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LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC IN THE WIND BAND REPERTOIRE: HISTORICAL CONTEXT, LATIN AMERICAN RHYTHMS, AND INTERPRETATIVE STRATEGIES
(2024-05-11)The rich and diverse musical heritage of Latin America offers an attractive repertoire for wind bands that deserves greater recognition in the United States. Despite proximity and cultural exchange, many exemplary works ... -
Illusions of Progress and Decline in Colonial India: Evolution and degeneration in the works of Pramatha Nath Bose, c. 1910-1930
(2024-05-11)In this thesis, I consider the views of Pramatha Nath Bose (1855-1934) as an example of Hindu revivalist appropriations of evolutionary ideas and degeneration to advance anticolonial, socially conservative politics in early ... -
MODULATING LATTICE OXYGEN ACTIVITY OF CA2FE2-XMXO5 BROWNMILLERITE FOR PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY HYDROGEN FROM BIOMASS RESOURCES
(2024-05-11)Chemical looping (CL) technology offers a promising avenue for producing high-purity hydrogen with inherent CO2 separation. A critical challenge lies in identifying oxygen carriers with high performance and sustained ... -
WHY EDUCATION? AN EXAMINATION OF WHY LATINOS/HISPANICS PURSUE A CAREER AS TEACHERS
(2024-05-10)Supported by research on urban education, teacher shortages, and ethnic representation, this qualitative case study seeks to explore the motivations behind Hispanics and/or Latinos pursuing careers in education and the ... -
A PALEOCLIMATE AND PALEOFIRE HISTORY FROM THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE OF UNAWEEP CANYON, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO
(2024-05)Lacustrine systems capture high-resolution records of continental climate, including information on paleotemperatures, hydroclimate, and paleofire activity. An increasing number of studies have reported paleoclimate and ... -
An Analysis on Luis Humberto Salgado's Works for Cello and Piano
(2024-05-11)Luis Humberto Salgado was an Ecuadorian pianist and composer who wrote in a variety of instrumental settings, including two works for cello and piano. Although he composed the Caprice and Sonata for Cello and Piano over ... -
AN ORCHESTRATION ANALYSIS OF KEVIN WALCZYK’S CONCERTO GAUCHO FOR TRUMPET AND WIND ENSEMBLE (2007) IN CONTEXT WITH THE CONCERTO GENRE FOR BANDS FROM 1990 TO 2009
(2024-05-11)Kevin Walczyk’s (b. 1964) Concerto Gaucho for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (2007) represents a significant development of original literature for soloist and full band orchestration. While the twentieth-century band movement ... -
Team Viability’s Outcome-Input Role in Team Effectiveness: A Meta-Analytic Attempt to Disentangle the Confounding Nature of Commonly Used Scales
(2024-05-10)The purpose of this study is to examine the unique role of team viability within an input-mediator-output-input (IMOI) framework of team effectiveness. Using meta-analytic estimates, I empirically tested the relationships ... -
An exploration and evaluation of choice architecture interventions on perceptions of justice
(2024-05-10)Justice has been argued to be a key ethical principle guiding interactions with other humans. The principle is embedded in the professional ethics code for the American Psychological Association and other professional ... -
Tracing Desires, Finding Utopia: Examining 2SLGBTQIA+ Students’ Queer Worldmaking in Higher Education Through Participatory Art-Based Research
(2024-05-10)Higher education holds the potential to positively impact 2SLGBTQIA+ students, yet they often face discrimination and violence. Drawing upon Tuck’s (2009) desire-based approach and Muñoz’s (2009) concept of queer utopia, ... -
Can a Single Lecture on Graph Literacy Improve General Decision Making Skills?
(2024-05-10)An emerging body of evidence suggests that brief debiasing training can make small but meaningful improvements in judgment and decision making. For example, recent studies have shown that training graph literacy (i.e., the ... -
Disparities within K-12 Educational Building Environments: A Framework for Designing Educational Spaces for Health & Wellbeing In and Out of the Classroom
(2024-05-10)Introduction: Students endure social, economic, and environmental impacts that affect their behavior, mental health, and cognitive development. Evidence-based research and design are required to provide proficient design ... -
OPERATIC REDUCTIONS AND THEIR PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR USE IN LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LEVEL OPERA SCENES PERFORMANCES
(2024-05-11)Providing enrichment and further learning opportunities within the opera scenes program at the collegiate level is paramount to this project. Generally, opera scenes programs are performed with a vocal score and piano ... -
Working students and major intention: Considering proximal contextual influences and entrance into STEM fields
(2024-05-10)High demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) knowledge and expertise continues in the U.S. workforce, and the shortages of workers in many STEM positions persist. Social Cognitive Career Theory ... -
IMPROVEMENT OF SYNGAS PRODUCTION FROM WASTE RESOURCES THROUGH CHEMICAL LOOPING REFORMING USING DUAL PHASE MFe2O4-Ca2Fe2O5 CATALYST
(2024)World consumption has demanded human beings to look for new alternatives to fossil fuel to reduce greenhouse gases effects. To supply those needs hydrogen has been studied to decrease the effect of greenhouse gases and ... -
To Be a Better Teacher: A Critical Self-Reflection
(2024-05-10)In this paper, I aimed to answer the following questions in order to find potential avenues of improving my present conditions as a teacher: What does it mean to be a teacher? What will it take to be a better teacher? I ... -
Survival Prediction of Pediatric Leukemia under Model Uncertainty
(2024-05)This dissertation addresses critical challenges in survival prediction for pediatric leukemia, particularly Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), by introducing novel predictive models that incorporate Bayesian principles ... -
Evaluating the Role of Quantum Algorithms in Supervised Machine Learning
(2024-05-11)Quantum computing (QC) has emerged as a disruptive technology, promising exponential speedups for certain computational problems. At the same time, machine learning (ML) continues its transformative journey across scientific ... -
Cyclic Miscible Injection in Unconventional Reservoirs: Upscaling, Soaking, Containment, and Asphaltene Deposition
(2024-05-11)Despite numerous cyclic miscible injection studies and field pilot tests being carried out in unconventional shale reservoirs over the last 15 years, governing mechanisms are yet to be fully understood, as there is a ... -
Teaching in the Digital Age: Exploring the Integration of Educational Technology in Social Studies Classrooms
(2024-05-10)Teaching in the digital age presents many unique challenges that previous generations of educators did not have to consider during their careers as classrooms teachers. This research study was designed to aid social studies ...