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Daily Bread: A Liturgical and Narrative Guide to Good Eating
(2012-05-03)This thesis examines the ways Christians might view and interact with daily bread differently than those operating under secular modern frameworks. In it, I examine certain Christian liturgical practices of fasting and ... -
Damage accumulation of bovine bone under chaotic and variable amplitude loading.
(2018-11-19)Stress fractures are a common occurrence that can be detrimental to an athlete’s career. At present, there is no method for early detection of stress fractures. This study is a continuation of the pilot study to determine ... -
Damage accumulation of bovine bone under chaotic loading.
(2016-10-11)A stress fracture is a common injury that plagues many individuals. Since there is not currently a method to predict if a stress fracture will develop, this pilot study was conducted to determine if either the Palmgren-Miner ... -
Damage accumulation of bovine bone under variable amplitude loads.
(2016-01-15)Stress fractures, a painful injury, are caused by excessive fatigue in bone. This study into damage accumulation in bone sought to determine if the Palmgren-Miner rule (PMR), a well-known linear damage accumulation ... -
A Dark Mirror: Duality and Reflections in Stephen King's Writers
(2014-04-30)Stephen King is well known for popular horror fiction but has recently been addressed more thoroughly by literary critics. While most studies focus on horror themes and the relationships between various characters, this ... -
Data compression application to the MIL-STD 1553 avionics data bus.
(2006-05-11)With the current state of legacy military avionic systems reaching its ceiling in memory space, processing power, and data-bus through-put (bandwidth), a need has arisen to maximize its limited resources to avoid extensive ... -
Data Management in a Nutshell
(2016-09-13)Following up on my presentation last year on Science Research Workshops: Beyond Bibliographic Instruction, this year I will present material I cover in my Data Management workshop. Although originally designed for ... -
Dating violence risk factors of college students attending a midwest public university.
(2018-04-25)The aim of this study was to evaluate the risk factors of dating violence at a non-faith-based, public university – University of Akron. This is phase II of an ongoing study to identify risk factors of dating violence for ... -
Days Up and Down They Come: Townes Van Zandt and the Search for the Meaning of Life and Death
(2017-05-23)Texas has had a long standing tradition of excellent songwriting, and has been known to produce outstanding songwriters in each generation. Perhaps no time was filled with more prolific Texas songwriters than the late ... -
De Fide Orthodoxa and Gregory of Elvira's Trinitarian vision.
(2014-11-07)The narratives of fourth-century Trinitarian controversies have undergone significant revision in recent decades. Consequently, the work and writings of “secondary” theologians from the period have come under greater ... -
Death Criteria: Social, Religious, and Clinical Considerations on What It Takes to Die
(2014-05-02)Advancing medical technology in the twentieth century has blurred the line between certain death and potential life. Patients who would face imminent death without support may now be maintained for a period of time. Efforts ... -
Death Observed Through Literature: An Assessment of Death in the Writings of Lucretius Carus, Theodore Roethke and Walt Whitman
(2014-05-02)A close examination on what it means to die by looking at the different works of literature by Lucretius Carus, Theodore Roethke, and Walt Whitman. Each poet described differing perspectives on death that range from the ... -
The death of Celestina : "othering" in changing times.
(2011-05-12)La Celestina, as the definitive literary work of its period, portrays in microcosm the destructive forces at work within a Spanish society which was successful on the exterior but unraveling at its core as it transitioned ... -
The Death of Heroism: Revenge and Fate in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut and Jonathan Safran Foer
(2014-04-29)The concept of heroism is a pervasive idea in literature. Figures such as Odysseus, Oedipus and Hamlet have shaped our perception of what it means to be a hero in the midst of hardship and tragedy; namely, these characters ... -
The death of Judas : the characterization of Judas Iscariot in three early Christian accounts of his death.
(2011-05-12)Three different accounts of the death of Judas Iscariot are preserved in Matthew 27:3–10, Acts 1:18–20, and fragments of Papias. The present study will argue that in the milieu of the ancient Mediterranean such death-accounts ... -
Death with Dignity: The Future of Catholic Healthcare in Texas Regarding End of Life Policies-The Texas Advance Directives Act of 1999 from a Catholic Perspective on Sanctity of Life
The Texas Advance Directives Act of 1999 was a law that was created with the intention of adding order to the chaos that surrounded end of life care disputes. This act allows a physician to discontinue life-sustaining ... -
Debating nature : revising pastoral in Hawthorne's America.
(, 2012-08-08)In 1849, Ralph Waldo Emerson gave Nathaniel Hawthorne a presentation copy of his second edition of the famous essay Nature. Hawthorne’s three American romances composed over the next three years – The Scarlet Letter (1850), ... -
Decarbonylation, reductive electrochemistry and x-ray crystal structures of some rhodium diphosphine acyl complexes.
(2011-01-05)Acyl complexes of rhodium(III) with chelating diphosphine ligands (P-P = 1,3- bis(diphenylphosphino)propane and others) are well known for their stability toward decarbonylation. Various rhodium diphosphine acyl complexes ... -
Deciphering Aristotle's Physics
Aristotle’s Physics has long been held to be the seminal work on physics as physics progressed from philosophy to science. This thesis unravels certain elements of Aristotle’s Physics and gives helpful analysis and ... -
The decline of the American middle-tier department store: A case study of JC Penney
Founded in 1902, JC Penney was once the epitome of where the middle-class American consumer shopped for general merchandise and was initially perceived as an innovator within its segment in the retail industry. How was it ...