DSpace at UH: Recent submissions
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Improving Quality of Life with Early Initiation of Palliative Care in Patients with Advanced Cancer
(2020-05-01)This evidence-based project explores the effect of initiating palliative care early in advanced cancer to improve patients’ quality of life, anxiety, and depression. Medical oncology providers will identify patients with ... -
Prioritizing Acute Care Education in Renal Transplant Recipients – An Evidenced Based Approach with the ACE STAR Model of Knowledge Transformation
(2020-05-01)This EBP project focuses on prioritizing acute care education with an EBP approach with the ACE STAR Model of Knowledge of Transformation. It demonstrates the positive outcomes of acute intervention have improving medication ... -
Improving Pregnancy Outcomes by Implementing Centering Pregnancy into Prenatal Care
(2020-05-01)This evidence-based research project discusses the benefits of group prenatal education and its outcome on the rates of birth rates and preterm births. With the limited amount of time given in clinical practice, there ... -
An analysis of the effect of the Federal Income Tax Law upon the United States balance of payments
(1970)This study summarizes the results of an examination made of the portion of the Internal Revenue Code dealing with income taxes in order to find those provisions which have an effect upon the United States balance of payments. ... -
Locke's law of nature
(1973)It is suggested that a theorist's interpretation of Locke's law of nature leads him to many conclusions regarding Locke's political theory. In the past, many interpreters have agreed that the law of nature is a central ... -
A study of the political socialization process among Southern Negro high school students
(1970)This project was a broad investigation into the political socialization process among a selected population of segregated Negro High School students in Houston, Texas, Its purpose was to gather empirical data on this ... -
The season of our discontent. A survey research of political knowledge and attitudes of three campus organizations : Students for a Democratic Society, Young Democrats, and Young Americans for Freedom
(1969)This thesis proposes that Americans, on the whole, have become alienated from their creedal values as a result of technological change outstripping social change. Activist students are attempting to break out of the dilemma ... -
Unemployment and incarceration
(1974)This thesis is a study of the relationship, over time, between unemployment and prison incarceration rates. The basic hypothesis is that during periods of high unemployment the rate of incarcerating men increases and during ... -
Nurse Champions to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
(2020-05-01)This evidence-based project aims to address the implementation of a unit nurse champion compared to having no unit-specific nurse educator in efforts to decrease the occurrences of CAUTIs on the inpatient hospital unit ... -
Preserving diverse voices on social media
(2020-10-28)As a digital outlet, social media has transformed individual voices from a proverbial whisper to a megaphone for various ideas allowing traditionally marginalized voices to be heard. These collective voices provide both ... -
Hauser's Place : An ethnography of a businessmen's bar
(1974)Within the complex urban setting of Houston, Hauser's Place functions as a meeting place for friendship groups which serve as primary groups for the twenty-six businessmen and professionals who meet there regularly for ... -
Urban dominance on age structure in Korea, 1966
(1973)Urban dominance theory is tested in South Korea, a developing country. Four age indexes, child-adult ratio, the proportion of young adults, youth dependency ratio and aged dependency ratio, are predicted by correlation and ... -
Person perception in multiple-cue probability learning task as a function of cognitive complexity and inferential set
(1969)This study was conducted in order to investigate the relationship between cognitive complexity, one measure of cognitive differentiation, and the accuracy and process of interpersonal learning and perception. Additionally, ... -
An analysis of variables affecting acquisition and decay of adaptation to lateral prismatic displacement
(1973)The study was designed to test current theories of prism adaptation to lateral prismatic displacement by investigating importance of sight of the body, active movement, and magnitude of displacement. An attempt was made ... -
Cross-validation of a heroin addiction scale from the MMPI on an outpatient sample of heroin addicts and vocational rehabilitation clients
(1973)Many studies have attempted to discriminate addicts from non-addicts on the basis of MMPI profiles and/or auxiliary scales designed for that purpose. The present study focused on a heroin addiction (He) scale of the MMPI ... -
The role of subvocal speech in memory : An EMG study of preschool children
(1973)The relationship of subvocal speech to recall on a memory task was investigated for 54 four- and five-year-old nursery school children. Electromyographic (EMG) recordings were obtained from the lip and chin speech muscles ... -
Training teachers in reinforcement : A teacher-student interaction analysis
(1974)Fifty-eight subjects were sampled randomly from a population of 510 teachers participating in the Teacher Development Centers' reinforcement training program located in three elementary schools. Fifty-eight classrooms were ... -
A sentence completion technique as a measure of level IV behavior with the interpersonal checklist
(1973)The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of a forced-choice sentence completion form as a measure of avoided behavior, designated as Level IV, in the Leary diagnostic system. Based on the result of a pilot ... -
The expression of values in group psychotherapy
(1973)This dissertation was designed to study human interactions which naive judgment suggested would be rich in expressions of value. The project had three phases: First, a process measure was constructed for systematic ... -
An empirical test of some of the hypotheses generated by Wolf's Need Gratification Theory
(1971)This study was an attempt to test some of the hypotheses generated by Wolf's Need Gratification Theory of Job Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction. The four hypotheses tested were: 1. Persons whose lower level needs are as yet ...