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Exploring Educational Interests and Preferences of Older Adults
(2018-12-14)
This qualitative study examines the lived experience of 12 older adults aged 55 – 86, participants in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and living independently in the Midwest of the United States. The primary data ...
DATA SHARING FOR TASK EFFICIENCY DURING A FOREIGN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE/DISASTER RELIEF EFFORT
(2018-12-14)
This paper adapts Zigurs & Buckland’s (1998) Task Technology Fit theoretical framework for application to a virtual organization that exists for episodically during foreign humanitarian assistance/disaster relief efforts. ...
A Conditional Process Analysis of Boundary Spanning Functions in US Research Universities
(2018)
I sought to establish whether boundary-spanning offices in US Universities are effectively aligned with institutional strategy. I further sought to move beyond the focus on valorization activity that is typical of US ...
The Impact of Mentoring: An Analysis of Psychosocial Mediators in Youth Transition Outcomes
(2018-05-11)
Opportunity youth range in age from 16 to 24. They are not in school or working, and each of the 6.7 million of them cost taxpayers an average of $51,350 on an annual basis. Opportunity youth create a drain on economic ...
Political Consumerism & Remote-Piloted Passenger Aircraft
(2018-05-11)
The overall purpose of this study was to determine if there exists a receptive market for a new aviation passenger model that by use of emerging technologies may significantly decrease the threat in air safety that is pilot ...
Hope and Burnout in Human Services Nonprofit Organizations
(2018-12-14)
In the nonprofit sector, organizations that provide services to victims of violence or abuse present job contexts that are naturally stressful and prone to employee burnout. The aim of this study was to determine the ...
Cultural Paradigms of Contemporary Indigenous Art: As Found in the Work of Shan Goshorn, Norman Akers, Marie Watt, and Joe Feddersen
(2018-05-11)
This dissertation is the product of an ongoing inquiry into the relationships that exist between artists, their Indigenous cultures, and their aesthetic pursuits as materialized in the contemporary art they produce; and, ...