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Premilitary suicidal ideation, combat exposure, and posttraumatic stress disorder as predictors of recent suicidal ideation in OEF/OIF era veterans
(2017-07)
There has been an alarming increase in suicidal ideation and suicide among military personnel and veterans since the commencement of the wars in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom; OEF) and Iraq (Operation Iraqi ...
Model of the food hygiene transfer process
(2013-12)
Analyses of food-borne disease notification throughout the world have confirmed that there is a link between outbreaks and unsafe food handling practices in the foodservice industry. For many years industry has relied on ...
Feature investigation using micro computed tomography within materials
(2018-05)
This work uses micro computed tomography, as a direct non-destructive tool, to investigate the internal 3D microstructure of different materials at multiple length scales to provide insights that are of interest to the ...
That dog don't hunt: Narrative inquiry about superintendent sustainability
(2018-05)
Research suggests that, despite a great deal of training and job experience that typically precedes the ascension to a district level leadership position (Lamkin, 2006), superintendent career sustainability/longevity is ...
Essays on mispricing of equity securities
(2016-07)
Mispricing of equity securities is an area of research with many implications for academicians, individual investors, money managers, and executives. The first essay in this dissertation explicitly studies the consistency ...
Environmental (natural and anthropogenic) effects on host-parasite (snail-trematode) interactions
(2016-05)
This dissertation explored environmental effects on host-parasite interactions. Chapter 2 was published in Ecotoxicology and assessed the effects of the herbicide atrazine on freshwater snails. The results indicated that ...
Institutional capabilities and entrepreneurial advantage: Bridging the gap between regulatory management and opportunity
(2014-07)
Firms are increasingly using tactics to manipulate their regulatory constraints, while at the same time regulatory environments are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic. Although scholars have described many of the ...
Socio-behavioral response of survivors to campus active shooter events
(2015-05)
This research uses available secondary data from two incidents on college campuses to analyze survivor behavior in response to campus-based active shooter events. The study employs a qualitative inductive design using ...
Interference mitigation effects on synthetic aperture radar coherent data products
(2015-07)
Both radio frequency interference from sources external to the synthetic aperture radar system and techniques to mitigate radio frequency interference can degrade the quality of the image products. Often it is the second ...
Third Culture Kids: Transition and persistence when repatriating to attend university
(2011-08)
Scope and Method of Study: This qualitative study used heuristic phenomenology and involved 20 interviews at 3 different sites, 2 focus groups, formal and informal observations, and the analysis of various artifacts including ...