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Exploring Restaurant Managers' Awareness, Attitudes, and Motivations towards Mitigating Food Waste
(2021-12-10)
Food waste is an enormous global issue with severe financial, environmental, and social implications (Williams et al., 2015). The U.S. restaurant industry is a sector known to significantly contribute to food waste (Gunders, ...
Exploring School Specific Context and Bullying Data: Informing Practice with Evidence
(2011-12-12)
The purpose of this study was to determine if professional development using school contextual data would provide deeper understanding and attention to the important issue of student bullying. This was primarily a quantitative ...
Exploring sinefungin analogs as potential antiviral agents
(2005-08-15)
Sinefungin bears a strong structural resemblance to S-adenosylmethionine and S-adenosylhomocysteine and, therefore is one of the most potent inhibitors of viral mRNA methyl transferase. Besides antiviral activity, sinefungin ...
Exploring Small Retail Businesses’ Perceived Competition during Post-Recession and Perceived Importance, Benefits and Challenges of B2B Networking
(2015-01-13)
This study is the first to investigate small businesses’ perceived market competition and their beliefs about B2B networking during the post-recession period. The existing data collected through in-depth interviews with ...
Exploring Social Capital with Students from an Alternative School: “A Mixed Methods Network Ethnography in an Agricultural Internship
(2018-07-24)
This study involved the exploration of the first year in an agriculture internship with four students from an alternative school. In the first chapter, I provide the reader an overview of my study outlining the research ...
Exploring Socialization Processes in Mothers’ Styling of their African American Millennial Daughters’ Hair
(2017-04-25)
In many cultures, hair has been a long-standing representation of beauty (Bankhead & Johnson, 2014). For African Americans, notions about hair have been passed down from teachings perpetuated during slavery. These teachings ...
Exploring Student Ownership and Responsibility Through Student-Led Conferences: A Case Study of One elementary School
(2011-08-09)
This case study explored the effective implementation of student-led conferences with the goal of enhancing students’ self-efficacy, ownership, and responsibility in progress and learning. This study also identified ...
Exploring Student Resistance to Topics of Diversity, Social Justice, and Privilege: A Critical Content Analysis of Student Evaluations of Diversity Instructors
(2020-07-08)
While research has shown the importance of diversity and social justice education (Bowman, 2010; Cabrera, 2014; Kumar, 2018; Valentíin, 2006), instructors of these courses often encounter barriers to effective instruction ...
Exploring Targeted Long-Distance Travel Survey Sampling Frame Approaches to Support Travel Survey Collection
(2022-08-05)
Long-distance travel continues to grow in economic, environmental, and infrastructural importance. To inform policy, infrastructural funding, and travel demand forecasting, detailed travel survey findings are needed at the ...
Exploring Teacher Determinants and Student Outcomes of Inquiry Use in a Nanoscience Intervention
(2015-07-24)
Since the release of the new science education standards, there has been a greater emphasis on incorporating inquiry-based teaching in the classroom. The utilization of inquiry methods enables scientists to gain in-depth ...
Exploring the behavioral, neurological, and physiological effects of methylmercury in a model songbird
(2023-08-10)
Methylmercury is a widespread environmental stressor known to disrupt reproductive and neural function of organisms even with exposure at sublethal levels. Previous studies of its effects on physiology and behavior have ...
Exploring the Claisen Rearrangement and Aldol Reaction “on Water” and in Catalytic Antibodies using QM/MM Simulations and the Examination of Ligand Induced Conformational Changes in Alkanesulfonate Monooxygenase using Molecular Dynamics
(2013-04-22)
The “on water” environment, defined by the absence of water solubility of the reactants has been reported to provide increased rate accelerations, yields, and specificity for several types of organic reaction classes ...
Exploring the Diagnostic Utility of the Flicker Task and the Continuous Performance Test in Adults with ADHD
(2005-12-15)
Continuous performance tests (CPTs) are widely used to help diagnose Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, the diagnostic utility of CPTs is generally poor. This study examined the ability of the flicker ...
Exploring the drivers of Xanthomonas population dynamics on tomato and pepper
(2019-11-15)
Bacterial leaf spot (BLS), caused by four species of Xanthomonas; X. euvesicatoria, X. vesicatoria, X. perforans, and X. gardneri, is an endemic disease of tomato and pepper in Southeastern United States and can result in ...
Exploring the Effect of Emotion on Time-elapsed Consumer Perceptions of Service: A Reexamination of the Satisfaction Construct
(2005-08-15)
Customer satisfaction remains a central tenet of all relationship management efforts within the hospitality sector (Oliver, 1997). Yet, while many studies have concluded that there is a significant relationship between ...
Exploring the Effects of Reality Television on Body Image: Does Feminist Identification Matter?
(2014-07-24)
Research has demonstrated that sociocultural factors exert tremendous influence on the
development and maintenance of body dissatisfaction (Thompson et al., 1999). The mass media
generally, and reality television in ...
Exploring the effects of six weeks of resistance training on the fecal microbiome of older adult males
(2021-08-02)
ABSTRACT
Recent advances in molecular biology have enabled researchers to study the gut
microbiome. However, only limited evidence has examined whether resistance training alters
the gut microbiome, and no studies in ...
Exploring the Functional Roles of π-helices and Flavin-Induced Oligomeric State Changes in Flavin Reductases of Two-Component Monooxygenase Systems
(2017-04-16)
Sulfur-containing biomolecules participate in various chemical and structural functions in enzymes. When sulfate is limiting, bacteria upregulate ssi enzymes to utilize organosulfonates as an alternative source. The ...
Exploring the Impact of Depression on Caregiver-Report of Child Behavior in a Court Ordered Sample
(2021-04-21)
The current study analyzed evidence for a possible depression-abuse distortion in maternal perception of child problematic behavior within a sample of court ordered families. Pre-treatment parent-child behavioral observation ...
Exploring the Impact of Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Nerve Growth Factor, and Exercise on Skeletal Muscle
(2024-05-01)
Skeletal muscle is the largest organ of the body with many essential functions. Recent studies have linked obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with skeletal muscle loss and dysfunction. The first objective of this ...