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    • Impact of the Great Recession on Social Assistance Programs in the Eau Claire Area 

      Dabat, Michael; Faber, Samantha; Hartson, Dan; Navara, Tony; Peppler, John; Prahl, Justin (2012-04)
      The economic downturn of 2008-09 was so severe that it has become known as The Great Recession and by most accounts the subsequent recovery has been slow to non-existent. National data reflects a continuing demand for ...
    • Impact of the Great Recession on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation in the U.S. 

      Prahl, Justin; Faber, Samantha; Peppler, John; Navara, Tony; Hartson, Dan; Dabat, Michael (2012-04)
      The economic downturn of 2008-09 was so severe that it has become known as the Great Recession and by most accounts the subsequent recovery has been slow and perhaps even non-existent. Rather than characterizing the ...
    • Impact of the Great Recession on Total Employment and Unemployment Rates in the U.S. 

      Dabat, Michael; Faber, Samantha; Hartson, Dan; Navara, Tony; Peppler, John; Prahl, Justin (2012-04)
      The economic downturn of 2008-09 was so severe that it has become known as the Great Recession, and by most accounts the subsequent recovery has been relatively slow. The most basic method of judging the severity of a ...
    • Impact of the USDA Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program on Children's Consumption and Other Related Behaviors 

      Hoffman, Lainee; Reinhold, Kevin; Fisher, Stephen; Mabrey, Stephanie; Ross, April; Dickinson, Judy; Wieseman, Laurelyn (2012-04)
      This study investigated the impact of the 2009-10 Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program on intake and other behaviors related to fruit and vegetable consumption among Wisconsin 4th- and 5th-grade students.
    • The Impact of Water Clarity on Home Prices in Northwest Wisconsin 

      Kemp, Thomas; Ng, Irene; Mohammad, Haikal; Gorski, Jacob Daniel-Gin (2017-12-21)
      This study estimates the property value gains associated with improvements in water clarity on 20 Northern Wisconsin lakes. Using a two stage hedonic model applied to Wisconsin DNR water studies and sales data on over ...
    • The Impact of Water Clarity on Home Prices in Vilas and Oneida Counties, Wisconsin : A Hedonic Study 

      Zhou, Sisi; Wu, Shangqian; Roehl, Megan; Winkler, Eric; Kemp, Thomas (2019-05)
      This study estimates the residential property value gains associated with improvements in water clarity on 60 Northern Wisconsin lakes. Using a two-stage hedonic model applied to Wisconsin DNR water clarity data and data ...
    • The Impacts and Effects of Transracial Adoption (TRA) on Indigenous Adoptees 

      Barker, Debra K. S.; Rigert, Savannah; White Hawk, Sandra (2018-01-18)
      For hundreds of years, indigenous children have been taken away from their families and communities. The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) was passed to attempt to remedy the situation. Since the passing of the Act, ...
    • Imperative Construction in English : a Syntactic Analysis 

      Hagen, Paula (2011-05)
      In English, commands, requests, assertions, instructions, etc. are typically expressed by sentences called imperatives. Because English does not provide specific morphological markers to differentiate between imperatives ...
    • The Imperial Presidency : Imperative or Dangerous? 

      Dean, Richard; Hill, Stephen (2018-02-15)
      The question of the “Imperial Presidency” is one of longstanding in United States (US) politics, but it has become especially controversial since the “Great Debate” over the Korean War. This debate has intensified due to ...
    • Implementation Models for Interteaching 

      Helgeson, Rachel; Tucker, Ashley; Bica, Lori A.; von Károlyi, Catya (2018-03-19)
      This poster describes an approach to classroom instruction known as interteaching (IT) and discusses evidence documenting its effectiveness in enhancing student engagement and learning. What we know about IT comes from ...
    • The Implementation of Douglas Biber’s Multi-Dimensional Approach to Text Classification 

      Amthauer, Heather; Korkowski, Rachel (2018-05)
      The goal for this research project is to implement the text classification algorithm described by Douglas Biber in Variations across speech and writing. By creating this program, I will have created an automated tool to ...
    • Implementing a 4 Week Balance Protocol to Impact Quality of Life in Cancer Patients 

      Bender, Alyssa; Braun, Lauren; Franklin, Kayla; Kidd, Megan; Rendler, Nikki (2014-04)
      As a result of various cancer treatments, balance, fall risk, and quality of life (QOL) of cancer survivors are often negatively compromised. There has been no prior research conducted examining balance ability and its ...
    • Implementing Auto-focus in a Stereographic Projection System. 

      Cobian, Alexander (2009-01-08)
      The goal of this project was to create a stereographical projection system capable of producing an optimally-focused image. To accomplish this, it was necessary to consider the two optical systems which the projection system ...
    • The Implications of Required Twitter Engagement in #HigherEd 

      Sather, Thomas; Deans, Lindsey; Arzbecker, Lian (2018-04)
      This investigation sought to analyze Twitter implementation in higher education; specifically, the attitudes and behaviors of 21 online CSD graduate students were examined, coded, and compared to pilot study data to determine ...
    • Implicit Effects of Religious Priming on Prejudice and Prosocial Behavior 

      Selvanathan, Hemapreya; Butcher, Cody; Miner, Elizabeth; Timdal, Ashley; Jeevanba, Sathya Baanu (2014-04)
      The purpose of this study was to find out if priming religious concepts will result in higher rates of donation to the minority organization among nonbelievers, but lower levels of donation among believers. We predict that ...
    • Implicit Effects of Religious Priming on Prejudice and Prosocial Behavior 

      Herrmann, Jody; Boley, Chance; Butcher, Cody; Jevanba, Baanu; Eggen, Marina; Goodman, Jeffrey A. (2017-03-03)
      Previous research from our lab and others’ has provided evidence that Christian believers express higher levels of prejudice than nonbelievers toward various groups (i.e., Blacks, Muslims, lesbian and gay individuals and ...
    • Implicit Effects on Religious Priming on Prejudice and Prosocial Behavior 

      Butcher, Cody; Selvanathan, Hemapreya; Jeevanba, Sathya Baanu; Timdal, Ashley; Miner, Elizabeth (2015-04)
      We hypothesize that priming religious concepts will result in higher rates of donation to the minority organization among nonbelievers, but lower levels of donation among believers. We predict that priming with secular ...
    • Importance of Industry Clusters to Eau Claire's Economic Development 

      Fennig, Robyn M. (2010-04)
      This project sought to better understand industrial clusters in the Eau Claire Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). Existing and potential clusters must be identified in order to understand their impact on local economic ...
    • Improved Design of Heat Sink Cooling 

      Huang, Yunyi; Li, Ziliang; Swanson, Jack; Ma, Ying; Thomas, Paul Jonathan (2022-04)
      In the design of a computer system, cooling has a large effect on the performance of the system and one of the main ways to deal with temperature issues is the heat sink. Traditional heat sinks rely on ambient or active ...
    • Improving the Exit Program for the ESL Program 

      Davis, Elizabeth (2014-04)
      The English as a Second Language (ESL) Program at the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire is growing. The purpose of this study was to improve the exit survey given to international students in the ESL program.