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Understanding The Adjustment Needs Of International Graduate Students At Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Mehrete Girmay Dec 2017

Understanding The Adjustment Needs Of International Graduate Students At Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Mehrete Girmay

Dissertations

AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Mehrete Girmay, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Health Education, presented on September 18th, 2017 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: UNDERSTANDING THE ADJUSTMENT NEEDS OF INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS at SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE MAJOR PROFESSORS: Drs. Sosanya Jones and Juliane Wallace In the recent decades, the United States has attracted the highest numbers of international students to attain an education with the majority of students sojourning from China, India, and South Korea (Valenzuela, Palacios, & Intindola, 2015). It is important that the particular needs of this population are understood and met by …

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Teams Building A Shared Reality To Create Project Success, Susan Johnson Dec 2017

Teams Building A Shared Reality To Create Project Success, Susan Johnson

Student Scholarship

A qualitative study on team member interactions on projects suggests that successful teams are actively engaging in continuously constructing and maintaining a shared reality with one another through the process of making accounts. As a result of this study we propose extending the management definition of accountability to encompass the process of making accounts in the construction of a shared reality. This study found that the accountability process requires an environment of communication promotion, adequate time to develop a shared reality and a willingness by team members to continuously adapt their shared reality in response to new knowledge. This study …

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The Impact Of The Critical Factors For The Transfer Of Knowledge On Opportunities And Strategic Success, Salah Al-Din Al-Kubaisy, Rana Falah Hasan Dec 2017

The Impact Of The Critical Factors For The Transfer Of Knowledge On Opportunities And Strategic Success, Salah Al-Din Al-Kubaisy, Rana Falah Hasan

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The current research discusses “The impact of the critical factors for the transfer of knowledge on opportunities and strategic success ", the attention have been increased on knowledge transfer and strategic success subjects because on being one of the important and contemporary issues, which have a significant impact on the existence of organizations and its future. The research aims to identify the critical factors for knowledge transfer in private high education environment which enables (the college community surveyed) to achieve strategic success, also the research sought to answer questions related to research problem by testing a number of major and …

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Transferability: The Application Of Information Literacy Competencies To Academic Area-Of-Interest Course Research Paper Among Adult College Students In An Undergraduate Liberal Arts Program, Lilleth C. Beckford Dec 2017

Transferability: The Application Of Information Literacy Competencies To Academic Area-Of-Interest Course Research Paper Among Adult College Students In An Undergraduate Liberal Arts Program, Lilleth C. Beckford

Education Doctoral

This non-experimental exploratory sequential study was undertaken to assess the extent to which adult students can transfer and apply information literacy competencies, based on the AAC&U Information Literacy VALUE Rubric, to a research paper required in an area-of interest, intermediate or advanced level course. Participants were enrolled in an undergraduate liberal arts college degree program in a school designed on the andragogical model of adult education. Participants had completed a 2-credit information literacy course during a previous semester. To ascertain the students’ information literacy competencies, course research papers were assessed using three of the five components of the rubric. The …

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The Impact Of Parent Engagement On The Academic Achievement Of African American Students: A Phenomenological Study From The Perspective Of Parents Of Middle School Students In The Northeastern Region Of The United States, Tonya Couch-Jenkins Dec 2017

The Impact Of Parent Engagement On The Academic Achievement Of African American Students: A Phenomenological Study From The Perspective Of Parents Of Middle School Students In The Northeastern Region Of The United States, Tonya Couch-Jenkins

Education Doctoral

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of parent engagement on the academic achievement of African American students in an urban middle school in the northeastern region of the United States. Middle years are a transitional time for middle school students as they face more challenges academically and become more independent and socially aware of their surroundings. This phenomenological, qualitative study explored the perspectives of the African American parents/guardians and their engagement, relative to their sixth, seventh, and eighth grade children and their academic achievement in an urban school. Bronfenbrenner’s (1977, 2005) ecological systems theory (EST) and …

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The Impact Of A Diagnosis Of Autism Spectrum Disorder On Nonmedical Treatment Options In The Learning Environment From The Perspectives Of Parents And Pediatricians, Cecilia Scott-Croff Dec 2017

The Impact Of A Diagnosis Of Autism Spectrum Disorder On Nonmedical Treatment Options In The Learning Environment From The Perspectives Of Parents And Pediatricians, Cecilia Scott-Croff

Education Doctoral

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the impact of a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder on treatment options available, within the learning environment, at the onset of a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from the perspective of parents and pediatricians. Utilizing a qualitative methodology to identify codes, themes, and sub-themes through semi-structured interviews, the research captures the lived experiences of five parents with children on the autism spectrum and five pediatricians who cared for those children and families. The researcher utilized the theoretical frameworks of behaviorist and psychologist, B. F. Skinner, as well as psychologist Uri …

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Accommodation, Decorum, And Disputatio: Matteo Ricci's The True Meaning Of The Lord Of Heaven As A Renaissance Humanist Disputation, Roberto Sebastian Leon Dec 2017

Accommodation, Decorum, And Disputatio: Matteo Ricci's The True Meaning Of The Lord Of Heaven As A Renaissance Humanist Disputation, Roberto Sebastian Leon

Theses and Dissertations

Matteo Ricci's True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven (1603) has been studied extensively by scholars of the Jesuit China Mission, especially in terms of accommodation through means of Scholastic and Humanist arguments and translation choices. Few of these studies, however, discuss the genre of this work (disputation), nor consider this genre in relation to Renaissance rhetorical teachings and how this relationship informs Ricci's accommodative strategies. The purpose of this paper is to remedy this gap in early modern Jesuit scholarship. Through a review of the history of accommodations in disputations in the Aristotelian-Scholastic and Ciceronian-Humanist traditions, this paper claims …

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Current State Of Practice Associated With The Use Of Building Information Modeling (Bim) In The Custom Home Building Industry, William Noble Smith Dec 2017

Current State Of Practice Associated With The Use Of Building Information Modeling (Bim) In The Custom Home Building Industry, William Noble Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has entered the construction industry and has permeated the commercial sector. Research is continually performed to expand the capabilities and applications within the industry. However, research has historically been mostly limited to the commercial sector and has seen little expansion to other sectors of the industry including the residential sector. The potential cause for this may be the limited number of industry professionals who utilize the software to the benefit of their companies. The focus of this study was specifically the custom home building sector of residential construction in the United States because of the unique …

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Validation Of A Focused Basic Transthoracic Echocardiography Training Programme For Irish Critical Care Doctors, Roisin O'Mahony Dec 2017

Validation Of A Focused Basic Transthoracic Echocardiography Training Programme For Irish Critical Care Doctors, Roisin O'Mahony

Masters

Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) is a technique for scanning the human heart using ultrasound. It enables us to acquire vital information about the size, structure and function of the heart. This test is a crucial cardiac diagnostic test. Historically TTE was used only in cardiology departments, undertaken by trained personnel called cardiac physiologists or cardiology doctors. More recently, TTE has been recognized to be very useful in the management of critically ill patients in the intensive care and high dependency units of our hospitals. Currently bedside TTE on these patients is performed by cardiac physiologists who are generally only available during …

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Relationship Between Self-Compassion, Self-Perception, And Stuttering Severity, Colleen Hogan Dec 2017

Relationship Between Self-Compassion, Self-Perception, And Stuttering Severity, Colleen Hogan

Graduate Independent Studies - Communication Sciences and Disorders

The present study investigated the possibility of a relationship between self-compassion, self-perception, and stuttering severity in adults who stutter. Four adults who identify as people who stutter were administered the Self-Compassion Scale, the Self-Perception Profile for Adults, the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering, and the Stuttering Severity Instrument. Results indicated a negative correlation between stuttering severity and self-compassion. A relationship was found between self-perception and stuttering severity and self-compassion in only one participant. It was concluded that practices of self-compassion may be beneficial in speech therapy for adults who stutter, and that both self-perception and self-compassion scales …

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The Role Of Wisdom Leadership In Increasing Job Performance: Evidence From The Egyptian Tourism Sector., My Haddoud, Elbaz Ahmed Dec 2017

The Role Of Wisdom Leadership In Increasing Job Performance: Evidence From The Egyptian Tourism Sector., My Haddoud, Elbaz Ahmed

Plymouth Business School

The paper aims to explore the intervening role of wisdom leadership in the link between leadership styles and employees’ team performance, in the context of travel agents. Drawing on the leadership theory and the strategic leadership model, we develop an integrative model exploring the relationships between four distinct leadership styles and their influence on employees’ satisfaction and team performance, through the mediating role of wise leadership. Using data collected from 505 travel agents operating in Egypt, we show that not all leadership styles have a positive influence on employees’ satisfaction. We also show that a positive influence takes place through …

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Irish Workplace Behaviour Study, M Hodgins, L Pursell, V Hogan, Et Al Dec 2017

Irish Workplace Behaviour Study, M Hodgins, L Pursell, V Hogan, Et Al

Plymouth Business School

This study replicated the BWBS in Ireland, employing the same questionnaire and sampling methodology, in order to establish the prevalence of negative acts in the workplace in a nationally representative sample of Irish employees. The focus of the study is workplace ill treatment received at least once over the previous two years. Workplace ill treatment takes many forms. Workplace bullying is perhaps the most well researched aspect of workplace ill treatment, and has become the dominant way of conceptualising trouble at work. Workplace bullying is a problem for practitioners, academics, and most significantly, it is a problem for those who …

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Uncloaking The Traffickers: Why The Communications Decency Act Needs To Be Amended To Reach Culpable Website Owners And Their Ilk, Gavrielle Kube Dec 2017

Uncloaking The Traffickers: Why The Communications Decency Act Needs To Be Amended To Reach Culpable Website Owners And Their Ilk, Gavrielle Kube

Journal of International Business and Law

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Identifying Constraints For Hospital Infection Control Management Via Mckinsey 7s Framework In Pakistan, Shagufta Perveen, Shifa Salman Habib Dec 2017

Identifying Constraints For Hospital Infection Control Management Via Mckinsey 7s Framework In Pakistan, Shagufta Perveen, Shifa Salman Habib

Community Health Sciences

Background: In Pakistan, structured guidelines for hospital infection control and prevention are deficient in most public sector facilities. There is dearth of literature available on management of hospital-care acquired infections and related issues. This study aims to understand infection control management as a proxy measure for quality of health care provided at a public sector tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. In this study, we identify barriers to implementation of infection control measures and highlight key areas for quality improvement.
Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out in 2008 using qualitative research methods. In-depth interviews were conducted with hospital …

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Monitoring And Control Of Large Scale Power Grid Failures With Imperfect Communication, Jose Eduardo Cordova Garcia Dec 2017

Monitoring And Control Of Large Scale Power Grid Failures With Imperfect Communication, Jose Eduardo Cordova Garcia

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The wide area monitoring and control network is the core component of the envisioned Smart Grid (SG). A common assumption in the design of SG applications is that such data network behaves perfectly, i.e. no delay, no packet loss. In this dissertation, we examine the effect of communication issues on the power grid operation and present the design of communications-aware schemes for monitoring and control schemes of power line failures. Recently, high precision data have become available through Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). Ideally, using phasor data the system-wide status of power lines can be monitored. We argue that the discovery …

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The "Narrative Impulse" And Literary Intervention In The Public Science Discourse, Lauren Kilian Dec 2017

The "Narrative Impulse" And Literary Intervention In The Public Science Discourse, Lauren Kilian

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

My dissertation examines diverse perspectives that literary authors, popular science writers, and academics bring to bear on the question of who can contribute to public science discourse. That discourse has a vexed history; it inherits assumptions of incompatibility from debates about a “Two Cultures” divide, and has been the battleground of the “Science Wars” between scientists and cultural theorists. I move beyond discord and valuation, in favor of a “participatory model,” where both scientists and nonscientists promote the scientific literacy of the lay public. My project juxtaposes popular science alongside literature, which illuminates narrative's alternately constructive and destructive role in …

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Food From Stein, Christopher Kovarik Dec 2017

Food From Stein, Christopher Kovarik

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The genesis of Food from Stein was a commission from an ensemble in Vancouver, British Columbia. While that concert ultimately did not take place, it nonetheless dictated the instrumentation of the piece: flute, viola, harp and voice. This genesis also informed the structure of the piece. The commission required that the work reflect the concept of biodiversity (the performance was to occur in the Beatty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia). I chose to do this by using the theory of evolution to determine the work’s basic structure. Sections would be longer at the beginning and become shorter …

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Negative Charges At Mek1 Kinase Consensus Sites Downregulate Ndt80 Activity During Budding Yeast Meiotic Prophase Without Affecting Protein Stability, Robert Gaglione Dec 2017

Negative Charges At Mek1 Kinase Consensus Sites Downregulate Ndt80 Activity During Budding Yeast Meiotic Prophase Without Affecting Protein Stability, Robert Gaglione

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Meiotic recombination promotes the formation of crossovers between homologous chromosomes to ensure their proper segregation in Meiosis I. Crossovers are formed by the repair of programmed double strand breaks (DSBs) during meiotic prophase. In budding yeast, the meiotic recombination checkpoint delays meiotic progression until all DSBs have been repaired and is under the control of the meiosis-specific Mek1 kinase. The meiosis-specific transcription factor Ndt80 activates the transcription of hundreds of genes, including those required for prophase exit and the meiotic divisions. Transcription of NDT80 occurs in two stages, mediated first by Ime1 and then by Ndt80 itself. Ime1-transcribed Ndt80 is …

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When The Signals Come Home, Jordan E. Franklin Dec 2017

When The Signals Come Home, Jordan E. Franklin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

“When the Signals Come Home” is a hybrid poetry and prose collection in which I explore complex familial bonds alongside race, gender, culture and community. A majority of the pieces in the manuscript are ekphrastic poems inspired by music, art, film, mythology and literature. The poems, in turn, are broken up by brief memoir pieces, or “interludes.” There are three books that I credit with inspiring the overall conception of the book. They are: 1. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, which also demonstrates a blending of forms. 2. Boy With Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis uses ekphrastic poetry to …

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Please See, Caitlin Mullen Dec 2017

Please See, Caitlin Mullen

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

“Please See” is a work of literary fiction and is partially based on a cold case from 2007, when the bodies of four prostitutes were found in a drainage easement in the salt marsh behind an Atlantic City motel. I’ve set the novel over the course of one summer in Atlantic City in 2016, when the city is in the throes of a deep recession, still struggling to recover from the damage wrought by Storm Sandy, and dealing with the constant devastation brought on by the influx of heroin in town. The book reimagines the murders through the eyes of …

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Elusive Numbers. State Knowledge And Bureaucratic Organization In Chile (1750-1911), Andres Estefane-Jaramillo Dec 2017

Elusive Numbers. State Knowledge And Bureaucratic Organization In Chile (1750-1911), Andres Estefane-Jaramillo

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation explores the trajectory of the Chilean State’s statistical projects from the mid-eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. It begins in a moment when the scientific concerns of the Enlightenment dovetailed with the State’s demand for knowledge after the dissolution of the Spanish Empire. It analyzes the construction of a specialized bureaucracy entrusted with the mission of producing the statistical information the Chilean State required for effective government. Due to the relational and spatial implications of producing official numbers, these inquiries opened up permanent spaces of interaction between the central institutions and the administrative peripheries of …

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Changes In Functional Neural Network Organization During Working Memory Task Performance: Effects Of Age And Task Practice, Thang Manh Le Dec 2017

Changes In Functional Neural Network Organization During Working Memory Task Performance: Effects Of Age And Task Practice, Thang Manh Le

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The notion that cognitive processing is not only reflected by regional changes in neural activity in the brain but also by global changes in functional connectivity pattern has greatly motivated the network approach in examining the neural substrates of cognition and their relationship with behavior. Recent human neuroimaging evidence suggests specific cognitive processes may involve distinct spatiotemporal patterns of functional connectivity across task conditions. For instance, increased cognitive demand has been shown to evoke greater network integration while changes in functional network architecture have been associated with shifting between cognitive states. However, little is known about individual differences in the …

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Modelling The Impact Of National Development Strategies For The East African Rice Sector, Florence Muthee Dec 2017

Modelling The Impact Of National Development Strategies For The East African Rice Sector, Florence Muthee

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The 2008 food crisis prompted many food importing nations to reconsider the need to be self-sufficient especially in their staple food needs. This awakening led to the launch of the Coalition for Africa Rice Development (CARD) initiative with a goal to double rice production in Africa. Under the CARD umbrella member countries drafted individual National Rice Development Strategies (NRDS). This study is a quantitative assessment of four East African countries’ NRDS: Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda within dynamic global rice economy models. The NRDS targets and strategies are not realistic and included under estimation of rice consumption for Kenya, an …

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2017 December, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University. Dec 2017

2017 December, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases from December of 2017.

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Development Of An Improved Synthesis Of S-D-Ribosyl-L-Homocysteine (Srh) And Progress Toward Srh Analogs Modified At The C3 Position, Emily Rouse Dec 2017

Development Of An Improved Synthesis Of S-D-Ribosyl-L-Homocysteine (Srh) And Progress Toward Srh Analogs Modified At The C3 Position, Emily Rouse

Master's Theses

Quorum sensing is a system that facilitates bacteria turning on and off gene expression depending on population density. System 2 quorum sensing is utilized by both Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria, and the quorum sensing molecule used in this system is AI-2. AI-2 is biosynthesized by the enzyme LuxS from the precursor SRH. This thesis describes an improved synthesis of SRH through the exploration of different protecting group strategies. The knowledge gained from the improved synthesis of SRH is then applied toward the synthesis of SRH analogues with increased steric bulk installed through use of a stereoselective anti-Mannich reaction. …

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Ppc Update, Violeta Ilik Dec 2017

Ppc Update, Violeta Ilik

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Report On Nasig Webinar: How Accessible Is Our Collection? Performing An E-Resources Accessibility Review, Dejah Rubel Dec 2017

Report On Nasig Webinar: How Accessible Is Our Collection? Performing An E-Resources Accessibility Review, Dejah Rubel

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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December 2017 Full Issue Dec 2017

December 2017 Full Issue

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Uncertain Skies: Forecasting Typhoons In Hong Kong Ca. 1874-1906, Fiona Williamson Dec 2017

Uncertain Skies: Forecasting Typhoons In Hong Kong Ca. 1874-1906, Fiona Williamson

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This paper explores the conceptualisation of «uncertainty» in late nineteenth- century meteorological thought. By investigating the story of meteorological forecasting in nineteenth and early twentieth century Hong Kong, it considers the changing ways in which forecasting was judged historically. In the early nineteenth century forecasting the weather was considered impossible. By the end of the century, it was confidently expected that the much improved understanding of weather patterns would lead to the ability to better predict them. During the intervening period «uncertainty» competed with «certainty» and «prediction» was mistaken for «predictability». The shift in perception was driven by various factors, …

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Harnessing The Potential Of The Indonesian Diaspora, Charlotte Setijadi Dec 2017

Harnessing The Potential Of The Indonesian Diaspora, Charlotte Setijadi

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In this article, I examine recent issues and developments in Indonesian diaspora activism, including the progress of long-standing requests such as changes to the dual citizenship law. I then discuss some of the ways in which the Indonesian government may harness the potential of its diaspora in the future, especially since overseas Indonesians are now wealthier, more mobile, and better connected than ever before. I argue that the case study of the Indonesian state’s growing relationship with its diaspora can enrich our understanding of how Southeast Asian countries are cultivating better and more beneficial relationships with their diaspora communities.

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