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Adaptation and alienation : persuasive strategies and audience responses in the rhetorical handbooks, Polybius, Josephus, and the Acts of the Apostles.
(2019-05-29)
This dissertation evaluates the rhetorical strategies and persuasive impact of speeches in the Acts of the Apostles and select other ancient Greek historical narratives against the template provided by Greco-Roman rhetorical ...
Church and secondary societies in Korean ecclesiology and the Christocentric perspective of Karl Barth.
(2011-05-12)
My purpose is to critically map out the relationship between Church and society in the current Korean context in light of three models: difference, identity, and harmony, and to propose a better relationship between Church ...
Chemical kinetics and dynamics of M+(organic) molecules using single photon initiated dissociative rearrangement reactions (SPIDRR) measurements.
(2018-07-17)
Gas-phase studies are important to many areas of science and technology. The ability to prepare molecular species in an environment devoid of complexities present in the condensed phase allows for high resolution measurement ...
Exploring the metaphoric value of idioms : a taxonomy of Spanish conceptual metaphors and idioms.
(2016-03-30)
In 1980, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson challenged the traditional view of metaphors by showing their prevalence in everyday speech. Instead of a literary device, Lakoff and Johnson proposed that metaphors are commonly ...
Partner responsiveness : the long term effects on a relationship.
(2016-07-13)
According to the theory of attachment injuries, it was hypothesized that there would be a relationship between perceived partner responsiveness (both support and capitalization) and two relationship outcome variables ...
Discovery of a novel adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (APS) reductase from the methanarcheon Methanocaldococcus jannaschii.
(Elsevier, 2010-12)
This thesis presents the first discovery of adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate reductase (APR), a key enzyme of the sulfate reduction pathway, in the methanarchaeon Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. While the sulfate reduction pathway ...
Stress response associated with hatchery conditions in developing chum salmon (oncorhynchus keta).
(, 2012-11-29)
To assess the impact of hatchery techniques on the stress response of Chum Salmon, developing fish were subjected to treatments of formalin, low-medium-high densities, thermal shock, and mechanical distress. Mean cortisol ...
Religious and spiritual struggles and health changes : consequences of the dark side of religion.
(2016-08-01)
The purpose of this work is to examine the relationships between religious and spiritual struggles (r/s struggles) and health. There is research that finds r/s struggles are associated with a variety of health outcomes; ...
Human rights and religious dissident in the Brezhnev era : the effect of the human rights movement on the activism of religious dissidents.
(2015-03-31)
On December 5, 1965, an unprecedented event took the entire world by surprise: Soviet dissidents held the first Soviet Constitution Day demonstration in Moscow, making the growing human rights movement in the Soviet Union ...
Influences of spatio-temporal variability during aquatic assessments of ionizable contaminants.
(2019-04-16)
Urbanization and evolving land-use is challenging water management strategies in semi-arid regions of the United States, where stream flows are often dominated by treated wastewater effluent discharges. Effluent-dominated ...