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Training the Emerging Pilot Workforce: Does Generation and Gender Influence Curriculum Development? 

Reesman, Kurt (2022-03-04)
This study investigated the learning styles of pilots and non-pilots and then focused on the gender and generational differences among the pilots surveyed. Invitations to participate in an anonymous online Qualtrics survey ...

Trait Emotional Intelligence Differences in Pre-Career and Mid-Career United States Military Leaders 

Bond, Andrew (2016-05-03)
Trait Emotional Intelligence is a well-established predictor of desirable workplace outcomes such as job performance. In military contexts, the fifteen facets of Trait Emotional Intelligence overlap considerably with the ...

Trait mindfulness as a moderator of green exercise and attention restoration 

Dyke, Ford (2017-07-25)
Attention Restoration Theory (ART) has been proposed as a potential approach to facilitate recovery from directed attention fatigue (DAF). The theory postulates directed attention is likely to replenish if permitted to ...

Trajectories of Quality of Life in Adolescents and Young Adults with ADHD: Examination of the Impact of Transitioning to Independence 

Young, Margaret E. (2017-11-17)
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common chronic conditions. Youth with ADHD experience psychosocial consequences, including poor academic functioning, social problems, and increased mental ...

The Transaction between Neural Systems and the Intensive Care Unit Environment: Development of Neuro-Interior Response Theory 

Cooper, Sarah (2021-11-19)
This study explores the transaction between neural response and ICU environments. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between neural response and ICU design, how neural response affects patient healing ...

Transactional Distance Versus Student Characteristics and Their Effect on Academic Outcomes 

Lebeck, Brian (2017-05-23)
The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between perceived transactional distance, course satisfaction and student characteristics (demographics, grade point average, previous online experience, ...

Transatlantic Nationalisms and Parallel Performances: Afterlife Texts of the Revolutionary Era 

Vinson, David (2019-12-05)
This dissertation traces the rise to public prominence of Major John André, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, and Mary Robinson during the American Revolution, and it examines the ways in which they each inspire an afterlife ...

Transcendent Hunger: Poor Women and Resource Raids in Civil War Georgia 

Powell, Rebecca (2022-08-05)  ETD File Embargoed
Poor women in Civil War Georgia organized and participated in resource raids of varying sizes in cities, towns, and rural areas throughout the state from 1862 to 1865. While the largest “bread riots” in cities across the ...

Transcendent Synesthetic Poetry of Octavio Paz 

Cortez, Lionel (2012-05-16)
During his life and even after, the poetry of Mexican poet and 1990 Nobel Prize winner, Octavio Paz, has provided academic fodder for many critics, teachers and students. The lyrical nature and open structures of poetry ...

Transcendent voices: Heteroglossia and the Power of Female Identity in Three Films by David Lynch 

Juhasz, Ildiko (2011-05-20)
In this thesis, I perform a feminist-semiotic analysis of three of David Lynch’s movies—Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. I use Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia as the ...

Transcript Analysis and Teacher Study Group: Improving Comprehension Instruction 

Buskist, Connie (2005-12-15)
The purpose of this study was to determine if teachers’ participation in a teacher study group and transcript analysis would have an effect on the reading comprehension scores of their students. The 6 teacher participants ...

Transcriptional Adaptations to Low Salinity in Euryhaline Crustaceans 

Reed, Mitchell (2014-05-02)
The transfer of euryhaline crustaceans from full-strength seawater to low salinity is known to induce a myriad of physiology changes corresponding with active ion uptake across the posterior gill pairs. The goal of this ...

Transcriptional rearrangement by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in priming drought tolerance in plants 

Liu, Wenshan (2017-08-01)
In recent decades, the scarcity of water, referred to as drought, has become one of the most main problems in agriculture throughout the world. Especially since recent increases in human population, and the global climate ...

Transcriptome profiles of porcine oocytes and their corresponding cumulus cells reveal functional gene regulatory networks 

Kimble, Katelyn (2018-05-31)
The oocyte acquires developmental competence as it progresses through folliculogenesis. It does so, by communicating with the surrounding cumulus cells in a bidirectional fashion. Analyses of single oocytes are essential ...

Transcriptomic analysis to identify candidate genes conferring gossypol tolerance in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum 

Pokhrel, Ambika (2018-11-27)
Fusarium oxysporium f.sp vasinfectum (Fov) is a soilborne filamentous fungus that causes vascular wilt on cotton. In response to pathogens such as Fov, cotton plants produce the phytoalexin gossypol as a defense mechanism. ...

Transcriptomic profiling of differential responses to drought in two freshwater mussel species, the giant floater Pyganodon grandis and the pondhorn Uniomerus tetralasmus 

Luo, Yupeng (2013-11-08)
The southeastern US has experienced recurrent drought during recent decades. Increasing demand for water, as precipitation decreases, exacerbates stress on the aquatic biota of the Southeast: a global hotspot for freshwater ...

Transdermal Delivery of Genistein as a Chemoprotective Drug for Melanoma 

Chadha, Gurkishan (2009-07-13)
Genistein is a soy isoflavone and it is a chemo preventative agent against various cancer cell lines including melanoma. The percutaneous absorption of genistein has been scantly investigated. Also, genistein has very poor ...

Transdermal Drug Delivery Adhesives with Foam Morphology 

Lushington, Diana (2011-10-27)
Polyacrylate-based adhesives are common in commercial bandages for blister prevention and wound healing. In this research, pressure sensitive polyacrylate adhesive foams have been investigated that could potentially be ...

Transdermal Iontophoretic Delivery of Selegiline and Prochlorperazine 

Xiao, Jin (2010-12-07)
Transdermal iontophoretic delivery of selegiline hydrochloride (SH) across dermatomed human skin was studied. SH was stable under the influence of electrical field. Increase in drug concentration from 1 to 20 mg/ml, increased ...

Transfer learning approaches in classification of mental disorders using neuroimaging 

Lu, Bonian (2022-05-02)
Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) data is widely used to characterize brain function in health and disease. Specifically, brain networks obtained from rs-fMRI based functional connectivity (FC) ...