Coping with everyday life stressors is a salient topic in our fast-paced society. The field of Health Psychology has an active interest in the study of personality in the stress and coping process, and its relationship to well-being. The present...
Africa, Central -- Politics and government -- 1960-; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1960-1997; Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1997-; Crimes against humanity -- Africa, Central; Crimes against...
In the Central Africa Region four million people from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have died largely unnoticed by western media from armed conflict and human rights abuses. Some scholars have written extensively that the conflict in...
African Americans -- Race identity; African Americans -- Health and hygiene; African Americans -- Religion
The origins of psychology looked at studying the "psyche" or soul of an individual, as well as the interactions between the biological organism and its physical and social environment. Throughout the evolution of psychology, scientific study and...
Over fifty years after its introduction into clinical practice, succinylcholine is still the only depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent used in this country today. It is highly favored in the clinical practice of anesthesia because of its rapid...
During the development of potential protein or antibody therapeutics in a pharmaceutical environment, the use of animal models as test subjects is a necessary requirement. The dosing of mice, rats, and primates is essential to drug development...
Autism in children -- Diagnosis; Autism in children -- Case studies
Autism has many definitions, but its most specific definition describes it as a developmental disorder that affects verbal and non-verbal communication as well as social interaction. It affects a person’s ability to respond appropriately to their...
Central Connecticut State University; Augmented reality
Augmented reality is the concept of overlaying digital information on top of the real worldview. One application that makes use of Augmented Reality is the Layar Reality Browser, which shows what is around oneself by displaying real time digital...
Children's songs, Spanish; Spanish language -- Study and teaching (Preschool); Music in education
This study was undertaken to determine if there was a significant difference in Spanish vocabulary acquisition in pre-schoolers when the vocabulary was introduced in a song using only the target language and representative pictures or motions...
This study proposes to investigate community policing styles and their influence on misdemeanor arrest rates, and serious property and violent crime. Participants in the study include all police agencies within the state of Connecticut serving...
This project proposes to situate Cooper's Chingachgook and Hetty,Melville's Queequeg, and
Hawthorne's Pearl and Priscilla, as rhetorical characters of what shall be termed the primitive-as-savior
tradition of American fiction. This rhetoric...
Data mining; RSS feeds; Natural language processing (Computer science)
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an internet-based technology allowing website publishers to easily and frequently broadcast relevant content updates to subscribers. Business analysts looking for content relevant to their needs have thousands of...
In the early days of aviation, particularly after World War I, many geographers wrote about the value of observing a place from above. They thought aerial observations would be a valuable aid to regional studies. This early enthusiasm for observing...
Educational change; Inclusive education; Middle school teaching
This mixed methods instrumental case study examined an educational change process in a middle school to inclusive practices for students with disabilities. Educational change continues to challenge principals and teachers. Appreciative inquiry was...
The issue of standardized testing is multifaceted and often the subject of much debate. Given the support that these test receive from the current state and federal administrations, with the goals of determining accountability and improving the...
Ethnicity; High school students -- Attitudes; Self-esteem in young adults
The United States is a country, which is characterized by its unique diversity of population. Within this diversity, however, Whites, African Americans, and Hispanics are the three ethnic groups, which compose the majority of its population (United...
The introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002 created a new element of uniformity and extended the capabilities of the European Union. Through a lengthy process of trials, failures, and breakthroughs, which spanned from the European Union’s...
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. As I lay dying; Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Light in August
Few American literary figures have elicited more scholarly debate than William Faulkner. Over the past century, Faulkner's work has moved in and out of favor among critics. He has been celebrated as a regional genius and denounced as a misogynist...
This research examines how a cycle of poor nutrition has been created in the Frog Hollow neighborhood, an urban food desert, in Hartford, Connecticut. The absence of large chain grocery stores and the ubiquity of fast, high-fat, high-calorie...
The role of cognitive distortions in persistent gambling Gambling has increased enormously in recent years and there has been a commensurate increase in scientific interest in the phenomenon. Officially sanctioned gambling in America first took...
The pairing and recombination of homologous regions of the X and Y chromosomes, in an area known as the pseudoautosomal region (PAR), has been a phenomenon of interest since its discovery in 1934. Its presence seems to be limited to eutherian...
