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Weight and body composition changes in first semester college freshmen
(2008-08-15)
The “freshman 15” is a common phenomenon that is thought to occur to first year college students. It is the popular idea that college freshmen, due to various reasons, gain 15 pounds during their first year at school. ...
Weight and Body Measurement Changes In College Freshmen
(2009-11-04)
A limited number of research studies suggest that new college students gain some weight on average during their freshman year. Most studies have had relatively small samples; some have used self-reported rather than measured ...
Weight Bias Amongst Counselors-In-Training: A Qualitative Inquiry
(2008-12-15)
Despite the increasing rate of persons who are overweight and issues caused by the trend, individuals who are overweight and related issues have not been addressed properly in the field of professional counseling. The ...
Weight Change Among College Freshmen: The Freshmen 4
(2007-08-15)
A common phenomenon called the “freshmen 15” is thought to occur during the first year of college. While this belief is popular in press, little scientific evidence supports this phenomenon. This study examined changes in ...
Weight Loss Supplement Use By Gym Clientele
(2007-08-15)
Obesity remains a major public health problem in the United States. Although practical means, such as a decreasing energy intake, increasing exercise, and modifying behavior, may be used to combat this growing problem, ...
WELDED WIRE SHEAR REINFORCEMENT FOR PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BRIDGE GIRDERS
(2022-11-28)
Welded wire reinforcement (WWR) is a steel product that is prefabricated into welded
sheets. While this product is seeing use as shear reinforcement in precast concrete
bridge girders for some states, other states, such ...
“Well, What did you Sexpect?” The Relationship of Heavy Episodic Drinking with Rape Myth Acceptance, Sexual Expectations, and Sexual-Coercion Alcohol Expectancies
(2022-07-26)
Contemporary research has established a strong relationship between heavy episodic drinking and both perpetration and victimization of sexual assault. To better understand this relationship, we aimed to explore the interaction ...
Wellbeing: An Outcome of Mentoring
(2024-07-25)
Research regarding stress and burnout suggests the pressures of life as a principal are becoming more intense each year. School principals are leaving their jobs. The purpose of this study was to explore mentoring as a way ...
Wellness Tourism: An Application of Positive Psychological Theory to Overall Quality of Life
(2016-08-05)
This goal of this dissertation was to ascertain the characteristics of and relationships
between wellness, positive psychological well-being, transformative experiences and overall
quality of life within a tourism context. ...
Wetland Accretion Rate Model for Ecosystem Resilience and its Application to Coastal Transportation Infrastructure Along Alabama State Route 180
(2024-04-24)
Fort Morgan Road (SR-180) on Alabama’s Gulf Coast is a vital coastal roadway
impacted by severe storms, high groundwater table, and future sea-level rise (SLR). The area
surrounding SR-180 supports a variety of ecological ...
Wetland Hydrologic Modeling through Physically-based and Data-driven Approaches
(2017-07-28)
Hydrology influences vegetation composition, species richness, primary productivity, accumulation of organic material, and nutrient availability and cycling in wetlands. Any alteration to wetland hydrology can change the ...
Wetumpka Impact Structure Modeled as the Exposed Remains of a Large, Shallow-Water, Marine-Target Impact Crater for Analysis and Interpretation of Two Drill Cores Taken from Near the Structure’s Geographic Center
(2007-05-15)
The early Campanian, Wetumpka impact structure has a raised 7.6-km-diameter crystalline rim of pre-impact metamorphic basement. Filling the region within the crystalline rim is a mélange of impact-related sedimentary ...
What Are Your Children Watching? A DPICS-II Analysis Of Parent-Child Interactions In Television Cartoons
(2006-12-15)
The immense proliferation of cartoons on television provides children with a variety of cartoon models, many engaging in family life. The purpose of this study was to conduct a content analysis on parent-child interactions ...
What Determines The Foreign Ownership Share of A Country's Banking Assets?
(2008-12-15)
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is an important new element in the international framework that affects the regulation of the financial sector of every World Trade Organization (WTO) member and all potential ...
What do climate projections say about future droughts in Alabama and the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin?
(2015-08-21)
Droughts, often considered the costliest natural disaster, are triggered by severe shortage of water, mainly in the form of precipitation. The Southeast US has been affected by frequent severe droughts in recent years and ...
What do Resources have to do with it? A Within-Person Examination of the Interplay Between Demands, Workaholism, and Burnout
(2024-07-22)
Existing research highlights associated constructs that involve sustained effort at work,
such as job demands and workaholism, and how these can lead to negative outcomes such as
burnout. Traditionally, these associations ...
What do we really know about oxidative stress? Facing the problems with current oxidative stress studies in passerine birds.
(2017-07-27)
Oxidative stress occurs in organisms when there are not enough antioxidants to satiate reactive oxygen species formed during oxidative phosphorylation within the mitochondria. The excess in reactive oxygen species can cause ...
What Do Y'all Think?: A Study of Language Attitudes in the South
(2006-08-15)
This indirect language attitude study of Southerners’ views of Southern United States English (SUSE) surveyed 90 students (49 female, 41 male) from sections of the second-semester freshman-level composition class at Auburn ...
What ignites fire ant density and impacts in longleaf pine ecosystems?
(2018-08-21)
Invasive invertebrates are studied due to their impacts on human and ecosystem health, but impacts on native invertebrates are less known. The red imported fire ant (RIFA, Solenopsis invicta) is an ideal model species to ...
What is Child-Directed Interaction? Evaluating the use of Jeopardy to Increase Child-Directed Interaction Knowledge Retention
(2014-07-09)
In recent years Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) has continued to grow and evolve as an empirically supported treatment for children with disruptive behavior disorders. As a result of this growth, PCIT International ...