This study examines statistics in Major League Baseball and their effects on team wins. Frequentist and Bayesian approaches are compared and past research is evaluated. Using Bayesian analysis and logistic regression, ...
The purpose of this study is to better understand, through retrospection, how military spouses recognized the likelihood that their veteran needed to be evaluated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Existing research ...
White-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, have induced direct and indirect changes in hardwood forest ecosystems by over-browsing. From 1979 to 1990, deer density was manipulated in regions of Allegheny hardwood forests ...
Aggregated cervical cancer rates for the 21 year period 1985 through 2005 were age-adjusted and standardized for each neighborhood and municipality in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Cervical cancer rates for each community ...
The Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea) has experienced an annual range wide population decline over the last 40 years. To identify common habitat features important to Cerulean Warbler nest placement in different geographic ...
This study compared the production rates (in repetitions per second) of adductory and abductory laryngeal diadochokinetic (LDDK) tasks, 'uh' and 'huh,' and sought to establish normative LDDK rates for adults. These tasks ...
Rhizoctonia solani (teleomorph Thanatephorus cucumeris) is a worldwide distributed soil-borne ubiquitous plant pathogenic fungus that is genetically diverse. It is a major cause of death for most seedlings in cultivated ...
Intimate partner violence (IPV), a pattern of physical, sexual, and/or emotional violence by an intimate partner in the context of coercive control, has become a considerable problem for young adults in college. In fact, ...
This study determined if a correlation existed between college students‟ Facebook use and co-curricular involvement. While Facebook use has exploded in the past decade, research on how this phenomenon affects college ...
This thesis presents, from the viewpoint of a conductor, the rehearsal and performance of four cross-cultural dance forms in band repertoire: Four Scottish Dances by Malcolm Arnold, arranged by John P. Paynter, Formosan ...
This study aims to analyze learning and teaching strategies that foster student motivation and English as a Second Language (ESL) listening to enhance ESL learning. Scholarly published articles and books from 1980 to 2011 ...
The metallic spin-glass CuMn has been prepared for studies pertaining to the `End of Aging'. A highly specialized machine known as a dual DC SQUID magnetometer has been developed and assembled to perform low temperature ...
In this study birds were excluded from branches of six dominant tree species of the Allegheny National Forest. Larval Lepidoptera (caterpillars) and Symphyta (sawflies) collected from exposed and protected branches indicate ...
Paramecium tetraurelia exhibit a brief spontaneous backward swimming behavior that is independent of external stimuli. This spontaneous avoiding response (SAR) occurs at regular intervals which increase and decrease in ...
Breast cancer affects many women each year and research has shown that exercise can enhance the physical and psychological quality of life in these women. This study compared the quality of life and fitness measures of ...
Online learning has seen an explosive growth at the K-12 level, however little research has used an experimental design approach to specifically examine the outcomes of delivery methods. This study examines what effect ...
This qualitative research project examined both hearing and Deaf advocates who serve victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Respondents were surveyed regarding the current levels of resources and what additional ...
In this study, I explored four bilingual and multilingual speakers' constructions of identities in their language learning and teaching journeys. Conducting this research by using autobiographical narrative analysis method, ...
This thesis aims to explore different types of writing experiences described by ESL students and how these experiences contributed to students' perceived abilities of writing poetry. The study was conducted in a qualitative ...
This study investigates the attitudes of sorority women towards member and non-member lesbians, taking a closer look at the perceived versus actual acceptance of lesbian women within the sorority community. The findings ...