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Factors influencing African-American students enrollment in Texas law schools.
(2007-03-08)While extensive research has been conducted examining the college choice process of undergraduate students, little empirical research has been conducted on the relative factors affecting the law school choice of prospective ... -
Factors that predict the use of metacognitive strategies in the middle school classroom.
(2008-06-10)The purpose of this qualitative cross-case study was to investigate the growth and transfer of metacognitive strategies in mathematical problem solving from a university course to the classroom. In this study, six preservice ... -
Faculty interpretations of faith-integration in classroom practices.
(, 2014-06-11)The purpose of this study is to better understand faculty members' interpretation of faith-integration as a practice of teaching in the classroom. The relationship between faith and learning has continuously prompted ... -
Faculty religiosity and attitudes towards persons with disabilities.
(, 2013-09-16)Previous research suggests that religiosity may influence attitudes towards outgroups. The present study investigated the effects of faculty religiosity on attitudes towards persons with disabilities at large, faith-based ... -
Fairy Tales Revisted
(2014-12-09)Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are known as the gatherers and editors of tales collected in Nursery Tales for Children, or Kinder‐ und Hausmärchen. These tales were originally collected by the brothers as part of a mission ... -
Faith seeking understanding: the relationship between noetic and pneumatic differentiation in Eric Voegelin's political philosophy.
(2007-01-11)This thesis is a study of the philosophy of Eric Voegelin with particular focus on the relationship between noetic differentiation (particularly Greek philosophy) and pneumatic differentiation (particularly Christianity). ... -
Faith, work, and praxis : a process model of integration for Christian student affairs administrators.
(2015-04-13)The purpose of this study is to better understand the faith integration process of Christian student affairs administrators. The concept of faith integration has prompted scholars to study this phenomenon for institutions ... -
Faith-based higher education and the religiosity of Christian college students.
(, 2014-06-11)While many Christian colleges and universities in the United States have lost their religious character over time, members of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) actively seek to make Christian ... -
The Faithful and the Distressed: How Likely are Christians to Seek Psychotherapy Treatment for Psychological Distress?
(2013-05-24)Differences in causation (biological, psychosocial, spiritual) of five psychological disorders (depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, ADHD) and types of counseling/therapy (pastoral care, Christian ... -
Faithful Innovation and Mission Drift in Christian Parachurch Student Organizations
(2017-05-24)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the stories of three Christian student movements in the United States—the YMCA, Intervarsity, and Campus Crusade—in order to evaluate the interactions of the Christian faith and ... -
Family and Nursing Staff Assessment of Alzheimer's Disease in Seniors at a Care Facility
(2013-05-24)Alzheimer's disease is a fatal neurological disease causing progressive deterioration of intellectual functions such as memory, reasoning, organization, language, and judgment (Narins 2005, Moore 2004). Seniors with ... -
The Family Resiliency Index: Examining a New Measure of Family Resiliency and its Relationship with Child Outcomes After Stress
(2015-05)Family resiliency is the extent to which the relationships between family members has adaptive characteristics that facilitate an individual’s, dyad’s, or system’s ability to cope with stressful life situations. Current ... -
Family Ties: Examining the Family Identity Metaphor in Short-Term Organizations
(2017-05-23)This research examined the nature of the “family” identity metaphor in short-term organizations and also explored how this metaphor shapes members’ organizational identification, roles, attachment, conflict, and transition. ... -
Family values : the empirical impact of internet use.
(, 2011-09-14)Family values are a set of ethical viewpoints pertaining to family matters that have the potential to have divisive effects for the private and public spheres. The formation of family values can be broken down into a ... -
Fan responses to Orphan Black and The 100 via blogs, fan fiction, and ship wars.
(2016-09-15)This thesis researches the complexities of internet fandoms surrounding femslash communities on the microblogging platform tumblr.com, looking at some of the LGBTQ fans’ particular behaviors and practices. In this context, ... -
The fantastic and related subgenres in three contemporary novels.
(2006-07-29)Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (1984), Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001), and Cynthia Ozick's The Puttermesser Papers (1997) manifest the fantastic and related subgenres. According to structuralist critic Tzvetan ... -
Fantasy-Exposure Life-Narrative Therapy (FELT) for anxious children : a pilot and feasibility study.
(, 2014-09-05)A small, pilot study was conducted for the development of the Fantasy-Exposure Life-Narrative Therapy (FELT) treatment manual. One primary objective of the study is to investigate initial promise of efficacy of training ... -
Faster k-means clustering.
(, 2013-09-24)The popular k-means algorithm is used to discover clusters in vector data automatically. We present three accelerated algorithms that compute exactly the same clusters much faster than the standard method. First, we redesign ... -
Fate and transport of emerging contaminants across a dynamic urban landscape.
(2016-07-27)Two major classes of emerging contaminants (flame retardants/plasticizers and current-use pesticides (CUPs)) were measured across Houston, TX. Atmospheric particulate matter (PM) samples were taken at high spatial resolution ... -
The fate of phosphate in the MixAlco process and its applicability to a Central Texas watershed.
(2007-01-19)The MixAlco process is proposed as a means to reduce phosphorus concentrations in dairy cow manure in order to help improve water quality in the Lake Waco watershed. Numerous dairy farms and intensive agricultural practices ...