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A preliminary examination of the associations among worksite environment, worksite health culture, and modifiable employee health risk
(2010)
In recent years, the focus of worksite health promotion has begun to shift from the individual employee to the worksite environment and health culture. The purpose of this study was to examine the cross-sectional associations ...
Settlements, sediments and space: A practice approach to community organization in the Late Neolithic of the Great Hungarian Plain
(2010)
This dissertation develops a conceptual and methodological model for studying the spatial organization of small agrarian settlements during the Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age (c. 5000-4500 BC) in the Berettyó-Körös ...
Habitus and the reasons and intentions for residential mobility and homeownership: A mixed-method study among former refugees in Buffalo
(2010)
The purpose of this study is to analyze residential mobility and homeownership as integral elements of the early refugee settlement process and the different meanings refugees assign to residential mobility and homeownership. ...
Queer melodramatics: The feeling body and the American democratic imagination
(2010)
Queer Melodramatics: The Feeling Body and the American Democratic Imagination seeks to locate and analyze the ways in which the rational, enfranchised democratic citizen-subject is produced through the generation and ...
A network analysis of the American Library Association: Defining a profession
(2010)
The term “librarianship” is a generic one, suggesting one overarching discipline despite the numerous specializations and areas of research within the profession. While many disciplines use bibliometric analysis of their ...
Essays on the impact of new product introductions on market dynamics
(2010)
New product introduction is a key marketing strategy used by firms to protect and hopefully boost their revenues and profits. New product introductions usually trigger various shifts in market dynamics. Manufacturers of ...
The role of human capital in imperfectly informed asset markets
(2010)
Although information asymmetry is gaining ground as the single most plausible explanation of home bias, little testable research has been done to analyze how such an information differential is formed and sustained in an ...
Cuerpos latinoamericanos: La discapacidad fundacional en la novela hispanoamericana 1847–1958
(2010)
Cuerpos latinoamericanos sitúa la discapacidad física y cognitiva como fundacional a la novela hispanoamericana; se revela una fuente de inesperados poderes tanto política como estéticamente. El primer capítulo revisa la ...
Senecas and their neighbors: An ethnographic and historical portrait
(2010)
In this dissertation I examine the relationship between Senecas and Euro-Americans from initial contact until the present day. The disciplines of history and anthropology necessarily inform my work; the former gives it ...
The place of race: Constructions of black and white identities in a working-class, inner-ring suburb in the global economy
(2010)
This ethnographic study analyzes the dynamics of race and social class formations and the processes of identity construction of black and white students in an inner-ring suburban high school. The traditionally white, ...