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Longitudinal Change In Friendship Quality And Adolescent, Donna Marion Jan 2008

Longitudinal Change In Friendship Quality And Adolescent, Donna Marion

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study of 91 dyads investigated concurrent and prospective bidirectional associations between friendship quality and psychosocial adjustment in young adolescents, using multiple-group structural equation modeling to detect gender differences. Friend reports ofboth positive (social support) and negative features of friendship, self-reports of two adjustment variables (internalizing problems and externalizing problems), and self-reports of three dimensions of self-esteem (global selfworth, behavioral conduct esteem, and close friendship esteem) were examined at two time periods approximately one year apart. Principal findings were that grade 6 friendship negativity was inversely associated with grade 7 self-esteem, and positively associated with grade 7 internalizing problems and …

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Molecular Mechanisms Of Neuroprotection In The Anoxia Tolerant Freshwater Turtle, Shailaja. Kesaraju Jan 2008

Molecular Mechanisms Of Neuroprotection In The Anoxia Tolerant Freshwater Turtle, Shailaja. Kesaraju

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Cardiac ischemia, stroke and some neurodegenerative disorders are all characterized by cell damage and death due to low oxygen levels. Comparative studies show that anoxia tolerant model systems present a unique opportunity to study "survival" instead of death in the complete absence of oxygen. The freshwater turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans) is unique in its ability to survive total oxygen deprivation for hours to days, as well as reoxygenation insult after anoxia. The broad objective of this study is to understand the modulation of key molecular mechanisms involving stress proteins and VEGF that offer neuroprotection and enhance cell survival in the …

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Mind The Gap: Overcoming Dualities In Motor City, Usa, Tai Lynden Houser Jan 2008

Mind The Gap: Overcoming Dualities In Motor City, Usa, Tai Lynden Houser

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Contemporary thinking, bound as it is to a dualistic paradigm, inherently privileges one side of the duality over the other. Feminists - most notably in this dissertation, Val Plumwood - argue that we must overcome these privileged dualities and reconstruct a way of knowing that recognizes difference while not granting privilege to one side or the other. Dualities result from the modernist and postmodernist desire to name and control. One of the reasons that we cannot transcend this desire is because we have lost our connection to our environment. Examining novels and films set in Detroit, Michigan, as well as …

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More Than "Just A Hunch", Sheela Celeste Dominguez Jan 2008

More Than "Just A Hunch", Sheela Celeste Dominguez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The rise in popularity of the female sleuth television programs makes it important to explore representations of gender and knowledge. This investigation analyzes interpretations of intuition in the television sleuth genre and relevant paratexts, examines gendered public and private spheres and raises broader questions about gendered knowledge in the series Medium, Crossing Jordan, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Veronica Mars, Monk, The Profiler and True Calling. Rooted in feminist cultural studies, historical and sociological analysis, television and film theory and work on the detective genre, this investigation establishes common frames, or filters, through which the television sleuth genre represents intuition …

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Mechanisms Of Protection Against Ischemic Damage In The Heart, Ian Moench Jan 2008

Mechanisms Of Protection Against Ischemic Damage In The Heart, Ian Moench

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Heart disease including ischemic heart disease is the highest contributor to death and morbidity in the western world. The studies presented were conducted to determine possible pathways of protection of the heart against ischemia/reperfusion. We employed adenovirus mediated over-expression of Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) in primary neonatal rat cardiac myocytes to determine the effect of this enzyme in protecting against hypoxia/reoxygenation. Cells transfected with MsrA encoding adenovirus and subjected to hypoxia/reoxygenation exhibited a 45% decrease in apoptosis as compared to controls. Likewise total cell death as determined by levels of Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) release was dramatically decreased by MsrA …

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Mobile Modernity: Transportation In The Works Of F. Scott Fitzgerald And Ernest Hemingway, Carrie E. Johnston Jan 2008

Mobile Modernity: Transportation In The Works Of F. Scott Fitzgerald And Ernest Hemingway, Carrie E. Johnston

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A central paradox in modernism is its disdain for mass culture, despite mass culture 's undeniable presence in modernist literature. American authors writing during the early twentieth century tried to establish themselves as "highbrow" by leaving the U.S. and traveling to Europe. In doing so, they created a particular aesthetic characterized by depictions of the transportation that facilitated this travel. These depictions reveal modernism's dependence on mass culture, and more importantly, create a space in which modernist authors can negotiate what was once a choice between high or low culture, exile or tourist, and ultimately, modernism or mass culture. Analyzing …

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Miradas Transatlanticas Del Rebelde: Una Reinterpretacion De Lope De Aguirre A Traves De Las Cronicas Y De Ia Novela Del Exilio De Ramon J. Sender, Espiga Enrique Tellez Jan 2008

Miradas Transatlanticas Del Rebelde: Una Reinterpretacion De Lope De Aguirre A Traves De Las Cronicas Y De Ia Novela Del Exilio De Ramon J. Sender, Espiga Enrique Tellez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The chroniclers who accompanied Lope de Aguirre on his expedition to find "EI Dorado," accuse him of being a "crazy" tyrant, responsible for the rebellion to emancipate the conquerors from the Spanish crown. Aguirre was made a scapegoat, in Girard ian terms, not only for that reason but due to his critique of what Angel Rama defined as the "Lettered City," a rebuke voiced in the infamous letter he wrote to the Spanish king denouncing imperial institutions in the Americas. 20th century, Spanish writer Ramon J. Sender's novel, La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre (1964), reverses the historical discourse …

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No Two-Stepping In The Laboratories: State Deference Standards And Their Implications For Improving The Chevron Doctrine, Michael Pappas Jan 2008

No Two-Stepping In The Laboratories: State Deference Standards And Their Implications For Improving The Chevron Doctrine, Michael Pappas

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Popular Election Of The President: Using Or Abusing The Electoral College?, Jennifer S. Hendricks Jan 2008

Popular Election Of The President: Using Or Abusing The Electoral College?, Jennifer S. Hendricks

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1,8-Naphthridine Based Receptors For Selective Monosaccharide Binding In Aqueous Media, Alfred Kwesi Addo-Mensah Jan 2008

1,8-Naphthridine Based Receptors For Selective Monosaccharide Binding In Aqueous Media, Alfred Kwesi Addo-Mensah

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In this dissertation the synthesis, characterization, and binding properties of carbohydrate receptors 34-38 was described. Macrocyclic receptor 34 and macrobicyclic receptor 35 bind monosaccharides in aqueous media through combination of hydrophobic, electrostatic and hydrogen bonding interactions. The dissociation constants (Kd) for the complexes between 1 ,8-naphthyridine receptors 34, and 35 with a variety of neutral and negatively charged monosaccharides in aqueous media were determined by fluorimetric and UV /vis titration. The observed values are in the range from ~0.3 to >10 mM, within the Kd range reported for lectin/monosaccharide complexes. However, among monosaccharide substrates tested receptor 34 showed the strongest …

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A Longitudinal Investigation Offriendship Similarity: Selection And Socialization In Adolescent Behavior, Christopher A. Hafen Jan 2008

A Longitudinal Investigation Offriendship Similarity: Selection And Socialization In Adolescent Behavior, Christopher A. Hafen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The current study examined the homophilic processes of selection and socialization in same-sex adolescent friendships across a 3-year period. The framework of the actor-partner interdependence model for distinguishable dyads was the main analytic technique, an improvement over previous analysis methods which often did not allow for simultaneous exploration of selection and socialization. Within the friendships, adolescents were distinguished based on their general peer acceptance levels, and similarity was assessed for three behaviors: deviant behavior, depression, and achievement motivation. Results showed evidence of both selection and socialization for deviant behavior and achievement motivation, but not for depression. Furthermore, partner influence paths …

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Algebraic And Combinatorial Aspects Of Group Factorizations, Vladimir. Bozovic Jan 2008

Algebraic And Combinatorial Aspects Of Group Factorizations, Vladimir. Bozovic

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The aim of this work is to investigate some algebraic and combinatorial aspects of group factorizations. The main contribution of this dissertation is a set of new results regarding factorization of groups, with emphasis on the nonabelian case. We introduce a novel technique for factorization of groups, the so-called free mappings, a powerful tool for factorization of a wide class of abelian and non-abelian groups. By applying a certain group action on the blocks of a factorization, a number of combinatorial and computational problems were noted and studied. In particular, we analyze the case of the group Aut(Zn) acting on …

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A Study Of The Relationships Among Leadership, Culture, And Student Achievement In Catholic Schools, Sonia Rodriguez Jan 2008

A Study Of The Relationships Among Leadership, Culture, And Student Achievement In Catholic Schools, Sonia Rodriguez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study explores the relationship among leadership style, school work culture, and student achievement in Catholic elementary schools. The relationships (a) between the leader style and student achievement, (b) between the school's work culture and student achievement, and (c) among leaders' styles, school work culture, student achievement and contextual factors were explored. A descriptive design, primarily quantitative and correlational in nature, was employed. It was concluded that school leadership had an indirect effect on student achievement in parochial schools in Florida. Furthermore, school work culture (school planning, program development, staff development, and assessment) directly impacted student achievement. The contextual variables …

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A Prayer For The Earth: Discovering A New Cosmological Vision Through A Reading Of Linda Hogan's Power And Gregory Maguire's Wicked From An Ecofeminist, Earthcentered And Spiritual Perspective, Casey Elizabeth Mccabe Jan 2008

A Prayer For The Earth: Discovering A New Cosmological Vision Through A Reading Of Linda Hogan's Power And Gregory Maguire's Wicked From An Ecofeminist, Earthcentered And Spiritual Perspective, Casey Elizabeth Mccabe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Linda Hogan's Power and Gregory Maguire's Wicked are two works of literature that encompass a process of raising and transforming consciousness about humans' relationships with each other and with the Earth and elemental energies. Both can be considered prayers to and for the world. The goal of this thesis is to highlight and explore themes of spirituality, ecofeminism, environmental justice, anti-colonialism, indigenous philosophies regarding sense of place, human and animal rights, and feminist critical theories of race and gender through the artistic, creative and powerful writing of these authors. These works both reflect and participate in ongoing processes of political …

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Accelerated Testing Protocol For Durability Of Roller Compacted Recycled Aggregate Concrete (Rcrac), Jamie Barbara Fraser Jan 2008

Accelerated Testing Protocol For Durability Of Roller Compacted Recycled Aggregate Concrete (Rcrac), Jamie Barbara Fraser

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

With the growing environmental concerns related to the ever increasing waste disposal problem in the US, the utilizing of recycled materials in Civil Engineering construction has become an attractive option, which not only supports the concept of green buildings, but can also bring about economic savings by conserving natural resources and landfill spaces. However, the questionable long-term performance of recycled materials often hinders the widespread use in structural applications. The primary focus of this study was to develop accelerated aging/testing protocols for predicting the durability of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC), Type I Portland Cement, and up to 50% fly ash …

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Adhesive Effects In Dental Restoration, Raul. Vargas Jan 2008

Adhesive Effects In Dental Restoration, Raul. Vargas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The dental field shows proliferation in the market of new adhesives. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the mechanical properties on total restoration, based on the manufacturer's technical specifications, experimental and mechanical test results. The optimal dentist's selection will be when the most appropriate adhesive can be chosen for one specific restoration, avoiding wasted time, material and exposure to marginal infections with a failure restoration. This research was developed in stages. The first step is the study of the tooth morphological information. Following, there is the structure identification type and the chemical composition of six different pure adhesives. …

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American Responses To Israeli Foreign Policy Initiatives, Rebekah. Israel Jan 2008

American Responses To Israeli Foreign Policy Initiatives, Rebekah. Israel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The origin of the United States-Israeli relationship can be found in President Harry S. Truman's support for the new state of Israel on May 14, 1948. While support to Israel has varied during Presidential administrations from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush, strategic interests have steadily defined the nation's responses to Israel. In order to measure U.S. reaction to Israel, this study conducted a content analysis on U.S. statements published in the New York Times following four Israeli military initiatives: the 1967 Six-Day War, the 1976 Raid on Entebbe, the 1981 Raid on Osirak, and the 2006 Lebanon War. …

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Age Of William A. Dunning, Kathleen P. Barsalou Jan 2008

Age Of William A. Dunning, Kathleen P. Barsalou

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Stripped of the intent of its author, L. Frank Baum, the children's fairy tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was left to be understood only within a changing cultural construct. Historian Hayden White, arguing that the similarities between a novel and a work of history were more significant than their differences, insisted that history was preeminently a subsection of literature. According to White, historical narratives were manifestly verbal fictions, and the only acceptable grounds upon which the historian should choose his historical perspective were the moral and the aesthetic. White conflated historical consciousness with myth and blurred the boundary that …

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An Alternative Enlightenment: The Moral Philosophy Of Jeanne Marie Le Prince De Beaumont (1711-1780), Margaret P. Schaller Jan 2008

An Alternative Enlightenment: The Moral Philosophy Of Jeanne Marie Le Prince De Beaumont (1711-1780), Margaret P. Schaller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The ceuvre of Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, the public intellectual whose pedagogical journals and epistolary novels were routinely shelved in private eighteenthcentury libraries alongside the works of the period's most famous philosophes, today remains virtually unknown. Beyond the scant available studies limited to her pedagogy and fairy tales, it is time to explore the theoretical aspects of those and other of her texts as significant alternatives to traditional Enlightenment discourse as epitomized in the contemporary philosophes. Through her personal roles of governess to British and French aristocracy, editor of a French-language periodical featuring such contributors as Voltaire and …

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Analyses Of Neuronal Replacement In The Neuron-Depleted Olfactory Systems In Adult Mice, Huan Liu Jan 2008

Analyses Of Neuronal Replacement In The Neuron-Depleted Olfactory Systems In Adult Mice, Huan Liu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

New neurons are continuously generated in the olfactory system of adult mice, including olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) in the olfactory epithelium (OE) and interneurons, produced in the subventricular zone (SVZ) and migrated toward olfactory bulb (OB) along rostral migratory stream (RMS). The present study observed the effects of target neuron loss on the life-span and maturation of adult-born OSNs in the OE and on the proliferation, migration and differentiation of SVZ stem cells in the forebrain after eliminating bulb neurons. We found the life-span of newborn neurons in the absence of synaptic targets was shortened, but the timing of maturation …

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An Empirical Study Of Performance Metrics For Classifier Evaluation In Machine Learning, Stefan Bruhns Jan 2008

An Empirical Study Of Performance Metrics For Classifier Evaluation In Machine Learning, Stefan Bruhns

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A variety of classifiers for solving classification problems is available from the domain of machine learning. Commonly used classifiers include support vector machines, decision trees and neural networks. These classifiers can be configured by modifying internal parameters. The large number of available classifiers and the different configuration possibilities result in a large number of combinatiorrs of classifier and configuration settings, leaving the practitioner with the problem of evaluating the performance of different classifiers. This problem can be solved by using performance metrics. However, the large number of available metrics causes difficulty in deciding which metrics to use and when comparing …

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Analysis Of Florida's School Districts' Attendance Policies And Their Relationship To High School Attendance Rates, Ryan Turner Reardon Jan 2008

Analysis Of Florida's School Districts' Attendance Policies And Their Relationship To High School Attendance Rates, Ryan Turner Reardon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of this non-experimental correlational study was to determine the relationship between the type of attendance policies in the high schools of the 67 Florida school districts, the size of the school district (number of high school students), the socioeconomic status (SES) of the school district, and the average daily attendance rate of the district. Additionally, the study determined if the relationship between policy type and attendance rate was moderated by SES and size. To test the research questions, high school attendance polices were examined and coded into one of three pre-determined categories: punitive, reward, or affective. The SES …

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Analysis Of Backgroundwater Chemistry And Local Hydrologic Conditions Ofpondhawk Natural Area Pre-Wetland Construction, Eric Sven Carlson Jan 2008

Analysis Of Backgroundwater Chemistry And Local Hydrologic Conditions Ofpondhawk Natural Area Pre-Wetland Construction, Eric Sven Carlson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This thesis evaluates the water chemistry and hydrology of an urban environmental preserve in advance of wetland construction. Pondhawk Natural Area (PNA) is located in densely populated Palm Beach County, Florida and was acquired through the County's Environmentally Sensitive Lands Acquisition Program as a protected natural area. In an effort to restore the natural area to pre-development conditions Palm Beach County will construct a wetland in the area where hydric conditions persisted prior to the extensive canal construction that lowered groundwater levels. Results of this study wi II provide initial characterization of hydrology and water quality of PNA before wetland …

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An Experimental Evaluation Of High Volume Fly Ash Structural Concrete Made From Recycled Aggregate, Anthony Lloyd Theodorou Jan 2008

An Experimental Evaluation Of High Volume Fly Ash Structural Concrete Made From Recycled Aggregate, Anthony Lloyd Theodorou

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Three vital factors, namely environmental protection, savings in costs, and strength/durability benefits, make it advantageous to incorporate fly ash of controlled quality and composition in all concrete made from construction demolition (C&D) recycled aggregate. The specific objective of this research was to compare the performance characteristics of High-Volume-Fly-Ash (HVFA) structural concrete containing C&D aggregate with that of normal recycled aggregate concrete containing no fly ash. A coordinated experimental program was undertaken which comprised of ( 1) Compressive and Split Tensile strength tests; (2) ASTM durability tests by measuring resistance to chloride-ion penetration; and (3) Flexural strength tests on reinforced concrete …

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Analysis Of Blast/Explosion Resistant Reinforced Concrete Solid Slab And T-Beam Bridges, Firas A. Abdelahad Jan 2008

Analysis Of Blast/Explosion Resistant Reinforced Concrete Solid Slab And T-Beam Bridges, Firas A. Abdelahad

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study presents and illustrates a methodology to calculate the capacity of an existing reinforced concrete bridge under a non-conventional blast load due to low and intermediate pressures. ATBlast program is used to calculate the blast loads for known values of charge weight and stand off distance. An excel spreadsheet is generated to calculate ultimate resistance, equivalent elastic stiffness, equivalent elastic deflection, natural period of the beam, the maximum deflection, and the maximum rotation in the support for a simple span solid slab and T-Beam bridges. The allowable rotation could be taken as to two degrees. Naval Facility Engineering Command …

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Analysis Of Quality Of Service (Qos) In Wimax Networks, Rohit. Talwalkar Jan 2008

Analysis Of Quality Of Service (Qos) In Wimax Networks, Rohit. Talwalkar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In last few years there has been significant growth in the area of wireless communication. Quality of Service (QoS) has become an important consideration for supporting variety of applications that utilize the network resources. These applications include voice over IP, multimedia services, like, video streaming, video conferencing etc. IEEE 802.16/WiMAX is a new network which is designed with quality of service in mind. This thesis focuses on analysis of quality of service as implemented by the WiMAX networks. First, it presents the details of the quality of service architecture in WiMAX network. In the analysis, a WiMAX module developed based …

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Analysis Of Iraqi Women's Political Participation, Civil Rights, And Societal Roles, Gina Marie Longo Jan 2008

Analysis Of Iraqi Women's Political Participation, Civil Rights, And Societal Roles, Gina Marie Longo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The effects that Women's political participation in the Middle East has on political parties and regimes have been investigated by the political science community. However, how women's political participation and changing societal roles affect women's lives has not received adequate attention. This is a comparative historical analysis that investigates how women's societal roles and political participation in Iraq changed from 1968 to the present. It examines how factors such as social conservatism, party ideology, war, sanctions, religion, and international pressure during different periods in Iraq's modern history influenced changes in Iraqi women's roles and participation over time. These changes in …

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Antecedents And Consequences Of Pay Disparity Between Ceo And Non-Ceo Executives, Seema. Pissaris Jan 2008

Antecedents And Consequences Of Pay Disparity Between Ceo And Non-Ceo Executives, Seema. Pissaris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This dissertation investigates the antecedents and consequences to pay disparity between the CEO and non-CEO executives from an equity-based perspective. While the principles of agency theory suggest that CEOs are granted higher compensation packages to better align their motives to those of the firm's shareholders, empirical research has not supported a positive relationship between rising CEO pay and firm performance. Some results even suggest a negative relationship. This dissertation argues that if organizational outcomes are determined by the integrated skills and talents of its dominant coalition, and if the management of a firm's trajectory is a shared process, then, the …

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Analysis Of Voluntary Annual Report Disclosures Of Outsourcing, Ronald F. Premuroso Jan 2008

Analysis Of Voluntary Annual Report Disclosures Of Outsourcing, Ronald F. Premuroso

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Outsourcing has become a significant factor in the U.S. economy over the past two decades. Annual report disclosures made by a firm related to outsourcing are voluntary disclosures. Understanding the determinants and firm performance implications of initial outsourcing annual report disclosures is important to capital market providers, standards developers, and to the firms themselves. I identify and study firms making initial voluntary disclosures of outsourcing in their annual reports on Form 10-K between 1993 and 2003 after they make non-annual report related public disclosures. Specifically, I investigate if determinants of the initial annual report disclosure decision and subsequent performance are …

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Another Look At Gender Identity In Preadolescence, Jonathan. Perle Jan 2008

Another Look At Gender Identity In Preadolescence, Jonathan. Perle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This thesis examined relations of multiple dimensions of gender identity same gender typicality, other-gender typicality, gender contentedness, gender oppression, felt pressure to conform, and gender centrality) to children's adjustment (global self-worth, narcissism, depression, internalizing behaviors, externalizing behaviors, and prosocial behaviors. Participants were 237 fourth through eighth graders (108 males, 129 females; M[underscore] age = 11 years, 4 months). Each measure of gender identity related to children's adjustment in a unique way. Findings also showed gender centrality to moderate relations of other gender identity variables to adjustment, suggesting that how central gender is to a child influences the impact of other …

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