Malls have been a part of modern American life in a multitude of ways. They are
massive structures that aim to act as a third place for the local community and, more importantly,
create a prosperous and efficient place ...
The purpose of this project is to examine trends and changes in learning outcomes in adult
learners in the state of Mississippi brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Data was assessed
from a typical, pre-Covid, ...
This study focuses on the several dimensions of violence and mental health within high school students. Using the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS), the evidence suggests 3 unique subpopulations within ...
“For the [R]ule of [L]aw to exist, people must believe in and be committed to the rule oflaw…” (Ashby). The rule of law is outlined most prominently by nations’ constitutions. A nation’s constitution is comprised of every ...
Dictionaries tend to define the English adverbs literally, totally, and wholly with respect to each other, thus failing to distinguish their nuances. Although adverbs are well known for their complex functional and syntactic ...
This study provided insight into the relationship between the usage of performance
enhancing drugs and Major League Baseball performance analytics. This study utilized a
logistical hierarchical model to analyze the ...
Despite the increasing popularity of Young Adult Literature (YAL), there are still YAL
subgenres, like fantasy, which have received little to no attention in literary criticism. This
research paper hopes to remedy that ...
The present study aimed to assess whether a KMeans clustered sample of scores on the Children’s HOPE Scale differed with respect to scores on the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children via one-way MANOVA. The results ...
This research contrasts metaphor usage across formal and informal writing in American
English. The data was taken from a public forum, Reddit, and a Psychology and Behavioral
Sciences database to contrast the ways that ...
13The relationship between socioeconomic status SES and academic achievement has long been investigated. The way SES has been operationalized in studies has also often varied. It has been measured through the use of a ...
Recent nationwide demonstrations against police brutality and institutional racism perceptions in law enforcement have sparked renewed controversy concerning the United States criminal justice system. Much of this debate ...
Differential Item Functioning (DIF) is used to detect bias within assessments. In this
project, uniform DIF and nonuniform DIF were modeled and observed to assess the fairness of
the cognitive items on the Financial ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between food and well-being. It was expected that food based on Mediterranean diet would positively predict psychological well-being. To test these hypotheses 69 ...
This investigation explored the salient variables that predict general happiness, as well as those
variables’ relative importance, as indicated by the General Social Survey (GSS). The study
applied the Least Absolute ...
Pedagogical training can have a noteworthy impact on creating significant learning experiences for students. In K-12 education, teachers are required to have extensive training in pedagogies before obtaining a teaching ...
This project develops an understanding of trauma theory at the intersections of traumatic religious systems and the experiences of Queer, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color within these systems. Making use of the ...
Bike lanes and bike trails are growing types of transportation infrastructure in Indianapolis,
Indiana. In the past decade, 215 miles have been built. While the locations of the current and
planned bikeways of Indianapolis ...
A prescriptive view of grammar in writing assessment perpetuates biases. Asao Inoue
(2017) explains, “There is nothing inherently wrong with the dominant white, middle class
English… but using it to judge others, to ...
The chemical industry currently accounts for 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions and is
projected to become the largest global consumer of oil by 2030. In the Ball State Laboratory for
Biocatalysis Research, we strive ...
One of the most difficult aspects of the study and use of Japanese grammar is the distinction between WA and GA (Imamura, 2002; Hasegawa, 2014). The differences between these two particles are typically complicated since ...