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150 years of the geography of innovation
(Elsevier, 2021-01-25)Innovation has long been seen as central to long-term regional growth. Due to the absence of comprehensive data on the geography of innovation covering long time periods, quantifying long-term innovation-development linkages ... -
3 Kinds of Nouns: Counting is Not Always the Issue
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5 math skills your child needs to get ready for kindergarten
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The 51st State America Needs
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A Black Classroom Culture: Student Code-switching in an Inner City Secondary School
(2008-02-05)This project is a study of the speech of African American students within the High School classroom and their verbal communication before, during, and after class. The overall goal is to observe and study their varying ... -
A Critical Approach to Cultural Adaptations: A Case Study on the Localization of Norms of Authority and Gender Politics in TV Series Adaptations in Turkey
(2020-01-20)This dissertation examines cultural adaptations of transnational television series as a means to study how media globalization plays out at the local/national level. Through a critical perspective, the study investigates ... -
A Healthy Slice
(Originally published by: Urbanite Magazine, 2009-11-01) -
A lidar-based approach to measure channel incision in headwater streams in an urbanizing landscape
(2018-01-01)Stream channel incision can occur following landscape disturbances commonly related to urbanization. A method was developed to map reach-scale incision from lidar-derived digital elevation models using topographic openness, ... -
A Mediated Model of Predictors of Treatment Engagement Among Heroin, Cocaine, and Marijuana Users
(2009-01-01)The importance and efficacy of formalized treatment for drug abuse and dependence, combined with high attrition rates in drug treatment settings, emphasize the need for research to help understand what factors influence ... -
A Multi-Method Approach to Examine Predictors and Outcomes of Muslim American Adolescents? Social Identities
(2020-01-01)The Muslim American population is the fastest growing and one of the most discriminated against religious groups in the United States. The current socio-political climate poses profound developmental challenges for Muslim ... -
A MULTI-METHOD EXPLORATION OF KOREAN IMMIGRANT PARENTING AND CHILDREN?S SOCIO-EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES IN THE U.S.
(2020-01-20)This dissertation project aimed to clarify pathways toward young Korean immigrant children?s socioemotional and behavioral adjustment by exploring associations among predictors of parenting, parenting behaviors and practices, ... -
A Multimethod Examination of the Associations between Parenting Styles and Self-Regulation among Ethnically Diverse Emerging Adults
(2020-01-01)Self-regulation refers to individuals’ capacity for managing and regulating their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in response to contextual demands to enable goal-oriented actions. Parents play a significant role in ... -
A Nation of Neighborhoods: A Quantitative Understanding of US Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas
(2020-01-01)While pedestrian-oriented urban places have been identified as beneficial in a number of fields, including public health and climate change, there is a shortage of quantitative studies of such places covering large geographic ... -
A Necessary Haunting
(2020-01-01)Notice: In light of unforeseen circumstances concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, certain elements of the paper regarding audience interaction are no longer possible yet are still integral to the messages and ideas of the ... -
A PATH TOWARD EDUCATIONAL EQUITY: FACTORS FACILITATING THE PERSISTENCE OF RACIAL/ETHNIC MINORITY STUDENTS AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES
(2020-01-20)This study investigates the effects of students' on- and off-campus contexts and experiences on their community college persistence. Building from Crisp and Nunez?s (2014) Conceptual Model of Vertical Transfer and Bean ... -
?A Town Within A Forest?: The Walking Tour of Washington Grove, 1873-Present
(2020-01-01)The town of Washington Grove is uniquely placed in the middle of the suburban development of Montgomery County, Maryland. The Washington Grove Camp Meeting Association (WGCMA) was originally founded in 1873 and was dedicated ... -
Abnormal cholecystokinin mRNA levels in entorhinal cortex of schizophrenics
(Elsevier, 1998-01-05)Limbic cortical regions, including anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), prefrontal cortex (PFC) and entorhinal cortex (ERC), have been implicated in the neuropathology of schizophrenia. Glutamate projection neurons connect ... -
Academic Socialization in the Homes of Black and Latino Preschool Children: Research Findings and Future Directions
(Springer International Publishing, 2018)This chapter provides an overview of what is known about how Black and Latino families prepare their young children for school and what remains to be understood. It provides a synthesis of research presented in this volume, ...