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Crossing the finish line : a narrative case study in understanding the persistence of non-traditional students with PTSD.
(2022-03-16)The retention of students is paramount to the success of higher education institutions. If a university cannot retain its student population, they run the risk of suffering financial loss. As the number of non-traditional ... -
Crowdsourcing Rescue: Empowered civilian natural disaster response in the social media age
(2019-05-23)When official first response systems are overwhelmed in the wake of natural disaster, civilians often take it upon themselves to do whatever they can to help those in need of rescue. This spontaneous volunteer response ... -
Cry Hard: An Original One-Man Show as Insight into Historical Adaptation and Comic Theory
(2022-05-20)This thesis centers on the writing and production of an original one-man show about Alexander the Great, CRY HARD. The popular action film Die Hard (1988) apocryphally misrepresents the words of Alexander as noted in ... -
Crystallization Dynamics of a Single Layer Complex Plasma
(Physical Review Letters, 2010-09)We report a series of complex (dusty) plasma experiments, aimed at the study of the detailed time evolution of the recrystallization process following a rapid quench of a two-dimensional dust liquid. The experiments were ... -
CSCOPE's effect on Texas' state mandated standardized test scores in mathematics.
(, 2011-09-14)The purpose of the study was to examine standardized test scores of school districts in the state of Texas that have implemented CSCOPE, a popular curriculum management system, in an effort to determine what effect, if ... -
CTR2 and the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
(, 2012-11-29)The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway recognizes and degrades mRNA with premature termination codon and some natural mRNA as well. CTR2 is a natural mRNA degraded by NMD in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The goals of ... -
Cultivating character : spiritual exercises, remedial virtues, and the formation of the heart.
(2016-02-05)According to philosophical situationists, empirical psychology suggests that most people are not virtuous, and that we should be skeptical about the possibility of cultivating virtue. I argue against the second claim by ... -
Cultivating connections : a survey of Dallas Heritage Village donors.
(2011-05-12)Historic house museums and villages have been struggling for the last 25 years to sustain their operating costs. Many have been focusing on interpretation as a way to engage the public and gain a new audience. This project ... -
Cultivating ORCIDs on Your Campus: The Who, What, How, and Why of Implementing Open Researcher and Contributor iDs
(2018-04-04)ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor iD) is a versatile and global ID system that benefits researchers and administrators. Learn more about ORCID and brainstorm how to work with possible partners to implement a program ... -
Cultivating the common good : civic life and religious contexts in American society.
(2009-06-01)Social scientists have long recognized a positive link between religion and civic life in the United States. Americans who attend religious services more frequently, who pray more often, and who are more involved in the ... -
The Cultural and Medical Conceptions of Deafness: Their Effects on the Self and Culturally Affirmative Mental Health Care
(2017-05-23)The cultural model of deafness is one that affirms the legitimacy of the Deaf community as a whole. The medical model of deafness is one that is predicated on disability and focuses on “deaf can’t” rather than “Deaf can”. ... -
Cultural and religious factors on mental health perceptions and attitudes among Indian Orthodox Christians in the United States.
(, 2014-09-05)Culture and religion play a significant role in the development and maintenance of mental health stigma. They influence beliefs about the causes of mental illness and also impact willingness to seek treatment. In the United ... -
Culturally Targeted Group Education on Hypertension Among Hispanic Women
(2019-05-21)Hypertension is a growing concern among the Hispanic female populations, which is the second largest ethnic group in Texas. Not only are Hispanics less likely to seek care for their chronic illness but they are also at ... -
Cup of salvation : race, religion, and anti-prohibition in Texas, 1885-1935.
(2017-03-27)The movement for the legal prohibition of alcohol, or simply “prohibition,” has attracted scholarly attention for its wide-ranging impact on culture and politics. Prohibitionist “drys” overcame anti-prohibitionists “wets” ... -
Curating the composer : preserving and interpreting our musical heritage through composer house museums.
(, 2014-01-28)Although historic house museums, especially those in which political or community leaders once lived, are quite common and have been analyzed by museum scholars, the sub-genre of historic houses in which European classical ... -
A curious collaboration : explorations in exhibition development.
(2017-06-22)This project focused on gaining experience in the exhibition development process and in planning and management of traveling exhibitions. The product of this learning experience was the creation of an auxiliary exhibit ... -
Curvature invariants for wormholes and warped spacetimes.
(2020-05-01)The Carminati and McLenaghan (CM) curvature invariants are powerful tools for probing spacetimes. Henry et al. formulated a method of plotting the CM curvature invariants to study black holes. The CM curvature invariants ... -
Cyberbullying : what are the psychological profiles of bullies, victims, and bully-victims?
(2010-10-08)The purposes of the present study were to classify youth into subgroups based on their involvement in cyberbullying, to examine group differences in terms of internalizing problems, and to examine moderator effects of peer ... -
"Cycles" for full orchestra and electronics.
(2016-11-14)The piece “Cycles” for full orchestra and electronics takes inspiration from the cycles of the earth. Specifically, the piece describes elastic rebound theory in the first movement, cycles of water in the second movement, ... -
Cynical hostility relates to a lack of habituation of the cardiovascular response to repeated acute stress.
(2019-08-22)Hostility is associated with cardiovascular disease risk. Heightened cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) to psychological stress has been proposed as a mechanism. Recent work has emphasized a need to measure CVR across multiple ...