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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...
Electric power lines are subject to disturbances such as severe weather conditions, contact with animals, falling trees, human accidents, equipment malfunction, etc. These catastrophic events can trigger an electrical fault, which...
The major elements, trace elements, and isotopic composition of clinopyroxene and garnet fractions from mantle xenoliths from Colorado Plateau area were analyzed in this study to examine the sources of the xenoliths and their role in...
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 purpose of this dissertation is to examine factors that affect sentencing decisions of Latino and Haitian immigrants. Although scholarly research has consistently demonstrated that foreign-born populations are less likely than native...
The Pesta Paduan Suara Gerejawi (PESPARAWI), an Indonesian Christian choral festival or its predecessor the Pesta Paduan Suara Gerejani (PESPARANI), has become a nationwide celebratory event in Indonesia and has helped Indonesian...
National recommendations for undergraduate biology education call for orchestrating opportunities for students to "figure out" scientific explanations in the classroom setting by engaging in similar disciplinary practices and discourses...
It is commonly thought that external influences such as indoctrination, coercion, and subtle manipulation can affect our status as morally responsible agents. In extreme cases, external interventions may undermine our moral...
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...
Roy Harris (1898-1979) was one of the leading American composers of the early and mid-twentieth centuries. Audiences were polarized in their appreciation of him and his music. Some adored it and labeled it truly American while others...
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...
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...
Reading comprehension is an essential skill for success in school and post-school life. However, despite the importance of this skill, a considerable number of students in the U.S. have shown difficulties in reading comprehension....
The Group Decision-Making Communication Effectiveness (GDMCE) Scale: Development of a New Integrated Measure for Evaluating Group Decision-Making Effectiveness
The ability of groups to make the most effective decisions possible has long been a primary focus of the decision-making communicative process within any group. As such, the effectiveness of groups in making decisions has been an...
Latin America has historically sustained political, economic, and social upheaval, creating a vacuum of patriarchal power dynamics indicative of gender violence. These dynamics are reflected in personal and political trauma narratives....
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...
The spinel vanadate CoV2O4 is a magnetically frustrated system with an interesting non-collinear spin texture at low temperatures. The magnetic frustration in the system arises from the arrangement of atoms in the structure of the...
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...
A new numerical method is developed for the solution of the diffusion problem in a system of several materials. In such a system, the diffusion coefficients are piecewise continuous and jumps in their values can occur across the complex...
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...
Students need proficient literacy skills if they are to be successful in school and in life. Students typically master foundational literacy skills in the primary grades, and their abilities continue to develop throughout middle and high...
Black male student-athletes are not graduating near or at the same rates as their counterparts. Moreover, many are leaving college underprepared professionally and personally. These young men often dream and work toward competing...
Background: As suicide rates have continued to rise, suicide prevention efforts turned toward identifying factors through which initial onset of suicidal ideation (SI) transitions to attempted suicide. Evidence suggests that when...
Religious topics and themes have been represented in classical music literature throughout history. This treatise considers Christian religious themes expressed in two selected piano works by Korean composers: Talitha Cumi by Won-Jung...
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...
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...
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...
In this dissertation, disturbances leading to optimal energy growth in a spatially developing, zero-pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer are examined. The slow development of the turbulent mean flow in the streamwise direction is...
Les quartiers immondes d'Haïti: L'image du bidonville Haïtien dans l'œuvre romanesque de Lyonel Trouillot = Relegated Neighborhoods in Haiti: The Representation of Haitian Slums in the Novels of Lyonel Trouillot
Se servant exclusivement des romans de l’écrivain contemporain haïtien Lyonel Trouillot, ce travail présente les bidonvilles en Haïti, caractérisés actuellement par la vulnérabilité aux catastrophes naturelles et des conditions de vie...
The growing prevalence of computers, tablets, and educational apps in academic settings has prompted many researchers to investigate the potential benefits and drawbacks of this technology. One of the ways that this technology can...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders and causes cognitive impairment and memory deficits of the patients. The mechanism of AD is not well known, due to the lack of study materials, e.g., human...
The past several decades have seen great advances in the field of organizational politics. At the individual level, political skill has garnered the majority of the scholarly focus, whereas it's motivational counterpart, political will, ...
College student veterans may experience a variety of challenges as they transition from military life to student life, including adjusting to the academic environment, coping with mental health concerns such as depression and anxiety, ...
Recently, the smart grid technologies have been developed rapidly recently, which an important component is the so called demand response management (DRM). With the help of a DRM program, a utility company can adjust the power demand and...
Leaders often are faced with making difficult decisions for their group, such as when a course of action preferred by group members conflicts with one that is likely to optimize group outcomes. Across five studies, I provide evidence...
Scholars have hailed David Cox (1783-1859) as one of the pillars of English landscape painting of the early nineteenth century, together with John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Working primarily in watercolor, Cox celebrated the English...
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...
Mechanical and Electrical Characterization of Critical Current Density in Round and Rectangular Reinforced Bi₂Sr₂CaCu2O₈₊ₓ Wires for High Field Magnet Applications
In recent years there has been a large push for magnet technologies extending into the 20 to 30 T range. High field solenoids can be made using resistive materials like Cu, however the resistive losses associated with Cu electromagnets...
The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of ARCS-based motivational email messages (MVEMs) on student participation in a free online English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) course. The course consisted of 10...
New numerical algorithms are devised for high-order, efficient quadrature in domains arising from the intersection of a hyperrectangle and a manifold implicitly defined by level sets. By casting the manifold locally as the graph of a...
The advancement of numerical weather prediction (NWP) has hastened the effort to understand how moist processes -- many of which are parameterized in NWP models -- influence cyclone structure and intensity. Despite this effort, there...
Electron transfer dynamics at the nanocrystalline semiconducting metal oxide interface plays a pivotal role in diverse applications such as dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), dye-sensitized photoelectric solar cells (DSPECs), sensors...
There is a breadth of literature analyzing how particular institutional frameworks affect the propensity to engage in violent conflict. The democratic peace theory suggests that democracies will be less likely to engage in conflict with...
Electroacoustic music is a broad term used to describe the process of composition as opposed to the sonic environment of the music. Over the last several decades, electronic music has evolved to incorporate acoustic instruments and live...
Despite music education being endorsed by researchers as an effective tool to improve the social-emotional competence of students who live in poverty, African American students, who are overrepresented among the population of students...
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