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Organizational stability and school performance
(2012-08)Despite decades of policy innovation aimed at improving school performance, the number of public schools defined as low performing in the U.S. continues to grow. Yet, most explanations of low performance do not consider ... -
Organizational values and women's sport at the University of Texas, 1918-1992
(2007-12)This study chronicles the organizational evolution of women's competitive sport at The University of Texas at Austin from 1918 to 1992. This history is examined from a theoretical framework focused on the organizational ... -
Organizations and ethics : antecedents and consequences of the adoption and implementation of the ethics and compliance officer position
(2011-05)As open systems, organizations interact with their environments and respond to laws, norms, and other pressures to conform in search of societal legitimacy. Organizations, however, are far from uniform in their responses ... -
Organizing indigeneity among the Xukuru do Ororubá of Brazil
(2010-08)This study examines the relationship between indigenous identity, ancestral land, and socio-politics in Brazil. The author analyzes the practices by which contemporary indigenous communities in Brazil physically reclaim ... -
Organizing the American domestic interior : 1978-2010
(2013-05)Over the past thirty years, organization has become one of the most popular ways to spend time and money on the home in the U.S. In part, this popularity and its attendant fixation on simplicity and stillness is a reaction ... -
Organizing the immaterial : examining the communicative constitution of a congregationalist church
(2010-08)This study investigates the relationship between faith, communication, and organization in a large Baptist church. A chief purpose of this study is to describe and interpret potential communicative dimensions and consequences ... -
Organocatalytic Michael cycloisomerization : studies toward the total synthesis of morphine
(2006-12)The organocatalytic Michael cycloisomerization has been utilized in both methodological and synthetic chemistry by our research group. This paper investigates the extension of this methodology to other electron deficient ... -
Organometallic precursors for novel material design
(2007)As part of a broad program directed toward the discovery of inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials that exhibit interesting and/or useful properties (e.g. electronic, photonic, magnetic, etc.), several distinct ... -
The origin and evolution of the Gran Desierto Sand Sea, Sonora, Mexico
(2004-08)The Gran Desierto Sand Sea of Sonora, Mexico is located on the northeastern shore of the Gulf of California, east of the Colorado River Delta. The modern sand sea covers an area of 5700 km² and is the largest active dunefield ... -
Origin and maintenance of androgenesis : male asexual reproduction in the clam genus Corbicula
(2009-05)Asexual species which never incorporate novel genetic material from other lineages will go extinct faster than sexually reproducing species, because adaptive variability may be lower and a larger number of harmful mutations ... -
The origin and properties of mass transport deposits, Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico
(2009-12)Uniaxial consolidation experiments on Mass Transport Deposit (MTD) and non-MTD core samples from Ursa Basin, Gulf of Mexico, show MTDs have a lower porosity at a given effective stress compared to adjacent non-MTD sediments; ... -
The origin of the Germanic uvular [R]
(1996)My purpose in this thesis is to investigate and evaluate the scholarship dealing with the origin and spread of uvular [R] in Germany. The first and earliest set of arguments I will examine are from Moritz Trautmann and H. ... -
Origin, evolution, and mixing of saline and dilute groundwaters in three regional flow systems, midcontinent, U.S.A.
(1993-05)Lower Paleozoic strata in southeastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri and northern Oklahoma are predominantly marine carbonates that comprise portions of three regional flow systems. Groundwaters in these three adjacent ... -
Origins and philosophy of the Butler Art Gallery and Labor Museum at Chicago Hull-House
(2010-12)Jane Addams influenced the lives of many immigrant Chicagoans through offering a variety of community oriented services including art education programs at the Hull-House. This study examines the origins and philosophy of ... -
The origins of heterosexist attitudes among young children
(2015-05)Stereotyping and prejudice on the basis of sexual orientation are common among adolescents and adults. Although empirical data on the topic are lacking, theoretical work indicates that such biases are likely to emerge in ... -
Origins of labor market changes in the transition to an information economy : wage structure, employment, and occupation transformation in Taiwan after 1990
(2009-05)Labor market change in societies where an information economy is evolving, is a central area of concern for information society scholars today. While there has been considerable research conducted on cases of developed ... -
The origins, maintenance, and conservation of biodiversity in spatial networks
(2009-08)Biodiversity is distributed unevenly across geographic space and the tree of life. A key task of biology is to understand the ecological and evolutionary processes that generate these patterns. I investigate how the structure ... -
Oropharyngeal dysphagia treatment : a review of transcutaneous electrical stimulation effectiveness
(2012-05)Transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TNES) is a controversial treatment method for oropharyngeal dysphagia. Currently, few studies support the effectiveness of TNES for the treatment of dysphagia. This study examines the ...
