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Jazz and the Great Migration: How African Americans and the Great Migration Changed the Sound of American Music
(2020)The Great Migration impacted America in countless ways from its very beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century. The arrival of new residents in the Northeast, West and Midwest regions altered the economic and social ... -
Operational Stress and Mental Health Among Law Enforcement: The Moderating Role of Organizational Stress and Supervisor Support
(2019-04-18)Partially a result of occupational stress, law enforcement officers have been found to have higher than average rates of suicide than the general population. Occupational stress can be measured in two dimensions: operational ... -
CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS: ASSESSING BIASES AND HELPING BEHAVIOR
(2019-04-18)Criminal Justice students often work within the legal system, which places them in positions where they are likely to encounter human trafficking victims. However, most students’ perceptions of human trafficking are formed ... -
IN VITRO AND IN VIVO EFFICACY COMPARISON OF THREE CYANIDE ANTIDOTE CANDIDATES AND FLUORESCENT METHOD DEVELOPMENT FOR MEASURING THE SELECTED CYANIDE ANTIDOTE DIMETHYL TRISULFIDE AT LOW CONCENTRATIONS
(2018-04-11)Cyanide (CN) is a toxic molecule that inhibits oxygen utilization by cells. Thiosulfate converts CN- into the less toxic thiocyanate (SCN-), a reaction that is catalyzed by rhodanese (Rh). The comparison of sulfur donor ... -
The collection, preservation, and processing of DNA samples from decomposing human remains for more direct disaster victim identification (DVI)
(2018-04-13)Forensic DNA analysis plays a vital role in forensic casework and mass fatality incidents to identify victims. In these situations, human remains are often subjected to extreme heat, humidity, possible mutilation or ... -
Kuwento/Stories: A Narrative Inquiry of Filipino American Community College Students
(2019-04-04)The core of this narrative inquiry is the kuwento, story, of eight Filipino American community college students (FACCS) in the southern part of the United States. Clandinin and Connelly’s (2000) three-dimension inquiry ... -
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury as a Unique Predictor of Membership in Latent Classes of Child and Adolescent Delinquency and Psychopathology: Evidence from a Large Sample of U.S. Youth
(2019-04-10)Psychopathology is common amongst children and adolescents. Data from representative samples of youth show that youth demonstrate a wide variety of symptoms during childhood and adolescence. Also common during this life ... -
Complex networks: Author-editor relations and cultural change in the golden age of Victorian periodicals--Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens; Anthony Trollope and William Makepeace Thackeray; George Eliot and John Blackwood
(2019-04-17)This thesis examines three pairs of author-editor relationships, whose authors published one of their major works through a form of serialization in the Victorian periodical press. The three pairs, their works, and their ... -
SPHERICAL AND STOCHASTIC CO-CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS
(2019-04-17)Clustering, without a doubt, is a dominating area in data mining and machine learning field. Due to the wide range of the necessity to clustering algorithms, it has many applications in real-life problems, ranging from ... -
The Role of Perceived Parental Acceptance-Rejection on Personality Psychopathology in Sexual Minorities
(2019-04-24)Parental Acceptance-Rejection (PAR) impacts a person’s mental health and psychological wellbeing well into adulthood and has been linked with many negative outcomes (D’Amico & Julien, 2012; Feinstein, Wadsworth, Davila, & ... -
Digital Literacies of My Former Preservice Teachers: Are They Being Prepared?
(2020-04-17)This study is to explore the intersections and disjunctures between digital literacy practices in a teacher preparation program coursework and personal digital literacy use. This research was based on interviews with six ... -
FORAGING ACTIVITY TIME AND REFUGE SITE SELECTION IN THE NORTHERN COTTONMOUTH, AGKISTRODON PISCIVORUS
(2020-04-19)The Northern Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorous) is a semi-aquatic pit viper that utilizes riparian microhabitats within Harmon Creek for nocturnal foraging as well as for retreat sites if there is a perceived threat. ... -
Select Secondary Costa Rican Teachers' Perceptions of their Experiences about the Incorporation of Mobile Devices in the Classrooms
(2020-04-17)In the advent of the digital era, mobile learning has marked a new precedent for traditional educational practices. The use of mobile devices as a technological tool to enhance education has been embraced in different ... -
Personality Psychopathology & The Role of Self-Compassion
(2020-04-15)Previous research has examined the relationship between particular personality disorders (PDs) and self-compassion. However, this work has not extended to the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD), which was ... -
Familiar with the Deaf World: The Influence of Alexander Graham Bell and Oralism on the History of the North American Deaf Community
(2020-04-19)This research examines the history of the North American deaf community over the past century and how the influence of Alexander Graham Bell, eugenics, and Oralism shaped the course of deaf history. Through the control of ... -
Differences in student affairs assessment culture by institutional size and geographic region
(2020-04-15)To provide insight for key stakeholders in divisions of student affairs, an inquiry was made as to whether differences were present in student affairs assessment culture as a function of institutional size, geographic ... -
Fossil rodents from Bone Cave at the Koanaka Hills locality, Botswana
(2020-04-15)In this study I analyze a Middle Pleistocene rodent fauna from Bone Cave locality, Koanaka Hills, northwestern Botswana and attempt to reconstruct the paleoenvironment of the surrounding area. Only a few Pliocene and ... -
PRIVACY LITERACY 2.0: A THREE-LAYERED APPROACH COMPREHENSIVE LITERATURE REVIEW
(2020-04-20)With technological advancement, privacy has become a concept that is difficult to define, understand, and research. Social networking sites, as an example of technological advancements, have blurred the lines between ... -
ENVIRONMENT INFLUENCES EARLY BUT NOT LATE RECOVERY OF DISRUPTED FISH SKIN MICROBIOME
(2020-04-15)Disruption by antibiotics causes instability to the native microbiota, which typically increases host susceptibility to opportunistic infections (e.g. C. diff) that result in correlated diseases, such as antibiotic-associated ... -
EXPLORING THE EQUIVALENCE BETWEEN THE POINCARE PROPERTY OF ORDER P AND THE P-NEUMANN PROPERTY IN THE VARIABLE EXPONENT SETTING
(2020-04-13)In [5], it was shown under weak assumptions on a matrix function Q that the Poincaré property of order p is equivalent to the p-Neumann property, where 1 < p < \infty is a constant exponent. We attempt to translate this ...