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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Syracuse University"”.
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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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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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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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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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College Involvement and Leadership Development in Higher Education: The Role of Race/ethnicity, Sex, and Mentoring Relationships
… a random sample of 2192 undergraduates 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 …
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Adaptive Mode Matching in Advanced LIGO and Beyond
… fifth chapter summarizes the author's work at Syracuse University. The sixth chapter deals with work at the LIGO Hanford observatory with an emphasis on mode sensing and high-power operation.</p>
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Brothers in Blood: the Significance of Land and Loss in the Creation of Jewish and Native American Ethnic and Religious identity
… represents an educational union between Syracuse University and the Onondaga Nation School as much as it explores the historical, theological and political interfaces between American Jews and American Indians. I argue that while the historical maintenance of a social-religious identity, …
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Laboratory Studies of Structural Changes in Water-Poor and Water-Rich Ices: A Connection to Molecule Formation in Interstellar Ices
… vacuum laboratory experiments performed at the Syracuse University Astrophysics and Surface Science Laboratory on structural changes of analogs of ice mantles that cover dust grains in dense clouds in the interstellar medium. We present the experimental and analytical techniques that we used and …
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Screening for At-Risk Substance Use and Behavioral Health Concerns in University Primary Care
… pronounced among young adults, for whom university primary care is an important venue for early detection and intervention. Although a number of different multi-substance use screens have been developed for primary care settings, none have been validated in university primary care. Other …
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THE MOTIVATION OF WORKING PRACTITIONERS SEEKING A DOCTORAL EDUCATION: FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF CONFUCIAN LEARNING PHILOSOPHY
… former and current DPS-IM program students at Syracuse University, School of Information Studies. The found motivational orientations are compared to Confucian philosophy principles of self-cultivation illustrated in The Great Learning (DaXues`å>{t) which is considered the first of a set of …
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New firm emergence: the significance of social embeddedness and resource bootstrapping to the process of nascent firm emergence
… maintained by SurveyResponse, a project at Syracuse University that serves as a medium for facilitating academic online research. The data collection instrument was a web based questionnaire. The study found that both social embeddedness and resource bootstrapping are significant predictors …
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Understanding The Use and Impact of Social Media Features on The Educational Experiences of Higher-Education Students in Blended and Distance-Learning Environments
… in Masters-level library science classes at Syracuse University. The results suggest that social presence is clearly the most salient type of presence in social media within blended course contexts, while cognitive and social presences are relatively salient in social media within online …
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Experimental Investigation of an Actively Controlled Three-Dimensional Turret Wake
… was performed in a low-speed wind tunnel at Syracuse University to develop a better understanding of the fundamental flow physics associated with the turret wake. The flow field was studied at a diameter based Reynolds number of 550,000 using stereoscopic particle image velocimetry and …
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Ambient Intelligence with Wireless Grid Enabled Applications: A Case Study of the Launch and First Use Experience of WeJay Social Radio in Education
… application among WiGiT members and selected Syracuse University students and faculty; b) understand how this application was interpreted for use; c) determine whether novel and unexpected uses emerged; d) investigate whether wireless grid enabled environments fostered innovation and …
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Control of Turbulent Flow Over an Articulating Turret for Reduction of Adverse Aero-Optic Effects
… rotation. The experiments were performed in the Syracuse University wind tunnel at a Mach number of 0.1, giving a Reynolds number of 500,000. Steady suction at various amounts were initially implemented for both static and dynamic pitching cases. Abatement of the wake above the aperture of the …
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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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Investigating the Interaction of a Supersonic Single Expansion Ramp Nozzle and Sonic Wall Jet
… performed at the Skytop Turbulence Laboratory at Syracuse University. LES data by The Ohio State University are paired with these experiments and give valuable insight into regions of the flow unable to be probed. By decomposing this complex flow field into two canonical flows, a supersonic …
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Investigating the Structures of Turbulence in a Multi-stream, Rectangular, Supersonic Jet
… are carried out in the anechoic chamber at Syracuse University, and focus primarily on the flow-field. An extensive data set is generated, which reveals a detailed view of a very complex flow. Shear, shock waves, unequal entrainment, compressibility, and geometric features of the nozzle …
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