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Kachin Refugee Women's Work Identity: Narratives In Transition
(Sociology, 2008-09-17)My work focuses on the Kachin women's experiences of work in the American workforce in comparison to their experience of work in Burma. Through in-depth interviews with twelve Kachin women in the North Texas area, I analyze ... -
Kairos, Nomos, New Media: Paradox As A Reservoir For Invention
(English, 2007-08-23)In the wake of the so-called "social turn" in writing studies, the scholarship of invention has enjoyed renewed interest. This dissertation is primarily concerned with invigorating the research of invention by turning ... -
Kangri In Context: An Areal Perspective
(Linguistics, 2008-08-08)This study is a grammatical description and analysis of the dialect of Pahari known as Kangri, spoken in and around Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India. It presents data for Phonology, Tone, Stress, Morphology, and Syntax ... -
KERNELS AND BEYOND FOR DATA SIMILARITY LEARNING IN DATA MINING
(2019-12-04)This work discusses the problem of unsupervised clustering of signals/data vectors based on their information content. A correlation based perspective to the clustering problem has been considered, thus relying on the high ... -
Key Competences And Academic Achievement In Mexican High School Technological Education
(Social Work, 2008-08-08)The general purpose of the study was to determine the relation between key competences and academic achievement in technological high school students in the state of Nuevo Leon. This dissertation was based in the contributions ... -
KEY TO SUCCESS? RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEXAS SUCCESS INITIATIVE ASSESSMENTS AND COURSE PERFORMANCE IN FIRST-YEAR, CREDIT-BEARING ENGLISH AND MATH CLASSES
(2019-08-02)The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the Texas Success Initiative Assessment (TSIA) exams and student performance in associated content-area courses in postsecondary education. While the number ... -
Kinematic Analysis Of A Quadruped Robot Capable Of Working As A Machining Tool
(Mechanical Engineering, 2010-11-01)Parallel robots have been proposed for some time now due to their potential advantages over serial robots in high load bearing, acceleration, stiffness and with lower moving mass. Mobile parallel configurations, i.e. ... -
Kinetics Analyses Of Interactions Between Oncogenic And Tumor Suppressor Proteins By Quantitative High Resolution Microscopy Methods
(Biomedical Engineering, 2013-07-22)DAB2IP is correlated to the risk of aggressive prostate cancer and loss of DAB2IP not only leads to epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), but also makes cells radioresistant. These observations support the notion ... -
Kiowa Changes: The Impact Of Transatlantic Influences
(History, 2008-04-22)This study uses a transatlantic interpretive framework, addressing both Euro-American and Kiowa voices to understand Kiowa reactions to changes caused by ongoing transatlantic influences. From their Paleolithic days, the ... -
Knowledge Management In Higher Education In Thailand
(Public Administration, 2013-03-20)This study examines how knowledge management (KM) is applied to higher education in Thailand, and it will also examine whether higher education in Thailand is ready to combine KM with their educational missions in terms ... -
KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, SKILLS, AND SOCIAL IDENTITY: EXPERIENCES OF SOCIAL WORK FACULTY IN MANAGING CONTROVERSIAL CLASSROOM DISCUSSIONS
(2021-07-16)There is a dearth of literature on how social work faculty manage controversial conversations in the classroom. This qualitative study addresses the deficit in the literature by using Deardorff’s (2008) Intercultural ... -
KOPOS: A FRAMEWORK TO STUDY AND DETECT PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE FATIGUE CONCURRENTLY
(2021-05-12)Fatigue is one of the most prevalent phenomena in human beings, and yet its detection is highly subjective and poorly understood. The phenomenon of fatigue has a huge impact on performance, the ability to execute tasks ... -
Korean American Matters And Identity In Korean American Novels
(English, 2014-03-10)My dissertation focuses on the intersection between the maturation of young Korean American protagonists in fiction and the writers' own growing-up of ethnic identity as Korean descendants. I analyze nine Korean American ... -
La Pieza Que Falta: How Gender Roles and Cultural Norms Impacted how Latinas Learn about Sex
(2023-05-23)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to increase knowledge around what Latinas learned about sex growing up. It was used to create foundational work for future research with this population. More importantly it is a means ... -
La Prensa y El Gran Pueblo Mexicano: A Study of Spanish-language Newspapers in South Texas, 1850-1930
(2023-08-31)This study focuses on Spanish-language newspapers published by Mexicans in South Texas from 1850 to 1930. These newspapers played a vital role in mobilizing Mexican communities for collective action against anti-Mexican ... -
LABEL FREE OPTICAL DETECTION OF ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY IN MAMMALIAN NEURONS
(2018-02-15)We describe an optical technique for label-free detection of the action potential in cultured mammalian neurons. Induced morphological changes due to action potential propagation in neurons are optically interrogated with ... -
LABEL-FREE REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING WITH FREE-SPACE COUPLED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SLABS
(2017-12-07)Label-free optical resonance sensors can detect small changes of refractive index (RI), which could be used for biochemical molecular detection, drug screening or gas detection. One of the most critical parameters in these ... -
"A Labor Of Love": A Social And Literary History Of The Blue Cloud Quarterly
(English, 2014-12)This thesis will explore the literary and historical context of a small magazine publication entitled the Blue Cloud Quarterly. The first publication of its kind to focus entirely on Native American poetry, the BCQ played ... -
Laboratory And Field Investigations To Address Erosion, Volume Change And Desiccation Cracking Of Compost Amended Expansive Subsoils
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)Desiccations cracks are formed during drying process of fine grained cohesive soils in summer and these cracks often appear on unpaved subgrades due to direct exposure to sun. These cracks allow surface runoff infiltration ... -
LABORATORY AND FIELD STUDY OF A LIQUID IONIC SOIL STABILIZER
(2018-12-06)Chemical stabilization of expansive soil has been practiced for quite a time now. The use of lime/cement stabilization as a traditional method has been well acknowledged, understood and standard guidelines for practice ...