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Geochemical fingerprinting of sediments on the Pear Tree Bottom Reef, near Runaway Bay, Jamaica.
(2009-04-01)Pear Tree Bottom Reef, near Runaway Bay, Jamaica, was originally described by T. F. Goreau in the 1950‟s and is noted for its "Buttress Zone" morphology and presence of sclerosponges at water depths less than 30m. Since ... -
Geodetic constraints on deformation of the northeast Caribbean microplates and seismic delay times measured via waveform cross-correlation.
(2016-07-27)GPS data indicate that the northeastern Caribbean is deforming in ways that are inconsistent with the rest of the Caribbean tectonic plate. Current deformation may be due to a collision between Hispaniola and the Bahamas ... -
Geography, history, and economic performance: the emergence and evolution of agrarian institutions in Ecuador.
(2008-04-15)A familiar proposition from the literature on geography, institutions, and economic performance is that certain natural resources like mineral deposits or cash crops can create a "resource curse." In Ecuador, cash crops ... -
Geology of the Late Pleistocene artifact-bearing Wasiriya Beds at the Nyamita locality, Rusinga Island, Kenya.
(, 2011-12-19)This study investigated the sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Late Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds at the Nyamita locality on Rusinga Island, Kenya in northeastern Lake Victoria. Little is yet known about this region during ... -
Geometric methods of accelerating triangle-inequality-based k-means.
(2015-11-13)One of the most frequent ways how to cluster data is k-means. The standard way of solving the problem is iterative Lloyd's algorithm. This algorithm performs many redundant calculations. Elkan's and Hamerly's algorithms, ... -
Gestos posmodernos en la novela latinoamericana: los casos de Cristina Rivera Garza, Ana Maria Shua y Laura Restrepo.
(2006-07-24)Proponemos en esta tesis que las novelas La muerte como efecto secundario (1997) de Ana María Shua (1951), La cresta de llión (2003) de Cristina Rivera Garza (1961) y Delirio (2004) de Laura Restrepo (1955) exhiben gestos ... -
Get rich or die tryin’ : a semiotic approach to the construct of wealth in rap music.
(, 2011-09-14)For the past 30 years, rap music has made its way into the mainstream of America, taking an increasingly prominent place in popular culture, particularly for youth, its main consumers. This thesis looks at wealth through ... -
Girls with guns : understanding gender and violence in contemporary action cinema.
(, 2011-12-19)Since Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) there has been a steady trend toward movies featuring women using firepower. These films have been, for the most part, shunned by the critical community. They are regularly called sexist ... -
Giving the users a hand : towards touchless hand gestures for the desktop.
(, 2014-09-05)Touchless, mid-air, gesture-based interactions have recently moved out of laboratories and Hollywood movies and into the hands of users. There is little difference in the interaction style and techniques used today from ... -
Glazman-Krein-Naimark theory, left-definite theory, and the square of the Legendre polynomials differential operator.
(2016-02-27)As an application of a general left-definite spectral theory, Everitt, Littlejohn and Wellman, in 2002, developed the left-definite theory associated with the classical Legendre self-adjoint second-order differential ... -
Global SL(2,R) representations of the Schrödinger equation with time-dependent potentials.
(, 2012-08-08)We study the representation theory of the solution space of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation with time-dependent potentials that possess sl₂-symmetry. We give explicit local intertwining maps to multiplier ... -
Goal orientation impacts upon perceived benefits of campus recreation programs.
(2011-05-12)This study examined recreational sports, with a focus on the relationship between goal orientation and involvement and the influence of goal orientation on the social, intellectual, and fitness benefits associated with ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ...