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BETTER, BUSIER, OR STRESSED OUT? EXPLORING SOCIAL MEDIA-INDUCED TECHNOSTRESS IN A SALES CONTEXT
(2019-05-09)In this dissertation the "salesperson-technology environment interaction model" is deployed to explore the stress experienced by salespeople while using social media for work. Even though social media has numerous benefits ... -
BEYOND BRIBERY: AN EXPLORATION INTO LOBBYING AND INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE INFLUENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
(2018-07-27)Qualitative evidence suggests that corporations lobby within countries with informal structures abroad. While political science research on Western lobbying is robust, it falls short in understanding how multinational ... -
Beyond Delay: A Qualitative Examination Of The Successful Delay Of Postsecondary Education Of Latter-day Saint Returned Missionaries
(Education, 2014-12)This qualitative study fills a void in the research on postsecondary education delayers by examining the postsecondary experiences of six male Latter-day Saint Return Missionaries from the North Texas area who delayed ... -
Beyond Good And Evil: Sister Leopolda's Traumatic Will To Power
(English, 2007-08-23)This is an in-depth analysis of one of Louise Erdrich's most extraordinary characters, Sister Leopolda. I examine Leopolda first as a trauma victim who has suffered the loss of family, witnessed the death and assault of ... -
BI-CONSONANTAL REDUPLICATION IN AMHARIC AND ETHIO-SEMITIC
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-05)This dissertation is a study of the consonant reduplication process in Amharic, a process which is herein named “Bi-Consonantal Reduplication.” In this process, the last two consonants of a root are repeated, a process ... -
Biaxial Investigation Of Periosteal Mechanics
(Biomedical Engineering, 2009-09-16)Limb lengthening procedures are used commonly to correct limb length discrepancies. Current methods in limb lengthening require a distraction of 1 mm per day using an external fixation device. Although the underlying ... -
Biaxial Mechanical Characterization Of Porcine Periosteum
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-08-08)Periosteum is multipotent tissue responsible for cortical bone deposition and is important in fracture repair. Research indicates the periosteum is mediated by similar mechanical signals to those that mediate bone growth ... -
BIDDING ENABLED INVENTORY REDISTRIBUTION IN A RETAIL NETWORK
(2021-05-09)This research aspires to develop a systematic approach to minimize the demand and supply gap of products and product expiration in a feasible way. Inventory replenishment policy, uncertain customer demand, and forecast ... -
Big Data In Single Player Games
(2020-05-28)Improving video games can be exponentially more efficient by utilizing big data. Big data plays a big part in modern gaming, especially for multiplayer games like poker, first person shooter games. Utilizing the data ... -
Biliary Tract Differentiation Through Use Of Visible To NIR Hyperspectral Reflectance Imaging
(Biomedical Engineering, 2014-09-17)Cholecystectomies are one of the most common surgeries performed in the United States, and most of the complications which arise from these are injuries to the common bile duct (CBD) resulting from a misidentification of ... -
Bimetallic-waveguide coupled sensors for tunable plasmonic devices
(2015-12-01)Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) has been a widely used optical technique for the real time and label free sensing applications in biomedicine, homeland security, food safety, environmental monitoring, etc. Surface plasmons ... -
BIO-INSPIRED ADAPTIVE TUNING OF HUMAN-ROBOT INTERFACES
(2018-08-07)Motivated by recent advancement in neurocognitive in brain modeling research, multiple model-based Q-learning structures are proposed for optimal tracking problem of time-varying discrete-time systems. This is achieved by ... -
Bioanalytical LC-MS: Streamlined Sampled Preparation And Novel Ambient Ionization Techniques
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2012-07-25)Bioanalysis has gained importance in the scientific at an exponential rate. The focus of these works attempt to seek new approaches towards faster and more efficient bioanalysis that require little to no sample preparation. ... -
A Biochemical Approach To Determine The Target Site Recognition Mechanism Of The R2 Retrotransposable Elements
(Biology, 2011-07-14)Non-LTR Retrotransposons (NLRs) are selfish mobile genetic elements which parasitize the genomes of many organisms including humans. These elements transpose through an RNA intermediate and integrate directly into their ... -
Biochemical, Kinetic And Spectroscopic Characterizations Of Non-heme Iron Oxygenase Enzymes
MiaE is a non-heme diiron enzyme which catalyzes the O2-dependent hydroxylation of selected tRNA-nucleotides as part of a multienzyme posttranscriptional hypermodification pathway. This tRNA-modifying enzyme is postulated ... -
Biodegradable Fluorescent Polymers
(Biomedical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Most of the works done on fluorescent polymers are focused on their potential applications in lighting industries. Much less interest has been paid for their potential application in the field of biology and biomedical ... -
Biodiversity in the Anthropocene, understanding the impacts of land-use change, and species interactions.
(2023-08-10)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2024** ABSTRACT: The extent of human influences on the environment and biodiversity has led to naming our current time period the Anthropocene. A primary way in which ... -
Biogeography and Conservation of Reptilian Diversity in West Indonesia
(2022-04-19)Uncovering and analyzing the distributional patterns of species across the landscape is central to biogeography, but these same patterns and explanations for those patterns are also critical to proper conservation and ... -
Biography As A Searchlight: Finding The Frank Stanford Story Cycle In Ellen Gilchrist's Fiction
(English, 2011-03-03)Ellen Gilchrist's short stories and novels form several story cycles that connect her characters and tie her work together into interdependent story groups. Her work is also strikingly autobiographical, featuring protagonists ... -
Bioinformatic Identification Of Small RNA (and Their Targets) In The Testis Of Clawed Frogs (Xenopus And Silurana): Implications For Male Fertility
(Biology, 2012-04-11)Chapter one sets the stage for this project, which lies somewhere near the intersection of speciation, genome, and reproductive biology. Chapter two identifies miRNA with shared expression profiles (Silurana and Xenopus). ...