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Despite attempts to improve speech recognition in noise via hearing aid algorithms, communication where there is background noise continues to present serious challenges to hearing aid users. The viability of using speech reading to...
This study is an examination of country level factors associated with governmental violation of the integrity of the body and security of the person, which includes arbitrary detention, torture, and extrajudicial killing. Two instruments...
This study was an attempt to investigate the effects of developmentally appropriate classroom practices (DAP) on children's reading achievement from kindergarten through third grade. Considering the limitations of previous research...
A Monte Carlo simulation was conducted to examine the conditions under which the simple difference and residualized change scores were more or less powerful than each other, and if the two estimators produced a biased estimate of the...
A Study of the Pre-Adoption Functioning and Post-Adoption Adjustment of Children Who Have Been Prenatally Exposed to Alcohol, Tobacco and/or Other Drugs
Despite passage of the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act, children prenatally exposed to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) continue to languish in the child welfare system, partly because of misinformation and uncertainty...
Factors associated with attendance at sporting events has been well documented in recent literature. Numerous studies have been conducted in college and professional sports, yet little work to date has examined factors associated with...
The purpose of this research was to develop and test a model of the relationship between contact-employees and customers in a sport organization based on the balanced scorecard framework (Kaplan & Norton, 1992, 1993) and the Sears' model...
This study examined the longitudinal effects of age of entry into kindergarten on children's reading and mathematics achievement in kindergarten, first- and third-grade. Early entrants, younger-ontime, medial-ontime, older-ontime and...
The theory of planned behavior (TPB) has been criticized for not incorporating emotions in its theoretical framework and for not explaining the origin of attitudes. This dissertation sought to address the sufficiency of the theory by...
Volunteer service is a valuable product of our society. Increasingly, at recent sporting events, volunteers are a critical part of the overall success of the events (Williams, Dossa, & Tompkins, 1995). Today, an expectation of most sport...
This study examined the effect of three pre-exercise meals on various blood and cardiorespiratory variables during long-term and short-term submaximal endurance cycling. Eighteen endurance trained males between the ages of 18 and 35...
Enhancing the representation and relationship of information through ontology is a promising alternative approach for knowledge organization. This improved knowledge organization is vital for collocation of information and effective and...
Marketing researchers have primarily studied radical and incremental product innovations based on technological development from the firm's perspective. The inescapable observation is that product innovation research has developed with...
The primary purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable instrument to assess sport fan motivation. Also, the new measure was employed to examine the relationship between sport fan motivation and ethnic identity. One hundred...
The goal of this study was to examine the relationships between usability and the searching experience, and to uncover where an integrated cataloging and metadata system lay the usability problems of its primary users, catalogers. This...
College and Character: A Study of the Differences in Character Values and Character Education Practices Between American Four-Year Private Faith-Based and Private Nonsectarian Colleges and Universities
The purposes of this study were to operationally define the construct, college student character development, to develop an instrument to measure the types of efforts of colleges and universities in developing student character, to...
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