Browsing by Subject "conflict"
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)It has become increasingly apparent that the topic of marital conflict has been given special status within the published literature on issues of marriage (Bradbury, Rogge, & Lawrence, 2001; Fincham, 2003). The question ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This thesis will examine the individual and the community. The question will be, what effect does the community have on the individual, and whether or not this limits individuals development and personal freedom. I will ...
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(1983)Murray Straus is the leading researcher in the area of family violence. He conducted a study in 1976 of 2,143 American families. Following the study, Straus and his co-workers wrote the book �Behind Closed Doors� in which ...
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(2020-06-25)Food security is directly linked to economic, political, and social stability. In 2017, one out of every nine—nearly 821 million people—were undernourished. Of immediate concern are populations living in conflict. Food ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Jacob and Schreyer (1980) define mode of experience (e.g. the degree to which participants experience an environment as focused or unfocused) as one of four major factors underlying outdoor recreation conflict. To discover ...
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(2015-10-08)In an area of Botswana known as the eastern Okavango Panhandle, roughly 15,000 elephants compete with 15,000 people for access to water, food, and land. The elephants are not confined to any park, reserve, or nation. They ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Today a majority of business organizations utilize work team designs in an effort to gain a competitive edge. A multitude of factors exert varying levels of influence on work teams, however, few are as potentially pernicious ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Urban development is of particular concern in the management of endangered Key deer (Odocoileous virginianus clavium) because highway mortality is the greatest single cause of deer mortality (≈ 50%), and the rural community ...
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(2009-05-15)A qualitative narrative approach is used in this study of hidden conflict among nurses and support staff in a hospital setting. Twenty nurses and support staff from a single hospital nursing unit participated in in-depth ...
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(2021-07-06)Battlefields are heritage tourism sites that represent historic warfare to the public. The “heritage” that is represented at these is often contested, highly political, and is subject to conflict, where different groups ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Downsizing has had a significant influence on organizational life over the past 20 years. When organizations downsize, two groups of people emerge, those who are laid off and those who remain in the organization. The ...
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(2015-10-08)A great strength of the ABS program is the impetus and opportunities for students to not only do rigorous research, but to do research that is applied. As a first-year PhD student in the Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences ...
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(2011-10-21)Past research concerning work and family has largely been from traditional, white-collar settings and has only taken into consideration the perceptions of the employees' experiences with regard to the relationship between ...
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(2018-05-03)This dissertation introduces three essays on public economics with a focus on the developing country setting. The first two essays present evidence that the accountability generated by electoral institutions positively ...
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(2017-05-02)Conflict in a country is socially expensive and many are trying to understand what factors stimulate it in an effort to figure out ways to lessen its incidence. In this work three essays are presented on factors that drive ...
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(2018-11-16)Along the Texas-Mexico border, different management regimes, property rights, and uses for groundwater are overlapping or conflicting, which has led to unilateral takings on both sides of the border and severe aquifer ...