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Community gardens: growing control for women experiencing food insecurity in food deserts
(Texas Woman's University, 2016-08-31)
Food is a basic requirement of human life. More than 23 million people in the United States (U. S.) find it difficult to shop for food because they live in food deserts (United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural ...
Work-life interaction experiences in women 55 years of age and older
(Texas Woman's University, 2016-08-31)
The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of work-life interaction in women aged 55 years and older. Women’s work-life interaction was measured as the frequency of their experiences of work interference with ...
Vagrants, vixens, and victims: exploring the limitations of human trafficking victim recognition criteria in texas
(Texas Woman's University, 2016-08-31)
Major trends in scholarship claim that law enforcement’s ability to recognize trafficked victims is limited (Farrell et. Al; Stolz; Uy), and that the majority of trafficking prevention occurs at a state level. Contextually ...
Women's masturbation: an exploration of the influence of shame, guilt, and religiosity
(Texas Woman's University, 2016-08-31)
Though advancement has been made pertaining to acceptance regarding interpersonal sexual experiences during the last few decades, masturbation typically engenders feelings of shame and disdain despite its beneficial effects ...
The impacts of exposure to fat talk and fat talk challenging through social media on women
(Texas Woman's University, 2016-08-31)
Fat talk, conversations including peers mutually degrading their own bodies, has become increasingly commonplace among women in the United States (U.S.). Decades of research has revealed fat talk conversations result in ...
Attributions in social interactions: A qualitative study
(2003-12)
The purpose of this study was to investigate people's attributions in explaining ambiguously described behavior, and to discover whether and how those attributions reflect their social identities and social roles. A ...
A call to duty: The social identity of law enforcement managers
(Texas Woman's University, 2016-05-30)
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the social identity of law enforcement managers (LEMs). Qualitative research methodology, specifically in-depth interviews, was used for this study. An interview schedule guide ...
Finite inductive sequence: Factoring technique
(1997-12)
This thesis considers finite sequences of symbols extracted from an alphabet set. In this case, the alphabet set is the positive integers. The underlying hypotheses is that such finite sequence is finitely inductive (FI). ...
Ethics, ambiguity, and the existential novel; A study of Simone de Beauvoir's works of fiction
(2015-05-30)
This thesis analyzes five novels of the existentialist French author Simone de Beauvoir. It seeks to challenge the arguments presented by many scholars, which regard Simone de Beauvoir's work as subordinate to and dependent ...
Female pornographic consumption, rape myth acceptance, and ethnicity: Is there a relationship?
(2015-05-30)
Research on women as consumers of pornography has generally been sparse. The present study investigated the relationship among female pornographic consumption, rape myth acceptance, and ethnicity. The investigator predicted ...