During the 2004 election season, conservative elites employed superior agenda-setting techniques and utilized the mass media to sway public opinion on sensitive social issues in hopes of generating electoral success for conservative candidates, partic . . .

Statement of Problem: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has been working with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to converge U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to International Financial Reporting Stand . . .

Statement of Problem: In spring, 2007, I instructed a section of College Composition in which I found myself guiding students toward a rhetorical model based in individual authority, despite my intentions to encourage a more inquiry- or dialogue-based . . .

Social work champions social justice a belief that everyone is entitled to equal opportunity. Post secondary education should be open to all students. Individuals have a right to higher education and should not be discriminated against based upon thei . . .

The central issue of creating ideal conditions for teaching and learning has been extensively examined from multiple perspectives. However, while the growing prominence of the student-centered perspective in particular has led to a considerable body o . . .

Memory research has shown mixed results concerning how emotional information is processed (see Christianson, 1992, for review). One individual difference found to relate to emotional processing (Belsky et al., 1997; Laible, 2004) and understanding (de . . .

This thesis investigates implementation of the California Case Management System (CCMS) in Sacramento County. CCMS is the information technology system used by California courts, and is funded through the Trial Court Funding Act of 1997 and the Trial . . .

High turnover and low job satisfaction are long standing problems within the nursing profession. Attempts at rectifying these trends have included more recently, mentor-based residency programs of various lengths and kinds. This study examines the res . . .

This study examines empirically the potential causal link between financial development and output growth in each of sixteen countries that have experienced sustained economic growth in the postwar period within a multivariate vector autoregressive (V . . .