This doctoral research thesis aims to provide a comprehensive depiction of contemporary spiritual engagement outside of religious tradition. Existing research is primarily contextualized within the areas of sociology and religious studies, and an in-depth psychological evaluatio…
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The financial crisis of 2007-2009 raised concerns regarding countries’ abilities to rescue their largest banks should a new crisis emerge. By focusing on European Union banks from 2001 through 2019, this dissertation investigates the impact of both absolute and systemic bank siz…
Scope and Purpose With a temporal span beginning in 1796 and ending in 1909, this thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the abundance of ways in which people of all social classes in the long-nineteenth-century were able to engage with the Arctic. Encompass…
Health human resource development (HHRD), including nursing human resource development (NHRD) is essential for any country. HHRD is an unexplored area of study in Pakistan. In this exploratory study, qualitative methodology was used to obtain the perceptions of key stakeholders …
This Thesis presents the details of a study on the assessment of risks management perception and practice of construction contractors in Saudi Arabia toward construction risks. Focuses on risk allocation (both contractors perception and as practiced); risk importance and risk ef…
This Descriptive study sought to investigate nurses' knowledge, feelings beliefs, and thoughts about ionizing radiation as no other study, to this author's knowledge, had done so. To this end, 600 surveys were sent to registered nurses in the New York metropolitan area. A total …
Following the Sepoy Rebellion (1857), India's architecture came to play a key role in Britons' quest for knowledge and comprehension of India and Indians. For this reason, British perceptions of the subcontinent's architecture are intimately and foundationally linked to Britons'…
Background: The problem of overweight and obese children now constitutes a global burden, with high prevalence rates being reported in many transitional societies. Children in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are 1.8 times more obese than those in the United States and, by age 18,…
New technologies accompany each war. The submarine dove during The Civil War, tanks rolled through World War I, the atom bomb was dropped in World War II and Agent Orange was diffused in Vietnam. Media often refer to today's conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan as "Obama's Dron…
This study was conducted to examine the perceptions of elementary and middle school teachers in Saudi Arabia toward using an integrated approach to teaching Arabic language Arts. These teachers have taught Arabic language arts and skills separately through the specialized textbo…
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was two-fold. It began by exploring the familiarity and perceptions of Saudi faculty members of the CAEP standards. Then it speculated on how these perceptions may influence the outcomes of using CAEP standards on evaluating educational pr…
The purpose of this research was to determine the perceptions of physical education teachers and supervisors toward the secondary physical education program in eight domains in the State of Kuwait. Stratified and cluster sampling were used to select two schools of female teacher…
Organizations are embedded in a multilevel institutional environment where institutions at each specific level do not necessarily have uniform impact on various functions of organizations. In other words, institutionalization should not be viewed as a macro process that only aff…
The travel and tourism industry in Massachusetts, already mired in a recession, suffered severe financial hardship after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Tourism leaders tried to stop the economic hemorrhaging by promoting more local and regional travel. However, since …
The presence of an autistic child in a family has adverse effects on many parts of family life. Parents of autistic children are known to experience disbelief, sadness, depression, self-blame, and anger. Autism is also commonplace in African countries, but little empirical resea…
This dissertation uses agent-based computer simulation to examine general processes that generate patterns of social organization among nomadic pastoral populations in Inner Asia. Of particular interest are processes related to the formation of nomadic states and empires, such a…
In this study I examined the differences in the relative importance of (1) Brand Name of Laptop Computers; (2) Brand Name of Micro Processor; (3) Brand Name of Operating System and (4) Country of Origin of Laptop Computers (5) in determining the perceived quality of Laptop Compu…
Prior research has shown that differences in human resource management (HRM) perception/practices do exist between nations. These differences have been attributed to variations in culture. The fundamental purpose of this study was to determine whether subcultures differing in lo…
The purpose of this study was to conduct a cross-cultural investigation of the concept of trustworthiness. This research followed a dominant-less dominant mixed method design with the quantitative component being the dominant method. Six national cultures were compared on the cr…