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Holding True: Agriculture in Colorado's Upper Grand Valley
(2015-07-31)
This study presents the story of how farmers and agriculture survive in the upper Grand Valley, the eastern end of a 30-mile stretch of the Colorado River Valley—known as the Grand Valley—located on Colorado’s Western ...
Psychological Capital and Moral Potency of Interdisciplinary Team Members: Does Profit Status Matter in Hospice Care?
(2015-05)
The hospice industry has seen major profit status shift over the last 15 years from nonprofit agencies to for profit agencies primarily providing care. This major shift has sparked much debate about whether differences ...
The Relationship Between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Principal Self-Efficacy
(2015)
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and Principal Self-Efficacy (PSE). With a nationwide quest to improve teaching and learning in schools, every ...
The mediated effect of teaching efficacy on the relation between contextual variables and pupil control ideology
(2015-08-14)
The purpose of this study is to examine the observed relations between contextual variables, pupil control ideology, and pre-service teachers’ self-perceptions of teaching efficacy. Eighty-three pre-service teachers were ...
Analysis of Backbone Technique: a Hilbert Transform and Discrete Hilbert Transform-based Technique
(2015-12)
This dissertation focuses on understanding and improving the “backbone” technique, a Hilbert-transform based vibration signal processing technique developed by Dr. Michael Feldman started in 1994. The concept of backbone ...
DUAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN PRESCHOOL: A MULTI-CASE STUDY ON HOW THE LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT SUPPORTS LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
(2015)
The increase of dual language learners in today’s classrooms have caused serious implications when examining how the country educates children (McWayne, Melzi, Schick, Kennedy, & Mundt, 2013). Because of the cultural and ...
An Assessment of Microbial Communities and Their Potential Activities Associated with Oil Producing Environments
(2015-06)
Microbial populations have been found in oil-associated environments as early as the 1920s. The proliferation and metabolic activities of these microorganisms can have profound deleterious effects on the infrastructure ...
Measuring The Trilinear Higgs Couplings at LHC
(2015-12)
The results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) indicate that the couplings of the Higgs boson to other particles are consistent with the Standard Model. The coupling of the Higgs boson to itself will be the final and ...
Language Epiphany and Flow Theory: A Phenomenological Study of Successful Language Learners’ Perspective on Their Language Experience
(2015-05-08)
This qualitative research is a phenomenological study of successful language learners’ perspectives on their language experiences. It looks at different particularities among successful language learners and extract possible ...
Phylogenetic and proximate mechanisms affect darter (Percidae: Etheostomatinae) community structure
(2015-05)
Understanding the relative influences of biotic and abiotic mechanisms responsible for generating patterns of community diversity remains a fundamental theme in ecology. Although studies have recovered patterns of community ...