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Codifying the Cosmos: Cosmography and Orthodoxy in Twelfth-Century Europe
(2012-05-01)The twelfth century marked a period of simultaneous political expansion and theological consolidation in Europe. While secular lords, ecclesiastical prelates, and religious abbots sought to extend their spheres of influence, ... -
Coexistence in a chirostoma species flock : niche analysis and the role of water-level fluctuation on the structure and function of the zooplanktivorous guild.
(2009-07-01)The study of the coexistence of three closely related species (Chirostoma consocium, C. jordani and C. labarcae) in the fluctuating environment of Lake Chapala, Mexico, was developed to delineate elements for management ... -
Coexistent inconsistency: the Supreme Court, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the expansion of religious liberties.
(2007-12-04)During the course of the Twentieth Century, the Jehovah’s Witnesses went before the United States Supreme Court over twenty times in an effort to further their religious liberties. These cases involved the often tumultuous ... -
Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Two of the principal components of empathy are cognitive empathy and affective empathy. Cognitive empathy is the ability to take another person’s perspective and understand what they are feeling. Affective empathy is ... -
Cognitive Coaching : an examination of the reflective journaling of teacher candidates.
(, 2012-08-08)Cognitive Coaching is a method of instruction that recognizes the strength in thinking about thinking and fosters independent learning. Cognitive Coaching is one method of instruction that can help to better prepare teachers ... -
A collaborative work of art in action: the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer, Rite II.
(2006-11-22)In his book, Art in Action, Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that a work of art can only truly be understood within the context of its action. This paper presents the Eucharistic Rite II of the 1979 American Book of Common ... -
Collecting Greek and Roman antiquities : remarkable individuals and acquisitions in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
(2008-12-15)The United States of America is distant both geographically and chronologically from the classical culture of the Greek and Roman civilizations. For these reasons, classical antiquities were not widely available to the ... -
College student identity formation and negotiation in the context of study abroad.
(2017-03-31)The distinct structure and environment of institutions of higher learning directly influence and validate the identities, roles, and statuses of students. Study abroad programs represent one such sub-environment of colleges ... -
College women’s perceptions of role in the workforce and the wage gap.
(2015-07-30)The purpose of this study is to look into the career choices women make that lead to the wage gap by exploring how traditionally college-aged women make sense of their role in the workforce, how identity influences opinions ... -
Collegiate
(2014-12-09)Collegiate Joshua K. Gill Director: Professor Mark Olsen This thesis is an exploration of the process of writing a longer work of fiction such as a novel. It explores the organizational framework in which the ... -
Collegiate student-athletes' academic success : academic communication apprehension's impact on prediction models.
(2010-06-23)This dissertation study examines the impact of traditional and non-cognitive variables on the academic prediction model for a sample of collegiate student-athletes. Three hundred and fifty-nine NCAA Division IA male and ... -
Colliding branes and formation of spacetime singularities in superstring theory.
(2009-06-10)A systematic study of space-times containing two timelike colliding branes is made, in the framework of 10-dimensional string theory. After developing the general formulas to describe such events, we study several classes ... -
A combinatorial property of Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand resolutions of unitary highest weight modules.
(, 2013-09-24)It follows from a formula by Kostant that the difference between the highest weights of consecutive parabolic Verma modules in the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand-Lepowsky resolution of the trivial representation is a single ... -
Coming to terms : spiritual autobiography, constitutive rhetoric, and religious identity in the composition classroom.
(2015-07-07)Building on current scholarship indicating the need for students' spiritual identities to be welcomed in the academy, this argument proposes using the reading and writing of spiritual autobiography to prompt students' ... -
Commissioning the Front-End Electronics for the CMS Hadron Calorimeter Upgrade
(2017-05-23)In the spring of 2015, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN outside Geneva, Switzerland, began a new era of operation at a proton-proton collision energy of 13~TeV. To optimize the data gathered from collisions at higher ... -
Common sense epistemology : a defense of seemings as evidence.
(2016-04-05)Starting from an internalist, evidentialist, deontological conception of epistemic justification, this dissertation constitutes a defense of common sense epistemology. Common sense epistemology is a theory of ultimate ... -
The Communal Conscience of William Langland's Piers Plowman
William Langland’s Piers Plowman personifies theological, moral, and psychological faculties, one of which is conscience, within a series of poetic dream visions. The semantic field of conscience evolved considerably between ... -
Communication expectations between younger superiors and older subordinates.
(, 2013-09-16)One of the most important workplace relationships is that of superiors and subordinates. However, it is not clear if this relationship becomes more complex if traditional age roles are reversed and a younger superior ...