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Making sense of motivation: Stories of high-achieving African American middle school students.
(2006)
The outcomes of this study will exhibit students maintaining high-academic achievements are equally intrinsically and extrinsically motivated. Their meaning making is synonymous with that of the literature, as the students' ...
Toward a theoretical construct of the factors of deceptive communication.
(2000)
This study constitutes the fourth phase of a research program designed to explore the factors that influence the choices people make regarding deceptive communication. The research program leading up to this study produced ...
Active vibration control systems in the frequency and sub-band domain.
(2001)
Active noise and vibration control has been the subject of intense study in the last two decades due to the increased speed in digital signal processors and the technological development and manufacture of smart materials. ...
Narratives of hospice volunteers: Perspectives on death and dying.
(2004)
This study found that hospice volunteers' narratives function to make sense of death, warrant decisions for advanced preparation of their own death, illustrated an attempt to control their own death, transformed their ...
Officer trust in Army leadership.
(2003)
The purpose of this research was to assess officer trust in Army leadership during the 1998--2000 timeframe. Research was prompted by a high rate of junior officer resignations, as well as an unprecedented rate of battalion ...
Argument and 17th-Century Science: A Rhetorical Analysis with Sociological Implications
(Social Studies of Science, 2000-06-01)
This paper compares the argumentative practices of the English and French scientific communities from the origin of the scientific journal in 1665 up to 1700. To that end, we ask a uniform set of questions related to ...
Formulating a Communication Strategy for Effective Knowledge Sharing
(Journal of Information Science, 2004-02-01)
Overcoming cultural resistance from a workforce and gaining sufficient buy-in from senior management are both critical to the successful implementation of Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives in any organization. The main ...
Ghosts in the Bureaucratic Machine: Resurrecting the Principles of Administration in the Oklahoma Health Department
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2004-03-01)
An Oklahoma health department scandal erupted when the acting director was arrested for taking a bribe. More revelations quickly followed, including the existence of multiple “ghost employees” on payroll but having no ...
We still tell stories: An examination of Cherokee oral literature.
(2002)
A primary objective of the study is to show that Cherokee Indians are not antiquated human beings stuck in history, but a modern, contemporary people with deep ancestral connections to their heritage. The stories they tell ...
Development and analysis of an expressed sequence tag database from Fusarium sporotrichioides.
(2001)
The comparison of four other fungal cDNA libraries sequenced in our lab, F. sporotrichioides library, two Neurospora crassa libraries and one Aspergillus nidulans library, shows that the percentage of biological function ...