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The realm of education is steadily changing from the influence of ideas, theories, research, and technology. Revisiting theory and practices and reinvigorating them with the knowledge gained in research and the advances in technology...
The sulfur-rich protein (SRP) in soybeans is a 7S basic globulin that accounts for up to 5% of the total extractable seed proteins. Sulfur-containing amino acids are the limiting amino acids in most food legumes and therefore there is a...
An empirical examination of environmental externalities and the least-cost selection of electric generation facilities
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In recent years, several state public utility commissions have required electric utilities within their respective jurisdictions to incorporate predetermined external environmental costs into fuel choice selection decisions for electric...
Systems with critical functionality and are prone to damage due to excessive stress level from operation conditions and working environment requires health monitoring. Condition or health monitoring involves acquiring data that can be...
Structural function and unifying processes in selected organ music by American composers of the twentieth century
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The present study proposes the application of the principle of structural function as an analytical method for that music of the twentieth century which employs some tonal attributes but is not formally structured by tonality. Four basic... The works chosen for this study are: (1) Resurrection (1981) by Larry King; (2) Versets (1988) by Daniel Pinkham; and (3) A Quaker Reader (1976) by Ned Rorem. The works were chosen because they represent recent organ works by American... The study begins with a summary of related research, including studies of form in twentieth-century music and a summary of literature related to structural function. The second part of the study identifies analytical techniques, and the... A primary concern for this analysis was to decide the relationship between this music and tonality; specifically, to determine how structural processes may be projected without the influence of tonality. Stability and instability, ...
Franchising is an important organizational form, but extant theory explaining firms' use of franchising is at best incomplete. Research has primarily used agency and resource-scarcity theory to explain firms' propensity to franchise, and...
Progressive Arab nationalism was built upon a concept of emancipation. Emancipating states from imperialism, peasants from feudalism and creating truly independent and sovereign states. From 1952 to 1958, Arab nationalists aimed to free...
IDENTIFICATION OF COMPETENCIES FOR CORRECTIONAL EDUCATION CERTIFICATION IN FLORIDA
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The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine whether a set of specialized competencies necessary to perform effectively in the correctional education field could be identified and validated. If so, would such competencies be... Competencies were identified from a review of the literature and input from correctional educators and validated by a panel of experts. Through this process, 61 competency statements, using a taxonomy of the following six categories:... The 61 competencies were then incorporated into a survey instrument which was distributed to the entire population of 172 correctional educators employed in the nine Florida Department of Corrections youthful offender institutions. Ninty... Each survey competency statement was rated by respondents on a Likert-type scale as essential (5), important (4), useful (3), not important (2), and useless (1). In order to meet the criteria for a validated competency, the statement had... Findings of the study were that all 61 competencies were accepted as useful or higher. Preferred methods of learning the competencies were formal schooling or some form of formal or informal on-the-job training. Schooling was favored for... Suggestions for further research included means of utilizing the 61 validated statements in developing training programs and materials and evaluation instruments for correctional educators. In addition, differences in perceptions of the...
An analysis of urban primacy: Reasserting the need for national spatial planning in developing countries
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An investigation of the relationship between economic development and urban primacy in 95 developing countries is carried out through a series of procedures designed to flow from cross-sectional techniques to longitudinal statistical... Previous study findings of a negative relationship between a country's economic development and its degree of urban primacy are questioned. The chief policy implication of these earlier findings is the notion that the continued growth of... This study finds that the relationship between economic development and urban primacy in developing countries is not negative. The implication is that policy intervention, rather than patience, is necessary to combat urban primacy and to...
As a kind of controlled cognition, strategically reinstating an encoding process to facilitate retrieval of specific subsets of information is more cognitively costly than more automatic forms of retrieval. Although strategic...
When Edmund Burke declared in 1790 that the French Revolution was made up of an atheistic "cabal" of philosophers, he initiated what would remain a stereotype of the revolutionaries for not only the duration of the Revolution, but for...
The linker of the nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) protein complex bridges the inner and outer nuclear membranes and regulates a range of nuclear activities that include telomere tethering and chromosome movement. The canonical...
THE EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTARY AUDIO TAPES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS WHO READ BELOW GRADE LEVEL AND WERE ENROLLED IN ANINDIVIDUALIZED SCIENCE PROGRAM - ISCS
Guide to the Interpretation of John Dowland's "Queen Elizabeth's Galliard P.41," "Lachrimae Pavan P.15," "Farewell Fantasy P.3," and "Forlorn Hope Fancy P.2" Transcribed for Guitar
This treatise shows an array of interpretive possibilities for classical guitarists interested in performing the solo lute works of the renaissance lutenist and composer John Dowland. The treatise emphasizes three points: first, the...
Solid-state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has come to be considered the pre-eminent analytical technique for the study of soil organic matter in its entirety. Despite its widespread use, carbon-13 CP-MAS NMR of...
The Effects of Guided Imagery and HRV Biofeedback Training on Psychological Variables and Post-Operative Outcome Measures of Orthopaedic Surgical Patients
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) is comprised of a range of therapeutic modalities and atypical practices which have been found to successfully accompany standard medical care. Interventions such as guided imagery and stress...
Roy Harris (1898-1979) was one of the leading American composers of the early and mid-twentieth centuries. Audiences were polarized in their appreciation of him and his music. Some adored it and labeled it truly American while others...
This dissertation focuses on the transport properties of the high-temperature superconductor LSCO in high magnetic fields, particularly the longitudinal magnetoresistance around optimum doping. In this region of the phase diagram the...
In this study, two kinds of methodology are proposed for incorporating total column zone data from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) into initial conditions of a mesoscale prediction model. The first methodology is based on the...
"The purpose of this study is to determine the extent of interest and activity in musical stage productions in the public schools of America. In addition, there appears to be a need for definite information concerning; (a) the degree of...
"This study is a report of the Exceptional Children's Unit in Lake Placid, Florida. The purposes of this report are as follows: 1. To clarify the thoughts of the writer on what the Exceptional Children's Unit has accomplished. 2. To...
FAMILY ROLES: AN INTEGRATION OF THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE
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The purpose of this research was to offer the field of family therapy a behavioral tool to evaluate the accuracy of existing theory and to assess family change. The developed Role Behavior Inventory (RBI) was based on Wegscheider's (1981... One hundred and nine items were gathered from the family literature, family therapy experts, and marriage and family doctoral students to establish the content validity of the five roles. Seven statistical analyses were conducted on the... Confirmatory factor analysis using the LISREL statistic did not confirm the five, four, or two theoretical role models presented in the study. Four of the five study hypotheses, however, were confirmed.
The task of protecting software integrity can be approached with a two-part strategy that addresses threats to the static integrity of memory contents and the dynamic integrity of software memory interactions. Although their resultant...
While the maternal and infant health benefits of breastfeeding are greatly supported by research, breastfeeding rates in the United States remain sub-optimal. Increasing the prevalence of infant breastfeeding is an important public...
Vehicular wireless networks are gaining commercial interest. Mobile connectivity, road safety, and traffic congestion management are some applications that have arisen with this networking paradigm. Existing research primarily focuses on...
The use of the personal reflexive journal in the adult literacy tutorial: The case of Jane
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This ethnographic, single-case study was conducted over a two-year period. It documents the changes that occurred in the life of a forty-two year old female as she gained reading and writing skills in a literacy tutorial. This... Although her income level or economic status did not change significantly during the period of the study, her individual reading scores rose from lower elementary to post-secondary level. In addition, according to her, what changed in... A ten-step program and process model for the Personal Reflexive Journal was developed and is included in this study for use with adult literacy students who are learning to express themselves through writing.
This dissertation is comprised of two essays that focus on the role of disposition effect to market reactions in seasoned equity offerings and the importance of considering the dynamics of reference price in disposition effect. The first...
REBCO coated conductors have recently become viable for high field superconducting magnets, but their use brings new challenges. Knowledge of the transport critical current density over a wide range of magnetic field and temperature, Jc...
Three issues were discussed in this paper exploration of an Art Coordinator who directs a community-based art program within the nonprofit Sojourn House. The paper's first issue was the identification of the role and responsibilities of...
Understanding the experiences of Chicanas in doctoral study remains salient because of pervasive doctoral program attrition rates and severe underrepresentation in the professoriate. Chicanas doctoral students engage in these unfamiliar...
"The purpose of this study is to bring together information pertaining to the provisions for retirement of a particular group of employees, and to examine these provisions in the light of present and future needs of the group; to see if...
"The purpose of this paper is to examine the place of science in the secondary school program. It is assumed that the place of science in the curriculum has to be justified in such a study. Justification for teaching science is...
This study explores the expression of Christian fellowship in the home. The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of how Christians today express koinonia, the Greek term used in New Testament scripture to describe the church...
An Investigation of the Effects of Model-Centered Instruction in Individual and Collaborative Contexts: The Case of Acquiring Instructional Design Expertise
This study investigated the effect of model-centered instruction (MCI) in both individual and collaborative contexts. The study focuses on learning effectiveness in acquiring instructional design knowledge, developing mental model of...
The present study examined four kinds of vocabulary knowledge: Definitional knowledge, using vocabulary in context, relational knowledge, and morphological knowledge. A measure was developed that assessed all four kinds of vocabulary...
Reading comprehension is an essential skill for success in school and post-school life. However, despite the importance of this skill, a considerable number of students in the U.S. have shown difficulties in reading comprehension....
The aim of this dissertation is to fill in the vacant spots in the innovation and diffusion study, which are meaningful but have not had much work done previously. First, most policy diffusion studies have focused on the adoption of a...
The Group Decision-Making Communication Effectiveness (GDMCE) Scale: Development of a New Integrated Measure for Evaluating Group Decision-Making Effectiveness
The ability of groups to make the most effective decisions possible has long been a primary focus of the decision-making communicative process within any group. As such, the effectiveness of groups in making decisions has been an...
The decision to be self-employed has been studied in numerous scholarly papers. In particular, there has been interest in the decision to become an entrepreneur in relation to the macroeconomic climate. Scholars reference the potential...
Integrin signaling is critical for many biological functions including cell survival, cell migration, development, immunity and wound healing. Integrins perform their function through a structural change that is propagated from the...
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