The Cooperative Extension System (CES) offers some unique challenges when addressing evaluation concerns having developed and grown in educational capacity over the past hundred years. CES is a large educationally focused organization based within the land-grant university syste…
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The dissertation examines the words and actions district superintendents used to lead an educational system through a culture shift following the occurrence of a scandalous critical incident. This qualitative study deeply investigated the specific words and actions as offered by…
The challenges of achieving the new vision in pharmacy education have been cited as an important reason for advocating transformational leadership as the kind of educational leadership that is required to assist the pharmacy profession in creating a patient centered practice. Ba…
The main purpose of this study was to explore, analyze and reflect on the meaning, nature, causes and associated dynamics of change in higher education within a Pakistani cultural context. Resistance was a major component of understanding this change. I focused on multiple facto…
This dissertation consists of three essays broadly centering on external changes and how organizations respond to these change by altering themselves. My investigations focus on knowledge transfer and innovation related firm responses with an emphasis on firms¿ especially, Multi…
This thesis focuses on energy considerations in the MOSFET when we supply a bias to it. We also notice that the length of the MOSFET gets smaller and smaller then for a small release or exchange of energy that may take place in a MOS transistor which can cause a change in the te…
This brief, focused ethnographic study investigated the unique problems and adaptations of Zoroastrianism in North America and how they made it distinct from the religion practiced in the mother communities of India and Iran. The field research took place in the Zoroastrian comm…
The purpose of this research was to evaluate forest-cover change in and around the protected areas of Peninsular Malaysia between 1992 and 1996. To accomplish this a historical review of deforestation and conservation measures in Peninsular Malaysia was undertaken. Different cha…
To test the hypothesis that climate change caused the abandonment of Tell Leilan during the late 3rd millennium BC (Weiss et at. 1993), 153 permanent teeth were assessed for developmental enamel defects as indicators of non-specific stress. Although the results indicate a greate…
Chaos and complexity theories are examined in their role as a framework from which to understand social change. The central question is that of how complexity, which is based in chaos theory, can shed light on the emergence of ways to address macro-level problems in complex soci…
Traditional communities in most Third World countries today are facing the influx of all industrialized economy which is leading to the introduction of new building technologies, infrastructure and modern communications. This has resulted in a change in the built environment of …
This thesis is a survey of contemporary artists and influences on art production in the province of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It explores the reasons artists have been drawn to produce their art and how they perceive the role of their art today. Since the existing literature on the…
Les TIC sont à l'avant garde de l'économie postindustrielle. Toutefois, elles risquent d'élargir l'écart entre les pays riches et les pays pauvres si ces derniers n'arrivent pas à s'insérer dans l'économie du savoir. Comme ce fut le cas pour les universités occidentales, les uni…
The Margi ethnic group occupies the geographical region of southern Borno and northern Adamawa states of the Republic of Nigeria. This study concentrates on the Margi Udzirngu subgroup who currently resides in North Eastern Nigeria. Margi Udzirngu literally means " the Margi who…
This dissertation uses evaluations of three UNICEF peace education programs (Albania, Armenia, and Aceh (Indonesia)) to determine if stakeholders' implicit theories of change (how their programs would bring change to the participant) can be identified. Further this study suggest…
This study took place in three high schools in rural Northern Pakistan. The participants comprised four experienced high school teachers, three men and one woman. Using predetermined criteria, I had identified them as “improvement-oriented teachers” (IOTs), more ready and determ…
This study comprises a series of thematically-linked essays on the social history of popular music in Turkey. They are interrelated by an overarching concern with the intersection of the experience of popular music (for its practitioners and its audience) with the more 'invisibl…
This study is concerned with the issue of the forces of social change in general and the Muslim world in particular. My point is that change in the Muslim world stems from Islamic concepts, which are deeply rooted in Islamic history and culture. Western social scientists have st…
This Dissertation offers significant insights in understanding a peasant church in Madiri Puram village (pseudonym), South India. Researches from ecclesial perspectives are very rare. When the gospel entered the village it brought remarkable changes in faith, community life, hea…