This qualitative study examined early adolescents’ argumentation using the Claim Evidence Reasoning (CER) framework. The CER framework is a tool for verbal and written discourse that supports students with constructing ...

Tornadoes damage and destroy many thousands of buildings per year in the United States leading to significant economic losses and long-lasting disruption to communities. In an effort to better understand the relationship ...

The child is an enduring figure in Spanish film, especially in the popular comedies and dramas of the 1950s and 1960s cine con niño genre. While scholars have in recent years begun to consider the role of the child throughout ...

Individual heterogeneity is critical in the evolutionary process, and yet most population models tend to exclude or limit the level of heterogeneity. Stoichiometry-based population models carefully embed natural chemical ...

The study of wind gusts and turbulence has been of interest to researchers and the engineering community for decades. For instance, wind plays a crucial role in the development of severe weather systems and wind turbine ...

The objective of this research is to stimulate near-wellbore and fracture-face zones by implementing two techniques: matrix acidizing and cryogenic treatment. The most common technique to remove or bypass near-wellbore ...

Materials with large photo-thermal energy conversion efficiency are essential for a wide variety of applications spanning from medicine to renewable energy. Photoexcitation is an effective approach to generate controlled ...

In the second half of the 19th century, the population of New York City boomed as immigrants poured in from the west of Ireland, southern and eastern Europe, and Asian nations. Among the Irish immigrants, particularly in ...

In this study, I examine the language style of CEO and CFO dyads to determine if the CFO assimilates to the CEO’s communication style over her/his tenure. Role congruity theory suggests a woman faces prejudice due to the ...

This dissertation contributes to a growing body of research on Project and Portfolio Management for the Information System’s LeAgile projects, which require continuous planning, delivery, and improvement. It introduces a ...