This study grew out of a desire to understand the ways that intercultural experiences affect the lives of women. The method and design of the study is heuristic. Interviews were conducted with 13 women, seven Turkish women and six Euro-American women between the ages of 23 and 5…
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Irradiated, whole muscle turkey breasts were vacuum tumbled with a marinade containing 108 CFU/mL of an 8-strain cocktail of Salmonella . Various methods were used to aseptically excise tissue from the inner portions of the muscle and then enumerate bacterial content. Effect of …
This project explores the development and political usage of ascent imagery, especially that of ladders and staircases in the ancient world. The principal conclusion is that evidence from a variety of sources including artwork, literature, architecture, and tombs indicates that …
This study examines how Turkish teachers respond to the design of an instructional computing training program, based on data from research conducted in the United States, as well as how Turkish students respond to computer integrated lessons created by specially trained teachers…
Necropsies of several wild California condors indicated that they died from lead poisoning due to ingestion of lead from bullet fragments in carcasses of abandoned game animals. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the toxicity of alternative, non-lead based ballistic mater…
This dissertation examines the framing and counterframing processes involving the Islamic Welfare Party (RP), media, and state bureaucracy (the military and judiciary) in Turkish politics from December 1995 to January 1998. This period covers the electoral victory of the RP, its…
The rise of religious movements across civilizations has challenged long held expectations concerning the ultimate separation of religion and politics. The predominance of Islamic movements in Turkey is especially puzzling, given that it is arguably the most secularized country …
This ethnography describes the function of Christianity in the lives of three uncelebrated well-educated African American women. The women are members of academia who hold doctorate degrees. The study gives insight to the function of Christianity in the private and professional …
The objectives of this project were to evaluate roosting habitat and poult survival of Merriam's turkeys in the southern Black Hills, South Dakota. Merriam's turkeys roosted exclusively in ponderosa pine. Larger trees within the forest stand were selected for roosting. Roost sit…
The principal thesis presented in this work is that churches are like franchised firms. The organization of most Christian denominations seems so closely parallel to modern day franchises that the application of the franchising model begs for comparison in an attempt to explain …
The difficulties international graduate students experience in classroom interaction due to language proficiency has been documented. However, most such studies look only at behaviors, such as the number of times a student initiates an interaction or asks a question, which gives…
The literature on political party change has largely focused on parties in democratic systems and therefore has viewed parties as vote or seat maximizing actors. However, in fragile democracies political parties have regime concerns as well as electoral concerns. Parties in syst…
The Pathogenicity of TAstV1987 and TAstV2001 isolates was investigated. Both isolates caused gastroenteritis and growth depression in specific pathogen free (SPF) turkey embryos and poults. TAstV1987 infection resulted in microscopic lesions of infected bursas of embryos and pou…
There is a paucity of research literature on the relationship between acculturation and positive indices of mental health for migrant populations. The objective of this study is to investigate the nature of this relationship for the Iranian migrant community of Canada. Eighty-si…
This dissertation examines the life and work of Gülten Akin (b.1933) as a pioneering woman poet of contemporary Turkish literature. Akin is a highly original poet with a distinct voice, which is clearly that of a woman. Over the past fifty years, she has continuously presented t…
Same-sex marriage is the site of a vitriolic debate in mainline Christian denominations in the United States. Mainline Christian denominations bring together liberal, evangelical and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) Christians who employ disparate discourses that …
Between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s, black Christian congregations increasingly commissioned art that incorporated references to Africa, African American history, a black Jesus, and political leaders. The new church art had several precedents from the late nineteenth centur…
This dissertation is a history of an English mission, the Anglican Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), in what is now southeastern Tanzania, both before and after European colonization. It is a mission history, however, that focuses on the African leadership and thei…
After the Jerusalem Temple was destroyed in the year 70, the priestly service ceased, thus catalyzing Judaism to redefine sacrifice. Ideas about sacrifice, so bound up with notions of covenant and atonement that had long defined Israelite religion, did not simply disappear from …