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A CLOSER LOOK INTO WHY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN LEAVE AND AVOID STEM MAJORS IN COLLEGE
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Author
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Bailey, Jr., Ricardo
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Educational sociology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
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Description
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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...
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A Delphi-Based Investigation on Principal Preparedness for Managing School Finance
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Author
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Christian, Arthur
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Education--Finance
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Description
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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...
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A LOAD-BASED TEMPERATURE PREDICTION MODEL FOR ANOMALY DETECTION
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Author
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Sobhani, Masoud
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Power resources
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Description
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Electric load forecasting, as a basic requirement for the decision-making in power utilities, has been improved in various aspects in the past decades. Many factors may affect the accuracy of the load forecasts, such as data quality, goodness of t...
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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF NORWEGIAN HOUSE PRICES
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Author
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Oeding Amundstad, Kjetil
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Economics
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Description
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This study estimates an econometric model to explain changes in Norwegian house prices. This is useful as it expands the understanding of how and why Norwegian house prices move as they do. The study utilizes Statistics Norway’s house prices Index...
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ANCESTRAL COMPLEXITY AND LINEAGE SPECIFIC EXPANSIONS OF THE ANIMAL BZIP INTERACTOME
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Author
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Kane, Eric
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Bioinformatics, Evolutionary developmental biology
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Description
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Protein-protein interactions are central to the regulation and function of transcription factors in time- and cell-specific regulation of the genome. Increases in interactome complexity may serve as a mechanistic driver for evolutionary novelty. T...
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ARMY MANAGEMENT STYLES AND THE SIMILARITIES WITHIN ATHLETICS
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Author
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Simmons, Jackson
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Military art and science
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Description
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When comparing athletes to soldiers in the military you discover that there is an abundance of similarities that link the two in how they prepare themselves both mentally and physically to accomplish the task at hand. There are different programs ...
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Ambient Discrimination and Observer Task Performance
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Author
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Harrington, Nicole
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Social psychology, Organizational sociology
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Description
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Research shows that being a target of workplace incivility is related to negative outcomes for both the individual and the organization. According to the theory of selective incivility, stigmatized groups such as women or people of color experienc...
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Amelia's Blog
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Author
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Santiago, Jennifer
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Creative writing
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Description
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Amelia once deeply appreciated the online community that had formed around the blog of the charismatic writer called Rei Locke. When Amelia learned that Rei Locke had been lying about her life and inventing her accomplishments all along, she felt ...
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American Daydreams: A Collection
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Author
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Winfrey, Russell
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, English literature
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Description
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These four stories are very much a reaction to our current political moment, where mounting complexities in the world are met with untenable simplicity and hostile tribalism. The protagonists in "Miss Future Expat" and "Beans in Peru" are able to ...
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American pragmatism, evolution, and ethics
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Author
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Pearce, Trevor
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Evolution, Philosophy
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Description
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This chapter provides an overview of pragmatist evolutionary ethics—specifically that of John Dewey and Jane Addams—and its intellectual context. To make things manageable, I will focus on pragmatist texts from 1890 to 1910, a period that includes...