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This dissertation seeks to develop a novel account of the responsibility members of a group bear for transgressions in which they did not participate. More specifically, the dissertation argues that individual members of a group may be blamed for group transgressions independent…

The central premise of the present study concerned the motivational factors that mediate social identification with a nationalistic identity and the subsequent cognitive information processing biases, and expression of intergroup differentiation and discrimination. Consistent wi…

This qualitative study, carried out in an early learning center in an international school in Japan, aims to examine the place, meaning, and practice of assessment of young children’s learning through the methodology of documentation as defined and developed by the educators of …

Both Jewish and Christian traditions as well as modern scholarship on the Hebrew Bible have shown great interest in the issue of identity with special focus on the situation of the Restoration period. However, many of the contributions tend to lay their emphasis on the negative …

We study two problems about embedding groups into metric spaces. In the first problem, we study how the wreath product operation affects the compression bounds for two finitely generated groups when the target space is Lp for p ∈ [1,2]. We show that the wreath product preserves …

In modern physics, almost everything about the material constituents of the world (such as particles) can be inferred from claims about the symmetries of the world. For example, recent breakthroughs in particle physics are almost entirely due to claims about symmetries. This giv…

The project director developed the initial steps of an adult disciple-making plan for Bethany Baptist Church of Winston Salem, North Carolina, as a tool for church members. In the project, the project director describes the ministry context and explains the rationale behind deve…