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Exploring Freshmen Undergraduates' Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution and Views of Nature of Science
(2019-05-01)
Understanding the mechanisms of evolution can help lead to advancements in science, technology, medicine, and agriculture. To enhance student understanding of the Theory of Evolution, science education organizations encourage ...
Interaction Between Webs and Rollers in Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Process Machines
(2019-05-01)
A web can be defined as a continuous flexible strip which is supported, guided and propelled by rollers. The work presented here studies the steady state behavior of the web between rollers and treated the web span as beam ...
Developing Clinical Decision Support Systems for Sepsis Prediction Using Temporal and Non-Temporal Machine Learning Methods
(2019-07)
In healthcare, diagnostic errors represent the biggest challenge to synthesize accurate treatments. In the United States, patient deaths due to misdiagnoses are estimated at 40,000 to 80,000 per year. It was also found ...
Impact of a Western-pattern diet on the interaction of prenatal stress, maternal behavior and offspring phenotype
(2019-12)
Maternal prenatal stress is a significant source of developmental stress that can leave an epigenetic signature on offspring, leading to stress-related and anxious behavior. A limited amount of work has been accomplished ...
Effect of honest and humble leadership on sales outcome
(2019-12)
The role of leaders in shaping team outcomes is vital (Williams et al., 2010). As such, we know leaders play a significant role, influencing the attitudes and behaviors of their employees. It is widely believed that by ...
Essays on Corporate Bond Ownership and the Effect of Corporate Bond Ownership on Credit Spreads
(2019-05-01)
Debt has become increasingly important as a source of capital for firms. Ninety percent of the new capital issuance is in the form of debt and leverage ratios have increased from 10 to 30 percent in the past century. ...
End Users' Sense of Meaningfulness of Work: Role of Supplier Firm Brands and Associated Behaviors
(2019-05-01)
In summary, this research makes several key contributions to the B2B marketing literature. First, it illuminates how a key organizational behavior concept, meaningfulness of work, and its associated theory, logotherapy ...
Equine preferences for food rewards versus human contact and implications for interspecies social bonding
(2019-12)
The primary focus of the dissertation is to study horse preference for human contact versus food rewards. The study uses horses' ability to differentiate between visual symbols with different meanings in order to test the ...
Boussinesq Equations with Partial or Fractional Dissipation
(2019-05-01)
The two-dimensional (2D) incompressible Boussinesq system is not only an important model in geophysics, but also retains some key features of the 3D Euler and Navier-Stokes equations such as the vortex stretching mechanism. ...
Building a better engineer and rounding out assessment: Student perceptions of their generic skills competency
(2019-12)
Within higher education engineering programs, there are several stakeholders that are vested in programs success, including students, faculty, and employers. Each of these stakeholders provide a different perspective of ...