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Exploring Dyadic and Longitudinal Associations between Couple Relationship Skills, Perceived stress, and Sleep Quality among Couple Relationship Education Participants
(2022-05-02)
Couple relationship education (CRE) has been used as one of the primary prevention methods targeting couples’ relationship functioning. Considerable evidence suggests that CRE programs are effective in improving couples’ ...
Exploring English Language Learners’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Language Learning Strategies and Goal Orientation
(2016-05-05)
The purpose of this study was to examine self-efficacy beliefs, learning strategy, and goal orientation of college-level English Language Learners (ELLs) enrolled in English as a Second Language (ESL) program. This study ...
Exploring Exercise as a Dyadic Moderator between Perceived Stress and Relationship Satisfaction for Couples in Therapy
(2022-12-06)
Despite the overwhelming evidence for exercise as an effective form of stress management, very little research exists in the context of couple relationships. The purpose of this study was to examine how exercise could ...
Exploring Geochemical Methods to Measure Arsenic-Dissolved Organic Matter Complexes and Coal Combustion Residuals in Surface Water
(2022-08-15)
Chapter 1, investigates the geochemical controls governing arsenic (As) mobility, precisely the formation of As-DOM complexes. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) reduces As mobility through equilibrium binding of As to the ...
Exploring Higher Education Classroom Immediacy: Effects of Gender and Teaching Experience
(2012-07-27)
The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher immediacy behaviors in the college classroom and the effectiveness of verbal versus nonverbal behaviors in relation to gender and teaching experience. Three-hundred ...
Exploring how institutional structure, capital assets, and motivations influence landowner participation in conservation incentive programs: A mixed methods approach
(2014-05-01)
Conservation incentive programs have become a common means of promoting preservation and best use practices for private landowners. Both non-government organizations and government agencies offer these programs to encourage ...
Exploring immunoglobulin and metabolomic biomarkers of subfertility in Bos taurus beef heifers
(2023-07-17)
Unexplained heifer subfertility is a resource drain on beef production, negatively effecting production efficiencies. Animals that do not conceive within a breeding season and those conceive late result in lighter calves ...
Exploring Index and Query Optimization Techniques for Database Applications
(2016-05-05)
Database index can be regarded as a data structure that speed up the data retrieval operations on a database table. The cost of indexing in database is additional writes and storage space to maintain the data structure. ...
Exploring intermolecular interactions through Coupled Cluster, Density Functional, and Multireference Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theories
(2015-12-08)
Intermolecular interactions are computed at successively lower levels of theory to establish the relative accuracy of each level. A set of 21 small molecules was first computed using the CCSDT(Q) level of theory to establish ...
Exploring IPM Strategies in Southeastern Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.)
(2023-07-27)
Due to its numerous uses across various industries, hemp, a flexible and ecological crop, has recently attracted much interest. Farmers and academics have been excitedly examining the potential of hemp for economic growth, ...
Exploring Learning Styles of University Students Involved in Entrepreneurial Activities
(2023-02-14)
This study explored the learning styles of a sample population of students attending a land-grant university in the Southern region of the United States who were participating in entrepreneurial activities in parallel with ...
Exploring Linkages in the Cognitive-Emotional Model within the Context of Organizational Change
(2011-05-02)
To better understand linkages between cognition and emotion within the context of an organizational change, a study of employees was conducted in a public university during the introduction of a technological change. ...
Exploring Machine Learning Methods for Author Identification on Micro-Messages
(2023-04-17)
Author Identification, also known as Authorship Attribution, is the task of identifying an author of unknown text based on the writing style captured within a dataset of writing samples. Author Identification is used in a ...
Exploring Methods to Enhance Rooting of Vaccinium arboreum Stem Cuttings
(2014-05-15)
Sparkleberry (Vaccinium arboreum Marshall) has great potential in the fruit and ornamental industries, but is very difficult to vegetatively propagate. A series of rooting experiments were run using juvenile cuttings from ...
Exploring Middle and High School Band Directors’ Perceptions of Collaboration and Its Impact on Their Programs: A Qualitative Study
(2023-08-09)
Collaboration is the act of working together to achieve a set goal. Band programs are essentially designed for students' progression from middle to high school and beyond. It would seem natural for band directors at all ...
Exploring Middle Level Learner Experiences with Learning About World Religions & Philosophies Using Authentic Pedagogy
(2022-11-21)
The United States is a highly religious nation. Unfortunately, the teaching about various world religions and philosophies in public schools remains highly contested across the nation, particularly in highly Christianized ...
Exploring natural and artificial regeneration techniques for developing high-quality bottomland oak stands
(2005-12-15)
Bottomland hardwood forests of the southeastern United States are among the most diverse and productive in the country. In the past, many of these areas were not managed soundly for timber production and, as a result, are ...
Exploring New Technologies for Sustainable Viticulture in the Southeastern United States
(2016-12-09)
In the southeastern United States, Pierce’s Disease (PD) is the major limiting factor for production of Vitis vinifera L, European wine grapes. Recently bred, PD resistant 87.5% V. vinifera selections (‘U0501-12’, ‘U0502-01’, ...
Exploring Novel Influenza Vaccine Strategies in the Swine Model: Along With New Potential Come New Challenges
(2023-04-27)
Influenza A virus (IAV) is a highly contagious respiratory pathogen that constitutes a significant threat to global public and animal health. Unremitting antigenic variation of IAV strains not only results in immune evasion ...
Exploring Participants’ Variation in Relational Outcomes based on Couple Relationship Education Curriculum
(2015-07-21)
The purpose of this study was to advance explorations of content of two different Couple Relationship Education (CRE) curricula, ELEVATE and a Mindfulness-Based CRE (MBCRE), and how each of two program experiences influenced ...