This dissertation consists of three separate chapters, each providing an empirical analysis on various aspects of the opioid crisis in the United States. Each chapter is a separate article.
The opioid epidemic has claimed ...
Sexual misconduct has been related individually to both ACEs and Moral Disengagement. Though existing studies examined the relationship between ACEs and sexual misconduct, there is a paucity of research exploring the ...
Growth performance is one of the most economic important traits for the aquaculture industry. In addition, fillet quality attributes are among the primary determinants of consumer acceptability. To study the genetic ...
Change fatigue is a developing concept that addresses the response individuals have when they perceive that too much change is occurring. As organizational change becomes more prevalent, more organizations and researchers ...
Here we study how the stage structure of a population of cells varies with the distributions of times spent in each stage (which we will refer to as maturation time distributions). We consider a model with two life stages. ...
Recently, there has been a resurgence of an effort to understand the nature of mathematics and what the construct means for mathematics education as a field and educators. Underlying teachers’ understandings of the ...
This dissertation consists of three distinct, publishable `papers' included as separate chapters.
The first article looks at the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program which provides all foreign students on an F-1 ...
Conversations in the workplace can often veer from job related content to more controversial subjects, such as politics. In the current political climate, views on political issues are becoming increasingly polarized, and ...
Resistance training is widely accepted as a superior method for enhancing muscle size, strength, and athletic performance, making appropriate resistance training prescription a priority for strength coaches and personal ...
Business and industry leaders across the world are seeking employees who possess 21st century skills—problem-solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity to name a few. Schools and districts ...
Historically, plants have been a tremendous source of novel bioactive small molecules or secondary metabolites. However, botanical macromolecules have not been as thoroughly studied. Among the different types of macromolecules, ...
Schmidt, Schmidt, & Wilson (in prep.) demonstrated that participants can use word color to prioritize recall only when they are told which of two word colors has higher value before (rather than after) list presentation. ...
In an effort to provide free and appropriate education for students, 42 states have passed laws regarding dyslexia, many of which address the instructional requirements of reading intervention. Programs were developed to ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of warm-up with a knob-loaded, center-loaded, and barrel-loaded baseball bat on swinging velocity when compared to a normal baseball bat in Division I collegiate baseball ...
Teachers’ utilization of instructional coaches and their reported instructional practices can help school districts and schools more effectively utilize instructional coaches in schools to impact student achievement and ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of gender and ELL status in students’ performance, and to compare the consistency of the results of the differential item functioning (DIF) determining from applying ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of having teamwork knowledge on teamwork behavior. This relationship was examined across all team members and also for the most critical team member (i.e., core role ...
C. neoformans, a spore-producing pathogenic yeast, affects immunocompromised individuals causing meningoencephalitis. Once C. neoformans is introduced via the respiratory tract, it is engulfed by macrophages and other ...
This dissertation takes as its argumentative center what Benedict Anderson names the “anomaly of nationalism.” More specifically, it aims to challenge this hegemonic force and its influence on individual creativity through ...