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Do Teachers' Backgrounds Matter? Examining Teachers With Low-socioeconomic Backgrounds' Perceptions Of Teaching Economically Disadvantaged Students
(Education, 2014-12)This qualitative study explored how teachers from low-income backgrounds perceived their roles as teachers of economically disadvantaged students. The specific setting was Pinewood Park Elementary School in North Texas ... -
Does An Exotic Invasive Grass Facilitate The Invasion Of A Woody Species Into Remnant Prairies?: A Study of The Native, Prosopis glandulosa And the Alien, Sorghum halapense
(Biology, 2007-08-23)The native tree, Prosopis glandulosa, and the exotic grass, Sorghum halepense, have been invading native prairies in the Southwest U.S. since the 1800s. My objectives were to determine if S. halepense was driving shifts ... -
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 Experiencing and Witnessing Violence Negatively Impact Delinquency throughout the Life Course?
(2022-06-02)At some point in an individual’s life, there will be some type of exposure to violence whether direct or indirect. Also described as victimization, this takes place when there is a change in three main assumptions: belief ... -
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 IFRS ADOPTION AFFECT ANALYST FORECAST BEHAVIOR? EVIDENCE FROM FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUERS IN THE UNITED STATES
(2017-08-08)The globalization of business and finance has led to the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in more than 100 countries, and numerous studies have examined the consequences of IFRS adoption in ... -
Does Our Perception Of God Influence Our Perception Of Subjectively "sinful" Behaviors?
(Psychology, 2010-07-19)The current study investigated the influence of different perceptions of God (i.e., loving vs. punishing) on participants' attitudes towards subjectively "sinful" behaviors. Participants in the current study were 158 ... -
Does Shareholder-sponsored Corporate Governance Proposal Matter? The Case Of Executive Compensation
(Accounting, 2008-09-17)This study investigates the role of shareholder-sponsored corporate governance proposals in monitoring top management compensation. In particular, I test whether theories of agency costs, corporate governance, and optimal ... -
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 ... -
Does the Death Penalty Deter Homicides?
(2018-05-07)This study assessed the long debated question over the death penalty’s deterrent effects. The majority of the empirical research on this topic is dated and does not display the current status of capital punishment. The ... -
"Does Your Throat Hurt More In The Morning Or Throughout The Day?" "Yes.": Intercultural Medical Discourse
(Linguistics, 2008-04-22)An increasing number of immigrants to the United States do not use English as their first, or even second, language. Members of the medical community who treats such patients often do not speak the range of home languages ... -
DOMAIN ADAPTIVE TRANSFER LEARNING FOR VISUAL CLASSIFICATION
(2021-08-16)Deep Neural Networks have made a significant impact on many computer vision applications with large-scale labeled datasets. However, in many applications, it is expensive and time-consuming to gather large-scale labeled ... -
Domestication of PIF transposable elements transposases as regulatory proteins in Drosophila melanogaster
(2018-08-23)Transposable elements (TEs) are genetic units that are able to move and amplify within a host genome. As a result of their activities, TE insertions can cause disruptions of gene functions and ectopic recombination producing ... -
The Dominican Crisis Of 1962-1965, Communist Aggression Or U.S. Intervention
(History, 2012-07-25)In this paper I deconstructed the U.S. Invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965. I also look at the events leading up to the military intervention, such as assassination of Trujillo, the Bosch presidency, and the turbulent ... -
"Doubly Foreign:" British Consuls And Slavery In The Antebellum South, 1830 - 1860
(History, 2010-11-01)Upon ending their slavery in the British West Indies in 1833, Great Britain became known as the "Great Emancipator." Britain immediately began an official foreign policy campaign to end the slave trade and slavery wherever ... -
Dovetail: Stronger Anonymity In Next-generation Internet Routing
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2013-07-22)Current low-latency anonymity systems use complex overlay networks to conceal a user's IP address, introducing significant latency and network efficiency penalties compared to normal Internet usage. Rather than this ... -
Down And Back Again: A Swimmer's Body Moves Through Feminism, Young Adult Sport Literature And Film
(English, 2007-08-23)Contemporary material feminism is interested in finding new ways of writing and liberating women's bodies in literature, and some of these feminists are looking at sport literature to do so. Down and Back Again: A Swimmer's ... -
Dracula: From Historical Voievod To Fictional Vampire Prince
(History, 2008-08-08)Vlad Dracula was a fifteenth century historical prince in Wallachia, a part of modern day Romania. Prince Dracula was an ardent defender of Christendom, and staunch opponent of the expanding Ottoman Empire. However, ... -
The Drag Paradox
(English, 2009-09-16)Why are so many of us intent on defining ourselves in terms of those anatomically well-protected, discrete, and proportionally insignificant parts of our bodies we choose to keep covered up in the first place? Drag, the ...