UMUC Research and Scholarship

- Metaphors of land and sea: Narratives of two Māori leaders
- Gregory, George Ann
- Metaphor; Discourse texture; Māori; Narrative
- Abstract: This article explores the use of metaphors in the personal narratives of two Māori leaders regarding their experiences with the Māori language. These narratives come from a collection of 72 interviews and were chosen for their...
- Biblical versification and French religious paraphrase in Anne Lock‘s 'A meditation of a penitent sinner‘
- Carsley, Catherine A.
- Anne Vaughan Lock; Pierre Gringore; English sonnet cycle; Biblical versification; Psalm paraphrase
- Abstract: While modern readers take the division of Psalm 51 into 19 verses for granted, it is worth remembering that dividing the Bible into standardized verse units was a humanist innovation of the early sixteenth century. In ―A Meditation of a...
- Semiclassical Derivation of the QCD Coupling
- Batchelor, David
- Quantum mechanics; Quarks; Quantum chromodynamics; Vacuum fluctuations
- Abstract: The strength of the fundamental nuclear strong force is characterized by the QCD coupling αs. In this paper the measured value of the QCD coupling αs at the energy MZ 0, the variation of αs as a function of energy in QCD, and...
- Wyoming Valley: An American saga
- Rothman, Norman C.
- Wyoming Valley; Delaware; Pennamite; Anthracite; United mine workers; Pennsylvania Industrial Assistance Corporation
- Abstract: This study examines a region of Northeast Pennsylvania and traces the ideological, sociological, and technological evolution that it has undergone from prehistoric times to the early part of this twentieth-first century. It is...
- Enhancement of team work in MBA programs: An evaluation of best practices
- Blank, Murray D.; Locklear, Kathleen
- Academic team work; MBA team work
- Abstract: This research paper suggests a set of best practices for the development and implementation of team work in MBA programs. The objective is to suggest ways in which to concurrently maximize positive student experiences and enhanced value...
- Leadership development using online group executive coaching
- Brookes, Bernard L.
- Executive coaching; Leadership development; Online behavioral interventions
- Abstract: Leadership development initiatives in work settings or in executive MBA programs can use online technology to make executive coaching available to a large number of managers. Previously, the integration of classroom training and...
- Women entrepreneurs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Minkus-McKenna, Dorothy
- Entrepreneurship; Women; Islamic; Saudi Arabia
- Abstract: Although women entrepreneurs around the world suffer from numerous disadvantages such as discrimination, lack of business experience and limited access to financing, the challenges for women entrepreneurs may be more severe in Islamic...
- Watchtower to Kitawala: A case of religious synthesis
- Rothman, Norman C.
- Watchtower; Kitawala; Jehovah’s Witnesses; Chilembwe; Kanwana; Booth; Millennial; Syncretism
- Abstract: Religious syncretism is the attempt to combine old beliefs with new beliefs to establish a psychological equilibrium wherein the convert interprets his or her social-cultural world through additional filters. This process has been...
- Goal conflict and communications in multi-organizational projects: A two cases comparative study
- Moran-Leal, Atilio
- Multi-organizational projects; Goal conflict; Trust; Relationship conflict; Communications
- Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine how the level of goal conflict among the participant organizations in a multi-organizational project influences the level of communication among project team members. Two different...