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"Sacramental Resistance" to pastoral dreams: the Midwestern land in the works of Sherwood Anderson and his contemporaries.
(2007-02-14)This project investigates the neo-sacramentalism of various Midwestern modernists, particularly that of Sherwood Anderson. Modernists from the Midwest tended to draw from Midwestern nature a sacramental vision of the world ... -
Sacred rites and civil rights : religion's effect on attitudes toward same-sex unions and the perceived cause of homosexuality.
(2009-06-30)Same-sex unions have received a great deal of attention in public discourse and current scholarly research. The importance of religion and individuals’ attributions of the cause of homosexuality on attitudes toward ... -
Saints and moral philosophy.
(, 2011-12-19)Starting with William James’s lectures on saintliness in The Varieties of Religious Experience, twentieth and twenty-first century moral philosophers have attempted to understand the relationship between moral philosophy ... -
Salience and congregational growth : revisiting the strictness thesis.
(, 2013-09-16)Since Kelley’s (1972) Why Conservative Churches Are Growing, scholars have examined the relationship between congregational strictness and growth. This paper seeks to further develop the strict church thesis by suggesting ... -
Same-Sex Marriage: A Constitutional and Social Debate
(2013-05-24)The debate about same-sex marriage is fraught with emotion, often making fruitful discussion of the issue virtually impossible. In this project, I distill the important points of contention both for and against same-sex ... -
Sample size determination for Emax model, equivalence / non-inferiority test and drug combination in fixed dose trials.
(2008-06-11)Sample size determination is one of the most important aspects in clinical designs. Careful selection of appropriate sample sizes can not only save economic and human resources, but also improve model performance and ... -
Sample size determination for two sample binomial and Poisson data models based on Bayesian decision theory.
(, 2014-01-28)Sample size determination continues to be an important research area in statistical analysis due to the cost and time constraints that often exist in areas such as pharmaceuticals and public health. We begin by outlining ... -
Sarcophagi in Context: Identifying the Missing Sarcophagus of Helena in the Mausoleum of Constantina
(2016-08-10)The Mausoleum of Constantina and Helena in Rome once held two sarcophagi, but the second has never been properly identified. Using the decoration in the mausoleum and recent archaeological studies, this thesis identifies ... -
Saudi Arabia and the United States' plans for Middle East defense.
(2006-12-05)The Dwight D. Eisenhower administration's Cold War concerns shaped the United States' policy in the Middle East during the 1950s. Relations with Saudi Arabia proved critical as the U.S. pursued its interests in the region. ... -
Scale dependencies in modeled fire behavior and effects in a southern U.S. grassland ecosystem.
(2010-02-02)FARSITE models were originally developed for the western grass and forests ecosystems thus predictive accuracy as a function of the scale of input data in southern grasslands is relatively unknown. To test predictive ... -
Scenes From the City
(2006-12-05)Scenes From The City is a one-movement orchestral work approximately ten and a half minutes in duration. The work was inspired by a weekend trip to New York City in January of 2005. It is a programmatic piece, with obvious ... -
School personnel perceptions of youth gangs presence and activity at elementary schools in Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas.
(2007-01-10)The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in perceptions of selected school personnel (principals, assistant principals, counselors, and teachers) about gang presence in elementary schools in a large ... -
Science and religion in 21st century America : a sociological perspective.
(2010-06-23)This study addresses empirical gaps and theoretical miscalculations in the understanding of science, religion, and their connections from a sociological perspective. Although this topic has been of great interest to classical ... -
A "scourge and minister" : Lyman Abbott, liberal Protestantism, and American warfare, 1861-1920.
(2011-05-12)Congregationalist minister and editor Lyman Abbott (1835-1922) is best known as a popularizer of modernist theology and as a representative of the Social Gospel movement. Less well understood are Abbott’s political opinions ... -
Screening for psychological distress in the general population : acceptability and validation of a brief measure of psychological distress.
(, 2014-06-11)With the increasing costs and utilization of health care services, and evidence for under-diagnosis of psychological distress, a brief multidimensional screening measure that includes the most salient constructs of ... -
Search for anomalous production of photon + jets + missing transverse energy in proton-antiproton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV using the CDF II detector.
(2011-05-12)A model-independent signature-based search for physics beyond the Standard Model is performed in the photon + jets + missing transverse energy channel in proton-antiproton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV ... -
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the diphoton final state in proton-antiproton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV using the CDF II detector.
(, 2012-11-29)We present a search for the Standard Model Higgs boson decaying into a pair of photons produced in pp ̄ collisions with a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The results are based on data corresponding to an integrated ... -
A search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson.
(2011-05-12)We present a search for a standard model Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson using data collected with the CDF II detector from proton/antiproton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The search ... -
A Search Strategy Using a Hamming-Distance Oracle
(2009-08-04)The objective of the algorithm described in this report is to optimally guess a hidden binary string based on queries to an oracle where the length of the string is known beforehand. A C++ version of the algorithm is given ... -
Seasonal Variation in the Shape of Hetaerina americana
The ability to fly strongly contributes to the success of insects. The adaptive nature of wing size and shape dictates much of the organism’s success flying, both short-term (food and mate acquisition) and long-term ...