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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Thomas James"”.
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From the Old to the New World: The Transformation of Kongo Minkisi in African American Art
… of minkisi within their work, among these James “Son Ford” Thomas, James Van Der Zee, Betye and Alison Saar, Willie Cole and Renee Stout, creating a link between the Kongo past and the American present.
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Essays on the Economics of Higher Education
… the third chapter, co-authored with Thomas Ahn, Peter Arcidiacono, and Amy Hopson, we use data from the University of Kentucky to understand how instructors choose grading policies. In this chapter, we estimate an equilibrium model in which instructors choose grading policies and …
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Experimental determination of momentum accommodation coefficients of air at thermal velocities on selected materials
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
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Response Rates in 21st Century Organizational Survey Research: A Conceptual Model and Meta-analysis
North Carolina State University Theses Psychology.
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Equipping Men to Be Expository Preachers
This project emulates the sixteenth-century practices of the early Puritan prophesying meetings to equip preachers to be faithful expositors of the Bible. A definition of expository preaching is provided and a process is presented to instill this method and manner of preaching in several key lay …
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Otto Rank's theory of cultural transition
The thesis has two purposes. The first is to provide a biographical and theoretical introduction to Otto Rank. The second is to discuss a specific theme in Rank’s writings, namely his understanding of culture and cultural transition, with specific reference to what he deemed the transition from …
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Evaluation of Seasonal Habitat Use By White-Tailed Deer in Eastern South Dakota
Seasonal use of selected habitat types by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) was investigated using radio telemetry locations during 1983 and 1984, on a predominantly agricultural area in east-central South Dakota. In the summer of 1983, radio-collared deer used corn, shelterbelts, and …
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The rise of evangelical religion in South Carolina during the eighteenth century
Using a developmental model as a heuristic tool for understanding the main contours of socioeconomic and cultural development in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century South Carolina, and following Samuel S. Hill's advice that southern religious historians "must consider how religion is related to …
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Ballistic range development
A ballistic range was developed for use in testing structural materials. High velocity and low velocity guns were investigated. Charge values for various projectile weights were determined and velocity consistency and reproducibility were verified. A range notebook was compiled with necessary user …
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Jazz Recordings by Ed Bickert and Problems of Stylistic Analysis
Edward “Ed” Bickert was a fixture in the Toronto jazz scene for almost 50 years, becoming a pervasive influence on both Canadian and international guitarists. This dissertation is an attempt to position Bickert as a unique and masterful improviser. His development as a musician, beginning with his …
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Detecting Malingering on the MMPI-2: An Examination of the Utility of Combining the Validity Scales in a Non-Compensatory Model
The MMPI-2 is the most commonly used self-report measure for the assessment of psychopathology in forensic and psychiatric disability assessments (Bacchiochi & Bagby, 2006; Bagby, Marshall, & Bacchiochi, 2005). The MMPI-2 includes a variety of validity scales designed to detect content responsive …
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Measuring the Relationship Between Reflexive and Intentional ANS Response
The dynamic behaviors of a complex organism are explained via voluntary and involuntary action. One underpinning of this system is organized and facilitated by the autonomic nervous system, integrating information from conscious and non-conscious centers in a seemingly hierarchical fashion. As a …
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Design of a high-speed turbomachinery test cell and components
The design and construction of a high-speed turbomachinery research facility is reported. This facility provides a drive system utilizing a gas turbine engine, two speed-increasing gearboxes, and interconnecting couplings to deliver 1650 HP to test rotors at speeds from 12000 to 20400 rpm in either …
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Extraction and representation of encyclopedic knowledge from a dictionary
The software tool described in this thesis demonstrates a practical application of prototype theory to the representation of world or encyclopedic knowledge. The tool is designed to extract such knowledge from dictionary entries and to represent it in a network of frames. An application needing …
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Analysis of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Virulence Systems
Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a Gram-negative halophilic bacterium and one of the leading causes of food-borne gastroenteritis from the consumption of raw or undercooked seafood. The pathogenicity of V. parahaemolyticus is attributed to several virulence factors, including two hemolysins and two type …
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Physiological effects of progressive relaxation in trained runners during submaximal treadmill exercise
To determine the physiological effects of a one-week progressive relaxation protocol on exercise efficiency, five trained, male runners volunteered to participate in this study. The results of this study show that it is possible to reduce heart rate during progressive relaxation at rest, after one …
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