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Weakening the “illusion of memory knowledge” : a potential method for improving jurors' evaluation of eyewitness evidence.
(2019-05-31)Many efforts have been made to educate jurors about factors that influence the reliability of eyewitness memory. However, most of them fail to improve jurors’ sensitivity to the quality of a particular memory and instead ... -
Wealth Accumulation and Residential Segregation: Second-Generation Immigrants During the First Mass Migration
(2021-05-17)What is the long-run impact of growing up in a segregated enclave? This paper examines the relationship between residential segregation in childhood and wealth outcomes later in life. I use a new sample of Irish, German, ... -
Wealth and poverty and the occasion of First Clement.
(2021-11-02)This dissertation investigates the conflict in the Corinthian church described by 1 Clement. Using primarily social, rhetorical, and intertextual methods, it proposes a reading of the conflict that attributes it to root ... -
Weaver of Tales: Interconnected Imagery in the House of the Citharist
(2014-06-02)Traditional approaches to Roman wall paintings in ancient Pompeii tend to focus on stylistic categories or consider the content of a single painting. In their original setting, however, these paintings existed in a greater ... -
Weaving the Labyrinth: Paradoxes and Parallels in Catullus 64
This thesis examines poem 64, the longest poem written by Catullus, and analyzes its internal structure as well as the allusions made to Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica and Euripides’ Medea. While Catullus is perhaps more ... -
A Web-Based Weight Prejudice Intervention Targeting Individuals with Body Image Issues and Disordered Eating
(2022-05-20)Disordered eating and body image issues may have consequences for how the individual views and treats others. Current theories on weight related prejudice hypothesize that internal stigma (a negative attitude toward oneself) ... -
Weibull mixture model for grouped data and pattern identification in spatial and spatial-temporal data.
(2018-06-22)Motived by problems in geology, civil engineering, and material science, we develop statistical models and apply statistical tools for characterizing patterns that exist in different types of data. In the first project, ... -
Welcome to the Paradise Motel.
(2021-05-06)Welcome to the Paradise Motel is a novelized retelling of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing set in present-day Florida. In the fictional small town of Paradise, Beatrice Bright is poised to become the editor-in-chief ... -
Welcoming the Religious Stranger: Social Sources of Attitudes Towards Syrian Refugees
(2018-12-18)Due to the human rights violations occurring in Syria, many Syrians fled their homeland and are now refugees. Their refugee status and potential admission to the United States is a hotly contested issue because many Americans ... -
Welcoming Without Grumbling: Worshipful Hospitality and the Christian Life
(2019-05-20)In the Netherlands, an influx Muslim refugees has caused incredible strain as Christians struggle to respond to their new neighbors. This a familiar feeling around the world as many people often come face-to-face with ... -
Well-being and the vocation of the school superintendent.
(2022-02-15)School superintendents face numerous challenges, high demands, and pressures from the community, school board, and stakeholders. State and federal accountability policies and mandates contribute to rising levels of stress ... -
What a Fat Debacle: Saturated and Trans Fatty Acids Effect on Health and the Future of Food Manufacturing Processes
(2012-04-29)The recommended consumption of fat has been changed multiple times by the USDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans in the past decade due to expanding nutrition knowledge. Not only the amount of fat, but the type of fat ... -
What cannot create information, what can, and why it matters.
(2017-11-27)Meaningful information is a mystery, where does it come from? It cannot be made by anything deterministic or stochastic, as will be proven in this study. What can make it? The proofs indicate the nature of the source; ... -
What did you say? The effect of language distance on international service trade.
(, 2012-08-08)Service trade is more heavily dependent on communication than commodity trade because its production and consumption occur simultaneously. "Linguistic distance," a measure of how closely the majority languages of two nations ... -
What does it all meme? : a look into gender stereotypes and traits in the 2016 presidential primary campaign.
(2017-03-16)This content analysis examines how social media memes portrayed presidential primary candidates during the 2016 United States presidential election. In the wake of Internet and social media evolutions in communications, ... -
What does leadership look like on Twitter? Understanding perceptions of transformational leadership through social media use.
(2016-04-21)Transformational Leadership is a leadership style that has been studied since 1978 and continues to be a style that is currently being researched. At its core transformational leadership is a process in which the leader ... -
What Fundamentalist Christian Universities Can Learn from Sex Workers About Consent Culture: A Cultural Study
(2020-05-22)At present, there remains an extensive gap in research regarding the connections between conservative Christian universities and campus rape culture. Through the lens of sex work, What Fundamentalist Christian Universities ... -
What Happened to Public Deliberation?
(2012-05-07)Today, discussions about politics look more like battle than thoughtful conversations aimed at working toward the common good. My thesis is an effort to imagine what a more healthy political discourse might look like. ... -
What is gold? : narrative structure, technological developments, and audience behavior in sitcoms.
(2015-03-13)The American sitcom can be traced back to the early days of television, and, for much of its history, it has relied on an episodic narrative format. However, in the past twenty years, this long-standing format has evolved ... -
What Makes Moral Claims True? Korsgaard versus Brewer on Meta-Ethics and Practical Unity
(2014-05-02)Among those philosophers who think that moral claims are sometimes true, there are two basic positions about what makes these claims true: realism and constructivism. Realists hold that moral claims are true because some ...