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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Syracuse"”.
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Lightning in a Bottle: A History of the Syracuse Writing Program, 1986-1996
<p>Lightning in a Bottle: A History of the Syracuse Writing Program, 1986-1996, is directed by Louise Wetherbee Phelps and Collin Gifford Brooke. This historical study of the Syracuse Writing Program's administrative structures for contingent faculty focuses on professional development and …
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Saving Salt City: Fighting Inequality Through Policy and Activism in Syracuse, NY, 1955-1975
… Inequality through Policy and Activism in Syracuse, NY, 1955-1975" offers an in-depth exploration of civil rights and antipoverty struggles in the Salt City between 1955 and 1975. It centers the agency of activists who built interracial and cross-class organizations through which they …
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Evaluating the Hydrologic and Thermal Performance of a Green Roof in Syracuse: Measurements and Modeling of a Full-Scale System
… at the Onondaga County Convention Center in Syracuse, NY (OnCenter) since 2015. This study included controlled laboratory experiments for soil characterization, monitoring the OnCenter green roof under a variety of weather conditions, and use of computer modeling to predict green roof …
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The Effect of Participation in Syracuse University Project Advance and Advanced Placement on Persistence and Performance at a Four-Year Private University
… of CEPs must be substantiated.</p> <p>Syracuse University's concurrent enrollment program, Project Advance (PA), was implemented in 1972 at the request of six local Syracuse high schools. The current study is an empirical investigation of the effects of student participation in Syracuse …
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Excavating the Catacomb of Santa Lucia
… B.C., Archias (a Corinthian) founded the city of Syracuse in Sicily. This began Syracuse’ history as a Greek colony, and also a history of cultural influences and changes produced by different occupations. The catacomb of St. Lucy is located in Syracuse, and contains evidence for the Greek, Roman …
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A concept analysis of middle school American history textbooks
… which the substantive concepts developed by the Syracuse University Social Studies Curriculum Center are included. Each of the eighteen concepts was modeled and applied to three textbooks in a concept analysis system. The two sub-problems of this study concerned the number of Syracuse substantive …
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Black Women and the Struggle for Education as the Practice of Freedom: Embodying an Ethic and Pedagogy of Liberation
… the ways in which Black women across the Syracuse community embody an ethic and pedagogy of liberation for Black youth and their families within and beyond the school setting. The purpose is to understand in more nuanced ways Black women’s activation of their own lived experiences to …
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African American Parent-Teen Communication regarding dating, sex, and risk of STIs
… American families connected to the South Side of Syracuse. The participants had connection to the South Side of Syracuse through either residency, employment, or church membership. I explore the context in which these conversations take place. When it came to teenage sexual relationships, …
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Education on the Underground Railroad: A Case Study of Three Communities in New York State (1820-1870)
… children in three communities: Sandy Ground, Syracuse, and Watertown. These communities were selected because of their involvement in the Underground Railroad. I employed a combination of educational and social history methods, qualitative and quantitative. An analysis of federal census …
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Violence : An Attempt at Control
… to write and entered a program of literature at Syracuse University. After graduating as valedictorian of her undergraduate class, she completed her master's degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1961. Then, she entered a Ph. D. program at Rice University in Houston. She left this study in …
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Three Essays in Urban Policy
… years of steady declines in enrollments, both Syracuse and Buffalo saw enrollment increases that coincide with the adoption of the Say Yes to Education program. These increases occurred at different points in time in each city. The housing values results provide some evidence that increases in …
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"It's the Resources": Work, Governance, and the Institutionalization of an Emergency Food Network
… nonprofit sectors. The data were collected in Syracuse, New York, primarily using in-depth interviewing. Thirty interviews were conducted with staff and volunteers at food pantries and soup kitchens and fourteen interviews were conducted with staff of agencies connected to food pantries and …
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An Analysis of Marcel Breuer's Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library
… my research is based on primary sources from the Syracuse University Library, Digital Archive, New York, the Archive of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library, West Virginia. With this thesis my goal is to contribute to the scholarship on …
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Analysis of the flow structure and reattachment over accelerating non-slender delta-wing planforms
… conducted both in the Center of Excellence at Syracuse University at Re ≈ 20, 000, and in the OTTER lab at Queen’s University at Re ≈ 300, 000. According to the comparison of experimental results from both labs, 3D reconstruction of the flow field exhibits the tendency a ''conical" flow …
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SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF ICES WITH ASTROPHYSICAL INTEREST
… in laboratory experiments performed at the Syracuse University Astrophysics and Surface Science Laboratory. I have studied the mid-infrared (Mid-IR) bands of thin films of pure CH4 ices and of CH4 ices mixed with N2 and H2O in order to characterize the thermal evolution of ices in confined …
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Experiencing Citizenship in a Globalizing World: The Impact of Off-Campus Programs
… of undergraduate upperclassmen enrolled at Syracuse University's Maxwell School and provides a model for cosmopolitan learning.</p>
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The Method of Archimedes: A Mechanical Approach for Calculating Areas and Volumes
<p>Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287-212 BCE) is often referred to as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. Aside from his wide array of mathematical achievements, his reputation was also formed through his mechanical inventions, such as those of war machines. This paper will examine two of …
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College Involvement and Leadership Development in Higher Education: The Role of Race/ethnicity, Sex, and Mentoring Relationships
… from the University of Illinois and Syracuse University as part of the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership. Participants completed an online survey that included the Socially Responsible Leadership Scale-Revised 2 as well as measures for college activities (i.e., employment, …
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Intraspecific Variability within Globodera tabacum solanacearum and Selection for Virulence Against Flue-Cured Tobacco
The tobacco cyst nematode (TCN), Globodera tabacum solanacearum [(Miller and Gray, 1972) Behrens 1975] Stone 1983, is one of the most economically important pests of flue-cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) in Virginia. Although TCN has been reported from other countries, the geographical …
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