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Two essays on international economics.
(2006)
Developing countries in the past three decades embraced capital account liberalization as a way of attracting international capital flows in hope of boosting economic growth. But the outcomes of the policy across countries ...
Understanding transferee assimilation through the analysis of egocentric networks.
(2006)
This project expanded on early research and examined employees as they began a new job after undergoing an intra-organizational job transfer. Consistent with earlier research the results demonstrated support for the ideas ...
The influence of technology integration on high school collaboration through the development of a professional learning community: A mixed methods study.
(2006)
Today's traditional school structures result in isolation that negatively impacts systemic school change. The school's physical organization of a collection off disconnected, separated classrooms where a group of students ...
Making meaning of barriers and successes: A qualitative study of upper level female educational leaders.
(2006)
This study revealed the phenomenological meaning three women in the upper levels of school administration in a military school system overseas made of the barriers (both internal and external) they experienced in their ...
Prompting students' knowledge integration and ill-structured problem solving in a Web-based learning environment.
(2006)
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of different types of question prompts on students' knowledge acquisition and ill-structured problem solving outcomes. Although there are consistent findings regarding ...
An exploratory study of potential subgroups among overweight and obese individuals.
(2006)
Two hundred and five male and female members of Taking Pounds Off Sensibly (TOPS) participated in this study of potential psychological risk factors associated with being overweight or obese. Participants completed a ...
Scaffolding online peer collaboration to enhance ill-structured problem solving with computer-based cognitive support.
(2006)
The results reveal significant effects of procedure and metacognitive question prompts in ill-structured problem solving at both overall and univariate levels. However, there was no significant effect of online peer ...
Comparative analysis of human chromosome 22 CES-DGCR syntenic regions in chimpanzee, baboon, bovine, mouse and zebrafish and expression profiling in zebrafish early developmental stages using whole mount in situ hybridization.
(2006)
The final series of experiments were based on the earlier observation that 16 genes in the human chromosome 22 CES-DGCR region had reported expression but no detailed expression profiles while 6 others had no known expression ...
Controlled structures and properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes custom-produced by chemical vapor deposition method.
(2006)
Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) are considered as one of the most promising nanomaterials for a large variety of applications that require SWNTs with controlled structures and properties, which is the main focus of ...
Into the fold: The folded narratives of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, William S. Burroughs and J. G. Ballard.
(2006)
Frequently, literary critics have overlooked the narrative possibilities of authors who have been profoundly affected by the surrealists. They use various metaphors to describe their narratives such as hallucinatory, ...