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The official nosology of psychiatric disorders (DSM-5) includes a primarily dimensional operationalization of personality pathology, the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD), in its latest edition. The present study...
In this dissertation, I address several ways in which Richard Strauss elaborates the Classical-model sentence and period paradigm: through harmonic elaborations by way of Strauss’s chromatic, Romantic-style harmonic palette; through...
Analytical models developed using field data can provide useful information with acceptable confidence to evaluate and predict the operational characteristics of a highway. As such, this study presents statistical models that can be used...
The linker of the nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) protein complex bridges the inner and outer nuclear membranes and regulates a range of nuclear activities that include telomere tethering and chromosome movement. The canonical...
This dissertation is comprised of two essays that focus on the role of disposition effect to market reactions in seasoned equity offerings and the importance of considering the dynamics of reference price in disposition effect. The first...
REBCO coated conductors have recently become viable for high field superconducting magnets, but their use brings new challenges. Knowledge of the transport critical current density over a wide range of magnetic field and temperature, Jc...
Understanding the experiences of Chicanas in doctoral study remains salient because of pervasive doctoral program attrition rates and severe underrepresentation in the professoriate. Chicanas doctoral students engage in these unfamiliar...
Mathematical thinking is in high demand in the global market, but compared to their international peers, U.S. school children fail to meet math performance benchmarks. This is especially problematic, given that early math skills predict...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) impacts one in every 59 children in the United States of America (CDC, 2018). Not only does ASD affect the life of the child, but it also impacts the lives of the child's caretakers. Parental stress related...
Organized convection is of critical importance in the tropical atmosphere. Recent advances in numerical modeling have revealed that moist convection can interact with its environment to transition from a quasi-random to organized state....
The purpose of this study is to investigate stressors among soon-to-be graduating instrumental, vocal, and theatre performance majors. Seventy-two possible performance stressors were compiled into 8 categories: Creative, Intellectual, ...
One Year Later: A Study of the Motivational Profiles of Students Who Participated in a Grit and Growth Mindset Themed First-Year Experience Course at an Urban Community College
The issue of low community college retention and completion rates has become an important concern in recent years. The lack of persistence among college students has led to a variety of institutional initiatives including first-year...
Robert Douglas was a Church of Christ missionary to Libya, Egypt, and Lebanon during the 1960s. Traveling during this period introduced Douglas to the reality of post-colonial context of the countries. He and his family lived as...
This dissertation tests if fetal loss can be applied as an extension of prior literature on the weathering hypothesis. To do so, this study extends upon the weathering hypothesis: the observation that blacks experience substantially...
Differences in behavior and physiology can arise and change because of variation in life history strategies or differences in discrete polymorphisms. These differences can result from the indirect effects of predation, or responses to...
Laboratory experiments on a rotating tank of fluid are used to study the fundamental aspects of geophysical fluid flows. The present set of experiments are an attempt to study the effect of a rectangular ridge on the flow of a rotating...
In recent years, touch screens and digital technologies have permeated all aspects of our lives and increasing numbers of children engage with those devices and digital media every day. Children age 8 or younger use tablets and digital...
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) or exosomes are responsible for a variety of signaling processes and overall physiological and pathological states of stem cells and tissues. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have unique...
Cooperation is a complex behavior in which individuals act in ways that increase the fitness of others, at some cost to themselves. In cooperatively breeding vertebrates, helpers capable of reproducing forgo their own reproduction to...
My dissertation investigates the dynamics of international capital flows, distinguishing between net and gross flows. Chapter One considers both net and gross capital flows. I develop a small open economy model which endogenous sudden...
In the presence of water vapor, photolysis of tropospheric ozone (O3) produces the hydroxyl radical (OH), which is a strong oxidant that directly and indirectly controls a host of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. When tropospheric O3...
Introduction. A growing body of evidence suggests a strong relationship between age-related declines in muscle mass, strength, and power with impaired cognitive function. To mitigate these effects, current recommendations consist of...
This paper outlines the history of songs within the American patriotic song canon and their role within society and music education curricula in the public school systems of the past and present. A thorough examination of the functions...
Belief function theory, also known as Dempster-Shafer theory or evidence theory, gives a general framework for quantifying, representing, and managing uncertainty, and it is widely used in several applications from artificial...
The subject of my doctoral dissertation is the abduction and illegal adoptions of children of Republican parents during the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) and the continued struggle of thousands to acknowledge and resolve this violation...
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are a prevalent and impairing condition, particularly among trauma exposed individuals. The current proposal aimed to address the critical need for targeted direct SUD prevention in this population by...
This thesis studied the electronic structure at the Fermi level and the topological character of topological semimetals via torque magnetometry. Torque magnetometry measures the anisotropic magnetization of the sample in a tilted...
This study originally proposed a multitreatment (ABACAC) study design. This design was altered to an ABAB reversal design when both participants showed an increase in correct responding to science comprehension questions when just visual...
Human capital resources (HCR) are thought to be one of the most important resources for organizations. Although HCR have been the focus of considerable research, relatively little attention has been devoted to the nature of HCR or the...
Seagrasses are valued for the range of ecosystem services they provide such as nursery and adult habitat for commercially and recreationally fished species, a critical food resource for threatened species, and filtration systems for...
The present study further informs theories of EI, resilience, and academic success in youth. A critical review of the literature on EI and resilience addressing the similarities between these constructs and the current state of the...
18Ne(α, p)21Na reaction is one of the reactions providing a pathway for breakout from the hot CNO cycles to the rp-process in Type I X-ray bursts. The actual conditions under which the breakout occurs depend critically on the...
Research has established that one of the most important functions assistant principals can learn is how to be an instructional leader. Some school districts have incorporated problem-based learning (PBL) in their building-level principal...
High rates of sexual victimization occur on colleges campus and continue to be a significant issue, despite efforts to prevent assault. Although risk factors of victimization have been identified and extensively studied, many college...
A combination of observational and numerical analyses is used to investigate hurricane boundary layer (BL) structure in the context of intensity change. These analyses refer to hurricanes in three modes of intensity change: intensifying ...
Since its inception the European Union has made great strides in the realm of regional integration. However, the political and economic crises of the last decade have fundamentally changed the political landscape of the EU and have had...
Motor displays (displays that involve visible body movements) are an integral component of many courtship displays and have the potential to be important signals of male quality to females during mate choice. The whole organism is used...
This study examined the quantity and quality of language interactions between young Spanish-English speaking children and their caregivers during book sharing in two conditions: with and without feedback on quantity of adult language...
Utilizing the historical and cultural frameworks of Stephen Hahn and bell hooks and their scholarly predecessors and contemporaries, this study focuses on the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Early County, Georgia, as a...
A Historical and Archaeological Investigation of the Nineteenth Century Occupations at the San Luis De Talimali Mission Site (8LE4), Leon County, Florida
The goal for this thesis is to present a historical, and archaeological assessment of the nineteenth century occupations at the Mission San Luis de Talimali (8Le04) site. San Luis is a multicomponent site that has seen Native American, ...
Maintaining the balance of protein synthesis and degradation is essential for efficient proteostasis and organismal health. The 26S proteasome is a large, multisubunit proteolytic complex that functions as the primary mechanism for...
This dissertation asks new questions about the figure of the demagogue as cultural production. How did the concept of the demagogue emerge and manifest itself in the public imagination during the American Revolution and what relationship...
Natal dispersal, the period where an organism moves from its birthplace to the area where it settles and attempts to breed, may have significant consequences for individual fitness. Individuals vary in both the decision to initiate...
Repeated experiences are a cornerstone of learning and memory, but to what extent does the benefit of repetition depend upon noticing it? A rich literature exists examining the impact that an original learning experience has on a current...
The ability to construct radial wind profiles of tropical cyclones (TC) from limited observations is crucial to the initialization of TC simulations and predictions. A minimum requirement for constructing a reasonable radial wind profile...
The medium voltage dc (MVDC) power system is gaining increasing attention in applications such as renewable energy and shipboard power systems due to its advantages in reliability, efficiency, power quality and power density. However, ...
This dissertation examines how technology and aesthetics impact consumer decision making. The robotics literature has examined how features of robots such as the level of autonomy (Stein, Liebold, and Ohler 2019; Złotowski, Yogeeswaran, ...
People recall and recognize animate words better than inanimate words, possibly because memory systems were shaped by evolution to prioritize memory for predators, people, and food sources. However, the proximal cause of this animacy...
Prostate cancer is currently a major pubic health issue due to the fact that it is the second most common cancer in men with an estimated 174, 650 new cases diagnosed in 2019. While prostate cancer has a survival rate of nearly 100% for...
This thesis elaborates and tests a model of nonprofit leadership development. Nonprofit leaders create meaning for other nonprofit participants through their activities and words and thus need to possess skills for interpreting the...
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