People all over the world are more concerned about climate change than ever before. Although there have been globally coordinated efforts to acknowledge climate change and address mitigation and adaptation needs, rallying political and public support for action in the United States still presents...
More than Words: A Basic Interpretative Approach to Understanding Internal Accountability through Adaptive Leadership, Relational Trust, and Professional Capital There was limited knowledge about school supports and strategies for leadership, trust, and capital. The problem statement for this...
Network-based protocol implementations play a significant role in the communication area, but the feature creep and increasing vulnerabilities have become serious problems. To deal with these problems, we proposed TOSS, an online server systems tailoring tool through binary rewriting. TOSS minify...
A recent spike in the misuse of prescription stimulant
medication among young adults has raised cause for concern on many college
campuses, as this growth has been attributed to an increasing number of
prescriptions being written by physicians as well as individuals turning away
from 'street...
BACKGROUND:
Voice training for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals is in demand, yet is often inaccessible- especially for individuals of minority race or socioeconomic status.
To reduce the identified access barriers of cost, availability, and general knowledge of services,...
Young adults’ use of online social media sites is widespread, making social media a key source of exposure to pro- and anti-tobacco related content, including portrayals of smoking or messages discouraging smoking from peers. Different social media sites have different purposes, audiences, and...
The purpose of this dissertation was to develop an expert and empirically validated survey instrument to measure students' preferences for information sources during the undergraduate college search process. As technological advances introduce new mediums by which to communicate, admissions...
Research is conducted with an overall objective of providing contribution to the success of UMS technology when applied to public safety missions. The research examines the relationship between public safety wireless and UMS in the areas of technology use, communication needs, and approach to...
In order to gain a better understanding of the reactions occurring during reentry at the gas-surface interface, a reactive ion etch (RIE) plasma device was augmented to more accurately represent how material may paralyze in the presence of plasma. The device inflow was augmented to include a...
Employee silence can have a far-reaching effect on individuals and organizations. Employees who remain silent about relevant work issues that could inform their managers and organization about relevant issues, knowledge and problems are in effect preventing the flow of potentially valuable...
This study examines the power of assessment, and focuses on independent art educators in grades K-8th. The study is informed by an art educator questionnaire as well as in-classroom observations that establish a foundation for how educators use different methods to assess students. There are many...
Through inward perceptions, we intuitively expect distributed software development to increase the risks of achieving quality goals compared to co-located software development. To compound this problem, Agile Software Development (ASD) maintains that face-to-face (synchronous) communication...
Harsh Encounters: Conversational Violence as experienced by Women in Nursing This qualitative study is undertaken in order to provide a deep understanding of the impact of certain kinds of encounters on those who experience them. In this study, eleven women, registered nurses, tell their stories...
The standards and evidence of effectiveness for SLP services related to gender presentation have proliferated in recent years (Davies, Papp, & Antoni, 2015), yet most Transgender (trans) and gender non-conforming (GNC) people do not engage in such services. Consistent evidence of diminished...