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Superconducting magnet systems are the enabling technology for several research fields, e.g., experimental high-energy physics and fusion. Advanced superconducting magnet systems are strongly needed to achieve ever-higher beam energy in...
AN ANALYSIS OF THE GRANT-AWARDING PRACTICES OF FLORIDA'S PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS TOWARD INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
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The present study examined the 1977, 1978, and 1979 IRS 990 tax returns of 227 Florida-based philanthropic foundations in an effort to describe their grant-awarding activity toward institutions of higher education and to ascertain the... Significant descriptive findings were as follows: (1) For each year examined, institutions of higher education received higher average grant awards than other segments of the grant-seeking population. They also increased each year in... Following the descriptive analysis, chi-square tests for theoretical proportions and independence were utilized to ascertain whether certain kinds of institutions received disproportionate numbers of grants and whether there was a...
The Effects of the Assessor and Assessee's Roles on Preservice Teachers' Metacognitive Awareness, Performance, and Attitude in a Technology-Related Design Task
Considerable attention has been directed toward the value of peer assessment where learning is enhanced through maximizing the opportunities for students to share their work with others in the assessment process. Although previous...
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF INTEGRATING TOPICS OF ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA WITH THOSE OF ELEMENTARY PROBABILITY WITHIN A UNIT OF MATERIALS PREPARED FOR COLLEGE BASIC MATHEMATICS STUDENTS
Basic skills achievement patterns from kindergarten through tenth grade
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A descriptive and exploratory longitudinal study was conducted to investigate whether a gap existed between grade level standards and the academic achievement of students with low school readiness and to determine if the gap widened as... Mean differences and variability in communication and mathematics achievement among readiness groups on the norm-referenced CTBS test series and the criterion-referenced SSAT-I test series over time were examined. Because maturation and... Analyses revealed that the students in the low readiness groups did fall further from the set academic standard for the CTBS test series, however, the reverse was true for the criterion-referenced SSAT-I test series. Although for the...
A STUDY OF THE UTILIZATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN SOLVING STATE PROBLEMS IN FLORIDA (USE)
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The purpose of this ex post facto study was to determine the extent of use by governmental entities of research funded by Florida's Service Through the Application of Research (STAR) Program and to identify factors which contributed to... The dependent variable in this study was utilization of STAR research. Statistical analyses used to determine significance at the 0.05 level indicated a positive relationship between utilization and the following independent variables: ... Eighty-seven percent of the governmental respondents reported using STAR funded research as a result of projects conducted during this three year period. Three issues consistently emerged in responses to questions asked regarding the use...
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF VIETNAM COMBAT PARTICIPATION ON ADULT PSYCHO-SOCIAL FUNCTIONING AMONG ARMY AND AIR FORCE RESERVE PERSONNEL (POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER)
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A comparative study of 210 Vietnam Era veterans who are currently serving in the U.S. military Reserves. Two major groups--Vietnam combat veterans and Vietnam Era veterans with no combat experience--were compared on measures of... A simple additive model which describes a direct and positive relationship between degree of combat exposure and current incidence of problems with adult psychosocial functioning was shown to be inadequate. Preservice psycho-social... There were no statistically significant and nontrivial differences between combat veterans and non-combat veterans on each of the measures of adult psycho-social functioning. Although a large proportion of combat veterans reported a high...
AN EVALUATION OF GUIDELINES FOR THE REVIEW AND SELECTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS BY CLASSROOM TEACHERS
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether guidelines for teachers on how to review and select instructional materials have any effect on their actual selection of materials, their teaching processes, and their students' test... Of the 115 original workshop participants, 24 were assigned to the three groups and proceeded to teach the lesson. These teachers provided feedback on the instructional process they used to teach the lesson, and they collected student attitude, pretest, and posttest data. One hundred and sixty one students were included in the analysis. (chi)('2) analyses were conducted on teacher background, teacher and student attitudes, and instructional-process data to determine whether groups of teachers differed in their background, attitudes, or the instructional processes. No... Student performance on a 10-item test administered following the lesson was analyzed by means of an analysis of covariance in which group assignment of their teachers was the independent variable; pretest scores were the covariate.... A formative product evaluation of the guidelines resulted in no suggestions for substantive content changes, but suggestions were to restructure the guidelines into a training section and into an application section.
Previously a narrowly researched phenomenon (Fine & Nevo, 2008), interest in underemployment is gaining momentum and current research (Erdogan, Bauer, Peiro, & Truxillo, 2011a; 2011b; Feldman & Maynard, 2011) in the area has provided...
Faculty achievements: The role of gender in criminology
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A number of studies have focused on the status of female faculty in academic disciplines. Previous research efforts have yielded mixed findings pertaining to achievement differences between male and female faculty. One reason for these... Little is known about the status of female faculty in academic criminology and criminal justice. The purpose of this study was to examine faculty performance (research productivity) and achievements (tenure, promotion, and salary) in... Using a stratified random sample, faculty names were drawn from membership lists of four professional associations. Analytical strategies included: Probit, Weighted Least Squares, and Ordinary Least Squares regressions. The results indicated that performance and achievement among female faculty did not vary with differences in female proportions within departments. Moreover, the main effect of gender was not predictive of tenure status, time to... A number of possible explanations for these findings were provided, as well as suggestions for additional research. Finally, implications of this study for affirmative action, as well as the discipline itself, were discussed.
Self-objectification and social physique anxiety (SPA) were investigated in relation to exercise behaviors. A theoretical model was developed that viewed SPA as a mediating variable between self-objectification and protective/ permissive...
The majority of college students do not read assigned academic materials. This becomes a problem, as long-term mastery and performance outcomes decrease when students merely memorize the material for a test. The goal of this randomized...
The first half of the twentieth century was in many ways a watershed era for women and their role in British society. The world wars ushered in a time of unprecedented change. The wars opened positions for women outside of the home, ...
The Pesta Paduan Suara Gerejawi (PESPARAWI), an Indonesian Christian choral festival or its predecessor the Pesta Paduan Suara Gerejani (PESPARANI), has become a nationwide celebratory event in Indonesia and has helped Indonesian...
Meal composition, snacking patterns and their effects upon mood
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Female college freshmen were designated as either Carbohydrate Cravers or Mixed Snackers according to their responses to a survey of snacking patterns. In a between-groups design, their moods and their ratings of the desirability of... On the post-meal measures, Carbohydrate Cravers did not differ significantly from Mixed Snackers on the mood measures nor on the food desirability ratings. Meal composition had no effect upon mood, but it did affect food ratings, albeit... Results of this study are discussed in terms of their implications for two opposing theories of "Carbohydrate Craving".
THE EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO HYPOXIA PLUS COLD ON METABOLISM AT REST AND DURING EXERCISE
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Seven normal, healthy, male volunteer subjects were exposed to four different environmental conditions at random on four separate occasions: breathing room air with an ambient temperature of 25(DEGREES)C (NN); breathing room air with an... Hypoxia led to significant increases in heart rate, systolic blood pressure, ventilation, respiratory quotient, blood lactate, and perceived exertion during exercise, while causing significant depression of core temperature and oxygen...
SOLVENT-MEDIATED PROTON TRANSFER. THE INTIMATE ROLE OF THE SOLVENT IN EXCITED-STATE TAUTOMERIZATION REACTIONS
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Excited-state proton transfer reactions are investigated for three different molecular species, 3-hydroxyflavone, 7-azaindole, and lumichrome. Both steady-state and picosecond spectroscopic techniques are used to establish the dominant... Proton transfer in 3-hydroxyflavone is formally an intramolecular process. The tautomerization process in this molecule, however, is found to depend sensitively on interactions with the surrounding solvent molecules. Distinct ground... The isolated 7-azaindole molecule possesses no direct pathway for tautomerization. If proton transfer is to occur it must do so through a molecular bridge of some sort. This class of excited-state reactions is refered to as... Lumichrome provides a particularly interesting case of pseudo-intramolecular proton transfer. Tautomerization takes place in the solvents pyridine, glacial acetic acid, and in the various derivatives of these. The roles of solvent...
An Expert-Performance Approach to the Study of the Development of Understanding during Complex Learning: Capturing the Development of Understanding of the 8-Puzzle and Its Mechanism
The question of "what is better understanding during complex learning" has intrigued researchers in different fields of psychology and education for decades. However, it has been difficult to study and monitor the development of...
A Preliminary Investigation into the Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Induction on Perceptions of Attention, Aesthetic Response, and Flow during Music Listening
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a brief mindfulness induction technique on subjective reports of attention, aesthetic response, and flow during music listening as measured by Continuous Response Digital...
EXPOSITORY PROSE RECALL BY YOUNG HOSPITALIZED SCHIZOPHRENICS
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A number of studies, employing a variety of standard verbal learning tasks, have addressed the problem of deficits in schizophrenic recall processes. Recent research has suggested that, due to the simplistic nature of their experimental... This dissertation investigated the differences in prose recall of three groups, each composed of 32 male volunteer subjects: hospitalized medicated schizophrenics; hospitalized nonschizophrenics; and nonschizophrenic college... Each subject received both topics and both top-level semantic structures. To prevent transfer effects, each subject received only one top-level structure for each topic, thus yielding a nested design under topic and top-level structure-... Analysis of variance on the proportional recall scores (proportion of idea units recalled at each level in the content structures) showed a significant top level structure X groups X levels interaction (p < .04), which suggests that the... The results were interpreted to indicate different semantic information processing styles among the three subject groups. The schizophrenic subjects, as evidenced by their proportional recall scores and other supporting data, did not...
Peatlands contain a significant amount of the global soil carbon, but the climate feedback affecting carbon stability within these peatland systems is still relatively unknown. Organic matter composition of peatlands plays a major role...
Various empirical equations have been offered to facilitate the prediction of the concentration of pollutants in different phases in the environment. Using one such equation, Brown and Flagg (1981), the predicted separation between the...
Activity-based anorexia (ABA) in an animal model of anorexia nervosa, in which rats are allowed free access to running wheels but only 2 h food access per day. Rats exposed to this paradigm display symptoms similar to those seen in...
National recommendations for undergraduate biology education call for orchestrating opportunities for students to "figure out" scientific explanations in the classroom setting by engaging in similar disciplinary practices and discourses...
One of the reported problems in the Honduran education system is teacher absenteeism. Although precise rates have not been provided, it is generally understood that the absenteeism rates tend to be higher in rural schools because of...
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF PHONEMIC REGRESSION
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Research in word discrimination testing shows that performances vary as a function of the materials and procedures employed. The concept of phonemic regression, however, was based on a specific word list (PB-50) and sensation level (30... regression is not argued, rather caution is advised is attaching the phonemic regression label until all variables associated with discrimination testing, particularly the sensation level and word list utilized, have been manipulated.
A significant component of forensic science is analyzing bones to assess the age at death of an individual. Forensic anthropologists often include the pubic symphysis in such studies. Subjective methods, such as the Suchey-Brooks method, ...
It is commonly thought that external influences such as indoctrination, coercion, and subtle manipulation can affect our status as morally responsible agents. In extreme cases, external interventions may undermine our moral...
My proposed MA in American Dance Studies thesis analyzes the power and reach of the online dance world in the 21st Century. The project specifically engages with the past decade’s trend of dance spectatorship’s online presence, fueled by...
THE EFFECT OF MODELING STIMULI AND REHEARSAL ON THE LEARNING OF LINE PATTERNS (OVERT, COVERT)
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A major focus of the study was to compare the effectiveness of overt and covert modeling. Overt modeling was defined as visually observing a model while covert modeling involved a process of verbal description followed by mental... Apriori tests were conducted on the data as well as 2 x 2 x 2 repeated measures ANCOVA. Results indicated that visual observation was significantly better than verbal description on the immediate reproduction measures. No significant... In the past, the effects of verbal description in covert modeling has been ignored in favor of "imagining a model." It is now clear that verbal description is an important factor in covert modeling and that imagining a model is a form of...
The Association of Leptin and Adiponectin with Bone and Body Composition during a Six Month Weight Loss Period in Overweight and Obese Postmenopausal Women
Osteoporosis and obesity are well-known public health concerns, particularly for postmenopausal women. Recently, an increasing research interest has been focused on the adipocyte-secreted hormones, leptin and adiponectin, as potential...
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