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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Thrasher"”.
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Breeding Biology of the Sage Thrasher
The sage thrasher, Oreoscontes montanus (Townsend), is a common bird that breeds throughout the sage brush areas of the Great Basin and from northern Arizona to southern Saskatchewan. Although it is a fairly common and conspicuous bird, almost nothing about its life history has been published. This …
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Rural delinquency ; an empirical investigation of delinquency in a rural county, with an attempt at a typology of delinquency
… such as W.I. Thomas, Clifford Shaw, Frederick Thrasher, and so on. From the work of Shaw, there arose a serious emphasis upon the interrelationship of the physical environment and delinquency. He tried to show that delinquency was a function of the urban environment. But he, and most of the …
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Prevalence and impacts of ants colonizing active bird nests in Illinois
… within nests with one exception. Brown Thrasher nests with T. sessile colonies had fewer fly larvae and pupae than nests without ants. Fledging success did not differ between nests with and without T. sessile colonies for any bird species. Polydomy and a high degree of nomadism are …
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Situating Females in UK Gangs: An Exploratory Study
… marginality highlighted by previous research (Thrasher, 1927; National Youth Gang Centre, 2000). Findings indicate female gang members operate within an environment of conflict in which they act as both perpetrators and victims of serious crime and violence. <br/><br/>The current research …
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Melodic variations : toward cross-cultural transformation
… has been pointed out by ethnomusicologist Alan Thrasher that there is a high degree of similarity between their underlying structures. This enables a cross-cultural mapping at the structural level that ties together stylistically different melodic surfaces to exhibit a kind of crosscultural …
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Incumbency Effects in English Local Elections 1974-2010: Assessing the Advantage of Electoral Defence
… confined to the sub-chapters of Rallings & Thrasher (1997). The aim of this thesis is to research and present evidence in support of incumbency effects in English local elections and the extent to which they influence their outcome, in that, incumbent candidates fare better than less …
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Forgetting the American Family: How the Family and Medical Leave Act is Insufficient and What Can Be Done to Improve It
This research seeks to clarify the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 and explore where the Act is deficient. In addition, federal policy is compared with states that currently have a more generous paid leave program. In the interest of the effect this issue has on American global …
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Examining emotional intelligence in principals
The purpose of this study was to understand if a principal’s level of emotional intelligence has a relationship to leadership practices and, in turn, to student achievement. As such, the research question driving this study was: Does emotional intelligence in a principal operate through practices …
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Sagebrush Steppe Habitats and Their Associated Bird Species in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wyoming: Life on the Edge of the Sagebrush Ecosystem
… the Sage Grouse, Brewer’s Sparrow, Sage Thrasher, and Sage Sparrow will be eliminated from the Dakotas.
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Macrofossils and biostratigraphy of the Bakken Formation (Devonian and Mississippian) in western North Dakota
<p>The Bakken Formation, up to 145 feet thick in North Dakota, is a subsurface formation in the Williston Basin that typically consists of two black shale members separated by a middle member of predominantly gray siltstone or silty limestone up to 85 feet thick.</p> <p>Well over 500 macrofossils …
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Saying ‘au revoir’ to anxiety in a heartbeat: the benefits of virtual reality for language learning.
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Systems Materials Design of Ordered Nanocomposite Assemblies
The ability to precisely organize matter across multiple length scales is a central challenge in modern materials science. In this dissertation, I develop a systems materials design approach to engineer hierarchically structured nanocomposite assemblies, integrating molecular recognition, …
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A reactive/deliberative planner using genetic algorithms on tactical primitives
Unmanned aerial systems are increasingly assisting and replacing humans on so-called dull, dirty, and dangerous missions. In the future such systems will require higher levels of autonomy to effectively use their agile maneuvering capabilities and high-performance weapons and sensors in rapidly …
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Application of the vortex-lattice concept to flows with smooth- surface separation
A nonlinear three-dimensional vortex-lattice method which treats the steady separated flow over prolate bodies with open separation moving through an inviscid incompressible fluid is developed. The strength and position of the body wake are found as part of the solution. Specifically, flows with …
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Student Retention at Tidewater Community College: A Technical and Professional Communication Approach to Creating a Comprehensive Document to Help Students Defeat Their Obstacles and Stay in School
This study aims to help create a document which could help retain students to completion of their chosen program at Tidewater Community College by use of a condensed technical document. Community college students face problems not seen in the traditional four-year university program. Family …
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A Study of the Educational Administrator's Responsibility for Facility Planning as Seen by the Public-School Superintendents and Private-School Principals in Southwestern Michigan
… from the literature reviewed (Campbell, 1973; Thrasher, 1973) and whereas 64 percent of the educational administrators surveyed support that teachers, students, parents, architects, and those concerned with education should be involved in planning educational facilities, it is recommended that …
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Colour in the lines: The racial politics and possibilities of US skateboarding culture
This thesis examines the informal sporting culture of skateboarding as a contested site of racial politics in the United States of America (US). Action sports scholars have long identified the ‘whiteness’ of this sport but rarely created space for the voices of people of colour (POC) within …