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Examining attitudes towards entrepreneurship education: a comparative analysis among experts
(Inderscience Publishers, 2015)This paper aims to examine the attitudes towards entrepreneurship education (EE) of entrepreneurs, investors, policy-makers, service providers and educators within Europe. This research builds on secondary data of the ... -
Examining Cognitive Impairments in Bereaved Adults With and Without Complicated Grief
(2015-08-10)Grief is a syndrome of cognitions, emotions, and behaviors that commonly arise together following the death of a loved one. It includes intense pangs of emotional pain, yearning for the deceased, emotional numbness, ... -
Examining Health and Economic Outcomes Associated with Pediatric Medical Conditions in the United States
(2013-02-15)The objective of this dissertation is to estimate the health and economic outcomes associated with two prominent child health conditions: autism spectrum disorder and influenza illness. Chapter 1 derives utility values ... -
Examining Landscape Factors Influencing Relative Distribution of Mosquito Genera and Frequency of Virus Infection
(Springer Verlag, 2009)Mosquito-borne infections cause some of the most debilitating human diseases, including yellow fever and malaria, yet we lack an understanding of how disease risk scales with human-driven habitat changes. We present an ... -
Examining Mental Health in Black Communities Using Intersectional Approaches
(2021-07-12)Few epidemiologic studies have disaggregated U.S. Black populations when exploring the impacts of racism, at multiple levels, on mental health. Intersectionality theory, as developed by Black feminist organizers and scholars, ... -
Examining Methods Used to Evaluate the Cost-Effectiveness of Childhood Obesity Interventions
(2013-02-08)This dissertation examines methods used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of childhood obesity interventions in order to help decision-makers prioritize among competing health programs using standardized outcomes. Chapter ... -
Examining the Authenticity of Plato’s Epistle VII through Deep Learning
(2021-06-03)Plato’s Epistle VII, a text in which the famous Athenian philosopher describes his political involvement in the affairs of 4th-century B.C.E Syracuse, has long been considered dubious by classical philologists. In particular, ... -
Examining the Experts: Science, Values, and Democracy
(2017-05-11)This dissertation examines the role of experts in democracies, with a focus on issues that involve the translation and use of science in political decisions. Conventional accounts of the relationship between expertise and ... -
Examining the Organization and Functions of Parallel Association Networks within Individuals
(2022-05-10)In our daily lives, we often recall details of our past experiences, consider friends’ feelings, imagine novel scenarios, and flexibly communicate with others. These impressive cognitive abilities – for memory, social ... -
Examining the Relationships between Stress, Reward Processing, and Bipolar Disorder
(2013-03-08)Bipolar disorder (BD) is a prevalent illness associated with severe impairments in functioning and elusive etiological pathways. Although a strong link between negative life stress and the onset of mood episodes in BD has ... -
Examining the robustness of input-outcome associations in children’s language development and evaluating the effectiveness of a novel assessment in rural Ghana
(2024-01-22)Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in children’s language learning in the home, particularly in how, by talking to their children, parents can help them reach important linguistic milestones. In this dissertation, ... -
Examining the role of sex in self-injurious thoughts and behaviors
(Elsevier BV, 2017)Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs), including nonsuicidal self-injury, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, and suicide death exhibit substantial sex differences. Across most countries, men die by suicide more ... -
Examining the role of succinate signaling in tissue remodeling
(2024-03-12)While the benefits of exercise on systemic health are undeniable, vigorous muscle contraction, like the ones associated with exercise, puts considerable mechanical and energetic strain on muscle fibers. To meet these ... -
Examining viral pathogen evolution and spread through genomic data
(2023-01-19)This work makes use of viral genomic data to examine the evolution and spread of the virus SARS-CoV-2 at multiple scales: from the virus present in individual patients over time to its introduction and transmission within ... -
Example-based video color grading
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2013)In most professional cinema productions, the color palette of the movie is painstakingly adjusted by a team of skilled colorists -- through a process referred to as color grading -- to achieve a certain visual look. The ... -
“Excavando tumbas en el sonido”: memoria de la represión e historia de la recepción de la poesía de Antonio Gamoneda
(Carleton University, 2013)Este artículo estudia el largo poema de Antonio Gamoneda Descripción de la mentira (1977) como un testimonio de la experiencia personal y colectiva de la represión ocurrida durante la guerra civil española y la dictadura ... -
The Excavations in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel
(University of Chicago Press, 1992)This paper summarizes the results of recent excavations (1982-90) at the Middle Paleolithic site of Kebara Cave. Work at the cave by earlier excavators is also discussed. Although analysis of the Kebara materials is still ... -
Exceptional Preservation of Fossils in an Upper Proterozoic Shale
(Nature Publishing Group, 1988)Late Proterozoic organisms must have been diverse and widely distributed, but in general their fossil record is both taxonomically and environmentally limited. Exceptional preservation of Proterozoic fossils is not unknown, ... -
Exceptions to Exclusion: A Prehistory of Asylum in the United States, 1880-1980
(2016-01-28)This dissertation focuses on migrants mostly left out of scholarship on American refugee policy and resettlement programs and disrupts the scholarly dichotomy that analyzes the restrictionist handling of immigrants and the ... -
Excess Ejecta Craters Record Episodic Ice-Rich Layers at Middle Latitudes on Mars
(American Geophysical Union, 2008)We infer Amazonian climate change events from the presence of fresh craters with excess volumes of ejecta. Using the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter data, the geometrical properties of 572 fresh impact craters with rim diameters ...