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Title: A META-ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENERAL COGNITIVE ABILITY AND FERTILITY
Author: Heeney, Michael
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Empirical studies of the relationship between general cognitive ability and fertility span nearly a century. Reported effects generated through previous studies vary widely, and are believed to reflect differences in: 1) sample characteristics (e....

Title: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND CULTURAL CAPITAL: A CASE STUDY OF INCOMING INDIAN GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING
Author: Birkett, James
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology
Description: As the number of international students studying in the United States continues to grow, it is important that educators and administrators at postsecondary institutions understand the diverse educational backgrounds of these students, which has th...

Title: AIN'T I A YOGI?: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF SYMBOLIC AND SOCIAL BOUNDARIES IN THE YOGA WORLD
Author: Brooks, Temeka
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Women's studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Recent sociological research considers the relationship between social and symbolic boundaries in a variety of social contexts. In this study, I build on such research by exploring how such boundaries are reproduced and potentially bridged in oste...

Title: ASSESSING THE RELATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING AND EMOTION REGULATION STRATEGY CHOICE
Author: Park, Sydney
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Emotion regulation (ER) is an essential aspect of daily life. Critically, an individual’s ability to implement different ER strategies requires varying levels of cognitive control known as executive functions (EFs). Specifically, EFs such as inter...

Title: Affect Control Theory and Gendered Occupations
Author: Barry, Leanne
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Social psychology
Description: Gender is widely considered to be a major contributing factor in workplace inequality. This is largely due to the gendering of occupations by labelling certain jobs as more appropriate for one gender than the other. In this paper, I examine gender...

Title: Afro-Brazilian Culture As a Means of Transformation: Spaces, Businesses and Political Participation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Author: Timoteo de Oliveira, Carolina Helena
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology, Area studies
Description: CAROLINA HELENA TIMÓTEO DE OLIVEIRA. Afro-Brazilian culture as a means of transformation: spaces, businesses and political participation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. (Under the direction of DR. OSCAR DE LA TORRE) This research investigates the conne...

Title: Assessing the Predictive Sensitivity of Early Childhood Screening Variables to Improve Pre-K Eligibility Decisions
Author: Gadaire, Andrew
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Developmental psychology
Description: High-quality early childhood education, such as pre-kindergarten (pre-k) can help children develop the academic and social-emotional skills they need to succeed in school. Pre-k can be especially important for students at risk of starting elementa...

Title: DEFINING THE GENRE OF THE U.S. POLICY ISSUES WEBPAGE WITH A CROSS-LINGUISTIC CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS
Author: Dunklin, Macy
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Linguistics
Description: In recent years, government genres have been largely under-studied within linguistic and rhetorical studies. To allow for a better image and more accessible government, it is imperative that online political genres receive attention. This study ai...

Title: Development of a theory based text message intervention to promote physical activity among college students
Author: Hayes, Marie
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: College undergraduate students traditionally reduce their engagement in physical activity during college, despite the negative health consequences sedentary behavior has been linked to. Mobile health (mhealth) interventions have become increasingl...

Title: Differentiating the domains of dirty work in animal euthanasia
Author: Bickmeier, Robert
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Psychology, Industrial
Description: ABSTRACTROBERT MICHAEL BICKMEIER. Differentiating the domains of dirty work in animal euthanasia. (Under the direction of DR. STEVEN G. ROGELBERG)This study distinguished two domains of taint in dirty work empirically and theoretically in terms of...

Title: Explorations of Childhood Gender-Fluidity and the Subversion of Masculinity in Peter Pan
Author: Weber, Ryan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Literature, English literature, Sex role
Description: In declaring Peter Pan as the only child who will not grow up, J.M. Barrie has developed a character with an unmatched capacity for subverting masculine forms of normalization, social acceptance, and gender appropriation. Through Peter’s consisten...

Title: Fear and Loathing in the Heartland: Status Insufficiency, Resentment, and the Future of American Democracy
Author: Kitchens, Jordan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Social psychology
Description: The current technological and economic transformations spurred by globalization are having detrimental effects on White rural communities’ social status. The status-power theory of social relations predicts that status insufficiency results in neg...

Title: HOW PERCEPTIONS OF INCLUSION RELATE TO WORK GROUP ATTRACTION
Author: Scheaf, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Identification—the perceived oneness and/or belongingness—with a group has been found to be related to a host of individual and group outcomes. However, it remains unclear how group perceptions and outcomes are affected when an individual perceive...

Title: MEDIA TRUST IN CHINA: EXPOSURE TO INFORMATION, COGNITIVE CONSISTENCY, AND KNOWLEDGE GAP
Author: Cai, Tengteng
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This research examines media trust in China in the new Internet era. Cognitive consistency model and the model of knowledge gap and media trust are employed to explain the public trust in different sources of media. According to the cognitive cons...

Title: MLB's Neocolonial Practices in the Dominican Republic Academy System
Author: Gentile, Patrick
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: Major League Baseball (MLB) has operated in the Dominican Republic for many years in order to find cheap labor that is refined and shipped to the United States, with goals that a few players will develop into great players. Once a player is signed...

Title: PUT WHAT(?) IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT: A METHODICAL APPROACH TO THE SMOKING CULTURE OF A NINETEENTH CENTURY PLANTATION IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
Author: Bubp, Rebecca
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: Holly Bend, a prolific and successful late 18th and early 19th century plantation owned by the Davidson family in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina has seen multiple excavations and research projects over the past several years. In this project, ...

Title: Poor-Branded Women
Author: Goodnight, Melissa
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: English literature, Women's studies, Creative writing
Description: MELISSA ANN GOODNIGHT. Poor-Branded Women. (Under the direction of BRYN CHANCELLOR, M.F.A.) Poor-Branded Women is a collection of three creative nonfiction essays aiming to establish the idea that both morality and personal responsibility live on ...

Title: Predictors of Mobile Dating Application Use Among College Students
Author: Griffin, Meredith
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Emerging adulthood is the transitional developmental stage from the late teens through the early twenties when individuals explore possibilities, particularly in the domains of love, work, and identity (Arnett, 2000). This study focuses on emergin...

Title: RECONSTRUCTING AFRICA'S EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES: DNA COLLECTION, CODING, ANALYSIS, and INTERPRETATION
Author: Winful, Olawunmi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Area studies, History
Description: Finding a way to successfully interpret African diversity is important in accurately reconstructing the evolutionary history of our species. By collecting high quality DNA, genealogical, and demographic data on a large cross section of African and...

Title: REDUCING DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE
Author: Salge, Martina
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Despite protection form federal legislation, employees with disabilities continue to be discriminated against in the workplace. This study examined the effects of an education and contact intervention on participants’ knowledge about disabilities,...