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…
The current dissertation contains three series of studies that revealed laypeople's nuanced, meticulous, and early-emerging attentiveness to gender membership, gender self-identification, and gender roles and norms in their personal and social life. Specifically, the studies tog…
Currently, very little is known about the nature, scope, and quality of college-in-prison programs. Particularly given the reinstatement of Pell grants for incarcerated college students in December 2020—after a 26-year long ban—it is timely and urgent to center these issues and …
Professional identity stories are significant to better understand the influences and perceptions of teachers who describe past experiences that link to present reflections and connect to continual future evolution. The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore the influe…
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…
Racialization, the process by which society's systems and organizations build and reassert hierarchies through the social construct of race, is deeply embedded in society. Educational systems in the United States, influenced by these socio-cultural practices, are rooted in racia…
This thesis seeks to explore the experiences of Muslim students in college and understand their needs within the education system. Furthermore, it will investigate the factors which shape their academic achievement as well as their lived experiences in school. Insights from this…
Employability skills training programs are an essential strategy to improve the skills of the workforce and minimize unemployment in Malaysia. However, there has been a lack of assessment and evaluation studies regarding local employability skills training programs. Existing loc…
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…
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,…
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'…
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…
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 …
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 …
Background: In Oman, 33.3% of women attended late for publicly funded antenatal care in 2015 and 24% did not attend for the recommended 4-6 visits during their pregnancy. This low attendance suggests a need to explore attendance for antenatal care for low-risk pregnant women in …
Early modern Poland-Lithuania figured significantly in the political perceptions of Europeans in the long seventeenth century – not only due to its considerable size and enormous commercial and military resources, but also, and just as importantly, due to its exceptional religio…