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Student perspectives in agricultural leadership education: A Q methodology study
(2022-05)
Agriculture serves as one context where leadership education programs are implemented in collegiate curriculum. Agricultural leadership education programs are becoming prevalent, with 26 existing programs across the nation ...
How Indian boarding schools are like neighborhoods
(2022-07)
Contemporary Indian boarding schools look a lot different than their previous incarnations. It is clear that traditional and long-standing evaluation criteria for conventional public and private schools does not adequately ...
Do compressed in-person classes yield student performance results comparable to traditional 16-week in-person classes: A mixed methodology approach
(2022-05)
Institutions of higher learning are offering an increasing number of compressed in-person classes with the goal of providing to their diverse student populations flexibility of instruction delivery. SIU and many other ...
Human capital formation, fertility, and labor force participation in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2022-07)
My dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter examines the effect of childhood immunization. After being in power in Burkina Faso for about a year, a military regime led by Thomas Sankara-within weeks, ...
Turning disability into a dream: A narrative inquiry of one mother’s endurance
(2022-12)
Research has indicated that, as of 2017, 18.7 percent of individuals who had a disability held employment, as opposed to 65.7 percent without a disability (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018). Despite the passage of the ...
Using machine learning methods to improve healthcare delivery in diabetes management
(2022-07)
This dissertation includes three studies, all focusing on Analytics and Patients information for improving diabetes management, namely educating patients and early detection of comorbidities. In these studies, we develop ...