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Relation between parenting goal and parenting strategy in positive and negative child behavior contexts: An experimental analysis
(2007-07)
Parenting research has shown that parents may vary their responses to their child's behavior based on a variety of factors. Two of these factors, parenting goal and the child's behavior (considered the context for the ...
Lodging REIT performance and comparison with other equity REIT returns
(2007-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This study investigated the overall performance of lodging REITs during the period January 1993 to December 2005, relative to relevant industry benchmarks and other equity REITs. The Jensen Index ...
Study on the impact of a bundle of determinants on the shopping and visiting intentions of tourists: An extension of the theory of reasoned action
(2007-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The objective of the study is to build and test a theoretical model to explain the impact of a bundle of determinants on the shopping and visiting intentions of tourists. The study investigates ...
Effects of financial pressures on special education spending: How fiscal sensitivity influences service expenditure
(2007-07)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between financial pressure and resource allocation among administrators choosing services for special education students. Participants ...
Effects of media literacy instruction: Recognizing and analyzing racial stereotypes in media
(2007-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to determine whether media literacy instruction that encourages critical consumption of media also affects students' abilities to recognize, deconstruct and analyze ...
Development of an integrated model and measure of the moral dimensions of justice and care
(2007-07)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to develop an operational definition of the Care dimension of moral theory and to develop an objective instrument to measure this definition and the dimension of ...
Management of improved pastures in OklahomaI. Tall fescue seed productionII. Pasture variability
(2007-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This study consisted of four different research projects aiming to solve specific problems in pastures management. I. The objective was to determine the feasibility of using tall fescue as a multi ...
Improvements to the radiant time series method cooling load calculation procedure
(2007-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The objective of the study was improvement of the Radiant Time Series Method (RTSM) cooling load calculation procedure. A series of investigations were carried out, including: improvements to ...
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 ...
When superheroes go native: Comic books and the images of American Indians since 1940
(2007-12)
This study examines the evolution of American Indian representations in American comic books. It juxtaposes these transformations against a larger context of American Indian history, federal Indian policy, and developments ...