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Comparing the Utility of the Theory of Planned Behavior Between Boys and Girls for Predicting Snack Food Consumption: Implications for Practice
(Health Promotion Practice, 2014-01-01)
The purpose of this study was to use the theory of planned behavior to explain two types of snack food consumption among boys and girls (girls n = 98; boys n = 69), which may have implications for future theory-based health ...
PEER FIRM EARNINGS QUALITY AND THE COST OF EQUITY
(2014-05)
This study examines how a firm’s cost of equity is affected by industry peer firms’ earnings quality. First, using Lambert, Leuz and Verrecchia (2007) as a theoretical basis, I predict and provide evidence that higher ...
Tools of the Trade: The Role of Perceptions and Context in Designing and Developing Instructional Learning Aids
(2013-05)
Design principles, theories and artifacts from instruction in many fields have been analyzed from various perspectives. Instructional learning aids (ILAs) such as workbooks and job aids are components of instructional ...
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 ...
The epistemological limitations of Google's Knowledge graph Undergraduate
(2017)
In 2012, Google introduced the Knowledge Graph, a computer system that instead of providing search results, provides information—what Google calls “knowledge.” Now, when people go to Google and search for “Leonardo da ...
Henry IV: Faith's Power in Politics Undergraduate
(2015-04-01)
Until the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic faith of the kings and queens of Europe was an assumption, not a debate. As the fragment grenade of the reformation exploded across Europe, however, what was once assumed was ...
IMPACTS OF HOMICIDE AND DEATH PENALTY EXPERIENCES: A HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH
(2011)
There exists a culture of surviving victims who possess a body of knowledge stemming from their experiences of dealing with homicide. In reviewing the literature on surviving victims, whether they are survivors of the ...
Analysis of the functional conservation of genes in a plant single cell type: the root hair cell
(2017-12)
The evolution of plant species is tightly associated with major changes in their genome such as their allopolyploidy and autopolyploidy. These paleopolyploid events and recent genome duplications have contributed to the ...
AN INVESTIGATION INTO DEMOGRAPHIC AND MACROSOCIAL CAUSES OF SIX GREENHOUSE GASES
(2016-05-13)
The single largest ecological crisis facing the world in the coming century is the problem of climate change and its impacts. The state of the world today is the direct result of the history of unequal exchange between ...
Globalization, New Technologies, and Intercultural Flexibility: Communication and Culture of Korean Adolescents in the United States
(2012)
This study aims to comprehend the contextual backgrounds, communicative behaviors, and cultural consequences of South Korean adolescents who are sent to the United States for the purpose of education. Globalization, the ...