• Parental Involvement in Education: Barriers and Opportunities for Hispanic and African American Middle School Students 

  Johnson, Garfield (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the existing level of parental involvement in education and the perceived barriers and facilitators to parental involvement in a sample population of parents and ...

• Parables of the Prodigal: Engaging the African Immigrant Nurse in Homeland Health 

  Maboshe-Sitali, Mooka (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  In this analytic autoethnography, I set out to explore the potential agency of African immigrant nurses (AINs) in homeland health, in sub-Saharan Africa. My interest was based on the realization that studies and ...

• Perceived Ethical Challenges and Effective, Ethical Decision Making Skills Used by Financial Planners and Investment Advisers in the U.S. Financial Industry 

  Wilcoxson, Martha Jeanne (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  The U.S. securities industry is in a long-standing ethical crisis. Since the market crash of 1929, Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have broadened ...

• Exploring Baldrige Leadership and Engagement Criteria: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study 

  Lozano, Ryan Michael (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  This dissertation in practice examined the impact of Baldrige-based leadership on workforce engagement from a phenomenological qualitative study conducted at a small specialty-manufacturing firm in Texas. This study ...

• Sub-Doppler Magneto-Optical Trap for Potassium-41 

  Kremer, Kellan (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  The main goal of this research is to cool potassium-41 atoms to ultracold temperatures (<10 μK) in order to study the spin dynamics of atom to atom interactions. However, our current goal is to finish constructing the ...

• An Analysis of the Optical Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei Using Multi Band Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 Photometric Data 

  Ansh, Shrey (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are the most luminous objects in the universe and are thought to be powered by the accretion of matter onto a million to a billions solar mass black hole. AGNs emit immense amount of luminosity ...

• Vascular Injury Induces Epigenetic Mechanisms to Promote Restenosis After Angioplasty 

  Jiang, Wanlin (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  Due to the injury to the artery from PCI or surgical stenting, neointimal hyperplasia and restenosis are induced by the secreted growth factors and cytokines. These growth factors and cytokines promote phenotype switch in ...

• A Case Study of Blue's Ski Racquet 

  Galles, Leroy A. (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 1973)

  Objective Statements | 1. Determine whether the present financial records are adequate. | 2. Evaluate whether the present method of recording purchases is consistent with generally accepted accounting principles. | 3. ...

• Development of Polymeric Nanoparticles Containing a Natural Antioxidant (α-Tocopherol) for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury 

  Laliwala, Aayushi (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a traumatic injury to the spinal cord which is characterized by a cascade of pathophysiological changes that include disruption of the blood spinal cord barrier (BSCB) and generation of reactive ...

• Computer Letter Direct Mail and the Insurance Industry: An Examination of the Technology and Use of Computer Letter Advertising 

  Furlong, Jerry E. (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 1969)

  "Computers are destined, we believe, to go in two diametrically opposed directions. One kind will get smaller and smaller, and lower and lower in cost, so that all of us are going to have desk top computers just as we now ...

• Testing and Analyzing the 10-Day Moving Average Rule as a System for Commodity Trading 

  Fuss, James F. (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 1972)

  I have been interested in trading commodities for the last five or six years. I opened my first account with a brokerage firm in 1967, and in the next two or three months my account balance went from $600 to over $2,400, ...

• Relationships in Executive Peer Advisory Groups and Impact on Self-Efficacy 

  Olmsted, Jill (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  Executive coaching is a professional, leadership development practice that has evolved as a popular and effective method for providing top-level leaders with a competitive advantage. This genre of development encompasses ...

• Incoherent Photoproduction of $\phi$ Mesons in Ultra-Peripheral Pb+Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV 

  Gautam, Amrit (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can accelerate fully ionized lead nuclei to near the speed of light. A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is one of the detectors located at the LHC which observes the lead+lead collisions. ...

• Where Are Tomorrow's Managers?: A Study of Early Identification of Managerial Potential in the Life Insurance Industry 

  Dixon, John R. (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 1968)

  Every indication — economic, social, and political — appears to suggest that the shortages of manpower, especially competent management manpower, that has plagued business over the past two decades, will continue well into ...

• South American Imports, Inc. 

  Distefano, Joseph A. (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 1974)

  South American Imports, Inc. was originally organized as a sole proprietorship by Mr. John Carter in April, 1972, and was located in the central part of a large midwestern city. In August, 1972, Mr. Joseph Morgan joined ...

• Novice Principals at Traditional Jesuit Secondary Schools: Advancing the Standards and Benchmarks for Jesuit Education 

  Wood, John Michael (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore and understand the experiences and perceptions of novice principals leading in a traditional Jesuit secondary school within the four Jesuit provinces in the United States. ...

• The Many Types of Churn and Their Predictive Models 

  Valluri, Chandrasekhar (Chandu) (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  This dissertation consists of two chapters. Chapter 1 provides a detailed account of customer, business and employee churn and how each of these churn types have been studied in extant literature. Consequently, a more ...

• Understanding the Meaning of Community in the Catholic High School: A Multiple-Case Study 

  McClure, Scott William (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 2019)

  This Dissertation in Practice is the result of a qualitative, exploratory, multiple-case study conducted in order to seek an answer to the following research question: What does community mean in the American Catholic high ...

• Cop-Dan Glass Company 

  Danner, David L. (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 1975)

  Cop-Dan Glass Company was originally organized as a sole proprietorship by John Carter in July, 1972. The firm is located in a small midwestern town wi1h an approximate population of 10,000 people. | Mr. Carter was previously ...

• Examination of Small Business Administration Minority Enterprise Development 

  Benton, Mark J. (Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, 1973)

  Government policy with regard to small business development may be described as follows: "It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist and protect, insofar as is possible, the ...

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