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UNDERSTANDING RESILIENCY—THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN USAFA CADET GRIT-S SCORES AND CADET DEVELOPMENT.
Life is filled with adversity and no one is excluded from experiencing setbacks, failures, and even catastrophes. But within all people is the potential to learn and bounce back from these experiences. Resiliency theory ... -
AN EXPLORATION OF RACIAL CLIMATE, RETENTION, AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG TEACHERS OF COLOR AT K-12 INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES
The relationship between racial climate, job satisfaction, and intent to leave is largely unknown among faculty of Color at K-12 independent private schools. Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) and tokenism provided theoretical ... -
EFFICIENT MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS WITH INTEGER BASED RESTRICTED BOLTZMANN MACHINES CLASSIFIERS
Nowadays, there exist many emerging applications for embedded systems, such as computer vision and speech recognition, which heavily rely on machine learning classification. The typical approach to carry out machine learning ... -
Sharing Culture: Volunteer Cultural Mentorship of Refugees
Refugees resettled in the United States are entitled to services related to health, employment and education assistance organized at the federal level, and offered cultural mentorship from volunteers organized at the local ... -
Investigating The Reasons Women Wear Choker Necklaces
Choker necklaces have been around for centuries, carrying with them different cultural and societal connotations. However, little to no research investigates the reasons why women continue to wear choker necklaces today. ... -
Improved Equivalent-Circuit Models of Lithium-Ion-Iron-Phosphate Cells
Abstract Lithium-ion batteries allow energy storage with high power and energy density and are widely used for many energy-storage applications. Electric vehicles are one of the most common uses of lithium-ion battery packs ... -
ROBIN’S ADOLESCENT IDENTITY EXAMINED THROUGH CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
This research examines the social identity roles that are typically attributed to the popular Batman sidekick, Robin. This study looks at how each iteration of the character differs within the historical context of the ... -
ANXIETY BUFFER DISRUPTION: INTERPLAY BETWEEN NEUROCOGNITIVE FUNCTIONING AND WORLDVIEW DEFENSE IN POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
According to anxiety buffer disruption theory, traumatic experiences can disrupt one’s ability to manage anxiety. There are several studies finding that after reminders of death, individuals high in trauma symptoms respond ... -
Expression of a Heterologous Protein in Magnetospirillum magneticum, The
A protein foreign to Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1 magnetic bacterial cells was successfully expressed and showed normal function. Magnetococcus marinus were recently utilized to introduce chemotherapy drugs in covalently ... -
Analysis of Sugars and Amino Acids in Aphid Honeydew by Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
The impact of phenology to herbivore abundance was studied on the subalpine plant Ligusticum porteri and the aphid herbivore Aphis asclepiadis to assess some of the impact of climate change on this herbivore-plant system. ... -
Relationships Among Normal and Abnormal Personality and Interpersonal Problems on Anxiety in Later Life
Introduction: Anxiety is a prevalent problem that has been found to be associated with multiple other clinical disorders. Personality traits and disorders, as well as interpersonal problems may play a significant role in ... -
Age Differences in Caregiver Burden: The Role of Social Support, Preparation, and Social Contexts
Despite over a quarter of informal caregivers in the United States being young adults, a majority of caregiving research focuses on middle-aged and older adults. The limited literature on young adult caregivers indicates ... -
CasP: REALIZING CLIENT ASSISTED POLICY FOR SCALABLE LOAD BALANCING
Load balancer improves the distribution of the workload across multiple servers. Also, it aims to optimize the resources used, minimize the throughput, and the response time. In this thesis, we developed a realizing ... -
STUDY OF PARENT PERCEPTIONS TOWARD STUDENTS OF POVERTY IN AN AFFLUENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE
Student enrollment decisions parents make for their children encompass multiple factors and processes, founded on their beliefs and values. Some parents base enrollment decisions for their children on perceptions, not ... -
INVERSE SCATTERING TRANSFORM AND SOLITONS FOR MATRIX NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER SYSTEMS AND FOR THE DEFOCUSING ABLOWITZ-LADIK EQUATION WITH NONZERO BOUNDARY CONDITIONS
The scalar nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that models many of the world’s weakly nonlinear dispersive wave phenomena. This dissertation discusses two important variants ... -
Reducing the Barriers to the Provision of Education in Colorado Prisons: A Grounded Theory
This study brings forth a theory for reducing Colorado’s prison population utilizing education and early intervention as described through qualitative methods. This paper contributes to the body of literature surrounding ... -
MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF BST BASED FBAR DEVICES
Microwave frequencies range from 300 MHz to 300 GHz and are used in many ways for communication systems. Modern radio frequency systems such as wireless mobile systems expanded the boundaries of the telecommunication ... -
FERRITE PARTICLES EMPLOYED AS TEMPERATURE SENSORS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING THERMOMETRY
Ferrite materials were investigated as possible magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) temperature contrast agents. Cu1-xZnxFe2O4 and Mg1-xZnxFe2O4 ferrite samples with Zn composition from 0.4 to 1.0 were grown using a standard ... -
Effects of Augmentative and Alternative Communication on Speech-Language Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis, The
Existing meta-analyses within speech-language pathology, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and early intervention have been either group designs or systematic reviews of single-subject experimental designs ... -
Gap Between Matriculation and Persistence: Title V of the Higher Education Act at Rural Four-Year Hispanic-Serving Institutions, The
The gap between the matriculation rates of Hispanic undergraduate students and their graduation rates warrants a closer look, as the degree attainment of Hispanics is necessary for the nation’s academic and economic health ...
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