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“WALK THE WALK”: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF SOCIAL WORK EDUCATORS’ PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
(2023-08-11)The profession of social work has a long-standing history of social movement contribution, including in recent times. The May 2020 murder of George Floyd was an international flashpoint for global protests demanding racial ... -
The Walkable Neighborhood Based On Retail Requirements: Impact Of Population Density On Market Area
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2011-03-03)Recent planning thought has focused on how to configure the city to reduce dependence on private automobiles. One important strain of this thinking is how to promote a city where daily needs can be satisfied on foot. Using ... -
Walkout: The Footsteps Of Latino Youth Activism
(Sociology, 2009-09-16)This qualitative study analyzes contemporary social action through the lens of Latino youth activism. A total of 11 people including Latino student demonstrators and non-demonstrators and teachers/administrators all shared ... -
The Walloon Immigrants Of Northeast Wisconsin: An Examination Of Ethnic Retention
(History, 2013-07-22)This thesis examines the unusually enduring retention of ethnic culture by the Walloon Belgian immigrants who settled in northeastern Wisconsin between 1853 and 1857, as well as the combination of circumstances which enabled ... -
Water Damage Evaluation Of Concrete Infrastructure
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-08-23)This study presents an experimental program to evaluate the effect of a special waterproofing material, International Chem-Crete Pavix (CCP), on the durability of concrete. The experimental program identified the concrete ... -
Water Permeability In Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FPR)-wrapped Concrete
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2013-03-20)A finite element analysis is performed using ANSYS software to analyze progress of water and its circulation in FRP wrapped concrete. This paper presents the modeling of water diffusion in FRP. Finite element programs do ... -
Wavelet Based Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization And Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-11-01)As a highly efficient technique, array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) methods allow the simultaneous measurement of genomic DNA copy number at hundreds or thousands of loci and the reliable detection of ... -
Wavelet Domain Diversity Method For Transmission Of Images Over Wireless Sytems Using Hybrid (OFDM-CDMA-SFH) Concept And Its Real Time Implementation In TMS320C6713 DSP Development Board
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)In this thesis a new OFDM based wavelet domain diversity combining method is proposed to combat errors during image transmission on wireless channels. A novel concept of utilizing OFDM sub-carriers to attain diversity is ... -
WAVING THE RED, BLACK, AND GREEN: THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL VISION OF THE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION IN AKRON AND BARBERTON, OHIO
(2020-12-10)This micro study of the Akron and Barberton, Ohio, Divisions of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) adds to the understanding the geographic diversity of the Garvey Movement’s expansive reach. It begins to ... -
We Will Not Strike: The Black Revolt in the Chicago Teachers Union
(2015-12-09)In the 1960s, black teachers in Chicago were systematically discriminated against by the school system’s Board of Education. The Board used a subjective oral exam to deny the vast majority of African-American educators ... -
Wear and Tribofilm Formation With Zinc-free Antiwear Additives
(Materials Science & Engineering, 12-10-2012)Engine oil is used in all internal combustion engines to lubricate the moving parts & mitigate the wear due to friction. Along with the mentioned two functions, engine oil also serves to protect the engine from corrosion, ... -
Wearable Biomedical Sensors
(2019-05-08)Focusing on current major research interests about the wearable biomedical sensors, numerous achievements contributed by researchers and engineers are reviewed in chapter 1. Development and research trends, as well as ... -
Web Application Integration Using Mashups
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-03-03)The HTML DOM is the W3C standard data model for HTML documents. A web page may be viewed as a tree structure with data nodes at each level, according to the HTML DOM, to enable web applications to access it dynamically. ... -
Web Based Integrated Multiple Function Customer Demand And Budget Management System
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-08-08)Traditionally, most end-use residential consumers receive flat rate monthly electricity bills based on load profiling rate calculations from different utilities' consumer classes. Those flat rates do not relate and reflect ... -
Web-based Real-time Monitoring System To Enhance The Participation Of An Industrial Power System In A Restructured Utility Industry
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)The opening of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid to wholesale competition began in 1996 that initiated the first stage of deregulation in Texas. In order to relieve generation and transmission constraints, ... -
Weber's "Protestant Ethic" And His Critics
(Humanities, 2007-08-23)This thesis focuses on Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic” Thesis. In his thesis Weber claims after the Reformation, Calvinism created the needed work ethic to produce modern capitalism. His critic’s arguments against this ... -
Weighing In On The Hallmarks Of Nonprofit Marketization: Organizational Factors Impacting Financial Performance Indicators Of Scalability And Sustainability
(Public Administration, 2014-12)Nonprofit organizations have experienced continued revenue growth despite a decrease in government funding, increase in competition among organizations, and greater accountability to both public and private funders. ... -
Weight Bias and Mindset in Physical Educators
(2020-06-03)While physical education (PE) classes and sports teams create an opportunity to increase overweight and obese students’ interest in physical activity (Price, 1990), these are settings in which such students encounter stigma ... -
Weight Modules Of Orthosymplectic Lie Superalgebras
A long-standing problem in representation theory is the classification of all simple weight modules of the classical Lie superalgebras. This problem was reduced to the classification of simple bounded highest weight ... -
WEIGHTED UPWINDING COMPACT SCHEME FOR SHOCK CAPTURING
(2017-05-03)The Weighted Upwinding Compact Scheme in this dissertation has been constructed due to dissipation and dispersion analysis at each stencil. The new scheme is applied to many one-dimensional typical problems involving ...