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An exploratory study on virtual reality head mounted displays and their impact on player presence.
(, 2014-06-11)This study explores how a video game player's sense of being in a game world (i.e., spatial presence) is impacted by the use of a virtual reality head-mounted display. Research focused on virtual reality research has fallen ... -
Exploring questions of Spanish national identity in selected works of Miguel de Unamuno, Azorín, and Antonio Machado.
(, 2012-08-08)Critics of La Generación de 1898 claim that the group’s aims were purely philosophical and intellectual – thus having no practical applications for the country. However, a careful examination of the respective works by ... -
Exploring the metaphoric value of idioms : a taxonomy of Spanish conceptual metaphors and idioms.
(2016-03-30)In 1980, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson challenged the traditional view of metaphors by showing their prevalence in everyday speech. Instead of a literary device, Lakoff and Johnson proposed that metaphors are commonly ... -
Exploring whether the working alliance is a mediator between client resistance, therapist directiveness, and drinking outcomes in an alcohol dependent population.
(, 2012-11-29)This study aims to elucidate whether the working alliance mediates the relationship between client resistance, therapist directiveness, and short and long-term drinking outcomes in an alcohol dependent population. The ... -
Exposure effects of hegemonic masculinity in men's magazines.
(, 2012-11-29)While the effects of viewing narrowly-defined female roles in the media on women’s reported moods and attitudes have been studied for decades, similar studies on men have a shorter history. Hegemonic masculinity prevails ... -
Eyewitness testimony in civil litigation: retention, suggestion, and misinformation in product identification.
(2008-06-09)Expert testimony in eyewitness memory cases is now common in criminal cases. However, eyewitness testimony is also critical in civil litigation, particularly in product liability cases involving alleged exposure to toxic ... -
Fabrication of a single layer organic photovoltaic device based on an indium-tin-oxide/copper phthalocyanine/aluminum heterostructure.
(2007-01-18)An ultra high vacuum chamber was designed and constructed for the purpose of fabricating organic photovoltaic devices. Thermal vapor deposition of copper phthalocyanine as the active layer and aluminum as the cathode ... -
Factors affecting blue catfish populations in Texas reservoirs.
(2011-01-05)While some blue catfish Ictalurus furcatus populations are native in Texas reservoirs, many are the result of introductions through stocking programs. Some of these stockings result in established populations while others ... -
Factors affecting the therapeutic alliances' impact on substance use disorder treatment outcomes.
(, 2012-11-29)The therapeutic alliance has been shown to significantly affect outcomes in both general psychotherapy research and substance-use-disorder specific research. The proposed study is an attempt to improve our understanding ... -
Faith seeking understanding: the relationship between noetic and pneumatic differentiation in Eric Voegelin's political philosophy.
(2007-01-11)This thesis is a study of the philosophy of Eric Voegelin with particular focus on the relationship between noetic differentiation (particularly Greek philosophy) and pneumatic differentiation (particularly Christianity). ... -
Family values : the empirical impact of internet use.
(, 2011-09-14)Family values are a set of ethical viewpoints pertaining to family matters that have the potential to have divisive effects for the private and public spheres. The formation of family values can be broken down into a ... -
The fantastic and related subgenres in three contemporary novels.
(2006-07-29)Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (1984), Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001), and Cynthia Ozick's The Puttermesser Papers (1997) manifest the fantastic and related subgenres. According to structuralist critic Tzvetan ... -
The fate of phosphate in the MixAlco process and its applicability to a Central Texas watershed.
(2007-01-19)The MixAlco process is proposed as a means to reduce phosphorus concentrations in dairy cow manure in order to help improve water quality in the Lake Waco watershed. Numerous dairy farms and intensive agricultural practices ... -
Fate, providence, and free will: clashing perspectives of world order in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
(2006-12-11)Through the medium of a fictional world, Tolkien returns his modern audience to the ancient yet extremely relevant conflict between fate, providence, and the person's freedom before them. Tolkien's expression of a ... -
Federal employment concentration and regional process in nonmetropolitan America.
(2008-10-15)Nonmetropolitan America has undergone significant changes over the past quarter of a century. From the population turnaround in the 1970s, to population decline in the 1980s, to population rebound in the 1990s, nonmetro ... -
"Feed my lambs" : the spiritual direction ministry of Calvinistic British Baptist Anne Dutton during the early years of the evangelical revival.
(2010-02-02)This dissertation contends that Anne Dutton (1692-1765) contributed a transatlantic ministry of spiritual direction to the Evangelical Revival in the early 1740s. The first chapter provides a historiographical review of ... -
Fiction based on fact : subversions of power and propriety in Charles Reade's matter-of-fact romances.
(, 2011-09-14)As Charles Reade began to write It Is Never Too Late to Mend, he developed a method of research and writing that he would use throughout the remainder of his career. In the Memoir, he declares: “The plan I propose to ... -
Fidelity to God: perseverance in Hebrews in light of the reciprocity systems of the ancient Mediterranean world.
(2006-07-25)The primary focus of this dissertation is to demonstrate how Hebrews represents, in view of its historical and religious context, human fidelity to God. Reciprocity was one primary dynamic in the ancient Mediterranean ... -
Figuring Jesus : the power of rhetorical figures of speech in the Gospel of Luke.
(2010-06-23)This dissertation examines Luke's use of rhetorical figures of speech on the lips of Jesus as a means of persuading his audience to accept a role-reversing message that challenged the social, religious, economic and political ... -
Filled with purpose : the effects of deviant religious experiences on sense of purpose.
(, 2012-08-08)The discourse on religious compensators argues that people will pursue different religious experiences and activities based on the social class in which they belong because the rewards of religion are contingent upon one’s ...