1 - 25 of 12
Number of results to display per page
| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | A performance evaluation of hot mix asphalt thin lift treatments | Sudbury, Daniel Scott | Asphalt; Cracking; Pavement; Performance; Thermal; Transportation | When applied at the right time, Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Thin Lift Treatments (TLTs) extend the life of flexible pavements. Correct application depends largely upon pavement condition and rate of deterioration. State Highway Agencies (SHAs) utilize an Open Grade Surface Course (OGSC), Dense Grade Aspha... | 2017 |
| 2 |  | The artist is not present: Andy Warhol's 1967 Utah "hoax" as performance and self-portraiture | Hill, Scotti | Performance; self-portraiture | My thesis recounts Andy Warhol's 1967 controversy at the University of Utah, in which the artist sent actor Alan Midgette to lecture in his place. My first chapter incorporates critical source material from the University's student newspaper the Daily Utah Chronicle, including articles, eyewitness ... | 2011-08 |
| 3 |  | Comparing an object-oriented clinical data repository with its relational database counterpart | Bai, Shi | Patients; Queries; Performance | The computerized patient record is one of the most important and difficult problems in medical informatics. Relational database management systems have exhibited serious drawbacks when used to implement computerized patient records. First, representing the complicated hierarchy in medicine with re... | 1999-08 |
| 4 |  | The effects of utility value and choice on interest and learning in online classes | Fraughton, Tamra Ann | Choice; Interest; Motivation; Online learning; Performance; Utility value; Social psychology | As part of the Regulating Motivation and Performance Online Project (RMAPO) students completing an online HTML programming lesson demonstrated higher quiz scores and greater post lesson interest when initially provided information about how the skills could be used (personal or organizational applic... | 2011-12 |
| 5 |  | The me of yours and the me of mine: an investigation of subjective self and objective self in dance | Niu, Li-Sha | Choreography; Dance; Objective self; Performance; Subjective self | This thesis investigates how the subjective self and objective self are shaped by interacting with the world. It examines how self-awareness arises when we put ourselves in an unfamiliar environment. In this research, I include personal dance experiences that have illuminated my own subjective self... | 2011-08 |
| 6 |  | Performance evaluation of high strength alloy steel cast connector under quasi-static load | Dangol, Sharad | Cast; Connector; Evaluation; High Strength; Performance; Steel | High strength alloy steel cast connector refers to a bracing system to be used in James L. Greene Science Center, Columbia University in New York. The cast connectors, as the name suggests, are the connection elements in a bracing system that uses stainless steel rods as the braces instead of tradit... | 2013-05 |
| 7 |  | 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 |
| 8 |  | 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 |
| 9 |  | Stereotype threat and affirmation: the interactive effect of domain and gender identification, and different types of affirmation on women's math performance | Mazur, Dominika | Group affirmation; Group identification; Performance; Self affirmation; Social identity threat; Stereotype threat | This research applies the affirmation theory to situations of stereotype threat. We examined how group-affirmation influences math performance of women under stereotype threat and whether group-affirmation effects depend on the beliefs women hold regarding gender and math (i.e., how much they ident... | 2011-12 |
| 10 |  | 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 |
| 11 |  | 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 |
| 12 |  | Towards a decided body and choreography | Dryden, Nathan | Choreography; Dance; Passive; Performance; Presence; Sequencing | This thesis examines a state termed the decided body, which describes an engaging and qualitatively fluid presence in performance. My research explored this state of presence and drew from the embodied qualities arising out of the state as source material for choreography. Dancers were trained in ... | 2015-08 |
1 - 25 of 12