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The Impact Of Transformational Leadership Tenets On The Soft Skills And Self-Efficacy Of Individuals From A Performing Arts Program: A Phenomenological Study, Carissa Hawksworth

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences of university students who develop soft skills and self-efficacy while working with a director who utilizes transformational leadership qualities to direct a performing arts event. The theory guiding this study was Bass’s theory of transformational leadership, which encourages leaders to develop as individuals, thereby enhancing the performance of the entire group. The central research question was, “What are the lived experiences of university students who participate in a performing arts program led by a transformational leader?” This qualitative, hermeneutic phenomenology study focused on understanding the lived …

A Qualitative Study Of The Uses And Gratifications Theory In Tiktok’S Short-Form Video Influence On Users Behaviors And Motivations Among Young Adults In The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, Jonathan V. Robertson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This qualitative dissertation explored the TikTok consumption and engagement behaviors of young adults aged 18-25. The TikTok social media platform is well-known for its active community of content creators producing high-quality, short-form, eye-catching video content. These videos are tailored to individuals' personal interests, beliefs, and values, shaping users' daily lives. Alternative social media platforms offer similar capabilities; however, they fall short of TikTok's powerful algorithm. The uses and gratifications theoretical framework were specifically selected to help understand why young adults engage with TikTok, how their unique motivations shape their engagement behaviors, and the role TikTok plays in identity development. The …

A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study Of The Lived Experiences Of Seminary Teachers Transitioning From Designing And Delivering Instruction Traditionally To Competency-Based Education Approach, Jacob L. M. Li

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to understand the lived experiences transitioning from designing and delivering instruction traditionally to a competency-based education approach using a learning management system for teachers at four seminaries based in North America. Competency-based education was generally defined as a highly personalized approach to education, where instructions are structured according to the interests, needs, and learning styles of the students who progress according to their competencies certified by formative process evaluation, irrespective of how long that would take, until they have reached the stated desired level of mastery, all the while acquiring knowledge, skills, …

Abusive Supervision In The Telecommunications Retail Sector: Effects On Job Satisfaction, Performance, And Employee Turnover, Zenitzia Siu

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

I addressed the problem of abusive supervision, which adversely affects job satisfaction and employee engagement, resulting in reduced organizational performance and increased turnover intentions in telecommunications retail. Guided by social exchange theory (SET), this qualitative single-case study explored how leaders interpret their awareness of their leadership behaviors, and how these interpretations align with or misalign with employees’ perceptions. The data collection involved 21 leader interviews and 25 open-ended survey responses, analyzed using SET’s deductive coding and NVivo's inductive theme development, with methodological triangulation across both data sources. Four core themes emerged deductively: (a) reciprocity, (b) trust and commitment, (c) cost …

Pengaruh Hukum Pembuktlan Belanda Terhadap Hukum Pembuktlan Indonesia, Ibrahim Idham, S.H., M.H.

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Abstract

An Assessment Of Biophilic Design Strategies Application In Selected Hostels In A Typical Tertiary Institution, Nigeria., Emokpae Erebor, Foluke Jegede, Pontip Nimlyat, Benjamin Moral

Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ)

Designing spaces that incorporate the principles of biophilic design enhances the buildings occupants closeness to nature while also enhancing spaces connectivity and place conditions. It has environmental, health and other important benefits not only for the environment but also for the human beings that domicile around them. Firstly, this study was carried out using quantitative data obtained from 120 female students of two selected hostel facilities in a typical private University in South-West Nigeria. Secondly, observation is in identifying the actual applications where these strategies have been applied within these hostels through photographic images. This was done by identifying different …

Aspek Sosial Dan Hukum Tingkah Laku Orang Mabuk Alkohol, Soerjono Soekanto

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Abstract

The Effect Of Livelihood Capital Accessibility On The Financial Security And Financial Well-Being Of Sheep Farming Households (Survey In Wanaraja Subdistrict, Garut Regency), Suhendarsyah Suhendarsyah, Unang Yunasaf, Sondi Kuswaryan

Jurnal Ilmu Ternak Universitas Padjadjaran

This study analyzed the influence of livelihood capital accessibility on the financial security and financial well-being of sheep-farming households in Wanaraja Subdistrict, Garut Regency. A quantitative approach was used through a survey with organized interviews of 95 sheep farmers. The research variables include livelihood capital accessibility (X), financial security (Z), and financial well-being (Y). The livelihood capital accessibility construct was built as a Higher-Order Construct with five dimensions: human, natural, financial and physical capital. Data analysis used Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS_SEM) with a two-stage approach. The results evince that social capital are the most influential dimensions in …

Community Perception Of Wild Boar Meat Consumption Based On A Halal Perspective, Roudhotul Jannah, Hamzah Siswara, Yuny Erwanto, Meireni Cahyowati

Jurnal Ilmu Ternak Universitas Padjadjaran

Consuming wild boar meat is still popular among the people of Sekaran Village, Tuban Regency, even though the religion they believe in is Islam. The aim of this research is to investigate people's perceptions of the consumption of wild boar meat, to know the background of people who consume wild boar meat and to know the distribution of wild boar meat in the Tuban area. This research was carried out in several stages, namely observation, interviews using a sample of 100 respondents and documentation. Perception measurement uses a likert scale with an assessment score of 1-3 scores and data processing …

Annual Report State Fiscal Year July 2022-June 2023, Tennessee. Department Of Children's Services.

Department of Children's Services

No abstract provided.

Annual Report State Fiscal Year July 2023-June 2024, Tennessee. Department Of Children's Services.

Department of Children's Services

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A Multi-Layer Complex Adaptive System Framework For Ai-Driven Robo-Advisory Services, Jesty Mariam Philip, Mohit Boralkar, Alwin Joseph

Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS)

The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into investment advisory services has changed financial decision-making, giving rise to adaptive robo-advisory systems capable of real-time analysis, personal recommendations, and autonomous portfolio optimization. Existing research evaluates these systems primarily through technological performance or investor adoption, overlooking the complex feedback-driven interactions that emerge when AI analytics, data environments, and human behavior operate together. This study addresses this gap by conceptualizing AI-enabled robo-advisors as a multi-layered Complex Adaptive System comprising historical data, real-time data, AI analytics, investor perception, and decision-making layers. A simulation model grounded in machine learning dynamics, behavioral finance, and complexity theory …

Symbolic Consumption As Self-Preservation: Psychological Vulnerabilities And Identity Repair In Low-Income Luxury Consumers, Aaliyah W. Wilkerson

Atlantic Marketing Association Student Proceedings

This extended abstract presents a conceptual study exploring why low-income consumers engage in luxury fashion consumption despite financial limitations. The research reframes these purchases as emotionally driven acts of identity repair, introducing the constructs of perceived social identity lock-in and moral self-validation to explain how consumers cope with exclusion and affirm self-worth through symbolic consumption. A conceptual model is proposed and a sequential mixed-methods design is outlined for future empirical testing. This work contributes to Transformative Consumer Research by centering emotional coping in aspirational consumption and offers practical insights for inclusive, dignity-based branding strategies.

Behavioral Biases As Drivers Of Complexity In Stock Markets: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach, David Joseph Dr, Alwin Joseph, Blesson James, Kajal Dass

Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS)

By modeling financial systems as Complex Adaptive Systems, this study investigates how behavioral biases influence emergent complexity in stock markets. The study integrates heterogeneous agents, such as rational traders, herding agents, overconfident traders, and anchoring/disposition-driven investors, within a Limit Order Book framework calibrated to both U.S. and Indian market conditions using an Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) approach implemented through the high-fidelity ABIDES simulation environment. Price dynamics, volatility patterns, and liquidity structures were analyzed by Monte Carlo simulation experiments with different behavioral compositions. The results show that behavioral biases cause nonlinear price reactions, produce heavy-tailed return distributions that distort order-book complexity, and …

Increased Medications In Patients With Burning Mouth Syndrome Should Not Be Overlooked, Especially For Older Women, Yang-Zhou Huang, Zhou-Hui Wu

Journal of Dental Sciences

No abstract provided.

A Scientometric Study On Research Characteristics Of Hiv/Aids Involving The Oral Cavity With An Implication For Public Health, Ye Zhang, Xuemin Shen, Chengsu Hou, Feng Xu

Journal of Dental Sciences

No abstract provided.

A Scientometric Study On Research Trends And Characteristics Of Oral Health-Related Quality Of Life Among Head And Neck Cancer Patients, Yue Chen, Huanhuan Wang, Wei Liu, Lili Yang, Yan Mao

Journal of Dental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Pain, Anxiety, And Oral Health-Related Quality Of Life In Orthodontic Treatment Using Traditional, Self-Ligating, And Clear Aligner Systems, Cheng-Tsung Huang, Ping-Ho Chen, Chiung-Miao Lan, Yu-Chuan Tseng

Journal of Dental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Needle Breakage During Dental Anesthesia: Management Strategies And Its Associated Preventive Measures, Po-Yuan Jeng, Cheng-Mei Yang, Chia-Tze Kao, Meng-Hsiu Kuo, Jiiang-Huei Jeng

Journal of Dental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Association Between Health Beliefs And Patient Delay In Oral Cancer Diagnosis In Pakistan: An Exploratory Factor Analysis, Muhammad Usman Amanat, Hutcha Sriplung, Wit Wichaidit, Duangporn Kerdpon

Journal of Dental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Phenomenology And Science In Contemporary European Thought, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Joseph M. Bochenski

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[New York] Farrar, Straus and Cudahy [1962]

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Effect Of Dental Anxiety On The Success Of Inferior Alveolar Nerve Block In Symptomatic Irreversible Pulpitis: A Prospective Clinical Study, Arzu Kaya Mumcu, Melikşah Gündüz, Gülsen Kiraz, Meliha Koldemir Gündüz

Journal of Dental Sciences

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Inattentive Respondents And The Efficacy Of Quality Control Checks In Online Surveys, Tammy Mccullough, Sam Fullerton

Global Advances in Business Communication

An online survey provided insight regarding problems associated with inattentive respondents when collecting primary data using an Internet interface. Rather than open-access, respondents were part of a commercially maintained consumer panel. Inattentive respondents were identified using three quality control checks: an instructional manipulation, a common knowledge question, and a time check. Of the 1,452 respondents who completed the 83-question survey, 511 respondents (35.19%) failed at least one quality control check; 59 (4.06%) failed all three. Deviations between inattentive and attentive respondents were identified. For the instructional manipulation and the common knowledge checks, the impact of the inattentive respondents depended upon …

From Renaissance To 20th Century: The Influence Of Musical Training On Historical Music Preferences*, Susanna Ziesmer

Campus Research Month

Music taste is highly complex, influenced by factors of age, personality, familiarity, and musical training. While any studies have researched trends of preference for popular music genres and general classical music, few have broken the classical genre into its stylistically unique historical periods. This study examines the differences in preference for six historical music eras—Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist, and 20th century—between classically trained and non-trained individuals. Musicians were expected to show a higher overall preference for classical music and a narrower preference range between eras than that of non-musicians. It was also hypothesized that Romantic music would receive the …

Which Is The Most Effective Study Break: Movement, Media, Or Rest?*, Emily R. Grant, Kalla Carballo, Aislin Robinson

Campus Research Month

College students frequently incorporate breaks of various types into their study sessions; however, limited research has examined how different types of breaks affect memory retention. The proposed study will examine how exercising, spending time on social media, or participating in quiet rest affect delayed recall among undergraduate college students. The study predicts that students who participate in an exercise break will show improved memory retention, while students who are exposed to social media will experience reduced memory retention. The study also hypothesizes that students who are assigned to the quiet rest condition will demonstrate no significant change in retention. Undergraduate …

Chatgpt Or Human: Perceptions, Beliefs, And Use Of Ai Among Faculty And Students*, Elaina N. Redden, Julia Lang, Laurel Massey, Sidney Rankin

Campus Research Month

The use of artificial intelligence is becoming an inevitable and prevalent part of academia. Our study aimed to examine the use of AI among college students and professors and to illuminate general beliefs and perspectives on AI. We predicted that older generations would exhibit a more conservative view and use of AI, whereas younger students may be more liberal and open to its usage. We conducted a voluntary survey using students and faculty from Southern Adventist University, where they answered questions about their own AI usage, comfort levels, and beliefs. Results indicate that students tend to report higher AI usage …

The Eyewitness Phenomenon: How Does Emotion Affect Memory?*, Adena Cho, Diane Felix, Ella Emde

Campus Research Month

The proposed study will examine whether distracting, negatively-valenced auditory stimuli will replicate the eyewitness phenomenon. A group of 36 undergraduate students from Southern Adventist University (SAU) will be gathered using stratified sampling methods. To represent SAU’s undergraduate population, nine students from each year will be selected and randomly assigned to the control or intervention groups. Depending on their assignment, the participants will watch a video with no auditory stimulus or watch a video with negatively-valenced charged auditory stimuli. After the video, the participants will be given an identification assessment to measure memory.

Beyond The Echo Chamber: Mitigating Confirmation Bias In Christian Communities*, Alina Lytvynyuk, Jasmine Zavala, Erin Rouse, Sadie Elias

Campus Research Month

Individuals have shown marked levels of confirmation bias, particularly in religious beliefs. This study investigated whether generating oppositional arguments to a pre-established belief about women’s ordination reduces the tendency to produce biased credibility and strength ratings of AI-generated essays for or against the practice. Additionally, it explored how attribution of the essays to a religious authority figure would impact the level of bias. It was hypothesized that participants in the counterargument condition would display reduced confirmation bias, and the authority condition would either exacerbate or reduce a person’s preexisting level of bias.

Zenbrain: A Neuroscience-Inspired 7-Layer Memory Architecture For Autonomous Ai Systems, Alexander Bering

Defensive Publications Series

Memory management remains a fundamental challenge for autonomous AI systems. Existing approaches employ operating system metaphors, flat storage with LLM-driven management, or note-taking paradigms, but none incorporate principles from cognitive neuroscience—despite memory science offering over a century of empirically validated models.

We present ZenBrain, a multi-layer memory architecture for AI agents that integrates twelve established neuroscience models into a unified system. ZenBrain implements seven distinct memory layers—working, short-term, episodic, semantic, procedural, core, and cross-context—orchestrated by twelve algorithms including Hebbian learning dynamics for knowledge graph co-activation, Ebbinghaus forgetting curves with FSRS spaced repetition scheduling, sleep-time memory consolidation, Bayesian confidence propagation …

Not Just Static: Evolutionary Throughlines In The Female Voice, Maria Hand '26

Honor Scholar Theses

Vocal communication is essential for many forms of human interaction and discourse. As such, the human voice has been the subject of extensive scientific research in a variety of contexts, including that of potentially evolved characteristics. Researchers have long studied the various changes that occur in direct relation to hormonal shifts across the ovulatory cycle, but one particularly interesting facet of this research is the voice. There are numerous acoustic parameters that are highly socially salient, and thus an ideal means with which to study potential ovulatory cycle related changes. Studies of this subject additionally provide further insight into the …