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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"kincaid"”.
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Afterimages of Kincaid Mounds
… will address how the monumental organization of Kincaid Mounds was put together through time. The measurable variability in the potential performative presentation of the mounds and structures of Kincaid will be treated as an archaeological dataset for the exploration of social change. This …
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MISSISSIPPIAN COMMUNITY-MAKING THROUGH EVERYDAY ITEMS AT KINCAID MOUNDS
… theory to explore the southern Illinois site of Kincaid Mounds during the latter portion of its Mississippian period occupation, with a focus on how community was constructed and maintained within and through time. I do so using evidence from the non-discursive aspects of ceramic and …
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O feminismo pós-colonialista de Jamaica Kincaid: rumo à liberdade
… na obra da escritora caribenha Jamaica Kincaid. Entramos em contato com personagens (Annie, Lucy e Xuela) que se encontram num processo contínuo de aprendizagem em relação ao mundo, o entendimento desse processo passa pelo aprofundamento da relação mãe-filha/nação-indivíduo. Para tanto …
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Placing the Body: A Study of Postcolonialism and Environment in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid
This project examines the work of Jamaica Kincaid for iterations of the body, specifically how Postcolonial and Ecocritical theories may inform those representations. I will look at the narrators of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother for examples of embodiment, negotiations and …
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Dinoflagellate Cyst Biostratigraphy, Palynofacies and Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Maastrichtian and Basal Danian, Brazon River, Texas
… Formations and the lower part of the Danian Kincaid Formation from the Brazos River, Texas. Rock samples are exposed to standard palynological methods for biostratigraphic interpretations. The quantitative data collected from palynological samples are combined with ?13C and ?18O stable …
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The Adolescent Grotesque: Transgressing Boundaries of Female Sexuality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John
… bodily changes. Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid employ the first-person narrative style in their respective debut novels, <em>Breath, Eyes, Memory </em>and <em>Annie John</em>, to amplify the female adolescent voice and provide unmitigated access to the female adolescent experience. …
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Beyond text analysis : image-based evaluation of health-related text readability using style features
… correlation to experts' scores than the Flesch-Kincaid readability grading method. We provide an end-user program, VisualGrader, which provides a Graphical User Interface to the scoring model.
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SVMAUD: Using textual information to predict the audience level of written works using support vector machines
… formulas, including the popular Flesch-Kincaid Reading Age and the Dale-Chall Reading Ease Score, rely on numerical representations of text characteristics, including syllable counts and sentence lengths, to suggest audience level of resources. However, the author's chosen vocabulary, …
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Calculating text difficulty for text reading fluency for 1st to 5th grade levels
… var notast við tvær formúlur (Flesch-Kincaid og Powers-Sumner-Kearl) sem taka mið af samsetningu orða og eru notaðar til að áætla þyngd lesefnis. Einnig voru textarnir skipt niður í þrjá jafna búta innan árgangs, til að gefa betri mynd á þyngd texta innan árgangs. Niðurstöður …
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Complexities of the Underrecognized: Conceptualizing Erasure and Exposure in Queer Caribbean Narratives
… This thesis will read the works of Jamaica Kincaid, Rita Indiana, Marlon James, Bernardine Evaristo and Francesca Ekwuyasi – whose stories have captivated the lives of the underrecognized and reveals how queer narratives are shifting as Caribbean society progresses and assist in answering …
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Conceptualising, developing and evaluating critical thinking skills in higher education : a Malaysian perspective
… and clarity (as measured by the Flesch-Kincaid metric) compared to existing descriptions that have previously been widely used in education research. Second, these descriptions were employed in a survey of Malaysian undergraduate student groups. Students rated all CT skills as relatively …
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Measuring and comparing the readability and vocabulary coverage of CNN, China Post and Taipei Times
… showed that the Flesch Reading Ease, the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level and the Fry Readability; Graph are reliable and valid tools in measuring readability of the news articles.The readability levels of the different news classifications were divided into grades 9 to 14. Although the different news …
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A Descriptive Study of Special Education Teachers Serving Students with Autism: Knowledge, Practices Employed, and Training Needs
… with autism (Iovannone, Dunlap, Huber, & Kincaid, 2003) little attention has been given to examining the qualities of special education teachers who deliver services to these students.This dissertation evaluated special education teachers' knowledge and implementation of educational …
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MUSIC for midwives: A framework for Down syndrome communication during antenatal booking appointments
… using complex language (average Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score was 10.36) which was not always interactive, and only 28 women were asked if they understood the provided information.<br/><br/>Implications: The new MUSIC framework is the first to encompass both women’s cognitive status …
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Decolonising the body in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
… and Lucy by the Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid, published in 1990. Both novels tell the stories of young women from the Caribbean who leave their islands to work in Western metropolises (London and New York, respectively). Both young women reject colonial categories such as race and …
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Methamphetamine-involved parenting and the risk of child maltreatment: Family experiences and the child welfare response
In the last two decades, methamphetamine-involved parenting has presented some unique challenges to child protective services social workers. In order for social workers to effectively intervene with these families, we must understand the experiences of those who have lived through this phenomenon. …
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The Impact of Playing as a Non-Stereotypical Woman in a Role-Playing Video Game on Players’ Real World Gender Role Attitudes
<p>This study had participants play the modern role-playing video game <em>Skyrim</em> as a female character with one of three different body types: an idealized feminine body typically found in video games, a tall muscular body that more realistically represents a warrior woman, and a lizard body …
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Prostate Cancer Screening Intention Among African American Men: An Instrument Development Study
… level of the CSIS-P was 5.6 utilizing the Flesch-Kincaid index and 7.0 utilizing the SMOG Readability Formula. The CSIS-P was assessed for content validity by a panel of oncology experts. The content validity index for the scale was .90 and internal consistency was found to be .92. The CSIS-P was …
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A Case Study Evaluation of Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support and Its Relationship to Student Well-Being from a Social Justice Perspective
… (e.g., Flannery, Sugai, & Anderson, 2009; Kincaid et al., 2007), but no studies have sought to understand the perspectives of multiple groups of school stakeholders on the process of developing, implementing, and sustaining SWPBS in a school that has successfully sustained …
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Analyzing Microwave Spectra Collected by the Solar Radio Burst Locator
Modern communication systems rely heavily upon microwave, radio, and other electromagnetic frequency bands as a means of providing wireless communication links. Although convenient, wireless communication is susceptible to electromagnetic interference. Solar activity causes both direct interference …
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