Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2014-08-26)Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to increased anxiety and depression in as many as 60% of patients. Yet despite extensive clinical research focused on understanding the variables influencing psychological well-being following ...
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(2018-08-01)Culture has been shown to have a significant impact on health care disparities and, more specifically, in the treatment of mental health. As a result, research has highlighted the importance of cultural competence in all ...
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(2012-07-16)Above-level testing is the practice administering a test level—of usually an academic achievement or aptitude test—to a gifted or high achieving child. This procedure is widely accepted in gifted education circles, on the ...
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(2012-02-14)The psychometric properties of the Hispanic Bilingual Gifted Screening Instrument (HBGSI) were investigated in this study. The participants in the study were a part of a large 4-year longitudinal randomized study titled ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)There is an evident under-representation of Hispanic students in Gifted and Talented (GT) programs. This is due to several reasons including lack of valid instruments, biased standardized tools, biased teacher perceptions, ...
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(2014-08-29)Demographics in the United States continue to shift with a rapidly growing Hispanic population. On the other hand, a mismatch still exists between Hispanic students’ enrollment in gifted and talented (G/T) programs and ...
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(2019-05-15)Due to the level of victimization experienced by college students, it is important to understand factors contributing to perpetration of sexual assault, including personality traits and sexually aggressive attitudes. ...
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Psychophysiological Reactivity to Self and Model Images in an Upward Social Comparison Manipulation (2012-02-14)The current study examined affective reactivity to oneself in an upward socialcomparison manipulation using autonomic physiological responses. Study I was conducted to select images of thin and average size models used to ...
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(2009-06-02)Interest in female smoking behaviors has grown due to research that has highlighted gender differences in smoking cessation trends. Specifically, female smokers tend to lag behind men in their success in smoking cessation ...
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(2010-10-12)The Psychrometric Testing Facility at the Riverside Energy Efficiency Laboratory at Texas AandM University has not been operational for several years. The goal of this project was to restore the testing facility to a fully ...
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(2013-08-05)Pterocarpus officinalis dominated forests are a rare ecosystem, found only in fifteen locations in Puerto Rico, all of which are adjacent to the coast and at risk from sea level rise, as well as nutrient pollution, upstream ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Fertility Associated Antigen (FAA) produced by the accessory sex glands and contained within the seminal fluid binds heparin and facilitates capacitation in ejaculated sperm, resulting in improved fertility in bulls capable ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This dissertation explores the role of public opinion in U.S. presidential decisions to employ various alternatives in response to an international crisis. Presidents may choose from a range of force alternatives, including ...
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(2015-08-04)After a brutal and widely publicized gang rape in December 2012, women’s safety in public spaces has been a significant site of debate and discourse about Delhi as a city and India as a country. My Master’s thesis focuses ...
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(2021-10-06)Nearly every school year there is another mass shooting or tragic violent act that is being reported by news stations throughout the United States. Every time this occurs our community members, educational leaders, teachers ...
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(2015-05-12)Bolivia, a country of approximately 10 million people as of 2011, is one of the poorest countries in South America. Extending deep into the Andes Mountains are indigenous people who were denied access to education, political ...
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(2013-05-01)Decent housing is a goal for many people not only in the United States but elsewhere in the world. A house becomes the symbol of family spirit whether it is a single-family or multiple-family home. Public housing in the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)The public interest is the highest standard for bureaucratic action in American government. While the importance of this standard ebbs and flows in the literature, the eminence of it remains unquestioned as the North Star ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)A software application called Public News Network (PNN) is created in this thesis, which functions to produce an aesthetic experience in the viewer. The application engenders this experience by presenting a three-dimensional ...
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Public Perception of Science Communication: Factual vs. Nonfactual Information About Organic Foods (2021-07-06)This dissertation focuses on factors affecting public perception of science when communicating controversial scientific issues. First, following an integrative literature review method, five categories of factors that ...