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SURVEY OF CATALYST AND REDUCTANT EFFECTS ON OXORHENIUM CATALYZED DEOXYDEHYDRATION OF GLYCOLS
(2015-02-06)
Sustainable and renewable carbon sources are of great interest for long term succession of humankind. The sugars and polyols derived from cellulosic biomass offer such a sustainable feedstock considering cellulosic biomass ...
A Global Perspective on Public Relations Professionalism: Mapping the Structure of Public Relations Associations’ International Networks
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2014-09-01)
Associations play a powerful role in socializing practitioners. The presence of public relations associations across the world is one more step toward professionalization for the entire profession. This study examines the ...
An investigation of the effects of IT investment on firm performance: The role of complementarity.
(2006)
The concept of complementarity has been introduced into IT-based firm performance research in order to address inconsistent magnitudes of the impacts from IT investments across studies. This dissertation seeks to understand ...
CONSEQUENCES OF HABITAT TRANSITIONS ON LOCOMOTIVE TRAIT DIVERSIFICATION AT THE MICRO- AND MACRO-EVOLUTIONARY SCALES
(2015-05-08)
Contemporarily evolving systems provide a unique opportunity to characterize the direction, pattern, and rates of phenotypic change among multiple species. The damming of streams to create reservoirs results in a change ...
Seismic Vulnerability of Residential Structures in Nicaragua
(2009)
In recent times, many parts of the world have seen a trend of increased construction with reinforced concrete and masonry block systems. These systems can provide excellent seismic resistance when they are designed by an ...
Study of Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence of Dye-Doped Silica Nanoparticles
(2012)
Enhancement of molecular fluorescence is of great interest due to the widespread popularity of fluorescence-based detection techniques available today. Although fluorescence-based detection is considered to be more sensitive ...
The Iatrogenic Consequences of Standards-Based Education
(2006)
Standards-based assessments were prescribed as the cure for the poor accountability of public schools. Billions of dollars have been spent on curricula, tests, and scoring rubrics so that federal and state agencies can ...
Where Are the Women? The Presence of Female Columnists in U.S. Opinion Pages
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2014-06-01)
Empirical and anecdotal evidence shows that the news media are male-dominated. This study updates the extant literature on women’s representation in the op-ed pages of ten U.S. newspapers. A content analysis showed that ...
The Motivation to Love: Overcoming Spiritual Violence and Sacramental Shame in Christian Churches
(2015-03-14)
The Motivation to Love is a collaborative, qualitative study of spiritual violence in Roman Catholic and evangelical Protestant churches’ relationships with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Spiritual ...
Lived Experiences of High School Graduates Identified with Specific Learning Disabilities, Their Families, and Their Teachers
(2016-12-16)
ABSTRACT
The successful completion of high school is a goal of many Americans. Graduation rates of students identified with Specific Learning Disabilities has been steadily rising over the last decade, yet this population ...