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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"University of Virginia"”.
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A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT MESSAGES AND PRACTICES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA AND ELON UNIVERSITY
Civic engagement is vital to the future of the country, and I recognize the importance college students must place on their individual role as contributing citizens. I believe a student's development during the college years is vital to the growth of his/her sense of civic responsibility and …
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"Shut It Down, Open It Up": A History of the New Left at the University Of Virginia, Charlottesville
This thesis is a history of social and political activism in Charlottesville during the 1960s focusing on new left student organizing at the University of Virginia. It is a work of social history that establishes a community that has been generally ignored in traditional histories of the new left …
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Thomas Jefferson and the Founding of the University of Virginia: An American Age of Reason, Religion, and Republicanism
The manuscript that follows, as a direct result of these various polemical viewpoints, examines the main themes at work in our attempts to rationalize, and to reconcile, secular learning with moral instruction, religious diversity and the rights of individual conscience, with the overall aims and …
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An evaluative study of Project Outreach to Inmates: a higher education program offered by the University of Virginia at three of Virginia's correctional institutions
… continuous higher education to inmates at three of Virginia's correctional institutions. The program was initiated as a response to pressures by inmates, courts, and the public demanding rehabilitation programs in correctional institutions. No evaluation was originally planned for the program and …
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A Values-Affirmation Model for Higher Education Crisis Communication
In May 2010, one of the most memorable higher education crises of the decade erupted, six blocks from the campus of the University of Virginia (UVa), when fourth-year student and women's lacrosse player Yeardley Love was found dead in her off-campus apartment. Hours later, her ex-boyfriend and …
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Ruffner Hall addition
The broad architectural issue of whether a specific design form can facilitate the function of an educational institution was focused upon the question of how the addition of a media center might serve to unify and improve the School of Education at the University of Virginia. Specifically the two …
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Predictability of the Burns' Wean Assessment Program Tool: A Replication Study
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine the predictability of the BWAPT among patients in a midwestern tertiary care center. This study was a replication of a study conducted by Burns et al. (1992) at the University of Virginia. The following research questions were addressed:<br> 1. To what …
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The Eye of the Stair
This project began with the measurement of the exterior stair at the East addition of Campbell Hall on the campus of the University of Virginia. The project continued with the design of nine different autonomous stairs, and nine stairs as buildings. Stairs are one of the most basic and complex …
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Effect of Thermally Induced Deformation in a Supersonic Combustion Facility
… (CFD) solvers are used to simulate the effect of thermal deformation on the reacting flow developing within the University of Virginia (UVa) Supersonic Combustion Facility (SCF). A detailed thermal-structural model is developed to resolve the temperature distribution and the resulting …
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Hydroxyl-Radical Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence Imaging of Turbulent Supersonic Combustion
Flow visualisation and statistical analysis of a supersonic, turbulent reacting flow from non-intrusive hydroxyl radical (OH) planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) images are presented. The OH PLIF images show instantaneous structures of turbulence in two combustor configurations at different …
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The Interaction of Walls and Spaces: Architecture of an Art Studio
The University of Virginia is currently constructing an Arts Studio building in the parking lot of their Architecture School. The University's original Jeffersonian foundation and its repeated imitation throughout history has told its citizens that this is what the architecture of the University …
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The presence of the past : an investigation into the application of history in architecture after postmodernism
This thesis is the partial result of an attempt to reach a basis upon which design decisions can be made where they concern history in architecture. It deals broadly with the Modern and Postmodern movements and what has become known as the body of eclectic sentiment. It does not try to codify into …
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How black students select four-year colleges: an examination of the decision-making process
The question of how black students select four year colleges in Virginia was addressed by analyzing factors which influence their decisions: socio-economic status, proximity of college to home, and criteria for college selection. Attention was directed to the role of information networks in the …
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Biomechanical Investigation of Head Kinematics and Skull Stiffness
… study presented in Chapter 1 reviewed findings of cranial movement in animal and human specimens and evaluate the validity of cranial movement due to manual manipulation in humans through engineering analysis. The study had two parts. In Part I, the literature was reviewed to determine the …
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A study of some test results and grades at V.P.I.
The purpose of this study is to discover the significance of certain standard tests given at the V. P. I. to freshmen, the relation of test results to grades, and especially the indications of the test given in the English department. For this reason high school grades in English were included. The …
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Measurement of the Michel Parameter Rho Using the MEGA Positron Spectrometer
… decay Mu to e nu_{e} nu_{mu} with a precision of 0.001. The Standard Model with pure V-A interaction gives 0.75 for this parameter. The world average value is 0.7518 +/- 0.0026. A deviation of the value of Rho from 0.75 will indicate new physics. The experiment, RHO, was carried out at the Los …
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Numerical Simulation of Mode Transition in a Hydrogen-Fueled Scramjet
… engine flowpath tests conducted in the University of Virginia (UVa) Supersonic Combustion Facility (SCF). The objective was to develop a computational capability within Wind-US to aid current hypersonic research and provide insight to flow as well as chemistry details that are not …
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Music Piracy and Its Criminalization: Understanding the Napster Era (1999) to Present Through Donald Black's Theory of Moral Time
<p>In the year 1999 Napster, a provider of music downloading software, broke news headlines around the world when copyright infringement lawsuits were filed against the company. Ever since then internet music piracy has been a very controversial topic and a target for criminalization efforts. In …
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The cultural and social milieu of Westmoreland Davis
… in 1859, Westmoreland Davis grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He received his education at the Virginia Military Institute, the University of Virginia and the Columbia University. After graduation in 1886 with a degree in law from Coluabia, Davis remained in New York and experienced a meteoric rise …
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