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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"phelps"”.
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Assessment of the effects of greywater discharge by using streeter-phelps model
… of greywater discharged using the Streeter-Phelps model. The first objective of this study to determine the raw greywater characteristics and variations of greywater pollutants loading rate (BOD5). Secondly, the assessment of greywater pollution modelling was measured by using …
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A Synthesis of the Prehistoric Archaeological Investigations of Lake Phelps, Washington County, North Carolina
… and associated artifacts in and around Lake Phelps. Beginning in 1985, archaeological investigations were undertaken at Lake Phelps to locate and identify prehistoric canoes. They also conducted a series of surveys aimed at collecting and identifying prehistoric artifacts. The work in these …
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Archiving the sacred: Austin Phelps and the adaptation of nineteenth-century rhetorical education at Andover Theological Seminary
… writing pedagogy, and pulpit oratory of Austin Phelps, an accomplished nineteenth-century preacher and professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary. In drawing from the archival materials at the first graduate seminary in the United States and Phelps's published preaching …
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Material culture and domestic texts: Textiles in the texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps
… of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps," I draw from recently revised notions of the discourse of domesticity to argue that the imagery of textile production, consumption, and containment enables authors to configure experimental domestic forms. Mid-nineteenth-century authors used …
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Maternal Realism: Public Mothering in the Work of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
… place in America as more conventional realists, Phelps, Gilman, and Hopkins retain elements of popular domestic fiction to create a new form: maternal realism. Their fictions conceive of an America in need of motherly guidance, offering a maternal value system and the practice of public mothering …
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Governing The Peripheries: The Social Reconstruction Of The South And West After The American Civil War
… including in the trajectory of one company: Phelps Dodge, a mercantile-turned-industrial corporation based in New York City, which invested in southern lumber and western mining after the Civil War. Reconstructing Phelps Dodge’s social and political activities, this dissertation describes how …
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Almost weak Asplund spaces
… standing open problem, first asked by Larman and Phelps in 1979, as to whether every Gâteaux differentiability space is a weak Asplund space. The main goal of this thesis is to construct a Gâteaux differentiability space that is not weak Asplund, thus answering the question of Larman and Phelps …
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An Examination of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching in Professional Development Settings
… Knowledge for Teaching (Ball, Thames, & Phelps, 2008). There is, however, a lack of robust research regarding how Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) is developed within professional development settings. The purpose of this qualitative research study, therefore, was to examine how …
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The Laramie Project: The Search For A Personal Acting Method Via The Principles Of Constantin Stanislavksi
… Rob Debree, Governor Jim Geringer, Reverend Fred Phelps and Dennis Shepard. The purpose of this exploration was to create unique, believable characters and develop solutions for personal acting problems. Through this study, it was concluded that this method empowered me as I sought ways to …
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“THE KINSHIP OF HER PAIN”: INTIMATE HEALING IN AMERICAN WOMEN’S FICTION
… chronologically, such that my first chapter on Phelps’ 1868 The Gates Ajar is followed by Octavia Butler’s 1998 Parable of the Talents. My third and final chapter returns to the nineteenth century with Warner’s 1850 The Wide, Wide World, and my conclusion addresses Toni Morrison’s Paradise.
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A history of Luther P. Jackson high school: a report of a case study on the development of a black high school
… or independently attended Dunbar High School, Phelps Vocational Center, Cardoza High School or Armstrong High School in Washington, D.C. The purpose of this dissertation was to describe, record and analyze the events and actions that led to the establishment, operation, desegregation and …
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Aplicação e calibração de um modelo matemático de qualidade de água
… simple equations, proposed by Streeter and Phelps (1925), for predicting the Dissolved Oxygen (DO) and Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) concentrations resulted from the discharge of biodegradable organic waste into river systems. The study presented here analyses the pollution behavior in a …
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Des mathématiques pour enseigner, analyse de l'influence des connaissances mathématiques d'enseignants vaudois sur leur enseignement des mathématiques à l'école primaire.
… pour l'enseignement (Ball, Thames & Phelps, 2008), sur la structuration du milieu et sa déclinaison en niveaux d’activité du professeur (Margolinas, 2002), et sur les critères de pertinence mathématique du professeur élaborés par Bloch (2009). Dans une première partie, des entretiens …
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Lightning in a Bottle: A History of the Syracuse Writing Program, 1986-1996
… 1986-1996, is directed by Louise Wetherbee Phelps and Collin Gifford Brooke. This historical study of the Syracuse Writing Program's administrative structures for contingent faculty focuses on professional development and evaluation systems for the Writing Program's part-time writing …
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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900
… fiction of Metta Fuller Victor, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, and E.D.E.N. Southworth mobilized sentimental style and sympathetic affect to challenge the medical trend of treating female sentiment as a sickness. At the level of narrative, this challenge took the form of deviating …
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Altered Neural and Behavioral Associability-Based Learning in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… (i.e. associability; Li, Schiller, Schoenbaum, Phelps, & Daw, 2011) and from large value differences (i.e. prediction error; Montague, 1996; Schultz, Dayan, & Montague, 1997) in PTSD. Combat-deployed military veterans with varying levels of PTSD symptoms completed a learning task while …
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The Health and Medical Care of Enslaved African Americans at Somerset Place, 1839-1863
… peas, and ran a saw mill. Situated on Lake Phelps, the rice fields of Somerset were regularly flooded and drained by canals that ran throughout the plantation. The type of work done by the enslaved workers put them constantly in contact with disease carrying mosquitos and stagnant water that …
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The Lake Chapel at Somerset Plantation and Religious Instruction in the Antebellum South
… North Carolina's coastal plain region along Lake Phelps, Somerset Place was one of the state's largest antebellum plantations, with its Episcopal Lake Chapel membership consisting of nearly half the state's black communicants. Although not a full history, this research focuses both sharply and …
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Examining the experiences of mentoring to develop current and former Black female assistant principals' self-confidence and leadership skills
… Liang and Augustine-Shaw, 2016; Marshall and Phelps, 2016; Parfitt and Rose, 2020; Ryan, 2011; Searby et al., 2017; Spillane and Lee, 2014). The purpose of this study was to identify the perspectives of mentoring on Black female assistant principals' self-confidence and leadership capacity …
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