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Title: COMMUNICATION, LEADERSHIP, AND VIRTUAL TEAMS
Creator: Robinson, Joy D.
Date: 2014, 2014-05
Description: A self-managing virtual (SMV) team is a configuration that permits team leaders to manage and administer their team with limited supervisory...
Show moreA self-managing virtual (SMV) team is a configuration that permits team leaders to manage and administer their team with limited supervisory oversight. These teams are widespread in software and engineering environments where resources may be scattered globally (Yukl, 2009). Research into SMV team leadership is, however, in its early stages. Scholars have yet to confirm that traditional leadership theories operate in this theater. Additionally, the slate of leader roles that describe leadership and how these leaders affect success is not well understood. Research into emergent leadership provides limited insight into virtual teams, but current research fails to examine how emergent leaders manifest in the presence of an appointed leader. This study examines the relationship between emergent leadership and team success using the Behavioral Complexity Leadership theory or Leaderplex. In the experiment, two virtual teams attempted a series of interdependent, complex tasks across a series of weeks. This analysis confirmed that leader roles could adequately describe leadership in virtual teams. SMV leaders focused specifically on the Monitor role with the remaining roles left distributed among the membership. The appointed leader condition did not suppress leader roles, however, in this study the appointed leader negatively affected team performance. Lastly, two perspectives (Perception and Practice) showed little correlation between leader roles. The study, conducted using the synthetic milieu of a popular MMO --World of Warcraft, served to push the envelope of permissible social science research environments.
PH.D in Technical Communication, May 2014
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Title: CABLE ACTUATED FINGER EXOSKELETON DEVELOPMENT AND EXAMINATION OF INDEX FINGER AND THUMB COUPLING
Creator: Jones, Christopher L.
Date: 2014, 2014-05
Description: Finger-thumb coordination is crucial to interacting with our environment. This coordination remains incompletely understood, even in...
Show moreFinger-thumb coordination is crucial to interacting with our environment. This coordination remains incompletely understood, even in neurologically intact individuals, and is difficult to study with current interface devices. Knowledge of finger-thumb relationships during dynamic movement facilitate identification of key impairment mechanisms following stroke and thus, help to guide rehabilitation strategies. Accordingly, a high-bandwidth, biocompatible finger exoskeleton is developed and implemented in a pilot study to investigate coupling between the finger and thumb during pinching movements. Performance of the Cable Actuated Finger Exoskeleton (CAFE) is analyzed in the lab and during interaction with human subjects, both neurologically intact and survivors of stroke. The exoskeleton is found to perform exceedingly well, exceeding nearly all design requirements lending to the continued use of the CAFE a research platform for human motor control of the hand. During experimental trials, participants move through index finger and thumb palmar pinching movements while the CAFE delivers perturbations during the closing and opening phases of movement. Two experiments are conducted, delivering reflexinducing or joint-locking perturbations to the index finger. Muscle EMG and thumb tip trajectory are recorded during movement and variations in these parameters immediately following perturbation demonstrate the effect of coupling of the index finger and thumb. Reflexive coupling is evidenced in both healthy and post-stroke individuals by heteronymous reflexes in the unstretched muscles of the thumb. Similarly, kinematic changes are apparent in thumb movement following impedance perturbations of the index finger in both populations. Coupling is observed to vary with phase of movement in x xiii intact participants, but not following stroke, suggesting a loss of modulation following stroke. Most notably: in survivors of stroke impedance perturbations to the index finger during the opening phase of movement results in dramatically increased thumb opening.
PH.D in Biomedical Engineering, May 2014
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Title: Closed nozzle tests of a forty gallon chemical extinguisher
Creator: Corman, A., Cowles, R. D., Owen, W. R., Tronvig, W. P.
Date: 2009, 1917
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/closednozzletest00corm
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: The coefficient of friction of ball bearings and horse power to drive
Creator: Rehfeldt, H. F.
Date: 2009, 1919
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/coefficientoffri00rehf
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Comparative investigation of different systems of interior lighting
Creator: Pagliarulo, V
Date: 2009, 1912
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/comparativeinves00pagl
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1912 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1912

Title: CUSTODIAL GRANDPARENTING IN YOUNG GRANDMOTHERS: EXPLORING THE STRESS PROCESS MODEL AND FORMS OF ADAPTIVE COPING
Creator: Coleman, Michelle Leoma
Date: 2012-10-17, 2012-12
Description: Custodial grandparents, adults who are caring for their grandchildren on a full-time basis, are becoming more prevalent in the United States....
Show moreCustodial grandparents, adults who are caring for their grandchildren on a full-time basis, are becoming more prevalent in the United States. Although literature examining the occurrence and impact of these families is common in the gerontology field, only recently has this issue been called to attention in young to middle-aged caregivers (early custodial grandparents). Early grandparents, aged 30-45 years, constitute only a small portion of the custodial grandparents; however, they have been suggested to be at the greatest risk for the negative outcomes associated with providing custodial care. Research has indicated, however, that coping strategies may effectively buffer against potential negative outcomes. Little research has been conducted to examine the utilization and benefit of employing specific coping strategies in young custodial grandparents. The current study explored the stress process model and forms of adaptive coping in community sample of 95 young custodial grandmothers (<45 years) raising their grandchildren. The utilization and effectiveness of various forms of coping on caregiving grandparent depression, well-being, and health status were examined. Coping was explored as a potential moderator in a modified stress process model. In addition, the role of subjective social support as a mediator of grandparent stress and subsequent ratings of depression, well-being, and health were evaluated. Results demonstrated that young custodial grandmothers experienced parenting stress levels equivalent to their older counterparts, however, neither stress nor negative appraisals of caregiving led to negative outcomes. Subjective Social Support did not mediate the relationship between stress and caregiver outcomes. Additionally, study results indicated that caregiver appraisals were x not significant mediators of stress and outcomes. Findings provided evidence for the buffering effect of both emotion-focused and problem-focused coping.
PH.D in Psychology, December 2012
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Title: Comparative designs of Gravity and Ambursen dams
Creator: Lyon, William K., Jr, Petersen, George W.
Date: 2009, 1921
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/comparativedesig00lyon
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology;Includes folded leaves in back pocket...
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Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology;Includes folded leaves in back pocket Bibliography: leaf [4]
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Title: A comparative determination of the magnetic qualities of iron and steel with the Esterline permeameter and magnetic balance
Creator: Wendell, R. B., Wolfe, E. J.
Date: 2009, 1907
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/comparativedeter_00wend
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: A commericial test of 350 hp Stirling boiler
Creator: Furry, William S, Matchett, James C.
Date: 2009, 1907
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/commericialtesto00furr
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Coke breeze briquetting
Creator: Belke, W. E.
Date: 2009, 1918
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/cokebreezebrique00belk
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Biblography: leaf 83

Title: Collective data on the treatment of sewage by the activated sludge process
Creator: Hammerman, M. A.
Date: 2009, 1920
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/collectivedataon00hamm
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology;Bibliography: leaf 3

Title: Commercial illumination
Creator: Muramoto, David K.
Date: 2009, 1921
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/commercialillumi00mura
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Commercial oxidation of geraniol to geranial
Creator: Lyon, Arthur L
Date: 2009, 1920
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/commercialoxidat00lyon
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

Title: Comparative test of centrifugal pressure blowers
Creator: Conlin, W. F., Holmes, W. E.
Date: 2009, 1909
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/comparativetesto00conl
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; Includes index

Title: Comparative tests of a boucherot induction motor
Creator: Micheal, J. C, Noren, H. E
Date: 2009, 1912
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/comparativetests00mich
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; On cover: Tests of a boucherot induction...
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Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology; On cover: Tests of a boucherot induction motor
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Title: A comparative life test of five types of incandescent lamps
Creator: Lindsay, Curtis Morgan
Date: 2009, 1909
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/comparativelifet00lind
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1909 Bibliography: leaf ii B.S. in...
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Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1909 Bibliography: leaf ii B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1909
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Title: Comparative test of centrifugal blowers
Creator: Griffiths, Francis H, Cummins, G. Fred
Date: 2009, 1911
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/comparativetesto00grif
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1911 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1911

Title: A comparative test of the mercury arc and the Murphy Electricity Rectifiers
Creator: Heitner, Walter O., Lohse, Alfred C, Mcguire, William P
Date: 2009, 1911
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/comparativetesto00heit
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1911 Bibliography: leaf 37 B.S. in...
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Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, 1911 Bibliography: leaf 37 B.S. in Electrical Engineering
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Title: A comparative test of integrating wattmeters
Creator: Crane, Edwin B
Date: 2009, 1909
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/comparativetesto00cran
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology, B.S. in Electrical engineering, 1909

Title: Comparative tests on small steam pumps
Creator: Lewis, R. L., Monahan, J. E.
Date: 2009, 1908
Publisher: Armour Institute of Technology
Description: http://www.archive.org/details/comparativetests00lewi
Thesis (B.S.)--Armour Institute of Technology

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