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Traces of motion: making the learning visible in creative dance education
What is the learning that happens in creative dance in an elementary school setting? Can pedagogical documentation, inspired by the educators of Reggio Emilia, make this learning visible to the various stakeholders in ...
Assessing and optimizing patient-provider communication regarding cardiovascular rehabilitation (VRCOMM)
"Cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) is proven to reduce morbidity and mortality in cardiac patients. Despite the evidence of benefit, only 15-20% of patients participate. The most successful strategy to promote CR utilization ...
State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety: psychometric properties and experimental manipulation to evaluate sensitivity to change and predictive validity
The State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety (STICSA; Ree, French, MacLeod, & Locke, 2008) is a relatively new measure of state and trait anxiety that contains somatic and cognitive anxiety subscales. The ...
The Staphylococcus aureus Ser/Thr kinase Stk1 specifically phosphorylates GraR, a transcription factor involved in global signal transduction
Staphylococcus aureus coordinates gene expression at appropriate times throughout its life cycle. The work herein demonstrates S. aureus serine-threonine kinase (Stk1) can phosphorylate the response regulator GraR in vitro. ...
Accumulation by dispossession and the transformation of property relations in Egypt: housing policy under neoliberalism
This dissertation examines the ways in which workers and peasants access to housing has been shaped under different political regimes over the past two centuries (1805-2011). Up until 1952, Egypt did not have an official ...
Labouring bodies: living standards and the distribution of food in Britain, 1850-1914
This dissertation analyses the social relations of distribution upon which the 'production' of cheap food in Britain between 1850 and 1914 came to rest. It argues that these relations of distribution were essential to the ...
Landscape, home, & nation: Chinatown identities in urban Southeast Asia
Existing research on Chinatowns have focused largely on the development of the ethnic community, and racial and ethnic discourses in the context of urban spatialities in the form of enclaves, as well as economic networks. ...
Rearing Mesostoma ehrenbergii and studying chromosome movements during meiosis in their spermatocytes
"The Mesostoma ehrenbergii spermatocyte is an advantageous cell for studying meiosis. Its many unique features include regular and persistent bivalent kinetochore oscillations, distance segregation of univalents and the ...
DragonflEYE: a passive approach to aerial collision sensing
"This dissertation describes the design, development and test of a passive wide-field optical aircraft collision sensing instrument titled 'DragonflEYE'. Such a ""sense-and-avoid"" instrument is desired for autonomous ...
Compound specific concentration and stable carbon isotope ratio measurements of secondary organic aerosols
The formation, composition and processing of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) m the atmosphere is poorly understood and is of great interest to the scientific community. It has been proposed that the use of concentration ...