There are many different reasons why a non-native plant species might become invasive in a novel habitat. Some studies have focused on trying to determine the genetic structure of an invasive species. Other studies have...
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Cold Stratification, Common Garden y Invasive plants
Preliminary eye-tracking studies have identified two distinct gazing strategies which males employ when assessing the attractiveness of female images (Melnyk, McCord, & Vaske, 2014). It has been hypothesized that...
Palabra clave:
Attractiveness, Evolutionary Psychology, Eye tracking y Mating strategy
Tema:
Gaze -- Psychological aspects, Sexual attraction -- Psychological aspects y Men -- Psychology
For over two decades, scientists and land managers in the eastern United States have had concerns about the loss of early seral habitat resulting from changes in land use and disturbance regimes. Forest harvest can create early...
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early seral forest, functional traits, southern Appalachians, vertical structure y woody vegetation
Tema:
Plants -- Effect of logging on -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest y Plant succession -- North Carolina -- Nantahala National Forest
This disquisition addresses the problem of student under-preparedness in the area of math, across school transitions. Disquisitioners engaged in improvement processes related to: (1) building teacher capacity to collaborate...
Tema:
Student adjustment -- North Carolina, Academic achievement -- North Carolina, Articulation (Education) -- North Carolina, School improvement programs -- North Carolina, Middle school education -- North Carolina, Education, Secondary -- North Carolina y Mathematics -- Study and teaching
The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomenon of violent writing in the high school English classroom. A non-experimental research design utilizing a new survey instrument guided the process of collecting data across...
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English Teachers, High School, Secondary, Threat Assessment y Violent Writing
Tema:
High school students' writings, American -- North Carolina y School violence -- North Carolina -- Prevention
This study assessed whether differences exist in the way females, males, and people with opposing political partisanships focus their visual attention during evaluations of politicians’ facial images. Eye movements were...
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Decision Making, Eye Tracking, Political Affiliation y Visual Processing
Tema:
Visual communication -- United States -- Case studies, Cognitive psychology -- Political aspects -- United States -- Case studies, Voting -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies, Party affiliation -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies y Voting research -- United States
In her essay “On Narrativity in the Visual Field: A Psychoanalytic View of Velázquez’s Las Meninas,” Efrat Biberman asks: “Does narrativity by definition contradict visuality, and if so, why is it so prevalent in the context of...
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David Skinner, diptych paintings, figurative abstraction, figurative painting, narrative paintings y photographs and painting
Tema:
Narrative art, Narrative art (Art movement) y Narrative painting
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been under-researched in females when compared to the amount of research devoted to their male peers. This qualitative study involves individual interviews with middle-school...
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ADHD, Classroom Interventions y Females
Tema:
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Sex factors, Girls -- Psychology, High school students -- Psychology y Middle school students -- Psychology
This thesis examines the existential despair and loss of meaning found in Camus' The Stranger and Sartre's No Exit, and then compares and contrasts those qualities with the Christian worldview and apologetic found in Percy's...
This thesis examines the existential despair and loss of meaning found in Camus' The Stranger and Sartre's No Exit, and then compares and contrasts those qualities with the Christian worldview and apologetic found in Percy's...
