Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2012-10-19)The public school superintendent is the least progressive position in education at integrating women and balancing the scales of equitable representation. Statistical data indicates there are far fewer females than males ...
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(2023-08-17)Early childhood educators instruct and care for our youngest and most vulnerable population. Early childhood education (ECE) teachers are positioned and expected to teach young learners, provoke critical thought through ...
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(2014-05-15)My dissertation surveys British, American, Australian, and New Zealand young adult texts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries featuring female protagonists who are fantastic monsters. Addressing such texts ...
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(2018-05-07)This study explored spirituality and its influence on the authenticity and leadership identity of African American collegiate women leaders at a large, public university in the Southwest. While there has been an increase ...
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(2016-05-03)“I Believe That We Will Win” is a transdisciplinary project combining a political and sociological history of race and leisure studies as well as psychological and youth development theories. Utilizing autoethnography, my ...
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(2021-10-18)In recent years Black popular culture in television and film has moved beyond the stereotypical texts by complicating the Black narrative with historical storytelling. Within the last ten years, there has been an increase ...
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(2017-07-09)The purpose of this dissertation study is to explore understandings of multicultural literature, ways in which it is being utilized in classrooms, how it is perceived by pre-service and in-service teachers, and what can ...
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(2021-03-05)Despite exponential growth in education abroad participation, first-generation students continue to be underrepresented in this activity. There is also little known about how first-generation students develop holistically. ...
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(2018-04-26)This dissertation is a historical examination of the development of 1970s Southern lesbian feminism in the United States. It uses archival research, lesbian feminist periodicals and publications, and Southern lesbian ...
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(2019-04-04)In recent years, volunteer tourism has emerged as not only a meaningful way to spend a vacation, but also as an intriguing area of empirical inquiry. This phenomenon, which began as wealthy westerners sought to give a ...
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(2013-01-11)Powerful people perform observable agentic behaviors (e.g., directing tasks), and people expect powerful people to act in these agentic ways. Furthermore, Role Congruity Theory predicts that people are disliked when their ...
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(2014-05-03)Criminology and media scholars over the last two decades convincingly argue that crime is one of the major social problems of this era. Racialized constructions of safety and space, however, continue to be the dominant ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)This case study focuses on the influence of certain sociocultural factors on the ability of adolescent girls to fulfill their potentials. Specifically, the purpose of this research is to advance an alternative perspective ...
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(2010-07-14)Scholars have long been interested in how presidents make decisions in foreign policy. Often, the theories about foreign policy decision making focus on the choice to use or not use one particular foreign policy tool. Many ...
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(2014-07-25)As of January 1, 2012, an estimated 13.7 million cancer survivors were alive in the United States. The number of cancer survivors is expected to reach 18 million by the year 2022. Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Based on a proposed input-process-output model of team goal, leader goal orientation, team cohesion, and team effectiveness, this study examined the influences of the leader trait goal orientation on the relationships ...
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(2009-05-15)Marine natural products have continued to be a source of compounds with interesting structures and biological activities. Two such compounds are maculalactone A and haterumalide NA. In the process of exploring a route to ...
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(2010-11-17)The potential of human 20S proteasome inhibitors continues to be of interest for anticancer chemotherapy and the recent FDA approval of bortezomib (Velcade) validates the proteasome as a target for cancer chemotherapy. ...
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(2017-05-09)The developments of novel catalytic transformations are just as important as the discoveries of new reactions. In the most common way, catalysts provide more efficient and economical alternatives to known reactions. Arguably, ...
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(2011-10-21)Metal-catalyzed cycloadditions of alkynes with isocyanates or nitriles are valuable tools for the synthesis of complex carbocycles and heterocycles. Although this transformation has been studied for over three decades, the ...