Research on minority aging has been done extensively in many fields such as sociology, psychology, economics, medicine, and so forth. However, the research is still lacking in the literary field and, consequently, minority ...

The purpose of this study was to feature the induction experiences of new principals and assistant principals and whether or not this experience supported the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to be effective ...

Within the field of composition, older adults are an understudied population. This qualitative project examined a group of older adults from subsidized senior highrise apartments on the North Side of Pittsburgh. Rather ...

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the new and innovative ways in which three 20th-century composers scored the timpani in their works. This is done through simple formal analysis of three pieces of music that feature ...

Empathy has been studied in composition since the 1960s, although it has not yet been adequately defined or theorized. Compositionists tend to employ the common definition of empathy as a feeling of identification with ...

Forty-six million people in the United States have an absence of health care insurance coverage (U.S. Census Bureau, 2008). A segment of that population is nurses, employed at various points on the nursing career ladder, ...

In this day of high stakes testing we are at even greater risk of overlooking students’ social-emotional well being in search of higher test scores. The goal of social-emotional learning is to strengthen a person’s ability ...

There is a current and growing nursing shortage in the United States, at the same time that more aging baby boomers require health services. This problem is further complicated by continued growth in the home health industry ...

This study examined the interaction between eleven pairs of adult Thai speakers and fluent English speakers over the course of an extended series of up to twelve online chat sessions. The study analyzed negotiation for ...

The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine whether organizational characteristics and personal characteristics were significant predictor variables of role conflict and role ambiguity in the safety professional. ...