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Religious training and competence in APA-accredited graduate clinical psychology programs
(2013-12)
The 20th century ushered in a new era for psychology that shifted away from philosophical realism in favor of logical positivism and empiricism. Consequently, the field abandoned its deep shared historical roots with ...
Analyzing perceptions of mentoring: Voices of Oklahoma non-traditionally certified career and technology education teachers
(2013-07)
The purpose of this research was to examine mentoring practices for new teachers. In an effort to analyze the characteristics of effective mentors and mentoring practices, the primary goal of this study was to determine ...
Information and communication technology development and anthropogenic global warming: A cross-national panel study of ICT development on carbon dioxide emissions 1990-2009
(2013-12)
Policy makers and ecological modernization scholars have begun to focus attention on the application of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to the mitigation of CO2 emissions, the primary cause of anthropogenic ...
Interpersonal-psychological theory of suicidal behavior: A prospective analysis
(2013-07)
Suicide is both a national and global concern, yet limitations still remain in our knowledge of the pathways to suicide. The Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicidal Behavior is a recently proposed, comprehensive ...
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia baseline and reactivity to interpersonal challenge: A dynamic systems approach
(2013-07)
The current investigation examined associations between adolescent respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) baseline and reactivity to interpersonal challenges (i.e., RSA during an angry event discussion) and adolescent emotion ...
Cortes after the conquest of Mexico: Constructing legacy in New Spain
(2013-12)
This dissertation examines an important yet woefully understudied aspect of Hernan Cortes after the conquest of Mexico. The Marquisate of the Valley of Oaxaca was carefully constructed during his lifetime to be his lasting ...
New techniques for data clustering and color image segmentation
(2013-05)
The objectives of this work are twofold: (1) to create an improved automatic clustering procedure that produces results consistent with manual clustering of data points by humans; and (2) to find an improved technique for ...
Service provision when consumers have nowhere else to go: A grounded theory of consumers' captive service experience
(2013-05)
In this research, I propose that while typical service consumers might anticipate fulfillment of their needs and desires coupled with positive service outcomes, consumers of captive services may instead experience service ...
Processing dependent tasks on a heterogeneous GPU resource architecture
(2013-07)
In this dissertation, a heterogeneous GPUs system means the system consists of a variety of different types of GPUs. Many problems in science and engineering can be represented as a two dimensional grid where updating of ...
Effect of getting things done software on the motivation and self-regulation of preservice teachers in an introductory educational technology course
(2013-05)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of Getting Things Done TM (GTD) software on the motivation and self-regulation of pre-service teachers in an introductory Educational Technology course. Getting Things ...