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  • Toward making the invisible visible : studying science teaching self-efficacy beliefs

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    Perkins, Catherine J.
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    This dissertation consists of two articles to be submitted for publication. The first, a literature review, makes visible common influences on science teaching self-efficacy beliefs and also points to potentially invisible validation concerns regarding the instrument used. The second investigates the participants' invisible science teaching self-efficacy beliefs and, through the...
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    visible common influences on science teaching self-efficacy beliefs and also points to potentially

  • Developing explanations : Student reasoning about science concepts during claims-evidence inquiry lessons

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    Pegg, Jerine M.
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    Recent science education reforms have placed a large emphasis on inquiry-based teaching strategies as an effective way of improving conceptual understanding of science principles, comprehension of the nature of scientific inquiry, and development of the abilities for inquiry (NRC, 1996). To better understand the relationship between inquiry-based instruction and student...
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    and consider how science concepts related to their investigations. A number of instructional

  • Mormons and evolution : a history of B. H. Roberts and his attempt to reconcile science and religion

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    Reid, Tim S.
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    Although much has been written describing the various reactions to the origin of Species in America, the Mormon reaction to Darwinism has been largely ignored. This dissertation will recount the history of this reaction as exemplified by the life and works of B. H. Roberts. Roberts's intellectual pursuits early in...
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    of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science presented on May 2, 1997. Title: Mormons and

  • Mantle melting and heterogeneity along mid-ocean ridges : insight from basalt geochemistry along axial depth and morphologic gradients for intermediate spreading rate systems

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    Russo, Christopher J.
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    This investigation focuses on gaining a better understanding of the complex relationship between melt generation, source variability and mid-ocean ridge morphology. The approach adopted here uses a variety of geochemical techniques to evaluate the ability of 'global' models to predict regional scale geochemical variability associated with axial depth and axial...
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    and regional variations in Indian MORB melt generation Trace elements (such as the heavy rare earth

  • Automatic program generation for scientific computing

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    Fu, Zhe
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    The code reuse problem is a common software engineering problem in scientific computing. As a prevailing programming language in many scientific fields, Fortran does not provide support to address this problem. One particular reason is that Fortran lacks the support for generic programming. By applying program-generation techniques, we developed two...
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    : Major Professor, representing Computer Science Director of the School of Electrical Eengineering and

  • Late Quaternary paleoceanography of the Northeast Pacific and Atlantic Oceans based on diatom transfer functions

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    Lopes, Cristina Isabel Coelho Dias
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    Modern upwelling conditions and corresponding oceanographic properties are investigated and reconstructed for the Late Quaternary. The oceanographic conditions considered influence diatom ecology and the record of fossil diatom frustules in the sediments. Diatoms from modern sediments are evaluated as paleoceanographic proxies and transfer functions (TFs) are calibrated using the Imbrie...
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    knowledge and wisdom will always be present in my life. Your devotion and passion for science has

  • The fluvial response to glacial-interglacial climate change in the Pacific Northwest, USA

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    VanLaningham, Sam J.
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    This research focuses on the development of new techniques to explore terrestrial-ocean climate linkages along the Pacific Northwest-northeast Pacific Ocean margin. This is done by investigating river response to climate change and by unraveling this history preserved in continental margin sediments. A significant component of this work centers on developing...
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    past 12 Myr: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 178, p. 397-413. Stuiver, M., and Grootes, P. M

  • Diffuse deformation patterns along the North American plate boundary zone, offshore western United States

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    Chaytor, Jason D.
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    Plate boundaries are commonly regions of complex, diffuse deformation with the motion across the boundary accommodated by numerous structural systems, rather than being narrow, discrete zones of deformation. One such boundary occurs where the North American plate makes contact with Juan de Fuca, Gorda, and Pacific plates along the west...
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    benefited from funding and project support from numerous sources including, the National Science

  • Seconds to hour scale photosynthetic responses in marine microalgae

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    Laney, Samuel R.
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    Our view of phytoplankton has historically revolved around their inability to control their location in space. The term phytoplankton itself underscores this particular difference between phytoplankton and their sessile terrestrial counterparts. Yet there are other differences between land plants and the phytoplankton that are perhaps equally important, beyond this sessile-planktonic...
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    needed, be it about science, ethics, practical advice, and so on. • Members of my doctoral committee

  • Quantifying linear disturbance growth in periodic and aperiodic systems

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    Wolfe, Christopher Lee
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    The mathematical and physical connections between three different ways of quantifying linear predictability in geophysical fluid systems are studied in a series of analytical and numerical models. Normal modes, as they are traditionally formulated in the instabilities theories of geophysical fluid dynamics, characterize the asymptotic development of disturbances to stationary...
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    Disturbance Growth in Periodic and Aperiodic Systems Abstract approved: Roger M. Samelson The mathematical