DSpace at SHSU: Recent submissions
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Where’s the EASY Button? Uncovering E-Book Usability
(2019)E-book platforms have multiplied among vendors and publishers, complicating not only acquisitions and collection development decisions, but also the user experience. Using a methodology of task-based user testing, the ... -
Encouragement in Counseling and Psychotherapy: The Lived Experiences of Expert Adlerian Therapists
(2019-04-17)Encouragement is a foundational aspect of Adlerian theory and therapy, yet there has been no formal research to date designed to discover, specifically, how encouragement is being used in counseling sessions with clients. ... -
Perspectives of Secondary and Postsecondary Faculty on Student College Readiness
(2017-04-10)Purpose The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to identify the perceptions of secondary and postsecondary faculty on student college readiness. Additionally, an identification of the competencies and deficiencies ... -
Evaluation of passive transfer immunity and predicting survivability in newborn white-tailed deer fawns
(2017-04-17)Industry standards for successful passive transfer have been established for major livestock species; however, benchmarks have yet to be determined for pen-raised white-tailed deer fawns (Odocoileus virginianus). The ... -
Analyses of Metacaspase 1 and a Potential APAF-1 Orthologue During Heat Stress-Induced Programmed Cell Death in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
(2017-04-18)Purpose The purpose of this thesis was to expand on the knowledge of the PCD machinery of unicellular eukaryotes. To this end, the first half of this thesis employs the single cell green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, ... -
Influence of Ambient Temperature and Relative Humidity on Young Performance Horses
(2017-04-18)Heat stress is a concern in performance horses due to the daily exercise they receive. To determine the influence of ambient temperature and relative humidity on young performance horses, twelve Quarter Horses (2-3 yr, ... -
TOOTH IMPLANTATION AND DENTAL MORPHOLOGY OF PALACRODON
(2018-04-02)Palacrodon browni, a reptile known from the Early Triassic strata of South Africa, is of uncertain phylogenetic affinities, and its relationships have been argued for over a century. Additionally, its presumed diet is also ... -
Development of a Comprehensive Genetic Tool for Identification of Cannabis sativa Samples for Forensic and Intelligence Purposes
(2018-04-13)Cannabis sativa L. (marijuana) is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States. Due to partial legalization, law enforcement faces a unique challenge in tracking and preventing flow of the legal marijuana to ... -
The Effect of Student Success Coursework on Developmental Mathematics Students
(2018-04-11)Student success in developmental education has increasingly become a topic of concern. Unfortunately, there is little published knowledge on how student success courses impact student success in developmental mathematics. ... -
Effects of parenting on empathy and callous-unemotional traits in college students
(2019-05-09)Parenting styles have long been linked to the development of empathy and callous-unemotional traits in children. There has been considerably less research conducted with college students. The present study plans to examine ... -
DIFFERENCES IN SOCIAL STUDIES SKILLS AS A FUNCTION OF GENDER, ECONOMIC STATUS, AND ETHNICITY/RACE OF TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: A MULTIYEAR STATEWIDE STUDY
(2019-04-25)The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to examine the extent to which differences in social studies skills were present between boys and girls as a function of their economic status (i.e., Not Poor, Moderately ... -
FEMALE QUIXOTES: LENNOX’S AND AUSTEN’S APPROPRIATION OF JOHN LOCKE
(2019-04-22)The primary obstacle to analyzing the political and educational statements found in eighteenth-century women’s fiction is that all texts, fictional or not, were subject to intense scrutiny by the dominant culture, which ... -
The effects of gold mining on microbiome
(2019-04-18)Mercury (Hg) contamination of freshwater ecosystems due to gold mining activities is a source of human health, environmental, and food security problems around the world. In Guyana, South America, it is estimated that 80 ... -
Data Collection Scheduling in Directional Wireless Sensor Networks
(2019-04-17)This thesis studies Minimum Latency Collection Scheduling (MLCS) problem in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) whose objective is to obtain collision-free data collection schedules with minimum latencies. Unlike most existing ... -
USE OF MICROPROPAGATION TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE GERMINATION SUCCESS IN SIX SPECIES OF CACTI
(2019-04-17)Cacti have been a major contributor to the ecosystem of desert fauna as a constant food source during dry seasons. However, this resource has reached a point of dwindling due to many human interferences. In situ conservative ... -
HEAT-MAP BASED EMOTION AND FACE RECOGNITION FROM THERMAL IMAGES
(2019-04-17)Nowadays, emotion recognition has become a feasible problem with implementation of Convolutional Neural Networks in Computer Vision domain. However, credibility of emotion recognition from daily images or videos is not ... -
EXPLORING THE MEDIATING EFFECTS BETWEEN COUNSELOR SELF-EFFICACY, CAREER SUSTAINING BEHAVIORS, PERCEIVED WELLNESS, AND BURNOUT AMONG NOVICE COUNSELORS: TESTING TWO PROPOSED MEDIATION MODELS
(2019-04-17)Purpose The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationships among counselors’ implementation of career-sustaining behaviors, counselor self-efficacy, and counselor wellness and burnout among novice counselors. I ... -
Mindfulness Therapy for Survivors of Childhood Adversity: What's the Use?
(2019-04-17)Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) warrant clinical concern due to the consequences and impacts on the survivors’ biological, psychological, and social functioning. The frontline therapy for survivors of ACEs are ... -
THE EFFECTS OF VICTIMIZATION, POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, AND HEART RATE REACTIVITY ON ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR
(2019-04-17)Understanding factors associated with antisocial behavior and substance use is paramount within the field of criminology to better understand correlates of crime and criminal behavior. A growing literature concerning risk ... -
Development of bifunctional catalysts containing hydride-relay ligands for CO2 hydrogenation
(2019-04-17)The research described in this thesis focuses on the synthesis of bifunctional catalysts for hydrogenation of CO2. These catalysts contain redox active phenanthridinium and benzimidazolium groups capable of mediating hydride ...