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  • Understanding school bullying and workplace abuse in a Taiwanese context

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    Lin, Yu-Hui
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    Bullying prevents its targets from enjoying a safe, stress-free living, learning, and working environment. For most children, bullying experiences will be merely unpleasant childhood memories. This remains the same in adult's working environment. During the past decade, the concept of workplace abuse has had an increasing resonance within western countries....
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    time and guidance. I want her to know that she is not just the wind behind me, as she used to say

  • Graphical models for multivariate spatial data

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    Irvine, Kathryn M.
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    In this thesis we focus on a graphical model for multivariate spatially correlated data--isomorphic chain graphs (ICG; Gitelman and Herlihy, 2007). We feel ICG allow flexibility for modeling spatial correlation and are intuitively appealing because each model has an associated graph that visually represents a complex multivariate system. We examine...
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Academic I am eternally indebted to my major professor, Dr. Alix I. Gitelman, she has not only

  • Inside a school-university partnership : Participation in a community of practice as professional growth

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    Bottoms, SueAnn I.
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    Research suggests that long-term participation in professional development is critical in helping teachers meet the increasing demands of reform efforts and changing practice (Gallucci, 2003; Darling-Hammond, 1995; Little, 1993). Understanding the influence that participation in a community of teachers as a community of practice may have on teachers’ professional growth...
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    THE DISSERTATION OF SueAnn I. Bottoms for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Science

  • Control of p53 tumor suppressor and peroxiredoxin activity through shifts incellular redox balance

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    Stoner, Christopher S.
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    Aerobic organisms have evolved many sensory mechanisms that allow response to oxidants in the environment. One area of interest is the relationship between the activity of the tumor suppressor protein p53 and the redox state of thioredoxin. Human p53 activity is severely compromised in budding yeast lacking thioredoxin reductase. Evidence...
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    _______________________________________________________________ Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my dissertation will become part of

  • The heart of leadership : An autoethnographic study of issues that impact educational leadership

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    Prince, Erin K.
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    This autoethnography explores issues that impact educational leadership by examining individual reflections, perceptions, and responses developed through the lens of a principal of two elementary schools. The main data source involves journal entries collected over a period of one year. Theories of educational leadership styles and effective school practices form...
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    grade classroom, I noticed she was in the middle of a mathematics lesson. Students were sitting at

  • A phenomenological inquiry into the experience of reflection by older adults in adventure-based experiential education

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    Brennan, L. A.
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    This phenomenological inquiry explored dimensions of reflection for older adults in a developmental oriented adventure education experience. Data were gathered from emergent interviews with four individuals while participating in a multi-day, self-contained experiential education program conducted in a rugged environment, and led by a Navajo leader. Two principle research questions...
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    simpler, (c) I just love Willow to death, (d) we’ve given them a bad hand, (e) she is still grieving, (e

  • On the evolution of correlated color traits in garter snakes

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    Westphal, Michael F.
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    How complex traits evolve continues to be a major focus of evolutionary investigation. A current topic of debate is the hypothesis that the phenotypic integration of complex traits gives rise to evolutionary constraints. I studied two color traits in the common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, that show a high level...
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    mentor, and I thank her for all the support she has given me over the years. I wish to acknowledge the

  • Spatial and temporal scales of genetic change in two overfished rockfishes

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    Gomez-Uchida, Daniel
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    Pacific rockfishes (genus Sebastes) have attracted wide scientific and public interest from an evolutionary, fishery and conservation standpoints. This dissertation addresses several hypotheses involving spatial and temporal scales of genetic change in two overfished rockfishes, darkblotched (S. crameri) and canary rockfish (S. pinniger), using statistical analyses of genetic variation within...
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    ), using statistical analyses of genetic variation within microsatellite DNA. First, I isolate and

  • Evidence of a trophic cascade among wolves, elk, and aspen in Yellowstone National Park, USA

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    Halofsky, Joshua S.
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    According to general top-down trophic theory, in the presence of carnivores, herbivore behavior and/or densities could change and result in an overall decrease in herbivory on plant communities. In this dissertation, I examined the potential relationship between gray wolf (Canis lupus) presence and absence on elk (Cervus elaphus) herbivory of...
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    herbivory on plant communities. In this dissertation, I examined the potential relationship between gray

  • Linkages between mangrove forests and coral reefs : quantifying disturbance effects and energy flow between systems

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    Granek, Elise F.
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    Interface habitats are considered valuable natural systems, tightly linked to adjacent habitats through the flow of matter and energy. However, there is limited research on mechanisms of connectivity such as movement of organisms and particulate matter and ways in which anthropogenic disturbance to interface habitats may affect immediate and adjacent...
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    . The chapters in this dissertation report on the following topics. First I review the published