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Psychometric Properties of the Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System (DPICS): Investigating Updated Versions across Diagnostic Subgroups
(2016-11-09)
Evidence-based assessment requires the use of diverse methods that incorporate multiple informants and demonstrate adequate psychometrics. The Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System (DPICS) is an analogue behavioral ...
Psychopathy and Choice of Victims: Implications for the Sub-Categorization and Treatment of Juvenile Sexual Offenders
(2005-12-15)
Adolescent sexual offenders are responsible for a considerable portion of the sexual abuse victimization that takes place in American society today. Convicted sexual offenders report that they most often began their sexual ...
The Psychophysiological Impact of Burnout in Special and General Education Teachers
(2011-08-05)
Teaching is considered to be a stressful occupation. Many teachers experience ongoing stress from a variety of sources, which eventually leads to burnout, and ultimately is reflected in what has become an alarming rate ...
PTSD and Suicidal Ideation: An Application of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide
(2013-07-19)
The relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and passive suicidal ideation (P-SI) is well established, but the mechanisms underlying it are not well understood (Panagioti, Gooding, & Tarrier, 2012).This ...
Public Administration Revealed: A Trinitarian Approach
(2012-11-16)
This is an attempt to offer a window into the good that government can do through new possibilities beyond the practical and economical. Public administration theory has been moving away from its original narrow, scientistic, ...
Public Education Employee Perceptions of School Resource Officers
(2021-11-10)
Abstract
The use of School Resource Officers (SRO's) has become an increasingly popular strategy in attempting to create safe learning environments on school campuses in the United States. The implementation of SROs saw ...
Public enemies: A demographic analysis of federal fugitive wanted posters
(2012-07-31)
The primary purpose of this study is a determination of whether fugitives that comprise most wanted fugitive lists differ from those that make up wanted fugitive lists. Specifically, do federal law enforcement agencies ...
Public goods and private resources as determinants of county low birth weight incidence
(2018-04-24)
Infants born at low birth weight are at elevated risk of infant mortality, developmental delays, and adulthood cardiovascular disease. That low birth weight (LBW; <2500 grams) incidence varies two-to-three-fold between ...
Public Libraries and Democracy: The Library's Effect on Civic Engagement
(2013-07-19)
The modern public library is an agency that has grown out of the uniquely American democratic experience. Moreover, many in the profession tout these organizations as bastions of democracy. The key arguments contend that ...
Public School Choice: A Study of the Perceptions of Alabama Public School Principals
(2006-12-15)
Public School Choice is a controversial educational reform measure that is federally mandated through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). The federal Act (NCLB) contains 10 titles that outline assessment mandates, ...
Public school teachers during COVID-19: A study of performance using job demands-resources theory
(2021-07-14)
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public school teacher performance. The study uses job demands-resources (JD-R) theory to view the overall relationship between the positives and negative aspects ...
Publicizing Private Life: Criminal Conversation Trials in Eighteenth-Century Britain
(2010-08-03)
The project examines the gender relationships within the household, between master and mistress, master and servant, and within the servants’ quarters, alongside gendered experiences in the courtroom and constructions of ...
Pulsed Breakdown Phenomena in Partial Vacuum
(2012-08-06)
In this thesis, the pulse generation and pulsed breakdown phenomena have been studied in detail. Pulsed power is widely used in food processing, biotechnology, military defense, and industrial applications. The first ...
Purchasing Cannabidiol (CBD) Products for Children: Current Behaviors and Potential Regulatory Actions in the United States
(2024-08-07)
Following the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, which legalized hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) with less than 0.3% delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), there has been a significant increase in CBD's popularity and market ...
Purine Carbocyclic Nucleside Analogues as Antiviral Agents
(2010-12-07)
The carbocyclic nucleosides aristeromycin and neplanocin A are two of the most potent inhibitors of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase, an enzyme that plays a critical role in methyl transfer reactions during a viral replication ...
The Purpose of undergraduate rehabilitation education: Implications for Curriculum Development
(2008-08-15)
The goal of this study was to determine the commonalities and differences of registered and non-registered undergraduate rehabilitation education programs existent in the United States and to identify curriculum commonalities ...
Putting Exchange Back into Leader-Member Exchange (LMX): An Empirical Assessment of a Social Exchange (LMSX) Scale and an Investigation of Personality as an Antecedent
(2005-08-15)
In the early 1970s, researchers began investigating a new approach to the study of leadership within organizations. In contrast to traditional theories of leadership, this new approach proposed the study of leaders and ...
Pyridoxine (Pyridoxamine) 5'-phosphate Oxidase in Arabidopsis Thaliana
(2008-12-15)
Vitamin B6 is the collective term for a group of three related compounds, pyridoxine (PN), pyridoxal (PL) and pyridoxamine (PM), and their phosphorylated derivatives, pyridoxine 5'-phosphate (PNP), pyridoxal 5'-phosphate ...
Pyrite Biomineralization and Arsenic Sequestration at a Florida Industrial Site: Imaging and Geochemical Analysis
(2018-04-13)
A yearlong field-scale bioremediation experiment was conducted at a Florida industrial site, where groundwater in an unconfined aquifer was contaminated by an arsenic-based herbicide. The bioremediation technique stimulated ...
Pyrolysis of Woody Biomass and Waste from Additive Manufacturing for the Synthesis of Chemicals and Transportation Fuels
(2024-12-05)
Generating fuels and chemicals using renewable sources is paramount to mitigate the depletion of energy sources and global warming. Pyrolysis produces bio-oil from the thermochemical conversion of biomass, which can be ...