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Religion and social support for parents.
(2017-07-31)
How does religion benefit parental well-being? Are religious parents benefitting from the source of informal social support that religion provides? Does religion have an effect apart from this? This study, using logistic ...
A qualitative study on teaching methods and leadership strategies used by six legendary Texas high school football coaches.
(2017-03-16)
With this multiple case study, the researcher examined the different teaching methods and leadership strategies used by six coaches actively coaching in the fall of 2016 who are considered successful in their fields. Four ...
Evaluating the risk factors of dating violence among undergraduates attending a faith-based university.
(2017-03-16)
The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors of dating violence among undergraduates attending a private, faith-based university and to explore how the context of college dating relationships contribute to dating ...
Factor influencing headcut migration within a cohesive Texas Black-Land gully.
(2017-12-01)
Gully erosion degrades the Black-Land Prairies (BLP) (Texas), affecting agricultural productivity. It is initiated by rill and inter-rill erosive processes and exacerbated by storm frequency and duration. Few studies have ...
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, ...
Resilience as organicist metaphor in OneNYC : the plan for a strong and just city.
(2017-04-27)
This thesis analyzes the discursive and material effects of resilience as organicist metaphor in One New York: The Plan for a Strong and Just City (OneNYC). The resilience metaphor’s form and function is inherently ...
Social network analysis in college choice.
(2017-04-05)
This research paper employs Social Network Analysis to examine the effect of peer groups on the college application process, taking Baylor University as a case study. Degree centrality and eigenvector centrality are two ...
Reading disability in the law and in Presidential rhetoric : the cases of Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush.
(2017-07-31)
Using the close-text methods of rhetorical criticism, this study examines the history of discursive exclusion of people with disabilities from the polity, as evinced in presidential oratory. Specifically, this project ...
Characterizing hip motion during activities of daily living.
(2017-07-27)
In the United States alone, 332,000 people received a total hip replacement (THR) each year [1 – need to reattach ref]. Following a total hip arthroplasty, doctors get asked by their patients if they can still do particular ...
Financial motivations and small business survival : the effects of gender and race.
(2017-04-07)
It has been well established in previous literature that female and minority entrepreneurs are less successful with business ventures in comparison to whites and males. Motivation and growth expectations have also been ...