A paradigm shift occurred in writing instruction theory and pedagogy during the 1970's, a shift that mandated a move away from the current-traditional emphasis on product and towards a new, more rhetorically-based focus ...

This thesis takes a critical look at Albert Camus’ The Stranger and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 as two works in a new proposed subgenre of literature: the absurd legal novel. The Stranger’s court system relies on an ...

The current challenge confronting the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank (FOMC) in achieving price stability requires the facility to forecast changes in the rate of inflation and to implement timely ...

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Because older adults have a greater propensity toward musculoskeletal problems, aquatic exercise is a valuable modality for rehabilitation and physical training. However, little research has been completed concerning the ...

The opioid crisis has reached a boiling point in Tennessee. As a result, a comprehensive plan, entitled TN Together, was launched by the State of Tennessee to address the growing epidemic. However, an area remarkably ...

Asian American authors have been producing works for children for more than a century, adding to the diversity and sophistication of the body of children’s literature. Critics ascribe the development of Asian American works ...

Collected in this dissertation are three separate works that examine several different factors in an individual's wage determination. Chapter 1 looks at the effect of diabetes on an individual's employment decision and ...

Cellular automata are a set of discrete structures generated and manipulated by predetermined rules, in which each state (or evolution) is influenced by the previous. Utilizing the simplicity of this fundamental structure, ...

Collection of Centers, Institutes and Program abstracts from Scholars Week 2013.