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Timing of high schools: achievement, attendance, and graduation
(2019-04-22)
This study was conducted as a sequential mixed method design to determine the relationship of school start times with achievement, attendance, and graduation rates among high schools. The misalignment of the internal clocks ...
Elementary teachers' self-efficacy beliefs related to teaching students displaying externalizing and internalizing behaviors
(2019-08-08)
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if there is a relationship between teacher-reported self-efficacy beliefs when working with students displaying externalizing and internalizing behaviors and the ...
Examining the dynamics between parent participation and fifth-grade student achievement
(2019-04-15)
The purpose of this study was to examine the dynamics between parent participation in education and student achievement. Fifth-grade parents from seven elementary schools in a large suburban school district in southeast ...
Improving Reliability and Latency of High Critical Tasks in Mixed Criticality Systems through Task Rescheduling
(2019-12-10)
A Mixed Criticality System (MCS) consists of various hardware and software components executing tasks with different criticality levels. The criticality of a task is determined by its impact on the overall system output ...
Genre and Audience Reception in The Rake's Progress
(2019-05-13)
W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman’s libretto for Igor Stravinsky's 1951 opera The Rake's Progress has challenged audiences' expectations since its premiere, especially concerning its narrative arc. These frustrations resolve ...
The Impact of Sleep Deprivation and Stress Reactivity on Interleukin-6
(2019-08-05)
Interleukin-6 (IL-6) has been implicated as a biomarker for both stress and sleep deprivation. Gaining a clearer understanding of the impact of both conditions concurrently may provide a better understanding of the biological ...
Factors that impact the implementation of secondary dual language programs in three school districts in the State of Texas
(2019-11-07)
Research has demonstrated that dual language education is the most powerful for school reform. Most of the research has focused on the outcomes of elementary programs. As dual language programs continue to expand from the ...
The relationship between faculty diversity and graduation transfer and drop out rates in public community colleges
(2019-10-28)
Previous research has found that overall graduation rates for underrepresented minority (URM) students of all races and ethnicities were positively affected by increased diversity of their faculty. Using 2017 archival ...
Biometrics-based user identification with optimal feature evaluation and selection
(2019-12-16)
Recently, biometrics-based identification algorithms have gained popularity as a means of identifying a person using their unique behavioral characteristics such as gait or hand movement pattern. Classifications based on ...
Social revitalization, urban development, and community food gardens for “The Cove” in Orange, Texas: can creating tiny living and micro agri-hood spaces revitalize a diverse low income neighborhood?
(2019-05-16)
In this study, two methods being utilized to combat the issues affecting many of the low income or run down neighborhoods in the United States will be examined as possible solutions for revitalization in the Cove neighborhood ...