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The Relationship of Gender on the Perceptions of School Resource Officers Regarding Roles, Responsibilities, and School Culture and Collaboration
(2015-03-15)
School Resource Officers (SROs) play a critical role in establishing a safe learning environment for students across the nation. Though there are several studies related to SRO perceptions regarding their roles and ...
Emerging Dialogic Structures in Education Reform: An analysis of Urban Teachers’ Online Compositions
(2016-05-04)
This paper contextualizes contemporary urban teachers’ online dissent in public discussions of education reform inrelation to past educational crisis narratives to interpret recent shifts in the structure of education ...
Gender differences in financial risk tolerance
(Elsevier, 2017-08-01)
The purpose of this research is to explore gender differences in financial risk tolerance using a large, nationally representative dataset, the Survey of Consumer Finances. The impact of the explanatory variables in the ...
Clientelism, Elections, and the Dialectic of Numerical People in Northeast Brazil
(University of Chicago Press, 2018-04-01)
This paper explores rural Brazilians’ interpretations of and ethical reflections on political clientelism. Brazilian elites often regard the people of the dry hinterland (sertanejos) as lazy, politically apathetic, and ...
Simulating Protein Conformations through Global Optimization
Many researches have been working on the protein folding problem from more than half century. Protein folding is indeed one of the major unsolved problems in science. In this work, we discuss a model for the simulation of ...