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Human kinematic responses to walking and riding camels and horses.
(2020-04-28)
Hippotherapy is a novel and promising therapeutic method. The prevailing rationale for hippotherapy is that the motion of a horse can provide movement patterns that mimic those of walking. The purpose of this study is to ...
Sensemaking and identity : traditional narratives of university roles and recognition of faculty expertise.
(2020-04-07)
The current study evaluated the narratives that affect faculty and university administrator perceptions of each other and how this understanding influenced opportunities for collaboration. This qualitative study examined ...
A differences-in-differences approach to the UPP policy and crime displacement in the city neighborhoods and metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro.
(2020-04-27)
This thesis uses differences-in-differences causal inference method to study the
impact of the UPP policy in the surrounding neighborhoods of the city of Rio and
also the spillover effects potentially caused by it. Five ...
Rhetoric, education, and the affections in seventeenth-century biblical epic.
(2020-04-28)
This dissertation shows how three seventeenth-century biblical epics— Abraham Cowley’s Davideis, John Milton’s Paradise Regained, and Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder—use rhetorical praise and blame for the moral and ...
Public school response to the trauma of school shootings.
(2020-03-31)
Public school shootings in the United States have reached levels of epidemic
concern. Current research related to U.S. school shootings addresses a variety of issues
including historical analysis, political influences ...
Aristotle's liberality.
(2020-04-29)
My dissertation argues that Aristotle intends his account of unnatural economic arts in Book I of the Politics to emphasize the moral danger posed by the pursuit of wealth and reveal the importance of the household—and the ...
Investigating the relationship between religious motives and rhetorical activism : an ethnographic study of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty.
(2020-04-20)
This ethnographic study investigates the religiously-motivated rhetorical action of the central office staff of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP), a research-based nonprofit project of Baylor University. ...
The long arm of childhood bereavement : parental death and pathways to adult health and educational inequalities.
(2020-03-23)
The death of a parent is generally considered to be among the most devastating kinds of losses that children can experience. While research has examined the associations between childhood parental death and health and ...
Factors affecting teacher retention in a local school district.
(2020-04-09)
Teacher turnover is high in many school systems throughout the world. However, school systems in a small number of countries consistently present low annual teacher turnover rates. A growing body of research shows that ...
Protection of the self, compassion toward the other : Thomas Hardy examined through folk theory of mind.
(2020-03-06)
In this dissertation I am using a conceptual framework known as Folk Theory of Mind to shed new insights on Thomas Hardy’s five most well‐known novels: Far From the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of ...