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Movie: the musical! a three article dissertation examining the phenomenon of film as source material for Broadway musicals

Wallace, Richard (University of Alabama Libraries, 2004-08)

Prior to 1997, 52 musicals based on films were produced on Broadway over a time period of 45 years. From 1997 through April 24, 2017, 73 more film-based musicals opened, an increase of 138% in less than half the time. The ...
The River God as a necessary horizon: myths of origin as hegemonic influences in feature news journalism

Latta, John (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This dissertation examines the presence of America's foundational myths, especially mythicized American capitalism, as sources of base narrative structure for mainstream American news media. A reliance on these myths ...
Identification of neuroprotective genes against alpha-synuclein toxicity using a Caenorhabditis elegans Parkinson disease model

Hamamichi, Shusei (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Recent functional analyses of nine gene products linked to familial forms of Parkinson disease (PD) have revealed several cellular mechanisms that are associated with PD pathogenesis. For example, alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn), ...
The effects of heterogeneous small learning academies on secondary student achievement

Beavers, Stoney Mark (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This study focused on the differences in outcomes for three academic years of 10th grade students grouped into standard and advanced classes compared to three academic years of students grouped into heterogeneous academies. ...
The power of PowerPoint in listening at beginning levels of Spanish

Martinez Valencia, Francia Eliana (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This study took place during the Spring and Fall semesters of 2008 at the University of Alabama in two Elementary Spanish classes. Using a combination of the findings reported by Mueller (1979), Bransford and Johnson (1972), ...
An exploration of the relationship between student engagement and academic performance of undergraduate students at a public historically Black higher education institution in the southeast

Alexander, Jr., Matthew (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Many colleges and universities are grappling with the ever-increasing challenge of understanding the impact that college has on students. Research has validated the fact that student engagement has a significant impact on ...
The use of social and temporal comparison to explore the process of quality of life evaluation in older adults

Chandler, Joseph Francis (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

QOL measurement is an enormous field that spans multiple disciplines (Felce & Perry, 1995; Phillips, 2006). Calls for its unification, clarification, or abandonment have been common for nearly four decades (Abeles, Gift, ...
Workforce supply and facility location

Palmer, Nathan Curtis (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

It is important for every company to minimize its costs. This includes labor costs. We develop mathematical models that allow a company to minimize its labor costs by deciding from where to hire workers and the amount that ...
Three assets model for portfolio selection under a constrained consumption rate process

Thagunna, Karan Singh (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

[NOTE: Text or symbols not renderable in plain text are indicated by [...]. See PDF document for full abstract.] In this dissertation, we consider a particular case of an optimal consumption and portfolio selection problem ...
School climate and teacher commitment

Smith, Larry Don (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This study examined the relationship between school climate and teacher commitment. The study focused on elementary schools in Northeast Alabama. Thirty-four elementary schools consisting of 522 teachers took part in the ...
Drag measurements across patterned surfaces in a low Reynolds number Couette flow facility

Johnson, Tyler Jay (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Understanding fluid dynamic drag, and its reduction, has always been a topic of primary concern. Direct drag measurements can be difficult to obtain with low viscosity fluids such as air or water. For this study a new low ...
Landscapes of memory: the cartography of longing

Strong, Frances Justina (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Landscapes of Memory: The Cartography of Longing examines three disparate twentieth century writers--Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Virginia Woolf--who use similar fictive strategies for the reclamation and revision ...
Self, world, and God in the poetry of Dickinson and Melville

Gilliland, Don (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville are the major nineteenth-century representatives of a strain of American poetry that may be termed, following Elisa New, "religiocentric." In support of this proposition, this study ...
"It is a privilege to see so much confusion": Marianne Moore and revision

Whisenhunt, Eloise Arnold (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Marianne Moore's Complete Poems is not complete; it contains sixty-six poems, which is about one-third of her published work. What has not been omitted has, in most cases, been revised. Such acts of expurgation and ...
Primary grades teachers' teacher identities and teaching practices in the United States and Japanese mathematics classrooms

Johns, Kyoko (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The research supports the contentions that teachers' beliefs influence classroom practice and student achievement. Although research has been done to examine teachers' beliefs and classroom practice, limited research has ...
Impact of moral judgment and moral disengagement on rape-supportive attitudes in college males

Carroll, Jessica Ashley (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Sexual aggression and, more specifically, non-stranger sexual assault, commonly referred to as date rape, has been documented as a serious problem on college campuses for at least three decades (Fezzani & Benshoff, 2003). ...
Predictors of coping success in children with functional abdominal pain: the influence of executive function and attention regulation

Hocking, Matthew (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Theoretical models of adjustment to chronic illness underscore the influence of executive function and attention regulation in children's coping attempts, yet few studies have investigated the relations between these ...
Does tragic drama have hedonic value?: the social aspects of hedonic motivations and media enjoyment

Ahn, Dohyun (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The hedonic principle, approaching pleasure and avoiding pain, governs human behaviors including media selection. However, the enjoyment of tragic drama poses a challenge to the hedonic principle. Two questions arise from ...
(Re)-visiting the madwoman: madness or (self)-identifying the individual

Jones, Rachel Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This thesis examines the narratives of Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea and their treatment of Antoinette Bertha Mason Rochester. Jane Eyre describes Bertha as the "lunatic, Mrs. Rochester" while the other novel gives an ...
The hidden subgroup problem for generalized quaternions

Upton, Julia Tumasova (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The hidden subgroup problem is a pivotal problem in quantum computation since it reflects the structure of tasks for which quantum algorithms significantly outperform classical algorithms. In this dissertation, a quantum ...

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