Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints God God (Mormon theology)

Thesis (M.A.B.S.)--Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, 1986. | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-60).

Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Glossolalia.

Thesis (B. Div.)--Northwestern Theological Seminary, 1951. | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-101).

Assurance (Theology)

Thesis (B. Div.)--Northwestern Theological Seminary, 1957. | Includes bibliographical references (leaves i-iv).

Travel, Ancient Travel in the Bible. Iron age Via Maris. Middle East

Thesis (M.A.B.S.)--Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, 1987. | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-83).

Children in the Bible. Mikros (The Greek word) Little (The English word) Little ones (The English phrase) Greek language Greek language, Biblical English language

Thesis (M.A.B.S.)--Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, 1987. | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-90).

Congregationalism Reformation England

Thesis (B. Div.)--Northwestern Theological Seminary, 1954. | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-70).

Kingdom of God. Spiritual life.

Thesis (M.A.B.S.)--Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, 1987. | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-111).

Revelation.

Thesis (M.T.S.)--Catholic Theological Union, 1979. | Includes bibliographical references (leaves i-iv).

Lonergan, Bernard J. F. Genetic counseling. Christian ethics. Decision making

Thesis (M.A.)--Catholic Theological Union, 1977. | Bibliography: leaf 166.

Environmental Design and Planning

This qualitative research looks at the relationships between primary caregivers of mentally ill individuals and mental health professionals from the perspective of the caregivers. It reports the stories told to me by family members of mentally ill loved ones who were receiving mental health services in order to raise awareness of the challenges these caretakers face on a daily basis as they tried to support their loved ones in the community and the isolation they experienced because of current a...

Adult Learning

The dissertation focuses on understanding the mothering experience of three internal organizational development consultant/managers who perceive that their experience informed their professional functioning. The questions that guided the study were: (a) What is the mothering experience of the internal organizational development consultant/manager who perceives that her experience informed her professional functioning? and (b) How does the mothering experience inform the professional functioning ...

Human Development

This study explores the influence of employee perception of acquisition success and the dispositional antecedents of positive affect and adaptive coping on employee- organization commitment during the 60-day period following a business acquisition. Allen & Meyers affective, normative and continuance model of commitment was used for the dependent variables. A single sample was analyzed using a hierarchical regression approach. The survey was conducted with TRWs GIT Division, and included ...

Civil Engineering

An Evaluation of Assignment Algorithms and Post-Processing Techniques for Travel Demand Forecast ModelsDaniel S. Goldfarb(ABSTRACT)The purpose of this research project was to evaluate the techniques outlined in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Technical Report 255 Highway Traffic Data for Urbanized Area Project Planning and Design (NCHRP-255), published in 1982 by the Transportation Research Board. This evaluation was accomplished by using a regional travel demand forecast model...

Teaching and Learning

This instructional study of fostering student independence while teaching them to read revealed how first grade students develop independent reading behaviors during their 18-22 weeks of instruction. The observations were made of three Reading Recovery teacher/student dyad behaviors during three videotaped lessons; one in the beginning of instruction, one near the middle of instruction and the last just before the students discontinued from their respective programs. Individual units of reading ...

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

The purpose of this exploratory dissertation was to gather data regarding information technology and the internet as it related to clinical counselors. The findings have the potential to add to the sparse information base regarding use of technology and the internet in clinical counseling practice. The data for this dissertation was collected by surveying a national sample of 534 clinical counselors who were recruited from state clinical counseling organizations. The survey instrument was done o...

Veterinary Medical Sciences

Altered immune responses have been observed following occupational, inadvertent, or therapeutic exposure to xenobiotics. Many pesticides are known to cause immunotoxicity. Exposure to mixtures of pesticides, either concurrently or sequentially, may result in potentiating this effect partly because one can effect the metabolism of the other. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of the insecticides endosulfan, permethrin and their mixtures on C57/BL6 male mice thymocytes in vitr...

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Smart antenna is a potential performance enhancement tool in a communications link that can be used at either end (transmitter or receiver) of the link in the form of beamforming or diversity operation. While receive smart antenna techniques and operations have matured over the years, transmit smart antenna is relatively a new concept that has seen its growth over the past few years. Both these smart antenna operations have been traditionally designed for base station applications. But with the ...

Chemistry

Poly(dimethylsiloxane-b-methylvinylsiloxane) (PDMS-b-PMVS) diblock copolymers were synthesized via anionic living polymerization with controlled molecular weights and narrow molecular weight distributions. Targeted molecular weights agreed well with experimental values determined by 1H NMR, 29Si NMR, and GPC. Morphologies were investigated by DSC to analyze glass transition temperatures. Only one Tg was observed for each PDMS-b-PMVS block copolymer suggesting that the blocks were miscible in bul...

Electrical and Computer Engineering

In a conventional electronic ballast for a fluorescent lamp, inductor-capacitor-transformertank circuit is used. A Piezoelectric Transformer (PT) can potentially be usedto replace such a tank circuit to save space and cost. In the past, ballast design using a PTrequires selecting a PT from available samples which are normally not matched tospecific application and therefore resulting in poor performance. In this thesis, a designprocedure was proposed for designing a PT tailored for a 120-V 32-W ...

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Recent research supports the eventual convergence of wireless LAN (WLAN) and cellular systems in order to achieve the IMT-2000 (3G) requirement for 2 Mbps indoor capacities. The WLAN access point can be enhanced to either incorporate or supplant the transmission and packet data capabilities in the cellular network. This research used OPNET to design, implement, and test a network system level simulation environment to allow investigators to study the issues and trade-offs for interworking the in...

Mechanical Engineering

Conventional isolation models deal with massless isolators, which tend to overestimate the isolator performance because they neglect the internal resonances (IRs) due to the inertia of the isolator. Previous researches on the IR problem is not adequate because they only discussed this problem in terms of vibration based on single degree-of-freedom (SDOF) models. These studies did not reveal the importance of the IRs, especially from the perspective of the noise radiation. This dissertation is no...

Veterinary Medical Sciences

(ABSTRACT)Objective: To evaluate the effect of fenoldopam on renal function in normal dogs subjected to bisection nephrotomy. In addition, effects of bisection nephrotomy on renal function in normal dogs were evaluated.Study Design: Controlled, randomized, blinded experimentSample Population: Sixteen mixed breed adult dogsMethods: Dogs were paired for sex, body weight, and approximate age and were assigned to one of two groups: fenoldopam (F) or placebo (P). Baseline glomerular filtration rate (...

Urban Affairs and Planning

The objectives of this paper are to explain what build-out analysis is and how localities can integrate it into their planning regimen. In addition, I will demonstrate a build-out analysis tailored to Roanoke County, Virginia, in order to calculate the fiscal impact of its current zoning ordinance at complete build-out. I conclude with recommendations for Roanoke County, other uses of build-out analysis and conclusions about this tool.The purpose of a build-out analysis is to show a locality wha...

Electrical and Computer Engineering

This thesis investigates the interference potential of microwave ovens to Bluetooth data communication. Interference experiments are conducted in the CWTs Bluetooth lab, using CSRâ (Cambridge Silicone Radio) Bluetooth radios and a Tektronicsâ Protocol Analyzer to record packet transmissions between the master and slave units.A novel, quasi-real time spectral measurement concept is developed to take radio frequency measurements. A LabView program enables a spectrum analyzer to d...

Architecture

Architecture and Man:Berlin, with all its contradictions sets the stage for my thesis. I would like to receive you with pleasure in the reading of my drawings. To receive guests is a psychological proviso in which you invite them into the privacy of your home, a place that is not only physical, as sharing these spheres imply the cognizance of being together. The character of the host or hostess is unveiled not by way of the objects in the environment but via the representation or reflection of h...

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which Greeks living in Greek housing experience outcomes associated with living in a learning community. Additionally, the study explored differences in the degree to which these outcomes were achieved by type of house (fraternity v. sorority) and type of control (university vs. private). Data were collected by administering the Learning Communities Assessment (LCA; Turrentine, 2001) to Greek students living in fraternity and sorority houses...

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Research has shown that head-mounted displays can produce greater presence in a virtual environment than direct-view displays. It has also been shown that after vision, haptic response is one of the most important inputs for humans in a simulated environment. This research was designed primarily to determine the performance differences associated with different display types, levels of steering force feedback, and the interaction between these two factors in a low-to-medium fidelity, PC-based dr...

Geography

In the first half of the twentieth century in Virginia, the town band was a popular concert venue and sometimes a symbol of community pride. Originally, community bands faced few competitors for entertainment popularity, but the advent of movie theaters in the 1930s, and eventually television in the 1950s, challenged the bands former role. Attendance decreased at band concerts and the community space that bands had occupied was allotted for other uses. Despite this decline, the town band survive...

Civil Engineering

In addition to immediate elastic deformations, concrete undergoes time-dependent deformations that must be considered in design. Creep is defined as the time-dependent deformation resulting from a sustained stress. Shrinkage deformation is the time-dependent strain that occurs in the absence of an applied load. The total strain of a concrete specimen is the sum of elastic, creep, and shrinkage strains.Several test beams for the Pinners Point Bridge have been produced by Bayshore Concrete Product...

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

A prominent problem for college students today is the rising levels of debt associated with attending college. College students are graduating with more educational debt than ever before. In addition, the use of high-interest credit cards compounds the educational debt they already face by significant amounts. This significant debt has been linked to adverse effects post-graduation in terms of employment, savings and making major purchases. To assist college students with this growing concern, i...

Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management

This study examined the effects of household fabric softeners on the thermal comfort and flammability of 100% cotton and 100% polyester fabrics after repeated laundering. Two fabric properties related to thermal comfort, water vapor transmission and air permeability, were examined. A 3 X 2 X 3 experimental design (i.e., 18 experimental cells) was developed to conduct the research. Three independent variables were selected: fabric softener treatments (i.e., rinse cycle softener, dryer sheet softe...

Architecture

Through the study of architecture, and the thermal bath, one must ask, How can the experience of springwater, heavy, stone walls, and light contribute to the ritual of bathing? The making of stone walls is the nature of the bath.<p>The wall is the primordial state ofarchitecture, and is given autonomy through its passion. The beginning of architecture is mass, and the articulation of it is in the carving, and shaping of the mass to form a place. The passion of the wall is in the po...

Electrical and Computer Engineering

In-phase and quadrature (I/Q) signal generation is often required in modern transceiver architectures, such as direct conversion or low-IF, either for vector modulation and demodulation, negative frequency recovery in direct conversion receivers, or image rejection. If imbalance between the I and Q channels exists, the bit-error-rate (BER) of the transceiver and/or the image rejection ratio (IRR) will quickly deteriorate. Methods for correcting I/Q imbalance are desirable and necessary to improv...

Science and Technology Studies

This dissertation examines the politics of representation in biotechnosciences. Through web representations, I examine three emerging endeavors that propose to create large-scale human population genomic databases to study complex, common diseases and conditions. These projects were initiated in different nations (US, UK, and Iceland), created under different institutional configurations, and are at various stages of development. The websites, which are media technologies do not simply reflect a...

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

EDUCATING ADOLESCENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF SECTION 504 POLICY:A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO MIDDLE SCHOOLSByMartha Asterilla TaylorJean B. Crockett, Ph.D.ChairpersonEducational Leadership and Policy Studies(ABSTRACT)Section 504 "prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities by school districts receiving federal financial assistance" (First & Curcio, 1993, p.33). In public schools, eligible students receive an Individualized Accommodation Plan (IAP), guaranteeing a free a...

Psychology

The relationship between exposure to violence and aggression has been examined by many researchers. It has been reported that physically abused children and children from violent communities have more aggressive behavior than non-abused peers or peers from non-violent communities (Dodge et al., 1990; Dodge, 1993; Miller et al., 1999). In addition, it has been reported that children who are physically abused have social information processing deficits. However, the relationship between community ...

Human Development

The primary purpose of this study was to examine the strength of the relationship between childhood playfulness and adult playfulness. Therelationship between adult playfulness and adult creativity was also examined along with the relationship between child playfulness and adult creativity. Exploratory interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of individuals to provide insight into subjects perceptions of their own playfulness as well as life experiences they perceived to be related to s...

Mechanical Engineering

The purpose of this study is to document the design process as it is adapted to compressed timeframes. I have termed this adapted design process single-session design. This study will also explore the application of this type of design methodology in industry where the research and development phases of products are continually being compressed.The primary research for this study is extracted from the examples of rapid design observed repeatedly on the Robot Rivals television series on the Do It...

Human Development

AUTISM AND THE FAMILY: A QUALITATIVE PERSPECTIVEPaul W. Glass(ABSTRACT)The focus of this dissertation was to gain a better understanding of autism, and its effects on family life. Studies have been done on the behavioral and cognitive effects of autism on the affected child, and how those effects manifest themselves into family life. No studies were found, however, that give a rich, qualitative account of what it is like to live with autism using first hand accounts as data, and what and how fam...

Human Development

ABSTRACTThis qualitative study was conducted to examine the phenomenon of conflict as a relational process as it is played out in the natural settings of two classrooms. The researcher sought to explore the developmental potential that conflict affords children as they try to make meaning of their relationships within the peer culture. It breaks away from the cyclical and linear models of conflict interactions as it tries to understand the reciprocal role of individual and culture in the initiat...

Veterinary Medical Sciences

Brucella abortus is a facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen, which causes abortion in cattle and undulant fever in human. B. abortus strain RB51 (Strain RB51) is the official vaccine for bovine brucellosis in the USA. B. abortus strain RB51 can be used as a vector for the over-expression of its own (homologous) as well as heterologous protective antigens. The immune system can detect these heterologous antigens and produce a response. Expressing a protein in different bacterial compartmen...

Animal and Poultry Sciences

A series of experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of certain biological, nutritional, and processing factors on breast meat quality of broilers. In the first experiment, the influence of genetic strain, plane of nutrition, and age at slaughter on breast meat quality was evaluated. Breast meat from a high yield line of broilers had lower pH at 24 h postmortem (PM), greater L*, a*, and b* values, lower water holding capacity (WHC), and higher expressible moisture (EM) than those of...

Civil Engineering

It is generally accepted that a decrease in temperature causes the rates of chemical and biochemical reactions to slow down, usually resulting in poorer performance of biological wastewater treatment systems. Despite this, early researchers repeatedly showed that excess biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) was more efficient at colder temperatures. Recent studies, however, have demonstrated that the reaction rates of EBPR processes decrease with temperature in accordance with Arrhenius Law, resu...

Civil Engineering

Although enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) and complete biological nutrient removal (BNR) systems can be operated successfully by experienced operators, the accuracy of design and strength of the scientific background need to be reinforced to enable accurate modeling and economically optimal design. One way to accomplish this would be through a better understanding of the biochemical mechanisms and microbial population dynamics that determine the reliability and efficiency of EBPR, a...

Entomology

Entomopathogenic fungi are highly susceptible to the damaging effects of solar radiation. Attempts to protect entomopathogenic fungi from solar radiation have been, for the most part, unsuccessful. A new strategy for formulating entomopathogenic fungi for protection from solar radiation and desiccation has been developed tested using the acridid entomopathogen Metarhizium anisopliae var acridum (IMI 330189). This strategy involves coating spores with water-soluble materials that provide protecti...

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

In recent years a body of literature on the topic of school culture has emerged, highlighting the importance of developing strong school cultures. My purpose was to explore the creation of culture in a new school by studying the school s core principles, leadership, history, practices, decision making, language, membership, environment, and critical events.<p>The setting for this descriptive case study was Chapman Friends School - an alternative Quaker high school located in a mid-...

Physics

In this thesis, the interface between the electron donor polymer and the electron acceptor fullerene in organic photovoltaic devices is studied. Starting from a bilayer system of donor and acceptor materials, the proximity of polymer and fullerene throughout the bulk of the devices is improved by inducing an interdiffusion of the two materials by heating the devices in the vicinity of the glass transition temperature of the polymer. In this manner, a concentration gradient of polymer and fullere...

Forestry

Crotches were cut out of red maple (Acer rubrum), callery pear (Pyrus calleryana), and sawtooth oak (Quercus acutissima) trees (2.5-7 d.b.h.) and then pulled apart in an engineering testing machine to identify physical parameters correlated with crotch strength. Parameters measured included the diameter of the branch and of the trunk above and below the crotch, angle of the branch and branch bark ridge, and the length of the crotch and the branch bark ridge. The force required to break each samp...

Biology

The bacteroides group is a subdivision in the <I>Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides</I> phylum. This group is as phylogenetically distinct from other Gram-negative enterics, including <I>Escherichia coli</I>, as they are from Gram-positive organisms. Furthermore, there is no cross expression between genes of <I>E. coli</I> and <I>Bacteroides</I> species. It is thought that this diffe...

Latin American Area Studies

This thesis explores the construction of masculinity in Argentina, as represented in two plays by Susana Torres Molina, _...Y a otra cosa mariposa_ (1981) and _Una noche cualquiera_ (1999). In these two plays, the construction of sexual difference is portrayed as occurring within a masculine point of view, wherein it is explicit that men have the power to define, from a self-referential standpoint, their masculine identity, through contrast with a construction of the female. Rather than consider...