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They Self-Ignited: Adult Student Journeys to an Associate's Degree while Active Duty Military or Military Spouse
(2013)
This qualitative study was undertaken in order to gain an understanding of the lived experiences of adult students and how they made meaning of their journey. To that end, through in-depth interviews with twenty participants, ...
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, ...
Soldier and Robot Interaction in Combat Environments
(2012)
The purpose of this research was to examine the dynamics that form when humans and robots work together in a high-stress combat environment, and compare and contrast these bonds to human-to-human bonds that are formed under ...
SOCIAL JUSTICE IMPLICATIONS OF INCLUSIVE MEASURES OF SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY POPULATIONS
(2017-12)
The understanding of human sexuality has continued to expand, and has led to an increased understanding of the diversity comprising the sexual and gender minority population. Despite this broadened knowledge base, researchers ...
Mosaic Metaphor of Organizations
(2013)
The metaphor, mosaic, is presented as an aid to organizational leaders by providing an immediate mental image and framework for grasping the complexity of organizational change and diversity. This dissertation describes, ...
Feeding Hope Through Tulsa's Philanthropic Community
(2014)
Hope Theory continues to emerge in the scholarly literature. Rooted in positive psychology, this theory is comprised of three facets: goals, pathways thinking, and agency thinking. To date there has been limited application ...
A Case Study of a Public Private Partnership in Arts Education
(2013)
Public private partnerships (PPP) expand government services by utilizing the skills and resources of the private sector. Collaboration between the sectors allows for a greater reach of services, and the potential for cost ...
Employee Empowerment, Self-Determination Theory, And Employee Engagement: A Mediation Model
(2017-12-15)
Even though employee engagement has been touted as a strategy to increase organizational performance, productivity, and employee retention, scant empirical data on the drivers of employee engagement exists. The current ...
GROUND STATE ENTANGLEMENT IN 2D STRONGLY INTERACTING BOSE-HUBBARD-TYPE MODELS
(2017)
In this dissertation, I present my work on ground state entanglement in Bose-Hubbard-type models. Bose-Hubbard-type models form a wide class of bosonic lattice models and describe systems that can be realized by cold atoms ...
THE (PASSIVE) VIOLENCE OF HARMONY AND BALANCE: LIVED EXPERIENCED OF JAVANESE WOMEN WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES
(2014-05-09)
This study is an examination of Javanese women’s lived experience with Type 2 diabetes, an exploration of the ways these women maintain interactions with family members and society and how they adapt diabetes management ...