• Examining improvement of parental management of children’s educational information using technology-based information management solution 

  Matthews, Theresa (2020-11-05)

  Parents and caregivers need to process large volumes of information regarding their children's education. Effective parental management of this information is critical for parents to actively participate in their child's ...

• The formation of the Proto-Germanic language 

  Rifkin, Matthew J. (2020-10-20)

  Over the years linguistics and archaeology have been synthesized in order to explain how various language families formed. However, studies examining the problem from a uniquely geographic perspective are lacking. This ...

• Assessment of the hydrological impacts of human alteration of Maryland Piedmont streams 

  Bhuyan, Istiak A. (2020-07-02)

  The hydrologic regime plays a vital role in aquatic ecosystems. However, these systems are altered by land use change and anthropogenic climate change. Urbanization increases surface runoff and decreases infiltration, while ...

• The mindfulness question: no evidence of increased false memory in short-term interventions rather increases in accuracy 

  Fort, Larry D. (2020-06-23)

  Mindfulness is defined as the process of attending to one's awareness in the present moment (Creswell, 2016). Recently, research has been growing on the effects of mindfulness on false memory, often yielding nebulous results ...

• Usability impact of user perception in mHealth: the case of Ghanaian migrants 

  Owusu, Eric (2020-05-21)

  Mobile health technology has the potential to transform the face of the health care industry globally. Mobile phones have become ubiquitous, unhampered by race, class or geographical boundaries, and provide a sound base ...

• The five elements of technology accessibility policy enactment in K-12: a grounded theory 

  Shaheen, Natalie L. (2020-03-10)

  Over 12 million disabled students attend public K-12 schools in the United States (U.S.) (U.S. Department of Education, 2019). But, in 2019—when technology is an increasingly integral component of teaching and learning—many ...

• Evaluation of candidate adenosine receptor agonists as neuroprotective countermeasures for soman intoxication 

  Meads, Kristy L. (2020-03-09)

  Soman, an organophosphorus (OP) compound, disrupts nervous system function through inactivation of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), the enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine at synapses. Left untreated, a state of prolonged ...

• Professional development for online faculty: supporting conceptual change through conceptual conflict activities 

  Dyer, La Tonya Denise (2019-09-06)

  Despite the increasing demand for online courses, skepticism by faculty and administration regarding the legitimacy of online education continues to exist. To address this skepticism, institutions have turned to professional ...

• A usability study of a data-driven health information portal: the extensibility of DHIS2 

  Shipley, Nancy (2019-07-30)

  Although technology in healthcare has increased greatly over the past decade, the user experience of the combined available resources unquestionably can be improved especially when using large datasets such as District ...

• Technology-based interventions for anxiety disorders in youth: a meta-analysis 

  Little, Kayla M. (2019-06-17)

  Anxiety disorders are one of the most common disorders among children and adolescents (Beesdo, Knappe, & Pine, 2009), but often go untreated due to barriers such as time and cost (Salloum, Johnco, Lewin, McBride, & Storch ...

• Analyzing the urban heat island effect in the city of Westminster, Maryland, with attention to mitigative and adaptive measures 

  Gray, Andrew Raymond (2019-06-19)

  Urban Heat Islands (UHI) have many negative health effects on vulnerable populations in urban areas. This research investigates the UHI hazard in the City of Westminster, Maryland by documenting the UHI effect and social ...

• Evaluating the effects of dereverberation techniques on speech understanding in different reverberant environments 

  DiSanti, Michael (2019-04-15)

  Reverberation and background noise is present in almost all everyday listening situations. Reverberation times in real rooms vary widely from nearly several milliseconds up to several seconds based on the absorptive ...

• How popular culture can help bridge the achievement gap 

  Zinn, Aubrey (2019-03-19)

  [From Chapter 1] The American education system has innumerable problems: safety, standards, class size, infrastructure, teacher retention, and student retention are just a few. Floating betwixt and between these problems ...

• Reflection of the face 

  Townsend, Seonju (2019-03-19)

  [From Introduction] The portrait is one of the oldest genres in history. It is the “form” of a person, and an expression of their inner spirituality. It was developed by artists under the influence of the social environment, ...

• Utilization of a clinical testing battery to help identify suspected hidden hearing loss (HHL) in humans 

  Taylor, Larry (2019-03-19)

  Objective: The goal of the current study was to investigate the potential presence of hidden hearing loss (HHL) in adult participants with and without a reported history of noise exposure. Methods: Six normal hearing ...

• Contrast avoidance model: relationship to intolerance of uncertainty and fear of change 

  Schadegg, Molly J. (2019-03-18)

  The current study aimed to examine the relationship between, Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) model (Dugas, Gagnon, Ladouceur, & Freeston, 1998b) and the Contrast Avoidance model (CAM) (Newman & Llera, 2011), two theories ...

• Dissociative disorder treatment in practice: an exploration of community clinicians’ adherence to expert recommended frequency of interventions 

  Sanchez, Sarah Takako (2019-03-15)

  Few clinicians have been trained to treat patients with dissociative disorders (DD), despite their prevalence. An online educational program for DD patients and their clinicians was developed to make training for DD treatment ...

• Versus 

  Sam, Mario C. (2019-03-15)

  Mario C. Sam's thesis, Versus, explores the compositions created by events, experiences, and emotions in our internal and external worlds. We begin as a unique combination of physical elements. Atop this come ephemeral ...

• Wrath of the narcissists: vulnerable narcissism predicts greater spiteful punishment of a third-party transgressor 

  Parton, Drew M. (2019-03-15)

  Self-enhancement motivations underlie a bevy of behaviors with the purpose of achieving and maintaining high, healthy self esteem. However, in individuals with especially favorable self-views (i.e., narcissists), ...

• Coping styles and protective factors as moderators of adjustment after trauma exposure 

  Monahan, Erin E. (2019-03-14)

  Over 50% of individuals experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime which can range widely from a car accident to torture. These experiences are extremely aversive and result in negative life outcomes including ...

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