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Consumers’ Prior Experience and Attitudes as Predictors of Their Online Shopping Beliefs, Attitudes, and Purchase Intentions in a Multichannel Shopping Environment
(2008-12-15)
This study was designed to develop a conceptual model which indicated 1) the interrelationships among consumers’ prior in-store shopping experience with the multichannel retailer, consumers’ advertisement attitude, and ...
Consumers’ Response to Out-of-Stock Situations
(2015-12-04)
This study investigates the impact of purchase motivation, price promotion availability, frequency of out-of-stock situations, and urgency of need in an out-of-stock situation on consumers’ intensity of negative emotion ...
Consumption and Welfare Effects of Taxes on "Sin"
(2011-04-12)
An Indirect Translog System and Linear Expenditure System are applied to Consumer Expenditure Survey data to estimate the effects of “sin taxes” on tobacco, alcohol, and food consumed away from home. Own-price elasticities ...
Contact-free Breathing Rate Monitoring with Smartphones: A Sonar Phase Approach
(2018-07-30)
Vital sign (e.g., respiration rate) monitoring has become increasingly more important because it offers useful clues of medical conditions such as sleep disorders. There is a compelling need for technologies that enable ...
Contact-free Vital Sign Monitoring Using Phase Difference of Channel State Information
(2017-11-27)
Vital signs, such as breathing and heartbeat, are useful to health monitoring since such signals provide important clues of medical conditions. Effective solutions are needed to provide contact-free, easy deployment, ...
Container Handling and Layout Optimization in Empty Container Depots
(2020-11-13)
In this dissertation, we explore shipping container depot layout with particular emphasis on empty container depots with material handling provided by top-lifters. Top lifters are the most common handling equipment used ...
Container Production and Post-harvest Handling of Lotus (Nelumbo) and Micropropagation of Herbaceous Peony (Paeonia)
(2008-08-15)
Effects of container soil level, fertilization, planting time and disbudding on lotus (Nelumbo) growth were evaluated in container production. Container soil volume influenced EC, pH, plant growth indexes, and plant ...
Containment Relations and Line Graphs
(2023-08-07)
This dissertation studies several problems involving containment relations and line graphs. First, motivated by Reed and Seymour's 2004 result that Hadwiger's Conjecture holds for line graphs, we provide a partial result ...
Contemporary Status of Religion and Spirituality in Counselor Education
(2011-04-28)
The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the integration of spirituality in CACREP-accredited counselor training programs, particularly the overall percentage of curricula that addressed religion and ...
A Content Analysis of Minority Representation on Broadcast and Streaming Television in 2019-2020
(2021-01-19)
This study is a content analysis of minority representation on broadcast and streaming
television in the 2019-2020 season. This research aims to understand the type of representation
of minority groups on television; ...
A Content Analysis of Sex and Drug Law Legislation
(2010-07-06)
There have been claims which have suggested recent federal sex offender legislation is innovative. The current study uses previously passed, but current federal drug legislation to determine if new federal sex offender ...
Context-based file systems and spatial query applications
(2013-04-23)
This dissertation presents studies related to I/O techniques in data-intensive computation and advanced solutions of spatial queries. There is a lack of general mechanisms for integrating multiple file system techniques ...
Context-dependent immunity in Gopher Tortoises, Gopherus polyphemus
(2016-04-29)
Infectious diseases in wildlife are a significant threat to biological diversity, especially In light of recent anthropogenic alterations to the environment. North American tortoises (genus Gopherus) have experienced ...
Context-Specific Aggression: Prevalence and Outcomes of Aggression in the Home and at School in Childhood and Early Adolescence
(2021-05-04)
Consistently elevated levels of aggression in childhood are problematic; however, the unique effects of aggression that occurs primarily at home or at school (i.e., context-specific aggression) are not well understood. The ...
Contextualizing Relationship Education Effects on Adolescent Attitude toward Sexual Behavior Delay: Considering Class Social Climate
(2014-05-02)
Using data from a statewide relationship education (RE) program targeting youth, this study used a more complex theory-driven and empirically-based model to explore the influence of the program on adolescent attitudes about ...
Contextualizing the Development of Emotion Regulation in Early Adolescence: Results from the ABCD Study
(2023-05-04)
Emotion regulation (ER) is known to be an important cognitive process which underlies both adaptive and maladaptive functioning. This thesis aimed to evaluate the associations between key micro- and macro-contexts and the ...
Continuity and Change in Extracurricular Activity Involvement from Grade 7 to Grade 12
(2010-07-19)
Research has shown extracurricular activities to be positive contexts for youth development. Such activities have recently been conceptualized in terms of both breadth (number of activities) and depth (intensiveness of ...
Continuity of Parenting across Generations: The Interplay of Parenting Styles and Age at First Birth
(2011-07-28)
Using prospective longitudinal data, this study examined cross-generational linkages in positive and negative parenting and in age of becoming a parent. Of particular interest was whether early-childhood parenting and being ...
A continuous 100 thousand-year stalagmite δ18O record from the Yucatan Peninsula: implications for Caribbean hydroclimate on orbital and millennial timescales
(2019-04-29)
I present a new stalagmite δ18O record, named Katún, collected from Río Secreto Natural Reserve in the Yucatan Peninsula (YP) that spans the interval between 198 kyr to 320 kyr before present (BP), thus offering the oldest ...
Continuous TCP Connection to the Internet on Fast-changing Mobile Ad-hoc Network
(2019-05-01)
As more and more sensors are being used in all industries, especially the Internet of Things, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) are also becoming more popular as good ways to organize wireless devices in the same area. Since ...