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Housing Wealth, Elderly Labor Outcomes and Financing Retirement
(2015-08)
The first chapter of my dissertation uses the restricted access version of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) data to examine elderly workers responses to changes in housing wealth, property taxes and financial wealth. ...
Emotions and Sensemaking: How Anger, Guilt, and Emotion Regulation Impact Ethical Decision Making
(2015-05-08)
Affect plays an important role in cognition and behavior, but how discrete emotions influence decision making is still unclear. To contribute to the understanding of this process, this study investigated the impact of guilt ...
VARIABLE TEMPERATURE DIFFUSE REFLECTION INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY AND THERMOGRAVIMETRY- MASS SPECTROMETRY INVESTIGATIONS OF BENZOIC ACID INTERACTIONS WITH SODIUM AND CALCIUM MONTMORILLONITE CLAYS
(2015-05-08)
Molecular interactions between benzoic acid and cations and water contained within montmorillonite clay interlayer spaces and processes involved in thermal desorption of benzoic acid from sodium and calcium montmorillonite ...
Essays in Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation
(2015-05)
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that investigate the issues related to corporate governance and executive compensation. In Chapter 1 I employ a sample of U.S. public firms to investigate the effect of ...
Social Media and Ethics: The Role of Context Personality
(2015)
The present study examined the influence that social media presentation formats and personality characteristics have upon perceptions of the four aspects of Jones (1991) issue-contingent model of Moral Intensity, problem ...
RESPONSES OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING TO CLIMATE CHANGE – META-ANALYSIS, MODELING, EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AND DATA-MODEL FUSION
(2015)
Observations, experimental studies and modeling endeavors all show that global climate change, mainly increased surface air temperature and associated change in precipitation regime, has caused impacts on plant community ...
STRUCTURAL AND MUTAGENESIS STUDIES OF THE YEAST PHOSPHORELAY SIGNALING PROTEINS YPD1 AND SSK1
(2015-12)
His-Asp signaling systems are ubiquitous in bacteria, archaea, and certain plants and fungi. Little structural information is known about the protein-protein interactions within these signaling pathways, leaving an ...
IMPACT OF SOCIAL SUPPORT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ILLNESS INVALIDATION AND SHAME AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITH MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS/CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
(2015-08-14)
The current study examined the relationship between illness invalidation and shame in a sample of 168 adults with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. Based on review of existing qualitative research, it was ...
EL EROTISMO COMO VARIABLE QUEER EN ESCRITOS DE SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ, MADRE CASTILLO, GERTRUDIS GÓMEZ DE AVELLANEDA, CRISTINA PERI ROSSI Y MAYRA MONTERO
(2015-05-08)
This dissertation uses contemporary queer theory to analyze women's writings from the XVIIth to the XXIst century. Queer theory opens a space for analysis that covers a variety of genres, characters, and topics. Women ...
HELD DOWN THROUGH THEIR BODIES: SEXUAL OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN AND THE LEGITIMIZATION OF PATRIARCHY
(2015)
Based on social dominance theory, I proposed that the belief that it is permissible to view women as sexual objects (i.e., the sexual objectification of women) serves as a legitimizing myth used in the maintenance of ...