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Title: El epicismo de "La guerra del fin del mundo". [Spanish text] (Peru, Mario Vargas Llosa).
Creator: Adair, Olga Mory., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: El proposito de este estudio es de senalar el tono epicista de La querra del fin del mundo de Mario Vargas Llosa. Dentro de las caracteristicas de la epica se senalan unidad de accion, in medias res, y episodio. Estas tres caracteristicas son estudiadas desde el punto de vista de Aristoteles por ser uno de los primeros en sentar las reglas del genero epico en su obra Poetica., Algunas estrategias y tecnicas narrativas empleadas por Vargas Llosa en esta novela, como los vasos comunicantes, las...
Show moreEl proposito de este estudio es de senalar el tono epicista de La querra del fin del mundo de Mario Vargas Llosa. Dentro de las caracteristicas de la epica se senalan unidad de accion, in medias res, y episodio. Estas tres caracteristicas son estudiadas desde el punto de vista de Aristoteles por ser uno de los primeros en sentar las reglas del genero epico en su obra Poetica., Algunas estrategias y tecnicas narrativas empleadas por Vargas Llosa en esta novela, como los vasos comunicantes, las cajas chinas, y la muda o salto cualitativo se demuestra que tienen sus origenes en las obras clasicas de la epica., Otros aspectos de la epica, como el honor, los heroes, y un tema poco tratado por la critica literaria, los anti-heroes, se revisan en este estudio. Tambien se incluyen algunos topicos paganos y cristianos que comprenden las supersticiones y la religion catolica practicada por el Consejero y los campesinos que lo siguen por los sertones, asi como las descripciones de algunos ritos y ceremonias que recuerdan las practicas antiguas del cristianismo y de la Edad Media., Para apoyar el tono epicista existente en La guerra del fin del mundo, se comparan, a lo largo de este estudio, con La Iliada y La Odisea de Homero, y La Eneida de Virgilio presentando diversos ejemplos de estas obras., Finalmente se delinea un tema resaltante en esta novela de Vargas Llosa: el fanatismo en las figuras de tres de los personajes, quienes representan la religiosidad, el jacobismo, y el anarquismo. Estos tres aspectos del fanatismo estan simbolizados en algunas corrientes historicas, filosoficas, y politicas europeas, del cual se hacen algunos paralelos al respecto.
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Date Issued: 1990, 1990
Identifier: AAI9103080, 3162089, FSDT3162089, fsu:78287
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Title: Fusion racinienne: Eclatement classico-romantique. [French text] (Jean Racine).
Creator: Cohen-Scali, Stella Jeanne., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The study is based on a literary analysis and evaluation of the romantic features of the classical playwright: Jean Racine., While discussing elements comprising the general definition of Romanticism such as Isolation, Love, Fate and Death, this work examines Racine's eleven tragedies according to the above criteria. At the same time, a comparative approach modeled on Ross Ridge's The Hero in French Romantic Literature presents the different aspects of the racinian classico-romantic hero.,...
Show moreThe study is based on a literary analysis and evaluation of the romantic features of the classical playwright: Jean Racine., While discussing elements comprising the general definition of Romanticism such as Isolation, Love, Fate and Death, this work examines Racine's eleven tragedies according to the above criteria. At the same time, a comparative approach modeled on Ross Ridge's The Hero in French Romantic Literature presents the different aspects of the racinian classico-romantic hero., The conclusion posits the basic aspects of the dichotomy: Classic-Romantic/Romantic-Classic from which emerges what the writer of this dissertation has called "the Racinian Fusion."
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Date Issued: 1988, 1988
Identifier: AAI8825736, 3161651, FSDT3161651, fsu:77851
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXTENT OF EDUCATIVE BEHAVIOR BY INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYEES IN FLORIDA AND THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD CONTINUING EDUCATION.
Creator: SEAMAN, DON FERRIS., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1968, 1968
Identifier: AAI6816384, 3144209, FSDT3144209, fsu:77793
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE SPECTRA OF SOLUTE WATER AND METHANOL.
Creator: DOWNEY, JOSEPH ROBERT, JR., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1972, 1972
Identifier: AAI7300208, 3144208, FSDT3144208, fsu:77792
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: CULTURALLY TRANSCENDENT FACTORS IN MUSICAL PERCEPTION.
Creator: TAYLOR, GENE FRED., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1969, 1969
Identifier: AAI7008578, 3091133, FSDT3091133, fsu:77790
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: GIOVANNI PAISIELLO'S 'GLI ASTROLOGI IMMAGINARI': AN URTEXT EDITION.
Creator: MOHR, KARL B., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1969, 1969
Identifier: AAI7016341, 3091132, FSDT3091132, fsu:77789
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: EDWARD ALBEE: THEORY, THEME, TECHNIQUE.
Creator: ENGLISH, EMMA JEAN MARTIN., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1969, 1969
Identifier: AAI7008557, 3091131, FSDT3091131, fsu:77788
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE COSMOLOGICAL BASIS OF WESTERN CULTURE, 1600-1900: CONCOMITANTS OF THENATURAL SCIENCES IN THE MUSICAL, LITERARY, AND GRAPHIC ARTS.
Creator: OPPER, JACOB., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1970, 1970
Identifier: AAI7107082, 3091130, FSDT3091130, fsu:77787
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Title: EARLY AMERICAN ALMANACS: THE HISTORY OF A NEGLECTED LITERARY GENRE.
Creator: MCDOWELL, MARION DE NONIE BARBER., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1971, 1971
Identifier: AAI7418017, 3091129, FSDT3091129, fsu:77786
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Title: ARNOLD SCHOENBERG'S "HARMONIELEHRE": A COMPLETE ENGLISH TRANSLATION. (VOLUMES I AND II).
Creator: CARTER, ROY EVERETT., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1971, 1971
Identifier: AAI7304196, 3091128, FSDT3091128, fsu:77785
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF FACULTY AND STUDENT PARAPROFESSIONAL ACADEMICADVISEMENT PROGRAMS AT THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY.
Creator: MAC ALEESE, ROBERT WILLIAM., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1974, 1974
Identifier: AAI7506290, 3091127, FSDT3091127, fsu:77784
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE PHYSICIAN'S ASSISTANT: A NATIONAL AND LOCAL ANALYSIS.
Creator: FORD, ANN SUTER., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1975, 1975
Identifier: AAI7526772, 3091126, FSDT3091126, fsu:77783
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Title: THE POETRY OF MANUEL ALTOLAGUIRRE: A COMPUTER-ASSISTED ANALYSIS.
Creator: NUHFER, BERNICE MARIA., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1976, 1976
Identifier: AAI7708611, 3091125, FSDT3091125, fsu:77782
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE PALAZZO MAGNANI: AN ICONOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE DECORATIVE PROGRAM.
Creator: RUBENSTEIN, BETTY ROGERS., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation is a study of the iconography of the sculpture and the frescoes in the Palazzo Magnani (1577-1592) in Bologna, Italy. The central purpose is to examine the decoration for the meaning it once had for the owner, Lorenzo Magnani., The Carracci series of frescoes on the Life of Romulus in the salon d'onore of the Palazzo has long been praised and described from the point of view of style. However, until this study, it has not been examined iconographically, or discussed as part...
Show moreThis dissertation is a study of the iconography of the sculpture and the frescoes in the Palazzo Magnani (1577-1592) in Bologna, Italy. The central purpose is to examine the decoration for the meaning it once had for the owner, Lorenzo Magnani., The Carracci series of frescoes on the Life of Romulus in the salon d'onore of the Palazzo has long been praised and described from the point of view of style. However, until this study, it has not been examined iconographically, or discussed as part of a decorative concetto., The major unanswered question which is addressed in this dissertation is whether there is an iconographic connection between the sculpture of Hercules with two boys which stands in a niche in the cortile of the Palazzo and the fresco series. Nine busts all'antica flanked by urns placed over the doorways of the Palazzo are also included in the analysis of the decoration., Chapter one surveys previous scholarship and includes in an appendix the stylistic analyses which major scholars have made regarding the Carracci frescoes since the time of Malvasia. Since these analyses have not lead to a clarification of the meaning the decoration may have had for the owner, the first chapter serves to underscore the need for an iconographic approach. The second chapter describes the niche sculpture of Hercules with two young boys who stand one behind the other in an unique grouping. The multiple associations surrounding Hercules are explored as well as the parallels between Hercules and Romulus. Hercules as a twin, as the protector of bastards, and as a model of virtu are among the aspects of the hero which are shown to be relevant to an understanding of the importance of this group. Chapter three describes the busts and the flanking urns which are placed over the doorways in the Palazzo. These are treated as a sixteenth century interpretation of the Roman ius imaginum. Hercules, Romulus and the great Romans form a genealogical succession down to the Magnani family. The fourth chapter examines Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti's (1522-1597) attitude toward profane art and shows that the decoration of the Palazzo Magnani would have followed the requirements which he set forth. The historicity of Romulus in the 16th century is an important aspect of the scheme allowing the frescoes to be seen as history and not myth. Chapter five presents documents which establish the prestige of Lorenzo Magnani and his status in the government of Bologna. Baptismal and genealogical records reveal the birth of two sons, one of whom was born in 1592, the date recorded on the camino of the salon d'onore., The dissertation concludes that the niche sculpture of Hercules and the two boys is linked iconographically to the frescoes of the Life of Romulus through the figure of Hercules who can be seen in this context as the prototypical ancestor of the Magnani family. The sculpture in the niche is also linked to the family history of the Lorenzo and his children. Hercules, although a pagan figure, was acceptable to both the humanist and the churchman of sixteenth century Bologna as a model of virtu who proclaimed to the viewer the power and the status of the Magnani. The dissertation sees the decoration of the Palazzo Magnani as the expression of a unified concetto and also one which expressed the Neo-Romanism of the late sixteenth century.
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Date Issued: 1979, 1979
Identifier: AAI8205596, 3091124, FSDT3091124, fsu:77781
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Title: THE SOCIOCULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS ETHOS OF THE GREEK PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHEAST.
Creator: KALANGIS, GEORGE PETER., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1979, 1979
Identifier: AAI8001104, 3091123, FSDT3091123, fsu:77780
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Title: CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY: AN EXPLICATION AND CRITIQUE.
Creator: BOHM, ROBERT MARK., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it is an explication of "Critical Criminology"--a theoretical perspective that currently challenges the hegemony of traditional "classical" and "positive" criminologies. It is not, however, a comprehensive explication because not all theorists who consider themselves "Critical Criminologists" are represented. Nevertheless, a non-random but representative group is cited. Secondly, it is a critique of "Critical Criminology." However, it is not...
Show moreThe purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it is an explication of "Critical Criminology"--a theoretical perspective that currently challenges the hegemony of traditional "classical" and "positive" criminologies. It is not, however, a comprehensive explication because not all theorists who consider themselves "Critical Criminologists" are represented. Nevertheless, a non-random but representative group is cited. Secondly, it is a critique of "Critical Criminology." However, it is not an exhaustive critique since not all the criticisms leveled at "Critical Criminology" are examined. It is rather a critique from an historically-informed "critical theory" or "reflexive-revisionist" Marxist perspective. It is argued that an essential criterion of "critical theory" is an analysis of the import of philosophical assumptions. This is considered necessary in order that important components of the theoretical enterprise (e.g., the social and personal contexts in which explanations and conclusions are formed and made) are not omitted, as is typically done in traditional "positivistic" science, in general, and criminology, in particular. In other words, it is maintained that in order to understand the entire theoretical enterprise of "Critical Criminology" and subject it to a "critical theory" or a "reflexive-revisionist" Marxism, not only must the theoretical propositions of "Critical Criminology" be subjected to explication and critique, but so must the philosophical assumptions that inform those theoretical propositions. Specifically then, this dissertation is an explication of some of the philosophical assumptions and theoretical propositions of "Critical Criminology," which, as argued here, are based primarily on an "instrumentalist" (that is, "ruling class determinist") or "structuralist" (that is, "economic determinist") Marxism and a critique of, "Critical Criminology" from a "critical theory" or "reflexive-revisionist" (that is, "relational" or "dialectical") Marxist perspective.
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Date Issued: 1980, 1980
Identifier: AAI8016657, 3091122, FSDT3091122, fsu:77779
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Title: A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF W. B. YEATS'S AUTOMATIC SCRIPT (IRELAND).
Creator: ADAMS, STEVE LAMAR., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: William Butler Yeats's involvement in the esoteric and the occult has attracted considerable interest in the past decade, but much remains unknown about his philosophical development during the period of his life when he was engaged in the most profound spiritual or psychical investigation or experiment of his brilliant career, an experiment which gave birth to A Vision. Often described as the most important work in the canon to the understanding of his art and thought if not his life, this...
Show moreWilliam Butler Yeats's involvement in the esoteric and the occult has attracted considerable interest in the past decade, but much remains unknown about his philosophical development during the period of his life when he was engaged in the most profound spiritual or psychical investigation or experiment of his brilliant career, an experiment which gave birth to A Vision. Often described as the most important work in the canon to the understanding of his art and thought if not his life, this ambitious work represents Yeats's attempt to explain the basic psychological polarities of the human personality, the course of Western civilization, and the evolution and movement of the soul after death. The cogency and gravity of the experiment of investigation which produced a book of these epic proportions cannot be underestimated; indeed, the contents of this well-recorded experiment may well be the most significant body of unexplored Yeats material. The fundamental aim of this study, which includes only the first crucial months of the Automatic Script, is to present to the scholarly world for the first time a transcript of the often obscure, often complex body of materials that led directly to Yeats's most profound work of art. In order to place this manuscript in its proper biographical and critical context, explanatory notes have been included, explicating the essential features of the experiment (i.e., the recording of dates, the authors of questions and responses, the placement of diagrams and notes by George and Yeats, the physical state of the manuscript, etc.) and unraveling or spelling out the numerous references to Yeats's primary works, those appearing prior to as well as those growing directly out of the Automatic Script; special attention has been focused on those materials which were eventually embodied in the 1925 version of A Vision. An editorial, introduction preceding the transcript demonstrates how this momentous experiment was the logical extension of a series of psychical investigations and, in much broader terms, the culmination of a spiritual odyssey that Yeats had begun almost as early as the days of his youth.
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Date Issued: 1982, 1982
Identifier: AAI8416687, 3091121, FSDT3091121, fsu:77778
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Title: THE EFFECTS OF TWO ALTERNATE SETS OF CONDITIONS OF LEARNING OF STATE-ANXIETY AND RULE-LEARNING.
Creator: QUESADA, SANDRA., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study investigated the effects of two alternate sets of conditions of learning on state-anxiety and rule learning in a systematically designed instructional unit. Normally, systematically designed instruction (control group) presents objectives to the learners and requires written (overt) responses to practice questions., In the "specially designed" instructional materials of the experimental group, there were no objectives or overt responding. Rather, learners were asked to just "think"...
Show moreThis study investigated the effects of two alternate sets of conditions of learning on state-anxiety and rule learning in a systematically designed instructional unit. Normally, systematically designed instruction (control group) presents objectives to the learners and requires written (overt) responses to practice questions., In the "specially designed" instructional materials of the experimental group, there were no objectives or overt responding. Rather, learners were asked to just "think" (covert) their answers to the same practice questions that were responded to overtly by the control group., There were 92 female undergraduates randomly assigned to treatment groups. Forty-nine participants were assigned to the "special" instructional group and 43 participants were assigned to the "normal" instructional group., The participants' A-State levels were measured before (A(,1)), during (A(,2)), and after (A(,3)) the instructional treatment. These repeated A-State measures were used to assess initial A-State (A(,1)) and changes in A-State as a function of instructional treatment (A(,2) and A(,3)). Following the instructional treatment and A-State measures participants received an objective-referenced posttest to assess the quality of their rule-using learning., The resulting data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis to determine if there were significant main effects or interaction effects. Measures of prior knowledge, instructional time, and pre-instructional A-State (A(,1)) were used as covariates in this analysis., The results of the analysis indicated no interactions between instructional treatments and A-State levels. There were no significant predictors for posttest performance. Pre-instructional A-State (A(,1)) and instructional treatment were significant predictors of A(,2) (during instruction A-State). Contrary to prediction, participants in the "normal" instructional treatment reported lower levels of A(,2). Instructional treatment and A(,1) were significant predictors of the after instruction (A(,3)) measure of A-State., Methodological weaknesses and inappropriate instruction possibly prevented the predicted results. These deficiencies were detailed in Chapter IV.
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Date Issued: 1983, 1983
Identifier: AAI8309283, 3091120, FSDT3091120, fsu:77777
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Title: THE CHARACTERISTICS OF JULIO-CLAUDIAN IMPERIAL DRESS.
Creator: JERNIGAN, PATRICIA BLACKWELL., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study documented the characteristics of the dress of the Julio-Claudian emperors, comparing literary and sculptural works contemporary and subsequent to the period. Sculpture of the Augustan period reflected a combination of Etruscan and Greek qualities, and were often loose copies of earlier Greek works that idealized the figure. Later Julio-Claudian sculpture was more realistic in figures but continued some artistic license or misunderstanding of garment characteristics., Major...
Show moreThis study documented the characteristics of the dress of the Julio-Claudian emperors, comparing literary and sculptural works contemporary and subsequent to the period. Sculpture of the Augustan period reflected a combination of Etruscan and Greek qualities, and were often loose copies of earlier Greek works that idealized the figure. Later Julio-Claudian sculpture was more realistic in figures but continued some artistic license or misunderstanding of garment characteristics., Major garments worn by the emperors included the tunic and toga, the cuirass, and the paludamentum. Accessories included a finger ring and a fibula; a laurel wreath worn during religious or ceremonial events; a leg covering; and a type of sandal or the cothurni., Roman emperors were most often described in one of four roles: mythological character, military general, state official, or triumphant general. Julio-Claudian emperors were shown in both literature and sculpture as military general and state official with both media consistent in depiction of dress, suggesting sculpture as a reliable indicator of their dress. Both sources show the military general as wearing the cuirass with the pteryges and lappets, a paludamentum and cothurni, or boots, and the state official as appearing in a tunic and a toga. However, there is much more sculptural than literary portrayal of Julio-Claudian emperors as mythological character, suggesting that emperors were symbolically honored as gods in statues rather than often actually dressing in that role. Sculptors showed that role wearing a white or colored paludamentum draped around the lower half of the body. Literature describes the emperor as triumphant general as wearing a white or colored tunic and toga, each ornamented with elaborate embroidery, but there are no extant full-length sculptures of Julio-Claudian emperiors in that role to make sculpture a reliable source. Thus the reliability of sculpture as a source to study Julio-Claudian imperial dress depends on the role being depicted.
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Date Issued: 1983, 1983
Identifier: AAI8324921, 3091119, FSDT3091119, fsu:77776
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Title: THE LIFE AND ORGAN WORKS OF PAUL DE MALEINGREAU (BELGIUM).
Creator: BOGGESS, RALPH ROBERT., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Paul de Maleingreau (1887-1956) was a composer, organist, and professor at the Brussels Conservatory from 1913 to 1953. He wrote 113 works, thirty-eight of which are for solo organ. In those thirty-eight works there are 243 organ compositions ranging in length from a two-measure prelude a l'intro(')it to a 657-measure organ symphony. His organ compositions include symphonies, suites, triptyques, diptyques, masses, and preludes., Quotations of Gregorian chant may be found in nearly all of de...
Show morePaul de Maleingreau (1887-1956) was a composer, organist, and professor at the Brussels Conservatory from 1913 to 1953. He wrote 113 works, thirty-eight of which are for solo organ. In those thirty-eight works there are 243 organ compositions ranging in length from a two-measure prelude a l'intro(')it to a 657-measure organ symphony. His organ compositions include symphonies, suites, triptyques, diptyques, masses, and preludes., Quotations of Gregorian chant may be found in nearly all of de Maleingreau's organ works. Most of the quotations appear in the top part of a contrapuntal musical texture. Chants are, however, occasionally found in the bass and infrequently in an inner voice., Rhythmic irregularity is prevalent in his organ music, sometimes produced through frequent meter changes and at other times through the use of unmetered music. Rhythmic motives are commonly employed. Often the rhythm assigned by the composer to a chant quotation becomes more important developmentally than the actual melodic intervals of the chant., The harmony employed by de Maleingreau is based primarily on tertian chords. One will find triadic, seventh, ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chords. Some of those chords are built on major and minor scales, while others are derived from modal scales. Occasionally, the influence of impressionism is evident through the use of chords based on the whole tonal scale., Most of de Maleingreau's organ works are written in part forms containing from one to nine sections. The most commonly found form includes three parts arranged in an ABA structure. Variations and fugal forms are also found occasionally., De Maleingreau's contributions to the literature for the organ include music that is very practical and appropriate for usage in Roman Catholic and liturgical churches. Much of that music can be played by organists with limited technical ability. In addition, there are some virtuosic works which belong in the repertoire of the modern organ recitalist.
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Date Issued: 1985, 1985
Identifier: AAI8524595, 3091118, FSDT3091118, fsu:77775
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Title: FAMILY-BASED INTERVENTION WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA: A CLINICAL OUTCOME STUDY.
Creator: BENTLEY, KIA J., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a short-term model of intervention on diagnosed schizophrenic patients and their caregivers. The author implemented an in-home ten session educational, behavioral and skills training program, which was adapted from existing models. The intervention's effects on the patient's clinical status and social functioning, caregiver attitudes, and family stress were evaluated using a multiple baseline across four cases, as well as pre-, post-,...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a short-term model of intervention on diagnosed schizophrenic patients and their caregivers. The author implemented an in-home ten session educational, behavioral and skills training program, which was adapted from existing models. The intervention's effects on the patient's clinical status and social functioning, caregiver attitudes, and family stress were evaluated using a multiple baseline across four cases, as well as pre-, post-, and follow-up data., Results largely supported the existing literature in that reductions of family stress, which occurred in two cases, were associated with decreases in negative attitudes of the caregiver toward the patient. Also, for all patients, intervention was associated with a clinically significant improvement in symptomatology that was maintained at follow-up. No clear pattern of change was noted in patients' social adjustment., This study demonstrated that it is feasible to integrate several of the existing models of family-based intervention, and implement it successfully without a large research staff and grant money. It replicates much of the data that suggests short-term interventions seem to be most appropriate with patients with good premorbid functioning. It also added support to research that correlates caregiver attitudes with family stress. Finally, this study expanded the empirical validation of the behavioral, educational and skills training approaches by achieving positive outcomes with patients not recently discharged from an inpatient facility. Among the major limitations noted were the study's unknown generalizability and the possibility of measurement error. In addition to describing and discussing the study in detail, its particular relevance to social work is reviewed, and future directions for research and clinical practice are suggested.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8721833, 3091116, FSDT3091116, fsu:77773
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Title: ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN AWARDED CREDIT FOR EXTRAINSTITUTIONAL LEARNING.
Creator: ROSE, RUFUS EDWARDS, JR., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Most postsecondary institutions use techniques for assessing or validating extrainstitutional learning. The three major types of extrainstitutional learning are learning that is assessed by credit-by-examination programs, training for which credit is recommended by the American Council on Education, and experiential learning that is assessed individually. These techniques apply most to adult students who will make up 47% of college students by 1990. This study compared academic achievement of...
Show moreMost postsecondary institutions use techniques for assessing or validating extrainstitutional learning. The three major types of extrainstitutional learning are learning that is assessed by credit-by-examination programs, training for which credit is recommended by the American Council on Education, and experiential learning that is assessed individually. These techniques apply most to adult students who will make up 47% of college students by 1990. This study compared academic achievement of nontraditional students who had significant amounts of extrainstitutional learning with achievement of traditional students. The subjects were graduates of a university college program over an 8-year period. Achievement was measured by quality point average and other ways. Achievement of nontraditional students did not differ significantly from that of traditional students. There was negligible correlation between either age or number of extrainstitutional credits with quality point average. These findings empirically supported current national policies and institutional practices regarding recognition of extrainstitutional learning.
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Date Issued: 1986, 1986
Identifier: AAI8702246, 3088950, FSDT3088950, fsu:77749
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Title: APALACHEE HILL: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF AN INDIAN SITE OF THE SPANISH MISSION PERIOD IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
Creator: BIERCE-GEDRIS, KATHARINE., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1981, 1981
Identifier: AAI1317243, 3088935, FSDT3088935, fsu:77734
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Title: THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENT FOR CENSORSHIP: BRAZILIAN PRESS IN TRANSITION, 1964 - 1978.
Creator: ROSSI, ANA MARIA., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1980, 1980
Identifier: AAI1316197, 3088934, FSDT3088934, fsu:77733
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Title: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF SELECTED UPHOLSTERY FABRICS.
Creator: HARRIS, SUSAN., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1980, 1980
Identifier: AAI1315900, 3088933, FSDT3088933, fsu:77732
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE FUNCTION OF QUANTIFIERS IN SYLLOGISTIC REASONING.
Creator: GORDON, SHARON MARIE., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1980, 1980
Identifier: AAI1315842, 3088932, FSDT3088932, fsu:77731
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: THE ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNOR LEROY COLLINS: AN OPENED DOOR TO A NEW FLORIDA.
Creator: WAGY, THOMAS RAY., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1976, 1976
Identifier: AAI1310101, 3088931, FSDT3088931, fsu:77730
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: EVOLUTION OF A UNIFIED SCHOOL SYSTEM IN LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA, 1954-1974.
Creator: MORRISON, MABEL JEAN., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1974, 1974
Identifier: AAI1307485, 3088930, FSDT3088930, fsu:77729
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Title: A STUDY OF FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL BAND DIRECTORS WHO RECEIVED SUPERIOR RATINGS AT STATE LEVEL CONTEST FESTIVALS (1964-73).
Creator: PETROZZINO, MICHAEL W., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1974, 1974
Identifier: AAI1306686, 3088929, FSDT3088929, fsu:77728
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: HODDING CARTER: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Creator: PACE, ETTA ECKLES., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1958, 1958
Identifier: AAI1300205, 3088928, FSDT3088928, fsu:77727
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: MARI SANDOZ, DAUGHTER OF OLD JULES: A STUDY OF HER LIFE AND LITERARY CAREER.
Creator: CLARK, FELIE WOODROW., Florida State University
Date Issued: 1956, 1956
Identifier: AAI1300131, 3088927, FSDT3088927, fsu:77726
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: L' Image de la femme resistante chez quatre romancieres noires: Maryse Cond/'e, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Toni Morrison et Alice Walker (French text, Guadeloupe).
Creator: Pierre, Alix., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In a literature that is so often depicted as that of the "minority" the image of the resistant female figure both in the work of African-American and Guadeloupean female writers, seemed appropriate for a comparative study., This dissertation relies heavily on Reader-Response theories. The first chapter insists on how because of the narrative techniques we are led to read the female characters as victims. In three of the novels the narrator is also the heroine, which sets an element of...
Show moreIn a literature that is so often depicted as that of the "minority" the image of the resistant female figure both in the work of African-American and Guadeloupean female writers, seemed appropriate for a comparative study., This dissertation relies heavily on Reader-Response theories. The first chapter insists on how because of the narrative techniques we are led to read the female characters as victims. In three of the novels the narrator is also the heroine, which sets an element of intimacy between the protagonist and the (mainly female) reader. Intimacy is derived also from the insistence on the character's childhood. A third element of intimacy is the theme of suffering., In the second chapter, resistance in the character is studied through her interaction with others and the world. Attention is given to four areas: the use of linguistics signs, the use of tools, the use of laws, and the use of esthetic canons. In the movement from victimization to resistance, the most visible changes are in regard to speech and savoir-faire. Both are related to the concept of creation., The conclusion insists on the characteristics of woman's resistance and its originality. Compared to the male characters in the different novels we assert how are the heroines resist heroism, alienation and suicide, all choices that black people at any given period were and are still given to receive as the only alternatives. The female characters are not about war, but survival. They are not about solving, but resolving problems. And above all they never posit themselves against the world, as their male counterpart, but seek comfort and strength in the community of women.
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Date Issued: 1995, 1995
Identifier: AAI9529609, 3088633, FSDT3088633, fsu:77435
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$La novela antiesclavista: Presencia e identidad negras en la literature colonial cubana (Spanish text, Anselmo Suarez y Romero, Gertrudis G\'omez de Avellaneda, Cirilio Villaverde)$

Title: La novela antiesclavista: Presencia e identidad negras en la literature colonial cubana (Spanish text, Anselmo Suarez y Romero, Gertrudis G\'omez de Avellaneda, Cirilio Villaverde).
Creator: Lopez, Humberto J., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The Cuban antislavery novel of the 19th century will provide the focus for this study. The cultural metamorphosis undergone by the black slave is revealed in this subdivision of colonial literature. From their colonial role as slaves, blacks went on to become an integral part of the cultural mosaic of the region. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how blacks were incorporated into the society that enslaved them, how they claimed a presence in that society and how they fought to...
Show moreThe Cuban antislavery novel of the 19th century will provide the focus for this study. The cultural metamorphosis undergone by the black slave is revealed in this subdivision of colonial literature. From their colonial role as slaves, blacks went on to become an integral part of the cultural mosaic of the region. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how blacks were incorporated into the society that enslaved them, how they claimed a presence in that society and how they fought to establish their own identity. The concluding remarks will demonstrate that it was the Cuban antislavery novel which granted blacks a voice, a presence. This is the modest contribution offered by this investigation., A testimonial narrative, the antislavery novel, flourished in Cuba during the colonial period, specifically during the 19th century, and it can very well be considered as a prelude to the black search for a space, for a presence, in society. This investigation begins with an introductory chapter which deals not only with the testimonial narrative to be discussed, but also with the accounts which detail the manner in which the black presence became a reality in the region. The three subsequent chapters analyze the following Cuban novels: Francisco by Anselmo Suarez y Romero, Sab by Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, and Cecilia Valdes by Cirilo Villaverde. The emphasis in each of these works is on the search for black identity: the transculturation and integration of blacks in colonial Cuba. These three novels reflect the social context of the Cuban colonial period; therefore, other antislavery novels which portrait the same subject will not be included since their theme is best represented by the aforementioned., This investigation will conclude with a chapter reaffirming the ideological conceptions that allowed for the emergence of this type of narrative.
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Date Issued: 1995, 1995
Identifier: AAI9529604, 3088629, FSDT3088629, fsu:77431
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Title: Maugis d'Aigremont, chanson de geste du treizieme siecle: Traduction et commentaires.
Creator: Fournier-Lanzoni, Remi., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thirteenth-century epic comes from the manuscript 2.0.1. of the Peterhouse College at the University of Cambridge. It has been written in an Old French dialect and contains 9608 verses which constitute 246 rimed laisses (two other manuscripts can be found; one at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, XIII$\sp{\rm th}$ century and the other at the Bibliotheque de la Faculte de Medecine of Montpellier, XIV$\sp{\rm th}$ century). This epic narrates the life of Maugis, knight, enchanter and...
Show moreThis thirteenth-century epic comes from the manuscript 2.0.1. of the Peterhouse College at the University of Cambridge. It has been written in an Old French dialect and contains 9608 verses which constitute 246 rimed laisses (two other manuscripts can be found; one at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, XIII$\sp{\rm th}$ century and the other at the Bibliotheque de la Faculte de Medecine of Montpellier, XIV$\sp{\rm th}$ century). This epic narrates the life of Maugis, knight, enchanter and soothsayer, who not only fights the Sarrasins before Toledo, Milan or Palermo, but also leads ruthless feudal battles against the emperor Charlemagne. The hero, instructed by an old magician Baudri, soon becomes a fearful conjurer due to his brilliant sense for artfulness. Throughout his numerous audacious feats of skill, the magician is helped by the "fairy-horse" Bayard as well as the famous sword Froberge., The introduction of this bilingual translation analyzes the main characters, Maugis, Charlemagne, Espiet and the emir Vivien, through a variety of different themes such as the feudal relations between vassals and king, crusades against the pagans, conversions of muslims to christianity and of course, love between knights and sarrasin princesses. The "merveilleux" or supernatural, is the predominant characteristic of this work, and the growing influence of the "matiere de Bretagne" is here, subtilely combined with the traditional rhetoric of the epic., In conclusion, this epic will be reinserted into the cycle to which it belongs, the rebel cycle, in order to understand better the frequent allusions to other epic heroes such as Girart de Roussillon, Renaut de Montauban ou les quatre fils Aymon.
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Date Issued: 1995, 1995
Identifier: AAI9529603, 3088628, FSDT3088628, fsu:77430
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Title: Discours autoritaires: Les romans de Michel Butor et de Gerard Bessette (French text).
Creator: Rangarajan, Sudarsan., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Michel Butor belongs to the group of writers who originated the New Novel in France in the early nineteen fifties. A decade later, Gerard Bessette, among others, inaugurated the Quebec New Novel., An initial reading of the novels of Butor and Bessette enables one to discern arresting similarities between their surface structures. There is a strong tendency among their characters to bring order into the disorderly world in which they live. Their endeavor is thwarted by the authoritarian...
Show moreMichel Butor belongs to the group of writers who originated the New Novel in France in the early nineteen fifties. A decade later, Gerard Bessette, among others, inaugurated the Quebec New Novel., An initial reading of the novels of Butor and Bessette enables one to discern arresting similarities between their surface structures. There is a strong tendency among their characters to bring order into the disorderly world in which they live. Their endeavor is thwarted by the authoritarian figures they confront. The failure of the heroes reveals to them that their speech is inadequate and their voices lack authority. This study attempts to investigate the functioning of authoritarian discourses and to establish the correspondences between the latent/unconscious structures in the novels of the two writers., Applying contemporary critical theories of discourse, especially those of Mikhail Bakhtin and Michel Foucault, the study examines various types of authoritarian discourses. These discourses are defined and classified under each of the three principal orders identified in the novels. Maternal and paternal discourses are grouped in the familial order, religious, professorial and judicial discourses in the social order, and mythological, legendary and ancestral discourses in the historical order., The introduction establishes the fundamental relationships between the works of Butor and Bessette, and lays out the theoretical aspects of the study. Each of the three chapters analyzes the interaction between discourses, and the negotiation of authority through discourse in a particular order. The first chapter focuses on the subversion of authoritarian voices in the familial order. The second chapter examines the characters' search for parental substitutes in the social order, and demonstrates the insufficiency of authority in the latter. The failure of the first two orders leads the characters to pursue their quest in the historical order. The assimilation of historical discourses enables the characters to regain their right to speak. The conclusion argues that the narrative authority exercised through writing/speaking is disseminated in the intertextual space.
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Date Issued: 1995, 1995
Identifier: AAI9525924, 3088604, FSDT3088604, fsu:77406
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Title: Las fuentes indigenas de "Cien anos de soledad" (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Spanish text, Colombia).
Creator: Corwin, Jay A., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines the origin of myth in Garcia Marquez's novel, Cien anos de soledad. While the major critics of the novel have noted a strong dependence thereof on Biblical intertextualities, the present study focuses on possible Indigenous sources of what has already been defined as cosmogonical. In addition, several motifs which have been defined previously as "mythified" are examined and compared to Indigenous Colombian rituals. The work of explorer Alexander von Humboldt is also...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the origin of myth in Garcia Marquez's novel, Cien anos de soledad. While the major critics of the novel have noted a strong dependence thereof on Biblical intertextualities, the present study focuses on possible Indigenous sources of what has already been defined as cosmogonical. In addition, several motifs which have been defined previously as "mythified" are examined and compared to Indigenous Colombian rituals. The work of explorer Alexander von Humboldt is also addressed herein as applicable to the wider comprehension of the novel. While this work is not necessarily an Indigenous source, the vast references to such cultures justify its inclusion in this study. Likewise, the Popol Vuh is examined as a potential source of myth within the novel. The main Colombian sources indicated in this study are as follows: Chibcha (Muisca); Tairona (Kogi); and Guajiro (Wayu). Although the Guajiros are the only indigenous group specifically mentioned in the novel, the role of the Tairona and Chibcha were so potent in the framework of the chronicles that their inclusion in this work is inevitable. The cosmogonies which particularly parallel the action of the novel are the Chibcha and Guajiro. Religious rituals of the Chibcha and Guajiro are also examined here are possible antecedents of certain of the actions, the origins of which have as yet been unidentified. Meanwhile, the philosophical origins of the novel's "death within death" motif are juxtaposed to documentation of certain Kogi beliefs, which bear striking similarities. On account of the large number of nearly exact parallels between the novel and various Indigenous elements, the mythical content of the novel is viewed as intertextualized Indigenous, rather than Biblical, myth.
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Date Issued: 1995, 1995
Identifier: AAI9525915, 3088596, FSDT3088596, fsu:77398
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Title: Re-vision de la ideologia patriarcal y del mito femenino en la narrativa y ensayos de Rosario Ferre.
Creator: Palmer-Lopez, Sandra M., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Rosario Ferre's literary works follow Adrienne Rich's feminist theory of writing as re-vision. According to Rich, a literary re-vision requires the woman writer and/or critic to re-vise and challenge the nature of all patriarchal structures that have oppressed women throughout the centuries. This re-visionist task has been attempted by Ferre in her literary works, where she exposes the misogyny of the patriarchal ideology embedded in and supported by cultural and social myths., Rosario Ferre...
Show moreRosario Ferre's literary works follow Adrienne Rich's feminist theory of writing as re-vision. According to Rich, a literary re-vision requires the woman writer and/or critic to re-vise and challenge the nature of all patriarchal structures that have oppressed women throughout the centuries. This re-visionist task has been attempted by Ferre in her literary works, where she exposes the misogyny of the patriarchal ideology embedded in and supported by cultural and social myths., Rosario Ferre achieves her re-vision of the patriarchal ideology and eternal feminine myth through both her role as a writer and her role as a feminist literary critic. As a feminist literary critic, Ferre carries out this task through different approaches. One approach is the execution of a historical and critical re-vision of the lives and works of several women in her collection of essays, entitled Sitio a Eros. A second approach is the writing of (auto)critical literary reviews, collected in El coloquio de las perras, in order to question the literary canon and image of women in masculine literary texts. As a fiction writer, Ferre achieves her feminist re-vision of the patriarchal ideology and the eternal feminine myth by exposing and challenging them in the short stories and narrative poems from Papeles de Pandora and in her novelette "Maldito amor" or by the re-writing of fairy-tales from a feminist-feminine perspective, offering new feminine and masculine paradigms in her collection of children's stories, "Cuentos maravillosos."
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Date Issued: 1994, 1994
Identifier: AAI9519853, 3088556, FSDT3088556, fsu:77358
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Title: La communaute des femmes dans "Le Livre des Trois Vertus" de Christine de Pizan.
Creator: Zhang, Xiangyun., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Christine de Pizan, in several of her works, showed her effort to create a community of women which is the symbol of the united force from all women. In Le Livre des Trois Vertus, the community of women has the image of fortress where the members of the Cite are well protected against the attacks from anti-feminists., In "La communaute des femmes dans Le Livre des Trois Vertus de Christine de Pizan", I first analyze the historical and literary context in which Christine decided to defend...
Show moreChristine de Pizan, in several of her works, showed her effort to create a community of women which is the symbol of the united force from all women. In Le Livre des Trois Vertus, the community of women has the image of fortress where the members of the Cite are well protected against the attacks from anti-feminists., In "La communaute des femmes dans Le Livre des Trois Vertus de Christine de Pizan", I first analyze the historical and literary context in which Christine decided to defend women's interests in her writing. In this context we see the origin of her idea of the community of women., The second chapter demonstrates Christine's effort to establish her authority as well as that of the community of women. As a woman writer, she had to establish her authority in literary tradition dominated by male writers. Christine appealed to divine authority by following the example of Saint Augustine, author of the Cite de Dieu (c. 427), and by obeying the three goddesses who gave her the right to use her pen to educate women and to create the community of women in Le Livre des Trois Vertus (1405)., In the third chapter, I examine how Christine, by redefining the role of women in society, and by reorganizing relationships between women, succeeded in reinforcing the union of the community of women., In chapter four, the study of the transplantation of the letter of Sebile de la Tour (originally composed in Le Livre du Duc des Vrais Amans 1405) into Le Livre des Trois Vertus supports the contention that Christine de Pizan, by combining two different genres (romance and essay), established a connection between literature and real life, made the courtesy lyric useful for women's moral education. Christine practiced the genre of romance (which had been always dominated by male writers) to defend women's interest in love and to provide a mirror for the community of women.
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Date Issued: 1994, 1994
Identifier: AAI9517971, 3088540, FSDT3088540, fsu:77342
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Title: Conciencia y revalorizacion neo-feminista de la cuentistica de Carmen Lugo Filippi y Ana Lydia Vega.
Creator: Gonzalez, Hernandez, Miriam M., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The first two chapters of this dissertation present the evolution of the feminist movement and the evolution of the Puerto Rican female short story, from the later part of the XIX century to the decade of the eighties. During those years, short stories written by women received little recognition in and out of the Island. In regards to the female characters, they were introduced performing traditional roles that subordinated and subjugated them to the male figures., Starting during the decade...
Show moreThe first two chapters of this dissertation present the evolution of the feminist movement and the evolution of the Puerto Rican female short story, from the later part of the XIX century to the decade of the eighties. During those years, short stories written by women received little recognition in and out of the Island. In regards to the female characters, they were introduced performing traditional roles that subordinated and subjugated them to the male figures., Starting during the decade of the seventies, and as a result of the neo-feminist movement, a group of female writers took over themes that had been the exclusive domain of men. These female writers restated the social, political, economical, and cultural realities of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. These writers are: Rosario Ferre, Magali Garcia Ramis, Mayra Montero, Olga Nolla, Carmen Lugo Filippi and Ana Lydia Vega., Starting with the third chapter Ellen Morgan's critical study "Humanbecoming: Form and Focus in the Neo-Feminist Novel," (185-205) was used in the analysis of Carmen Lugo Filippi and Ana Lydia Vega's short stories compiled in the following books: Virgenes y martires, Encancaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio, Pasion de historia y otras historias de pasion, Falsas cronicas del sur, Apalabramiento: diez cuentistas puertorriquenos de hoy and the journal Cariban., This neo-feminist study reveals that Carmen Lugo Filippi and Ana Lydia Vega as well as their female characters rebel to the Puerto Rican male dominated culture. Furthermore, they managed to defeat the stereotypes and taboos that for decades had subordinated and subjugated Puerto Rican women. These two writers created a new self-directed woman, one who knows what she wants, how to make decisions, and has control of her own life.
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Date Issued: 1994, 1994
Identifier: AAI9434108, 3088400, FSDT3088400, fsu:77205
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Title: Le theme de l'evasion dans l'oeuvre de Simone Schwarz-Bart et dans celle d'Albertine Sarrazin (French text, Algeria, Guadeloupe).
Creator: Tege-MacMillin, Marlene., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Simone Schwarz-Bart (1938-) and Albertine Sarrazin (1937-1967) offer an example of the cultural diversity that French Literature provides to the readers. Two of Albertine Sarrazin's novels, L'Astragale and La Cavale, were published in 1965; the third one La Traversiere in 1966. Simone Schwarz-Bart first published a novel, Plat de porc aux bananes vertes, in 1967, in collaboration with Andre Schwarz-Bart. In 1972, she published by herself Pluie et vent sur Telumee Miracle and in 1979 Ti Jean L...
Show moreSimone Schwarz-Bart (1938-) and Albertine Sarrazin (1937-1967) offer an example of the cultural diversity that French Literature provides to the readers. Two of Albertine Sarrazin's novels, L'Astragale and La Cavale, were published in 1965; the third one La Traversiere in 1966. Simone Schwarz-Bart first published a novel, Plat de porc aux bananes vertes, in 1967, in collaboration with Andre Schwarz-Bart. In 1972, she published by herself Pluie et vent sur Telumee Miracle and in 1979 Ti Jean L'Horizon., As a young teenager, life in a rigid family felt too hard and too stifling for Albertine Sarrazin and she fled away at the age of fifteen. For the young girls and Ti Jean, in Schwarz-Bart's novels, life in the West Indies presented difficult situations from which they too wanted to escape. The two women writers explore the technics that the creative imagination summons up to take the heros away from these stressful situations. Dreams, meditations, travels or changes of locations, temporary madness are common themes studied according to the theories of Carl Jung in the six novels cited above., In order to become a better person and get away from their unhappy situations, the characters had to go deep inside themselves to get to know their innerself. Through this universal process of search for happiness and a better way of living, despite their differences, they reach a common ground that allows the reader to identify with their ordeals, their reactions. We recognize the characters as being of the universal human family.
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Date Issued: 1992, 1992
Identifier: AAI9303363, 3087922, FSDT3087922, fsu:76732
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Title: La relacion entre la fisionomia y el caracter de los personajes en "Don Quijote de la Mancha".
Creator: Madera, Nelson Ismael., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation attempts to determine the physiognomical characteristics of the main characters in Cervantes' Don Quixote, in particular of the hero, Sancho Panza, Aldonza/Dulcinea, Don Quixote's horse Rocinante, and Sancho's donkey. This is achieved by comparing the characters' tangible and intangible attributes to those established by books on physiognomy available to Cervantes, especially Juan Huarte de San Juan's Examen de ingenios, Alfonso Martinez de Toledo's Corbacho; and Jeronimo...
Show moreThis dissertation attempts to determine the physiognomical characteristics of the main characters in Cervantes' Don Quixote, in particular of the hero, Sancho Panza, Aldonza/Dulcinea, Don Quixote's horse Rocinante, and Sancho's donkey. This is achieved by comparing the characters' tangible and intangible attributes to those established by books on physiognomy available to Cervantes, especially Juan Huarte de San Juan's Examen de ingenios, Alfonso Martinez de Toledo's Corbacho; and Jeronimo Cortes' Libro de fisionomia natural, of which an edition of the first 31 chapters appears in the appendix. Close analysis of the descriptions of the physical appearance and emotional reactions of the aforesaid characters indicates that Don Quixote exhibits a choleric nature throughout the novel, except for the final chapters of each Part, when his hot and dry nature cools to a melancholic state. Sancho Panza, on the other hand, is eternally sanguine (hot and wet). The two protagonists' steeds are both phlegmatic, although they often participate in the physiognomic characteristics of their masters. Aldonza/Dulcinea, curiously, is the humoral equivalent of the particular imagination that embodies her, and so shifts physiognomy throughout the novel. In all these cases, Cervantes followed unerringly the prevailing beliefs of his time concerning physical appearance and character.
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Date Issued: 1992, 1992
Identifier: AAI9222398, 3087782, FSDT3087782, fsu:76592
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Title: La poesia de Julia de Burgos: Icono de la nueva mujer puertorriquena. [Spanish text].
Creator: Roman-Morales, Belen., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: El proposito de este estudio es establecer la iconicidad entre la hablante lirica que aparece en la obra de Julia de Burgos con la nueva mujer puertorriquena. Para efecto de esta investigacion se utiliza la definicion dada por Jeanne Martinet al icono, el cual define como un tipo de signo que designa un objeto que mantiene con otro una relacion de parecido tal que se le puede identificar enseguida. Para Martinet el icono no se refiere a la imagen de tipo sagrado, sino a la obra de arte...
Show moreEl proposito de este estudio es establecer la iconicidad entre la hablante lirica que aparece en la obra de Julia de Burgos con la nueva mujer puertorriquena. Para efecto de esta investigacion se utiliza la definicion dada por Jeanne Martinet al icono, el cual define como un tipo de signo que designa un objeto que mantiene con otro una relacion de parecido tal que se le puede identificar enseguida. Para Martinet el icono no se refiere a la imagen de tipo sagrado, sino a la obra de arte estudiada, desde el punto de vista de los asuntos, temas, simbolos y atributos identificados y descritos., Para lograr este proposito primero se presenta el contexto historico-social de la mujer de la epoca y los logros alcanzados por la mujer puertorriquena. Tambien se ofrecen los datos biograficos de Julia de Burgos., En el segundo capitulo se caracteriza a la hablante lirica que aparece en el libro Poema en veinte surcos y se destacan aquellas cualidades que la apartan de la norma establecida para la mujer de la epoca, especialmente las normas sociales., En el tercer capitulo se caracteriza la hablante lirica del libro Cancion de la verdad sencilla. Se destaca en este capitulo el disfrute por parte de la hablante lirica al amor., En el cuarto capitulo se caracteriza a la hablante lirica que aparece en el libro El mar y tu. En el mismo se hace enfasis en la actitud de la hablante lirica hacia la muerte., En las conclusiones se deja establecida la iconicidad entre la hablante lirica y la nueva mujer puertorriquena, como tambien las diferencias que existen entre Julia de Burgos y el personaje ficticio que ella creo.
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Date Issued: 1991, 1991
Identifier: AAI9124634, 3087541, FSDT3087541, fsu:76364
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Title: THE ROLE OF MATE GUARDING IN STONE CRABS.
Creator: WILBER, DARA HEMBREE., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The reproductive biology and residency patterns of over 800 stone crabs (Menippe mercenaria, M. adina, and their hybrid) were examined during an eight month tagging study at artificial, concrete block reefs constructed near intertidal oyster reefs and subtidal seagrass beds in Franklin and Wakulla Co., Florida. Characteristics of adult crabs occurring intertidally in the summer include a male-biased sex ratio (5M: 1F), a prevalence of M. adina and hybrids, a high frequency (71%) of molting...
Show moreThe reproductive biology and residency patterns of over 800 stone crabs (Menippe mercenaria, M. adina, and their hybrid) were examined during an eight month tagging study at artificial, concrete block reefs constructed near intertidal oyster reefs and subtidal seagrass beds in Franklin and Wakulla Co., Florida. Characteristics of adult crabs occurring intertidally in the summer include a male-biased sex ratio (5M: 1F), a prevalence of M. adina and hybrids, a high frequency (71%) of molting males, and low sperm content (nine million) in males. Subtidally in the summer, the adult sex ratio was female-biased (1M: 9F), the Menippe-complex forms occurred at equivalent frequencies, and male sperm content was higher (18 million). In the fall, sex ratios became more uniform in both habitats, the intertidal male molting frequency declined (7%), and male sperm levels increased (19 million sperm). Mating among the Menippe-complex forms appeared random in both habitats., A test of the effect of precopulatory guarding on sperm production in stone crabs revealed guarding males contained significantly more sperm (90-100 million) than non-guarding males exposed to pre-molt females or pre-molt males (40-50 million sperm). The sperm level for males held with intermolt females (20 to 30 million sperm) was consistent with background sperm levels from the field study. Male sperm number and the amount of sperm transferred to females were positively correlated., The influence of sexual selection and predation on postcopulatory guarding durations in stone crabs was also examined. Males guarded significantly longer (126 h beyond the female's molt) when another male stone crab was present than when an intermolt female (84 h) or a blue crab (83 h) were present. In predation trials with the longest postcopulatory guarding durations, the females survived the treatment, whereas females were eaten by the blue crabs in the trials with the shortest guarding durations. The cul-de-sac morphology of the female sperm storage organ is such that sperm pre-emption is likely to occur upon multiple inseminations. Sexual selection appears important in maintaining postcopulatory mate guarding in stone crabs.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8803374, 3086734, FSDT3086734, fsu:76209
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Title: THE INTERGENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF DEATH UPON MARITAL ATTACHMENT AND DISSOLUTION PATTERNS IN COHESIVE AND NONCOHESIVE FAMILY SYSTEMS.
Creator: STRANGE, JOHN HARVEY., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The effect of the death of a relative in the parental or grandparental generation upon the surviving adult children or grandchildren of the deceased was the object of this study. It was hypothesized that in cohesive families, the death of a relative created emotional "shock waves" affecting the survivors in many ways. The major consequence studied was the effect of this relative's death on the relationship stability of adult children's engagements and/or marriages. It was expected that where...
Show moreThe effect of the death of a relative in the parental or grandparental generation upon the surviving adult children or grandchildren of the deceased was the object of this study. It was hypothesized that in cohesive families, the death of a relative created emotional "shock waves" affecting the survivors in many ways. The major consequence studied was the effect of this relative's death on the relationship stability of adult children's engagements and/or marriages. It was expected that where the death of a relative was followed by a marital relationship status change in surviving adult children, the level of perceived family cohesion would be higher than in those situations where a relative's death was not followed by a marital relationship status change. A clinical sample of adult volunteers 18 years of age or older (N = 41) was surveyed. The sample contained two groups: a group in which the death of a relative was "linked" with a relationship change within 24 months and a group in which the death of a relative was "not linked" with a relationship status change in that time period. The individuals in the two groups responded to the Moos subscale on cohesion (Moos, Insel, and Humphreys, 1974). No significant (p $<$.05) differences were found in the means of cohesion levels between the group with a death linked to a relationship status change within 24 months (N = 20) and the group without such a linkage (N = 21). Further analyses and results were discussed with regard to implications for therapy and future research.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8803373, 3086733, FSDT3086733, fsu:76208
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Title: ROLE OF SULPHATE-REDUCING BACTERIA INVOLVED IN CORROSION USING PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACID BIOMARKERS AND ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS.
Creator: DOWLING, NICHOLAS JAMES., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are both ecologically and industrially significant in that they not only make a large contribution to detrital mineralization but also create massive corrosion problems. Methods for rapid detection and identification of two principle groups of SRB are described using phospholipid fatty acid biomarkers. Several Desulfobacter strains including 2ac9, AcBa, 3ac10, and 4ac11 as well as several other sulphate- and sulphur-reducing bacteria were examined for fatty...
Show moreSulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are both ecologically and industrially significant in that they not only make a large contribution to detrital mineralization but also create massive corrosion problems. Methods for rapid detection and identification of two principle groups of SRB are described using phospholipid fatty acid biomarkers. Several Desulfobacter strains including 2ac9, AcBa, 3ac10, and 4ac11 as well as several other sulphate- and sulphur-reducing bacteria were examined for fatty acid biomarkers. The fatty acids 10Me16:0, cy 17:0(w7/8) and iso17:1w7c, iso15:1w7c are proposed as biomarkers for members of the genera Desulfobacter and Desulfovibrio respectively. A validation experiment was set up to verify use of the proposed biomarkers where a fermenter was enriched which made acetate and hydrogen available for sulphate-reduction. The SRB isolated from the system were found to be Desulfobacter and Desulfovibrio species and contained the correct proposed biomarkers. Titanium and steel tubes exposed to oxic, pumped Atlantic seawater were shown to recruit the SRB into biofilms. This was despite the fact that the seawater pumped through the pipes was oxygenated. Clearly both the metal and oxygen-utilizing bacteria created anaerobic microniches which permitted SRB to function even though obligately anaerobic. Further electrochemical experiments then demonstrated the corrosion effect of SRB in nominally 'aerobic' medium when protected from oxygen and supplied with carbon and energy by the facultatively anaerobic fermenter Vibrio natriegens. These data showed that the bacteria in batch culture conditions were more corroding than in continuous culture although this was independent of the bulk phase pH. The fastest corrosion rate however, was achieved when a continuous flow system lapsed into stagnating conditions. Cocultures with SRB produced slightly, faster corrosion rates than with Vibrio natriegens alone. Clearly the biomarker and electrochemical techniques may be used to quickly characterize a bacterial corrosion problem and then establish if SRB are a major component in the biofilm community.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8803367, 3086732, FSDT3086732, fsu:76207
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Title: MEMBRANE DYNAMICS AND LOCOMOTION OF CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS SPERMATOZOA.
Creator: PAVALKO, FREDRICK MICHAEL., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Caenorhabditis elegans spermatozoa are nonflagellated, ameboid cells that contain no F-actin yet are capable of crawling over solid surfaces. In this study, the role of cell surface membrane dynamics in locomotion were studied. Monoclonal antibodies against membrane proteins were generated and used to examine (1) the detailed pattern and mechanism of surface membrane movement, (2) the pattern and mechanism of insertion of new membrane components onto the spermatozoan surface, and (3) the...
Show moreCaenorhabditis elegans spermatozoa are nonflagellated, ameboid cells that contain no F-actin yet are capable of crawling over solid surfaces. In this study, the role of cell surface membrane dynamics in locomotion were studied. Monoclonal antibodies against membrane proteins were generated and used to examine (1) the detailed pattern and mechanism of surface membrane movement, (2) the pattern and mechanism of insertion of new membrane components onto the spermatozoan surface, and (3) the effects of anti-cell surface protein antibodies on cell locomotion. I found that the general pattern of front-to-back membrane flow observed on other crawling metazoan cells also occurs on the pseudopod of C. elegans spermatozoa. Replacement of labelled membrane proteins lost to rearward flow occurs by a mechanism that inserts new protein onto the tips of numerous pseudopodial projections which contact the substrate during crawling, exactly where they are needed to expand the cell forward and create new sites of substrate adhesion. Membrane protein insertion occurs in the absence of cytoplasmic vesicles by a mechanism involving the post-translational, covalent attachment of lipid to the protein. Sperm do not crawl on naked glass, however, anti-cell surface antibodies immobilized on glass promote locomotion. This effect was concluded to be specific based, in part, on the ability of soluble antibody to stop locomotion in a concentration dependent fashion.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8802826, 3086731, FSDT3086731, fsu:76206
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Title: THE EFFECTS OF A DECISION-MAKING PROGRAM FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH.
Creator: OTTEN, PETER LELAND., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study is an evaluation of a decision-making program specifically designed to increase the career maturity of incarcerated youths. The program was developed by the researcher and was designed with the needs of the target population in mind., The study included 2 groups of incarcerated youths who were part of an on-going program at the Dozier School in Marianna, Florida. The subjects' growth in career maturity was measured by the Career Development Inventory. The decision-making program...
Show moreThis study is an evaluation of a decision-making program specifically designed to increase the career maturity of incarcerated youths. The program was developed by the researcher and was designed with the needs of the target population in mind., The study included 2 groups of incarcerated youths who were part of an on-going program at the Dozier School in Marianna, Florida. The subjects' growth in career maturity was measured by the Career Development Inventory. The decision-making program was presented in 5 instructional modules. The dependent measures were administrated pre, post and after a 6 week follow-up period., Analysis of the results employed a t-test of the pretest-posttest differences between groups on all measures, a t-test of the pretest, follow-up differences of the experimental group and the pretest-posttest differences of the comparison group, and a repeated measures test on all measures for the pretest, posttest, follow-up tests of the treatment group. These analyses indicated that the decision-making program positively affected components of career maturity. This positive effect was found to increase over time.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8802825, 3086730, FSDT3086730, fsu:76205
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Title: RABBIT IMMUNOGLOBULIN VH GENES: MOLECULAR BASIS FOR LATENT ALLOTYPE EXPRESSION.
Creator: MCCORMACK, WAYNE THOMAS., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The rabbit provides a unique model for the study of the expressed antibody gene repertoire. Polymorphic serological determinants, called the VHa allotypes, are expressed on the VH regions of the majority of serum antibody molecules, and are usually inherited in rabbits as Mendelian codominant alleles. However, recent evidence suggests that these molecules are encoded by a small subset of the rabbit immunoglobulin VH gene family. Also, genetically unexpected alleles, called latent allotypes,...
Show moreThe rabbit provides a unique model for the study of the expressed antibody gene repertoire. Polymorphic serological determinants, called the VHa allotypes, are expressed on the VH regions of the majority of serum antibody molecules, and are usually inherited in rabbits as Mendelian codominant alleles. However, recent evidence suggests that these molecules are encoded by a small subset of the rabbit immunoglobulin VH gene family. Also, genetically unexpected alleles, called latent allotypes, are expressed upon immunization with anti-allotype antibody. These data suggest highly selective VH gene expression in the rabbit., The purpose of this study was to investigate the genetic basis for latent VH allotype expression in the rabbit. VH region cDNA libraries were produced from spleen mRNA of a homozygous ${\it a\sp2 a\sp2}$ rabbit expressing latent al allotype, and cloned into the vector lambda gtll. These sequences derived from this library were compared to those from a homozygous nominal ${\it a\sp1 a\sp1}$ rabbit. VHal-homologies were identified by hybridization with oligonucleotide probes for VHal allotype-specific segments the VH region., DNA sequence comparisons reveal that some latent VHal genes encode a framework one region that is completely homologous to the nominal al allotype. Other latent VHal genes, however, have blocks of sequence identical to nominal VHal in the first or third framework regions that are flanked by VHa2 or VHa-negative sequences. These latent cDNA sequences, which are composites of more than one allotype, may be directly encoded by composite germline VH genes. Alternatively, they may be the products of somatically generated recombination or gene conversion between genes encoding nominal allotypes. The latent sequences do not appear to be the result of extensive modification by somatic point mutation. These results support the hypothesis that the rabbit germline VH gene family encodes sequences for more than one VHa allotype, and that the expressed VH repertoire is regulated and highly selective. Models for the mechanism of this regulation of allotype expression are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8802823, 3086729, FSDT3086729, fsu:76204
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Title: THE PATTERNS AND MECHANISMS OF SELECTIVE FEEDING ON SEAGRASS-MEADOW EPIFAUNA BY JUVENILE PINFISH, LAGODON RHOMBOIDES (LINNAEUS).
Creator: LUCZKOVICH, JOSEPH JOHN., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: I investigated selective feeding by juvenile pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, on seagrass-meadow epifauna by comparing stomach contents of fish to available prey in a seagrass meadow in St. George Sound, Florida, and observing feeding behavior in laboratory experiments. Actively feeding pinfish were collected using a drop-net that was released by an underwater observer, allowing the simultaneous capture of fish and prey. Juvenile pinfish were diurnal foragers that consumed both animals (amphipods...
Show moreI investigated selective feeding by juvenile pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, on seagrass-meadow epifauna by comparing stomach contents of fish to available prey in a seagrass meadow in St. George Sound, Florida, and observing feeding behavior in laboratory experiments. Actively feeding pinfish were collected using a drop-net that was released by an underwater observer, allowing the simultaneous capture of fish and prey. Juvenile pinfish were diurnal foragers that consumed both animals (amphipods, decapods, copepods, isopods, polychaetes, tunicates and hydroids) and plants (diatoms, algae, and seagrass) in varying proportions. Pinfish fed mainly in the morning and evening, biting at prey on surfaces of seagrass blades (Syringodium filiforme and Thalassia testudinum). Amphipods and cumaceans were found in small (20-29 mm standard length (SL)) pinfish stomachs in greater amounts than would be expected based upon relative proportions of prey dry weight biomass in the environment; polychaetes, decapods and isopods were found in smaller amounts. Larger pinfish (40-49 mm SL) consumed these same prey in amounts proportional to their biomasses in the environment. Comparisons of the sizes of prey in the diet and the environment suggest that the observed selectivity by the smallest pinfish could have been caused by gape-limitation: small fish may have been unable to efficiently consume the relatively large shrimp, polychaete and isopod prey. Laboratory observations on pinfish did not completely support this hypothesis, because only the smallest fish tested (30-39 mm SL) were unable to consume the largest shrimp, Tozeuma carolinense; all other sizes of fish (40-79 mm SL) were able to consume large T. carolinense, the small shrimp Hippolyte zostericola and the large polychaete Amerionuphis magna. Visual and chemical stimuli from natural, uninjured prey enclosed in clear, glass tubes with open tops elicited predatory attacks by pinfish in laboratory experiments, suggesting that detection depends upon both chemoreception and vision. Fish prevented from using either chemical or visual cues attacked prey at lower rates. Although significant prey attack preferences were not found for four prey types (amphipods, shrimp, polychaetes and hydroids), live prey were preferred over dead prey. Thus, selectivity in the laboratory depended upon prey size and motion.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8802821, 3086728, FSDT3086728, fsu:76203
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Title: NURSE PARTICIPATION IN PATIENT EDUCATION IN A COMMUNITY HOSPITAL.
Creator: KINNAIRD, LEAH SNYDER., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this research was to discover concepts and hypotheses related to nurse participation in patient education at the bedside. Naturalistic inquiry was used to explore patient education practices in one community hospital in South Florida. For nine months the researcher worked alongside nurses in the process of conducting fieldwork. Ethnographic methods of participant observation, informant interviewing, document analysis, and journal writing amassed a body of descriptions from...
Show moreThe purpose of this research was to discover concepts and hypotheses related to nurse participation in patient education at the bedside. Naturalistic inquiry was used to explore patient education practices in one community hospital in South Florida. For nine months the researcher worked alongside nurses in the process of conducting fieldwork. Ethnographic methods of participant observation, informant interviewing, document analysis, and journal writing amassed a body of descriptions from which a theoretical model of the dynamics of nurse participation in patient education took form., The emergent model is a comprehensive, hypothetical framework that includes four sets of variables: (1) Situational variables, including physical (fixtures, messages, and educational resources) and social (patients, doctors, peers, and management). (2) Intrapersonal variables, composing a hypothetical profile of the nurse as defined by the presence of three extremes of contrast (task versus process orientation, role clarity versus role ambiguity, and patient dependence versus patient independence). (3) Valuational variables, operationalized as nurse perceptions of the value of content to doctors and to patients. (4) Participatory variables, defined by four alternative roles (initiator, teacher, reinforcer, and facilitator)., Early in the research it became apparent that patient education is not a singular phenomenon but a complex of roles that nurses assume in helping patients learn. The emergence of a model, built incrementally from data derived from practice, serves as a tool for the development of theoretical hypotheses and research questions too numerous to state in a single study. More than forty hypotheses which have implications for both decision-making in practice (including legal, economic, and academic concerns) and the advancement of theory are given., Important areas for future study include the development of measurement instruments for the above-mentioned sets of variables, verification of the hypotheses set forth, and testing of the model as a decision-making and theory-building tool.
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Date Issued: 1987, 1987
Identifier: AAI8802819, 3086727, FSDT3086727, fsu:76202
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