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Self-Control and Juvenile Delinquency: A Preliminary Assessment of Hirschi's Reconceptualization of Self-Control
(2007-08-15)
Since its inception in the 1990s, Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) general theory of crime has attracted an impressive amount of attention from criminologists. In this landmark work, Gottfredson and Hirschi contend that ...
Self-Efficacy among Counselors Trained in Animal-Assisted Play Therapy
(2014-07-22)
The purpose of this study was to examine the participant’s level of self-reported counseling self-efficacy when conducting an animal assisted play therapy (AAPT) session. The results indicated that participants had a ...
Self-Efficacy and Medication Adherence of Individuals with Vision Impairments
(2015-04-29)
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The purpose of the study was to investigate the self-efficacy and medication adherence of individuals with vision impairments who were served at the time by one or more of the three non-profit consumer organizations ...
Self-Efficacy as it Relates to Attributions and Attitudes towards Poverty among Pre-Service School Counselors
(2014-07-11)
This study was conducted in order to examine the self-efficacy of pre-service school counselors and their attributions and attitudes towards poverty. The population for this study consisted of Master’s level school ...
Self-Efficacy of Early Career Agriculture Teachers and Its Relationship to Career Commitment and Job Satisfaction
(2020-05-07)
The purpose of this study was to describe the self-efficacy of Georgia early-career agriculture teachers and its relationship to job satisfaction and career commitment. The participants in this study were Georgia agricultural ...
Self-Esteem and Narcissism in Juvenile Sex Offenders
(2007-12-15)
The present study sought to examine the relationship between self-esteem, adaptive, and maladaptive narcissism in juvenile sex offenders, and how these constructs relate to personality characteristics, psychopathology, and ...
Self-Localization of Target nodes using Opportunistic communication with reference nodes, Statistical Time-Of-Arrival, Grid Method, Linear Matrix Inequality and Center-Of-Gravity
(2016-05-06)
Self-localization of mobile nodes is an important problem because many useful mobile applications will become feasible once accurate position information is available. Generally, existing methods for obtaining accurate ...
Self-Perceived Personality Characteristics of Award-Winning Career Technical Education Teachers and Award-Winning Core Subject Area Teachers Throughout the United States of America
(2015-04-08)
This study examined the relationships between self-perceived personality characteristics found in award-winning Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers and award-winning Core Subject Area (CSA) teachers throughout ...
Self-Rated versus Clinician-Rated Assessment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Evaluation of Diagnostic Discrepancies between the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) and the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5)
(2019-06-07)
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is commonly assessed with self-rated or clinician-rated measures. Self-rated measures are more widely used, but clinician-rated measures are considered the gold standard for diagnosis. ...
Self-ratings of Multicultural Competency by Consulting School Psychologists
(2007-05-15)
The purpose of this study was to investigate how consulting school psychologists rate themselves with regard to being multiculturally competent. Using a non-experimental, causal-comparative research design this study ...
Sell in May and Go Away Effect: Evidence from Developed, Emerging, and Frontier Markets
(2013-11-08)
This thesis represents a comprehensive study of the Sell in May Effect. I follow the work of Bouman and Jacobsen (2002) and Andrade et al. (2013) on a large sample of countries consisting of 24 developed, 21 emerging and ...
Semi-Supervised Classification Techniques in Big Data Text Analytics
(2013-04-22)
Imagine that you are trying to read everything you got in 2011 as soon as possible. That will take the first three months of 2012. How can we get access to the vast unstructured literature, automatically process it, ...
Seminary Teaching Perspectives: A Comparison Study of Teaching Perspectives Between Seminary Faculty and Students at a Midwestern Seminary
(2020-05-18)
The purpose of this study was to look at the teaching perspectives within a seminary setting. Seminary settings are drastically different than local church settings. They are primarily focused on the academic development ...
Semiparametric Estimation for Integral Projection Models
(2020-07-21)
Understanding the connection between variation in climate and population dynamics of plants and animals is important for predicting the impacts of future climate change. A popular approach for studying population dynamics ...
Senators Hill and Sparkman and Nine Alabama Congressmen Debate National Health Insurance, 1935-1965
(2008-12-15)
From the 1930s to the 1960s, Senator Lister Hill of Alabama was admired for his experience with issues like national health insurance (NHI). Senator John Sparkman, also from Alabama, was fiscally conservative yet sensitive ...
The Sensation Seeker Attention Scale (SSAS): A Measure of Sensation Seeking by Adolescents
(2007-12-15)
The purpose of the present study was to construct a Sensation Seeking Attention Scale (SSAS) as a predictive measure of negative sensation seeking by adolescents. Four hundred and thirty-five high school students completed ...
Sensemaking, Screenwriting, and Transgressive Women: Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Career Sensemaking in the Male-Dominated Screenwriting Industry
(2020-04-15)
Screenwriting is a creative industry characterized by a high level of male-dominance
within the broader male-dominated Hollywood landscape. As a result, many women who pursue
careers in screenwriting find themselves ...
Sensing, Classifying Movements, and Actuation of Biomimetic Robots
(2019-07-15)
Human skeletal muscle motion is a complex electrical, chemical, and mechanical process. The electrical, or electromyography, signal originates from the brain and travels to the muscle initiating the contraction of the ...
Sensitivity Analysis of Subjective Ergonomic Assessment Tools: Impact of Input Information Accuracy on Output (Final Scores) Generation
(2006-05-15)
Subjective ergonomic assessment tools are widely used by practitioners to detect existing or potentially hazardous conditions. Their output scores are used to design, implement, and evaluate measurements and controls in ...
A Sensitivity Analysis of the Mobility-Related Benefits of the Alabama Service and Assistance Patrol
(2007-12-15)
The Alabama Service and Assistance Patrol (ASAP) was developed by the Alabama Department of Transportation in an attempt to reduce non-recurring congestion in the Birmingham region of Alabama. This Freeway Service Patrol ...