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An Exploratory Study of the U .S. Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps' Accessions Process
(2014-07-11)
The issue of assessing cadet leadership potential is a constant concern of the U.S. Army's
leaders and has been since the ratification of the National Defense Act in 1916. According to the
U.S. Army Cadet Command, the ...
An Exploratory Study of Undergraduate Students' Learning Styles
(2008-08-15)
Learning and learning styles have become two major fields that draw the attention of several researchers (Dunn & Dunn, 1986; Keefe, 1987; Kolb & Kolb, 2003; Koch, 1998; Lemire, 2000; Riding & Cheema,1991). Learning is an ...
An Exploratory Study: Higher Education’s Response to a Death Among Community Members
(2011-08-05)
The purpose of the current study was to conduct an exploratory assessment of how colleges and universities address a death among their community including existing practices, programs and training efforts. The Campus Death ...
Exploring 'Place' in Planning and Zoning Debates Across a Rural-Urban Gradient
(2006-08-15)
Land use policy and zoning are examined here as socio-political forms of landscape creation. This study examined the human-place perspective of rural residents experiencing demographic and physical changes due to the ...
Exploring a Two-Factor Model of Abusive Supervision: An Investigation of Disparate Outcomes of Active-Aggressive and Passive-Aggressive Components
(2023-11-29)
Scholarly interest in abusive supervision continues to grow after two decades of conceptual discussion and empirical examination. However, discord exists within the literature stream because our understanding of why abusive ...
Exploring a Unified Concept of Occupational Well-being through Validation in an Applied Setting
(2015-07-02)
This study unifies divergent conceptualizations of occupational well-being (OWB) to clearly define the construct based on a well-articulated theory. It also validates a new measure of OWB in a practical setting in order ...
Exploring actinide chemistry: uranyl detection and thorium catalysis
(2017-04-21)
In a world where there is a strong need to improve our means of producing energy to sustain our ever expanding population with low green-house emissions, nuclear power offers sustainability and low greenhouse emissions, ...
Exploring Adaptive Clothing Needs for Hemodialysis Patients
(2013-04-16)
Approximately 370,000 people in the United States are being treated with hemodialysis (U.S. Renal Data System [USRDS], 2011). While adaptive clothing is available for hemodialysis patients, no scholarly literature was found ...
Exploring Adolescents’ Social Validity Ratings of Social Profiles: The Impact of Eye Contact
(2023-07-25)
Attending to the eyes of another person has an adaptive function demonstrated within the first few months of human life. Non-verbal transactions in the form of eye contact facilitate both cognitive and social development; ...
Exploring an Explanatory Child Speech Intelligibility Model Using Phonetically Contrasted Word Productions
(2019-04-17)
Purpose: In clinical practice, there is no standard measure of intelligibility that explains the kinds of difficulties that listeners who are inexperienced with child speech may encounter. This study aimed to investigate ...
Exploring and Measuring the Teaching and Development of Earth Systems Thinking Skills in Undergraduate Geoscience Courses
(2020-04-24)
The understanding of the development of Earth systems thinking (EST) is a major challenge in the field of geoscience education. Major questions exist relating to systems thinking teaching practices, student conceptions ...
Exploring Apparel Relationships and Body Image of Tween Girls and Their Mothers Through Qualitative Analysis of Segmented Focus Groups
(2007-05-15)
Tweens are individuals who are no longer a children, but are not quite teenagers. This study defines tweens as girls between the ages of 9 and 14 years. The U.S. female tween population is estimated to be 10.4 million (U. ...
Exploring Associations Between Multiple Risk-Factors and Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders, Across Multiple Body Segments in an Automotive Manufacturing Environment
(2021-04-12)
The causes of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs) are multifactorial, with the exact pathogenesis being unknown. Current literature provides information on several studies that investigate the role of physical ...
Exploring Beliefs and Practices of Teachers of Secondary Mathematics Who Participated in a Standards-Based Pre-Service Education Program
(2008-12-15)
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has challenged all mathematics teachers to use the Standards documents (1989, 1991, 1995, & 2000) as guidelines for teaching mathematics. Many pre-service programs are now ...
Exploring Brand Equity: Residents and Non-Residents’ Perceptions of Locally-Owned Versus Multinational Hotel Brands in Nigeria
(2014-05-05)
This study investigated the perceptions of Nigerians and non-Nigerians’ on locally owned and multinational hotel brands operating in Nigeria. The influx of multinational hotels into Nigeria improves the country’s hotel ...
Exploring Customer Satisfaction in Regional Health Care: A Comparative Analysis of Direct and Indirect Experiences
(1993-08-27)
Today's health care providers, similar to many other industries in the service sector, are measuring their service attainment level through the administration of customer satisfaction surveys. This feedback containing the ...
Exploring Dyadic and Longitudinal Associations between Couple Relationship Skills, Perceived stress, and Sleep Quality among Couple Relationship Education Participants
(2022-05-02)
Couple relationship education (CRE) has been used as one of the primary prevention methods targeting couples’ relationship functioning. Considerable evidence suggests that CRE programs are effective in improving couples’ ...
Exploring English Language Learners’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Language Learning Strategies and Goal Orientation
(2016-05-05)
The purpose of this study was to examine self-efficacy beliefs, learning strategy, and goal orientation of college-level English Language Learners (ELLs) enrolled in English as a Second Language (ESL) program. This study ...
Exploring Exercise as a Dyadic Moderator between Perceived Stress and Relationship Satisfaction for Couples in Therapy
(2022-12-06)
Despite the overwhelming evidence for exercise as an effective form of stress management, very little research exists in the context of couple relationships. The purpose of this study was to examine how exercise could ...
Exploring Geochemical Methods to Measure Arsenic-Dissolved Organic Matter Complexes and Coal Combustion Residuals in Surface Water
(2022-08-15)
Chapter 1, investigates the geochemical controls governing arsenic (As) mobility, precisely the formation of As-DOM complexes. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) reduces As mobility through equilibrium binding of As to the ...