In this paper I examine the conditions that fostered the development of gallery paintings; a type of cabinet painting invented and refined in seventeenth-century Antwerp. Numerous authors have acknowledged the primacy of ...
The use of simulations by social scientists in exploring theories and hypotheses is well documented. As computer systems have grown in capacity, so have interests of social scientists in executing larger simulations. Social ...
This study seeks to explore the relation of parasocial relationships and new media, such as YouTube and Twitch. To this end, this study has conducted interviews with media personae who garner millions of views per a video ...
Children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) have difficulty self-regulating cognition and behavior, revealing an underlying executive functioning problem. These deficits may disappear when children with ASD use private ...
Decades of research have highlighted the multi-generational impacts of trauma within families (Kellerman, 2001; Leen-Feldner et al., 2013). The bulk of research in this area has focused primarily on biological underpinnings ...
Educational literature regarding school communication takes a very different approach than the Communication literature. Education scholars employ a view of communication processes that reflect a linear information-transmission ...
A large body of literature shows that emotional knowledge has numerous benefits for preschoolers’ social-emotional functioning. As a key influential factor, parental socialization of emotion has been receiving increased ...
This research addresses the question, Why has the utilization of conference committees in the U.S. Congress declined? In so doing, it seeks to expand on contemporary theories of Congress, which are premised on the idea of ...
A patent-reform initiative called the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) was signed into law in 2011. The act placed patent applications at the center of the reform and changed the rhetorical situation surrounding writing ...
This thesis seeks to expand existing scholarship by examining the Carnegie
Commission of Investigation on the Poor White Question’s conception of poverty that
pathologized poor whites, in particular the bywoners, Boer ...
This study sought to discover what types of sources/materials music educators and administrators are accessing to ensure success when working with students with disabilities. The design of this project consisted of a mixed ...
This thesis traces the outcomes of a legal reform enacted in Bali to address unintended consequences of a World Bank policy that undermined women’s economic, legal and human rights. This qualitative exploratory inquiry ...
Peculiar Capitalism: Fast-Food Franchising and Entrepreneurship in Postwar America This work uses business history and food history to tell the story of a peculiar form of capitalism, in which entrepreneurs find ...
This dissertation explores the concepts of agency and structure in relation to the phenomenon of spoken word performance culture. Many have argued that the art form serves as a site of resistance for the disadvantaged ...
This dissertation explores the evolution of China from a socialist economy to an authoritarian market economy from a political economy perspective. I present here findings and insights from analytical history, theories, ...
This thesis experimentally investigated the effect of people’s perception of a robot’s compliance (and resistance) to social norms on their evaluation of a robot’s perceived agency and trust. Participants reported higher ...
Children in military families face unique challenges that shape their lives and experiences in a variety of ways. Much research has indicated that the arts improve children’s lives, emotional wellbeing, and school performance. ...
In the last 10 years, a new tax incentive for charitable giving has swept through Central
and Eastern Europe. Known as the percentage law, it allows tax payers to give a portion of
their income-tax burden to a not-for-profit ...
Previous studies have shown that when L2 learners are faced with structures that are illegal in their L1, they tend to simplify such structures (Weinberger, 1987; Benson, 1988; Sato, 1984; Wang, 1995; Hansen, 2004; Yavaş, ...