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Examining World-System and Income Inequality Effects on Incarceration Rates: A Cross-National Study
(2016-08)
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Numerous studies find a positive relationship between income inequality and incarceration rates within countries. Other scholars note inequality, as an explanatory variable for differences in incarceration rates, ...
Motivating the Self to Virtue in Western and non-Western Countries: Does Nation or Faith Matter More?
(2016-05-06)
Our international project involves interviews with older and younger adults of 4 faith conditions (Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Agnostic) in 2 countries, Canada and South Korea. Study 1 includes participants from two ...
Rawinsonde Observations of Supercell-Environment Interactions
(2016-12)
The Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX) in 2013 and Mini-MPEX in 2016 used mobile soundings to observe the near-storm environments of springtime Great Plains convection. Together, the projects collected over 100 ...
CONSTRUCTING ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY TRANSACTIONALLY: THE COMMUNICATIVE CONSTITUTION OF ISIL
(2016-05-13)
This dissertation explores how organizations attempt to construct their ontology and legitimacy through external messages, known as institutional positioning. Constructing an image of legitimacy is particularly important, ...
Phenotype Operators for Improved Performance of Heuristic Encoding Within Genetic Algorithms
(2016-05)
Many approaches to applying Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to Nondeterministic Polynomial time Complete (NPC) problems involve population members encoded directly from the problem solution space. While this technique enables ...
A Narrative Inquiry into an Army School Leadership Experience
(2016-05-13)
The focus of this study is to reconstruct meaning through an interpretation of change on who I am and what I am becoming, navigating through a pervasive space that encompasses temporal, personal/social, and place creating ...
SECOND AND TRAINEE COMPANIES IN THE UNITED STATES: ANALYSIS OF PAST AND PRESENT MISSIONS
(2016)
The Ballet profession in the United States has seen a trend growing with the introduction of a trainee or second company with affiliation to each ballet main company. This allows for the main company to have a roster of ...
Native American Stories as Scientific Investigations of Nature: Indigenous Science and Methodologies
(2016-05-13)
Scientific knowledge is a global pursuit, one that takes on many different guises across cultures. This thesis argues that indigenous peoples have and had their own, independently developed forms of scientific knowledge, ...
Modeling and Experimental Validation of Anomalous Moisture Absorption of Micro and Nanocomposite Laminates
(2016)
Susceptibility of polymeric composites to moisture has been well known for several decades. Most high performance epoxy or bismaleimide (BMI) resins and their fiber-reinforced composites may absorb up to 5 wt% moisture ...
CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYETHOXYLATED ALKYL PHENOLS WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF ETHOXYLATION AT THE SOLID-LIQUID INTERFACE
(2016-05)
Fully characterizing the behavior of a surfactant, from the mechanism of adsorption to the formation of micelles, is vital when taking the surfactant out of the lab and into the real world. The critical micelle concentration, ...