The trucking industry is the largest freight sector, making up about 70 percent of all domestic shipment in the United States and contributes greatly the American economy. About 10 billion tons of goods are shipped annually and of that, about...
Indians of North America--British Columbia; Literacy--British Columbia--Case studies
This dissertation examines the literacy practices of a group of First Nations women who live in British Columbia and whose jobs entail the production and dissemination of texts which reflect the local, Carrier, culture. In this qualitative study of...
The Chautauqua movement has been called "culture under canvas" and "the university of the people." What began as a training camp for Sunday School teachers on the shores of Lake Chautauqua in western New York State in the...
Educational tests and measurements--Kentucky; Educational accountability--Kentucky; School improvement programs--Kentucky
High-stakes accountability, standards for improvement, global perspectives, and social considerations are re-defining the educational process. These powerful forces shake foundations and traditions, restructure organizational expectations, and...
A row of children are lined up at the new accounts counter of a bank. A little girl in a hat and coat holds a passbook and a bell in her hands while she smiles at the camera. A gentleman in a suit hands the next child in line a bell. A discrete...
Istanbul (Turkey)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Architecture, Ottoman--Turkey--Istanbul--History
Following the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by the Ottomans, a new trend in architecture developed that achieved a balance between the traditional Ottoman building practices of Bursa and Edirne with the styles found in Byzantium and the West....
Football teams--Ratings and rankings; Ranking and selection (Statistics)
A new method to rank football teams with the concepts associated with the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) and Graph theory is developed in this thesis. A set of games is interpreted as a graph, in which every vertex represents a team, and every...
Cardiology--Research--Methodology; Microfluidics--Equipment and supplies
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States and accounts for nearly 1,372,000 deaths each year. In addition, ~81 million Americans suffer from some form of CVD. Understanding the molecular basis of various...
Cancer accounts for nearly one-quarter of deaths in the United States, exceeded only by heart diseases. Despite the development of various strategies to treat cancer, it remains one of the most deadly diseases worldwide due to the limited effects...
Empathy; Social psychology; Rhetoric--Social aspects; Language and culture
Empathy has been commonly evoked within rhetoric and composition as a way to understand audiences and as a classroom ethic. This dissertation goes further in defining rhetorics of empathy, analyzing the uses of rhetorics of empathy in political and...
A hyper basis function network (HyperBF) is a generalized radial basis function network (RBF) where the activation function is a radial function of a weighted distance. The local weighting of the distance accounts for the variation in local scaling...
Tornadoes; Disasters; Carriages & coaches; Men; Falls City Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
Wreckage of Falls City Hall, with horses, carriages, and people in the foreground, following the tornado which struck Louisville, Kentucky on March 27, 1890. There were over 200 people in the building when it collapsed, and while accounts vary, at...
Tornadoes; Disasters; Men; Falls City Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
People standing on the wreckage of Falls City Hall, Louisville, Kentucky, following the tornado which struck on March 27, 1890. There were over 200 people in the building when it collapsed, and while accounts vary, at least 55 people died. The...
Tornadoes; Disasters; Men; Falls City Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
Wreckage of Falls City Hall, following the tornado which struck Louisville, Kentucky on March 27, 1890. People are standing on the wreckage. There were over 200 people in the building when it collapsed, and while accounts vary, at least 55 people...
Tornadoes; Disasters; Men; Falls City Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
Wreckage of Falls City Hall following the tornado which struck Louisville, Kentucky on March 27, 1890. People are standing on the wreckage. There were over 200 people in the building when it collapsed, and while accounts vary, at least 55 people...
Three-story brick building at 2532 South Fourth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. "G. A. Brucker Groceries, Fresh Meats and Vegetables" painted on the side. Horse with carriage for the business stands outside. Advertisement for savings...
Collages; Montages; Photographs; Men; Heads (Anatomy); Moral aspects of war; Pessimism
"Henderson is rarely accorded much status in accounts of postwar art but he was a formative influence on members of London's Independent Group, especially [Eduardo] Paolozzi and [Richard] Hamilton. In the late 1940s and 1950s he photographed...
Collages; Montages; Photographs; Men; Heads (Anatomy); Moral aspects of war; Pessimism; Details
"Henderson is rarely accorded much status in accounts of postwar art but he was a formative influence on members of London's Independent Group, especially [Eduardo] Paolozzi and [Richard] Hamilton. In the late 1940s and 1950s he photographed...
Post-Partum Document, 1983 [book]. From Documentation I, Analysed Faecal [Fecal] Stains and Feeding Charts (prototype), [work produced] 1974. "One of the oldest themes of Western art, mother and child, was ironically made compatible with...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Civil wars; War; Politics & government; Political issues; Dictators; Nazis; Fascism; Civilization; Bombings; Military tactics; War destruction & pillage; Death; Dismemberment; Body parts; Mental states; Despair;...
"In this monumental work of 1937, Guernica, Picasso combined Analytic and Synthetic Cubist forms with several traditional motifs, juxtaposing them in a new Surrealist way. The combination serves the political message of the painting - namely,...
