In the 2000s, the phrase "clean coal" signified technologies that would sustain coal-powered electrical generation through an anticipated period of decarbonization. However, “clean coal" was already a fraught term in ...
Recovery from work refers to the unwinding and restorative process that occurs during nonwork time. This process is important for protecting employee well-being and performance. In this dissertation, I sought to understand ...
Since 1997 the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) has been used to measure human performance by evaluating speed and accuracy of participant responses. To expand on the existing research a series of 3 studies were ...
This dissertation argues that modern nation-states gradually developed cultural norms about how to interact with other nation-states as capitalism spread across the globe. Specifically, I examine the rise of the Eurocentric ...
There are nearly 35,000 fatal automobile crashes in the US each year. The two most vulnerable road user groups, based on fatality rates per mile driven, are younger drivers, age 16-24, and older drivers, age 65 and up. ...
This project is a feminist historiography that chronicles the emergence of feminist digital collectives over the last decade. Feminist digital collectives are spontaneous, leaderless, and affect-driven online groups with ...
Each year more than an estimated 250,000 couples end their marriage engagement. This may result in lost productivity at work, mental health challenges, and widespread emotions. Furthermore, a person receiving unhelpful ...
This dissertation provides insights and analysis from a qualitative study about workplace writing transfer during career change. The study relies on narrative-driven, long-form interviews with professionals across fields ...
This thesis describes a methodology that can be used in the analysis of Morris water maze data. The Morris water maze is a test which measures an animal’s spatial learning performance. In the Morris water maze, an animal ...
Prostitution Diversion Programs are amongst the least prevalent and under-studied types of problem-solving courts in the United States. This has subsequently led to a knowledge gap in the understanding of prostitution court ...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting nearly six million individuals in the United States alone. The hallmarks of AD include declines in spatial and episodic memory as well as the build-up of ...
The 2015 refugee crisis in Europe and the corresponding settlement and integration of refugees in Germany thrust matters of deep symbolic relevance into public consciousness. En route and on arrival, contemporary refugees ...
Black people are disproportionately at risk to sexual harm, and for every Black woman who reports being raped, at least 15 do not report the traumatic incident to the police (Hart & Rennison, 2003). The barriers to disclosure ...
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, ...
In recent years text analysis and geographic information systems (GIS) have become vital as sources of data for economic research. In this dissertation I use these tools in conjunction with economic theory to investigate ...
This dissertation studies an online community (“subreddit”) related to the so-called “Intellectual Dark Web” (IDW) on the social media platform Reddit to understand the social and epistemological significance of the IDW ...
In order to provide culturally competent and responsive care, therapists must demonstrate the ability to initiate conversations about race and ethnicity with clients. However, White therapists often report that they do not ...
Among the many difficulties that military families face are the experience of a parent deploying to a warzone and the subsequent risk of that parent returning with symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Symptoms ...
Scholars have long mined the voluminous archive of the Committee of Fourteen (1905–1932) ––a powerful, privately funded law enforcement and anti-prostitution organization backed by influential industrialists and social ...
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 ...