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Attitudes of Teachers Towards Peer Tutoring in Technology Instruction and Integration
(2014-07-24)
Technology touches almost every part of our lives, our communities, our homes. Yet most schools lag far behind when it comes to integrating technology into classroom learning. Many are just beginning to explore the true ...
Attitudes towards Physical and Psychological Aggression between Intimate Partners: A Factorial Vignette Analysis
(2012-07-25)
Existing literature supports an association between attitudes toward violence and the perpetration of violent behavior (Carr & VanDeusen, 2002; Falchikov, 1996; Lichter & McCloskey, 2004). To further our understanding of ...
Attosecond Pulse-Tailoring with a Two-Color Field and the Time-Resolved Quantum-Path Interference Measurement of Cu(111)
(2024-07-26)
This work investigates high harmonics generated by electron dynamics in a strong, slowly varying electric field. Attosecond light sources based on high-harmonic generation have enabled probing dynamics in matter on the ...
Attributes, Attitudes, and Perceived Self-Efficacy Levels of School Counselors Toward Poverty
(2014-06-27)
This study was conducted to examine the relationship between school counselors’ attitudes, attributes, and self-efficacy levels while working with individuals living in poverty. The study used quantitative measures and ...
An Attribution Theory Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Communication: Consumer Response to Consistency-Based CSR Positioning
(2016-08-31)
Although corporate social responsibility (CSR) appears to be mutually beneficial for companies and consumers, the modern marketplace has left both parties in vulnerable positions, with consumers increasingly subjected to ...
Attribution, Race, and Gender: The Relationship Between the Perceptions of European American Teachers and The Disproportionate Placement of African-American Males in Special Education
(2012-12-06)
The purpose of this study was to examine factors which may have contributed to the disproportionate placement of African-American males in special education within a particular urban school district. The study examined ...
Attributions and Depression Across Cultures
(2005-12-15)
There is evidence that culture and depression can both affect the pattern of explanations that people give for events. To date, research on attributions has considered only culture or depression with respect to attributions, ...
Attrition from Couple Therapy: Individual Symptoms, Relationship Adjustment, and Stage of Change
(2013-11-08)
Research has indicated that attrition in psychotherapy is a problem for therapists and clients. Additionally, there is a lack of research pertaining specifically to factors affecting dropout rates in couple therapy. In ...
Auburn Alumni Study: A Secondary Analysis Of University Alumni Attitudes
(2010-08-05)
The nation’s lagging economy is impacting institutions of higher education including rising operational costs, a decrease in state appropriations, sagging returns on endowments and a decrease in the amount of private support ...
The Auburn Engineering Technical Assistance Program Investigation of Polyvinyl Alcohol Film Developments Pertaining to Radioactive Particle Decontamination and Industrial Waste Minimization
(2005-12-15)
Formula optimization of new products and improvement of existing merchandise is practiced in many different industries including paints and dyes, polymers and plastics, foods, personal care, detergents, pharmaceuticals and ...
Audience Gatekeeping Via Social Media
(2016-08-01)
Using networked gatekeeping theory, this study analyzes how social media is being integrated into morning news programming, allowing audience members an opportunity to play a role in the gatekeeping process. Traditional ...
Auditory Processing in Learners of Spanish as an L2: The Role of Redundancy
(2018-04-24)
The purpose of the study is to assess the effects of redundancy on global perception and comprehension in sentences, as well as the processing of the meaning of morphological markers by learners of Spanish as a second ...
Augmented vs. Traditional Instruction in Manufacturing Assembly: An Affordance-Based, Multi-Modal Assessment of Learning, Recall, and Retention
(2024-08-07)
This research rigorously assesses the effectiveness of augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) instructional techniques in manufacturing training. By investigating how augmented methods designed to leverage specific affordances ...
Augmenting Traditional Static Analysis With Commonly Available Metadata
(2015-01-20)
Developers and security analysts have been using static analysis for a long time to analyze programs for defects and vulnerabilities with some success. Generally a static analysis tool is run on the source code for a given ...
Aural Processing of Cognates in Learners of Spanish as a Second Language
(2018-04-24)
The present study investigates the role of phonology in the aural processing of cognates in learners of Spanish as a second language. First, this thesis expands on the body of research on cognate processing to include the ...
Aural Skills Pedagogy in the Wind Band: A Survey of Secondary and Collegiate Wind Band Conductors’ Perceptions and Strategies
(2021-03-24)
The purpose of this study was to explore (a) perceptions of collegiate and high school wind band conductors surrounding aural-based learning in the rehearsal, (b) current trends in pedagogical strategies used to strengthen ...
Australian Labradoodle Dystrophinopathy: A Novel Canine Model for the Study of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cardiomyopathy
(2020-04-22)
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive disorder that results in progressive damage to both skeletal and cardiac myocytes. As a result of improved ventilatory care, mortality in affected patients is ...
Authorship Attribution via Evolutionary Hybridization of Sentiment Analysis, LIWC, and Topic Model Features
(2018-11-05)
Authorship Attribution is a well-studied topic with deep roots in the field of Stylometry. This thesis examines three less traditional feature sets for the purpose of Authorship Attribution. Each feature set is examined ...
Auto-Configuration in Multi-Hop Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(2007-05-15)
As devices with wireless access technology, greater memory and longer battery life,
proliferate, there is a need to be able to allow more than one hop communication amongst
them. Also, such a network, with wireless enabled ...
The Automated Design of Network Graph Algorithms with Applications in Cybersecurity
(2020-01-06)
Graph representations and graph algorithms are commonplace in a wide variety of research domains, including computer and network security. Many problems can be expressed in terms of graphs in order to leverage the strengths ...