Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1914. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. "Notes and references": p. 217-248.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of History, March 1999. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 269-282). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of History, March 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

This thesis examines the possibilities of social-context issues in interpretation. A group interpretation script relating the current difficult conditions of rural Iowa was compiled. Three experts in the field of interpretation were asked to evaluate the potential of this social-context script. It was discovered that a compiled interpretation script of Iowa literature can successfully depict the social concerns facing the family farms of Iowa.

The aim of this thesis is to describe the Czech language on tombstones in selected cemeteries in the state of Iowa in the U.S., based on photos made in cooperation with Americans and photographs of Iowa cemeteries available on website. The first part deals with the emigration to the United States, the development of settlement Czech immigrants and Czech immigrant communities in Iowa. Then the text mentions the issue of epitaphs as evidence of assimilation of immigrants. Based on available data, examined photographs of tombstones are listed in Annex together with transcribed inscriptions on them. Following section involves linguistic analysis of texts, where is the influence of English reflected. The work is based on studies of E. Eckert, who devoted her work to the Czech language on the tombstones in Texas.

Iowa has long been affected by periods characterized by extreme drought and flood. In 2008, Cedar Rapids, Iowa was devastated by a record flood with damages around $3 billion. Several years later, Iowa was affected by severe drought in 2012, causing upwards of $30 billion in damages and losses across the United States. These climatic regimes can quickly transition from one regime to another, as was observed in the June 2013 major floods to the late summer 2013 severe drought across eastern Iowa. Though it is not possible to prevent a natural disaster from occurring, we explore how predictable these events are by using forecast models and analogs. Iowa's climate records are analyzed from 1950 to 2012 to determine if there are specific surface and upper-air pressure patterns linked to climate regimes (i.e., cold/hot and dry/wet conditions for a given month). We found that opposing climate regimes in Iowa have reversed anomalies in certain geographical regions of the northern hemisphere. These defined patterns and waves suggested to us that it could be possible to forecast extreme temperature and precipitation periods over Iowa if given a skillful forecast system. We examined the CMC, COLA, and GFDL models within the National Multi-Model Ensemble suite to create analog forecasts based on either surface or upper-air pressure forecasts. The verification results show that some analogs have predictability skill at the 0.5-month lead time exceeding random chance, but our overall confidence in the analog forecasts is not high enough to allow us to issue statewide categorical temperature and precipitation climate forecasts.