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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"University of South Carolina"”.
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The University of South Carolina School of Social Work, 1934-1954
<p>This dissertation examines the School of Social Work at the University of South Carolina from 1934-1954. This first attempt at establishing a school of social work failed after twenty years of inconsistent performance. The primary concern of the study is to uncover and describe the events that …
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Recruiting International Students: A Comparative Study At the University of South Carolina and Mcgill University
… best practices in international recruitment of students. The study is a reaction to policy and finance shifts in regards to international recruitment at the university level between two large, public institutions: The University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC and McGill University in …
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Cyberbullying In Higher Education: The Experiences and Perceptions of First-Year College Students and University Administrators
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine the policies regarding cyberbullying on college campuses in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and the experiences of first year students with cyberbullying at the University of South Carolina. The descriptive research aimed to discover what policies are …
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A Directing Process: Professional Training
<p>This document serves as an exploration of the growth and development of a process in theatrical directing during my tenure as an MFA Candidate in Theatre at the University of South Carolina. This will attempt to track the progress of a cohesive directorial process through an examination of each …
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"Casualty of Progress": The Ward One Community and Urban Renewal, Columbia, South Carolina, 1964-1974
<p><em>Casualty of Progress </em> will examine the role of the City of Columbia, the Columbia Housing Authority, and the University of South Carolina played in the Urban Renewal Projects in Columbia, South Carolina between 1964 and 1974 that led to the displacement of a predominantly …
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From Art to Stage: Finding A Voice In Costume Design
… Costume Designer, have taken over the course of the past three years in graduate school. It is a documentation of my experiences while working in theatre, commercials, short films, and television. The relevance of this documentation is that it has lead me to the career I will now pursue after …
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Errors are a Gateway to Discovery: Development of a Fledgling Designer
… thesis is an informative and critical analysis of my development of as a designer over three years in the Department of Theatre and Dance's Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of South Carolina. It explores main stage productions The Arabian Nights, Our Country's Good, The Comedy of …
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Battling the Sophomore Slump: Involvement and Religious Participation
… to examine the difference in means between a University of South Carolina sophomore students' level of involvement and levels of self-efficacy, meaning-in-life, and intent to re-enroll. Sophomore college students have less support than in their first year while struggling to develop purpose …
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CAD-GIS Interoperability Issues for Facilities Management: Enabling Inter-Disciplinary Workflows
<p>The University of South Carolina has enterprise geographic data holdings in various Computer-Aided Drafting (CAD), geographic Information Systems (GIS), imaging, and tabular database formats. Integrating these various data would provide significant benefits to the University by enabling or …
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The Pitched Metronome: An Audition Preparation Resource For Trombonists
<p> For hundreds of years musicians have used metronomes to practice with a steady pulse and work towards rhythmic accuracy. The electronic tuner has similarly been assimilated into practice routines as readily as the metronome. Advancements in technology have provided the ability to program an …
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Non-Standard Fixed Hsla-V Military Bridge: Fabrication, Testing, and Model Simulation
<p>The U.S. Army maintains a number of 'fixed' or 'semi-permanent' bridge types to ensure critical sustainment is uninterrupted along military supply routes, and the designs are classified as standard (panel) and nonstandard, e.g. Army Facilities Components Systems (AFCS). The AFCS bridges consist …
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Fuel Cycle Modeling Improvements and Multi-Tiered Recycling With A Sodium-Cooled Heterogeneous Innovative Burner Reactor
… Burner Reactor (SCHIBR) model created at the University of South Carolina. Following gas production analysis, an innovative recycling strategy was developed to increase plutonium utilization in the SCHIBR model. The innovative recycling strategy offers improvements over the previous …
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Magnetic Field Shielding For the Forward Time of Flight Upgrade At Jefferson National Lab
<p>The University of South Carolina has been tasked with the construction of the counters for the Forward Time of Flight detector during Jefferson Lab's 12GeV upgrade. The counters, consisting of photomultiplier tubes attached to the ends of scintillation bars of varying lengths, record the time of …
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The Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Three Adults Returning to Piano Study
<p>This study examined the self-efficacy beliefs of three adults returning to piano study and observed the role of self-efficacy in the students' piano study experiences throughout the course of one semester. Three adult students enrolled in the Community Music School at the University of South …
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Buttitta's Folk Opera Diggin' the Ring: The Ring Cycle, Songs of Protest, and the American Left
… the Ring, borrowed the narrative structure of the Ring Cycle. Buttitta replaced Wagner's characters with an all-black, mundane cast. Despite forty years of revisions and numerous unsuccessful attempts to produce the opera, Diggin' the Ring remained unknown until it was found in the Buttitta …
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Think ‘Zebra’
Thousands of rare diseases affect 300 million people globally, but a potential breakthrough in one sheds light on the systemic barriers to research and diagnosis. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) has thirteen subtypes, and, to date, all but one have at least one identified genetic marker. In 2021, …
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Levee Breach by Overtopping: The Effects of Soil Properties
… croplands and cities from seasonal floods of low land rivers. Most levees are constructed from earthen materials. Also known as earthen embankments, these levees may fail by overtopping, when flood levels exceed design floods. Past studies have shown that soil properties play an important …
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Test-Retest Reliability of Coherence Measures of Qeeg During Resting State
… (qEEG) research on measures of absolute power, recent research has suggested the importance of other qEEG measurements (i.e., coherence and phase lag) as indicators of cognitive function. Coherence has been shown to relate to general intelligence (e.g., Thatcher, et al., …
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Decision Making Process of Campus Administrators In Building Leed Residence Halls
This study assesses the decision making process of campus administrators in building LEED residence halls by reviewing four cases at the University of South Carolina (USC), the University of Georgia (UGA), Clemson University, and Emory University. For the purposes of this study, LEED is a numerical …
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