Voting research; Press and politics--United States--History--21st century; Mass media--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century; Presidents--United States--Election--2000; Presidents--United States--Election--2004
Scholars have long considered the role media play in shaping levels of political knowledge and voting behavior. The specific context of this study is the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. It examines the influence of newspaper reading,...
Background: Dental caries is the most common childhood ailment and one of the most prevalent chronic diseases of people worldwide. Approximately 91% of dentate adults 20 years or older have experienced dental caries. Carious lesions on proximal...
The current study investigated narrative comprehension ability in children from low-income families by examining the contributions of temperament, attention skills, and cognitive engagement. Research has identified narrative comprehension skills as...
Digital images have primarily been viewed using desktop applications. These types of programs attempt to load all of an image's graphical data into memory in order to display the image in its entirety. The method is effective for images that are...
Emotions (Philosophy); Literature--Philosophy; Ethics; Philosophy of mind
This dissertation offers a brief survey of the rise of reason and the tum to the self at the expense of emotion in Western thought. This marginalization of emotion has had deleterious effects on two areas: the cultivation of virtue and the...
Phenomenology and art; Art--Philosophy; Philosophy of mind; Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961
This dissertation presents the philosophical concepts of Edmund Husserl on phenomenology and image-consciousness and explores the phenomenological project of Maurice Merleau-Ponty as I have sought to render them in my creative artwork. By building...
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Art; Breastfeeding in art
This dissertation is an analysis of Italian late medieval and Renaissance peoples’ response to the Madonna lactans image. Although the images that comprise this type are similar in that Mary holds Christ at her breast, they vary widely in...
Parents of children with disabilities; Speech therapy for children
The study was completed to determine if parents' feelings of empowerment is improved after viewing a video. The video was designed to assist parents in determining appropriate time(s) to complete speech and language therapy homework. Parents from...
A blinded observational cross-sectional in vitro study was conducted to compare the diagnostic accuracy of observers viewing images made using cone beam computerized tomography (CBCT), panoramic radiography and linear tomography. The sample...
Emigration and immigration--Government policy; United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy; Russia--Emigration and immigration--Government policy; Germany--Emigration and immigration--Government policy
This exploratory study proposes a model for examining the evolutionary nature of immigration policy, the Cappiccie Lawson Evolution Immigration Model (CLEIM). The model was applied to the United States, Germany, and Russia to provide a broad...
Due to the complex nature of interactions at the genomic level as well as the large number of proteins present in an organism, understanding the functions of various genes that are expressed is essential. Creating an analysis pipeline for Expressed...
Gary Snyder's poetry conveys Zen states of consciousness through unconventional grammar and syntax. From his first book Riprap in 1959 to his last collection of poems, Mountains and Rivers Without End in 1996, he has confronted the challenge of...
Two men in suits and hats shake hands as a crowd watches. Between the two men is a ribbon. This is the opening ceremony for the Municipal Bridge in October 1929. The bridge was renamed the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge in 1949. The bridge...
Streets; Transportation; Motorcycles; Street railroads; Buildings; Parades & processions
Address: Broadway and Sixth Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Men on motorcycles ride in front of a string of trolley cars during a parade of the trolleys down Broadway. In the distance the tall white building is the Heyburn Building on Fourth Street...
A man, his back to the camera, stands viewing the gently rolling countryside, which is marked here and there by wood or stone fences and occasionally edged by trees. A barn can be seen in the distance.
Democratic political leader Mickey Brennan with Maurice Garvin and Lieutenant Governor A.B. Chandler, possibly viewing the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. They are all wearing hats and suits. Photograph has been painted on to crop their images....
A woman riding sidesaddle on a show horse approaches outdoor viewing stands at the Kentucky State Fair at Churchill Downs in 1907. Men in uniforms, perhaps a band or color guard because one appears to be holding a bugle or horn, fill the upper...
Woodblock prints of, from top to bottom starting at left: village scene, with crowds staring at man dressed in black, holding hat in hand, carrying cane, and approaching seated man; person rowing boat in choppy water; man on white horse riding...
Tornadoes; Disasters; Churches; Buildings; Ruins; Debris; St. John's Church (Louisville, Ky.)
The wall of the front of St. John's Church is left standing while the rest of the church and rectory are gone, following the tornado that hit Louisville, Kentucky, on March 27, 1890. St. John's Church, located at 1115 W. Jefferson, was built in...
