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Early Childhood Food Insecurity Experiences and School Behavior Problems during Middle Childhood
(2017)Early childhood prevention programs geared towards children living in poverty, such as Head Start, have been shown to promote social-emotional school readiness. Continuing these prevention programs during middle childhood ... -
Early Detection of Depression
(2018-05)Depression is a mental disorder that affects more than 300 million people worldwide. An individual suffering from depression functions poorly in life, is prone to other diseases and in the worst-case, depression leads to ... -
Early Identification of Maternal Depression Symptoms by Instituting a Postpartum Depression Screening
(2018-04-13)This evidence-based practice project explores the necessity and feasibility of a practice change of administration of the Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) by pediatric providers to mothers at every well child ... -
Early Mars Sequence Stratigraphy and Lunar Picritic Glass Petrogenesis
(2018-05-03)This study in Martian and lunar planetary geology begins with the application of terrestrial sequence stratigraphy to hypothesize about the depositional conditions in an ancient Martian northern ocean. Progressive global ... -
Early Mobility in ICU Patients Improves Outcomes
(2018)Lack of mobility for ICU patients is associated with myriad negative patient outcomes that are positively impacted by early mobility interventions. -
Earth Inner Core Anisotropy as Observed by PKiKP and PKIIKP Reflected Waves
(2018-05-03)The idea of Earth inner core anisotropy is well-established, and it is a very important topic in understanding the planet’s core growth, magnetic dynamo, and evolution. Most data analysis techniques used to measure the ... -
EATING AWAY AT PERSONAL PREJUDICE: EXAMINING ASSIMILATION OF BLACKS AND ASIANS USING CHARACTERS FROM AMC'S THE WALKING DEAD
(2017-05)Parasocial intergroup contact has been shown to influence beliefs about stigmatized groups, such as racial minorities. Previous work has demonstrated that affective factors, such as perspective taking, can account for the ... -
Eating Disorder Attitudinal and Behavioral Symptoms Among a Diverse College Sample: The Role of Family Factors and Peer Influence
(2012-08)Recognition of the importance of the role of family factors to eating disorders dates back to 1873 when Lasegue highlighted the importance of family in the explanation of anorexia nervosa. A positive relationship between ... -
Eating Disorder Symptomotology: The Role of Ethnic Identity in Caucasian and Hispanic College Women
(2011-05)A relative large number of women on college campuses report experiencing eating afflictions. About 61% of college women indicated that they either occasionally or regularly used extreme measures to control their weight ... -
ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND VERBAL ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS IN A SUBURBAN TEXAS SCHOOL
(2014-12)Today's kindergarteners will be retiring in the year 2075. We have no idea what the world will look in five years, much less 60 years, and the idea of a changing world can be daunting (Kellner, 2000). At the same time, ... -
Ecology and evolution of offspring size in Pogonomyrmex colony founding
(2013-05)Mortality scales with individual size in many organisms. In social insect colonies, mortality peaks early in colony development, when colonies are young and small. The workers that compose these new colonies are extremely ... -
ECONOMIC VOTING DYNAMICS: ELECTORAL IMPLICATIONS OF MONETARY POLICY SHIFTS AND PARTISAN POLICY
(2015-05)This dissertation makes contributions to the economic voting literature in relation to the monetary policy trade-off in two interrelated aspects. First, it refines the Rational Partisan Theory by developing a special case ... -
Economics in History: The Apologetic Science in Argentina, 1913-1953
(2015-12)This dissertation explores the emergence and development of a distinctive professional group: economists in Argentina between 1913 and 1953. This group arose in the context of the rise of state interventionism and the new ... -
Effect of CEC, Salinity, Sand Content, and Particle Size Distribution on Mud Rock Properties
(December 2)Mudrocks are fine grained, extremely low porosity and permeability sedimentary rocks that contain significant amounts of clay minerals. These rocks are difficult to characterize their physical properties or test their ... -
Effect of Congruent Information on Information Processing in Over-The-Counter Drug Facts Panel
(December 2)Objective: The primary objective of this study was to assess the effect of congruent information obtained by chunking of information on information processing using over-the-counter (OTC) drug facts panel. The secondary ... -
Effect of Electronic Alerts on Nurses' Intentions to Perform Medication Education: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior
(2018-05)PURPOSE: Inadequate education about medications can increase the risk of medication-related errors. The national average of patients who reported that staff “Always” explained about medicines before giving it to them” was ... -
Effect of Engineering Literature in Enhancing Analytical Skills Through Academic Conversations in Kindergarten
(2017)There was a visible increase in discussion participation for all 3 students including academic terminology, reasoning for idea-building and effective problem-solving. The redundancy of ideas, related academic vocabulary, ... -
Effect of Exercise and Caloric Restriction on Renal Dopamine d1 Receptor Function in Obese Zucker Rats
(December 2)Obesity is a major risk factor for the development of hypertension and it is associated with hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia (type II diabetes), sodium retention and oxidative stress. However, the mechanisms involved in ... -
Effect of High-Fat Diet on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
(2017)Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is chronic disease where normal tissues attacked by the body’s immune system. Discover how SLE and CVD positively impact one another as well as other influencing factors, such as lifestyle, ... -
EFFECT OF MATERIAL CONTRAST ON ANISOTROPY AND DISPERSION OF LAYERED PERIODIC MEDIUM
(2014-12)In order to research the anisotropy and dispersion features of media with aligned fractures, models which approximately describe the media are constructed. For the case in which crack density is very high and aspect ratio ...