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Retention in Black & White: The Effectiveness of Interracial Faculty-Student Mentoring Relationships Concerning the Retention of Minority Populations at Baylor University

Dike, Destiny

The retention of minority populations plays a significant role in establishing institutional diversity, bringing benefits that are often exclusive to students’ ability to reinforce their cultural competence during the ...

Review-by-Few or Review-by-Many?

Maurer, Peter

It’s clear that traditional forms of academic publication are rapidly becoming obsolete. It’s also clear that peer review is a seriously flawed process that could be much improved upon by modern methods of communication. ...

Revisiting the Dakota Uprising of 1862.

McKinney, Jennifer Elaine, 1984-

The Dakota Uprising of 1862 began as a cultural response by the Dakota Indians in reaction to their poor treatment by the United States government. Previous scholarship provides several reasons for the Uprising, often ...

The revival of political hesychasm in Greek Orthodox thought: a study of the hesychast basis of the thought of John S. Romanides and Christos Yannaras.

Payne, Daniel P.

In the 1940s Russian émigré theologians rediscovered the ascetic-theology of St. Gregory Palamas. Palamas's theology became the basis for an articulation of an Orthodox theological identity apart from Roman Catholic and ...

Reworking of musical material and the reinterpretation of musical drama: Luciano Berio's Sequenza X (1984) and Kol Od [Chemins VI] (1996).

Harbuziuk, David.

Luciano Berio wrote a series of pieces entitled Chemins for soloist and ensemble. Each chemins contains one entire solo line from one of his sequenzas for solo instruments. Numerous similarities and differences between ...

The rhetorical dimension of an apology for slavery.

Perry, Sam.

This paper will discuss the theoretical and practical applications of an apology for American slavery. It will focus upon former Representative Tony Hall’s 1997 and 2000 request for a congressional apology for slavery. ...

A rhetorical history of race relations in the early Pentecostal movement, 1906-1916.

Hjalmeby, Erik J.

In the spring of 1906, a religious awakening, known as the Azusa Street Revival, began at a small prayer meeting in Los Angeles. With its emphasis on an experiential “baptism in the Holy Spirit” and the accompanying ...

The rhetorical structure of disability: bridging the gap between what is 'spoken' and what is 'said' with song - over-signifying with personhood against the backdrop of disease-centric discourse.

Roberts, Jeff.

This paper investigates the rhetoric surrounding disability, specifically focusing on how such rhetoric is deployed in legislative texts which attempt to promote the equality of people with disabilities throughout society. ...

The rhetoric of Henry Highland Garnet.

Winkelman, Diana Michelle.

In the nineteenth century Henry Highland Garnet employed important rhetorical strategies to the abolition, colonization, and civil rights movements. His religious and patriotic appeals complemented radical and sometimes ...

The rhetoric of reflection : Hebrew roots of cognition and the final form of the masoretic text of the Psalter.

Wilson, Jeffrey Tod, 1975-

This dissertation builds on and attempts to contribute to the larger stream of research of the past three decades generated by Gerald H. Wilson’s seminal work The Editing of the Hebrew Psalter. This stream of research has ...

Rhetoric, reason, and the problem of rule : Aristotle and J.S. Mill on speech and politics.

Block, Stephen A. (, )

This dissertation examines the relation between reason, public speech, and rule in the thought of J.S. Mill and Aristotle. It argues that both Mill and Aristotle present alternatives to typical liberal theories of speech ...

Rise of the Givetian (385 Ma) Forests, Northern Appalachian Basin, Catskill State Park, New York, U.S.A.

Mintz, Jason S. (Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), )

Forestation on Earth may have profoundly changed fluvial sedimentary patterns, increased the release of bio-limiting nutrients to marine systems and increased the consumption of atmospheric CO₂ through biologic productivity ...

RNAi screen for novel components in Caenorhabditis elegans ovulation and fertility.

Miles, Jonathan P.

The intercellular and intracellular signaling pathways elucidated through research on the nematode C. elegans provide valuable information on the communication systems throughout all organisms. Through the use of RNA ...

Robust geolocation techniques for multiple receiver systems.

Fisher, Gregory W.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate signal processing algorithms that allow multiple moving receivers to locate a stationary emitter. This problem has received considerable attention over the past 50 years, yet ...

The role of eukaryotic initiation factor 5A and its cellular localization in developing Zea mays plant tissue.

Saladine, Sonya J. (, )

Eukaryotic initiation factor 5A is an 18 kDa protein that has been implicated in a wide variety of cellular activities, but its primary role, especially its role in translation, has been a mystery. Investigation of its ...

The role of hyperpolarization-activated non-selective cation current in amygdala excitability and serotonin mediated effects.

Herman, David Hans.

The hyperpolarization-activated, cyclic nucleotide-dependent non-selective cationic (HCN) current (Ih) has an important functional role in the rat brain, participating in network oscillations, temporal summation of synaptic ...

The role of kinesin heavy chain in Drosophila photoreceptor development.

League, Garrett P.

In developing Drosophila photoreceptors a stabilized microtubule structure was discovered and its presence was linked to polarity protein localization defects caused by mutations in the microtubule-severing protein Spastin ...

The role of mentoring in the developmental experiences of Baptist pastors in Texas: a case study.

Godfrey, J. Michael (James Michael)

This grounded theory, multiple case study addressed the need for improvement in the training of Baptist pastors for practical ministry. The researcher posed the research question, "What is the role of mentoring in the ...

The role of social capital and mediating factors in Hispanic student college retention.

Shiu, Alexandra.

This dissertation study describes the characteristics of Hispanic students who were and were not retained at the university level. Two-hundred and forty-five undergraduate Hispanic students answered survey and assessment ...

The Role of Spectraplakin in Drosophila Photoreceptor Morphogenesis

Mui, Uyen Ngoc

Cell polarity, the correct positioning of membrane proteins in the apical and basolateral domains, is critical for the proper development of retinal photoreceptor cells. The regulation of cell polarity is controlled by ...

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