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Dancing on the edge: International students' transformative journeys in the United States of America.
(2007)
This study explored international students' experiences of studying in the United States, including the motives that brought them to the United States, the challenges they confronted, and the learning and development ...
Age related changes in skeletal muscle activation following short-term resistance training.
(2007)
Current research suggests that older adults do not possess the same ability to fully activate skeletal muscle of the lower limb as do young adults. However, it is not known at what age these changes may negatively affect ...
7th grade Chinese students' reading motivation in Taiwan.
(2007)
This dissertation study investigated seventh-grade Chinese students' reading motivation in Taiwan. The mix-method triangulation research design was employed to find answers to the study's questions. A total of 247 seventh-grade ...
A mixed methods study of the teaching of social studies concepts in elementary classrooms.
(2007)
This study questions the accepted belief that social studies is not being taught in regular elementary education classrooms. That belief is based on time studies and a body of research that looks at curriculum and teacher ...
Italian American identity: A hermeneutic examination of Tampa's Italian community.
(2007)
This study focuses on how diverse interpretations of ethnicity within the United States produce meaning for Italian Americans. Research regarding Italian Americans and the effects of negative stereotypes, cultural products, ...
A bioinorganic approach to the study of the interactions of nitrogen oxides with manganese porphyrins and manganese- and cobalt-reconstituted myoglobin.
(2007)
This dissertation deals with the interaction of the biologically important nitrogen oxides (nitric oxide and nitrite) with manganese and ruthenium centers in small inorganic porphyrin and nonporphyrin complexes as well as ...
Regional growth disparities in Vietnam.
(2007)
Growth inequality is a pressing issue for Vietnam, one of the fastest-growing economies in Southeast Asia. This dissertation examines potential factors contributing to the regional economic growth disparities of Vietnam ...
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study of freezing and thawing of saturated porous media and application to shale and pore volume compressibility estimation.
(2007)
Conventional logging tool response is complicated by the presence of shale making it difficult to interpret the log response. Water saturation in shales assumes the shales are filled with brines found in nearby sands. In ...
Mediated citizens: Mass media depictions of citizens and the influence of those depictions on individual perceptions of what it means to be a democratic citizen.
(2007)
The survey portion of this study found that overall media use had a weak impact on perceptions of what it means to be a democratic citizen. However, while media use did not strongly influence individual perceptions of what ...
Performance and movement kinematics of mouse pointing task: Perspectives from age, psychomotor ability, and visual ability.
(2007)
Results from the first study confirmed the suspicion that not all kinematic measures reported in the literature were related to performance. For instance, although peak velocity is the most reported measure in the literature, ...