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Vibrational spectroscopy in cryogenic solutions: application of thermal lensing and Fourier transform techniques to the study of molecular C-H overtone transitions.
(2007-01-22)This dissertation explores the application of thermal lensing to vibrational overtone spectroscopy in cryosolutions. Specifically, C-H (delta v = 6) overtone spectra of hydrocarbons dissolved in liquefied rare gases are ... -
Video activity schedules to support academic learning for children with autism spectrum disorder.
(2021-07-23)Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have deficits in communication and engage in restrictive and repetitive behaviors that may impede their ability to learn, particularly in school environments. Evidence-based ... -
Vigilant justice and insurgent freedom : a post-9/11 film study.
(2009-08-24)In a post-9/11 America where national security is critical for preserving American values, power that the government exercises can be subject to abuse. Because United States citizens place a copious amount of power in their ... -
VigoR Healthcare Solutions
(2019-05-21)Currently, there is an ever-growing elderly population suffering from a variety of issues such as dementia, depression, anxiety, and cognitive decline. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the elderly population is ... -
Violating Work-Family Boundaries: Reactions to Interruptions at Work and Home
(SAGE Journals, 2017-03-31)Our study builds on recent trends to understand the work-family interface through daily experiences of boundary management. In particular, we investigated boundary violations, or events in which family life breaches the ... -
Violence in Civil War: Understanding Insurgencies and Civilian Casualties
(2018-05-21)Civilian deaths during times of war is usually seen as a horrific tragedy that armed forces should take care to avoid. Insurgent groups like ISIL have terrorized the local population with deadly attacks that often end in ... -
Virgil’s Anna: Unanima Soror
(2019-05-24)The present study concerns Anna, the sister of Dido in Book Four of Virgil’s foundational, Roman epic poem, the Aeneid. I analyze the intertextual relationship Anna’s character shares with the nurse figure of tragedy, and ... -
Virtue embodied : fathers and daughters in the eighteenth-century novel.
(2010-06-23)In this study of five eighteenth-century British novels, I explore the connection between an author's definition of virtue and the portrayal of the father-daughter relationship. Both the father-daughter relationship and ... -
Virtue ethics and character development at the United States Air Force Academy.
(2022-03-07)Our nation requires that service academies “develop officers of character.” “Character,” by its very nature, is deep; it is an embedded aspect of one’s personhood. As such, character will invariably draw upon one’s deeply-held ... -
Virtue in the tragic vision of Cormac McCarthy.
(2011-01-05)Cormac McCarthy's novels evoke a more complex perspective than many conventional descriptions—e.g., redemptive or nihilistic, modern or postmodern—allow. Focusing primarily on his Western novels, I demonstrate in contrast ... -
Virtues, divine commands, and the debt of creation: towards a Kierkegaardian Christian ethic.
(Southwestern Philosophical Society, 2006-01)Though Kierkegaard's ethic in "Works of Love" frequently has been a target of harsh — and often uncharitable — criticism, a number of recent treatments have sought to defend both its viability and its relevance to the ... -
The Virus that Could Kill a Nation: An Analysis of the Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Russian Population and Factors Preventing Successful Intervention and Control
(2020-05-21)The dissolution of the Soviet Union in December of 1991 sparked the largest collapse in public health in the history of the industrialized world during peacetime, and is only rivaled in the Euro-Slavic world by the Black ... -
Visible but often ignored : a mixed methods study exploring blight and littering in rural areas.
(2021-07-12)Scholars, elected officials, and civic leaders frequently debate about community blight, including how to identify it and address it. Blight refers to both the built environment, for example, buildings and infrastructures, ... -
Visual constitutive rhetoric and the transformative power of public art.
(2017-04-13)In his germinal essay, “Constitutive Rhetoric: The Case of the Peuple Québécois,” Maurice Charland posits that rhetors can call audiences into being to motivate them toward specific goals. Rhetorical critics initially ... -
Visual exegesis of praise and lament in the psalms of individual lament.
(2020-12-05)For most of the twentieth century, the majority of Psalms scholarship has understood the change in mood in lament psalms, or Stimmungsumschwung, to be the result of an oracle of salvation of some sort. The result of this ... -
Visual Political Brand Identities in the 2018 U.S. Midterm Election
(2020-05-19)Political candidates’ logos can shape voters’ perceptions of candidates and inform them of candidates’ political brands through their design. This paper explores the design elements used in logos and their relationships ... -
Visualizing muscular fatigue during running exercises with electromyography-derived variables.
(2020-04-20)Runners commonly face injuries due to fatigue and overuse. However, it is difficult to know when the body is too fatigued to continue a task without damage. This study attempted to observe if fatigue occurred in the leg ... -
Voices of reform : an oral history of the impact of mathematics reform on Texas public schools : 1960 - 2010.
(2011-01-05)Since the launch of the Soviet satellite, Sputnik, rocked America's confidence as a strong nation, mathematics education reforms have been the focus of much debate in public schools for more than fifty years. Math education ... -
Voices of the soul.
(, 2013-09-16)Voices of the Soul is a composition for orchestra and mezzo-soprano that comprises two movements. It uses texts by the Argentinian writer and poet Alfonsina Storni. Two contrasting ideas are illustrated in the piece, ... -
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program at University High School in Waco, Texas: A Win-Win Project for Baylor and Waco
(2020-09-02)This thesis will describe the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program on a national level and explain the history and background of the program. It will then focus on explaining the particular history and success ...