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THE ENGAGEMENT OF REFLECTIVE PRACTICE AMONG INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERS
(2012)
The purpose of this study was to describe the engagement of reflective practice among school leaders utilizing a qualitative case study methodology. While there have been studies conducted about school leaders and reflective ...
Enhancing students' aeronautical decision-making through scaffolding strategies for higher order thinking
(2012)
Over the last few decades, classroom training in aviation education has continued mostly unchanged. It remains a highly structured presentation of information in a lecture format. The purpose of this study was to determine ...
Adaptive Performance, Cognitive Ability and the Moderating Effect of Task Characteristics
(2012)
An adaptive individual can be characterized as an individual who displays a general propensity to perform well in complex environments that are often unpredictable and ambiguous (Schunn & Reder, 2001). Lang and Bliese ...
Emotion and Individual Reasoning about Crises and Disasters
(2012)
This dissertation advances our understanding of the way that individuals think about and respond to natural and anthropogenic disasters. I accomplish this by way of theoretical specification and empirical testing. With ...
Modeling Rates and Energetics of Anaerobic Hydrocarbon Biodegradation
(2012)
Hydrocarbons are ubiquitous in the environment, originating from both natural and refined sources and are an important class of compounds because of their role in the world's energy requirements, their toxicity, and their ...
An Experimental Study of the Relations Between Well-Being and Gratitude in Community Dwelling Older Adults
(2012)
This study examined the effects of maintaining gratitude journals on the well-being of a population of community dwelling older adults. Well-being was measured by pre- and post-test administrations of self-report questionnaires ...
Interdependent Impacts of Disruption Management Strategies: Risk-Based Applications to Port Closures, Natural Disasters, and Oil Spills
(2012)
Recent disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan disabled production facilities, created supply shortages, disrupted business operations, and altered ...
Investigation and Modeling of Frictional Boundary Conditions in Oblique Cutting of Aluminum Alloys
(2012)
Friction at the cutting tool interface has been studied for 60 years, yet an accurate model of friction is largely unavailable, especially in operations such as turning, where the interface is inaccessible due the continuous ...
SELF-DUAL REPRESENTATIONS WITH VECTORS FIXED UNDER AN IWAHORI SUBGROUP
(2012)
Let $G$ be the group of $F$-points of a split connected reductive $F$-group over a non-Archimedean local field $F$ of characteristic 0. Let $\pi$ be an irreducible smooth self-dual representation of $G$. The space $W$ of ...
Electromyographic, mechanomyographic, and peak torque responses during repeated concentric isokinetic muscle actions with eyes-open versus eyes-closed
(2012)
The purpose of this study was to compare the peak torque and electromyographic (EMG) and mechanomyographic (MMG) amplitude and mean frequency (MNF) responses during fatiguing isokinetic muscle actions for eyes-open versus ...