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Assessing Espoused Goals in Private Family Firms Using Content Analysis
(Family Business Review, 2012-09-01)
Understanding how private family firms gauge performance is of great interest to family business scholars. Unfortunately, finding comparable data to understand differences in the performance of such firms is challenging. ...
Concerning gamer identity: An examination of individual factors associated with accepting the label of gamer
(2019-03)
This study examined characteristics of players that self-identified as gamers. Participants (N=476) were asked to complete an online survey and provide information about their video game play. Analyses of the survey responses ...
Standing in the Gap: Research that Informs Strategies for Motivating and Retaining Rural High School Students
(2013)
Rural schools face the challenges of motivating and retaining students, often in the face of severe resource constraints. This paper synthesizes fifteen years of the author's rural research on secondary students' school-related ...
Representation of Radar Image’s Timestamp in the Cockpit
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2014-09-01)
Data-linked mosaic NEXRAD images can be more than 14 minutes old by the time they reach the cockpit for use by pilots (Elgin & Thomas, 2004; Novacek et al., 2001; Yuchnovicz et al., 2001). Unfortunately, research has ...
Turin and Aragorn: Evading and Embracing Fate
(2011)
Aragorn and Túrin, two of the greatest warriors and most important
protagonists in Tolkien’s legendarium, represent opposing reactions to
destiny, doom, hope, and the forces of fate. Aragorn, descendant of kings,
exhibits ...
From Cave Art to Cryonics
(2013)
Biaxial mechanical data of porcine atrioventricular valve leaflets
(2018)
This dataset contains the anisotropic tissue responses of porcine atrioventricular valve leaflets to force-controlled biaxial mechanical testing. The set includes the first Piola-Kirchhoff Stress and the specimen stretches ...
Living Dangerously: Culture of Honor, Risk-Taking, and the Nonrandomness of “Accidental” Deaths
(Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2012-01-01)
Collin D. Barnes is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma.
Investigation of Genetic Variation Underlying Central Obesity amongst South Asians
(PLos One, 2016-05-19)
South Asians are 1/4 of the world’s population and have increased susceptibility to central obesity and related cardiometabolic disease. Knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of central obesity is largely based on ...