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Burke's Rhetoric of Reorientation in Hank Williams' Honky-Tonk Performance

Robinson, Gregory (2009-07-23)

Music can be a powerful form of constitutive rhetoric. Country music has garnered little attention from rhetoricians despite being a highly adaptive folk-form through the first half of the 20th century. In particular, the ...

Burnout Among Parents of Infants: Associations with Parental Self-Care Practices, Infant Negative Emotionality, and Couple Satisfaction

Harvey, Tatum (2022-07-19) ETD File Embargoed

While the phenomenon of parental burnout has gained more attention in research and popular media in recent years, missing from the literature is an understanding of the associations between parental burnout and characteristics ...

Burnout as a Mediator in the Workaholism-Turnover Intentions Relationship

McGoey, Kendall (2022-04-19)

The present research explores the relationship between workaholism and voluntary turnover intentions with burnout as the explanatory mechanism. Existing literature has found a positive relationship between workaholism ...

Business for Design Thinkers

Freed, Gena B. (2014-05-01)

This research assessed the use and success of design thinking in business. The goal was to emphasize the importance of incorporating business education into an existing product design course. With exploration of the design ...

The Business of Love: Managing the Challenges of Legitimizing the Work of the Babysitter

Kowtko, Lily (2020-04-15)

This thesis examines how babysitters construct their work as being more or less real work. I argue that babysitters construct their work as being both real and not real at the same time. In some ways, the work is real, ...

Business Rules Discovery in Web Application through Process Mining

Alkofahi, Hamza (2020-07-20)

Advances in information technologies have allowed businesses to deliver their services to new markets that did not exist before, especially in fields such as e-commerce, healthcare, e-education, and cloud services. Web ...

Bystander Intervention: Examining Recognition and Response to Sexual Violence on a College Campus

Cooper, Cathy (2018-07-24)

The prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses is well documented with findings revealing both men and women experience victimization. Sexual assault often results in physical and mental issues, poor academic ...

C-wild knots

He, Yunlin (2013-04-16)

Here we give a definition of infinite connected sum of tame knots and define a C-wild knot to be an infinite connected sum of tame knots whose wild points form a Cantor set. We further give a classification of C-wild ...

C4-Factorizations with Two Associate Classes

Tiemeyer, Michael (2010-04-29)

Let $K = K(a,p;\lambda_{1},\lambda_{2})$ be the multigraph with: the number of vertices in each part equal to $a$; the number of parts equal to $p$; the number of edges joining any two vertices of the same part equal to ...

Caffeine Content of National and Store Brand Carbonated Beverages

Chou, Ken-Hong (2006-12-15)

Caffeine is a well-known stimulant which is added as an ingredient to various carbonated soft drinks. Caffeine has drawn more attention due to its physiological effects beyond that of its stimulatory effect. Consumers are ...

Calcium Availability to Runner-type Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) in the Southeastern United States

Yang, Rui (2014-12-15)

Sandy soils in major peanut producing areas in the southeastern United States may be low in plant available Ca. Insufficient Ca supply to developing peanut may result in undeveloped pods and finally low yield, substandard ...

Calibration of Fatigue Transfer Functions for Mechanistic-Empirical Flexible Pavement Design

Priest, Angela (2005-12-15)

As agencies continue to adopt mechanistic-empirical (M-E) pavement design, the need for locally calibrated transfer functions will continue to increase. Transfer functions are the critical link from mechanical pavement ...

Can a Horse Learn While Under the Influence of a Tranquilizer (acepromazine maleate)?

Griffith, Samantha (2006-12-15)

Although tranquilizers commonly are used as “training aids,” little is known about how this practice affects efficiency of learning in the horse. Forty mature horses were used to compare learning performance of tranquilized ...

Can Deliberation Occur? Student Decision-Making about Controversial Political Issues in Online, Face-to-Face, and Blended Formats

Busbin, William (2013-07-19)

This study investigated the influence of format on the ability of students to reach a collective decision regarding a controversial political issue through the deliberation process. Three deliberation iterations were ...

Can Health and Wellness Education Programs Help Decrease the Number of New Incidences? A Study of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Malawi

Callaway, Latasha (2014-07-11)

This study entails a secondary data analysis and a proposed program model for the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Malawi. Addressing key issues such as what is the best way to decrease the number of new incidences of HIV/AIDS in ...