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Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway Extension Project
(2017)The Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway in its entirety, is a 116-mile bike trail that begins at Tahoe City and ends at Pyramid Lake. Currently, there are two separate segments of the Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway that is undeveloped due to ... -
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Taiwan Catholic Consciousness: Postcolonial Effects on Catholics’ Perceived Identities and Perceptions of Chinese-Language Media Bias
(2019)In late 2018, the Vatican chose to formally recognize China, which allowed China more control of the Catholic Church in China. This decision strained already tenuous relations between China and Taiwan, because previously ... -
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TAKING LABOR TO TASK: THREE ESSAYS IN LABOR ECONOMICS EMPLOYING THE TASK APPROACH
(2018)This dissertation employs the “Task-Approach” to study how tasks impact different facets of the labor market. The first study explores heterogeneity in task costs associated with occupational choice. Exploiting variation ... -
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Taking Politics at Face Value: How Features Expose Ideology
(2022)Previous studies using computer vision neural networks to analyze facial images have uncovered patterns in the feature extracted output that are indicative of individual dispositions. For example, Wang and Kosinski (2018) ... -
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Talks in Maths: Visualizing Repetition in Text and the Fractal Nature of Lyrical Verse.
(2014)Using the techniques of Natural Language Processing (NLP), the repetition in the structure of lyrical verse (song lyrics and poetry) can be visualized by comparing the cosine similarity between each line in a given document. ... -
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Taming the Bear: Applying Game Theory to Improve Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Russia
(2016)The United States’ diplomatic relationship with Russia has significantly deteriorated over the last decade, and Russia’s foreign policy actions have been increasingly unpredictable. As a result, Washington D.C. and the ... -
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Tandem Diels-Alder/Nazarov Reaction of Ynones and Diynones
(2017)The Chalifoux group’s interest is in exploring new synthetic methodologies thatlead us to achieve a diverse array of complex products in fewer steps. We interested inthe reactivity of ynones for the purpose of probing new ... -
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Tangential Flow Filtration for the Purification of Lucentis®
(2017)The goal of the Genentech Capstone project is to design a process to manufacture and purify a “Lucentis®-like” (Lu-L) protein. This group has been working on the tangential flow filtration (TFF) portion of the project, ... -
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Target Discovery and Validation for Immunodiagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis
(2012)nvasive aspergillosis (IA) is a serious opportunistic infection caused mainly by Aspergillus fumigatus. Symptoms of IA are often non-specific, making the disease difficult to diagnose. The goal of this study is to develop ... -
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Targeting Proteins of Aspergillus fumigatus for Monoclonal Antibody Production
(2014)IA is increasingly prevalent and problematic among patients with immunodeficiency. Early diagnosis of IA can be difficult because the symptoms patients display are not specific to fungal infections, and the diagnostic tests ... -
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Teacher Perceptions of Inquiry and STEM Education in Bangladesh
(2016)This dissertation reports lower secondary science teachers perceptions of current practice in Dhaka, Bangladesh concerning inquiry and STEM Education in order to establish a baseline of data for reform of science education ... -
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Teachers' knowledge, beliefs, and experiences in supporting students to become scientifically literate citizens: A community of practice perspective
(2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has raised societal awareness of the role scientific literacy has in understanding and problem-solving complex societal issues. Misinformation during the pandemic relating to health, disease, and ... -
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Teachers' Perceptions of Professional Development Experiences
(2014)This research explored classroom teachers' perceptions concerning their professional development experiences by replicating Lowden's (2003) professional development evaluation questionnaire based on Guskey's (2000, 2002) ... -
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Teachers' Reported Use of and Perceptions About Graphic Organizers in High School Content Area Classrooms
(2014)This study explored the opinions of teachers regarding use and effectiveness in the use of graphic organizers in their classroom instruction. Data collection and analyses sought to determine if participating teachers used ... -
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Teachers’ Perspectives on Teaching Mathematics to Gifted/Talented Students
(2010)The purpose of this study was to investigate the perspectives of gifted/talented teachers on perceived characteristics of mathematical giftedness and talent, as well as what current instructional strategies are being used ... -
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Teaching American History: The Influence of Professional Development on Elementary Teacher's Self-Efficacy and Classroom Practices
(2010)This multiple case study examined the efforts of six elementary school teachers in their implementation of new instructional strategies in their fifth grade social studies classrooms following their participation in a ... -
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Teaching Conversational Interactions to Children with Autism
(2020)Children with autism (ASD) often struggle as conversation partners. The current study aimed to teach children with ASD to sustain conversational behavior with an adult experimenter. The study was conducted on the basis of ... -
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Teaching Preschool Children Recycling Behaviors: An Evaluation of Behavioral Components Within Public Service Announcements
(2012)This study examines the effects of different behavioral components imbedded within public-service-announcement-style (PSA-style) videos on preschool-aged children's recycling behaviors. Nineteen children, ages 3.5 to 6 ... -
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Teaching Under the Policy Cascades: Common Core, Learned Dependency, and Literacy Instruction
(2012)Educational policies and initiatives continually influence the instruction in classrooms across the nation. At the time of this study, the Common Core State Standards Initiative was in its first full year of implementation ...