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| 1 |  | Practical methods for characterizing training and identifying overreaching in athletes | Needham, Carrie Lynn | Overreaching; Overtraining; Performance; Training | The training undertaken by athletes to improve performance is a complex process, which attempts to balance the need for progressively overloading the proper physiological systems with adequate recovery time. Without adequate recovery, the large volumes of progressive, high intensity training will fa... | 2011-12 |
| 2 |  | The singular power of our repeated performances of race | Estrada Ramsay, Maria Cecilia | Bakhtin; Performance; Performativity; Race | This dissertation examines race as cultural identity and specifically what is produced and legitimated when race is expressed on the surface of the body through our daily discourses and repeated performances of those discourses. The framework defines identity as daily and repeated communicative, lin... | 2013-12 |
| 3 |  | Strategic view of alliance strategy: the impact of alliance type on firm profitability | Marsh, Laurence A | Alliances; Performance; Strategy; Corporate profits | This study attempts to determine how strategic alliances impact firm performance. The degree of alliance impact is theorized to be dependent on the type of alliance entered and how that alliance allows firms to leverage their own capabilities. The degree of impact also depends on the structure of th... | 2010 |
| 4 |  | Tensions in rhetorics of presence and performance | Watanabe, Sundy Louise | American Indian education; Performance; Presence; Rhetorical sovereignty; Rivaling; Survivance | This dissertation draws on theories of survivance and rhetorical sovereignty to document and interrogate interactional tensions in rhetorics of presence and performance occurring between selected American Indian students and non-Native faculty, staff, and graduate research assistants within a resear... | 2012-08 |
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