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Mentors' Impact on the Development of Adaptability Skills via Experiential Learning

Kemp, Cary (2007-12-12)

This research investigated the process of protégé development, focusing on the development of adaptability skills via experiential learning. Mentors facilitated skill development by challenging protégés during the ...
Authentic Leadership: Do We Really Need Another Leadership Theory?

Wood, Gabrielle (2007-12-12)

The purpose of this study was to test the incremental validity of authentic leadership above and beyond existing leadership styles. Prior leadership research has focused primarily on transformational leadership. Recently, ...
Redefining the Digital Dialectic: The Dialectics of User-Generated Media

Youmans, Kristin (2007-12-18)

This thesis redefines a dialectical model that is appropriate for today’s contemporary technological context, specifically based on the introduction of user-generated technologies. In the chapter titled “Dialectic Through ...
The Role of "Too Big To Fail" Status in Bank Merger Activity

Normann, Parker (2007-12-19)

This dissertation examines a linchpin of federal banking policy, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The main function of the FDIC is to provide absolute guarantees on insured deposits up to a set limit. ...
Asset Specificity and Network Control of Television Programs

Lin, Daniel (2007-12-19)

This dissertation uses transaction-cost theories to explain the shift from advertiser control to network control of programs in the 1950s television industry. In the late 1940s, ratings data revealed that the audience ...
Individual Differences and Second Language Acquisition among Low-Income Preschoolers

Richard, Erin (2007-12-20)

Second language acquisition has become a highly relevant, hotly debated topic in the United States. Of particular importance to early childhood researchers is how to most effectively educate young English language learners. ...
Neighborhood Quality, Childcare Quality, and Children's Early Developmental Outcomes

Bor, Elif (2007-12-20)

There has been mounting interest in the social sciences about the importance of multiple ecological contexts such as family, child-care settings, and neighborhoods that influence developmental outcomes in children. While ...
Gabrielle Roy et le Nord: Des Exploits personnels dans un Nord imaginé

Mays, Catherine (2007-12-20)

Cette étude essaie de répondre à la question : est-ce que Gabrielle Roy, en écrivant sur le Nord, est restée dans les bornes d’une tradition littéraire bien établie, ou at- elle dépassé ces limites ? La première partie ...
Recognition of Facial Affect in Adults with Attention Problems

Fields, Alicia (2008-01-28)

Numerous researchers have found that individuals with ADHD tend to have more interpersonal difficulties than those without the disorder. However, it is unclear why. A study by Rapport et al. (2002) may have provided a ...
Effective Mathematics Placement Testing Strategies: A Study of Mathematics Placement Test Retake Policy at a Two-Year Public Community College in Florida

Geraci, Sanford (2008-01-28)

Placement testing in college is important partly because initial placement recommendations may be followed by further placement recommendations based on retakes of the placement test. This study examines a particular ...
Evolutionary Impulses in Law

Bose, Feler (2008-01-30)

This dissertation is composed of three different essays. Each essay discusses how laws change over time. The first essay focuses on marriage in the United States. It starts with the Beckerian model and then develops the ...
A Functional Imaging Study of Working for Self and Other

Saletta, Stephen (2008-01-30)

Altruistic behaviors can be defined as those actions which are costly to self, beneficial to another, and do not convey a benefit from reputation or reciprocity on the part of the recipient. Behaviors which meet these ...
Essays in Institutions, Economic Policy and Development

Dochia, Silviu (2008-05-07)

This thesis consists of three essays examining the relationship between institutions and economic development. Essay one focuses on private participation in infrastructure. Over the past decade private involvement in ...
Temporalité et spatialité dans le discours onirique nervalien Une analyse de Sylvie

Ochiana, Adina (2008-05-08)

Cette étude essaie de répondre à la question: comment le temps et l’espace sont utilisés dans le cadre du discours onirique nervalien ? Ma démarche a suivi de près le fonctionnement, les caractéristiques et l’évolution ...
Globalization and Inequality: Subnational Differentials within Nation States

Keating, Michael D. (2008-05-08)

In this thesis I examine the nation state’s place in the formulation and understanding of global income inequality. The literature is very conflicted on the directional relationship between neoliberal economic globalization ...
Fear Conditioning as a Measuring Tool for Cognitive Deficits Related to Amyloid Burden Coupled with Iron, Zinc, and Copper in the Transgenic Tg2576 Mouse Model for Alzheimer’s Disease

Burns, Andrew J. (2008-05-08)

This study utilized the transgenic Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) that expresses the human amyloid precursor protein (APP). Iron, zinc, and copper in the brain are thought to interact with amyloid proteins, ...
Child Soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army: Factors in the Rehabilitation and Reintegration Process

Muth, Rachel L. (2008-05-08)

This thesis describes the rehabilitation and reintegration process for children who served as child soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda. It examines the rehabilitation and reintegration process, ...
Development of a Nomological Net Surrounding Leader Self-Development

Langkamer, Krista L. (2008-05-08)

The purpose of this study was to examine both antecedents and consequences of high quality leader self-development activities. Specifically, Study 1 sought to delineate factors that impact the quality attributes of leader ...
Creating Social Action through Facebook

Vandersluis, Kelly S. (2008-05-12)

Facebook, as a popular representative of the social network site genre, has changed the way that social network site users manage their on- and offline social lives and communication, and creates a new rhetorical situation ...
Collaborative Writing Across Distances: An Ethnographic Study of Workplace Writing Across Coasts and Cultures

Cassidy, Lauren (2008-05-15)

This thesis describes the collaborative writing practices among colleagues within the same company who work in two geographically-dispersed offices. The author conducted an ethnography of ERC, the education research ...

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