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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.
Social services offered by a student to four school age children through the Tifton county schools, 1954, Tifton, Georgia; a problem in professional growth.
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...
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.
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...
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...
A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE JUNIOR COLLEGE OF ORIGIN TO THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC JUNIORCOLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENTS IN FOUR UNIVERSITIES IN THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF FLORIDA
The acute effects of resistance exercise on parameters of lipoprotein metabolism
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Ten male subjects (25.4 $\pm$ 3.1 yrs) were studied before and after 90 minutes of resistance exercise to determine the acute and delayed effects of both high volume (HV) and low volume (LV) regimens on alterations in lipid and...
Literature, music education, and characteristics of selected Virginia beginning high school choirs
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To investigate and describe the literature and characteristics of a population of "beginning" high school choirs, this study developed a 47-item questionnaire and then distributed it to 263 VA high school choral directors who were... Chi-square and Kendall's tau-b analyses indicated significant relationships between selected characteristics and different levels of high school student enrollment, choral enrollment, and teacher experience; the analyses found only one...
"It is the purpose of this study to examine current trends in the production of outdoor music performances in the public schools of the South Florida area with a view toward determining not only the extent of such practices, but the...
Spectroscopy and dynamics of reactive species in solution: Picosecond investigations of diaryliodonium salts and derivatives of 9-fluorene
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Picosecond absorption spectroscopy permitted direct detection of several new reactive intermediates in bond dissociation reactions. Our study of 9-fluorenol and related substituted fluorenes led to a spectral assignment for the 9-fluorenyl cation, HFl$\sp+$, which exhibits a $\lambda\sb{\rm max}$ at 515 nm and has a lifetime of $<$20 ps in 9:1 H$\sb2$O/CH$\sb3$OH. In... Picosecond-pulsed irradiation of 9-diazofluorene in hexanes, cyclohexane, CH$\sb2$Cl$\sb2$, and CH$\sb3$CN permitted the observation of a precursor of the ground-state triplet carbene, 9-fluorenylidene ($\sp3$Fl:). The precursor absorbs... The photochemistry of diaryliodonium salts was found to be highly dependent on the identity of the counterion: diphenyliodonium salts with complex counterions such as BF$\sb4\sp-$ or PF$\sb6\sp-$ decompose in CH$\sb3$CN or CH$\sb2$Cl$... The unsymmetrical p-anisylphenyliodonium salts exhibit similar behavior; however, the iodoanisole/chlorine-atom complex is unstable, and undergoes back-electron transfer to give the iodoanisole cation radical and chloride with a rate k =...
ELECTRON AND GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY IN COINCIDENCE WITH PROTONS FROM THE MOLYBDENUM-98,100, RUTHENIUM-104, PALLADIUM-106,108,110(T,P) REACTIONS
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Proton-electron, proton-gamma, and proton-gamma-gamma coincidence techniques have been used to study excited state transitions in even-even nuclei in the mass 100 region produced in the (t, p) reaction (E(, t) = 16 MeV). Using the (t, p)... The results of our measurements are discussed in terms of current nuclear models. The back-bending anomaly at J('(pi)) = 10('+)in ('102)Mo confirms earlier theoretical predictions of such an anomaly. Level systematics in the Pd isotopes, ...
The purpose of this dissertation is to, first outline a theory of Zeta regularized products which will work for sequences of complex numbers, and second to use this theory to compute Zeta regularized products and modular constants for... The gamma function $\Gamma(z)$ is represented as the ratio of two Zeta regularized products. This relation is then extended to define multiple gamma functions as the ratio of two corresponding Zeta regularized products. A full account of... Some other special functions are also discussed. Namely Jacobi's theta function $\theta\sb1$, the Weierstrass sigma function $\sigma(z), $ and $P(z\vert\tau)$ defined by The determinant of the Laplacian on an n-dimensional flat Torus is computed for $n \geq$ 2, by computing
"Because the Southern Authors' Award concerned books about the Southern region, this writer sought to evaluate their contribution to Southern literature through the reviews appearing in the Book Review Digest. This medium was chosen,...
INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT-ORIENTED MODERNITY AND FORCES PROMOTING IT AMONG STUDENTS AS FOUR TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES IN MALANG, INDONESIA
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The purposes of this study were (a) to clarify the concept of modern development-oriented persons in the Indonesian context so as to devise a measuring scale of individual development-oriented modernity (IDOM), and (b) to investigate... After reviewing the literature, the researcher proposed models of the concept of the modern development-oriented person, the scale of IDOM, and the linear structural relationships (LISREL) which explain the effects of independent... The data obtained from the first questionnaire were analyzed to test the reliability and validity of the concept of the modern development-oriented person and the IDOM scale. A LISREL VI subprogram was applied to test the LISREL model... The results of the study suggest that the concept of the modern development-oriented person can be clarified by value orientations manifested in 18 attributes. Some of those attributes are a person's tendency to plan the future... The IDOM scale, consisting of 39 items measuring the 18 attributes, is an adequate instrument to measure the degrees to which Indonesian persons are modern development-oriented. The IDOM has two dimensions, attitudinal and behavioral... The empirical evidence supports the proposition that education is a powerful force promoting modern development-oriented values. Other variables promoting the IDOM are students' parents' education and students' maturity. Theoretical implications of the findings are related to modernization theory, while the practical implications are addressed to Indonesian policy decision makers and planners in the context of modernizing people while preserving some...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE STYLE AND DECISION STYLE OF SELECTED LEISURE SERVICES ADMINISTRATORS IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether a significant relationship exists between cognitive style and decision style of selected leisure services administrators in the State of California. Variables included were age, sex, ... Ninety-five administrators in attendance at the annual Administrators' Institute at Asilomar in Monterey, California were included in this study. Participants were asked to complete Coscarelli's Decision Making Inventory and Witkin's... A profile of the administrators in attendance reveals a wide range, but a typical administrator was: male (78%), between 36 and 42 years old (35%), had earned a bachelors degree (55%), and had been an administrator from six to ten years ... The three statistically significant relationships that were found were a relationship between age and cognitive style and a relationship between cognitive style and decision style for those individuals holding a bachelor's degree. In... Two apparent trends emerged from the data collected: (a) as longevity as an administrator increased, a shift in cognitive style became more prominent from field independence to field sensitivity; and (b) as educational level increased, a...
The effects of caffeine on exercise-induced changes during high-intensity, intermittent exercise
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The widespread popularity of both sports and caffeine, the caffeine ban in Olympic activities, the lack of understanding of the physiological and psychological effects of caffeine on high-intensity, intermittent exercise, all indicate... Eight, trained, male volunteers--ages 21 to 33 yrs.--served as subjects for this study. The exercise level for the high-intensity interval protocol was set at 85 to 90 percent of the maximal aerobic capacity determined by performance on... A double blind counterbalanced design was used. All metabolic and respiratory data were calculated using the Apple IIe Computer (REP-200B Data Acquisition System, Vacumetrics, Inc.). A two-factor Analysis of Variance with repeated... Caffeine significantly increased time to exhaustion, serum free fatty acids, post-exercise oxygen cost levels and lower post exercise glucose levels. These findings suggest that the caffeine-induced glycogen sparing appears to enhance...
Investigation of the relationship between selected child death variables and bereaved parents' marital satisfaction and self-esteem
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationships between the marital satisfaction and self esteem of bereaved parents and the following four factors related to the child's death: (a) the amount of forewarning the parents... One hundred and eleven bereaved parents participated in this study. The parents were recruited from local chapters of Compassionate Friends in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. The data were gathered through self administered questionnaires... The results from this study revealed several relationships that shed light on the experiences of these bereaved parents. First, it was noted that a decline in marital satisfaction following the death of a child was related to an increase...
Foster homes in continuous use by the Florida State Department of Public Welfare, 1952 through 1956, District IX, Child Welfare Unit, Miami, Florida, 1956.
But I came here to learn: Students' interpretations of their experiences in a college chemistry class for non-science majors
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This work identified some of the interpretations students make about their experiences in a college-level chemistry course for non-science majors. By understanding such interpretations, chemical educators might be better able to work... In order to understand students' interpretations, several sources of data were collected or crafted including: interviews with students (and the instructor), classroom observations, documents from the class, student essays, and surveys.... Two mechanisms were used to understand interpretations students made of the classroom. First, categorization schemes the students used were studied with the goal of understanding how they categorize their experiences about knowledge, ... The primary findings of this work are two-fold, and have implications for learning, teaching and research. First, students conceptualize knowledge, teaching and learning in a variety of ways. These different conceptualizations have...
THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A ROUTINE USING A DIAGNOSTIC PRETEST, INDIVIDUALIZED ASSIGNMENTS AND DIENES BLOCKS FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION MAJORS IN CUPM LEVEL-1 MATHEMATICS
An empirical examination of firm-specific characteristics associated with differential information environments
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Bhushan (1989), O'Brien and Bhushan (1990) and Brennan and Hughes (1991) have identified specific firm characteristics that they find to be associated with either the level of analyst following or year-to-year changes in security analyst... Drawing upon findings reported in the "earnings response coefficient" literature, I argue that analysts have an incentive to identify and follow those firms whose time-series properties reveal historically persistent earnings innovations... The results indicate that analysts can and do identify those firms with more persistent and less predictable earnings and concentrate research effort on these companies vis-a-vis other sample firms. The hypotheses of King et al. (1990)...
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