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Essays in corporate governance and institutional investing
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation comprises of three essays. The first essay (Chapter 1) compares the skills of female directors hired as a result of California gender quota and female directors hired as a result of the diversity initiative ...
The Perceptions of Latina Pre-Engineering Students in Rural Oklahoma CareerTech
(2024-05-10)
This qualitative study, Perceptions of Latina Pre-Engineering Students in Rural Oklahoma CareerTech, examined the Latina perspectives of STEM education, educational decisions, oppressive systems, and alternate pathways. ...
Education Reform for the Everyman Philosopher: Themes in Montessori Pedagogy and their Ideological Resonance
(2024-05-11)
The progressive education movement broadly elevates reforms centered around individualized instruction and social consciousness. Montessori schooling presents a uniquely successful case where organized nonprofits have ...
Bridging the Gap between Sparse Matrix Computation and Graph Models
(2024-05-10)
Sparsity manifests itself in a multitude of modern High-Performance Computing applications including graph neural networks, network analytics, and scientific computing. In sparse matrices, the majority of values are zeros. ...
Making the Business of Death, Business-As-Usual: The Commerce-Care Dialectic in Funeral Planning
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation, grounded in relational dialectics theory 2.0 (RDT; Baxter, 2011), aims to illustrate what meanings emerge from the commerce-care dialectic when engaging in funeral planning. The contrapuntal analysis of ...
Apparitional representations: disability history, reparative descriptions, and ethical failings in a special research collection
(2024-05-10)
Reparative description is a trend in archival scholarship that seeks to address past harms caused by archives that misrepresented and silenced historically marginalized communities in their collections. Identifying and ...
Drivers of Stream Drying and Network Connectivity Across Spatial Scales
(2024-05-10)
Nonperennial streams are widespread and abundant around the globe. Although these streams are societally and ecologically important, they are understudied relative to those that flow continuously. Because of this, we lack ...
The decision to trust: an application of structural equation modeling to the actor evaluation and trust framework
(2024-05-10)
The growing number of crises, from public health crises like COVID-19 to natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes, has exposed the need for a comprehensive framework to understand how an individual decides who to ...
Elucidating Quaternary High-frequency Depositional Sequences and Incised Valley Evolution Using High-resolution 3D Seismic Data: Gulf of Mexico, USA
(2024)
Resolution limitations of conventional seismic methods prohibit the subsurface investigation of high-frequency—fourth and fifth-order—depositional sequences and their associated fluvial features. However, modern high-frequency ...
Snakes and Snails or Sugar and Spice? Gender Differences in Studying and Help-Seeking Behaviors in the College Classroom
(2024-05-10)
College is a time of adjustment, particularly for first-year students. Although many students face challenges, research has suggested an increasing disparity in how well men and women adapt (Moore et al., 2010; Respondek ...