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  • Fashion media's role in the debate on millinery and bird protection in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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    Scarborough, Amy D.
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    The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship among fashion media, the social responsibility agenda of the Audubon Society, and the use of birds in millinery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both the content analysis method and the historic method were used to gain...
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    responsible commentary on the bird debate. Editors of both Ladies’ Home Journal and Harper’s Bazar

  • Consumer perceptions of apparel products in Internet shopping

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    Kim, Mi-Jung
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    The purpose of the present study was to determine consumer perceptions of apparel products in Internet shopping. According to the existing literature, four categories of perceptions play primary roles for apparel shopping consumer decisions: apparel appearance, apparel comfort, fabric characteristics, and apparel fit. The present study aimed to observe how...
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    garment and decrease risks associated with the purchase of a garment. Research on non-store

  • Non-industrial textile production as optimal experience : applicability of the Flow Theory to clothing and textiles subject matter

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    Blood, Janet
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    The purpose of this research study was to test a psychological theory of motivation called the Flow Theory by Csikszentmihalyi as it relates to non-industrial textile production activities. In using the Flow Theory, researchers attempt to explain why individuals continue participation with a specific activity; namely that the activity induces...
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    The purpose of this research study was to test a psychological theory of motivation called the Flow

  • Aging in place : a contemporary social phenomenon

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    Lee, Megan
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    Most aging individuals prefer to remain in a self-determined home environment, and generally aging adults want to remain in the same home or same community. The benefits of remaining in a self-determined private home environment while aging have been established. Because individuals present a diversity of needs, it takes interdisciplinary...
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    options that facilitate remaining in a self-determine environment. The purpose of this research was to

  • Interactive video communication technology and successful aging in place : applying the selective optimization with compensation model

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    Yamamoto, Toshiko
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    This study utilized the theoretical framework of selective optimization with compensation (SOC) (Baltes, 1987; Baltes & Baltes, 1990) to interpret older adults' definitions about successful aging in place. Factors contributing to successful aging in place, including the importance of social interaction and perceptions of the usefulness of interactive video communication...
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    challenges and difficulties that I faced during the process of completing this dissertation research. I

  • Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

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    Johnson, Kristin Renee
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    Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the...
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    Jordan, as well as the dynamic institutional, international, theoretical and methodological context of

  • Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

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    Ellis, Erik
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    This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
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    process of research and writing has been a great pleasure, thanks to the many people who have freely

  • Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
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    International Commission on Radiation Protection JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association JCAE Joint

  • Transboundary river floods : vulnerability of continents, international river basins and countries

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    Bakker, Marloes H. N.
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    Floods are the most frequent and damaging of all types of natural disasters and annually affect the lives of millions all over the globe. However, researchers seem to have overlooked the fact that floods do not recognize national boundaries. Therefore, the phenomena of shared, or transboundary floods occurring in international...
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    Disaster Assistance/Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters International Disaster Database

  • The impact of organizational context on work team effectiveness: a study of production and engineering teams

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    Doolen, Toni L.
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    Teams are an integral part of organizations today. This research explored the relationships between nine organizational context variables, team processes, and three measures of team effectiveness. The research was conducted within one business unit of a Fortune 50, high-technology company, Intact production and engineering work teams from manufacturing organizations were...
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    , team processes, and three measures of team effectiveness. The research was conducted within one