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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Stoddard"”.
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A.P. Giannini, Marriner Stoddard Eccles, and the Changing Landscape of American Banking
The Great Depression elucidated the shortcomings of the banking system and its control by Wall Street. The creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 was insufficient to correct flaws in the banking system until the Banking Acts of 1933 and 1935. A.P. Giannini, the American-Italian founder of …
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Material culture and domestic texts: Textiles in the texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps
… in the Texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps," I draw from recently revised notions of the discourse of domesticity to argue that the imagery of textile production, consumption, and containment enables authors to configure experimental domestic forms. …
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Beloved Savages and Other Outsiders: Genre and Gender Transgressions in the Travel Writings of Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard
… Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard. I argue that these writers evinced a rebellion encompassing literary as well as political and social subversion. In order to succeed in their rebellion, they relied upon genre transgression, the violation of the traditions and conventions …
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Radical Retreats: Sentimentalism, Separate Spheres, and the Domestic Turn in American Women's Fiction, 1850--1940
… American female writers---Fanny Fern, Elizabeth Stoddard, Jessie Fauset, and Dorothy Parker---who dramatize movement across social spaces, this dissertation characterizes mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century female movement into the public sphere as unconfident, arguing that we can position …
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Speed and stasis: femininity and symbolism in John Dos Passos's 1919
… novel―Janey Williams, Eveline Hutchins, Eleanor Stoddard, and Daughter― there is an ever-present tension in their existence as they struggle between the static roles available for women as symbolic figures outside of time and the personal mobility that allows them to participate in history. By …
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Spatial Activity, Growth, and Population Characteristics of Siren Intermedia in an Intensively Managed Wetland
… 1999 at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR), Stoddard County, Missouri, to examine spatial activity, growth rates, and population characteristics of lesser sirens. Density and standing crop biomass estimates were 1.4-1.7 sirens/m² and 46.6-58 g/m². Peak captures of both adults and juveniles …
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Dynamic simulation of particulate and molecular systems
… decreases to zero at the cut-off distance, Stoddard and Ford potential function is employed. Green-Kubo method is used to obtain the thermal conductivity. The characteristics of the heat current are measured by its mean value, variance, third moment, and Shannon entropy. Autocorrelation and …
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Improving outcomes for multiply marginalized learners : a single instrumental case study on urban special educators' implementation of dis/ability critical race theory and the five dimensions of multicultural education.
… for special education services (Abou-Rjaily & Stoddard, 2017; Hallahan et al., 2020) and are likelier to drop out of school (Bridgeland et al., 2006; Doll et al., 2013). Moreover, these challenges have long-term implications on postsecondary life, such as lower college attendance, higher …
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Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Adherence to Antidiabetic Medications Among Low-Income Adults
Purpose. Low-income adults are disproportionately afflicted with diabetes and are more likely to suffer from advanced forms of diabetes related sequelae. Uninterrupted therapy on antidiabetic medications can postpone or prevent the damaging and costly complications associated with the progression …
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Teacher Leaders’ Experiences and Perceptions from Program to Practice
<p>Most studies dedicated to investigating teacher leadership has focused on the impact teacher leaders (TLs) have with professional development and enhancing other teachers' performances or conquering a school's improvement plan. Few studies have set out to explore the impact preparatory teacher …
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Factors influencing the construction of individuals' subjective meaning when visiting pilgrimage shrines: a study of pilgrims and tourists at Lourdes in south west France
… is dominated by the work of Smith (1992), Stoddard (1996), Santos (2003) and the opposing Turnerian theoretical position of Marnham (1980), Sallnow (1981), Eade and Sallnow (1991), Eade (1991), Eade (1992) (competing discourses) and Reader and Walter (1993) (pilgrimage and popular culture). …
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Job evaluation and organized labor.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Religious Land Ideologies and Violence: Gush Emunim and Hamas
A comparison of the competing religious land ideologies of Gush Emunim and Hamas, which are used to motivate and legitimate violence.
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The lives of film: heritage, restoration, and the materialism of cinema
In this dissertation I argue that a new cinematic apparatus [dispositif] has appeared in the last three decades that ties the ontology of the medium to the precarious physical life of celluloid. I refer to this apparatus as the "new materialism" of cinema. The dissertation traces the development of …
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"Come Recently from Guinea": Control and Power in the African-Descended Illinois Country, 1719-1848.
During the eighteenth century, African slavery played a fundamental role in the lives of settlers in the Illinois Country. The master class viewed slavery in terms of control meaning the complete domination of the slave system. Lawmakers, first the French bureaucracy and later (to a lesser extent) …
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Microstructure, Quasi-Static, And High-Strain Rate Dynamic Characterization Of Metakaolin And Fly Ash Based Geopolymers For Structural Applications
Geopolymers are a class of rapid setting cementing systems that have been used as mortar or additives in concrete mixes to improve properties. Several types of geopolymer systems such as metakaolin and fly ash based geopolymers are widely used, and are available in different mixture proportions [1, …
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Molecular Considerations In The Design Of Novel Alpha/Beta Hydrolase Inhibitors
Alpha/beta hydrolases (ABHs) are a superfamily of hydrolytic enzymes that process a wide variety of substrates. A subfamily of ABHs called carboxylesterases (CEs) are important enzymes that catalyze biological detoxification, hydrolysis of certain pesticides, and metabolism of many esterified …
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