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A Synthesis of Dissertation Research on Faculty-Role Stressors in Nursing Education
… of this study was to provide a synthesis of dissertation research on faculty-role stressors in nursing education. Work related stress, influenced by causative factors termed stressors, affects not only faculty but also the teaching-learning process. Thus, this study is of importance and …
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Data-intensive spatial pattern discovery based on generalized spatial point representations
… requirements. The aim of this dissertation research is to establish a suite of innovative methods for analyzing geospatial big data that can be modeled as generalized spatial points while addressing the following key research questions: how to estimate the spatial and …
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Assessment of integrated green infrastructure-based stormwater controls in small to large scale developed urban watersheds
… overflow events. The main objective of this dissertation research was to examine the benefits of individual and integrated GI stormwater control practices at small to large scales in urban watersheds. The hypothesis of this research is: "Retrofitting integrated green infrastructure controls …
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A Study of Ethics in Crowd Work-Based Research
… setting for conducting and distributing academic research. Crowd work platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) are widely used by academic researchers. Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of ethical issues because they could affect the long-term development and application of …
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Nonlinear Three-Dimensional Urban Activity Model
This dissertation research focuses on development and evaluation of an efficient solution algorithm for a nonlinear three dimensional urban activity model. Specifically, Kim's urban activity model of land use intensity and transportation congestion is empirically applied to the Chicago metropolitan …
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Privacy-Preserving Data Collection and Sharing in Modern Mobile Internet Systems
… data privacy poses a major concern. This dissertation research addresses the problem of privacy-preserving data collection and sharing in the context of both mobile trajectory data and mobile Internet access data. The first contribution of this dissertation research is the design and …
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Consumers' use of an expected future price as a reference: An investigation of the psychological and contextual antecedents
… and consumer durables. Although previous research has argued that consumers may also use an expected future price as a reference in the relatively inexpensive, frequently purchased categories such as consumer packaged goods, research has not clearly identified the factors that may lead …
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Sex in a Lekking Lizard: Hormones, Alternative Strategies, and Mating Success in Marine Iguanas (Amblyrhynchus Cristatus)
"My dissertation research studies the mechanism that marine iguanas use to mediate tradeoffs between mortality and reproductive success associated with alternative strategies. I studied hormonal correlates of alternative phenotypes and mating strategies; which factors affect ""decisions"" about …
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Mimicry of Cocaine by Anti -Idiotypic Antibodies: Molecular Basis and Antagonist Drug Design
[M. Ho was supported by National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship F31-DA14484 from the National Institutes of Health, University of Illinois Fellowship (1-1-10742) and On-Campus Dissertation Research Grant (1-2-16449). This work was supported by NIDA research grant R15-DA10367 and …
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Factors and Health Promoting Behaviors that Influence Maternal and Infant Outcomes in Older Pregnant Thai Women
This dissertation summarizes research conducted in partial fulfillment of the program requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing degree from the Hahn school of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of San Diego. The results of the dissertation research are organized as three discrete …
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Intermarket Patronage Revisited: The Relationship Between Relative Perceived Quality and Relative Perceived Sacrifice
Past research on intermarket patronage has focused on either the characteristics of the market (e.g. distance, population) or of the consumer (e.g. demographics, psychographics). As a result, a comprehensive explanation of outshopping behavior has yet to be provided. This dissertation research …
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CyberGIS-enabled reproducible agent-based modeling for scalable emergency evacuation
… workflows accessible and reproducible by researchers and decision makers. In this dissertation research, a novel cyberGIS-based approach to reproducible and scalable modeling of emergency evacuation is developed to encompass 1) systematic design of the approach for examining the …
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"still Here, Trying To Find My Way": Understanding The Experiences Of Hiv Disruption And Reorganization Among Older African Americans In Detroit
… are the fastest growing age group with HIV/AIDS. Research on older adults with HIV has focused primarily on health status and physiological changes that occur as people age with HIV. However, little is known about the socio-cultural consequences that occur when older adults are diagnosed with HIV …
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Development and mechanistic understanding of ball milling as a sustainable alternative to traditional synthesis
… and described in Chapter 1.</p><p>This dissertation describes specifically my efforts towards the aforementioned goals. Largely, my efforts focused on the development of sustainable olefination reactions, namely, the Wittig reaction and Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reactions described in …
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Usefulness of social tagging in organizing and providing access to the web: An analysis of indexing consistency and quality
This dissertation research points out major challenging problems with current Knowledge Organization (KO) systems, such as subject gateways or web directories: (1) the current systems use traditional knowledge organization systems based on controlled vocabulary which is not very well suited to web …
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2-Silicon-Substituted 1,3-Dienes: Participants in Diels-Alder Chemistry and Metal-Mediated Processes
… Two processes that are of interest to our research are the Diels-Alder reaction and transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. Issues that arise in these processes include poor efficiency and poor stereoselectivity. My dissertation research has centered around the synthesis and …
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"""Real Talk"": The Participation of African American and Caribbean American Young Men in a Middle School Book Club"
My dissertation research examines what happens when four middle school boys of African descent (African American and Caribbean American) gather to read a shared text in a series of classroom book clubs. I draw on sociocultural theories of literacy development (Rogoff, Gutierrez, Dyson) that present …
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