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H-Factor and the Moderating Role of Psychological Capital in Predicting Student Retention
(2019-07)Nobody wins when a student drops out of college. Colleges lose revenue and students accumulate debt and experience lower lifetime earnings if they never finish college. Colleges and universities have spent an enormous ... -
Habitat's Hammer: Cultural tools and volunteer cognitions at work in Habitat for Humanity
(2004-12)Scope and Method of Study: This study explored the interplay between Habitat for Humanity's (Habitat's) culture and social structure and its volunteer members' attributions toward the causes of poverty. An index was developed ... -
Hallowed path: An historical analysis of the mutable perspectives on interpretations of Mississippian Period iconography
(2017-05)Interpreting Mississippian Period iconography has been an ongoing process for the last five hundred years. As early European explorers moved into the Southeastern United States, only the remnants of the once great Mississippian ... -
Hand gesture and activity recognition in assisted living through wearable sensing and computing
(2011-12)With the growth of the elderly population, more seniors live alone as sole occupants of a private dwelling than any other population groups. Helping them to live a better life is very important and has great societal ... -
Handling Qualities of Large Flexible Aircraft
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Handling the curse of dimensionality in multivariate kernel density estimation
(2013-07)Kernel density estimation (KDE) is the most widely-used practical method for accurate nonparametric density estimation. Many works had been done on both the univariate and multivariate cases showing the efficacy, practicality ... -
Hanging up and hanging out: A qualitative case study of college men imagineering a short-term study abroad engineering course in Spain
(2017-12)This naturalistic inquiry case study examined the experiences of five college men participating in a two-week, summer study abroad course administered by a Midwestern, public land-grant university. The short-term program ... -
Happy to help: State positive affect, state negative affect and affective ambivalence as predictors of emotional labor style and customer service performance
(2007-05)Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of state affect, positive, negative and ambivalent, on acting style and subsequently customer service performance during a negative customer ... -
Health and well-being of sports coaches: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of swim coaches
(2017-05)Full-time sports coaches face a unique, challenging, and constantly changing work environment. Understanding the experiences and perceptions of individual coaches is paramount to appreciating the implications of the ... -
Health based risk auditing
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Health behaviors in athletic trainers
(2021-05)Introduction: Athletic trainers (ATs) are healthcare professionals that care for the physically active. Because of this, it is estimated that ATs are healthy. Numerous research studies have demonstrated the benefit of ... -
Health care and coming out: Gay and bisexual men's health care
(2010-07)Scope and Method of Study: Exploratory Survey Research