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Healing Garden for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The development and impacts of participation in a healing garden group for survivors of interpersonal violence were studied. The healing garden group focused on reconnection with self, others, and community as outlined in ...
Sexual Health Perspectives of Pastoral Adolescent Girls in Samburu County
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Teenage girls from the Turkana pastoral community in Northern Kenya have varying views of sexuality. Some parents choose to send their daughters to school creating disparate levels of knowledge about their bodies and sexual ...
Clustering Algorithm Comparison for Ellipsoidal Data
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The main objective of cluster analysis is the statistical technique of identifying data points and assigning them into meaningful clusters. The purpose of this paper is to compare different types of clustering algorithms ...
A Study of Direct Care Staff for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities/Mental Illness Regarding Grief and Loss Issues
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Social service agencies often ignore death and dying issues (DDI). Direct care staff (DCS) are left to fend for themselves when it comes to these issues. Training on DDI and GLI is scarce. Theories such as Symbolic ...
Loss Reserving Chain Ladder Methods Applied to a Small Midwestern Insurance Company
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Estimating future losses is integral to setting aside appropriate reserves in the insurance industry. This study analyzes different Chain Ladder reserving methods based on weighted-least square regression that consider ...
Predicting Recessions in the U.S. with Yield Curve Spread
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
This paper proposes a hidden Markov model for the signal of U.S. recessions. The model uses the spread of interest rate between 10-year Treasury bond and 3-month Treasury bill, together with other financial indicators which ...
Assessing the Neural Correlates, Sources and Consequences of the Attentional Rhythm
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Evidence suggests that even when sustained at a single location, spatial attention waxes and wanes over time. These fluctuations are cyclic, lasting about 125-200 ms (i.e., ~4-8 Hz), and are characterized by alternating ...
Dual Effects of Social Support on Cardiovascular Reactivity: Social Support as a Comfort and an Encouragement
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The stress-buffering hypothesis (Cohen & McKay, 1984) proposes that social support attenuates cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) in times of stress. Past research which tested this hypothesis has obtained inconsistent findings. ...
Popular in the Digital Age: Self-Monitoring, Aggression, and Prosocial Behaviors in Digital Contexts and their Associations with Popularity
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role in the social lives of adolescents, as many of the social interactions that once occurred in face-to-face contexts are now occurring through digital ...
The Structure of Goals: Using Cybernetic Theory to Understand Behavior and Functioning
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
While self-determination researchers emphasize the importance of pursuing internally motivated goals for self-regulation, cybernetic theorists instead highlight the structural features of goal systems and the manner in ...