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Living systems consist of several complex interacting components. Depending on the complexity of the organism, these components can span from molecules to tissues and organs. Systems biology is the interdisciplinary field of study that...
"Music's Most Powerful Ally": The National Federation of Music Clubs as an Institutional Leader in the Development of American Music Culture, 1898-1919
This dissertation explores the founding of the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) in 1898 and focuses upon the organization's activities from its beginning to 1920. It highlights how the original members were able to build a...
Although many teachers use concurrent instructional strategies, little is known about how or when they function in rehearsal, or how frequently they are employed. The purpose of the present study was to examine pitched and unpitched...
Global politics is a complex game, particularly when conflict dominates the relationship between countries. South Asia is no different as both India and Pakistan have fought four wars since achieving independence from the British in 1947...
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a chronic disorder associated with long-term impairment across multiple life domains, including academic, occupational, social, and psychological (Barkley, Murphy, & Kwasnik, 1996;...
Family leisure is conceptualized as engagement and satisfaction with experiences that involve joint participation in activities with other family members during one’s free time. Although family leisure has been linked to family...
According to rapid development in information technology, limit order books(LOB) mechanism has emerged to prevail in today's nancial market. In this paper, we propose ensemble machine learning architectures for capturing the dynamics of...
The importance of older adults' health is increasing with extending lifespans. Despite a large amount of research conducted on older adults' health, little is known about sexual orientation differences. Although some studies have...
In this dissertation, we study three important cases in noncommutative geometry. We first observe the standard noncommutative object, noncommutative torus, in noncommutative motives. We work with the category of holomorphic bundles on a...
Sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus) are a popular recreational fisheries species in the Gulf of Mexico. Unfortunately, the highest reported catch of this species occurs primarily during their reproductive period. As a result, ...
Two tenets associated with major strands of classical Christian orthodoxy assert both that God is meticulously provident and that humans have libertarian free will. On this view, God's meticulous providence is, in part, a function of His...
Wingtip vortices develop at the tips of aircraft wings due to a pressure imbalance during the process of generating lift. These vortices significantly increase the total aerodynamic drag of an aircraft at high-lift flight conditions such...
A new paradigm for running youth orchestras is needed in order to reduce redundancy, increase efficiency, deal with reduced budgets in many music programs, and create a sustainable infrastructure for the creation of youth orchestras....
BACKGROUND: Frailty syndrome is a geriatric medical condition characterized by diminished muscular strength and endurance, weight loss, and weakened physiologic function. Frailty syndrome tends to manifest itself amongst morbidities and, ...
Across three studies, we demonstrate that attitudes toward gay men and lesbians are best conceptualized as two components – moral judgments and prejudiced attitudes. Whereas moral judgments concern the rightness or wrongness of gay...
Autonomous robots are increasingly working alongside humans in a variety of environments. While simple applications in controlled environments work fine with fully autonomous robots and little interaction between human and robot, mission...
This dissertation focuses on the beliefs and practices of confessional Lutherans in North America (particularly those of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod) as...
Spin-polarized unrestricted density functional theory is used to calculate the molecular properties of magnetic semiconductor quantum dots doped with 3d-metal atoms. We calculate total energies of the low spin antiferromagnetically...
For many years, I didn’t embrace the technological advancements that were helping so many. It took meeting some of my fellow peers with diabetes at the Students With Diabetes conference in 2011 who used insulin pumps and continuous...
Music Therapy for Eating Disorders: A Manual for the Use of Music Therapy as an Integrative Therapy for the Treatment of Individuals with Eating Disorders
An eating disorder is a psychological disorder that affects one’s eating habits. According to a 2011 study, approximately 20 million women and 10 million men in the United States suffer from a clinical eating disorder at some point in...
PURPOSE: To determine the acute effects of nighttime pre-sleep consumption of casein protein and a placebo supplement on morning measures of RMR and appetite in pre- and postmenopausal women. METHODS: This study was a randomized...
The psycholinguistic model is a theoretical framework that details the speech processing system at various levels of input, storage, and output. In the case of a child with complex speech-language impairment, this study sought to...
This treatise is an adaptation of a series of two lecture recitals given on the use of Schenkerian methods in discovering expressive ideas for performance. The first lecture recital used examples from the repertoire of German lieder, ...
Background and Purpose. For many individuals experiencing homelessness, formal employment is paramount to housing stability. Women represent one of the fastest growing segments of the homeless population; however, there are no recent...
SES related differences in children’s early language skills influence their later language development. Parent-child verbal interactions during the initial years of children’s life play an important role in children’s early language...
Children's emergent literacy skills have been found to be predictive of concurrent and subsequent academic achievement. Proponents of a nurture-driven approach to learning posit that children's linguistic competencies are associated with...
We describe a cryo-electron microscopy 3D image reconstruction of relaxed myosin II-containing thick filaments from the flight muscle of the giant waterbug Lethocerus indicus. The relaxed thick filament structure is a key element of...
This dissertation investigates the resources that students use to learn new digital technologies to complete course assignments. This work is particularly important in a time when teachers are assigning more multimodal projects. If...
The general purpose of this research is to contribute to the efforts in understanding the effect of maternal incarceration on young adult well-being outcomes, and the factors that may buffer or exacerbate any negative effect. There is a...
The First Sonata for Cello and Piano by Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) is a work that has been undeservingly neglected in performance history. This treatise makes this work more approachable for performers, from both a musical and a...
Relationships among Behavioral Engagement, Self-Efficacy, Academic Achievement, and Career Choice among Middle School Mathematics Students: Race and Gender Differences
This study used data from the High School Longitudinal Study [2009-2013] to address racial/ethnic and gender similarities and differences in the relationships among behavioral engagement, self-efficacy beliefs, academic achievement in...
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