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Pandemic Panic: Examining the Associations between Transformational versus Servant Leadership on In-Role Performance and Burnout in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2021)The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered the way people live and work. Organizations were forced to adjust to an unprecedented event, and in doing so, relied on leaders to help their followers navigate this external ... -
Panic Gardening in the End Times: An Interventional Study of Homescale Gardening on Food Security During Times of Crisis
(2023-05-12)While the 20th century was characterized by decreasing food insecurity globally due to innovations in food production and distribution, disruptions in both energy availability and climate stability in the 21st century ... -
Paradise Lost as a Political Warning
(2022)John Milton viewed himself as a prophet and he used his poetry and prose as vehicles for communicating God’s will to the people of England. This thesis analyzes Paradise Lost having a political message for England. Milton ... -
Parasequence-Scale Stratigraphic Variability of Lithology and Porosity of Mississippian Meramec Reservoirs and the Relationships to Production Characteristics, STACK Trend, Oklahoma
(2018)Mississippian Meramec reservoirs of the STACK (Sooner Trend in the Anadarko Basin of Canadian and Kingfisher counties) play in central Oklahoma consist of mixed siliciclastic and carbonate deposits. Depositional environments ... -
Parenthood Premiums and Penalties Among Asian American Workers: Exploring the Income Differences Across Gender, Marriage, and Parenthood
(2022-05-13)This study uses the Current Population Survey to explore the intersections of gender, marriage, and parenthood on Asian American workers’ labor market outcomes. Asian Americans are unique socioeconomically compared to other ... -
PARENTING & BULLYING: A REVIEW OF THE PARENT-CHILDREN RELATIONSHIP AND ITS EFFECTS ON A CHILD’S FREQUENCY OF BULLYING
(2016-05-13)This research explores the relationship between the quality of children's relationship with their parents as perceived by the children and their frequency of bullying other children. The purpose of this research is to ... -
Parents’ and Guardians’ Knowledge of Health Implications of Processed Meat and Associations with Feeding Practices of School-Aged Children
(2019-05)Introduction: Processed meat is labeled as a Group1A carcinogen according to the World Health Organization due to the certainty that processed meat causes colorectal cancer. In addition to colorectal cancer, processed meat ... -
Partial Differential Equations in Data Analysis
(2019-05-10)In this thesis, we introduce new interpolation methods for two dimensional data via constructing harmonic functions passing through the given data. Two ways to construct the harmonic function are introduced: (1) constructing ... -
Passive Actuation of a Planetary Rover to Assist Sandy Slope Traverse
(2016)This thesis introduces the design of a novel locomotive methodology. The problem being addressed is the traverse of unmanned locomotion over sandy inclined traverses. This is a special terramechanical issue regarding terrain ... -
PASSIVE RF CIRCUITS FOR SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE AND IMPACT ANALYSIS OF RECONFIGURABLE WIDEBAND RF ELECTRONICS ON COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM OPERATIONS
(2016-05-18)Consumer based wireless systems currently operate with a split spectrum approach. However, in order to accommodate the increased demand for high datarate services within fixed spectrum allocations a new architecture will ... -
Patient Expectations Predicting Medical Requests Based on Status Characteristics
(2021-05-14)This research I conduct uses the Patient’s Likely Expectations and Satisfaction in care Survey (PLEASS 2007) to analyze how patients who have expectations about medical experiences request these based on status characteristic ... -
The Pattern Cache: A Mechanism to Reduce Power Consumption in Out of Order Processors by Removing Duplicated Efforts
(2018-05)Out-of-order engines are the basis for nearly every high performance general purpose processor today due to their ability to mask the penalties associated with long latency operations. Unfortunately, these benefits come ... -
The Pattern Electroretinogram as an Indirect Measure of Dopaminergic Status in Iron Deficiency
(2023-08-04)Animal studies have suggested that iron deficiency negatively affects dopamine (DA) synthesis and reuptake, which in turn negatively affects memory and cognition. However, the literature on the possible relationships among ... -
Patterns in habitat selection between breeding and wintering grounds of Neotropical migrant passerines
(2017-05)Migratory animals must select suitable habitat in different locations to take advantage of abundances of resources and escape harsh climates during seasonal changes. Niche tracking occurs when migratory animals fill the ... -
Patterns of Pollution: A Legal Geography of America's Toxic History and the Road to Remediation at the Tar Creek Superfund Site
(2023-08-04)Toxic sites across the United States have been sacrificed for progress and prosperity somewhere else. Far and wide, the communities that inhabit sacrifice zones and experience slow violence–or harm that happens over long ... -
Peer Relations and Aggression: Precursors to Adolescent Delinquency and Risk-Taking Behavior
(2019-05-10)Adolescent problem behaviors are an important area of investigation because of the long-term implications of engaging in risky and delinquent behaviors. Past research has focused on overt aggression and peer rejection as ... -
Peer to peer metrological data sharing model
(2020-12-18)Present manufacturing systems often generate enormous amounts of data, that are often forgotten or lost. A major reason for ignoring such data is the heterogeneity of data. This research focuses on the heterogeneity between ... -
Perceived Discrimination in Healthcare Among American Indian College Students
(2020-05)Introduction: Trust is integral in the patient-physician relationship. Perceived discrimination can have a detrimental effect on that relationship. The purpose of this study is to investigate Native and Non-Native perceptions ... -
Perception is Powerful: Managerial Coaching, Reciprocity, Employees' Perceptions, and Engagement
(2023-05-12)Between 2021-2022, "Quiet Quitting" topped work-related headlines, and a June 2022 Gallup survey found that 50% of employees were ‘not engaged.’ Not engaged employees are the ones who are ‘quietly quitting.’ Organizations ...