Search
Now showing items 161-170 of 213
An Investigation Into Factors Contributing To Effective Board Behaviors Within Consolidated Rural Districts
(2014-05)
The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of two rural consolidated districts through the consolidation process, as well as board effectiveness (post consolidation), in actions using relevant behaviors taken ...
Disagreement And Skepticism: A Grecoian Response To The Skeptical Threat Of Epistemic Superior Disagreement
(2014-08-15)
ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a response to the skeptical threats and challenges leveled by disagreement. Any plausible response to skepticism should explain what knowledge is and explain why the skeptic’s assumptions ...
Feeding Hope Through Tulsa's Philanthropic Community
(2014)
Hope Theory continues to emerge in the scholarly literature. Rooted in positive psychology, this theory is comprised of three facets: goals, pathways thinking, and agency thinking. To date there has been limited application ...
Vitamin D Status: Associations With Chronic Disease Risk Factors And Cognitive Function
(2014-08)
Vitamin D deficiency and/or insufficiency is common in US adults and is linked to increased chronic disease risk. With the identification of vitamin D metabolizing enzymes and the vitamin D receptor in many tissues ...
Ethical Decision Making By Business Leaders: The Impact Of Cognitive Biases And Strategies
(2014)
Business ethics refers to the examining right or wrong human behavior in business settings. A common human behavior in the business world is decision making, and some of the most important decisions made by business leaders ...
Increased Avoidance Motivation as a Mechanism for Self-Control Failure
(2014)
Previous research has found that engaging in an act of self-control impairs further self-control attempts for a brief time. However, little is known about why this occurs or more specifically what the underlying mechanisms ...
Parasitic Worms in Early Modern Science and Medicine, 1650-1810
(2014-05)
From antiquity, parasites, and especially worms, were thought to be responsible for human suffering and disease. However, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, worms became the subject of extensive scientific ...
"God's Objective Truth, As Far As We Know It": Journalism Ideology at an Evangelical News Magazine
(2014-08)
This study mixes interviews and textual analysis to explore the ideology, motivations, routines, and content at WORLD, a major evangelical Christian news magazine whose editor-in-chief, Dr. Marvin Olasky, is a well-known ...
Chemical Flood Under High Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Conditions
(2014-08-15)
After the primary and secondary production, there is still a great potential of enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Currently, the high oil price, increase of oil demand and maturing oil fields and the improvement in surfactant ...
THE (PASSIVE) VIOLENCE OF HARMONY AND BALANCE: LIVED EXPERIENCED OF JAVANESE WOMEN WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES
(2014-05-09)
This study is an examination of Javanese women’s lived experience with Type 2 diabetes, an exploration of the ways these women maintain interactions with family members and society and how they adapt diabetes management ...