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Effects of Exercise Induced Muscle Damage on Critical Torque and Mitochondrial Function
(2016)
The primary aim of this study was to examine the effects of exercise induced muscle damage on critical torque and impulse above end test torque. A secondary purpose was to determine whether mitochondrial function played ...
Skeptical Theism and Epistemic Propriety
(2016-05)
Contemporary proponents of the problem of evil argue that evil is evidence, even strong evidence, against the existence of God. Next, these so-called atheologians claim that having such evidence against God’s existence ...
Experiences Moving from Residential Camps to Non-Residential Day Camps
(2016-06)
This paper describes a recent change in our engineering summer outreach program and how that change was enacted and perceived. Nonresidential summer camp programs are often scheduled to be delivered on successive days, ...
Normalcy and Pathology: Biology, Social Reform, and American Domestic Handbooks, c. 1840-1910
(2016-05)
This article examines the relationships between the biological and social content of the domestic handbooks Catharine E. Beecher (1800-1878) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1868-1935) wrote during the mid-nineteenth and ...
What are the Barriers for Hispanics' Educational Attainment
(2016-05-13)
This study uses data from the Education Longitudinal Study (ELS) to better understand the factors that are associated with educational expectations and the eventual educational attainment of students, particularly Hispanic ...
LOCATING THE AGENCY OF ARCHITECTURE: A GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN IN WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.
(2016)
Through my fieldwork and interviews at the Hirshhorn Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution complex in Washington, D.C., as well as archival research, this study explores the complex relationships between the building, ...
A BALLOON-BORNE PARTICLE SIZE, IMAGING, AND VELOCITY PROBE FOR IN SITU MICROPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS
(2016-12-16)
A balloon-borne instrument known as the PArticle Size, Image, and Velocity (PASIV) probe has been developed at the National Severe Storms Laboratory to provide in situ microphysical measurements in storms. These observations ...
Framing Leader Messages for Highly Reliable Organizing
(2016-12-16)
This dissertation tests high-reliability organization (HRO) theory's claim that strategic leadership messages can direct followers’ sensemaking in adaptive ways (Weick & Sutcliffe, 2015). Specifically, two experiments ...
(DE)CENTERING HETERONORMATIVITY IN THE U.S. MILITARY: IDENTITY (RE)NEGOTIATION AND CULTURAL CHANGE FOLLOWING THE REPEAL OF “DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL”
(2016-05-13)
This study assesses: (1) cultural stigmatization processes and their influence on self-concept clarity for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the United States military, (2) the identity management strategies employed by GLB ...