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Cardiac performance as a function of temperature in the larvae of the American lobster (Homarus americanus)
American lobster larvae are subject to rapidly warming waters in the Gulf of Maine due to climate change, yet gaps remain in our understanding of their physiological response to temperature stress. Cardiac performance and ... -
Leading for Educational Equity and Change: A Case Study of Assistant Principals’ Beliefs and Actions
This study about Assistant Principals responds to the call for educational leaders to meet the needs of those student-scholars who are marginalized, disenfranchised and forgotten. Administrators are increasingly responsible ... -
ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF RELEASED LARICOBIUS NIGRINUS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES
(2023-05-09)The establishment of invasive species has affected biodiversity, biochemistry, and ecosystem functions worldwide. The hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae), an invasive insect native to Japan was introduced to the eastern ... -
Get a Little, Give a Little: A Look at Philanthropy in Higher Education
(2016-04)This study aims to determine what factors may motivate current undergraduate students to give to their alma mater after graduation. The study examines the likelihood to give financially and the likelihood to give time or ... -
Pivot Learning entrepreneurship from inside a tech startup
(2018-04)I likely have developed my entrepreneurial mindset through a seed that was planted approximately 11 years ago. While the steps I have taken into the startup world have recently materialized, I was given the necessary ... -
Queen Gertrude in Theory: The Construction of Hamlet’s Mother in Criticism and Film
(2016-05)Shakespeare’s Queen Gertrude has one of the smallest central roles in Hamlet’s tragedy. However, despite her notable physical absence, Hamlet and Claudius spend much time in the play ruminating on their respective relationships ... -
Relationships Among Cultural Competence, Studying Abroad, and Future Career Opportunities
(2018-04-23)This paper offers a review of literature on the effects of cultural competence and studying abroad on future career opportunities. The concept of cultural competence is explored, especially from the viewpoint of a school ... -
Sarah Winnemucca and Zitkala Sa: Negotiating Physical and Cultural Survival in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(2016-05)The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw extreme changes for many Native peoples in North America. This paper will focus on two women’s responses to this upheaval: Sarah Winnemucca (Numa) and Zitkala Sa (Yankton ... -
Some Voices We Remember: A Collection of Poems
(2018-04-23)The collective reality we live in each day is crafted by the unique experiences of each individual, the perceived appropriate responses to these experiences, and whether one is willing to challenge the perception of what ... -
Enumerative Combinatorics and Postional Games
(2017-04)Graph Avoidance games are a commonly studied type of combinatorial game. One class of graph avoidance games are Maker-Breaker games (Definition 3.4.1). In this thesis we prove weak solutions to Maker-Breaker games where ... -
The Brightest Fell: Renaissance Variations of the Fall of Lucifer in Marlovian and Shakespearean Drama
(2017-04)Perhaps the greatest struggle for triumph through usurpation, which resulted in immense failure and an eternity of punishment, is the tale of Lucifer, the infamous challenger of God and his kingdom of heaven. Ambitious for ... -
The Christian Conversion of Viking Settlers in Britain c.800-1100 CE Through the Lens of a Cultural Theory of Religion
(2015-05)Vikings have always captured the interest of the public despite the misconceptions that dictate an inaccurate popular image. While the increasing scholarship over last couple of decades has clarified and resolved some key ... -
The Development and Validation of the Jones Work-Life Conflict Continuum (JWLCC)
Today more than ever, people are faced with balancing work and family demands concurrently. The number of households with two working parents who have children has increased from 53.2% in 2000 to 60.2% in 2014, contributing ... -
The Effect of Offenders’ Education Level on Sentencing Time
(2017-05)This experiment assessed the effect of three different offender education levels (no high school degree, high school degree, and college degree) on the amount of time they are sentenced for a crime. The study’s hypothesis ... -
The Effect of Stereotype Threat on Quantitative Reasoning
(2017-04)Participants (N=172) were given the shortened 2001 version of the SAT quantitative section. A 2 (condition) by 3 (ethnicity) between-subjects factorial design was conducted, in which Caucasians, native-origin African-Americans, ... -
The Effect of Suspect Race and Degree of Suspect Resistance on Mock Officer Choice of Force
(2018-04)With increasing focus on police misconduct surrounding use of force with individuals from minority groups, this study focused on perceptions of police and use of force. A 3 x 3 between-subjects factorial design determined ... -
The Function of Emesal as a Cultic Sociolect
(2016-04)The Sumerian language is considered one of the oldest written world languages (Alster 1997: xvi), appearing in Southern Mesopotamia (see Figure 1) around the middle of the Uruk Period (4000-3100 B.C. [Jacobsen 1987: xi]). ... -
The Gendered Impact of Migration and Remittances on Educational Attainment and School Enrollment: The Case of Nicaragua
(2016-05)This study analyzes the gendered impact of migration and remittances, the money sent by foreign migrants to their home country, on the children in the receiving households. Previous studies have found that the influx of ... -
The Jane Austen Movie Club: An Analysis of Modern Jane Austen Film Adaptations
(2017-05)When the first epic motion picture, The Birth of a Nation, was released in 1915, Jane Austen had been dead for almost one hundred years, and the quaint stories of her regency girls trying to find husbands seemed to be far ... -
The Kurdish Question: Assessing the Plausibility of Statehood
(2017-05)The state is the most important political entity on the global stage today. There are over two hundred states in the world today, most whom are members of the United Nations. They come in all shapes and sizes of populations ...
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