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Action sports athletes as entrepreneurs: Female professional wakeboarders, sponsorship, and branding
(2014-11)
This teaching case explores the sport of wakeboarding to examine how its female practitioners need to become entrepreneurial in order to make a living from the sport. Students ponder the financial pressures of becoming a ...
Zinc Protoporphyrin Suppresses β-Catenin Protein Expression in Human Cancer Cells: The Potential Involvement of Lysosome-Mediated Degradation
(PLos One, 2015-05-22)
Zinc protoporphyrin (ZnPP) has been found to have anticancer activity both in vitro and in vivo. We have recently demonstrated that ZnPP diminishes β-catenin protein expression in cancer cells. The present study examined ...
PTSD and Breastfeeding: Let It Flow
(2014-08)
Earmarks and Subcommittee Government in the U.S. Congress
(American Politics Research, 2015-03-31)
In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has focused on earmarks, the quintessential example of pork barrel politics. We assess the degree to which existing theories can explain the distribution of earmarks in the ...
An ounce of time, a pound of responsibilities and a ton of weight to lose: An autoethnographic journey of barriers, message adherence and the weight-loss process
(Public Relations Inquiry, 2013-01-01)
This article uses an autoethnographic approach to determine how the intersectionality of identities affects message perceptions about weight loss from the lens of two doctoral students. This autoethnography links our ...
Microbial Community Analysis of a Coastal Salt Marsh Affected by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(PLos One, 2012-07-18)
Coastal salt marshes are highly sensitive wetland ecosystems that can sustain long-term impacts from anthropogenic events such as oil spills. In this study, we examined the microbial communities of a Gulf of Mexico coastal ...
A New Multi-core CPU Resource Availability Prediction Model for Concurrent Processes
(2017-03)
The efficiency of a multi-core architecture is directly related to the mechanisms that map the threads (processes in execution) to the cores. Determining the CPU resource availability of a multi-core architecture based on ...
Differential Effect of Inter-Role Conflict on Proactive Individual's Experience of Burnout
(2012)
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This study examined how proactive personality interacts with inter-role conflict, measured as work–family conflict and family–work conflict, to predict burnout, measured as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, ...
Exploring Nested Identities: Voluntary Membership, Social Category Identity, and Identification in a Community Choir
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2014-05-01)
Although scholars theorize that identities are layered or nested within one another, little is understood about whether, how, and what layers are expressed by individuals. Such understanding could offer insight into ...
Feasibility of Utilizing Ethnic Beauty Salons for Cervical Cancer Screening Education
(Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2014-04-02)
The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of using ethnic beauty salons to reach out to Vietnamese and Korean American women for cervical cancer screening education. Participants (N = 62) were conveniently ...