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John Rawls and the Supreme Court : a study in continuity and change.
(2011-05-12)
In his influential book A Theory of Justice, John Rawls indicates his approval of an independent judiciary and judicial review for stabilizing a just regime. His later works, particularly Political Liberalism, place ...
Promoting generalization of communication training by use of the iPad™.
(, 2011-09-14)
The current study examined the effects of communication training with an iPad™ used as a speech generating device (SGD) to promote generalization to community settings. The participants were taught to use the iPad™ with ...
Good queen mothers, bad queen mothers : the theological presentation of the queen mother in 1 and 2 Kings.
(, 2011-12-19)
The regnal formulas in 1-2 Kings list the name of the mother of the king for Judah, signaling an importance on the part of the queen mother and her place within the theological presentation of the books. This dissertation ...
Geology of the Late Pleistocene artifact-bearing Wasiriya Beds at the Nyamita locality, Rusinga Island, Kenya.
(, 2011-12-19)
This study investigated the sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Late Pleistocene Wasiriya Beds at the Nyamita locality on Rusinga Island, Kenya in northeastern Lake Victoria. Little is yet known about this region during ...
Seismic tomographic imaging reveals possible lithospheric erosion beneath Trans-Pecos Texas and Southeastern New Mexico.
(, 2011-12-19)
Results from the 1999-2001 La Ristra array revealed a fast seismic velocity anomaly beneath the Rio Grande rift, attributed to a lithospheric “drip” into the mantle, perhaps due to edge-driven convection. To investigate ...
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 ...
Initial systematic investigations of the weakly coupled free fermionic heterotic string landscape statistics.
(, 2011-09-14)
A C++ framework was constructed with the explicit purpose of systematically generating string models using the Weakly Coupled Free Fermionic Heterotic String (WCFFHS) method. The software, optimized for speed, generality, ...
Comparison of smallest eigenvalues and extremal points for third and fourth order three point boundary value problems.
(, 2011-09-14)
The theory of u₀-positive operators with respect to a cone in a Banach space is applied to the linear differential equations u⁽⁴⁾ + λ₁p(x)u = 0 and u⁽⁴⁾ + λ₂q(x)u = 0, 0 ≤ x ≤ 1, with each satisfying the boundary conditions ...
La condición posmoderna y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
(2011-05-12)
Esta tesis analiza el enlace de la condición posmoderna y el absurdo en los cuentos "Chac Mool" (1954) del mexicano Carlos Fuentes (1928), "Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes" (1972) del colombiano Gabriel García ...
Ontology, ecclesiology, nonviolence : the witness against war in the theologies of John Howard Yoder, Dorothy Day, and William Stringfellow.
(, 2011-09-14)
This dissertation argues that nonviolence bears witness to a particular form of social existence visible in the church. War, I argue, describes a form of social existence which is a counter social ontology to the existence ...