Does democracy matter? : political change and national identification in South Korea and beyond

Denney, Steven Charles ProQuest LLC 2019 국내박사

Nation, state, and national economy : the early 19th century American developmental state

Denney, Steven C Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei U 2013 국내석사

America, like Japan, was a developmental state during the earliest decades of its modern national history. The developmental state also had a constitutive effect: in America’s formative years, the federation of loosely connected states formed a union through national economic planning. Though the federal government in Washington DC never attained the degree of centralization that East Asian governments did during their developmental periods, the American state was nevertheless able to link itself to the nation via the national economy. Though plenty of literature exists on the early American republic, there is no literature that employs theories on the developmental state to explain the relationship between nation-state formation and national economic development in early 19th century America. Likewise, no comparison between the American and Japanese developmental states during their formative years exists to date. Using the theory of embedded autonomy to make a comparative study in nation-state formation and economic development, the research presented in this thesis fills both gaps.

Black hole masses in active galactic nuclei

Denney, Kelly D The Ohio State University 2010 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

We present the complete results from two, high sampling-rate, multi-month, spectrophotometric reverberation mapping campaigns undertaken to obtain either new or improved Hbeta reverberation lag measurements for several relatively low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We have reliably measured the time delay between variations in the continuum and Hbeta emission line in seven local Seyfert 1 galaxies. These measurements are used to calculate the mass of the supermassive black hole at the center of each of these AGNs. We place our results in context to the most current calibration of the broad-line region (BLR) RBLR-L relationship, where our results remove many outliers and significantly reduce the scatter at the low-luminosity end of this relationship. A detailed analysis of the data from our high sampling rate, multi-month reverberation mapping campaign in 2007 reveals that the Hbeta emission region within the BLRs of several nearby AGNs exhibit a variety of kinematic behaviors. Through a velocity-resolved reverberation analysis of the broad Hbeta emission-line flux variations in our sample, we reconstruct velocity-resolved kinematic signals for our entire sample and clearly see evidence for outflowing, infalling, and virialized BLR gas motions in NGC 3227, NGC 3516, and NGC 5548, respectively. Finally, we explore the nature of systematic errors that can arise in measurements of black hole masses from single-epoch spectra of AGNs by utilizing the many epochs available for NGC 5548 and PG1229+204 from reverberation mapping databases. In particular, we examine systematics due to AGN variability, contamination due to constant spectral components (i.e., narrow lines and host galaxy flux), data quality (i.e., signal-to-noise ratio, S/N), and blending of spectral features. We investigate the effect that each of these systematics has on the precision and accuracy of single-epoch masses calculated from two commonly-used line-width measures by comparing these results to recent reverberation mapping studies. We then present an error budget which summarizes the minimum observable uncertainties as well as the amount of additional scatter and/or systematic offset that can be expected from the individual sources of error investigated.

Discipline policies, procedures and practices and their effects on high school students' perceptions of school context

Denney, Sharon L University of Delaware 2005 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

Research shows that discipline policies, procedures and practices used to address perceived student misbehavior impact student perceptions of school context (Munn, Johnstone, & Chalmers, 1992; ERIC, 1984; Ruck & Wortley, 2002; Wehlage, et al., 1990). While district and building administrators in a local school district recognized the need to address discipline concerns at the high school level, they did not consider how current discipline policies, procedures and practices influence student culture (personal correspondence, July 12, 2002). The purpose of this study is to examine student perceptions of school context that result from the discipline policies, procedures and practices used by administrators and teachers at EHS. The study's design includes both quantitative and qualitative research methods and multiple sources of data to describe discipline policies, procedures and practices and their ensuing effect on the perceptions of various aspects of school context. Quantitative data collection and analysis included student, teacher and administrator surveys, and summative discipline information recorded in the school's data bank. Qualitative data collection involved triangulation in the form of review of archival data [documents] and in-depth interviews and observations with teachers, students and administrators. Other relevant data were obtained from district and school records (school size, student and teacher demographic characteristics, previous discipline records). Surveys, interviews and other relevant data documented three problem areas impacting student perceptions of school context. They were: there is little respect between teachers and students, cultural and lifestyle differences between students and staff hinder student success, and perceptions of appropriate and acceptable behavior differ between students and staff. The data confirmed significant relationships among student liking of school, student-teacher relationships, and student-student relationships. The statistical analysis also pointed toward a significant [negative] relationship between exclusionary discipline and student liking of school. The findings pinpointed several issues that diminished the students' sense of acceptance, respect, inclusion and support in the school environment (Goodenow & Grady, 1993, as cited by Ma, 2003). In general these issues increased negative perceptions, thereby decreasing the students' sense of belonging and attachment to school. The possible interactive contextual influences of disciplinary processes and student's sense of school as community appeared to be related to a wide range of student attitudes and behaviors negating any sense of a warm, welcoming school environment, thus impacting students' problem behavior at the high school.

Psychological distress and nursing support for Latino parents in neonatal intensive care: The contributing effects on parenting efficacy

Denney, Maria Kathleen University of California, Santa Barbara 2003 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

The aim of this dissertation was to measure (1) the occurrence level of parental stress for Latino parents with infants hospitalized in neonatal intensive care settings and, (2) the relation of parental stress, nursing support, and parenting efficacy in neonatal intensive care. Guided by the theories of stress and self-efficacy, this study tested a new conceptual model of parental stress, nursing support, and parenting efficacy in neonatal intensive care. The study investigated two major hypotheses. It was hypothesized that parental stress would be significantly negatively correlated with parenting efficacy. Nursing support was hypothesized to be significantly positively correlated with parenting efficacy. Forty-eight Latino parents participated with infants hospitalized in neonatal intensive care. Parental stress was not significantly negatively related to parenting efficacy. However, parenting efficacy was significantly related to nursing support. Implications for early interventions and future directions for research are discussed.

Imagining Kitty O'Neil: Transmission, somatic memory, and communion in American percussive dance

Denney Grotewohl, Jean Marie Texas Woman's University 2014 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

This dissertation focuses on how ten contemporary practitioners of various American percussive dance and music traditions discuss somatic and aesthetic experiences of performance. Participant experiences are then used as primary data for historical dance inquiry. Participants provide examples of how living traditions remain constant yet provoke change to dance forms over time and across traditions and therefore, link past practice to contemporary practice. Specifically, this study investigates Kitty O'Neil (1852-1893) and connects her "extinct" dancing to contemporary practice of Irish step dancing, Irish sean-nos dancing, Tap dancing, Clogging, and Flatfooting in the U.S. The connection between O'Neil and present dance practice becomes clear as participants share experiences of inherited repertoire that reflect dance practices of the past. This study investigates how to research dance practices of the past when limited textual or visually recorded documentation exists. Participants describe living tradition as a paradoxical process in which dancers transmit historical and consistent elements of dance and music repertoire while simultaneously changing that same repertoire through improvisation and innovation. The imaginative and somatic experiences of practice allow contemporary artists to manifest both continuity and change within his/her individual practice. The research suggests that past dance enactments are brought into the present through these unique transmission and performance processes. The archive provides one significant artifact about O'Neil's dancing, an anonymous tune penned in her honor. While the recorded archive contains fixed and limited moments about dance and dancers, dancing repertoire provides dynamic information about past practice. Enfolded into the repertoire of multiple, contemporary American percussive dance forms is useful data about the genealogies and legacies of dancers like O'Neil. Repertoire is transmitted through time within the social context of these dance traditions as a part of how dancers learn to participate in the form. The ethnographic data from the dissertation's participants provides examples of how and when dance and music enactments connect to each tradition's past and have been embodied within each dancer's personal practice. By examining transmission, the research also examines the possibility that O'Neil's repertoire continues to live somatically and aesthetically within the contemporary practice of diverse American percussive dance traditions.

The Fragmented Gateway to Collective Repentance: Race, Policing, and the Black Church in America

Denney, Matthew G. T Yale University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 2023 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

This dissertation examines the response of Black faith communities to policing and racial inequality in America. I explore the puzzle of why policing has compelled unique levels of mass mobilization for racial justice among Black faith communities, despite significant disagreement, while other areas of entrenched inequality have not received the same level of attention, despite more widespread agreement. This project draws on historical-archival research, ethnographic work based in New Haven, focus group interviews with Black faith leaders from around the country, and a large national survey to provide a holistic picture of the role of Black faith communities in conversations around policing and racial inequality.Part 1 (chapters 1-2) provides an overview of theory to understand race, policing, and the Black Church: policing as a fragmented gateway to collective repentance. In this framework, racial violence compels mobilization around policing and serves as a gateway through which Black faith communities call for collective repentance, which includes acknowledging histories of racial sins, stopping injustice, and seeking repair from the harms done. Racial violence serves this role because it provides visible displays of injustice and contestable targets in the form of policing. But mobilization around policing becomes fragmented due to internal debates about defunding the police, external resistance to broader racial justice, and religious-political cross pressures. Chapter 1 provides the background, method, and overview. Chapter 2 describes each core component of the argument, with representative evidence from focus group interviews and survey data.Part 2 (chapters 3-4) situates this framework in historical perspective and anchors the voices of contemporary Black faith communities to the Black prophetic tradition. This section does this by providing a historical case study from 1933 to 1945. Chapter 3 provides an analysis of how critical changes in policing during this time set policing on development trajectories and further ingrained racial inequalities. At the same time, Black faith communities offered alternative visions grounded in protecting vulnerable Americans and addressing socioeconomic inequality. This time period both exacerbated inequalities whose sources would be submerged over time, and it also constrained the ability of policing to serve as an agent for bringing socioeconomic inequality.Part 3 provides three contemporary case studies of approaches by faith communities to policing, entitled Reform, Representation and Relationships, and Resistance. I argue that all of these pathways involve Black faith communities who are working toward expansive visions of racial justice that mirror the key tenets of collective repentance. At the same, all of these approaches face significant structural and internal constraints that produce fragmentation. The Reform chapter follows a campaign by a Faith-Based Community Organization in Connecticut to automatically expunge some criminal records in Connecticut. The Representation chapter traces the role of Black faith leaders in influencing the New Haven Police Department through positions of leadership and brokerage relationships. The Resistance chapter draws on examples from around the country to analyze the role of Black faith communities during the George Floyd protest wave in 2020. I argue that, contrary to common wisdom, the Black Church has not experienced a unilateral decline in its role in mass resistance. Rather, it has experienced stability in some areas and decline in others. Specifically, I argue that the Black Church retains the most important pastoral role in mass resistance around racial justice. The prophetic role remains strong as well, but it has experienced some decline. Most significantly, the Black Church has experienced a precipitous decline in organizational strength, and this exerts a downward pressure on its prophetic capacity. Despite the obstacles in each of these pathways, the Black Church still provides a critique of American racism and a holistic vision of racial justice.The conclusion brings together the different themes from the dissertation: the historical developments, the different approaches to policing, and the difficulty of achieving socioeconomic equality. I highlight another approach that has become common since 2020: task forces to reimagine policing. Black faith leaders on these task forces connect policing to fundamental racial inequalities, but they experience resistance and fragmentation. Drawing on the whole of my research and the voices of Black churches and Christians, I describe a vision for reimagining repentance that starts from a posture of repentance, then moves into domains of entrenched inequality.

A conductor's insight into performance and interpretive issues in "Give Us This Day" by David Maslanka

Wright, Lauren Denney University of Miami 2010 해외박사(DDOD)

소속기관이 구독 중이 아닌 경우 오후 4시부터 익일 오전 9시까지 원문보기가 가능합니다.

The purpose of this essay is to provide performance and interpretive background and suggestions for David Maslanka's Give Us This Day. This essay serves as the first significant research document on the work and is intended as a source for musicians seeking information about the work. The essay includes a biography of David Maslanka, as well as descriptions of the history and commissioning of Give Us This Day, its compositional process, and its performance and interpretive issues. Information was accumulated through interviews with David Maslanka, Gary D. Green, director of bands at the University of Miami, and the consortium head, Eric Weirather.