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JAPANESE AMERICAN AND JAPANESE CANADIAN SCHOOL LEADERS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: PERSONAL HISTORIES AND LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS
(2014)Do school administrators of Japanese descent hold traditional Confucian, Buddhist, and Shinto values and do they attempt to put these values into action in their professional lives? The author explores this question in an ... -
JASMONATE BIOSYNTHESIS AND SIGNALING IN THE BALANCE OF PLANT GROWTH AND DEFENSE
(2016)Jasmonic acid (JA) is a plant hormone that controls many aspects of growth, development, and defense. As a defense hormone JA is rapidly synthesized in response to wounding, or attack from herbivores and pathogens, triggering ... -
JOHNNY CAN WRITE: IDENTIFYING THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL LANGUAGE OF UNDERGRADUATE WRITERS
(2017)This dissertation examines the epistemological moves made by Washington State University undergraduates in their general education course writing and during two impromptu writing assessment exams administered by the WSU ... -
KINETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF HOT WATER AND DILUTE ACID PRETREATMENT OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS
(2014)Acidic aqueous-phase pretreatment is a promising approach that has been directed at maximizing intermediates yields (e.g. sugars, sugar degradation products, and lignin) from biomass for fuel and chemical production. This ... -
Kinetics and Thermodynamics at the Solution/Solid Interface: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study
(2016)A detailed investigation on the nature of stability of surface structures of octaethylporphyrins (OEP) on graphite and Au(111) has been performed using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). In-situ temperature dependent ... -
KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AMONG TEACHERS OF STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER IN SAUDI ARABIA
(2015)Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has become more prevalent in recent decades. Most of the research supports the use of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) techniques to reduce disruptive behaviors with students with ASD. ... -
Landscape-based Null Models for Archaeological Inference
(2014)How do we, as humans and as scientists, learn about the world around us? In this dissertation, I explore how models--epistemological tools that connect theory and reality--not only structure scientific inquiry (including ... -
Language and Literacy Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Bilingual Language Education Policy in Angola
(2015)Recently the Angolan government piloted a new language policy that will introduce six African languages as media of instruction into the school system from first through third grade. Using Fairclough's critical discourse ... -
Lanthanide-Polyaminopolycarboxylate Complexation Kinetics in High Lactate Media: Investigating the Aqueous Phase of TALSPEAK
(2013)In advanced nuclear fuel reprocessing schemes, the TALSPEAK (Trivalent Actinide Lanthanide Separation with Phosphorus-reagent Extraction from Aqueous Komplexes) process has been proposed as a means to separate Am and Cm ... -
Large volume single crystal growth of Cadmium Zinc Telluride with minimal secondary phases for room temperature radiation detector application
(2011)Two major aspects of Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CdZnTe) crystal growth for room temperature radiation detection application namely tellurium rich second phase defects and single crystal yield have been addressed. Various ... -
Latina/o Student Success At An Emerging Hispanic Serving Community College: Understanding The Heuristics At Work In The Black Box
(2013)Latina/o Student Success at an Emerging Hispanic Serving Community College: Understanding the Heuristics at Work in the Black BoxABSTRACTBy Derek R. Brandes, Ed.D.Washington State UniversityMay 2013 Chair: Paul E. PitreLike ... -
LATTICE LOCATIONS AND DIFFUSION IN INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS EXPLORED THROUGH PAC MEASUREMENTS AND DFT CALCULATIONS
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Leadership For Data Use: A study of Three Award-Winning Elementary Schools
(2016)Data use is a significant part of a school principal’s responsibility. The principal who leads the development and implementation of a data-driven plan for increasing student achievement has the potential to improve school ... -
Leadership of Response to Intervention; Perceptions and Reflections
(2011)This study seeks to describe how elementary principals in a large Washington school district perceived the district office administration's implementation of Response to Intervention over a four-year period. RTI is a widely ... -
Leading for Social Justice: A Principal's Utilization of a Rigorous College-Prep Curriculum to Challenge Injustice and Inequity in an Urban, High-Poverty High School
(2016)Nowhere is the nation’s commitment to equity of opportunity and outcomes more tested than in urban, high-poverty high schools. In considering efforts to address the persistent issues plaguing these schools, one distinct ... -
LEADING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS IN WASHINGTON STATE
(2017)School leaders play an important transformative role as they carry out policies and practices that support socially just education for all students. The lack of clarity around socially just leadership makes it difficult ... -
LEADING FROM HOME AND BACK AGAIN: A REFLECTIVE JOURNEY OF CULTURAL CONFLICT IN LEADERSHIP
(2013)This dissertation explores a third path of leadership as structured by the dual passageways of traditional Native leadership and Western leadership. Using autoethnography, the study conveys a Native American woman's ... -
Leading Online: An Autoethnography Focused On Leading An Instructional Focus On Student Learning In An Online School
(2012)The purpose in writing this autoethnography was to describe, analyze and interpret one leader's experience in leading a group of online teachers. I specifically wanted to identify the characteristics of an online learning ... -
Learning Modulates Mirror Neuron Activity Depending on Stimulus Modality: An EEG Study
(2014)The mirror neuron system (also called the FPMC) is active when one performs a goal directed action, as well as when an individual observes someone else perform the same or similar action. The traditional mirror neuron ... -
LEGITIMATING THE SIERRA LEONE POLICE: POLITICS, CORRUPTION, AND PUBLIC TRUST
(2015)There are considerable variations in the level of trust and legitimacy of the police among the citizenry in different countries for a host of factors. The purpose of the current study is to determine how citizens' perception ...