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Caligula in Jerusalem : the hostile relationship between Emperor Gaius and his Jewish subjects.
(, 2012-11-29)This thesis examines the relationship between Gaius (Caligula) and his Jewish subjects via unrest in Alexandria and the emperor’s decree that the Jerusalem Temple be converted into a pagan shrine. It is concluded that Gaius ... -
Called to serve : empirical explorations and a review of calling and the social work profession.
(2017-04-10)The concept of calling as it relates to work was historically relegated to vocations and jobs within the church or ministry sector. More broadly, people have discussed being “called” to follow Christ or their specific ... -
A canonical exegesis of the eighth Psalm : YHWH's maintenance of the created order through divine reversal.
(2010-10-08)This dissertation presents a canonical exegesis of Psalm 8. The dissertation seeks to contribute to two areas of scholarship: 1) literature on the canonical approach to exegesis carrying forward the emphases first articulated ... -
Career paths to the presidency of private black colleges in Texas as perceived by present and past occupants of the office.
(2007-03-08)The state of Texas has five historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) that remain operational. Such schools have numerous factors in common that make them unique among institutions of higher learning and also ... -
Career-focused field trips as experienced by at-risk rural students : a case study.
(2010-10-08)A lack of recent research focused on field trips as pedagogy in K-12 settings established the foundation for this work. The research design followed multiple-case case study model. The participants were four male students ... -
Caregiver attachment representations and caregiver-child interactions in adoptive and foster dyads.
(, 2013-09-24)The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between child-specific caregiver attachment representations as measured by the Working Model of the Child Interview (WMCI) and the quality of caregiver-child interactions ... -
Case studies of teachers participating in differentiated professional development for the purpose of student-centered technology integration.
(, 2014-09-05)School districts are quickly adopting various technologies in hopes that students can be taught in the same way their technological world works. Common reasons given to justify these expensive purchases include increasing ... -
A case study of the Colonial Revival, collecting, and museum making in Texas.
(2005-05)Miss Ima Hogg dedicated her life to creating a cultural and historical legacy in the state of Texas. An avid collector and patroness of the arts, she was responsible for the creation of three museums, each unique in purpose. ... -
A case study of the teacher education faculty’s perception of the eFolio program at a private Central Texas university.
(2007-02-28)The qualitative case study approach investigated the perceptions that Teacher Education Faculty (TEF) developed as a result of using the electronic portfolio, or eFolio, in the teacher education program at the institution ... -
A case study of two Cherokee newspapers and their fight against censorship.
(2006-07-22)This study attempts to illuminate an injustice to the Cherokee Nation through denial of First Amendment rights in newspapers and communities. Through case studies and in-depth interviews it examines the avenues by which ... -
Cassia cinnamon and acute endurance exercise for the enhancement of glucose uptake in healthy young women.
(2009-08-24)The purpose of this study was to compare the effects Cassia cinnamon, cellulose placebo and endurance exercise on an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) blood glucose (BG), serum insulin (SI) values, fasting HOMA insulin ... -
Castañeda v. Pickard : the struggle for an equitable education - one family's experience with resistance.
(, 2013-09-24)Castañeda v. Pickard (1981) advanced the educational rights of language minority students by establishing the three-prong national standard known as the Castañeda Test. This narrative inquiry study was conducted utilizing ... -
Caste, class, and city : the shaping of religious social capital in contemporary India.
(2010-06-23)Building on the implications of qualitative work from India and urbanism theories, I aim to understand how religious bonding social capital in contemporary India varies along greater urbanization and whether social class ... -
The Catholic Church and the nonviolent resistance in Chile.
(2006-07-25)When can nonviolent action be effective? That is the question that originally initiated this research project. While studying the different factors scholars believe to be important to a successful nonviolent action, I ... -
Catholic liberation theology and Islamic Jihadism : a comparative analysis.
(2010-10-08)This thesis compares Catholic liberation theology which gained notoriety in the late 1960s and early 1970s as popularized by the works of Gustavo Gutierrez with modern Islamic Jihadism, which was ideologically driven by ... -
Causes and differences in retention of white, African American, and Hispanic students who progressed toward graduation after first year in college.
(2010-10-08)African American and Hispanic students' retention rates in college have revealed that minority students are much more likely than white students to drop out of college. Additionally, minority students' graduation rates ... -
Changing patterns in marijuana use among high school seniors : latent modeling of time-series cross-sections (1976 – 2013).
(2016-04-19)Public support for the legalization of marijuana is on the rise. As states are increasingly passing legislation decriminalizing marijuana possession and consumption, a great deal of research is needed to inform policy-makers ... -
Chaos in dendritic and circular Julia sets.
(2016-07-01)We demonstrate the existence of various forms of chaos (including transitive distributional chaos, w-chaos, topological chaos, and exact Devaney chaos) on two families of abstract Julia sets: the dendritic Julia sets DT ... -
Chaotic properties of set-valued dynamical systems.
(2016-04-04)In this thesis, many classical results of topological dynamics are adapted to the set-valued case. In particular, focus is given to the notions of topological entropy and the specification property. These properties are ... -
Characteristic measurements within a GEC rf Reference Cell.
(2010-10-08)Since its introduction, the GEC rf Reference Cell has provided a baseline for comparison among various experiments performed within the complex (dusty) plasma community. The GEC cell, while providing for data comparison ...