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Exploring the role of Continuity Operations Management in University supported Volunteer Student Organizations
(2019-08)THE ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE CYCLE CONTAINS BETWEEN THREE AND SEVEN PHASES. THE FINAL PHASE OF ALL MODELS HAS BEEN THE DEATH OF THE ORGANIZATION. THIS STUDY DETERMINED IF THERE COULD BE AN ALTERNATIVE TO THIS ORGANIZATIONAL ... -
Exploring the Role of Leadership in Teacher Development According to Career Stage
(2021-05-14)The aim of this dissertation is to explore, through the lens of self-determination theory, teacher experiences with leadership support through the various career stages – novice, competent, and expert. While existing ... -
Exploring the role of place-making on international student adjustment
(2014-05-09)This study explored the impact of place-making activities on the adjustment of international students at an American university. A total of 19 international students over the age of 18, attending the university and living ... -
Exploring the transition from a pre-modern to modern conceptualization of the natural world: Implications for a more connected approach to contemporary education.
(2006)Modernist science is a discourse that separates us externally from our environment, socially from one another, and internally within ourselves. This study not only examines the role education plays in developing our ... -
Exploring Tornadogenesis with High-Resolution Simulations Initialized with Real Data
(2012)Despite large advances in our understanding of tornadogenesis over the past fifty years, a comprehensive dynamical understanding of the processes behind tornado formation remains elusive. The purpose of this dissertation ... -
Export alliances as a mechanism of dependence control in the world-system :
(1983)The results of this study call for some revisions in the premises of the two models. World-system theory needs to consider the internal conditions of the periphery as one of the parameters accounting for underdevelopment. ... -
Expressed Confidence and Skepticism: The Effect of Expressed Confidence on Auditor Judgments
(2012)I examine the effects of clients' expressions of confidence on auditor judgments. The confidence heuristic suggests decision makers use expressions of confidence as a cue for reliability (Price and Stone 2004). However, ... -
The expressed faculty preference for collective bargaining related to selected measures of job satisfaction, perceptions of collective bargaining, and attitudes toward unions and union officials.
(1982)This study analytically assessed variables related to faculties' expressed preferences for collective bargaining. The variables identified for the purpose of this study were socio-economic, job satisfaction, perception of ... -
The expressed reading interests of third and fifth grade children in selected Oklahoma schools.
(1982)This dissertation investigated the relationship of sex, grade level, and demographic characteristics on the individual reading interests of third and fifth grade students in rural, urban, and metropolitan areas of Oklahoma. ... -
Expressed reading preferences of children enrolled in grade two in selected schools in Colorado /
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Expressing political and administrative values through stories: A semiotic analysis of the National Performance Review.
(1998)The argument presented here is that the stories in NPR are effective at communicating the values intended by the authors of the report. This finding supports what many administrative theorists have recently postulated about ... -
"Expressing the Inexpressible": Art Posters, Graphic Modernism, and the American West, 1890–1925
(2020-05)The “art poster” movement swept the United States during the 1890s, generating enthusiasm and commentary for advertising posters designed by fine artists. While American art posters prompted much discussion in their time, ... -
Expressing the kami (deities): A study of Washinomiya Saibara Kagura
(2010)This dissertation explores WASHINOMIYA SAIBARA KAGURA as a communication site where religious beliefs, values, and ways of life are interwoven with human expression. The kagura is one of the oldest forms of Shinto folk ... -
Expression profiles and the identification of the clock-controlled genes in two time-of-day-specific cDNA libraries of Neurospora crassa.
(2001)In the group of genes that were detected from both cDNA libraries, the highest three of the top ten highly expressed genes were clock-controlled genes (ccgs). That these ccgs are so highly expressed in Neurospora implies ... -
Extended Observation Particle Filter with SVD Template Generation Implemented for GPU
(2018-12)This work presents a novel template updating strategy based on singular value decomposition (SVD) together with an expansion and extension of previous work combining observations across temporally adjacent frames to implement ... -
Extended Surfactants: Characterization and Microemulsion Properties
(2008)Extended surfactants are surfactants with intermediate polarity groups, such as polypropylene oxide (PO) and polyethylene oxide (EO), inserted between the hydrophilic head and the hydrocarbon tail. With this unique molecular ... -
Extended Surfactants: Characterization and Microemulsion Properties
(2008)Extended surfactants are surfactants with intermediate polarity groups, such as polypropylene oxide (PO) and polyethylene oxide (EO), inserted between the hydrophilic head and the hydrocarbon tail. With this unique molecular ... -
An extension and comparison of the own-categories procedure in the measurement of attitudes and personality characteristics /
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An Extension of the Extended Parallel Process Model to Promote Healthy Heart Behaviors
(2018-08)The purpose of the current research was to extend the Extended Parallel Model (EPPM) by adding the variable of barrier from Health Belief Model (HBM) to EPPM. The study explored the role of threat, efficacy, and barrier ...