Electronic Theses and Dissertations
About: Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are the graduate research outputs of Texas Tech University. They represent years of work from our Master's and Doctoral graduates. If you find the ThinkTech digital repository useful, please tell us! Share how open access to scholarship benefits you. Your story matters to us.
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White folks walking: Exploring Bishop’s invitation into diverse books through poetic inquiry
(2022-12)Purpose In 1990, Rudine Sims Bishop opened the summer printing of Perspectives: Choosing and Using Books for the Classroom with a short but profound essay. With it, she put onto paper what many had been saying for decades, ... -
Uncertainty Analysis of Healthcare Data via Statistical Modeling and Optimization
(2020-08-01)Healthcare data have been useful resources for improving patient care in the health care system. Many efforts have been made to analyze healthcare data of different structures to draw actionable insights into the appropriate ... -
The Impact of Social Support on Graduate Student Mental Health
(2014-08)The researcher conducted a two-part dissertation study examining the relationships among stress, social support and mental health outcomes for graduate students in the United States. Participants were recruited via online ... -
A Two-Essay Dissertation Examining Individual Tax Reform and the Implied Cost of Equity Capital
(2013-08-01)ESSAY 1: Prior studies of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, which cut individual tax rates on both dividends and capital gains, unexpectedly find that non-dividend firms were more favorably affected ... -
Influence of Personal Growth Initiative on the Relationship Between Culture and Work Values
(2013-05-01)The importance of understanding work values has become increasingly relevant as research supports a positive relationship between the fulfillment of work values and job satisfaction (Super, 1973; Hoppe, 1990; Rounds, 1990). ... -
Wellbeing Leadership in Higher Education: A Collective Case Study of Chief Wellness Officers
(2022-12)This qualitative collective case study examined the research associated with leadership in higher education settings with a focus on developing understanding of wellbeing programs and the Chief Wellness Officer (CWO) role. ... -
Hadronic vector boson decay and the art of calorimeter calibration
(2002-12)Presented here are several studies involving the energy measurement of particles using calorimeters. The first study involves the effects of radiation damage on the response of a prototype calorimeter for the Compact ... -
The relationship of early recollections to occupational choice
(1967-08)Psychologists have been interested in relating various factors pertaining to occupational choice for many years. Such occupationally related factors as intelligence, education, physical ability, aptitudes, environmental ... -
Attitudes toward love, sexuality, and marriage among young adult children of divorce
(1991-08)Longitudinal studies (Hetherington, Cox & Cox, 1985; Wallerstein, 1985, 1987) have established that the effects of parental divorce in childhood and adolescence are longstanding. Older research had indicated that males ... -
The role of executive control function in predicting level of care in a long-term care setting
(1997-05)The population of the United States is aging. At the same time, society is attempting to manage health care costs while providing the care needed by elderly persons ir this and future generations. There is a great demand ... -
Attributions, behavior, and relationship satisfaction
(1998-08)The current study investigated the relationship between attributions about partners' positive and negative behaviors and behavioral reactions to those partner behaviors, and compared distressed and nondistressed individuals ... -
The operation of a state-federal vocational rehabilitation program at the county level
(1969-08)The primary purpose of this investigation is to examine a state-federal rehabilitation program at the county level. Case records are employed to describe such rehabilitation activities as administrative procedures, description ... -
social anxiety and social reasoning in peer-rejected children
(2003-08)Children who experience peer rejection in childhood are at an increased risk for a number of difficulties in later life including juvenile delinquency, school dropout, academic problems, school truancy, and mental health ... -
Personal adjustment and vocational interests of two male reformatory groups
(1964-08)The basic purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of the personal adjustment in the choice of vocational careers. The sample will be chosen from a reform school population in order to explore the effects of a planned ... -
The relationship of positive/negative symptomatology in schizophrenia to performance on neuropsychological measures of attention and psychomotor function
(1990-05)An attentional deficit has long been considered a core feature of schizophrenia. Over the years, attention as a concept has been more clearly delineated. Also, numerous attempts have been made to subtype schizophrenia as ...
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