Slavery and the church--Kentucky--Louisville; Slavery--Kentucky--Louisville; Louisville (Ky.)--Church history
In the one hundred and forty years of Louisville's existence, it has grown from a log cabin settlement with no churches to a city with 269 churches and church property valued at over $30,000,000. It is impossible to measure the moral and religious...
Technical writing; English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers; Academic writing--Study and teaching
This dissertation examines how nonnative English speaking (NNES) faculty and
students in engineering respond to language variation and how that response influences
their teaching and learning of academic writing. Using grounded theory approach...
There has been an increasing use of Unconventional Therapies in the past decade. These refer to healthcare interventions representing either a compliment or alternative to traditional medicine to which many people have turned in hope of attaining a...
Images, Photographic--Databases; Image processing--Digital techniques; Data mining; Cluster analysis
The performance of content-based image retrieval systems has proved to be inherently constrained by the used low level features, and cannot give satisfactory results when the user's high level concepts cannot be expressed by low level features. In...
Christian leadership--Case studies; Rural churches--Kentucky; Clergy; School improvement programs; Educational leadership
This qualitative study sought to illuminate successful practices of a turnaround leader in a rural church that are applicable cross-contextually, so as to inform the leadership efforts of various organizations seeking to reproduce organizational...
Women Veterans--United States; Military discharge--United States; Women college students--United States
Through an exploration of identity and enculturation experiences, this narrative
inquiry dissertation investigated how female veteran students make meaning of their
experiences and renegotiate their understandings of identity after transitioning...
Online organizations are always in search for innovative marketing strategies to better satisfy their current website users and lure new ones. Thus, recently, many organizations have started to retain all transactions taking place on their website,...
Ford Motor Company; Business logistics--Management; Production management; Manufacturing processes; Organizational change
For many years the concept of Lean Manufacturing has been applied in automotive development as a tool to refine the manufacturing practices to the greatest efficiency possible through waste reduction. Continuous Improvement is a quality innovation...
A tractor trailer hauls another vehicle around the corner from Brook to East Lee street during the morning downpour. The gothic-inspired tower of DuPont Manual High School rises in the background. Photograph was taken in the late morning.
Two people wearing shorts and rain jackets splash through the flooded intersection of Brook and Lee Street on foot. Photograph was taken during the initial downpour in the late morning.
A black car floats in the flood water on Brook Street behind DuPont Manual High School. A tiny bit of the roof of a submerged Mazda Miata protrudes from the water next to the adjacent lamp post. Photograph was taken during the late morning.
View facing north up Brook Street soon after the initial downpour stopped. The sun breaks through the clouds over DuPont Manual High School. Photograph was taken in the late morning.
Long view facing west down Cardinal Boulevard. The water level comes up to the railroad tracks. DuPont Manual High School can be seen in the distance. Photograph was taken in the late morning.
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; Railroad tracks; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings
Water cascades over the railroad tracks running behind the University Club on the University of Louisville Belknap Campus. The Student Activities Center (SAC) and clock tower can be seen in the distance. Photograph was taken in the late morning.
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; Streets; Street lights; Signs (Notices)
View facing east down Cardinal Boulevard from the railroad bridge that crosses over it. Two banners that say "Courage" and "Passion" and are attached to a light pole are partially submerged. The sign for the Owsley Brown Frazier...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; Streets; Automobiles; Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Signs (Notices)
View across Brook Street facing the Unitas Tower dormitory on the University of Louisville Belknap Campus. Parked cars along the street are almost totally submerged. A banner featuring an image of cardiologist Roberto Bolli that says...
Water gushes up from a drain on Brook Street. Steps leading up to the Unitas Tower dormitory on the University of Louisville Belknap Campus can be seen in the distance. Photograph was taken in the late morning.
This thesis is an investigation into the world of sixteenth-century Venice, encompassing a group of female portraits by artist Palma Vecchio. I utilized many primary and secondary sources concerning Renaissance society, including several which...
A man's philosophy is his view of life. And every man who has lived his life – not merely spent it – has a philosophy. The convictions which go to make up this philosophy are rooted in the sub-soil of his experience. This sub-soil may contain...
African Americans; African American politicians; African American businesspeople; African American business enterprises; Women politicians; Civil rights; Louisville (Ky.)--Politics and government; Politicians; Integration; Discrimination in housing
Oral history interview conducted with Louise Reynolds on June 13, 1979 by Mary Bobo. Louise Reynolds was the first African American woman elected alderman in the city of Louisville. Ms. Reynolds discusses her work with the Republican Party,...
