Dissertations and Theses (1964-2011)
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In 2018 BU Libraries began a retrospective digitization project for BU theses and dissertations dating from 1964-2011. If you cannot locate your thesis or dissertation in OpenBU, it may not have been digitized yet. If you have any questions about this collection, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu.
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Good news for the poor? The church and community development in South Africa
(Boston University, 1990)There is a wide gap between what donors and agencies for development aid believe that they are accomplishing, and what the recipients of such aid perceive to be the purposes and achievements of those agencies and donors. ... -
Designing intercultural dress in multicultural times
(Boston University, 2003)The intent of this thesis reflects my own artistic work within the expressive modes of fashion and costume design, through which I have been drawing a conceptual and aesthetic parallelism with the couture work of French ... -
The development of a vocational-specific locus of control scale to examine the relationships between locus of control, job satisfaction and voluntary job turnover
(Boston University, 1988)The purposes of this study were to develop a locus of control scale specific to vocational needs and to use the scale to examine the relationships between vocational need strength, need satisfaction, locus of control ... -
Coincidence Mössbauer effect
(Boston University, 1969)This dissertation is concerned with the incorporation of coincidence methods into standard Mössbauer techniques and the application of the Delayed Coincidence Mössbauer Effect (DCME) to the study of certain solid state ... -
Interpreting national identity in time of war: competing views in U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) photography, 1940-1945
(Boston University, 1995)President Roosevelt created the Office of War Information (OWI) in June 1942 to coordinate efforts to mobilize Americans and improve relations among the Allies. Photography was one of the OWI's important tools of persuasion, ... -
Termination techniques with older latency-age children according to the prior history of the child's loss
(Boston University, 1976)[Termination is acknowledged by the social work profession to be a critically important area because of the opportunity to resolve previous losses and to set guidelines for handling future ones. Yet, little is written ... -
The violent hero, wilderness heritage and urban reality: a study of the private eye in the novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald
(Boston University, 1971)The violent hero of the modern hard-boiled detective story is Adam in the city, one of the sons of Leather-stocking faced with the final conquest of the garden by the machine, an expression of what David Noble has called ... -
Experimental consequences of local hidden variable theories
(Boston University, 1970)A family of theories called "deterministic local hidden variable theories" (DLHV) is characterized and their consequences are investigated for an experimentally realistic situation. An experiment on the polarization ... -
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The role of nitrogen supply variability in regulating nitrogen uptake by macroalgae and in structuring a macroalgal community
(Boston University, 1985)Temporal variability in nutrient supply has not generally been considered to be a factor controlling macroalgal community structure. Frequent sampling in environments with multiple nitrogen (N) inputs reveals that N supply ...
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