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Congress, the Court, and the Constitution: Constitutional Deliberation in an Affiliated Age
(2011)
The relationship between Congress and the Constitution and more specifically, constitutional deliberation within Congress, has been the focus of important scholarship (Pickerill, 2004; Devins & Whittington, 2005). This ...
Howard Ferguson's Contributions to Piano Literature and Pedagogy
(2011)
Howard Ferguson's myriad contributions to piano literature and piano pedagogy are the focus of this document. Ferguson actively engaged in the twentieth-century British classical music scene and his influence has reached ...
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 ...
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 ...
Confronting and Defending Unethical Behavior: Communication and Ethical Sensegiving
(2011)
The purpose of this two-study dissertation was to investigate the role of communication in confronting and defending unethical organizational behavior. Utilizing two language production experimental designs, results reveal ...
An Exploration of the Transition to Graduate School in Mathematics
(2011)
This purpose of this research was to explore the transition to graduate school in mathematics--the struggles students face, the expectations they must meet, and the strategies they use to deal with this new chapter in their ...
Accessing Natural Products from Silent Biosynthetic Pathways Using Chemical Epigenetics
(2011)
Natural products have played a major role in the history of medicine. Despite this history, many view the area of natural products discovery to be tapped dry, thus the focus of drug development companies has shifted towards ...
EXPANDING LANGUAGE EXPECTANCY THEORY: THE SUASORY EFFECTS OF LEXICAL COMPLEXITY AND SEMANTIC COMPLEXITY ON EFFECTIVE HEALTH MESSAGE DESIGN
(2011)
This research seeks to fill a gap concerning screening for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) by using language expectancy theory (LET; Burgoon, Jones, & Stewart, 1975; Miller & Burgoon, 1979) and regulatory focus theory ...
Diagnosing the Past, Consequences for the Future: A Life Cycle of Trauma and Mental Health Issues for Incarcerated Women. Does Race Matter?
(2011)
The last two decades have seen an increase in the literature about incarcerated women. This research has established that incarcerated women share life histories wrought with abuse and trauma. Research has also found that ...
UNDERSTANDING ECOSYSTEM CARBON DYNAMICS BY MODELING APPROACHES
(2011)
Ecosystem models are a useful tool to explore ecological processes and their responses to climate change. The basic structures of current ecosystem C cycle models are similar and robust, but their uncertainties are high, ...