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The Distortion of Upward Communication in Military Organizations
(2011)
This study explores the relationship between subordinates' inclination to distort negative upward organizational communication and four personality variables. The study used a postulated Upward Organizational Communication ...
COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID AND THE U.S. MEXICO SECURITY FENCE
(2015)
Powerful semiotic signs like the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall served significant communicative functions. The modern culture of nation state wall building continues despite the fact that the security fences are ...
Social Studies Teachers' Attitudes Concerning Convtroversial Public Issues Instruction and State Mandated Tests
(2012)
This transcendental phenomenological qualitative study examines attitudes toward Controversial Public Issue instruction by teachers who used mandated standards and state tests. After the interviews of 11 social studies ...
MAKING MEANING OF ALGEBRA 2 TEACHERS: A CASE STUDY OF ONE SCHOOL
(2017-12-16)
As the variety of curriculum materials available to teachers multiplies, understandings of the process by which mathematics teachers make meaning of curriculum materials must be revisited and revised. Rather than beginning ...
The Influence of Storytelling on the Identity of Children of Adolescent Parents
(2018-12)
Grounded in Communicated Narrative Sensemaking, this dissertation examines the influence stigma and storytelling have on those born to adolescent parents. Analyses based on a survey completed by 141 individuals found those ...
LEADERSHIP FOR STUDENT SUCCESS OUTCOMES: A CASE STUDY OF PRESIDENTIAL AND COMMITTEE ACTIONS AT EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
(2018-12-15)
In American Higher Education, retention and graduation rates have grown in their prominence as institutional quality indicators. Yet, when measures are interrogated for parity across racial groups, inequity in outcomes is ...
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Nucleic Acid Tertiary Structures
(2011)
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is ubiquitous to all organisms and a molecule that essential to all life forms. RNA is a versatile molecule with numerous cellular functions. With advances in nucleic acid sequencing, researchers ...
Conceptualizing and Validating a Measure of Principal Trust in Central Administration
(2013-12)
ABSTRACT
Trust is a core social resource for schools. Lack of trust, however, is a serious impediment to the implementation of improvements in schools today. The absence of a valid and reliable scale to measure principals’ ...
BIOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE THREE-WAY JUNCTION IN PHI29-LIKE BACTERIOPHAGE PROHEAD RNA
(2017-08-18)
The knowledge gained from biophysical studies of RNA can contribute to basic research and inform new directions for translational research. In particular, information that develops the relationships among RNA energetics, ...
When Confucius "Encounters" John Dewey: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis of Dewey's Visit to China
(2016-12-17)
This dissertation focuses on John Dewey’s experience in modern China by exploring educational encounters between Dewey and the five Chinese scholars (Hu Shih, Liang Shuming, Tao Xingzhi, Guo Bingwen, and Jiang Menglin). ...