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Living in Bible times : F.F. Bosworth and the Pentecostal pursuit of the supernatural.
(2015-02-20)This study examines American pentecostalism using the healing evangelist F.F. Bosworth as an interpretive lens. Bosworth’s formative experiences, long-running success, and influence on pentecostal culture situate him as a ... -
Living tradition in music : a study of three recent works for wind ensemble.
(2015-03-23)Tradition in music produces a foundation to which later composers must respond. I have defined ‘traditional’ musical elements as preexisting musical material with a history of and associations with established practices ... -
Living, Like the Lily, In the Present: Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Time
(2016-04-25)Each of us experiences two conflicting attitudes towards time. On the one hand, we all, at least to some degree, look ahead towards the future. On the other hand, we sometimes feel like we ought to live in the present, ... -
Logistic regression models for short sequences of correlated binary variables possessing first-order Markov dependence.
(2015-07-23)In this dissertation we consider a first-order Markov dependence model for a short sequence of correlated Bernoulli random variables. Specifically, we offer logistic regression models with first-order Markov dependency, ... -
Logistic regression with covariate measurement error in an adaptive design : a Bayesian approach.
(2008-10-14)Adaptive designs are increasingly popular in clinical trials. This is because such designs have the potential to decrease patient exposure to treatments that are less efficacious or unsafe. The Bayesian approach to ... -
Logistic regression with misclassified response and covariate measurement error: a Bayesian approach.
(2007-12-04)In a variety of regression applications, measurement problems are unavoidable because infallible measurement tools may be expensive or unavailable. When modeling the relationship between a response variable and covariates, ... -
Lone wolves : an assessment of the ideology behind homegrown Islamist individual terrorists.
(, 2013-05-15)Lone wolf terrorism is an increasing threat in the United States. However, there is little information available that examines the nature of lone wolf terrorism. This thesis interprets the available literature regarding ... -
Long-term effects of a summer enrichment program on low-income gifted students.
(, 2014-09-05)"Overlooked gems" is the term used in gifted education to describe high potential low-income students who are unable to excel because of significant barriers in their homes, environments, and educational systems, thus ... -
Look who's talking about religion.
(2006-10-13)There is an ongoing debate about the health of America's civil society, the decline in participation of certain types of political activity, and the increasing rhetoric surrounding religion and politics. Using a national ... -
Losing or choosing faith : mother loss and religious change.
(2017-04-05)Maternal religiosity is often associated with children's religiosity even as children grow into adulthood. However, experiencing the death of one's mother during adolescence or young adulthood may modify the transmission ... -
Lost in the cloud : cultural lag in the transition to eTextbooks.
(, 2013-09-16)The age of electronic textbook delivery is upon us. On the national level, the Department of Education is advocating eTextbook delivery in K-12. President Obama recommends that eTextbooks be employed in K-12 education by ... -
Love itself is understanding : Balthasar, truth, and the saints.
(, 2013-09-24)This study examines the thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar on the post-Scholastic separation between dogmatic theology and the spirituality of Church, which he describes as the loss of the saints. Balthasar conceives of ... -
A low-cost pulsed Fourier transform network analyzer.
(, 2011-09-14)Characterizing the frequency response of a material or device over microwave frequencies is a common practice for an RF engineer. New industrial and consumer applications are being developed based on the measurement of the ... -
Luminescent supramolecular silver(I) coordination complexes of pyridyl-substituted phosphinites, phosphonites and amines.
(2006-05-28)Interest in the design and synthesis of supramolecular metal-organic coordination polymers has increased exponentially in the last decade. This attraction comes along with advances in crystallographic instrumentation that ... -
Lycophyte Huperzia lucidula morphological, physiological, and modeling response to paleozoic environmental conditions.
(2017-03-27)An extant lycophyte, Huperzia lucidula, was studied to determine its response to higher atmospheric pressure and oxygen. This study answers two central questions: Do extant lycopsids respond to the atmospheric conditions ... -
MacDonald’s Antiphon : literary traditions and the "lost church" of English worship.
(, 2012-08-08)This dissertation examines the ways in which Victorian novelist and fantasist George MacDonald re-imagines Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ideas about the religious function of literary traditions. Each chapter of this project ... -
Macro-level modifiable variables affecting breastfeeding rates.
(, 2012-08-08)The World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding followed by at least six additional months of complementary feedings. Current rates in the ... -
Magnetic investigation of the continental-oceanic crustal boundary ; northern Gulf of Mexico.
(, 2012-11-29)Current mapping of magnetic intensity data shows that the Gulf Coast magnetic anomaly is not one anomaly but two distinct anomalies, with one portion trending parallel to the margin before curving northward through central ... -
Magnitudes of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte infiltration and secretion of their targeting chemokines are bimodally distributed among a population of colorectal tumor microenvironments.
(2014-11-14)T-cell infiltration varies among colorectal tumors and directly impacts patient survival. Chemoattraction and infiltration of CD8⁺ T-cells are mediated by surface chemokine receptors CXCR3 and CCR5, and are associated with ... -
Male characters in Nada (1945) and Entre Visillos (1958)
(, 2014-01-28)This study demonstrates how male characters in Nada (1945) and Entre visillos (1958), two twentieth-century novels written under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, play a pivotal role in the development of two impressionable ...