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Consumers' Adoption Of Connected And Autonomous Vehicles (Cavs) Based On Their Social Network, Ishant Sharma Jan 2022

Consumers' Adoption Of Connected And Autonomous Vehicles (Cavs) Based On Their Social Network, Ishant Sharma

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The recent advancements in communication, digital, and automobile technologies have the potential to revolutionize the transport sector, especially the way we travel. Such advancements include the advent of mobility-on-demand services, electric and connected, and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Recent research indicates their imminent market penetration, but their widespread consumer adoption is still uncertain because of several anticipated barriers like giving up conventional vehicles, safety concerns, accident liability problems, cybersecurity issues, and many more. A potential consumer’s decision to purchase a vehicle is greatly influenced from information received from multiple sources, especially peer-to-peer communication. To the best of our knowledge, limited studies …

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Mask On, F*Ck It, Mask Off: Assessing The Role That Hip-Hop Plays In The Identity Development Of Young Black Professionals, Re'sean James Jetson Jan 2022

Mask On, F*Ck It, Mask Off: Assessing The Role That Hip-Hop Plays In The Identity Development Of Young Black Professionals, Re'sean James Jetson

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Young Black professionals are faced with unique challenges in navigating their ethnic and professional identities, especially in the workplace. They are underrepresented in high-status professional jobs and often assume they must adhere to behavioral and linguistic norms associated with the dominant culture in order to be accepted in predominately White workspaces. The process of adjusting one’s style of speech or behavior based on the social setting is known as code-switching. This study examined the experience of code-switching for young Black professionals in non-diverse workspaces with particular attention to the role of Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop has served as a tool for identity …

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Pastors' Readiness To Change Their Physical Activity Behavior: A Qualitative Study Based On The Transtheoretical Model, Nathan T. West Jan 2022

Pastors' Readiness To Change Their Physical Activity Behavior: A Qualitative Study Based On The Transtheoretical Model, Nathan T. West

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Engaging in the recommended amounts of physical activity (i.e., 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity/week) has many health benefits; yet only half of the United States (US) adult population meets this recommendation. Low physical activity engagement may be partially attributable to individual, social, and environmental barriers and factors. Barriers to meeting physical activity recommendations have been found among Christian clergy (i.e., clergy). In addition, clergy report a high prevalence of obesity, some non-communicable diseases and mental health problems. However, only a few studies have examined physical activity among clergy using a theory- guided approach, which limits our understanding of perceptions …

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Understanding Anger And Psychosocial Functioning In A Sample Of Post-9/11 Veterans Using Ecological Momentary Assessment, Rebecca J. Zakarian Jan 2022

Understanding Anger And Psychosocial Functioning In A Sample Of Post-9/11 Veterans Using Ecological Momentary Assessment, Rebecca J. Zakarian

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Anger is an important aspect of the negative emotion associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and difficulties with anger regulation are implicated in more severe PTSD trajectories as well as associated problems such as aggression perpetration. Anger is also known to erode social relationships and is implicated in poorer psychosocial functioning and having fewer close relationships. From a diagnostic conceptualization, anger is included in both the hyperarousal symptom cluster (e.g. irritability and angry reactions) and the negative alterations in cognitions and mood symptom cluster (e.g. negative emotions like anger, fear, shame, etc). Although anger is included in the diagnostic symptoms …

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Longitudinal Examination Of Psychosocial Factors, Diabetic Ketoacidosis, And Urinary Albumin-To-Creatinine Ratio Trajectories Among Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes, Katherine Semenkovich Jan 2022

Longitudinal Examination Of Psychosocial Factors, Diabetic Ketoacidosis, And Urinary Albumin-To-Creatinine Ratio Trajectories Among Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes, Katherine Semenkovich

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Vascular complications result in significant morbidity and mortality in individuals with type 1 diabetes. Certain measures such as the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio can assess risk for later diabetes complications by determining the amount of protein leaking from the kidneys (an early sign of kidney damage). Based on a conceptual framework, this study used growth curve and latent variable mixture modeling to evaluate individual and family characteristics, psychosocial responses, individual and family responses, and metabolic variables (hemoglobin A1c and DKA hospitalizations) that predict urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (ACR) trajectories over the span of three years. Adolescents (N = 142) 12-18 years old …

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Ecology Of Individuality In Behaviors Of Meadow Voles, Microtus Pennsylvanicus, Karl Nicholas Rohrer Jan 2022

Ecology Of Individuality In Behaviors Of Meadow Voles, Microtus Pennsylvanicus, Karl Nicholas Rohrer

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Evolution works on the variation present in a population and that variation is the individual. But, what makes an individual? Part of this is the physical and genetic individuality, but for animals a large part of their individuality comes from the consistent behaviors that they express that are different from others. These behaviors can be developed innately, such as those that are considered ‘personality,’ or learned through their experiences. These effects compound each other and will impact the fitness of each animal. Additionally, the individuality of other organisms can be vital information. If individuals vary in behavior, then the appropriate …

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Voices From The Classroom: Perspectives Of Elementary Teachers On Teacher Absenteeism, And The Related Factors Of Leadership Behaviors And Teacher Preparation, Amanda Brabham Jan 2022

Voices From The Classroom: Perspectives Of Elementary Teachers On Teacher Absenteeism, And The Related Factors Of Leadership Behaviors And Teacher Preparation, Amanda Brabham

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Employee absence can arise in any organization or institution; however, in education, teacher absenteeism place burdens on schools and hinders the ability of schools to provide quality and consistent instruction to students. Teacher absenteeism has been a topic of discussion in the West Tennessee study school district for many years. School and district leaders have pondered over what can be done to improve the attendance behaviors of teachers. Research asserts that teachers are the most important in-school determinant of student success, and for this reason, school and district leaders in the West Tennessee study district must gain an understanding of …

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Attributes Of Organic Food Products: What Matters To The Us Consumers In Their Purchasing Decision?, Rohini Daraboina Jan 2022

Attributes Of Organic Food Products: What Matters To The Us Consumers In Their Purchasing Decision?, Rohini Daraboina

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Green research in marketing is a rich field with multiple financial and brand implications to the firms and their stakeholders including consumers. This three-essay dissertation examines two important research streams in green marketing, organic food product attribute importance, and food safety transgressions. The first essay applies bibliometric methods to analyze the literature on green research in marketing. Based on the keyword analysis and literature review the essay identifies several gaps in green marketing research and offers potential research opportunities. Guided by the first essay’s insights, the second essay focuses on the relative importance of the organic food product attributes that …

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Mate Preference And Parental Investment In Wild Songbirds, Kelly Danielle Miller Jan 2022

Mate Preference And Parental Investment In Wild Songbirds, Kelly Danielle Miller

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In sexually reproducing species, fitness maximization requires obtaining a mate whose optimal reproductive strategy may not be compatible with one’s own optimum. Thus, the classic tradeoff between investment in current offspring vs. surviving to produce future offspring is shaped by various decisions, including one’s choice of mate. Because males and females face fundamentally different selective pressures, the “perfect match” seldom exists, requiring that individuals shift investment strategies according to social and environmental conditions. I examined these tenets of life-history evolution in two species of wild songbird. First, I manipulated incubation effort of female Carolina wrens to assess the role of …

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Exploring Moderation Effects Of Humor Styles On The Relationship Between Racial And Ethnic Microaggressions And Work Volition In Black Working Men, Daniel Lattimore Jan 2022

Exploring Moderation Effects Of Humor Styles On The Relationship Between Racial And Ethnic Microaggressions And Work Volition In Black Working Men, Daniel Lattimore

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This study examined the relationship between racial and ethnic microaggressions and work volition and whether humor styles moderated that relationship. Participants were 216 employed Black men who completed measures of work volition (WVS-V), racial and ethnic microaggressions (REMS-45), and humor styles (HSQ-32). Data were analyzed using Hayes’ PROCESS macro for SPSS (Model 1, moderation) and supported the hypothesis that racial and ethnic microaggressions (REMS) frequency were directly related to work volition. Aggressive humor style moderated the racial microaggression – work volition relationship such that using an aggressive humor style at high levels of microaggressions was associated with lower work volition. …

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State Takeover Of Schools And School Districts: An Examination Of The Roles Of Race, Racism, And Care In Takeover Policy, Aaren Nichole Cassidy Jan 2022

State Takeover Of Schools And School Districts: An Examination Of The Roles Of Race, Racism, And Care In Takeover Policy, Aaren Nichole Cassidy

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This research is situated at the nexus of race, racism, and care in education law, policy, and practice. State takeovers of schools and school districts in the United States have been rising for over thirty years, significantly increasing in the past decade. These takeovers raise questions of equity, accountability, integrity, and capability in many areas, specifically in terms of educating the nation's youth living in urban settings. State-led reconstitutions of schools and school districts have been and continue to be linked to racialized policy agendas, most notably those that seek to disenfranchise, dispossess, and confine Black and Brown students, families, …

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Technology Entrepreneurship: Two Essays On Success Of New Technology Ventures, Prajakta Kolte Jan 2022

Technology Entrepreneurship: Two Essays On Success Of New Technology Ventures, Prajakta Kolte

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The first essay investigates the relationship between corporate investors’ organizational capabilities and technology ventures innovation. We hypothesize that CVC investment can give ventures access to external capabilities to enhance their innovation outcome. We focus on investors’ marketing capabilities and R& D capabilities and empirically examine how they impact the innovation outcome of new ventures. Furthermore, we investigate the moderating impact of board representation, business proximity and geographic proximity between the dyad (i.e., venture and CVC investor firm) on the performance impact of CVC investors’ capabilities. Our empirical results indicate that CVC investor firms’ MK and RD capabilities positively impact the …

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In Vitro Evaluation Of Chitosan Membranes Stabilized With Varying Acyl Lengths For Release Of Therapeutics For Burn Wound Coverage, Infection Prevention, And Pain Relief, Landon Choi Jan 2022

In Vitro Evaluation Of Chitosan Membranes Stabilized With Varying Acyl Lengths For Release Of Therapeutics For Burn Wound Coverage, Infection Prevention, And Pain Relief, Landon Choi

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Adherence of complex bacterial biofilm communities to burned tissue creates a challenge for treatment, with infection causing 51% of burn victim deaths. This study evaluated release of therapeutics from wound care biomaterials and their antimicrobial activity against pathogens Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Electrospun chitosan membranes (ESCMs) were fabricated and acylated with chain lengths ranging from 6-10 carbons then loaded with anti-biofilm cis-2-decenoic acid (C2DA) (0.15 mg/membrane with average weight of 4.68 mg) and local anesthetic bupivacaine (0.5 mg/membrane). Combinations of therapeutics released from modified ESCMs at a cumulative amount of 45-70% of bupivacaine and less than 20% …

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The Role Of Oxytocin Receptor Activation In The Nucleus Accumbens On Dopamine Release, Patricia Nalan Jan 2022

The Role Of Oxytocin Receptor Activation In The Nucleus Accumbens On Dopamine Release, Patricia Nalan

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The neuropeptide oxytocin alters the salience of rewards and is being investigated as a treatment for substance use disorder; however, the effects of oxytocin on reward-related neural circuits are not understood. The detection of rewarding stimuli is regulated in part by the mesolimbic dopamine system, with dopaminergic cell bodies in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) that project to the nucleus accumbens (NAc). The current study aimed to determine the effect of oxytocin receptor activation in the NAc on mesolimbic dopamine release. Fixed potential amperometry was used to measure stimulation-evoked dopamine release in the NAc of anesthetized C57BL/6J mice before and …

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Smiting All Foreigners, Subduing All Lands: A Diachronic Study Of Iconographic, Textual, And Ideological Antecedents Of New Kingdom Triumph Scenes, Rebekah Anne Vogel Jan 2022

Smiting All Foreigners, Subduing All Lands: A Diachronic Study Of Iconographic, Textual, And Ideological Antecedents Of New Kingdom Triumph Scenes, Rebekah Anne Vogel

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Egyptian New Kingdom triumph scenes, perhaps one of the most recognizable motifs in Egyptian art, adorned the exteriors of temple complexes and depicted the king smiting his enemies and receiving lines of bound toponyms representing subjugated foreign peoples and places. These scenes have often been studied for their relevance to historical geography as well as the military, imperial, and foreign relations history of Egypt. This study approaches New Kingdom triumph scenes instead as composite ideological motifs that deliberately combined specific iconographic and textual elements in a display of royal victory. It identifies the constituent elements of the motif, traces their …

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Olfactory Communication Among Conspecifics And Alteration Of Habitat And Social Preference Due To Food Deprivation And The Threat Of Predation In Meadow Voles, Sarah Stacey Garris Jan 2022

Olfactory Communication Among Conspecifics And Alteration Of Habitat And Social Preference Due To Food Deprivation And The Threat Of Predation In Meadow Voles, Sarah Stacey Garris

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Animals must be able to collect and utilize information from their environment, such as olfactory cues, to make decisions that impact their fitness. Meadow voles make excellent experimental subjects for studying the functional aspects of olfactory communication. While several body sources of meadow voles were previously observed to communicate the vole’s sex, I aimed to determine whether each source also communicates information distinct from other sources. This was accomplished by utilizing a habituation-test method. I found that scent marks from three body sources of a female meadow vole communicated information that was both redundant and distinct from one another. In …

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An Assemblage Of Becomings: Affective Connections Between Spiritual Experience And Objects, Clarie Jo Koehn Jan 2022

An Assemblage Of Becomings: Affective Connections Between Spiritual Experience And Objects, Clarie Jo Koehn

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This study follows the affects that flow between spiritual experience, humans, and objects and conjure transformations of subjectivity. Informed by affect theory and Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of becoming, I used postqualitative methods to interview six women and femmes about their spiritual experiences, the objects associated with their experiences, and the shifts in selfhood that their experience-object assemblages produced. Transcription and analysis was led by affect, involving attunement to hot spots that served as jumping off points for writing stories connecting participant to participant and participant to researcher. Analyses revealed the presence of affect in relation to objects that serve …

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Essays On The Relationship Between Corporate Sociopolitical Activism, Shareholder Wealth, And Consumer-Based Brand Equity, Courtney B. Peters Jan 2022

Essays On The Relationship Between Corporate Sociopolitical Activism, Shareholder Wealth, And Consumer-Based Brand Equity, Courtney B. Peters

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Corporate sociopolitical activism (CSA) is a growing phenomenon among today’s business environment. Corporate sociopolitical activism occurs when organizations or actors on behalf of the organization release a public statement or take a visible action related to a bipartisan issue. This two-essay dissertation evaluates the impacts of corporate sociopolitical activism on key stakeholders of the organization—investors and consumers. The first essay uses an event study analysis coupled with a cross-sectional regression to analyze the impacts of CSA on shareholder wealth through the lens of signaling theory. The results indicate that, on average, CSA negatively impacts shareholder wealth. Different from prior literature, …

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Preservice And First-Year Teachers’ Intention To Use And Actual Use Of Technology-Enabled Learning: A Case Study, Jessica Herring Watson Jan 2022

Preservice And First-Year Teachers’ Intention To Use And Actual Use Of Technology-Enabled Learning: A Case Study, Jessica Herring Watson

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The purpose of this qualitative, embedded single case study was to provide a rich description and explore the unique development and evolution of preservice teachers’ intention to use and actual use of technology-enabled learning (TEL) during student teaching and first-year teaching. The study followed four middle level education majors at a mid-size public teaching university in the southeastern United States over the course of the 2021 calendar year, during their student teaching experience (Spring 2021) and into their first semester as novice teachers (Fall 2021). Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) guided this qualitative inquiry. Interviews, observations, and analysis of …

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The Role Of Social Information, Its Context, And How It Affects The Olfactory Communication Behaviors And Preferences Of Meadow Voles, Microtus Pennsylvanicus, Ryan Scauzillo Jan 2022

The Role Of Social Information, Its Context, And How It Affects The Olfactory Communication Behaviors And Preferences Of Meadow Voles, Microtus Pennsylvanicus, Ryan Scauzillo

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When choosing a mate, individuals often independently assess opposite-sex conspecifics based on specific attributes. While independently assessing conspecifics may garner strong fitness benefits, it comes with costs including time spent searching for mates and trial-and-error of assessing mates. Fortunately, animals can gain ‘social information’ by viewing the interactions and decisions of others. When animals act upon the information gathered, they are engaging in non-independent mate choice. Most studies that examine non-independent mate choice have been conducted with visually oriented species, but social information can be gained through other means, such as olfaction. Communication via odors can convey a wide range …

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The Role Of Skeletal Muscle Intrinsic Clock On The Development And Progression Of Cancer Cachexia, Jason Lin Jan 2022

The Role Of Skeletal Muscle Intrinsic Clock On The Development And Progression Of Cancer Cachexia, Jason Lin

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Cancer cachexia is a chronic wasting disorder characterized by severe loss of skeletal muscle that affects approximately 80% of cancer patients. Altered rest-activity is a hallmark of circadian disruption and is often seen in cachectic patients. It is unknown how skeletal muscle clock gene expression is altered with the progression of cachexia. We investigated skeletal muscle clock gene expression during cachexia. Tissue from ApcMin/+ mice (MIN) were harvested in the morning and evening and were analyzed for clock gene expression. Per 2 and Per 3 increased expression in the evening. Rev-ERBα showed decreased expression in BL – 6 mice in …

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A New Look At Student Engagement Theory: Describing The Role Social Media Plays In Student Engagement, Mary Katherine Tyler Jan 2022

A New Look At Student Engagement Theory: Describing The Role Social Media Plays In Student Engagement, Mary Katherine Tyler

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The problem that this research will address is that the current generation of college students, Gen Z, are using social media and digital technology to connect with their peers, create community and engage with their university like no generation before them. In addition to this, student affairs professionals fall largely into the Millennial Generation or Gen X, who did not grow up as digital natives (Prensky, 2001) and thus have a very different relationship with social media. The purpose of this qualitative multiple descriptive case study research design, using the framework designed by Yin (2014), is to describe student engagement …

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The Dark Side Of It: Three Essays On Issues Related To The Consequences Of It, Stephanie Ann Totty Jan 2022

The Dark Side Of It: Three Essays On Issues Related To The Consequences Of It, Stephanie Ann Totty

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Information technology (IT) is a double-edged sword—IT can afford individuals and organizations opportunities to improve performance; meanwhile, IT may cause unexpected consequences. This three-essay dissertation examines two important dark sides of IT, information security and driving safety, and evaluates interventions that may combat them. The first essay reviews and synthesizes literature on information security in the information systems (IS) field. Based on a semi-automated topic modeling approach, this essay systematically describes major themes of information security research in the IS field, identifies their interconnections, and offers guidelines for future research. Guided by the first essay's insights, the second essay focuses …

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Rising From The Ashes: Sowing A New Generation Of Post-Pandemic Violin Students, Nancy Denise Ditto Jan 2022

Rising From The Ashes: Sowing A New Generation Of Post-Pandemic Violin Students, Nancy Denise Ditto

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During the global pandemic, remote violin lessons became much more widely available. Online learning was widely viewed as suboptimal at that time, but many parents preferred the online platform to in-person learning because they felt their children were safer at home. Teaching violin virtually can be challenging for teachers because they cannot provide essential hands-on instruction. There are difficulties like tuning the instrument, assessing tone quality, etc., and the inability of students to play in ensembles may handicap their motivation to practice. Some aspects of online teaching may be advantageous, such as teachers being able to reach almost all students …

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Enhancing Groundwater Flow Modeling And Dry Cell Management In The Unconfined Aquifer (Shallow Aquifer) In Shelby County, Tn, Joel Pierce Jan 2022

Enhancing Groundwater Flow Modeling And Dry Cell Management In The Unconfined Aquifer (Shallow Aquifer) In Shelby County, Tn, Joel Pierce

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Numerical groundwater modelers often encounter challenges in implementing and computing regional unconfined aquifer models that match real-world water table undulations and address localized areas of drying/rewetting. A common conservative assumption in such models states that adding greater, real-world detail does not correlate to more substantive model results. The proposed work, however, tests the hypothesis that by incorporating specific areas of greater hydrogeologic complexity into modeling regional sized unconfined aquifers, simulated heads will better match observed local conditions, especially in areas of water loss through aquitard breaches and where dry cells are a natural condition of the system. A series of …

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A Student Like Me: Adult Learners' Perception Of Effective Teaching In Career And Technical Education., Shelanda Ferrell Simmons Jan 2022

A Student Like Me: Adult Learners' Perception Of Effective Teaching In Career And Technical Education., Shelanda Ferrell Simmons

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Abstract Examining adult learners' perceptions of effective teaching in career and technical education is needed to enhance the principal objective of refining learning value is determining acceptable teaching practices for the student (Davies & Wilson, 2020). In addition, this subject is worth investigating to highlight the social inequalities that plague nontraditional learners' lives within the educational system (Clycq et al., 2014). Finally, to show the need for a support system inside the classroom and out (Chao & Good, 2004). Duncan-Andrade (2009) introduces the concept of Critical Hope. Critical Hope comprises three elements that can stand independently or collectively: material, Socratic, …

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Legacies Of The Death Penalty: Sacrifice, Survival, And The Possibility Of Justice, Sarah Kathryn Marshall Jan 2022

Legacies Of The Death Penalty: Sacrifice, Survival, And The Possibility Of Justice, Sarah Kathryn Marshall

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Concluding the first year of his seminars on the death penalty, Derrida writes that “even when it will have been abolished, the death penalty will survive.” This dissertation interprets his claim in various contexts and with particular attention to the specificity of Derrida’s discourse on survival or survivance. The first chapter attends to the complicity of the Western philosophical tradition, through the example of Martin Heidegger, in providing the theoretical scaffold for the institution of capital punishment. This chapter also traces a logic of donner la mort, or giving death, from the philosophical level to the social level, working out …

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Financial Exchange Industrial Organization, Sports Championships And Stock Market Reaction, Beauty Premiums, And Machine Learning, David Adan Taylor Jan 2022

Financial Exchange Industrial Organization, Sports Championships And Stock Market Reaction, Beauty Premiums, And Machine Learning, David Adan Taylor

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First, I examine how the forces of automation, competition, and demutualization are rapidly changing the industrial organization, ownership, and capital structure of the financial exchange industry. I propose the conditions under which demutualization becomes optimal from the perspective of mutually owned exchange owners. I then proceed to build an empirical dataset characterizing the evolution of the leading stock and derivative exchanges around the World along these dimensions. I empirically find that technology driven growth opportunities, product driven growth opportunities and increases in market concentration are the main stimulants for demutualization. In this paper I examine market reaction at the firm-level …

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The Relationship Of Cognitive Load And Motivation As A Predictor Of Persistence In Accelerated Online Asynchronous Courses, Alan Wesley Kinsey Jan 2022

The Relationship Of Cognitive Load And Motivation As A Predictor Of Persistence In Accelerated Online Asynchronous Courses, Alan Wesley Kinsey

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With the increase in online course enrollments each year, there is a continued examination of online course persistence, particularly in accelerated online courses. This examination of online course persistence has typically examined individual learner factors as contributors to persistence. However, research examining the institutional and pedagogical factors of persistence can continue to further understanding what factors lead to learner persistence decisions. The purpose of this quantitative, predictive correlational study is to examine to what extent, if any, community college learners’ perceived online course cognitive load and motivation predict persistence in an accelerated online course. The theoretical framework for this study …

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Child Mental Health Outcomes And Household Composition, Clarion Jamil Harris Jan 2022

Child Mental Health Outcomes And Household Composition, Clarion Jamil Harris

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In recent years, the number of children diagnosed with mental health issues has grown. The American Academy of Pediatrics recently declared a national emergency in child and adolescent health. Much research has been done to explain this mental health crisis in American youth. This study examines the relationship between household composition and mental illnesses in children. For this study, data from the National Survey of Children’s Health are used. The variables of anxiety, depression, and behavioral problems are used as the dependent variables from this dataset. The independent variable is represented by family structure, and five control variables will be …

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