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The beginnings, ends, and aims of a gentleman’s education: an exegesis of Locke’s Some thoughts concerning education.
(2007-12-03)
In Some Thoughts Concerning Education, John Locke responds to the “early corruption of youth” and describes how the gentry should go about educating their children for the gentleman’s calling. This thesis considers the ...
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 ...
Whitby, Wilfrid, and church-state antagonism in early medieval Britain.
(2009-06-10)
In 664, adherents of the Dionysian and Celtic-84 Easter tables gathered at the Northumbrian abbey of Whitby to debate the proper calculation of Easter. The decision to adopt the former, with its connections to the papacy, ...
A functional approach to positive solutions of boundary value problems.
(2007-05-23)
We apply a well-known fixed point theorem to guarantee the existence of a
positive solution and bounds for solutions for second, third, fourth, and nth order
families of boundary value problems. We begin by characterizing ...
A reassessment of the authorship of the Cheap repository tracts.
(2009-08-24)
This thesis contends that the extent of Hannah More's contribution to the Cheap Repository has never been definitively established and that there is a need for clarification of the authorship of individual tracts. This ...
Uncovered : the cover-up of the My Lai massacre.
(2009-04-01)
In the midst of a war that was being fought not on open battlefields but in dense jungles, an atrocious event occurred in the presence of soldiers of the United States military. Over five hundred Vietnamese civilians, the ...
Uniqueness implies uniqueness and existence for nonlocal boundary value problems for third order ordinary differential equations.
(2006-07-29)
For the third order ordinary differential equation,
$y'''=f(x,y,y',y'')$, it is assumed that, for some $m\geq 4$,
solutions of nonlocal boundary value problems satisfying
\[y(x_1)=y_1,\ y(x_2)=y_2,\] \[y(x_m)-\sum_{i= ...
A networked embedded design for an automated exercise system.
(2007-12-03)
In an effort to facilitate safe and affective workout programs, fitness centers are looking both to customers and leading experts on how to design workout systems. One such industry leader is Curves International.
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A quantitative analysis of theater criticism in four American newspapers.
(2008-06-09)
The researcher systematically sampled 144 issues of four major American newspapers from reference points over the last three decades and conducted a quantitative analysis of theater reviews to determine whether the amount ...
Effects of four weeks of daily soy milk or dairy milk ingestion on the exercise induced inflammatory and oxidative responses in plasma and skeletal muscle in a post-menopausal female population.
(2009-08-24)
The process of senescence is associated with increasing inflammation and subsequent oxidative stress in the body, both of which can exert negative health effects at local and systemic levels. Attenuation of such processes ...