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Daniel L. Brilhart, of Ohio State University, utilized HyperRESEARCH in his qualitative dissertation research study exploring how in-service teachers conceptualize teaching, integrate the personal and the professional dimensions of their lives, and develop teacher identities.

The work, entitled "Teacher Conceptualization of Teaching: Integrating the Personal and the Professional" was conducted as part of the requirements for his Doctorate of Philosophy from the Graduate School of Ohio State. The full PDF of the dissertation can be downloaded here.

For doctorial students engaged in or beginning their dissertations who wish to follow along on another student's insigtful and often humorous efforts through their dissertation, we recommend viewing "The Long Road to the Dissertation," a blog by Elyse Pratt-Ronco, a doctoral canidate (now with a Ph.D.!) in the Applied Developmental and Educational Psychology program at Boston College. In particular, her entry enttitled "The Code," she states

In David Gregory Casagrande's doctoral dissertation, entitled "Ecology, Cognition, and Cultural Transmission of Tzeltal Maya Medicinal Plant Knowledge", HyperRESEARCH is used to explain patterns in the distribution of medicinal plant knowledge. In particular, the study seeks to explain why some plants are more likely to be known for their medicinal use than other plants.

With gasoline taxes at the Federal and State level being the primary source of functing for transportation infrastructure and with a large shortfall between the need for transporation funding and current funding levels, there is considerable pressure to increase gas taxes at the state level in many states. However, politicians are often reluctant to raise gas taxes due to public reaction as reflected in the news media. Why is it that some state legislatures approved gasoline tax increases while others did not?