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Examining the Relationships between Delay Discounting, Working Memory, and Fluid Intelligence
(2012-01-05)
Previous research has suggested a link between working memory, general fluid intelligence, and delay discounting by utilizing traditional behavioral measures. Because both working memory and general fluid intelligence rely ...
Examining the Relationships between Front Line Supervisors and Employees’ Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, and Job Satisfaction within the Manufacturing Industry
(2018-07-24)
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The concept of emotional intelligence and the potential impact on an organization has sparked a concerted effort amongst researchers to examine and more clearly define the role of emotional intelligence in ...
Examining the Relationships Between Mandatory Career Courses, High-Impact Practices, and First-Destination Outcomes
(2021-11-29)
The rising cost of education and competition among universities has led to consumer demands for information pertaining to their return on investment. Universities have been encouraged to provide first-destination outcomes ...
Examining the Reliability and Validity of a Measure of Child Care Provider Motivation
(2009-08-04)
The concept of motivation in the child care area has not been based in theory and no standard measure has been used to assess it. The limited work examining the influence of providers’ motivation on care giving quality has ...
Examining the Role of Personal Problems in Determining Income
(2015-05-04)
The goal of this dissertation is to both theoretically and empirically examine how various personal problems affect income. The analysis will specifically examine the effects of divorce, alcohol use, misuse of legal drugs, ...
Examining the Role of Personal, Social Exchange, and Contextual Fit Variables in Employee Work Outcomes under Continuous Change: A Field Investigation
(2009-08-04)
Despite the consensus, that the ability of organizations to manage change is critical to their survival, organizations have seldom been able to change successfully. The knowledge that change can be difficult and disruptive ...
Examining the Role of U.S. Agricultural Policy on Chapter 12 Bankruptcy Filings and Active Cases
(2022-05-01)
Farm bankruptcy enables eligible farmers the opportunity to reorganize debts while remaining operational. Providing safety nets for farmers is a long-standing U.S. agricultural policy that has recently reached historic ...
Examining the Testing Effect in an Introductory Psychology Course
(2010-08-03)
This study examined the effects of repeated testing in an Introductory Psychology course. Student performance on items repeated from quizzes to exams (either unit, cumulative, or both) was compared to items that had not ...
Examining the Utility of the Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System, 3rd Edition (DPICS-III) in the Assessment of Anxious Parent-Child Interactions
(2015-07-28)
Current conceptualizations of the etiology and maintenance of specific childhood disorders, including childhood disruptive behavior disorders and anxiety disorders, support the use of parental involvement in treatment. ...
Examining Trainee Treatment Session Fidelity: Impact on the Implementation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
(2012-05-03)
Research supports the impact of empirically-based treatments (EBTs), such as Parent-child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), on producing positive treatment outcomes for clients. However, achieving outcomes in community settings ...
EXAMINING TWO DIMENSIONS OF TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AND HOSPITAL PERFORMANCE
(2021-07-06)
This study examines the hospital performance implications of the different technology adoption behaviors in a hospital setting. Drawing on biodiversity concept in Ecology, this study includes two features (diversity and ...
Examining U.S. and Chinese Students' Purchase Intention for Luxury Brands
(2010-04-07)
Drawing on the conceptual theories of Functional Theories of Attitude, Cognitive-Affective Model of Buying and Theory of Reasoned Action, this study examines the effects of individual characteristics (i.e. need for uniqueness ...
Examining Well-Being Indicators of Adolescents in Military and Civilian Families: A Comparison Study
(2012-05-04)
Using data from a statewide education project for adolescent youth (N=2,430), this study explored the well-being indicators of coping, depressive symptoms and self-esteem in military and civilian youth. While the majority ...
An example of movable approximations of a minimal set in a continuous flow
(2006-05-15)
In the present dissertation the study of flows on n-manifolds in particular in dimension three, e.g., R^3, is motivated by the following question. Let A be a compact invariant set in a flow on X. Does every neighbourhood ...
Excess Liquidity and Inflation in China: 2001-2010
(2012-05-08)
Since the Chinese government administrated the Reform and Opening-up policy designed toward stimulating China's economy in 1979, China stepped into a period of rapid development. Accelerated growth of the trade surplus and ...
The exchange rate and Foreign exchange reserves : Japan and United States, 1974 to 2010
(2012-05-09)
The exchange rate is very difficult to predict. In 1971, the fixed exchange rate system transferred to a floating exchange rate system after the collapse of the Bretton Woods System. The Bretton Woods system established ...
Exchange Rate Effects on Excess Demand in the United States for Canadian Oil
(2011-12-13)
This paper examines a model of excess supply and excess demand for Canadian oil in the United States utilizing an error correction model and time series analysis. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the link, if there ...
Executive Functioning in Children with Positive Illusory Bias: Examining the Relationship between Cognitive Characteristics and Self-Perception
(2015-08-06)
Optimistic self-perception has been demonstrated to be a common phenomenon in the general population (Bouffard, et al., 1998; Harter, 1988; Mezulis, et al., 2004; Sedikides, et al., 2005). The phenomena of biased perceptions ...
Executive Functions in Detection Dogs
(2021-07-12)
Researchers in the field of canine cognition have developed several tasks to study executive functions, like working memory and inhibitory control, in dogs. Findings from such tasks have provided new information regarding ...
Exhumation History of Caledonian Eclogites in Liverpool Land, East Greenland, and Comparisons with Eclogites in Norway
(2008-05-15)
Lithologic information and 40Ar/39Ar cooling dates are reported from a recently discovered high-pressure (HP) Caledonian eclogite terrane in Liverpool Land, East Greenland, its overlying hanging wall block, and an extensional ...