Bernadette Stewart

• Master of Arts
• PhD Student at University of South Florida

In this study, two editions of a widely-used physics text, published almost two decades apart, were compared for changes in readability, lexical complexity, integration and presentation. It was found that the text became less readable over the intervening years, while the richness of the language (measured by the LEX statistic) increased. Integrati...

Although all jurisdictions with capital punishment currently have at least one statutory aggravating factor for causing the death of a law-enforcement officer, little is currently known about the fate of these persons. There is a common perception that these individuals would be the most likely to receive a death sentence among those convicted of c...

The use of performance-enhancing drugs (PED) is common among Iranian professional athletes. As this phenomenon is a social problem, the main purpose of this research is to explain why athletes engage in “doping” activity, using social learning theory. For this purpose, a sample of 589 professional athletes from Rasht, Iran, was used to test assumpt...

SF can be used as a mechanism for social commentary in situations where a direct statement of the author's beliefs might be met with an unreceptive or minimal audience; it is a form of social experimentation. Rather than establishing a commune or taking over a country and instituting a regime, rather than creating dry theoretical experiments com...