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GUIDELINES FOR LEARNING RESOURCES CENTER DEVELOPMENT IN TRADITIONALLY BLACK FOUR-YEAR STATE-SUPPORTED COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
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This investigation was concerned with the development of a conceptual design for Learning Resources Centers based on a study of selected centers in traditionally Black four-year state-supported colleges and universities, 1972-1977. It... To accomplish this purpose, data collection, analysis and synthesis, and evaluation were employed. Phase I, the data collection, consisted of two parts. Part 1: review and analysis of 22 Title III AIDP Refined Plans of traditionally... Phase II consisted of the development of emerging guideline factors for learning resources center development in traditionally Black institutions. From these factors a draft of the emerging guidelines was developed in the form of an... Findings and Results. Using the six categories identified in the learning resources definition for this study, six institutions were identified that used AIDP funds to strengthen or develop a learning resources center as part of a... Conclusion. The major conclusion from this study is that more research studies from librarians need to include the planned application of educational technology as part of an examination of learning resources center development in...
THE "OLD SUMPTER HERO": A BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR-GENERAL ABNER DOUBLEDAY
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Abner Doubleday was an unusual and often a controversial person. Born into a family staunchly supporting Andrew Jackson, Doubleday reflected the determined Unionist position of the strong-willed president. Abner's attitude towards the... Doubleday never seemed satisfied with his early life. In his papers he continually referred to people, prominent in later years, which he knew. While serving in the Mexican War, Doubleday continually felt the need to relate the dangerous... Doubleday loved large cities and the benefits they offered a person. He liked being in the right social circles and enjoyed the "good life." By 1852, while serving as a commissioner for the Senate, Doubleday had come to despise Mexico... With the crisis at Sumter in 1861 Doubleday was greatly troubled. The affront to the United States government was almost more than he could bear. With the outbreak of the war, Doubleday was more than willing to fight the rebels. A... It seems strange that Doubleday served in the Freedmen's Bureau since his superior was none other than his old enemy from Gettysburg, O.O. Howard. Doubleday's service in California brought the controversy over the origin of the cable car... Doubleday was a colorful figure in nineteenth century America. He was associated with several significant events in the growth of the nation. Doubleday represented, possibly to an extreme, the attitude of many American Unionists and...
TYPE A BEHAVIOR AND COALITION FORMATION IN FAMILY AND AD HOC SUBGROUPS
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Friedman and Rosenman (1974) have defined the Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern as an action-emotion complex that can be observed in persons who are aggressively involved in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve more and more in... Researchers such as Matthews (1977; 1979) and Bortner, Rosenman and Friedman (1970) have attempted to understand Type A behavior in children as well as adults, and how this behavior pattern may originate and develop within family members... This investigation sought to address the following questions. First, do family triads with a Type A mother play the coalition game differently (i.e., more exploitively as opposed to cooperatively) than those with a Type B mother? Second, ... In summarizing the findings of this study, none of the major research hypotheses were confirmed. Minimum resource theory was supported, however, when comparisons were made within each group (i.e., the 3-2 coalition was formed with the...
"This thesis discusses the archaeological literature concerning karst features: what information is available, the sites previously studied, the people who researched karst sites, and historic and prehistoric remains recovered from karst...
"It is within the framework of the objects of the Parent-Teacher Association that the writer of this paper has projected his thinking about what might be done to promote parent-teacher understanding. The main purpose to be served by the...
Talking about a revolution: The politics and practice of feminist teaching
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This dissertation is a qualitative inquiry into the politics and practice of feminist teaching. While much literature exists which discusses feminist teaching, the majority of the literature is written from a personal perspective, or...
EFFECTS OF THE MNEMONIC-KEYWORD METHOD ON RECALLING VERBAL INFORMATION: A META-ANALYSIS
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The effect of the mnemonic-keyword method on recalling verbal information has been an area of research interest for the past decade and a half. One narrative (qualitative) review attempted to generalize the effects of the keyword method.... This meta-analysis showed that the keyword method has a moderately high, positive effect on the recall of verbal information, in general. In a typical experiment, the mnemonic-keyword method increased the recall of verbal information an... The 51 effect sizes were not homogeneous, and the .64 mean represents the best estimate of the overall population effect size. Study characteristics were correlated with effect sizes to identify systematic relationships. The resulting... The .64 effect-size estimate from this meta-analysis can be used by researchers for planning sample sizes for future keyword-method research. The education and training community can use the .64 effect-size estimate in deciding whether...
A METHODOLOGICAL COMPARISON OF THE SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM IMPACT OF MERGERS ON THE ACQUIRING FIRM
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The major problem examined is the return to the acquiring firm that results from merger activity. The design holds the time period and sample constant in order to focus on the measurement of returns using three different models. They are... The sample contains 91 mergers occurring from 1960 to 1979, and paid for by exchange of common stock. Returns are measured at five points in the merger process. Five null hypotheses are used as benchmarks of performance. The first hypothesis states there is no difference in return to the acquiring firm when measured by three different models. A correlation of the returns indicate that the LGERM, ... The second hypothesis states there is no difference when short-term and long-term returns are compared. The statistical analysis reveals no significant difference, although the short-term return underestimates the actual return in the... The third hypothesis states there is no difference when the sample is disaggregated by type of merger as defined by the FTC. There is a significant difference between nonconglomerates and the conglomerates and individual types of merger. The fourth hypothesis states there is no difference based on data from two different decades. It is concluded that there is a difference between 1960s and 1970s mergers, but it is not a significant difference. The fifth hypothesis states there is no difference when firms that frequently merge are compared to those that infrequently merge. All three models show no significant difference by frequency of merger.
Earnings expectations and the market reaction to earnings surprise
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This dissertation provides an investigation of the earnings surprise associated with the quarterly earnings announcement. The examination of a wide variety of forecast models allows insight into the ability of these models to capture the... The analysis addresses two issues. The first issue is the value of the earnings surprise. Among the forecasts models considered in the examination of forecast accuracy are: (1) a random walk model; (2) the standardized unexpected... The ARIMA models produce more accurate statistical forecasts than the random walk, SUE, ARCH, GARCH, or price-based models. Further, the analysts' forecasts are more accurate than any statistical alternative. The broader set of... The second issue is the market response to earnings surprise, where surprise is defined by the different forecast models. The correlation between the forecast errors of the different models and the announcement period response provides... Further analysis of the market response forms portfolios based on the most positive and negative earnings surprise securities. This provides insight into the value of the earnings announcement. Positive announcement period abnormal...
THEORETICAL ORIENTATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF NOTETAKING AND REVIEW
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Four experiments were conducted to investigate the relationship between notetaking and performance and to determine how students should take notes and review. Correlational findings from Experiment 1 revealed that four indices of note... The following conclusions were drawn. Instructionally, notetaking is related to performance especially in real classroom situations, and notes should be complete and should emphasize main ideas. Review strategies which initiate...
This work takes a fresh look at the simulation of cache memories. It introduces the technique of static cache simulation that statically predicts a large portion of cache references. To efficiently utilize this technique, a method to...
Bargaining during interstate wars: A game-theoretic approach toward war termination
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This dissertation attempts to test the effect of the willingness to fight, which the realist perspective considers to be essential in order to enhance a state's bargaining position during wartime. Controlling for the effects of military... Three game-theoretic models are set up to assess bargaining behavior during wartime. Information conditions vary across the models. There are three models: complete, asymmetrical and two-sided incomplete information about the opponent's... Interstate wars sometimes cannot be solved efficiently in a purely coercive relationship. Instead, cooperative tactics may help to reduce the costs of both sides. Therefore, exhibiting a higher resolve often puts the states in a trap in...
MUSICAL AND POETICAL RHETORIC IN HANDEL'S SETTING OF BROCKES' PASSION ORATORIO; A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE POEM WITH A STUDY OF HANDEL'S USE OF THE FIGURENLEHRE
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This dissertation investigates George F. Handel's use of the Figurenlehre or Doctrine of Musical Figures in his Brockes Passion, and also analyses the poetic rhetoric in Barthold Heinrich Brockes' "Der fur der Sunde der Welt gemarterte... The poetic Figurenlehre had its roots in ancient Greece, where Aristotle was the first person known to have written on rhetoric and the art of oratory. Centuries later, Roman writers, particularly Cicero and Quintilian began to codify... The musical portions deal with the development of the musical Figurenlehre, particularly in seventeenth-century Germany, and various musical theorists' attempts to imitate the rhetorical patterns of speech through music. These portions... The dissertation concludes that Brockes was taught classical rhetoric in school and used Ciceronian rhetoric in his poem. It also concludes that Handel learned both poetic and musical rhetoric, and that he used musical figures (motives...
THE TIN DRUM: NOVEL INTO FILM. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH
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The intent of this study is twofold: (1) To present a reading of The Tin Drum, both novel and film, with the objective of discovering whether the same basic theme and tone are present in both. (2) To evaluate how the novel and film... In evaluating the faithfulness of Volker Schlondorff's film adaptation of the Gunter Grass novel The Tin Drum, one must measure the extent to which film theme and tone are consistent with those of the novel. Wolfgang Iser's... The tone of The Tin Drum, centers around loss, insecurity, and the tension of being between "faith and disillusionment." The novel produces an intellectually based insecurity for the reader whereas the film operates... The novel and film have vastly different themes. The novel deals with issues such as war guilt, sanity and insanity, and rationality and irrationality, especially with reference to Germany during World War II. The film reconstructs a... As a straightforward chronological presentation of events and characters described in the novel, the film is less demanding and consequently less modernist than the book. The filmic sequence of events is much more accessible than those...
The purpose of this study is to review principles involved in instituting employee training programs, to study training methods and procedures, and to demonstrate the value of training an employee in a food service unit. The first...
PHTHALOYLMETAL COMPLEXES IN SYNTHESIS. REGIOSPECIFIC TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF PYRANOQUINONE ANTIBIOTICS (DIELS-ALDER)
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A synthesis of benzocyclobutenedione and substituted analogs was developed based on a Diels-Alder route. The benzocyclobutenediones were reacted with low valent transition metals which gave high yields of phthaloylmetal complexes ...
NATURE AND AMOUNT OF LEARNING BY OLDER ADULTS FROM A TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY
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This study sought to find the proportion of main ideas and subordinate ideas learned by older adults from a television documentary, by measuring their performance on a domain-referenced test based upon the program narration. Also... Participants were 87 adults between 53 and 86 years of age; 30 (35%) were male, and 56 (55%) female. Levels of education and pre-retirement annual household income were above average. A propositional analysis scheme was used to decompose the narration of a 29-minute documentary into 11 levels of ideas. Recall performance was measured by asking participants to write one, two or three word responses to questions and... Administration took place in Port Charlotte and Tallahassee in Florida. Participants were not informed that they would be given a posttest, nor were they provided with learning directions. Learning was assumed, therefore, to be incidental. Results from cued-recall test items revealed that participants recalled 56% of the ideas presented. Recognition, as indicated by multiple-choice items, was 53%. A higher percentage of main ideas (60%) was recalled than subordinate ideas ... Regression analysis showed that 15% of test-score variance was accounted for by education (10%), age (4%), and attitude (1%). A positive correlation between education and amount learned was observed (p < .05). The finding that these adults remembered 56% of the program content, when measured by cued-recall, was higher than expected when compared with previous informal observations. The method of content analysis employed in this study, and the...
A poetry of deliverance with Tractarian affinities: A study of Adelaide A. Procter's poetry
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This study argues that Adelaide Anne Procter's poetry is a hybrid of one of the century's most significant poetical modes, the Tractarian mode. The Tractarians viewed art and religion as complementary sources in ministering to the soul.... Because of Miss Procter's virtual obscurity to most contemporary scholars, Chapter One serves as an introduction to the poet as well as to the study. Chapters Two through Four apply three of Keble's principles, identified in works listed...
The military career of Nicolas Charles Oudinot (1767-1847)
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This dissertation aims at providing a fresh evaluation of the military career of Nicolas Charles Oudinot, using extensive archival sources, as well as previously overlooked family papers. A new study is justified because his two previous... Oudinot, in many ways was a product of the French Revolution. The son of a brewer, he began his military career during the Revolution in the National Guard, ultimately rising to the rank of marshal of France. His success was made... Though one of the lesser-known marshals, Oudinot played an important role in the military success of France during the Revolution and Empire. As the chief of staff to Massena in 1799 he helped plan the attack on Zurich. Commanding the... Oudinot was an important figure during the Napoleonic period. His career and reputation is in need of reassessment by historians.
THE ENTRY OF A FEDERALLY FUNDED EDUCATIONAL CHANGE PROJECT INTO AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: A STUDY OF FACTORS WHICH AFFECT TEACHERS CHANGING THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL BEHAVIORS
WIND INSTRUMENTALISTS' INTONATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF SELECTED MUSICAL INTERVALS
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of performed ascending versus descending direction on the intonation of melodic and harmonic musical intervals, compared to equal temperament, in relationship to total intonation... Forty-eight musicians enrolled in programs associated with The Florida State University were randomly selected as subjects. Sixteen subjects from each of three groups (junior high school, senior high school, and college undergraduate)... Results indicated that there were no significant differences in overall intonation accuracy in relationship to performed ascending and descending directions. Also, there were no significant differences among intervals with regard to...
An evaluation of computer-assisted instruction in phonological awareness with below-average readers
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Phonological awareness is "the ability to phonologically segment, analyze, and synthesize the speech stream (p. 552)." The present study evaluated the effectiveness of two computer programs, Daisy Quest and Daisy's Dilemma, to provide... Students from two local elementary schools participated in the experiment. 54 subjects were selected to participate in the study. These students were administered a series of pretests that assessed a variety of word reading skills, ... A series of multivariate analyses of covariance were carried out to determine if there were mean differences in children's post test phonological awareness ability. Significant improvement was noted on three of the five measures of... It was concluded that both computer programs were successful in enhancing the phonological awareness skills of poor readers. In addition, the improvements in phonological awareness directly impacted the word identification skills of...
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