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A Sousa band concert reimagined as a solo trombone recital

Houghtling, Jonathan David (University of Alabama Libraries, 2004-05)

John Philip Sousa is primarily known around the world for his march compositions. He was even given the nickname “The March King” by a British band journal. Compositions such as The Stars and Stripes Forever, The Washington ...
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 ...
Progress toward the synthesis of a Xenia diterpenoid common intermediate and the preparation of inotilone derivatives

Carr, Jeremy Mathew (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Xenia diterpenoid natural products (or xenicanes), isolated from the crude organic extracts of coelentrates, have been shown to possess cytotoxic, antiangiogentic, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory effects against a ...
The influence of Socialist Realism on the Yellow River Piano Concerto

Tham, Gloria (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Commissioned by Madam Mao, also known as Jiang Qing (1914-1991), the Yellow River Piano Concerto (1968) is scored for Western orchestra and piano. The piano concerto is based on a previous composition — the Yellow River ...
A comparative health analysis of the historic African American cemetery population from 1LA151, Foster Cemetery, to three contemporaneous historic southeastern African American cemetery populations

Thompson, Brandon Samuel (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The focus of this thesis involves the examination of two hypotheses stemming from field and osteological work at Foster Cemetery (1LA151) located in Lawrence County in northwest Alabama. The majority of this thesis assesses ...
Deus ex machina: the God machine

Pincumbe, Nicholas James (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

God is our salvation from eternal death. That's what Professor Nicholas Updown grew up believing. But what if there is no God? What then? These questions lead Nicholas down an unprecedented path of scientific exploration ...
Application of the diffusion of innovations theory and the health belief model to describe EMR use among Alabama family medicine physicians: a rural and urban analysis

Tucker, Melanie Tara (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The Alabama Black Belt region consists of twelve counties which are characterized by a high percentage of African Americans, acute poverty, rural decline, inadequate education programs, and significantly poor health outcomes. ...
Designing, manufacturing, testing, and optimizing of micro-fuel cells

Lu, Yuhao (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Micro-fuel cells are considered as promising electrochemical power sources in portable electronic devices. Performance of micro-fuel cells are closely related to many factors, such as processes of fabrication, designs of ...
The motivational effects of a GPS mapping project on student attitudes toward mathematics and mathematical achievement

Buck, Lisa Diane (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The purpose of this study was to investigate how student attitudes and mathematical achievement would be affected by a mathematics-based GPS mapping project. The participants were 75 ninth-grade students taking algebra 1A. ...
Evil men

Wennermark, Erik (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

A collection of short stories interested in the nature of evil as it relates to the formulation of masculine identity. As means of this exploration, the collection engages a multitude of forms and narrative styles, as well ...
Statistical tomography for scalar turbulence measurements using line of sight optical techniques

Kolhe, Pankaj Sharadchandra (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Turbulence has been an intriguing subject for several decades with past studies focusing on understanding the transition to turbulence and characterizing turbulence using statistical tools. In present research rainbow ...
Compressive gait biometric with wireless distributed pyroelectric sensors

Li, Nanxiang (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Human tracking and recognition are desirable yet challenging for many applications including surveillance, computer vision, robotics, virtual reality, etc. Many biometric modalities have been used on these applications. ...
The great white while

Gnall, Stacy Celine (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This thesis is a collection of poems by Stacy Gnall.
Study of a cold start fuel produced by an active vapor utilization system for use in gasoline powered vehicles

Crawford, John William (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This research focuses on the continuous development of the Active Vapor Recovery System (AVUS) which has the potential to reduce unburned hydrocarbon emissions from automobiles. The AVUS collects, condenses and stores ...
An ICM approach to the assessment of a medical ethics intervention in Thailand

Pinijphon, Ponsopa (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The purpose of this study was to develop and test a new instrument, the Medical Intermediate Concept Measure of Ethical Reasoning (Hereafter the MD-ICM), designed to help educators assess the ethical reasoning of medical ...
Faculty training for online teachers in three rural Alabama community colleges: a multiple case study

Davis, Robert Edward (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Online education is providing community colleges opportunities to reach students through the use of technological advances. These technological advances have allowed faculty to develop new teaching skills and transfer these ...
The efficacy of peer review in a university-level ESL writing class

Brathwaite, Sara Strickland (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Currently, there is a great debate concerning whether peer review is an effective activity in the university-level English-as-a-Second-Language writing classroom. Peer review offers the unique opportunity for second-language ...
Magnetic anisotropy graded media and Fe-Pt alloy thin films

Lu, Zhihong (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Anisotropy graded media is promising to overcome the writability problem in achieving ultrahigh areal density for magnetic recording media. To more conveniently study and compare various media with regard to a particular ...
A friendly salute: the President-Little Belt Affair and the coming of the war of 1812

Hooks, Jonathon Woodard (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

In May 1811, thirteen months before the start of the War of 1812, the United States frigate President and the British sloop-of-war Little Belt fought an hour-long battle approximately fifty miles off the North Carolina ...
Using design-based change orders as a lessons learned metric in university dormitory construction

Stone, Matthew Lee Cole (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

The enrollment at The University of Alabama has increased substantially in recent years and the University is expanding to meet the growing demands. The expansion includes four dormitory complexes built within the past ...

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