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When considering computer processors, there is a trade-off between performance and power; improved performance does not typically come without an increase in power. Similarly, the reduction of power often times means a reduction in...
My thesis is that a realistic image of a human face can be generated using a computational simulation of light transport. I demonstrate this thesis by acquiring the three-dimensional geometry of a face, measuring the reflectance function...
In order to image or map targets on an ocean floor, a synthetic aperture sonar platform is moved underwater over the ocean floor. The platform pings or transmits acoustic signals, which reflect off the target back to the receiver. A...
A collection of short stories detailing backpackers in foreign countries, Dominican Americans coming to terms with their identity both here and abroad, and the quintessential American return to home.
Reports of working memory in healthy and neurologically impaired individuals are commonly used in discussions of the theoretical models of working memory created to hypothesize the link between working memory and verbal comprehension....
The abolition of slavery during the American Civil War did not end the antislavery ambitions of many liberal Christian reformers. As four million African American slaves transitioned from bondage to freedom, Unitarian and other Christian...
Latin America has historically sustained political, economic, and social upheaval, creating a vacuum of patriarchal power dynamics indicative of gender violence. These dynamics are reflected in personal and political trauma narratives....
Role performance and role importance of municipal law enforcement training directors in North Carolina
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The purpose of this study was to determine role performance and role importance of selected training and development roles in municipal law enforcement organizations in North Carolina. The importance attributed to the training of law... The objectives of the study were operationalized through six research questions. To answer the first four questions, a Likert-type scale was used from which a ranking of frequency of performance of roles, and perceptions of importance of... The findings indicated that four roles were performed often/always by 60.0% or more of the respondents. The roles identified were administers agency training, contributes to department problem solving, manages training resources, and... Overall, it can be observed that organizational characteristics do have some influence on role performance by training directors and on the importance attributed to roles of training directors. The data indicate that organizational...
The impact of measurement errors and multicollinearity on the study of the relationship between accounting information and market-determined risks
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This study develops a linear measurement structural equation model to study the relationship between accounting risk measures and market determined risk measures. Use of this model may reduce the risk of potential loss of information and... Extant literature in this area of research has produced conventional regression models which give inconsistent and conflicting results about the relationship between accounting risk measures and market determined risk measures. This... Overall, compared with traditional regression approach this study finds that the new model produces much more clearcut and interpretable evidence about the relationship between accounting risk measures and market determined risk measures... Finally, replications of previous studies indicate that the instrumental variables approach in this area of research is not a viable methodology. It produces inconsistent, erratic and hard-to-interpret results.
Mathematical thinking is in high demand in the global market, but compared to their international peers, U.S. school children fail to meet math performance benchmarks. This is especially problematic, given that early math skills predict...
The first essay conducts robustness analysis on Gali's (1999) results. Following Gali's identification strategy, the model is extended to the sectoral level within the private sector. The paper also looks at the two important breaks, ...
Social services offered by a student to four school age children through the Tifton county schools, 1954, Tifton, Georgia; a problem in professional growth.
During the Post-World War II construction boom homes in the United States began considering durability, energy conservation, comfort, security, and aesthetics in housing design. These factors, within the residential sector, did not...
Utilization of the emergency department (ED) for non-urgent visits has become an important topic among healthcare providers and administrators. Non-urgent visits to the ED result in financial and health related problems for those who...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) impacts one in every 59 children in the United States of America (CDC, 2018). Not only does ASD affect the life of the child, but it also impacts the lives of the child's caretakers. Parental stress related...
Applications of Calcareous Nannofossils and Stable Isotopes to Cenozoic Paleoceanography: Examples from the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, Western Equatorial Atlantic and Southern Indian Oceans
This dissertation is a collection of five calcareous nannofossil and one stable isotope studies on materials from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Legs 183 (Site 1135), 206 (Site 1256), and 207 (Site 1259) that target two important...
"A Society in Flux: Female Education and Societal Transition in Early Nineteenth Century France, 1830" examines the identity and social constructs of women educated during the Napoleonic period and how their state-sponsored education...
Integrated kinetic energy (IKE) is a recently developed metric that approximates the destructive potential of a tropical cyclone by assessing the size and strength of its wind field. Despite the potential usefulness of the IKE metric, ...
An analysis of psychological and educational variables and their relationship to global self-worth, scholastic competence, and social acceptance in male children diagnosed with a learning disability
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Self-concept is believed to play a significant role in the learning process. Since the learning process for children with learning disabilities is fraught with difficulty, there is concern that self-concept for these children is at risk. This research makes a contribution to the larger body of literature dealing with the self-concept of male children with learning disabilities. There appears to be a substantial body of literature which suggests that self-concept can be... In order to investigate the different factors involved in children's self-concept, several self-report measures were employed. These included a scale measuring perceived competence in the different domains (plus global self-concept), a...
An exploratory study into perceptions of continuing education practices as held by selected allied health practitioners
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in perceptions held by the Board of Directors and the membership (Registered Record Administrators and Accredited Record Technicians) of the American Medical Record Association. A stratified random sample of 373 medical record practitioners responded to a questionnaire designed by the researcher for this study. Two objectives guided the study. Objective one was measured through the testing of hypotheses using the 2-tailed t-test of significance. Objective two was measured through the testing of one hypothesis using the one-way analysis of variance. Significance was set at the... The findings indicated that: (1) RRAs and ARTs tend to have similar perceptions regarding the benefits gained from continuing education activities and the opportunities to participate in continuing education activities. However, their... Generalized conclusions reached by this study are: (1) there is little difference in perceptions regarding the role of the professional association in the continuing education of its membership among the groups under study, however, some...
This study created a model to assess the general retirement literacy and level of intention to save for retirement of recent Millennial college students about to graduate from four-year public universities in the United States. The study...
This dissertation attempts to provide insight into the mixing, hydration and annealing of self-assembled, multilayered films based on precise counting of their doping ions and water content. Several practical applications are then...
A Longitudinal Comparison of Vocational and Non-Vocational Education Students in Leon County Public Secondary Schools: A Study of May 1999 & May 2000 High School Graduates
The purpose of this study was to compare vocational and non-vocational education students in public secondary schools in Leon County, Florida, to see whether high school graduates who were in vocational education programs in their 9th...
Fluctuations in plasma lipid and lipoprotein levels during the normal menstrual cycle
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Ten healthy eumenorrheic white females (26.4 $\pm$ 5.2 yrs) were studied during the regular menstrual cycle (25 to 37 days) to determine the effects of the different phases of the cycle on plasma lipid and lipoprotein concentrations.... cycle in which blood samples are to be collected for analyzing plasma lipid and lipoprotein levels in premenopausal women.
The use of a cappella singing in colleges and universities of the United States
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of a cappella choral singing in colleges and universities of the United States. A survey was mailed to 180 college and university choral conductors who were listed in The College Music... Results of this study indicate over 50% of the surveyed colleges and universities perform a cappella choral literature. In addition, unaccompanied singing is predominate in rehearsals and in tour repertoire. A chi-square analysis... Choral conductors appear to be using a cappella singing as a rehearsal technique to achieve choral training objectives and attempt to select representative a cappella literature from all periods of music.
While formal and empirical studies of international relations have investigated the conditions under which weak states win conflicts against strong countries, there has been little systematic examination of how weaker states' incentives...
A COMPARISON OF PARENT AND CHILD EDUCATION IN FACILITATING DIVORCE ADJUSTMENT AMONG CHILDREN
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In response to the increasing number of divorces involving children in recent years, several intervention models have been described in the literature. The educational model is one of these interventions for assisting children in their... Twenty children were recruited for participation in an eight week educational group, while another 14 children participated only in assessment procedures and did not receive treatment. The parents of the group of 14 children participated... This study found no significant differences between parent education and child education on postassessment scores. Drawing conclusions about the relative effectiveness of either treatment, however, should be made in the light of...
Much research, including that by Koreans (e.g., Yoon & Kim, 1999; Mo, 1999), agrees on two major points relating to the inequitable and unequal condition of women in the scientific community: 1) the fact that the under-representation of...
COMPETENCY-BASED TEACHER EDUCATION AND THE CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS OF CLASSICAL AND MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
THE ANALYSIS OF PHENOLS IN WATER BY RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY (RESONANCE, QUANTITATIVE)
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The potential of Raman spectroscopy for the analysis of phenols in water has been investigated. A method of analysis based on the Raman technique would provide many advantages over other methods currently employed. It would be able to... A group of nine compounds--phenol, o-chlorophenol, 2, 4-dichlorophenol, 4, 6-trichlorophenol, 2-chloro-5-methylphenol, 2-chloro-4-nitrophenol, 4-nitrophenol, 3-nitrophenol, and 2-nitrophenol--was studied with the use of the 514.5... A study was conducted to determine the effect of background fluorescence, as well as other interferences, on this method. It was concluded that most interferences found in natural waters could be eliminated with the use of cross... The most important factor controlling sensitivity was the occurrence of resonance enhancement. Raman measurements of the nitrophenols with the 457.9 nm laser line resulted in detection limits of 190 to 30 ppb. Measurements were carried...
EFFECTS OF STRUCTURAL AND PICTORIAL SUPPORT UPON AURAL LEARNING OF CONCEPTS, RULES AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS
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This study compared the effectiveness of the structural and pictorial elements of a diagram with each other, with no diagram, and with their combined impact upon the immediate and delayed (one week) learning of intellectual skills ... The experimental design employed was the post hoc control group only. Seventy vocational students from Pensacola Junior College were randomly assigned to four treatment groups. All received aural instruction; in addition, one group... The aural instruction was a unit on using Maslow's Need Hierarchy to solve problems. It taught five concepts, three rules and problem-solving through selection and application of the appropriate rule. Two forms of a thirty-item criterion... The treatments were administered through listening stations. The accompanying diagrams were in booklet form. Immediately after the instruction one form of the test was distributed. One week later subjects completed the second form of the... The tests were scored and the resulting data were analyzed using a 1x4 analysis of variance for each separate criterion measure (immediate concepts, delayed concepts, immediate rules, delayed rules, immediate problems, delayed problems).... For learning concepts both treatment groups receiving pictorial diagrams performed significantly better than the others on the immediate test but on the delayed tests all three visualized treatment groups did better than the group... The treatment group receiving both diagrams obtained significantly higher scores than any of the others on both rules tests. On the immediate problem-solving test no significant differences were found among the groups. This finding may be imputed to a problem with the test since it is inconsistent with the findings on the rules test and not parallel with the... On the immediate total criterion measure the groups receiving both diagrams and the pictorial diagrams only scored significantly higher than any of the others. On the delayed total criterion measure only the group receiving both diagrams... On all but one of the criterion measures at least one of the visual treatments was superior to the audio treatment alone. Which treatment(s) were superior depended on the desired learning outcome. Based on these results, it may be...
THE USE OF VERBAL SELF-REPORTS IN MARKETING RESEARCH: A TEST OF THEIR VALIDITY
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In marketing research a great deal of reliance is placed upon the acquisition of data through verbal self-reports. Recent research has cast some doubt as to the validity of data provided by verbal self-reports. Counter evidence...
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