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A botanical history of Downer Woods
(1972-04-01)The pattern of vegetation which occurs in Downer Woods, a wooded tract on The University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee campus and a landmark on Milwaukee's east side, is a reflection of the uses to which it has been subjected for ... -
A Brief History of the Cornish Language, its Revival and its Current Status
(2013-12-02)Despite being dormant during the nineteenth century, the Cornish language has been recently recognised by the British Government as a living regional language after a long period of revival. The first part of this paper ... -
A Brief History of the Found Footage Phenomenon in North America 1994-2019
(2023-05-01)Beginning as an underground scene across Canada and the USA, a collection of comedians who sourced ephemera from VHS tapes, and transformed it for comedic effect, would go on to create the found footage phenomenon. This ... -
A Cancelled Conference and Community Care
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A Case Study of Citizen Participatory Planning Within the City of Milwaukee: the Choice Neighborhood Initiative
(2020-08-01)ABSTRACTIn September of 2016, the City of Milwaukee won a grant from HUD to designate Westlawn Housing as a Choice Neighborhood Initiative (CNI) redevelopment project. This designation came with a $30,000,000.00 grant to ... -
A Case Study: The Effects of Restorative Justice Course on African-American Students in an Urban School.
(2018-12-01)This ethnographic critical case study investigated the usefulness of a restorative justice course as an alternative to punitive discipline in a high school setting, the goal of which was to holistically address ways to ... -
A Case Study: the Role of Women in Creating Community on the Dakota Frontier, 1880 to 1920
(2015-12-01)ABSTRACT A CASE STUDY: THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN CREATING COMMUNITY ON THE DAKOTA FRONTIER, 1880 TO 1920 by Ruth Page Jones The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2015 Under the Supervision of Professor Genevieve G. McBride ... -
A Celtic Invocation: Cétnad nAíse
(2012-10-24)Very little has been written about the baffling text of the Celtic invocation, the Cétnad nAíse, for the reason that it is abstruse, and the allusions in it resist sure explication. Despite the obstacles to interpreting ... -
A Challenge to Psychological and Biological Theories of Personal Identity
(2022-05-01)Traditionally, reductive accounts of personal identity within a three-dimensionalist framework face notorious problems. I focus mainly on the problem of graduality. This problem arises out of the apparent tension that ... -
A Child-Driven Metadata Schema: A Holistic Analysis of Children's Cognitive Processes During Book Selection
(2014-05-01)The purpose of this study was to construct a child-driven metadata schema by understanding children's cognitive processes and behaviors during book selection. Existing knowledge organization systems including metadata ... -
A Climatology of Extreme South American Andean Cold Surges
(2018-05-01)Interactions between the tropics and midlatitudes have been an ongoing area of research since the inception of meteorology. Cold surges represent one of several phenomena by which midlatitude features can modulate the ... -
A Collection Divided: an Analysis of Accession 16082, the Ohio Hopewell Site Collection at the Milwaukee Public Museum
(2020-05-01)This thesis investigates and documents sixty-one Ohio Hopewellian objects that form a collection currently housed at the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM). The objects were excavated from the Hopewell site of Ross County, Ohio ... -
A Community-engaged Narrative Inquiry Photovoice Project Examining the Health-Impacting Experiences of Older Adult Russian and Spanish-Speaking Immigrants in Southeastern Wisconsin, United States.
(2022-08-01)Background: Among the nearly 10 million older adult immigrants in the United States, most come from Mexico and speak Spanish. Moreover, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of Russian-speaking immigrants from the Former ... -
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AP CALCULUS AB AND MATH 231 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MILWAUKEE
(2025-08)This study looks at how well the AP Calculus AB curriculum prepares students for college mathematics at the level of Calculus I or higher. It focuses on two main questions: (1) How the goals of AP Calculus AB compare to ... -
A Comparison of the Application to Architecture of the Ecological and Gestalt Approaches to Visual Perception
(1984-01-01)This research is a comparison of two psychological theories of visual perception, Gestalt Theory and an Ecological Theory developed by J. J. Gibson, with two theories of architectural composition, theories developed by the ... -
A Comparison of Two Devices for Isometric Lingual Strengthening in Healthy Adults
(2020-08-01)The purpose of this study was to compare tongue pressure measurements recorded by an established device, the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) and a new device, the TongueometerTM. Eight healthy adults ages 18 to 59 ... -
A Comprehensive Study on the Estimation of Freeway Travel Time Index and the Effect of Traffic Data Quality
(2019-05-01)Travel time reliability aims to quantify the variation of travel time by using the entire range of travel times for a given trip, for a selected time period over a selected horizon. A trip can occur over a segment, facility ... -
A Comprehensive Study on the Estimation of Freeway Travel Time Index and the Effect of Traffic Data Quality
(2019-05-01)Travel time reliability aims to quantify the variation of travel time by using the entire range of travel times for a given trip, for a selected time period over a selected horizon. A trip can occur over a segment, facility ... -
A COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF ASIAN AMERICAN POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS
(2025-08)This dissertation examines how Asian Americans form political identities under the simultaneous pressures of socioeconomic integration and racial marginalization. Despite their growing visibility in competitive electoral ...