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DESIGN, EVALUATION, AND MODELING OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE DC ENERGY CONVERSION TESTBED WITH EMPHASIS ON ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE
(2019-05-06)Much work has been done in recent years regarding the emphasis and newfound importance of energy storage and energy conversion within systems that, at one time, functioned off of simple alternating current (AC) busses. ... -
Development And Validation Of A Group Based Dominance Scale
(Psychology, 2014-09-17)The goal of this project was to update the social dominance orientation (SDO) scale by creating a separate measure for its subfactor group based dominance (GBD), which is defined as how strongly a person feels one group ... -
Do Spinal Fusions Necessarily Result In Poorer Therapeutic Outcomes?
(Psychology, 2008-04-22)Controversy exists over the relationship between spinal fusion surgery and successful therapeutic outcomes. Common problems include unstandardized outcomes, ignoring the impact of the medico-legal system, and a paucity of ... -
Does Chronic Pain And Pain Sensitivity Influence's One's Affective Experience Of Social And Physical Pain?
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)Pain Overlap Theory (Eisenberger, Jarcho, Lieberman, & Naliboff, 2006) suggests that the affective experience of physical and social pain share the same phenomenological and neurocognitive correlates (MacDonald & Kingsbury, ... -
Does Chronic Victimization Lead To A Rejection Attribution Bias?
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)This study examined the influence of chronic victimization on social pain reactions. This influence is referred to as the rejection attribution bias, measured via self-reports of feeling excluded, threatened needs, and ... -
Does Fibromyalgia Resolve With Functional Restoration Treatment In Chronic Disabling Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders? Prevalence And Treatment Responsiveness
(Psychology, 2013-03-20)Fibromyalgia (FM), a musculoskeletal syndrome involving widespread pain and tenderness to palpation, is considered stable and chronic, with few researchers evaluating diagnosis loss at post-treatment. FM patients (N = 117) ... -
Does Teacher Bullying Predict Poorer Adjustment Outcomes In Students?
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)The current thesis sought to examine whether (1) teacher bullying affects students' health, academic motivation and performance, (2) there are ethnic differences in teacher bullying, (3) teacher and peer bullying are ... -
Duration And Depth: The Effects Of Leader-follower Relationship Quality On Observer Ratings Of Leadership Performance
(Psychology, 2007-08-23)Previous research has shown that the duration and depth of the leader-follower relationship influences how followers rate their leaders. However, no studies were found that asked whether this relationship influenced how ... -
An EEG Investigation In Depression: The Effect Of Cognitive Processing
Among clinical populations, depression patients tend to show impaired memory performance both in working memory and associative memory accompanied with disorders in neural activity in the DLPFC. However, it is unclear ... -
The Effect Of Morphine On Dopamine Neuron Activation In Males And Cycling Females
(Psychology, 2012-04-11)The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of estrogen on the electrophysiological response of ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine (DA) neurons to morphine (10 mg/kg; IP) in experimentally naïve adult male and ... -
Effect Of Number Of Ideas And Folders On Idea Generation In Groups
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)Electronic brainstorming is a method developed to take advantage of the positive effects of collective ideation, such as cognitive stimulation, while decreasing production blocking and social loafing. Research indicates ... -
The Effect Of Pag Stimulation Evoked Dorsal Root Reflexes In Neurogenic Inflammation
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)Neurogenic inflammation is defined as inflammation produced by the sensory nerves. It contributes to the cardinal signs of inflammation: rubor (redness), tumor (swelling), color (heat), and dolor (pain or itch). It suggested ... -
The Effects Of A Preparatory Skills Training On Student Success
(Psychology, 2012-07-25)The effects of college-level student attrition are wide-spread. Numerous different approaches have been implemented to reduce these rates, such as offering freshman level seminars to aid the transition from high school to ... -
Effects Of Birth-order Composition On The Intial, Same-sex Interactions Of Young Adults
(Psychology, 2008-08-08)Using both individual- and dyad-level analyses, this study investigated the effects of birth order on the initial, same-sex interactions of young adults. One hundred eighteen students (59 dyads) participated in initial, ... -
EFFECTS OF DISSONANCE AND DISRUPTION ON RISKY DECISIONS
(2015-12-22)All choices develop first from the basic sensory stimuli to which our systems attend, consciously and unconsciously. The cognitive processes which form the basis of decision- making and contextual shifting require attention ... -
Effects Of Item Presentation And User Flexibility On Rater Perceptions
(Psychology, 2008-09-17)The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of item presentation and user flexibility on performance ratings and rater perceptions of the performance rating process. The participants were 252 undergraduate students ... -
The Effects Of Narcissistic Group Identity And Group-level Provocation On U.S. Citizens' Attitudes And Behavior Toward Arab Immigrants
(Psychology, 2008-09-17)A measure of Narcissistic Group Identity was developed and tested in a cross-sectional pilot study of 319 university students. Analyses revealed that Narcissistic Group Identity predicted more negative attitudes toward ... -
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ASSESSING THE ANALGESIC NATURE OF THE LATERAL HABENULA (LHb)
(2019-07-19)Local field potential (LFP) is a collective neural signal of all the synaptic activity occurring at a specific area of the brain, thereby offering a unique insight into how the brain functions. The habenula is involved in ... -
Embeddedness Versus Isolation In Dissonance-induced Attitude Change
(Psychology, 2011-10-11)The argument is made that embedded and isolated attitudes differ in the magnitude and effects of cognitive dissonance in an induced-compliance paradigm. Individuals who engaged in counterattitudinal advocacy with an ... -
Empathic Accuracy And Computer-mediated Communication: Testing The Effects Of The Target Partner's Attractiveness, Self-disclosure And Trust
(Psychology, 2009-09-16)This study examined empathic accuracy in a Computer-Mediated Communication setting. The attractiveness of the perceived interaction partner was manipulated and used as an independent variable. Participants were 48 dyads ...