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Michel Foucault's structures of knowledge define meaning in history. In the museum, meaning is made through the material evidence of people and their environment. This study examines how Foucault's classification paradigm established in...
The present study investigated the effect of 4 six-week exercise interventions on psychological health in the elderly. Participants (M age = 83; N = 42) were randomly assigned to one of four groups: yoga, aerobics, walking, and social...
Conditional branches have traditionally been a performance bottleneck for most processors. The high frequency of branches in code coupled with expensive pipeline flushes on mispredictions make branches expensive instructions worth...
CHARACTERISTIC VALUES OF PARTICIPANTS OF THE GEORGIA GOVERNOR'S HONORS PROGRAM AND VALUED ASPECTS OF THE PROGRAM AS JUDGED BY PARTICIPANTS, WITHIMPLICATIONS FOR PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT
The influence of teacher feedback on children's peer preferences and perceptions
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Causal relationships between teacher feedback and children's peer preferences and perceptions were examined. Kindergarten, first, and second grade children (N = 149) viewed a videotape analog of a classroom scene in which a child actor ... Multivariate analyses of variance (2 (Sex) x 5(Condition)) revealed main effects for Condition only. Planned comparison tests indicated that teacher feedback was causally related to peer preferences and perceptions. Positive feedback...
The major elements, trace elements, and isotopic composition of clinopyroxene and garnet fractions from mantle xenoliths from Colorado Plateau area were analyzed in this study to examine the sources of the xenoliths and their role in...
The purpose of the study was to develop a standardized curriculum for pilot training which can be used in response to ever-increasing demand for the pilot-with baccalaureate. The demand is partly in response to the military's curtailment... Precedent for standardization exists, expecially in the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) in World War II. The expense and complexity of pilot training today demand optimum use of resources. The many curricular organizational models which exist indicate the necessity for organization. Development of a list of elements is but one step in the organizational model used. The four groups represented within the panel were Air Carriers, the Air Force, the Navy and General Aviation. The differences exhibited as groups were generally attributable to differences in mission . The Delphi survey technique was... Programs reviewed were the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, Purdue University, the University of Illinois, the University of South Alabama and the Federal Aviation Administration. Of the 756 elements listed as being taught by any of the... A standardized aviation pilot training program at the pre-specialization level which will satisfy the needs of all sectors of aviation is possible. Organizations which teach pilots do not teach significantly different elements through...
Perceptions of sexual harassment: The influence of physical attractiveness and status
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The current study was an investigation of extralegal factors in the perception of sexual harassment. Undergraduate students who were enrolled in introductory psychology classes watched a videotape of an interaction in a work setting. A... Contrary to predictions based on the "beauty is good" stereotype, the physical attractiveness of the harasser did not influence subjects' perceptions of the interaction. Regarding status, subjects were more likely to view comments from a...
The study of interfaith interactions in medieval Spain often follows one of two sweeping schemes of historical explanation. One usually either subscribes to the idea of an antagonistic Clash of Cultures in the vein of Samuel Huntington...
The current study evaluated the Merit Scholars program of Bright Futures to determine its effect on student success in postsecondary education, particularly among African American students in the State of Florida by comparing high school...
An underexplored aspect of moral experience is the experience of apprehending ("seeing") other people as mattering, grasping the significance of whether their interests are set back or enhanced. I refer to these as value-apprehensional ...
EFFECTS OF TEACHER MARITAL STATUS AND KNOWLEDGE OF A CHILD'S FAMILY'S MARITAL STATUS ON TEACHER RATINGS OF SELECTED TRAITS OF THE CHILD
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The purposes of this study were to determine whether knowledge of a child's family's marital status (divorced home/intact home/family status unknown) and/or teacher's marital status (single/divorced) would affect the teacher's ratings of... To test the hypotheses, two instruments were employed. The Personality Trait Rating Scale (PTRS) and the Predicted Behavior in School Form (PBS) were used by the teachers to rate behaviors of a five year old child observed on a videotape. Findings were: (1) knowledge of a child's family marital status did not have any significant effect on teachers' ratings on the PTRS or on the PBS. Mean rating scores on both instruments did not differ significantly among the three...
The trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 brought world-wide attention to the Nazi concentration camps and led to countless discussions by historians and theologians. In addition to American and British novelists and playwrights, many poets... The first literary response to the Holocaust was mainly autobiographical in accounts by camp inmates. Literary critics have discussed these memoirs and novels. Little attention, however, has been given to the impact of the Holocaust on... Through a discussion of eighteen poets and the characteristics of American and British poetry since World War II, this essay attempts to demonstrate three points: First, images of the concentration camps are used metaphorically by a...
The purpose of the present study was to investigate Preservice Teachers' (PT) reasons for teaching and their beliefs about teaching. Specific reasons of PTs for entering the teaching career, and typologies (clusters) of PTs based on...
Statisticians often encounter data in the form of a combination of discrete and continuous outcomes. A special case is zero-inflated longitudinal data where the response variable has a large portion of zeros. These data exhibit...
In this dissertation, I address several ways in which Richard Strauss elaborates the Classical-model sentence and period paradigm: through harmonic elaborations by way of Strauss’s chromatic, Romantic-style harmonic palette; through...
How do children's career aspirations come to reflect the social inequalities among their elders? One theorist, Linda S. Gottfredson, 1996 was interested in explaining how at-risk children come to define themselves professionally and...
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING CONSUMER EDUCATION CONCEPTS IN CLOTHING AND TEXTILES TO SELECTED SECONDARY STUDENTS IN HOME ECONOMICS
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The purpose of the study was to develop instruments to determine what teachers and experts think ought to be taught, what is taught, and what is known concerning consumer education in clothing and textiles programs in home economics in... The test items were formulated in relation to those concepts identified in the Florida 1974 Free Enterprise and Consumer Education Act including: advertising, appliances, banking, budgeting, credit, governmental agencies, guarantees and... Data were collected from 131 senior high school students in two public schools of Bay County, Florida. Seventy first semester clothing and textiles students were assigned to the experimental group whereas 61 home economics students who... It was concluded that the test was reliable due to an analysis coefficient (K-R 20) which was .90 when administered to the experimental group and .89 when administered to the control group. The t test was used to determine if there was a significant difference in the mean of the test scores of the experimental group and the control group. No significant difference was found between the mean score of the experimental and...
Late spring or early summer brings an abrupt onset of a wet season to Peninsular Florida (PF). High daily rain rates are sustained throughout the summer until the demise of the wet season in autumn. Prediction of the Peninsular Florida...
Years of research on various forms of goal setting interventions, specifically assigned versus participative, continue to yield inconclusive results. While many articles indicate that assigned goals produce results comparable to or even...
A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF THREE DEMONSTRATION CONDITIONS IN THE ACQUISITION OF A MOTOR SKILL (TIME, CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION)
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The purpose of this study was to compare both the effectiveness and efficiency of utilizing live demonstrations (with a fully adequate and precise display of the movement) and videotaped demonstrations (with and without a fully adequate... After observing one of the three demonstrations, 97 tenth and eleventh grade students completed a written test which assessed their knowledge of information critical to satisfactorily performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Next, the... A one-way analysis of variance test revealed no significant differences in the time required for practice and feedback between demonstration groups. Females did require a significantly longer period of time for practice and feedback than...
Tropical atmospheric waves play a major role in the variability and change of weather and climate in the tropics as well as in the globe. They also interact with other tropical systems such as tropical cyclones (TCs) and El Niño-Southern...
"Since Claxton High School is among the few schools in its geographical area which have a physical education program, and since that program has been in effect for only a short period of time, it is felt that the people of the community...
The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle is a fundamental concept from Quantum Mechanics that also describes the Fourier Transform. Unfortunately, it does not directly apply to the digital signals. However, it can be generalized if we use...
The use of music therapy interventions within pediatric healthcare is becoming increasingly popular because of the unique outcome music is able to provide. The purpose of this study was to investigate how music therapy within in-patient...
The music of Argentinian tango composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) is currently enjoying greater worldwide popularity than ever before among musicians and audiences alike. Yet for much of his lifetime Piazzolla had to struggle for...
STUDY OF THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN AN EXPERIMENTAL CURRICULUM AS COMPARED WITH STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE REGULARCURRICULUM IN THE FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE YEARS OF COLLEGE AT FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY, 1967 TO 1969
Analytical models developed using field data can provide useful information with acceptable confidence to evaluate and predict the operational characteristics of a highway. As such, this study presents statistical models that can be used...
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine factors that affect sentencing decisions of Latino and Haitian immigrants. Although scholarly research has consistently demonstrated that foreign-born populations are less likely than native...
This dissertation raises the question of how environmentalists should consider the idea of human labor in nature. This is ultimately a part of the greater question of what we consider the relationship between humanity and nature to be....
Over the course of his career Theodore Thomas became one of the most influential figures in the development of nineteenth-century American musical culture. He is best known today for his role in the foundation of the Chicago Symphony...
Objective: There is substantial variability in early diagnostic features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), suggesting heterogeneity in clinical presentation. The present study aims to identify distinct profiles of social communication...
Announcement day effects and the role of strategic transactions: An empirical investigation
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The evidence of a negative price response generally associated with the initial announcement of seasoned common stock offerings demands a more explicit rationale for why management would undertake an action that serves to lower current... The results show that the market does use information relating to capital structure apart from the issue-investment decision in determining the motive for the offering. However, the results are contrary to that implied by pecking-order.... The evidence also shows that insiders most familiar with the operations of the firm are abnormally high sellers over the second and third months prior to the initial announcement. Further, this selling activity is directly related to the...
This dissertation examines a previously under-researched factor in second language (L2) lexical processing, namely, grammatical class. Although a wealth of research using monolingual and brain-damaged participants suggests that this...
In from the Rain is a collection of songs and interludes for mezzo-soprano, two clarinets, piano, five part female choir, three cellos, contrabass and computer. There are multiple ways the piece may be performed; with live musicians and...
Odd couples/romantic texts: The writings of Charles and Mary Lamb, William and Sarah Hazlitt, and Paul de Man
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This dissertation brings together essays written on various texts by Charles Lamb, Mary Anne Lamb, William Hazlitt, Sarah Hazlitt and Paul de Man. In Chapter One, I draw on Bakhtin's ideas of heteroglossia and dialogism to argue that the... In Chapter Two, I use Michel Foucault's work on sexuality and madness to re-read Lamb's essays "Confessions of a Drunkard" and "Edax on Appetite" and William Hazlitt's novel Liber Amoris as confessions that partake of the pedagogical...
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