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INTERLANGUAGE LEXICOLOGY OF ARAB STUDENTS OF ENGLISH A COMPUTER LEARNER CORPUS-BASED APPROACH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-08)Since the very early emergence of machine-readable corpora into the linguistics scene in the 1960s, the direction of a considerable body of linguistic research began to shift from syntax and phonology, the, by then, focus ... -
The Internal Control Provisions Of Sarbanes-Oxley Act And Quality Of Interim Earnings
(Accounting, 2011-10-11)This study examines the change in the quality of interim earnings around the enactment of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and whether the change differs between interim and annual earnings by focusing on the impact of internal ... -
INTERNAL PRESSURE RESPONSE OF A HUMAN HEAD SURROGATE MODEL SUBJECT TO VARIABLE IMPACT LOADING WITH FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
(2021-12-21)Traumatic brain injury (TBI) from blunt impacts to the head is a major cause of brain disease and dysfunction for thousands of people every year. Each year in the United States approximately 1 million TBI cases occur causing ... -
Internal Structure And Dynamic Decisions For Coalitions On Graphs
(Electrical Engineering, 05-07-2013)The notions of collaboration, advantage, cost and impact are investigated in this dissertation, following are the details. Contribution to Cooperation between Agents for Routing in an Unknown Graph Using Reinforcement ... -
International Compensation: An Examination of the Relationship Between Societal Culture and Preferred Compensation Policies
(2020-06-08)In my thesis, I review the research literature on the influence of national culture on reward preferences and compensation practices. I first review the major models of culture used to examine reward practices and then ... -
INTERNATIONAL EVIDENCE ON THE EFFECT OF ECONOMIC POLICY UNCERTAINTY ON STOCK MARKET LIQUIDITY
(2021-05-12)In this dissertation, I investigate the impact of economic policy uncertainty on stock market liquidity across a broad cross-section of countries. My dissertation is composed of three distinct yet related essays. My first ... -
INTERNATIONAL INDIAN GRADUATE STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES WITH ACADEMIC ADVISING AT A PUBLIC RESEARCH UNIVERSITY IN TEXAS
(2021-05-05)A missing component in the current international student literature is how international Indian graduate students adjust academically and socially to a new learning environment and how academic advising influences international ... -
INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL TURBULENCES IMPACT ON TRAVEL AND TOURISM
(2018-09-10)Tourism is a major economic development force, but it appears that international political turbulence has an impact on tourism. Whether the impact of political instability on tourism is a negative or a positive one is the ... -
The Interplay Of Environmental Stressors On The Life History Traits In Daphnia lumholtzi
(Biology, 2014-12)In natural environments, organisms face multiple stressors that threaten their persistence. Aquatic organisms respond to a change in environmental conditions by adaptively modifying the expression of traits (i.e., ... -
An Interpolation Based Approach For Pattern Recognition And Generation
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2013-07-22)A large number of problems in computer vision and computer graphics can essentially be reduced to a pattern recognition problem. In this thesis, we explore a novel interpolation based framework to address some of the various ... -
Interpreting unique colloidal response of TiO2 nanomaterials to controlled sonication for understanding their assembly configuration
(2015-11-24)It is important to determine the assembly configuration of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) particularly between aggregate or agglomerate because the assembly configuration greatly influences their fate and transport behavior ... -
INTERRELATIONS OF PROSODY, CLAUSE STRUCTURE AND DISCOURSE PRAGMATICS IN TARIFIT BERBER
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1996-08)The interconnections that exist among prosody, clause structure, and discourse pragmatics have been noted by many linguists (e.g., Halliday 1967; Givon 1983; Longacre 1983). These interconnections have included such phenomena ... -
THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF CULTURAL INFORMATION, LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE, AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATIONS IN A HALBI MYTH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1980-07)The mythology of the Halbi people reveals and reflects their cognitive orientation (and, in the process, validates their cultural values). The Halbis' myths are expressed through the linguistic form of narrative discourse ... -
Intersections Between Social Work and Public Administration: A Case Study of Urban Water Poverty
(2022-06-02)Despite infrastructure advances, water testing, and environmental policies, there are still areas in the United States that lack clean water. Some communities are negatively impacted by policies, location, socioeconomic ... -
Intersections Of Special Education Law And Juvenile Justice Policy And Practice
(Sociology, 2007-08-23)The purpose of this research is threefold: to summarize law as it relates to youth with disabilities in juvenile justice facilities; to synthesize existing literature hypothesizing explanations for the disproportionate ... -
Intervention Response to the Trauma-Exposed, Female Juvenile Offender: A Review of Effectiveness in Reducing Recidivism
(2019-08-08)When analyzed by general factors of effectiveness (Lispsey, 2009) and concepts of gender-responsivity (Day, Zahn, & Tichavsky, 2015) that target the needs of female juvenile-justice involved youth, reviewed studies show ... -
Interviews and Conversations about Leaving Services (iCALS): A Review of Resources after TANF
(2017-12-11)The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) policy is designed to protect the nation’s most vulnerable families from severe hardship. The policy encourages moving people from “welfare to work” and improving child ... -
Intoxication and Empire: Distilled Spirits and the Creation of Addiction in the Early Modern British Atlantic
(2015-11-30)This dissertation exams how the spread of imperialism in the British Atlantic led to the mass production and consumption of distilled spirits during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through transatlantic colonization, ... -
Intra Frame Luma Mode Prediction Using Neural Networks In HEVC
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-07-22)High Efficiency Video Coding, the latest video coding standard proposed by the JVT-VC and three profiles- HEVC main, main 10 and main intraframe were adopted in January 2013, provides significant amount of compression ... -
Intra-specific Variation Across A Small Temperature Difference In The Spider Rabidosa rabida (Araneae: Lycosidae) From The Mountains In Arkansas
(Biology, 2011-07-14)Temperature affects all levels of biological organization and ultimately affects multiple aspects of ecological performance and fitness. Generalist arthropod predators are ectothermic and are strongly affected by temperature ...