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Will Millennials Change the face of Relationship Management in the Public Relations Profession?
(2010-07-20)
This study was conducted using a Web-based survey instrument, which was administered to public relations students and practitioners. It examines the perceptions and attitudes of the Millennial generation concerning various ...
Will You Read It Now? The Intentional Instruction of E-textbook in Secondary Education
(2016-12-12)
E-textbooks have generated attention in education and the expectation to use the technology has become a requirement rather than an option. The purpose of this mixed method explanatory sequential study was to explain the ...
The Willingness of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners to Supply Wood Biomass for a Prospective Wood-Based Bioenergy Industry: A Case Study from Lee County, Alabama
(2009-07-21)
A key factor determining the potential for development of bioenergy industries is the availability of feedstock. Despite the abundant presence of wood biomass in highly forested regions such as the U. S. South, the ...
Willingness to Ostracize for Norm Violations: Examining Ostracism as a Function of Attachment Using Sex-Norm Violations
(2017-01-09)
The current study set out to examine the effect of attachment style on willingness to ostracize through ignoring and excluding behaviors. Place-attachment was also a construct of interest in how it affects willingness to ...
WIM-Based Live Load Model for Bridges
(2018-04-24)
The knowledge of the actual live load is essential for a rational management of highway structures. Overloaded vehicles can cause damage including concrete cracking, potholes, excessive vibration and deflection, and even ...
Wind and fire as drivers of carbon pool variability in southeastern U.S. forests
(2024-12-05)
Forests in the southeastern U.S. play an important role in global climate mitigation via carbon (C) sequestration, yet recurrent disturbances like wind and fire threaten their ability to sequester C. Many southeastern U.S. ...
Windows and Mirrors: One Teacher's Experience Adding Multicultural Literature to a Standardized Curriculum
(2025-08-06)
As a Black teacher with seven years of experience, including two years in pre-kindergarten and five years in third grade, I have wondered why some of the students in my classroom stayed silent, even when I tried to draw ...
Wiregrass: The Transformation of Southeast Alabama, 1880-1930
(2009-05-01)
The southeast corner of Alabama is popularly known as the Wiregrass. The name was originally inspired by the native grass that pioneers found growing abundantly in the region’s longleaf pine forests. However, by the mid ...
Wireless Communication Demonstration in Hardware Using an Exactly Solvable Chaotic Oscillator
(2019-04-17)
This work presents a hardware demonstration of a mixed-signal wireless communication system that utilizes a chaotic oscillator based on an exactly solvable piecewise linear set of differential equations, along with a matched ...
Wireless Communication of a Chaotic Waveform
(2015-05-18)
Over the past couple of decades, mathematical equations have been developed that successfully model natural phenomena that occur in various fields such as chemistry, biology, and fluid mechanics. These equations, however ...
Wireless Mesh Routing in Smart Utility Networks
(2011-11-18)
Today’s world is more dependent on electrical power than ever. This dependency will increase manifold in the near future with more systems being computerized and a
plethora of new electronic devices emerging for household, ...
Wisdom: A Virtue or a Vice? Examining Wisdom's Role in Moral Reasoning and Behavior in Organizations
(2023-08-03)
Research has demonstrated personality traits’ capacity to predict moral thinking and
workplace behavior. This research has predominantly focused on traits contained within the Big
Five and HEXACO frameworks. However, ...
Within-tree Fuel Quality of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda)
(2018-01-25)
There is a lack of knowledge in the whole tree’s fuel quality and how that quality might change within the tree or between size classes of trees. A sample set of 20 loblolly pines (5 trees within 4 diameter at breast ...
A Woman’s Good Works: The Life of Inez Jessie Turner Baskin and Her Fight for Civil and Human Rights in the Cradle of the Confederacy
(2009-11-16)
Inez Jessie Turner Baskin (1916-2007) was an African-American, female, journalist who covered the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956 in Alabama’s capital for the Montgomery Advertiser as well as functioning as a central ...
Women Choral Conductors in the Academy: A Case Study
(2017-01-04)
The field of choral conducting has been traditionally male-dominated. As more
women enter the field, are they finding more challenges or encouragements? This
qualitative case study explored the career paths women choral ...
'Women in a Changing World': The International Council of Women, Global Power, and the Boundaries of Sisterhood, 1888-1966
(2021-08-04)
This dissertation explores the first seventy-eight years of the International Council of Women (ICW) – the first multipurpose international women’s organization – through the lens of global structures of power, specifically ...
Women with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Experiences with Dating and Romantic Relationships
(2023-07-19)
The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of women with inflammatory bowel disease and their experiences in dating and romantic relationships. Through in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the researcher ...
Women's Gender Role Attitudes, Career Salience, and Paid Work Family Conflict
(2009-12-18)
The purpose of the present study was to explore the relationship between work-family conflict (WFC), career salience, and gender role attitudes in a sample (n=147) of women staff and faculty at universities and colleges. ...
Women's Property Rights and Outreach of Microfinance Institutions Targeting Women
(2016-12-12)
The right to legally own and control property is vital to the ability of an individual to receive credit. Women in developing countries often lack property rights and are therefore at a disadvantage when applying for loans. ...
Women, the Family, and the "Search for Stability" in Thermidorian France
(2020-07-21)
The Revolutionary Tribunal trials of Jean-Baptiste Carrier and Antoine-Quentin Fouquier-Tinville played a central role in the Thermidorian government’s “search for stability”. In these trials, the Thermidorians sought to ...