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Title: Do video games reduce or induce stress? The effect of challenge and threat appraisals on stress and aggression when playing violent and nonviolent video games
Author: Porter, Anne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Video game players report using video games for stress reduction, but previous studies have found mixed results when examining stress and video games, and fail to comprehensively measure all relevant psychological, emotional, and physiological str...

Title: Posttraumatic Growth Among African American Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: The Roles of Spirituality, Locus of Control, and Self-Concept
Author: Hill, Lisa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Research has suggested that childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can hinder normal cognitive, social and emotional development. Research has also suggested that CSA contributes to higher levels of pathology than other traumatic experiences. Rates of victi...

Title: Process and development of a culturally adapted healthy lifestyle manual for overweight and obese Latina women with binge eating disorder.
Author: Phimphasone, Phoutdavone
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Clinical psychology
Description: Obesity remains one of the greatest public health threats in the 21st century, increasing the risk for many chronic illnesses, including Type 2 diabetes and CVD, with economic costs associated with treatments for obesity reaching $147 billion/year...

Title: RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ, ROSALINA TUYUC, AND LAURA REYES: CONTEMPORARY MAYA WOMEN IN GUATEMALAN POLITICS
Author: Moore, Mary
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Area studies, History
Description: This Master’s thesis analyzes the role of notable human rights activists, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, and Laura Reyes Quino, examining their directed efforts toward relieving the plight of the Mayan people in Guatemala facing g...

Title: PERCEPTIONS OF CLIMATE AND STUDENT-FACULTY INTERACTIONS AMONGST AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSISTERS IN A BUSINESS PROGRAM AT A PREDOMINANTLY-WHITE INSTITUTION
Author: Allen, Monica
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher
Description: While representation of African American students in freshmen enrollment has improved, degree attainment of African Americans and other minority groups continue to lag behind the White and Asian American populations. Compounding the issue of lower...

Title: PERCEIVED VERSUS EXPERIENCED: RELIGIOUS OTHERING ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS
Author: Carskaddon, Chelsea
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Ethics, Philosophy and religion
Description: The question driving this thesis is to what extent religious othering is actually experienced compared to the extent to which religious othering is simply perceived. To seek an answer to this question the author chose to analyze the ways in which ...

Title: PENETRATING THE SEVENTH PALACE: READING THE SEXUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HEBREW BOOK OF ENOCH AND THE HEKHALOT GENRE
Author: Kimbrel, Suzannah
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Area studies
Description: This thesis looks at the Late Antique mystical literary genre of Hekhalot alongside contemporary queer theory and modern psychoanalysis. Part 1 opens with an excerpt from "3 Enoch." The methodology is explained, and the relevant works of Sigmund F...

Title: RESURRECTING THE DEPARTED – AN EXPLORATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIALIZATION EXPERIENCES OF REHIRED EMPLOYEES
Author: Oleson, Joan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: This qualitative study conducted within a Fortune 100 corporation examines experiences of employees who leave an organization and then later choose to return for a second round of employment. It examines the communicative processes of employees wh...

Title: Piers Plowman, Poverty, and the Medieval Church
Author: Doss, Henry
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Literature, Medieval, History--Religious aspects, Middle Ages, History
Description: ABSTRACTThis thesis examines the claim that the 14th century experienced a dramatic change in how poverty is understood and addressed in society. This shift can be understood as a long-term social dialectic – one that arcs toward synthesis, but te...

Title: Pinned Incremental Metal Forming
Author: Stockhoff, Paul
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Architecture, Building
Description: Advanced design software allows designers to rapidly create huge numbers of design variations. However, these variations do not incorporate material and manufacturing limits, which are typically considered much later during the process of design d...

Title: DYNAMIC CONVEX OPTIMAL POWER FLOW APPROACHES FOR MODERN POWER GRID
Author: Moghadasi, Seyedmahdi
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Non-convexity of Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem in power systems poses difficulties in reaching optimal solutions which can adversely affect the overall solution efficiency, convergence and appropriate scheduling of generators. Dynamic convex OP...

Title: AT THE INTERSECTION OF RELATIVE RISK AVERSION AND EFFECTIVELY MAINTAINED INEQUALITY IN STEM MAJORS: A MULTILEVEL APPROACH
Author: Jamil, Cayce
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: The underrepresentation of racial/ethnic minorities and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds in college majors that promote social mobility is problematic. Relative risk aversion theory predicts that disadvantaged students will choose colle...

Title: A Delphi-Based Investigation on Principal Preparedness for Managing School Finance
Author: Christian, Arthur
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Management, Education--Finance
Description: Background. Research on principal preparedness for managing school finance is limited. Grounded in theory, principal preparation programs are wifout practical exercises for leadership readiness on budgets and finance. On its face, this topic is he...

Title: Development of n-ZnO/p-Si single heterojunction solar cell with and without interfacial layer
Author: Hussain, Babar
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Materials science
Description: The conversion efficiency of conventional silicon (Si) photovoltaic cells has not been improved significantly during last two decades but their cost decreased dramatically during this time. However, the higher price-per-watt of solar cells is stil...

Title: A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
Author: Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: African American males are underrepresented in university Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) programs as STEM majors in the United States. I will be investigating why this phenomenon is so prevalent in America’s collegiate STEM program...

Title: Development of Distress and Performance Models of Composite Pavements for Pavement Management
Author: Fang, Xiazhi
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Information science
Description: Roadway systems in the United States have become huge assets that need massive resources to maintain and operate. To meet the long-term performance goal, government agencies developed pavement management systems (PMSs) to help them manage roadway ...

Title: CONTROL AND METHODS FOR PV INVERTER MINIATURIZATION
Author: Jafarian, Hamidreza
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Analyzing the price of PV generation systems in different market sectors shows that the portion of inverter cost and Balance of System (BoS) are increased due to advent of new PV module technologies and dramatic cost reduction in PV module product...

Title: BULLWHIP EFFECT IN PRICING IN VARYING SUPPLY CHAIN STRUCTURES AND CONTRACTS USING A GAME THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Author: Adnan, Ziaul Haq
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Industrial engineering, Operations research, Commerce
Description: Bullwhip effect in Pricing (BP) refers to the amplified variability of prices in a supply chain. When the amplification takes place from the upstream (i.e. supplier’s side) towards the downstream (i.e. retail side) of a supply chain, this is refer...

Title: COMMUNITY COLLEGE PLACEMENT: HOW EMERGING POLICY AND PRACTICE RELATE TO SUCCESS AND PERSISTENCE
Author: Helget, Donna
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine whether the method of course placement for the first attempted English and mathematics courses was independent of the student demographic variables of gender, race/ethnicity, and Pell Grant eli...

Title: Cognitive Spectrum Access for D2D Communications in Emerging Networks
Author: Liu, Xingya
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Device to device (D2D) Communication is essential in emerging networks, such as Internet of things (IoT). Cognitive radio (CR)-enabled device is a promising technology to address D2D Communications. However, existing work on CR networks suffers fr...