The purpose of this study was to determine factors, which motivate people to
watch electronic sports. The sample consisted of males and females aged 18 to 65
watching e-sport, both online and at live e-sport viewing ...
Early exposure to multiple languages shapes children's experiences and language background as well as influences later functioning. Prior research indicates that students who speak a minority language at home experience ...
Early childhood education (ECE) centers are more than a series of contiguous classrooms. They are vibrant social communities where child and adult emotions are ever-present and integral to learning. Although much research ...
Two common reef fishes, the bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum) and
the bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus), are used as model species for
understanding the function of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the ...
Early emotional competencies--emotion expression, emotion understanding, and emotion regulation--are believed to be the foundation of social success. There are few studies, however, that have considered how early emotional ...
Although the childhood aggression literature is well developed, there is relatively little
research examining longitudinal relations between early childhood parenting and peer
interaction and later aggressive behavior ...
This study seeks to understand how populations in the Lambayeque Valley
Complex on the north coast of Peru, were affected by Spanish colonialism through the
study of linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH). Here, stress chronologies ...
This dissertation presents annual measures of earnings inequality for 255 metro regions in the U.S. for the years 1990 to 2004. Measures of industrial structure are also calculated for each metro to observe whether there ...
Ebola virus (EBOV) is an enveloped, ssRNA virus from the family Filoviridae capable of causing severe hemorrhagic fever with up to 80-90% mortality rates. The most recent outbreak of EBOV in West Africa starting in 2014 ...
Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was one of the most significant artists of the
twentieth century. Tiffany’s artistic oeuvre encompassed nearly all mediums, but his
passion for color and light reached a synthesis in ...
On a future Earth ravaged by the fall of civilization, the descendants of the survivors are forced to scrape out a living amid a century-long ice age. Five years have passed since disgraced general Khess Lindhorne and her ...
This thesis describes the chronological process and the technical application of Social Art Practice concepts in ART-illery community workshops and subsequent themes that culminated in the work on display in my Masters of ...
American silver design, like most design, does not exist in a vacuum. It is a
reflection of the culture and society that creates it. Throughout the nineteenth century
there was an explosion of designs that “revived” past ...
Few studies of violent conflict focus explicitly on the environmental and
ecological relationships that occur in locations that experience violence. Rather,
traditional studies of focus on the political, economic, and ...
This dissertation describes the state of forest restoration on private land in the Cantareira region of São Paulo state, Brazil, specifically the municipalities of Nazaré Paulista, Piracaia, and Joanópolis. It includes ...
The economic deregulation efforts that have been taking place for several decades in many industries have been associated, in numerous benchmarking studies, with improvements in economic efficiency.
This research studies one of the most complicated conflicts in the world – the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The protracted conflict has brought lots of suffering for both
communities and the region as a whole. Such ...
This thesis investigates the evolution of Confucian ethics that affected Emperor Kangxi (1622-1762) ranging from 1644 to 1762, China. During the period of late Ming and Early Qing dynasties around 16th -17th CE, business ...
The first paper is an analysis of the role reputation plays in the Deep Web using data from the Internet black market site, The Silk Road. This encrypted online marketplace employed crypto currency and functioned over the ...