African American male college students--Social conditions; African Americans--Race identity; Academic achievement
This dissertation examines the influence of collective racial esteem (CRE) on the quantity and type of involvement for African American male undergraduate students in public four-year institutions of higher education in the U.S. In addition, this...
Pen-and-ink illustration of Belknap Playhouse at the University of Louisville. The images comprising the Macauley's Theatre Collection hung at this playhouse in the years between the closure of the theatre in 1929 and the donation of the collection...
Address: 1434 Cherokee Road. Houses sited on hillsides, prominent walkways and stone steps, expansive porches, front-facing dormers and blue or green-glazed terra cotta roof tiles are all characteristic of the many Louisville homes designed by...
The Louisville Storefronts & Saloons Album (ca. 1912) collection consists of 114 exterior photographs of predominantly commercial buildings around the Central Business District, Portland, and Russell neighborhoods of Louisville, Kentucky in the...
Due to the overwhelming increase in open source code, off-the-shelf software packages, third party and vendor codes, along with the ease of getting information about hacking network security systems and attacking the well known holes in security...
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are used in almost
all industrial processes including use in the nation's critical infrastructure. The electric,
water, and gas industries are merely a few that rely heavily on the use of...
The topic of this dissertation is the automation of the process of extracting understandable patterns and rules from data. An unprecedented amount of data is available to anyone with a computer connected to the Internet. The disciplines of Data...
Premenopausal women have fewer and less severe strokes when compared to postmenopausal females and aged matched males. The most obvious factor that could account for the observed difference is the physiological activity of Estrogen. Numerous...
Aquatic ecosystems face major transformations as humans increasingly alter their environment by introducing exotic species and changing the temperature regime and nutrient availability of freshwater systems. The impacts of such alterations of...
Most industrial countries face with some form of housing problems. As a result, each state has adopted a variety of housing policies. Policy methods of government authorities in meeting the housing gap and addressing the low income families'...
Human-animal relationships in literature; Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Criticism and interpretation; Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Characters--Elizabeth Costello; Animals (Philosophy); Animal rights
For the past four decades, scholarship on the relationship between human and
nonhuman animals has been growing inside the academy and sprouting ontological and
epistemological concerns about the status of the Humanities as an institution....
Motivation (Psychology); Psychology and religion; Faith--Psychology
Religious motivation is a construct that has been the focus of decades of research. The "Religious Orientation Scale" (ROS) and variations of it, including the "Age Universal Intrinsic-Extrinsic Scale-12" (AUIES-12), are the...
Kwame Nkrumah framed a model of African unity and development, which stood out in
sharp contrast to the Western model of capitalist development and neo-liberal democracy.
Decades after his demise, the African Union which he co-founded with other...
This paper investigates the development and applications of the Black-Scholes
formula. This well-known formula is a continuous time model used primarily to price
European style options. However in recent decades, observations in financial market...
Rectangular lithograph of performer and producer Nathaniel Carll (N. C.) Goodwin, in three-piece suit, eyeglasses, and mustache, posed underneath a larger portrait of him (clean-shaven). This appears to be an advertisement for his performance of...
Well-known and widely reproduced photogravure of Nat C. Goodwin in costume for the role of "Modus" in "The Hunchback." He stands before a backdrop of a painting, wearing long curly hair, a long jacket with ruffled collar,...
Photogravure of full-length character portrait of performer and producer Nathaniel Carll (N. C.) Goodwin costumed for the role of Sir Lucius O'Trigger in "The Rivals." He wears a black hat; long jacket; shirt with ruffled collar; short...
Autographed full-length character portrait of performer and producer Nathaniel Carll (N. C.) Goodwin costumed for the role of Sir Lucius O'Trigger in "The Rivals." He wears a black hat; long jacket; shirt with ruffled collar; short pants;...
Full-length character portrait of performer and producer Nathaniel Carll (N. C.) Goodwin, wearing an overcoat, fur hat, and gloves amid a simulation of falling snow. Goodwin was born July 25, 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, and died January 31, 1919...
