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  • Assessment of Feedstock Materials for Producing a Suitable and Cost-Effective Biochar to Use as a Soil Amendment for Northern Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)

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    Kumari, Pooja
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    Biochar is a highly porous, carbon-rich residue produced by thermochemical conversion (pyrolysis) of plant biomass and carbonaceous organic materials under oxygen-controlled conditions. Chars produced by this process tend to have high ion-exchange capacities and, when added to soil, increase retention of water and nutrients and improve soil aggregation, porosity, and...
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    Scott Lukas Biochar is a highly porous, carbon-rich residue produced by thermochemical

  • Comparing organizational theory to practice : using communication to describe a consensual organization

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    Lang, Sabrina A.
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    The overarching purpose of this study is to examine the communication implications of a self-proclaimed consensual organization (IT) within a classical organizational environment. The literature review of relevant theory and research covers both hierarchical and consensual organizations viewed via the classical, human relations, and system perspectives. The researcher compares organizational...
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    Communication to Describe a Consensual Organization. Abstract approved: Scott Chadwick The overarching

  • The Disclosure of Gay and Lesbian Sexual Identities and Relational Outcome Uncertainties

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    Smith, Karen Nimitz
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    The purpose of this study was to analyze the change in gay/lesbian friendships after the disclosure of their sexual identity. Six specific areas were examined: (1) what are the circumstances under which persons find out their close friends are gay/lesbian (hereafter referred to as the event), (2) do relationships change...
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    Uncertainties. Abstract approved: Scott Chadwick The purpose of this study was to analyze the change in gay

  • The identification and division of Steve Jobs

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    Anderson, Scott M. (Scott Matthew)
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    On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak entered into a partnership agreement to found Apple Computer. In the decade that followed, Apple experienced remarkable growth and success, as Jobs catapulted Apple to the Fortune 500 list of top‐flight companies faster than any other company in history. Under direction...
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  • American ideology and the atomic bomb

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    Swartz, Scott E.
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    On August 6, 1945 the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The events that led up to the United States' decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese...
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    THESIS OF Scott E. Swartz for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Speech

  • Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion

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    Tatom, Simon K.
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    My thesis, entitled "Fantastic Histories: How Malory's Morte Darthur Influenced Tolkien's The Silmarillion," argues that J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion shares distinct similarities in style and content with Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, primarily in the lack of detail in the descriptions of characters and events, as each attempts to create a...
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    replaced by an interest in more historical works, such as those by Sir Walter Scott. William Morris can

  • Pragmatism and Pain: the Melioristic Rhetoric of Mirror Box Therapy

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    Thompson, Anna F. B.
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    The phenomenon of phantom limb pain has been well documented for centuries, but little clinical work has been done to alleviate it. Physician and neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran began researching this condition nearly two decades ago, and has discovered a promising alternative treatment: mirror-box therapy. This therapy is not yet...
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    : ______________________________________________________________ Mark J. Porrovecchio The phenomenon of phantom limb pain has been well documented for

  • The Influence of Wilderness Activity Portrayals on Individual Participation

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    Kelley, Crystal Chorlton
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    Individuals in and around a small college town were asked to take part in an interview to study their perception of wilderness activities depicted on television and other forms of media and the potential impact of these depictions on an individual's willingness to participate in wilderness activities. This study linked...
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  • Cultural integrity and marginality along the South Fork of the Salmon River, Idaho

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    Rebillet, S. J.
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    This work examines the varied populations which have inhabited the South Fork region from prehistoric times to the present. It disclosed that even though almost no archaeology has been done in the area, data from contiguous regions suggest that persistent and careful archaeological investigation should reveal valuable and informative sites...
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    the Salmon River, Idaho AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF S. J. Rebillet for the degree of Master of

  • 'Mejor Amancebada que Mal Casada' : Rhetoric and Practice of Amancebamiento in Seventeenth-Century New Spain

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    Hisey, Aimee
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    Following a history of tensions surrounding concubinage in medieval and early modern Spain, the Church sought greater control of religious life, particularly over the sacrament of marriage, via the Holy Office of the Inquisition. The Church exercised its strengthened restrictions and prosecuted these relationships with more frequency, as did civil...
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    New Spain Abstract Approved: J, Nicole von Germeten Following a