While covering the disappearance of a college student in Appalachian Kentucky, rookie TV journalist Adrienne Byrne discovers she knows the main suspect, Ethan Adams. As Adrienne is drawn deeper into the case, she must ...
This dissertation explores the Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 and the fight of American Indian against this act. It examines how the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America, a Virginia-based white supremacist organization, ...
This thesis redefines a dialectical model that is appropriate for today’s contemporary
technological context, specifically based on the introduction of user-generated
technologies. In the chapter titled “Dialectic Through ...
Self-affirmation is a psychological process in which individuals draw upon important aspects of their self-concept to maintain a positive evaluation of themselves. Previous work has found that self-affirmation can reduce ...
As mass incarceration and supervision decline slowly and sporadically in the U.S. (Kang-Brown et al., 2018; Maruschak & Minton, 2020), scholars note that subtler forms of “invisible punishment” continue to affect individuals ...
This thesis examines technical editors’ roles, responsibilities, and relationships in the workplace. Over the years, technical and professional communication (TPC) has evolved with changing communication needs. The field ...
This collection of poetry investigates the integral components of identity. The poems strive to explore and question the intersections of faith, race, gender, and sexuality through the stories of a diverse group of women ...
It has been accepted that Charles Locke Eastlake through his book, Hints on Household
Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details influenced the manufacture of
furniture in the late nineteenth century. The immense ...
I am arguing in this thesis for an interpretation of a relational ontology as it is presented in the thought of Jean-Luc Nancy and Raimon Panikkar. This thesis offers an understanding of the meaning of being as it is found ...
Rates of obesity have tripled worldwide since 1975 (World Health Organization, WHO, 2017), with the epidemic affecting both pediatric and adult populations. Given the increasingly widespread prevalence of childhood obesity, ...
The current study explores relations between executive functioning (EF), degree of
bilingualism, and externalizing behavior problems in a sample (N = 79) of 5- to 7-yearold
monolingual (n = 33) and bilingual (n = 46) ...
The importance of children’s motor abilities, in relation to other developmental areas, has
been acknowledged in both theory and research. However, researchers have typically
focused on gross motor abilities in relation ...
Using survey data collected in 2011 from two singles’ homeless shelters in Fairfax
County, Virginia, this study discusses the relationship between levels of educational
attainment and homelessness among current homeless ...
The current study examined the relationship between mathematics achievement and
working memory and whether this relationship changes across levels of math education.
In addition to the effect of working memory on overall ...
This study explores the association between periodontal disease and periostosis in a sample of 874 individuals of known age at death originating from the Terry Collection, National Museum of Natural History. Because previous ...
In 2019, the U.S. health expenditure reached 16.8% of GDP (OECD, 2021). I hypothesize that payment structure and cost-control policy lead to variation in healthcare spending. Despite an optimized payment structure, health ...
The present study examined the relationship between risk and coping among survivors of
intimate partner violence assumed by Hamby and Gray-Little’s (2002) risk-based coping
model that posits that the most useful way to ...
Around six percent of students in the United States receive some sort of gifted educational programming. School must think about how giftedness is defined and measured in order to make decisions regarding which students ...
The risk-need-responsivity model (Andrews & Bonta, 2010; Andrews, Bonta, & Hoge, 1990; Andrews & Bonta, 2010; Andrews & Dowden, 2006; Andrews, Zinger, et al., 1990a, 1990b) has become an important foundational principle ...