A globalized health threat rises each year as pathogens quickly continue to develop modifications rendering previously prosperous antibiotics ineffective. Discovery or synthetically constructed antibacterial compounds are ...
This study provides an overview of the impact goal setting can have on English Language Learners (ELL). This qualitative research will consist of case studies of four to six students who are in fourth or fifth grade who ...
Research on the metabolic demand associated with training modalities is needed for those with an incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) to improve rehabilitation and exercise prescription approaches. The underwater treadmill ...
An obedient daughter, a scorned lover, a raving madwoman—each of these epithets is an appropriate description of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Character studies of Hamlet range from completely ...
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More research is needed that investigates how and to what extent adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are predicted by neurocognitive executive functioning (EF) skills. To address this, the current study analyzed ...
Both working as a 9-1-1 dispatcher and examining research on emergency communications personnel reveals high levels of emotional labor and associated stress, mental health issues including depression and anxiety, and ...
Social media has become one of the most potent tools for political communication over the last decade. It has largely replaced or incorporated much of legacy media. This project looks at social media’s relationship with ...
The film genre of horror will not and possibly cannot die. The genre’s metacinema tradition existed in the first flickers of the motion picture industry with its reliance on adaptation and serialization, and it continues, ...
Mitophagy describes a collection of pathways that direct the selective autophagic removal of damaged or superfluous mitochondria within eukaryotic cells. Of these, the PINK1 (PTEN-induced putative kinase 1):Parkin mitophagy ...
This study tested two competing theories describing how information is shared in a selection process. The information processing theory says critical unshared information, important information not originally known, is ...
The history of the Civil War has been a point of contention across the nation and in academia, regarding how it is remembered as well as who controlled this memory in years past. This thesis utilizes frameworks from ...
The 19th Amendment in America gave women the right to vote and federally protected their enfranchisement. Tennessee played a major role in the passage of the amendment by being the 36th state to ratify. During and after ...
This research explores the role self-consciousness serves as a potential moderator for the relationship between body image and disordered eating. Participants (N = 50) were recruited using Middle Tennessee State University’s ...
Reading is a fundamental skill for success in everyday life. Unfortunately, 5-20% of all children in the U.S. experience some form of reading difficulty (RD), such as dyslexia. Prosody—i.e., the suprasegmental features ...
In 1979, Middle Tennessee saw the formation of the Student Coalition for Gay Rights (SCGR) at Austin Peay State University (APSU). The Student Coalition for Gay Rights became the first LGBT+ student organization to receive ...
This study was an attempt to determine the personality traits, including obsessive-compulsive (OC) tendencies, implicated in the formation of paranormal and religious belief systems and whether experience may mediate this ...
In the U.S., typical elementary science instruction has not supported young children engaging in sophisticated scientific practice or developing deep understanding of appropriate science concepts. This is inconsistent with ...
School districts invest large amounts of time and budgetary costs to provide professional development to support the professional growth of teachers each year. Although districts are providing professional learning that ...
Prior research confirms that students who struggle early with reading will rarely catch up without additional support and direct intensive intervention. These results accrue dramatically over time. It takes four times as ...
This thesis describes a variety of projects computing the optical response of periodic and aperiodic structures. The projects include the design of dielectric multilayer, grating, frequency selective surface and antennas, ...