Research suggests that a gap exists between scholarly findings and practitioner knowledge, beliefs, and practices in the Human Resource field, particularly in the area of employee selection (Deadrick & Gibson, 2007; Rynes, Giluk, & Brown,...
College attendance--Kentucky; College dropouts--Kentucky; Academic achievement--Kentucky; Mathematics--Study and teaching (Higher)--Kentucky
From 1988 to 2006, between 40% and 60% of all first-time community college students are referred to and enroll in at least one developmental education course; some colleges reported as high as 80 percent (e.g. Attewell, Lavin, Domina, & Levey,...
The purpose of this study was to examine common algebra-related misconceptions and errors of middle school students. In recent years, success in Algebra I is often considered the mathematics gateway to graduation from high school and success...
Due to of the rise in numbers of persons experiencing homelessness, communities are working to restrict access that homeless individuals have to public spaces. Many cities across the nation have criminalized aspects of homelessness in attempts to...
Autistic children--Rehabilitation; Social skills in children; Autistic children--Behavior modification; Group work in education; Peer-group tutoring of students
Social reciprocity deficits are a core feature of the autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and a major source of impairment regardless of cognitive or language ability (Carter, Davis, Klin, & Volkmar, 2005). Since these impairments do not naturally...
Teachers of children with disabilities--Attitudes; Teacher-student relationships; Developmentally disabled children--Education; Affective education
The First Step to Success early intervention program (Walker, 1998) is a
secondary prevention intervention that targets primary grade children with moderate or
emerging behavior disorders. While the effectiveness of the First Step to Success...
Electronic commerce--Corrupt practices--Prevention; Internet advertising--Corrupt practices; Internet fraud
Online search advertising is currently the greatest source of revenue for many Internet giants such as Google™, Yahoo!™, and Bing™. The increased number of specialized websites and modern profiling techniques have all contributed to an...
Social work education; College teachers--Attitudes; Educational leadership
The purposes of this study are twofold: (1) to describe the leadership styles of social workers in educational administration and (2) to explain possible differences in leadership style by determining if context or gender or a combination of both...
Multiple normalization methods have been proposed for the analysis of microRNA microarray expression profiles but there is no consensus method. One of the more robust methods, quantile normalization, is commonly used in transcript (mRNA) studies...
Electric power production; Electric power failures; Hybrid electric vehicles
Electric vehicles are quickly becoming one of the most rapidly growing technologies of this age. With their acceleration to prominence, the concept of Vehicle to Grid (V2G) becomes much more common as well. V2G is normally used as a supplement to...
African American farmers--Kentucky; Farms--Kentucky; Land use, Rural--Kentucky
The decline of black farmers and black-owned farmlands is an ever worsening problem. Though their numbers neared one million at the start of the 20th century, the most recent account of black farmers states that there are only 30599 left in America...
Football teams--Ratings and rankings; Ranking and selection (Statistics)
A new method to rank football teams with the concepts associated with the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) and Graph theory is developed in this thesis. A set of games is interpreted as a graph, in which every vertex represents a team, and every...
Electroencephalography; Visual evoked response; Drug addicts--Research
In 2006 it was estimated by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA, 2007) that 19.9 million Americans used illicit drugs, computing to roughly 8.0 % of the United States population. In 2007, there were 2.1 million...
Science teachers--Certification; Science--Study and teaching (Elementary)
The purpose of this study was to discern what differences exist between the science inquiry learning environments created by National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) and non-NBCTs. Four research questions organized the data collection and...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; Ekstrom Library (Louisville, Ky.); Libraries; Trees;
Ekstrom Library, east entrance. There are concrete steps and handicapped access ramps leading to the doors and plate glass windows on the first, second and third floors. Several people walk toward and away from the doorway. Blooming dogwood trees...
Buildings; Educational facilities; Schools; Louisville Male High School (Louisville, Ky.)
Boys High School, later Male High School, at the corner of Brook Street and Breckinridge Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Four-story building with front entrance pillars and also a small side porch. There are pediments over the top floor's windows,...
A small dog, perhaps Pekingese, lies on a small bench on top of a table. He is looking up at a framed photograph of an antebellum couple by Kate Matthews (ULPA 2007.14.031.p). There are also books, a basket with knitting needles and yarn, and a...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods--Ohio River; Floods; Disasters; Buildings; Rescue work; Rescue workers; Streets; Automobiles; Disaster relief; City & town halls; City Hall (Louisville, Ky.); Government facilities
Louisville, Kentucky's City Hall during the 1937 Flood, with floodwater, haphazardly parked cars, and a fire engine. City Hall was used as the center for all relief, rescue and rehabilitation efforts, as noted in Rick Bell's "The Great Flood...
Crowd gathered on eastern end of six block pontoon bridge that stretched from 915 East Jefferson Street to Baxter and Barret Avenues during the 1937 Flood of the Ohio River. People in canoes and small motor boats navigate the flooded street while...
Simmons University (Louisville, Ky.); Education; African Americans--Education (Higher); African American educators; African American college teachers; Teachers; African American musicians; Musicians; Portrait photographs; African Americans
Portrait of Professor R. S. Wilkinson with the dates of 1892-1897 written on the back - possibly the dates of his employment at State University. In the photograph Professor Wilkinson is posing with a violin. The portrait was taken by Roche of 342...
