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Robert Douglas was a Church of Christ missionary to Libya, Egypt, and Lebanon during the 1960s. Traveling during this period introduced Douglas to the reality of post-colonial context of the countries. He and his family lived as...
School library media specialists have a flexible role within the structure of a school's environment, which allows for a unique opportunity to promote students' reading motivation. This study qualitatively explored school library media...
This thesis is about musicians in the city of La Paz, Bolivia, and how they pursue professional careers through the performance of a diverse range of musics in a wide range of settings. The subjects of this research are mostly...
In 2014 the Iñupiaq Native American tribe of Alaska published Never Alone, a video game that adapts a traditional folktale into a cooperative puzzle platformer. The game is an assertion of sovereignty for the Iñupiaq people in its role...
Older adults with amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) can experience daily Prospective Memory (PM) challenges that can affect their ability to manage day-to-day tasks, maintain their health, and sustain relationships with family...
With regard to Emergency Medical Services (EMS), the response time and consistency that they can provide care to in need patients is of the upmost importance. The key aspects of achieving this efficiency lies in how the EMS vehicles are...
Screening for Balance: The Relationship between Overparenting, Parental Autonomy Control, Low Self Efficacy, and Social Media Addiction Among Emerging Adults
Over the recent years, social media use has become increasingly prevalent among American adults. While the impact of the rise of social media platforms is ubiquitous, researchers revealed that emerging adults (individuals between 18 and...
The purpose of this content analysis was to ascertain specific practices, demographics, and research formats used to teach or improve social skills in music therapy practice. A history of interdisciplinary research on social skills is...
This study aims to help fill the gap about the effect of social media on the Black African diaspora in the U.S. by researching how social media advertising affects consumer behavior within the Black co-cultures. Specifically, this study...
This study is about the formation of elite lay Buddhist societies in late 16th-century and early 17th century Hangzhou. In this era, many classically trained Confucian scholars were not only philosophically inclined to Buddhist doctrines...
Over the past few decades, Southeast Australia has experienced severe regional climatic events, including devastating floods and some of the most extreme droughts on record, linked in part to influences from both the El Niño Southern...
Despite increases in the numbers of children and adolescents seeking and receiving mental health treatment, rates of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs) in youth continue to rise. In the hopes of aiding ongoing efforts to...
In this study I analyzed the relationship between access to COVID-19 testing sites and neighborhood characteristics before and after federal funding cuts to determine if socially vulnerable communities were more likely to be affected by...
This study examines why one may select and enjoy movie adaptations compared to original movies, through the lens of entertainment and media effect theories. The researcher hypothesized that two constructs, parasocial relationships and...
This study aimed to describe and quantify the types of spelling errors produced in the writing samples of children with limited English proficiency (LEP) and children who are English monolingual speakers. The spelling errors on...
The purpose of this study is to investigate stressors among soon-to-be graduating instrumental, vocal, and theatre performance majors. Seventy-two possible performance stressors were compiled into 8 categories: Creative, Intellectual, ...
Organized convection is of critical importance in the tropical atmosphere. Recent advances in numerical modeling have revealed that moist convection can interact with its environment to transition from a quasi-random to organized state....
High Temperature superconductors (HTS) are the only way to achieve elds with superconducting magnets higher than the 25 T of Low Temperature Superconductors (LTS). No-Insulation (NI) REBCO magnets using REBa2Cu3Ox as the superconductor...
Clustering is an essential data mining tool that aims to discover inherent cluster structure in data. As such, the study of clusterability, which evaluates whether data possesses such structure, is an integral part of cluster analysis....
The purpose of this study was to investigate high school music teachers' perceived influence of student enrollment in accelerated learning programs on student enrollment, participation, and attitude in band and choir. Participants (N =...
The Abbotsford 7.5’ quadrangle resides entirely within the Dadeville complex, a volcanic arc complex located in the Alabama-Georgia Inner Piedmont region of the southern Appalachian mountain belt system. The Dadeville complex has been...
Anxiety disorders occur early in development and are one of the most common forms of psychopathology in children. Moreover, anxiety is associated with persistent impairment across the lifespan; therefore, investigating mechanisms that...
This study examines clergy in colonial New England and how they depicted dead bodies in their funeral sermons. Whether it was second generation Puritan ministers like William Hubbard and Samuel Willard, or third generation ministers like...
During the Post-World War II construction boom homes in the United States began considering durability, energy conservation, comfort, security, and aesthetics in housing design. These factors, within the residential sector, did not...
This paper outlines the history of songs within the American patriotic song canon and their role within society and music education curricula in the public school systems of the past and present. A thorough examination of the functions...
The purpose of this study was to examine the current state of music therapy master's equivalency (MTME) university websites with the goals of identifying what information is publicly available, the user-friendliness of these websites, ...
One of the main goals of robotics research is to give physical platforms intelligence, allowing for the platforms to act autonomously with minimal direction from humans. Motion planning is the process by which a mobile robot plans a...
This project investigates the explicit jazz idioms in Aaron Copland’s first orchestral composition: Grohg a Ballet in One Act. Composed between 1922-1925, and later revised in 1932, Grohg was never published in Copland’s lifetime but it...
Dominance and prestige represent two fundamental strategies people use to navigate social hierarchies. Despite a growing literature on the psychology of dominance- and prestige-oriented leaders, less is known about how those strategies...
Many tropical cyclone studies have been conducted on basin-averaged potential intensity trends and the influence of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) on tropical cyclone intensity, but there is less research on along-track potential...
Sexual minority individuals experience significant mental health disparities compared to the overall population, including significantly increased risk for suicide. This disparity is partially explained through the interconnected...
In this thesis project, I explore the rhetorical consequences of mixed race Black people's racialization in Pre-Reconstruction nineteenth century. Toward this end, I ask: How did the language surrounding mixed race Black people's...
The first half of the twentieth century was in many ways a watershed era for women and their role in British society. The world wars ushered in a time of unprecedented change. The wars opened positions for women outside of the home, ...
This collection of short stories is set in Cabo Verde, California, New York, Massachusetts, and Missouri. It tells the stories of, among other people, a young woman disillusioned with her boyfriend’s struggle to live a moral life, and a...
Objective: There is substantial variability in early diagnostic features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), suggesting heterogeneity in clinical presentation. The present study aims to identify distinct profiles of social communication...
Late spring or early summer brings an abrupt onset of a wet season to Peninsular Florida (PF). High daily rain rates are sustained throughout the summer until the demise of the wet season in autumn. Prediction of the Peninsular Florida...
The use of music therapy interventions within pediatric healthcare is becoming increasingly popular because of the unique outcome music is able to provide. The purpose of this study was to investigate how music therapy within in-patient...
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is a cost-effective way of flexibly producing a high variety of 3D structures. However, the deposition non-uniformity or variation in the FDM process leads to dimensional errors and quality problems such...
Hurricanes cause significant property loss every year. A substantial part of that loss is due to the trees destroyed by the wind, which in turn block the roads and produce a large amount of debris. The debris not only can cause damage to...
Laboratory experiments on a rotating tank of fluid are used to study the fundamental aspects of geophysical fluid flows. The present set of experiments are an attempt to study the effect of a rectangular ridge on the flow of a rotating...
Cells sense the mechanical properties of their environment through physical engagement and spreading, with high stiffness driving nuclear translocation of the mechanosensitive transcription factor YAP. Restriction of cell spread area or...
Excavations from 17th and 18th-Century Houses: A Study of Artifacts of Personal Adornment and Dress from Spanish Colonial Mission San Luis De Talimali and St. Augustine Households
An analysis of jewelry and other artifacts of personal adornment from the reconstructed house at the frontier mission San Luis (8LE4) in Tallahassee, FL and the Avero house (8SA7-5) in the capital of the La Florida colony, St. Augustine, ...
Conditional branches have traditionally been a performance bottleneck for most processors. The high frequency of branches in code coupled with expensive pipeline flushes on mispredictions make branches expensive instructions worth...
The purpose of this study was to conceptualize the role of prayer and relationship with God for parents who experienced the death of a child. In-depth interviews were conducted with eighteen parents (N = 18) who fall under the Protestant...
During my time in Tallahassee, Florida, I witnessed several severe hurricanes as well as tropical storms. Perhaps the worst one was hurricane Michael. I was at home listening to the sounds outside, and I felt truly terrified as I watched...
Background. While a large body of research has examined eating disorders (EDs) from a pathological perspective, little is known about factors that facilitate the recovery process. Objective. The purpose of the current study is to...
Recently, cities that bid for hosting the Olympic Games have withdrawn due to public referendums and lack of political support. Although the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) efforts to underline the importance of the Olympic...
Adolescence is a period of increased risk-taking behaviors including the initiation of alcohol use, which appears mechanistically related to the brain's reward system. Available evidence provides support for both hyposensitivity and...
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