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Creator:: Lloyd, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: The regulation of behavior is a major issue in early childhood development, with important implications for children’s adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes. Emerging research suggests that the degree of successful self-regulation depends upon the efficiency of the child’s attentional system and that the ability to focus and sustain attention supports...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: thank my parents, Richard and Virginia Lloyd, who in addition to providing much needed financial

Creator:: Christensen, Terry M.
Abstract:: This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Richard Matzner, Alan Mills, Charles Misner, Daniel Rohrlich, Lawrence Shepley, S. Fred Singer, Daniel

Creator:: Nott, Brooke Dolenc
Abstract:: Positive youth development posits that all youth possess the capacity to change and grow as they interact with their contexts. That capacity is activated and nurtured by a beneficial ecological environment often unavailable for homeless youth. Only a limited number of studies focus on the positive development and strengths of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: as key for the sustainability of self and communities (Eisenberg, Fabes, & Spinrad, 2006; Lerner

Creator:: LaVigne, Aaron
Abstract:: This thesis explores the process of the creation of TEDxOregonStateU, a TEDx event held on the Oregon State campus on February 12, 2015. TED Conferences, created to share “Ideas Worth Spreading”, created the TEDx Program as a platform to allow for individuals to collaborate in the creation of independently organized...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: executives: Rick Spinrad, Ron Adams, and Steve Clark (positions noted below): TEDxOregonStateU University

Creator:: Miao, Alicia J.
Abstract:: Cognitive self-regulation and the behavioral manifestations of cognitive self-regulation are important aspects of school readiness, yet less is known about the variation in measurement modalities within children. In this dissertation, two studies examined the makeup, antecedents, and consequents of constellations of cognitive self-regulation (CSR) measures around the transition to formal...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Finders, Jennifer K.
Abstract:: Self-regulation in early childhood encompasses higher-order executive function processes and lower-order emotional responses that enable children to navigate the classroom environment. Although self-regulation and executive functions are overlapping constructs, self-regulation represents a broad assessment of children’s ability to call upon executive function processes in order to meet contextual demands. Prior...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Parsotan, Tyler M.
Abstract:: Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic explosions in the Universe, producing up to $\sim10^{53}$ ergs of energy in the first few seconds of their emission -- the so-called prompt phase that is dominated by high energy X-ray and $\gamma$-ray photons. The very large luminosities released in these events...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Merculief, Alexis
Abstract:: In the United States, children from underserved racial/ethnic backgrounds encounter greater environmental risk both in terms of the physical environment (e.g., housing quality, access to resources like health services and jobs, and exposure to environmental toxins) and the social environment (e.g., social support, neighborhood crime, racism, and discrimination), due to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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