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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Sumner"”.
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"The Indignation of Freedom-Loving People": Emotion, Politics, and the Brooks-Sumner Affair
… reaction to the May 1856 caning of Charles Sumner. The study begins by situating indignation in its nineteenth-century cultural context. A respectable type of anger, indignation was deeply tied to sympathy and to moral judgment. Antebellum Americans valued indignation as a social emotion …
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Seismic attribute analysis and CO2 monitoring within the Mississippian reservoir, Wellington field, Sumner County, Kansas
… chert reservoir at Wellington field, Sumner County, Kansas to determine the feasibility of injecting CO2 for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and geologic storage of CO2 in this geological environment. This study evaluates the use of seismic methods for imaging the injected CO2 in the …
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A study of the Pleistocene deposits and water-bearing strata of the Hardinville and Sumner, Illinois, quadrangles
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Examining celestial polarization with the Gamma Ray Polarimeter Experiment (GRAPE)
… took place on September 23rd and 24th, at Fort Sumner, New Mexico (Flight N624). The instrument was at float altitude for twenty-six hours. The Crab Nebula/Pulsar, Cygnus X-1, and the Sun were observed within the collimated field of view of GRAPE. A polarization fraction of 55.3% +/- 35.6% and a …
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May 1856: Southern Reaction to Conflict in Kansas and Congress
… war in Kansas and the caning of Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. I researched two newspapers from the upper South state of Virginia, the Richmond Enquirer and the Richmond Daily Whig, and two newspapers from the lower South state of Louisiana, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the New …
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Monitoring induced seismicity near the Wellington oil field, South-Central Kansas
… Wellington Array in the Wellington oil field, in Sumner County, KS, which has monitored for earthquakes in central Sumner County, KS since early 2015. A catalog of earthquakes was built from this data. These earthquakes were then analyzed for spatial and temporal changes, stress information, and …
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L2 Phonetic Detail in L1 Lexical Processing
… McMurray et al., 2008; Porretta et al., 2016; Sumner, 2011; Sumner & Samuel, 2009; Weber et al., 2011; Witteman et al., 2013). Two experimental paradigms were used to examine to what extent L1 Spanish L2 English listeners would experience lexical processing delays for Spanish words featuring …
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Choosing your own adventure : hyperlinks and their effects on memory
… cuts as in Lang, Geiger, Strickwerda and Sumner (1993). Based on those two factors, the hypotheses predicted that readers would better remember related information. The results found were counterintuitive. Readers showed better overall recognition and recall for parent pages when compared …
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Calculating text difficulty for text reading fluency for 1st to 5th grade levels
… við tvær formúlur (Flesch-Kincaid og Powers-Sumner-Kearl) sem taka mið af samsetningu orða og eru notaðar til að áætla þyngd lesefnis. Einnig voru textarnir skipt niður í þrjá jafna búta innan árgangs, til að gefa betri mynd á þyngd texta innan árgangs. Niðurstöður rannsóknarinnar sýndu að …
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Remaking lives and community in the gooseless goose capital of the world /
… a year and a half of ethnographic fieldwork in Sumner, Missouri to analyze how people had been and were remaking their identities, culture, and community in response to a shift in trans-national goose migration patterns that was facilitated, at least in part, by climate change. I make the …
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Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Test-Retest Reliability
… robust experimental effects (Hedge, Powell, & Sumner, 2018). In the current study, we examine the efficacy of a new task battery based on the Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control theory (DMCC; Braver, 2012) to provide reliable estimates of individual differences in cognitive control. With two …
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Regional Differences in the Treatment of Karl Marx by the Founders of American Academic Sociology
… of the manuscripts written by William G. Sumner, Lester F. Ward, Franklin H. Giddings, Albion W. Small, Charles H. Cooley and Edward A. Ross. These individuals are generally considered to be the founders of American academic sociology. Their writings can tell a great deal about the …
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The amendment of acid soil with an ettringitic waste and its effects on plant growth
… of so4 in sesquioxide-rich soils (sensu Reeve & Sumner, 1972). The waste showed progressively less neutralization with Kranskop B and Silvermine soils apparently in response to a decline in buffering capacity of these soils.
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Phonographies: Practical and Theoretical Explorations into Composing with Disembodied Sound
… performers/ writers/ collaborators: Alaric Sumner, Alice Oswald and Tony Lopez. These projects demonstrate a number of different collaborative relationships between composer and writer and different configurations of acousmatic music and poetry
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Piercing the doctrine of strict compliance in documentary credits: how strict is strict compliance?
… the terms and conditions of the credit. Lord Sumner put it thus, "It is both common ground and common sense that in such a transaction, the accepting bank can only claim indemnity if the conditions upon which it is authorised to accept are in the matter of the accompanying documents strictly …
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The U.S. Recognition of Vichy, France
… mission to Europe of Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles.</li> <li>German invasion of France and collapse of French resistance.</li> <li>Maintenance of relations by the United States with the French Government at Vichy.</li> <li>Continuation by the United States of embassy functions in …
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You Eat What You Are: Sociocultural Factors That Influence and Inform Food Literacies
… allowing us to “read the world through food” (Sumner, 2015, p. 134). Food literacies are developed over time, are contextual, and are influenced by a variety of sociocultural factors. Further, this study found that participants’ sociocultural self-awareness is critical and well developed; it is …
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Email communications in team writing projects.
… of documents in a digital medium (Yates and Sumner 1997). I therefore analysed the adaptations in linguistic 'style' of email writing as a non intrusive means to study social-interactive behaviour in networked team writing projects. Based on the premise that socio-emotional communications …
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Nurses’ views on compassionate care: a study using Q methodology
… to provide and maintain compassionate care. Sumner’s (2008a) Moral Construct of Caring in Nursing as Communicative Action Theory (MCCNCAT) was applied as the theoretical framework. Q methodology supported the investigation of subjectivity within an interpretive design. 54 statements were …
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