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Principal Support of Teacher Psychological Needs: The Conceptualization and Measurement of a New Construct
(2017-08)
There is a lack of evidence explaining the generative process by which intentional leader behavior might promote changes in the social-psychological well-being of teachers toward improved principal-teacher relationships. ...
SLA-Based Performance Tuning Techniques for Cloud Databases
(2017-05)
Today, cloud databases are widely used in many applications. The pay-per-use model of cloud databases enables on-demand access to reliable and configurable services (CPU, storage, networks, and software) that can be quickly ...
Parodies and the Role of Medieval Ethical Concepts in the Ontological Argument
(2017-05-12)
In this dissertation, I examine historical and contemporary versions of the ontological argument for God’s existence and objections to it, focusing on versions of the argument that contain Linkage Premises (premises that ...
Associations between Young Adult and Parent Religiosity and Young Adult Mental Health
(2017-08-01)
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between religiosity in young adults and mental health outcomes that include depressive symptoms and suicide ideation, and to examine associations between ...
Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Hierarchical Effects of Size Distributions: Linking the Individual to its Community
(2017-12)
Population and community ecologists often view the world differently based on one assumption: community ecologists often assume that individuals within a population are functionally equivalent; population ecologists focus ...
Developing a New Instrument to Assess Online Learners' Sense of Community in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments
(2017-12-15)
The purpose of this study is to provide validity evidence for the measurement model underlying a new assessment designed to assess online learners’ sense of community in computer-supported collaborative learning communities ...
BET-HEDGING IN HETEROCARPIC GRINDELIA CILIATA (ASTERACEAE)
(2017-05-12)
A challenge for all living organisms is to offset the fitness associated risks of environmental uncertainty. Bet-hedging strategies are adaptive in unpredictable environments and are documented in a wide range of taxa ...
De-Gendering Hegemony: How Parsing Out Attitudes Toward Productive, Reproductive, and Gender-Essentialized Labor Helps Explain the Cross-National Stall in Gender Equality
(2017-05)
Starting with the problem of the two-decade stall in the developed world’s gender revolution, this project applies Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) techniques to answer three related questions: (1) “How have attitudes ...
THREE ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
(2017-10)
My dissertation chapters focus on economic development and economic growth. Chapter 1 investigates the effects of bilateral FDI flows on host countries’ productivity growth as well as on the productivity gap between host ...
CURRENT PRACTICES AND SCHOOL-BASED PERSONNEL’S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEEDS IN FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT IN QATAR
(2017-12)
The concern about young children challenging behaviors has produced a wide range of intervention programs to reduce problem behaviors and promote development of social skills. Over the past two decades, researchers have ...