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High-Stakes Reading Assessment and English Oral Language Development: A Study of Third Grade English Language Learners in a Texas School District
(2011-08-08)
The purpose of this study was to examine: (a) the methodological quality of current research on English Language Learners (ELL) in the areas of high-stakes testing and oral language as a component skill of reading performance, ...
Simulation Study to Investigate the Effect of Natural Fractures on the Performance of Surfactant-Polymer Flood in Carbonate Reservoirs
(2011-10-21)
This thesis presents a comprehensive simulation study on the impact of natural
fractures on the performance of surfactant polymer flood in a field scale surfactantpolymer
flood. The simulation model utilized for the study ...
Selection Process for Third and Fourth Grade African American Gifted and Talented: A Case Study in One Urban School District
(2011-10-21)
The purpose of this study was to examine teacher perceptions of third and fourth grade African American students who might be selected for the gifted and talented program. It is the first study concerning teachers’ perceptions ...
Designing a Griotte for the Global Village: Increasing the Evidentiary Value of Oral Histories for Use in Digital Libraries
(2011-10-21)
A griotte in West African culture is a female professional storyteller, responsible for preserving a tribe's history and genealogy by relaying its folklore in oral and musical recitations. Similarly, Griotte is an ...
Nonparametric Methods for Point Processes and Geostatistical Data
(2011-10-21)
In this dissertation, we explore the properties of correlation structure for spatio-temporal
point processes and a quantitative spatial process. Spatio-temporal point
processes are often assumed to be separable; we propose ...
Study of CO2 Mobility Control Using Cross-linked Gel Conformance Control and CO2 Viscosifiers in Heterogeneous Media
(2011-10-21)
CO2 has been widely used as a displacement fluid in both immiscible and miscible displacement processes to obtain tertiary recovery from the field. There are several problems associated with the application of CO2 flooding, ...
The Relationship Amongst Stress, Temperament, and Immune Function in Brahman Cattle
(2011-10-21)
The studies described herein were designed to determine the influence of
temperament on stress hormones and the immune system in response to various
stressors. These stressors included transportation, lipopolysaccharide ...
Changes in Obesity-related Food Behavior: A Nutrition Education Intervention to Change Attitudes and Other Factors Associated with Food-related Intentions in Adolescents: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior
(2011-08-08)
This research examines the effect of a nutrition education intervention to change
attitudes and other factors associated with eating breakfast and consuming low-fat dairy
and whole-grains. Adolescents (n = 106) 11 to 15 ...
Professional Learning Communities as a Leadership-Initiated Reform Strategy for Math and Science Teaching in Urban High Schools
(2011-10-21)
Due to the urgency of not losing more urban high school students to academic failure and dropping out, the most promising reform efforts must be investigated. One of the most promising ways of creating successful high ...
The Impact of the CEO's View of Risk on Turnover and the Value of Equity
(2011-10-21)
Recent theory predicts that two factors influencing the CEO’s view of risk, overconfidence and debt-like compensation, have implications for CEO forced turnover and firm equity value, respectively. We test each of these ...