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 ...
This interdisciplinary study identified and assessed from a religious context the category of beliefs that influenced nurses’ post-mortem organ donation decisions, and the nurses’ donation concerns. George Mason University’s ...
This study reflects my interests in the actual status of the ethnic identity in Romania, starting from the Romanian identity as the general frame and verifying the existence of the Dacian sub-identity as one of its particular ...
This thesis examines the memories of sixteen Chinese women who recall their
experiences in living through the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-
1976). It describes the living conditions and characteristic ...
Healthcare providers are increasingly treating sexual assault survivors with
memory dampening neurotechnology to alleviate psychiatric conditions caused by sexual
assault (Cabrera 2011). However, the effects of memory ...
The foster care system is intended as a temporary safety net to protect children and youth at risk of harm. Difficult decisions are made every day to place victims of child abuse or neglect in foster care. The focus of ...
This dissertation examined Repetitive and Restricted Behaviors and Interests (RRBIs) in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We looked at RRBI ratings from the respective subscales of the Autism ...
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are a known risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Mild TBIs are the most common and often occur during adolescence there is an increased risk of sustaining an additional TBI following the ...