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Large Secondary Schools Respond to State Policy
It is the purpose of this study to understand what happened in the implementation of Iowa’s 1998 education accountability law and to provide information to policymakers on how to improve their policy-making. This was one of seven FINE-supported studies to carry out this purpose. The problem of this …
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Interpreting Disaster: New Orleans Museums Respond to Katrina
<p>By examining the public presence of New Orleans museums in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this work will explore the role of museums in the early process of disaster recovery. The responses of The Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, …
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Legitimate and Contested: How States Respond to International Norms
… and effectiveness. Variations in the way states respond to norms call for an investigation into the domestic conditions that lead states to recognize or reject their legitimacy. These conditions will be investigated by comparing the attitudes of the United States and the United Kingdom towards …
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How do politicians understand and respond to climate change?
… politicians think they can and should play in responding to climate change? The study explores these questions empirically, seeking to understand how Members of the UK Parliament (MPs) understand climate change and its implications for political and social life, and their deliberations about …
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The Iranian Nuclear Dilemma: How Does the U.S. Respond?
Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iran has visibly increased its work towards developing a nuclear program. This is alarming to many because Iran's ambitions for its nuclear program are unclear and whether it is on a quest for nuclear weapons is unknown. The Iranian government is largely …
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Can the Indian Navy respond to a growing Chinese fleet?
… is to determine whether the Indian Navy can respond to a growing Chinese fleet by analyzing the historical development of the Indian Navy since independence. Three naval expansion periods are identified, and three causal factors are measured to determine the effects of each factor on Indian …
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Eye of the beholder: Children respond to beauty in art.
The purpose of this study was to determine if beauty was important to elementary age children when exploring and making aesthetic judgements about works of art and to determine the criteria elementary students used in judging beauty in works of art. This study also explored beauty as a concept that …
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Preparation to Respond as Manifested by Movement-Related Brain Potentials
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Space Race: African American Newspapers Respond to Sputnik and Apollo 11
Using African American newspapers, this study examines the consensual opinion of articles and editorials regarding two events associated with the space race. One event is the Soviet launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. The second is the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. Space Race …
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Essays on How Consumers Respond to Positive Brand-to-brand Interactions
<p>With the current digital age and the rise of social media, consumers are privy to a wide variety of content from brands and media figures (e.g., celebrities, content creators, athletes, influencers). I focus on investigating the effects of observing positive interactions between brands or human …
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How seabirds respond to a changing oceanic environment: a biologging approach
… discuss how seabirds are likely to functionally respond to several stressors in the marine environment, including fisheries practices, climate change, and shifting prey availability. Several recommendations are made for further research, including exploring mitigative measures that can be …
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Architecture of Escherichia coli promoters that respond to reactive nitrogen species
This study examined the regulation of two genes, hcp and ogt, that are reported to be involved in protection from the mutagenic effects of reactive nitrogen species in Escherichia coli. Biochemical techniques were used to investigate promoter activity and the effects of the transcription factors …
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Collaboration and confrontation in interorganizational coordination: preparing to respond to disasters
Situations that call for interorganizational coordination are often ones in which there is no higher authority to mandate how the cooperating organizations will work together. Scholars and practitioners often see collaboration as a solution to the challenge of egalitarian interorganizational …
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Understanding How Consumers and Discourses Respond to Ritual Practice Disruption: Two Studies
… a growing number of studies exploring how people responded to pandemic restrictions, we still have little insight into the factors contributing to these outcomes and their heterogeneity, or the lasting nature of these adaptations beyond disruption. In this dissertation, I address this gap in our …
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In the Funhouse Mirror: How News Subjects Respond to their Media Reflections
Based on in-depth interviews with eighty-three people who were named in newspapers in the New York City-area and a southwestern city, this dissertation explores the phenomenon of being featured, quoted, or mentioned in a news story, from the subject's point of view. Discussions of news subjects …
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How newspapers respond to technological change: a comparison between the UK and China
… and, if not, in which ways and why they have responded differently. The basic assumption of the thesis has been raised from Fidler's mediamorphosis theory and it argues that the transformation of mass media is normally brought about by a complex interplay between many variables (1996). To do …
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Teachers Respond To Impact Of Intelligent Mathematics Tutorial On Students’ Motivation And Engagement
<p>Secondary school mathematics proficiency continues to be a point of concern, as the current National Report Cards continue to show insufficient change. For middle school students, grades six through eight are formative years, as they begin to shape emotional connections and make a decision about …
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Understanding Disinterest: How Online Undergraduate Students Perceive And Respond To Disengaged Faculty Members
… of this perception, and how students respond to disinterested faculty. Online education continues to evolve and change how students learn and how online undergraduate students perceive and respond to faculty members. With these changes, understanding which elements influence and impact …
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