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Leadership Style, Leader–Follower Congruence, & the Implementation of a Cultural Proficiency Initiative
(2019-07-13)Principals play a critical role in addressing the institutional inequities that prevent students from fully accessing the benefits of public education. School leaders must work in concert with their staff to transform their ... -
Libertad de expresión con mordaza: Limitaciones y consecuencia de la Transición en la presente democracia española
(2019-04-29)Este trabajo analiza la limitación de la libertad de expresión en la España actual. La libertad de expresión es uno de los derechos fundamentales de los ciudadanos en las sociedades democráticas y su buena salud también ... -
A MAJORITY OF CLONALLY-EXPANDED T CELLS CONTAINING REPLICATION-COMPETENT HIV-1 PROVIRUSES ARE TRANSCRIPTIONALLY SILENT
(2019)Current antiretroviral therapy (ART) is highly effective at blocking HIV-1 replication but does not cure the infection due to the persistence of latently-infected cells that are able to undergo cellular proliferation (1). ... -
Meaning and Interpretations of Historical Icons
(2019-04)Throughout time, it has often been taught that the author or creator holds the greatest authority on the meaning of a work of art. In more recent times, however, many have argued that it is instead the audience's own ... -
The Mediating Role of Organizational Climate in the Relationship between Leadership Outcomes and Organizational Strategic Planning
(2019-07-30)The topic of leadership has been studied in many different ways, yet there exists very limited information on the impact of leadership style and outcomes on organizational climate and organizational strategic planning ... -
Mental Health Stigma in a Politically Polarized 2019
(2019-04-19)This research examines the relationship between political views and mental health stigma. Though past research has examined the framing of mental illness and the predictive ability of political party affiliation in regard ... -
Meta Spherical
(2018-07)Meta Spherical is a sculptural exploration of the search for truth at the intersection of science, faith, and human perception. Interconnected matrices of smaller clay components come together to form abstract sculptures ... -
Multi-Stage Pattern Reduction in Lossless Image Compression
(ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2007)Lossless image compression is the process of compressing and subsequently decompressing images without the loss of data. Historically, image compression was carried out by treating images as complex text [13]. Only in ... -
Neihardt’s Ghost Dance: The literary creation of Black Elk and Lakota Religion
(2019-04)Native American ceremonies are an integral part of understanding indigenous culture. In the early 1900’s, John Neihardt attempted to better understand the Lakota culture by interviewing Black Elk about the Ghost Dance of ... -
NUSA SOLUBILITY IN ESCHERICHIA COLI: DISCORDANT HOMOLOGUES
(2018-03)Solubility is a recurrent challenge when overexpressing non-native proteins in Escherichia coli (E. coli) for purification. N-utilizing substance A (NusA) is often used as a fusion tag to enhance the solubility of its ... -
OVEREXPRESSION OF ADENYLATE CYCLASE ISOFORMS ALTERS CELL SIGNALING PATHWAYS IN NF1-NULL MALIGNANT PERIPHERAL NERVE SHEATH TUMORS
(2017-11)The second messenger, cyclic-AMP (cAMP), is produced by ten adenylate cyclase (ADCY) isoforms. Previous studies indicate that ADCY isoforms may lead to either activation or inhibition of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), ... -
Plastered Crania and Community Rituals in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant
(2019-04)During the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, complicated mortuary ritual developed in the Levant, which expanded upon traditions of earlier time periods. During the earlier Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A periods there was already ... -
Predicting Mortality of Diabetic ICU Patients
(2019-04)Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major public health concern that requires continuing medical care. It is also a leading cause of other serious health complications associated with longer hospital stays and increased mortality ... -
Predictors of Perceptions of Aging in Young Adults: An Exploratory Study
(2019)This study investigated whether religious affiliation and level of religiosity affect perceptions of aging among Millennials. I predicted that religiously-affiliated Millennials would have more positive views of aging than ... -
Principals' Perceptions on Their Experience of the Framework for Teaching Professional Development
The research question explored in this study was: What is the impact of the Framework for Teaching (FfT) (2013) professional development on high school principals? The primary purpose of this qualitative study was to ... -
Production of Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus-Like Particles for Vaccine Studies
(2019-04-05)The aim of this research is to produce virus-like particles (VLPs) for Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus (MVEV) Genotype 1 and Genotype 2. This research will incorporate strategies previously shown to increase production ... -
Re-Presenting Black Masculinities in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
(2018-04)Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir and letter to his son Between the World and Me (2015)—published shortly after the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement—provides a rich and diverse representation of African American male ... -
Rebellion, Republic, and Resistance: Exploring the Politics of Disney's Star Wars Films
(2019-04-29)Star Wars is arguably one of the most significant cultural franchises in the United States of the past 40 years. George Lucas’ original trilogy has spawned an abundance of media, the most prominent of which is the film ...