is both an essentially constant supply of water and an increasing demand for water. This calls for water recycling. or reuse, as a means of meeting the demand for potable water. An accumulation of impurities, such as …
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The relationship between Adlerian personality priorities of clients and counselors and the therapeutic working alliance.
… counseling clinic on a university campus in the southwest United States. Results suggested that match between counselors' and clients' Adlerian personality priorities is related to counselors' perceptions of quality of the therapeutic working alliance. Statistically significant values were found …
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Faculty religiosity and attitudes towards persons with disabilities.
… at large, faith-based private university in the southwest United States. The central research question of the study was, "How does a faculty member's religiosity affect their attitudes towards persons with disabilities?" Participants (N = 79) responded to an online survey that included the …
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Paleo-aridity records investigated through drip water chemistry in Lehman Caves, Nevada
In the Great Basin of the southwest United States, climate change is predicted to cause increased precipitation variability, making the future climate of the region uncertain. The paleoclimate record has direct examples of dramatic changes in water availability in this area, allowing for a …
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Understanding the civic role of community colleges: assessing factors that influence leadership decision-making
… from community college leaders in the Desert Southwest United States informed follow-up qualitative interviews. Findings indicate that decision-making is shaped by a combination of institutional constraints, environmental pressures, and personal factors. Leaders balance competing priorities …
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Succession Planning and Situational Engagement
… was conducted at a petroleum organization in the Southwest United States (N = 2023) and compares engagement based on group membership in a succession planning process (Informed-High Status, Uninformed-High Status, and Uninformed-Low Status). The underlying factor structure of drivers was found to …
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Technoeconomic feasibility of decentralized desalination in the Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation, located in the southwest United States, faces a significant water stress issue, with approximately 30% of households lacking access to piped water. For many, connection to a piped network is infeasible and decentralized solutions, like desalination, have encountered barriers to …
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Understanding the Limits of Residential Water Conservation through Generalized, Basin-Scale System Dynamics
… use and availability patterns similar to the southwest United States was utilized. We found that when upstream municipalities focus their initial reductions on non-consumptive demands, downstream municipalities reliant on upstream return flow have to increase their conservation rate to meet …
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Optimizing Green Space–Type Placement to Maximize Overall Land Surface Temperature Reduction
… green space locations for areas in the southwest United States. Researchers in these studies performed analysis of the direct and indirect land surface temperature benefits of neighboring green spaces but did not factor in varying green space types or budget constraints. Optimal green …
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English Teachers and English Language Learners in Middle School Classrooms: Perspectives and Practices
<p>Public school classrooms in the United States are composed of an increasingly diverse population of learners. The number of students with limited proficiency in English has grown exponentially across the United States, yet their level of academic achievement lags significantly behind that of …
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Becoming la raza: Chican@ counterpublicity and rhetorics of the Viet Nam War
… through the language of “la raza” in the United States during the Viet Nam War. Racial discourse(s) advancing notions of La Raza were circulated, amplified, stretched, and even resisted among Chican@ movement activists at the end of the 1960s. I call these racial discourses associated with …
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A grounded theory study of substance use patterns among homeless youth
… in a shelter of a large metropolitan area in the southwest United States. The findings revealed the core category, Using, which consisted of three phases and five categories that described the experiences of homeless youth and substance use and ultimately, The Washington Theory of Substance Use …
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Genomic evaluation of male reproductive adaptations and responses to dehydration in Peromyscus eremicus (Cactus mouse)
… eremicus), a desert-specialist in the Southwest United States, is the focus of my genetic exploration of reproductive adaptations to dehydration. My dissertation describes three research studies that 1) characterize male cactus mouse reproductive tissue transcriptomes and find …
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