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The Interaction between General Cognitive Ability and Training Structure: Using Meta-Analysis to Investigate Aptitude-Treatment Interactions in the Training Literature
(2009)
This study quantitatively reviewed aptitude-treatment interactions (ATIs) in the training literature to address inconclusive results with regard to their existence and nature. The aptitude investigated was trainee general ...
Kinetic and isotope analyses during abiotic transformation of chlorinated hydrocarbons by iron and sulfur minerals
(2009)
Abiotic reductive dechlorination of tetrachloroethylene (PCE), trichloroethylene (TCE), and carbon tetrachloride (CT) by naturally occurring minerals was investigated in this study. The kinetics and in some cases stable ...
Validity of bioimpedance for the assessment of total body and segmental fat-free mass in older men and women and a comparison of methods used to classify sarcopenia
(2009)
The purpose of the current investigation was to evaluate the validity of several total body fat-free mass (FFM), muscle mass (TBMM), water (TBW), and appendicular lean mass (ALM) equations in older adults compared to a ...
EXAMINING THE COMPLEXITIES OF EMOTION REGULATION IN THE WORKPLACE: THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE WORKPLACE EMOTION REGULATION PREFERENCE INVENTORY
(2009)
The purpose of this study is to examine how several categories of emotion regulation strategies are related to satisfaction and performance outcomes. A measure of workplace emotion regulation was developed and validated ...
Inter-firn Contracts Governing Cooperative Business Relationships
(2009)
Contracts are vital components of the governance mechanism between firms organizing to conduct transactions over a longer-term time horizon. The business management literature has advocated the importance of trust to ...
Predicting War, Predicting Peace
(2009)
This dissertation examines how the structure of a given situation and the way in which decision makers mentally process information interact to determine decisions. Decision are affected by the surrounding ecology, ...
Discordant Consensus: Dialogues on the Earth's Age in American Science, 1890--1930
(2009)
The history of investigation of the Earth's age during the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries has been often presented as a narrative of a disciplinary conflict. In this dissertation, I investigate ...
An Examination of the Effects of Single-Gender Classes on Reading and Mathematics Achievement Test Scores of Middle School Students
(2009)
Educational strategies begin with student achievement in mind. Over time these strategies change to include new scientific information and sometimes change to include past practices. This quantitative research study ...
Role of ppGpp in regulating global gene expression in Escherichia coli.
(2009)
Bacteria grow when nutrient availability supports basic biochemical requirements and remain in stationary phase when basic needs go unmet. This deceptively simple phenomenon requires the orchestrated expression of thousands ...
SPATIAL FILTERING OF CLUTTER USING PHASED ARRAY RADARS FOR OBSERVATIONS OF THE WEATHER
(2009)
Phased array radars are attractive for weather surveillance primarily because of their capacity for extremely rapid scanning through electronic steering. When combined with the recently developed beam multiplexing technique, ...