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Adaptations for caching and robbery in two sympatric chipmunks.
(2005)
We captured least chipmunks (Tamias minimus) and eastern chipmunks (T. striatus) from co-existing populations and assessed their comparative success at heterospecific robbery in a naturalistic laboratory setting. The smaller ...
Impact of outside-the-classroom involvement on cognitive and affective development for community college students.
(2005)
It has been well-documented that involvement, both inside and outside the classroom, is an important element in the development of college students. Since 46% of first-time freshman are enrolled in community colleges ...
Conflict as a relational turning point.
(2005)
Turning points, which represent changes that transform a relationship, are consistent with a dialectical view of relationships (Baxter & Montgomery, 1996). Previous research has presumed that turning points produce either ...
Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) spatial ecology.
(2005)
Radio-telemetry was used to study spatial ecology of a Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) population in eastern Texas. I examined effects of sex, reproductive state, and body size on spatial use within a riparian habitat. ...
Rhetorical transformations: The figurative language of the industrial revolution.
(2005)
This dissertation is an examination of the rhetoric and images used in the British industrial rhetoric of the mid-nineteenth century. This body of work encompasses the industrial novel as well as non-fiction works. This ...
A phenomenological study of how secondary principals perceive their responsibility in sustaining technology.
(2005)
The purpose of this study was to document how ten secondary principals perceived, experienced and defined their responsibility in sustaining technology. Based on interviews of ten secondary principals, with phenomenology ...
Predicting subjective workload ratings: A comparison and synthesis of theoretical models.
(2005)
Output data from a computer simulation of two air traffic control (ATC) scenarios were fit to workload ratings that ATC subject matter experts provided while observing each scenario in real time. Simulation output enabled ...
Not for men only: The (de)-construction of lesbian/queer public sexualities.
(2005)
This research study is an exploration of women's sexuality in general and lesbian/queer women's sexuality in particular. There has been little done in terms of examining women's sexuality and sexual practices, especially ...
Deconvolution and quantitation of severely overlapped chromatographic peaks using high performance liquid chromatography with multi-channel electrochemical detection.
(2005)
The chemometric approaches employing two-dimensional time-response information were a bit more reliable in providing accurate outcomes. Each of the PCR, PLS, and SIMPLS approaches accurately predicted with 95% certainty ...
Transformational leadership and the twenty-first century law enforcement leader
(2005)
Modern day law enforcement and its successful future will be contingent upon the attributes of the law enforcement leaders and the style of leadership in which they will practice. The focus of the study is to illustrate a ...