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A Narrative Inquiry Into A Community School Leadership Experience
(2014-08-15)
The focus of this study is on examining the role of an educational leader through the process of developing and implementing a community school. As the primary researcher, I sought to contribute to the body of community ...
Naming Patterns Reveal Cultural Values: Patronyms, Matronyms, and the U.S. Culture of Honor
(Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2014-02-01)
Four studies examined the hypothesis that honor norms would be associated with a pronounced use of patronyms, but not matronyms, for naming children. Study 1 shows that men who endorse honor values expressed a stronger ...
Classification, Cobordism, and Curvature of Four-Dimensional Infra-Solvmanifolds
(2014)
Crystallographic groups of solvable Lie groups generalize the crystallographic groups of Euclidean space. The quotient of a solvable Lie group G by the action of a torsion-free crystallographic group of G is an infra-solvmanifold ...
The Impact of El Nino Southern Oscillation on the Climatology of U.S. Winter and Early Spring Tornado Outbreaks
(2014-12-12)
In recent years, the notion of a potential seasonal tornado outbreak prediction scheme has garnered the attention of several researchers. The studies that have arisen on this topic have focused mainly on the influence of ...
How Competitive Is “Competitive” Procurement in the Social Services?
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2014-02-27)
The scholarship on contracting generally argues that markets for social services are weak and lacking in competition. Using data gathered from Florida’s largest social service agency, the Department of Children and Families, ...
Middle Ear Biomechanics In Chinchilla Model Of Acute Otitis Media
(2014-05-09)
Acute otitis media (AOM) is a rapid onset of infection in the middle ear and the most frequently diagnosed disease in pediatric population. Conductive hearing loss is the most prevalent outcome of AOM because pathological ...
The social construction of violence among Northern Plains tribal members with antisocial personality disorder and alcohol use disorder
(Transcultural Psychiatry, 2014-02-01)
Whereas recent reports from national studies have presented extremely high rates for many personality disorders in American Indian communities, persistent concerns about the meaning of these symptoms have left many troubled ...
Interaction of Metal Ions with the Polyanionic Gram-Positive Cell Wall and the Effect of Antimicrobial Cationic Branched Polyethyleneimine on Metal Binding
(2014-12)
Metal binding is a known characteristic of the bacterial cell wall. Yet, the binding mechanisms and affinity constants are not fully understood. The cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria is characterized by a thick layer of ...
Collaborative Cyberinfrastructure to Explore 21st Century Research and Education Frontiers
(2014-09-24)
Ubiquity in mobile devices, social networks, sensors, advanced computing and instruments have created a complex data-rich environment ripe for new scientific and engineering advances. In this world of computational and ...
Evaluating Eyewitness Identification Procedures Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis
(Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2014-02-01)
Eyewitness identification is a pivotal issue in applied research because, in practice, a correct identification can help to remove a dangerous criminal from society, but a false identification can lead to the erroneous ...