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God image, self-efficacy, and religious coping : an analysis of their relationship in college student and prison samples.
(2016-07-26)Personal efficacy—that is, an individual’s belief in their ability to perform particular actions that will produce desired results—governs the amount of effort an individual exerts, their perseverance when hindered by ... -
God's army: religious conservatives at the 1992 Republican National Convention.
(2006-11-22)Before 1992, religious conservatives had been an important voting bloc for Republican presidential candidates. They provided crucial monetary and organizational support, but they were often dissatisfied with their lack ... -
God's wildness : the Christian roots of ecological ethics in American literature.
(, 2012-08-08)Early Puritan colonists expressed conflicting views regarding the religious significance of the New World’s natural environment. On the one hand, it was “the Devil’s Territories” that God would transform into “a Mart” to ... -
God, Contingent Entities, and the Afterlife
In this thesis I attempt to provide an original argument for the continuance of each individual human person past physical death. I do this by describing the relationship between God and everything in the world that is ... -
The Gods must be making us crazy : the effect of a judgmental God concept on mental health.
(, 2011-09-14)Using Wave III of the Baylor Religion Survey, this research examines the relationship between mental health and religion in a unique way. Many studies have examined church attendance as the most significant way that religion ... -
God’s Hiddenness and the Life of a Believer: Recognizing the Sanctifying End of Spiritual Aridity
(2013-05-24)Within the contemporary church, a believer’s relationship with God is often gauged, at least colloquially, by how close or far away from God she feels. The assumption that underlies this dichotomy—that felt distance from ... -
"The good angel of practical fraternity" : the Ku Klux Klan in McLennan County, 1915-1924.
(2009-08-24)This thesis examines the culture of McLennan County surrounding the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and its influence in central Texas. The pervasive violent nature of the area, specifically cases of lynching, allowed ... -
Good for self and good for others : Rousseau’s construction of international politics.
(2016-04-05)My dissertation situates Rousseau’s international thought within the generally accepted categories of IR Scholarship. Was he a realist, a liberal, a constructivist, or something else? I argue that he does indeed exhibit ... -
Good queen mothers, bad queen mothers : the theological presentation of the queen mother in 1 and 2 Kings.
(, 2011-12-19)The regnal formulas in 1-2 Kings list the name of the mother of the king for Judah, signaling an importance on the part of the queen mother and her place within the theological presentation of the books. This dissertation ... -
The Gospel of indifference: rape as a weapon of war and the church in Rwanda and Sudan.
(2008-06-11)Over the past two decades the global community has witnessed multiple genocides in which rape was/is used as a primary tactic of war and ethnic cleansing. In response, several organizations have established themselves as ... -
Graduation rates, success and high school quality.
(, 2013-09-24)The efficacy of high school grades in retention modeling has been criticized as ineffective, owing to the diversity in both grading standards in high schools and competitiveness of high school curriculums. Informed by ... -
Grand unified theories in higher dimensions: from the heterotic string to Randall-Sundrum.
(2007-02-19)We explore the phenomenology of effective field theories in two different cases. First, we look at a mirror universe model, using an orbifold compactification of the heterotic string, in the free fermionic approach. An ... -
Gravitational collapse and formation of black holes in the Brans-Dicke theory of gravity with (2+1) dimensions.
(2008-03-03)In this thesis, the gravitational collapse of the Brans-Dicke scalar field and formation of black holes in 2+1 Gravity is examined. In contrast to general relativity, there are two conformally related frames in the ... -
Gravitational collapse of spherical clouds and formation of black holes in the background of dark energy.
(2007-02-28)In this thesis, I first review the fundamentals of Einstein's theory of gravity in four-dimensional spacetimes, and then develop the general formulas of thin shells in this theory. Applying these formulas to spherically ... -
Gravitoelectrodynamics of Charged Grains in Saturn's F Ring: Encounters with Prometheus and Pandora
(Journal of Physics A, 2003-09-12)The dynamics of Saturn's F ring have been a matter of curiosity ever since Voyagers 1 and 2 sent back pictures of the ring's unusual features. Some of these images showed three distinct ringlets with the outer two displaying ... -
The great American disappointment : an introduction to the Great Disappointment Theory as a way to explain the unique evolutionary processes of socially-guided religion by means of American civil religion.
(2010-06-23)America is unique when compared to the rest of the world for many reasons, but especially so for its religion. To this, as human beings evolve socially, in the same way animal species evolve in order to seek out variable ... -
The Green Airport concept and the International Flight Academy on biofuels.
(2008-04-15)Although aviation plays an indispensable role in today’s global economy, it is presently at the center of rising controversy due to its disproportionate contribution to greenhouse gases and the potential to become one of ... -
Gregarine parasitism in dragonfly populations of Central Texas with an assessment of fitness costs in Erythemis simplicicollis.
(2010-10-08)Dragonfly parasites are widespread and frequently include gregarines (Phylum Apicomplexa) in the gut of the host. Gregarines are ubiquitous protozoan parasites that infect arthropods worldwide. More than 1,600 gregarine ... -
The Grotesque versus the Heroic: An Examination of the Female Barbarian Warrior Motif in Ancient Greek and Latin Sources
(2014-06-02)ABSTRACT The Grotesque versus the Heroic: An Examination of the Female Barbarian Warrior Motif in Ancient Greek and Latin Sources Hillary Catherine Shellnut Director: Kenneth Jones This thesis examines how ancient ... -
Growth inhibition of human multiple myeloma cells by a conditional-replicative, oncolytic adenovirus armed with the CD154 (CD40-ligand) transgene.
(2007-03-08)Human multiple myeloma (MM) remains incurable despite successes in induction therapy. Based on our previous findings that treatment with the recombinant CD40L protein inhibited the growth of CD40+ human myeloma cell ...