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RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AN ISOPOD PARASITE, PROBOPYRUS PANDALICOLA, AND ONE OF ITS CARIDEAN SHRIMP HOSTS, PALAEMONETES PALUDOSUS
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In Chapter I the habitats of the larval and adult Probopyrus pandalicola on Palaemonetes paludosus are described. The female was obliquely positioned within the shrimp branchial chamber, with its head directed posterodorsally in relation... In Chapter II information is provided on the reproduction, parasite attachment, postlarval development and population structure of P. pandalicola on P. paludosus collected monthly for two years from a site in the Wakulla River and a... In Chapter III the distribution of infected P. paludosus and the infection levels of P. pandalicola with respect to site, season and host size and sex are described. Infected P. paludosus occurred as far as 33 km upstream in many coastal... In Chapter IV the effects of P. pandalicola on the sex characters of P. paludosus are described, and possible mechanisms for these effects are discussed. P. pandalicola sterilize the female host by preventing ovarian maturation but do... The potential economic importance of crustacean castrators is detailed in Chapter V. Many hosts of crustacean castrators are of commercial value to man as a direct source of food. At least 28 species of economically valuable caridean...
Computerized voice recognition systems and their application to the mobility impaired
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This dissertation examines the introduction of a new man-machine interface, namely automatic speech recognition (ASR), and its application to the mobility impaired, who may lack the physical abilities to write, or to access a computer... cent of illnesses reported to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). That compares with only 18 per cent in 1981, and 28 per cent in 1984. The six RSI case studies all reported that computerized voice recognition was...
The role of women in William Faulkner's apprentice work
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This study is an exploration of the role of women in William Faulkner's apprentice work, from his first national publication in 1919--the poem "L-Apres-midi d'un Faune"--until the completion of his first Yoknapatawpha novels Sartoris ...
Previous research on Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898) has focused on his role as an apologist of the Old South. Dabney, professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, was certainly an unreconstructed...
Research was undertaken to determine consumers' knowledge of available tufted manufactured carpets in today's market. Analyses were performed to determine relationships of education, age, source of income, frequency of purchasing carpet, ... Data were collected in a survey of middle to upper class neighborhoods in Athens, Georgia. A sample of 200 subjects was drawn. A closed response personal interview questionnaire was used to investigate the problem. The questionnaire was devised to determine the respondents' knowledge of factors that affect: (a) wearing qualities, (b) comfort functions, and (c)... Duncan's test illustrated that there was no significant difference between consumers' knowledge of factors that affect wearing qualities and appearance and retention qualities. There was a significant difference, however, between... Multiple Regression Analysis results indicated no significant relationship exists between consumers' knowledge of carpets and education, occupation, and frequency of purchasing carpet.
Audio-visual aids are familiar terms in the realm of education. Their importance is growing rapidly as our society becomes complex with its radar, television, electronics and atomic bombs. Today, children live in a world of both auditory...
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE INTERPRETATION OF METAPHORICAL LANGUAGE OF STUDENTS ATTENDING A PREDOMINANTLY BLACK COLLEGE
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This study investigated the ability of college freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors, in a predominantly Black college, to interpret metaphorical language and to differentiate their abilities in the interpretation of six types of... The data were acquired from 400 responses for 98 freshmen, 101 sophomores, 104 juniors and 97 seniors at Albany State College on the Revised Tullos Test of Metaphorical Language Interpretation. The respondents reacted to 72 multiple... According to F-tests in one-way analysis of variance there were significant differences between the total score means for freshmen, and also for each of the six tropes. Analysis comparing contiguous sub-group means by the Scheffe's Procedure of Multiple Range Comparison and the S-method of Multiple Comparisons, disclosed that the development of metaphorical language interpretation skills did not improve... In addition to the primary concerns, this study sought to determine which of the six tropes proved to be difficult for each of the four sub-groups of subjects. This was determined by comparing z scores means within each of the subgroups ...
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF CURRICULAR VARIATIONS OF HEALTH ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT COURSES ON SELECTED PHYSICAL FITNESS COMPONENTS AND EXERCISE HABITS (TEACHING METHODS)
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of three types of curricular variations of Health Analysis and Improvement courses on selected physical fitness components and exercise habits. Subjects for the study were 176 male... Pretests and posttests for resting heart rate, submaximal oxygen uptake, 1.5 mile run, body fat, and total body weight were given at the beginning and the end of the semester. Ten hypotheses regarding fitness scores for men and women... The Health Analysis and Improvement Activity and Exercise Habit Survey was also administered at the end of the semester, and provided answers to nine research questions. As a result of taking the class, students indicated that they: (a)...
Histone genes differ from other eucaryotic genes in that they lack introns and are not polyadenylated. The levels of histone mRNAs are coordinately regulated with DNA synthesis. mRNA stability is a major determinant of histone mRNA... polyadenylated histone mRNA. It is proposed that this occurs because a nascent spliceosome directs 3$\sp\prime$ end formation.
An analysis of attitudes, values, and literary quality of contemporary young adult romance series novels
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Twenty contemporary young adult romance series novels were examined in order to determine attitudes, values, and literary quality. This examination was done by content analysis. All 20 novels were selected from Waldenbooks and B. Dalton... Literary quality was determined by using a modification of Charlotte Huck's (1987) criteria for judging young adult literature. The main topics of the criteria were: plot, setting, theme, characterization, style, point of view, and...
A numerical model of the Kuroshio in the East China Sea
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A high resolution limited area model with realistic bottom topography has been developed for the East China Sea, based upon the primitive-equation GFDL ocean model. Solutions are obtained for an ocean driven by annual mean heat and fresh... Analysis of temperature and salinity on various isopycnal surfaces suggests that the mixing was confined to the surface layer, and that the entrainment of cooler and fresher coastal waters into the Kuroshio begins northeast of Taiwan. Analysis of fluid particle trajectories illustrates that the mixing in the East China Sea is attributable to the convergence of shelf water driven by Taiwan Strait outflow, and of subsurface Kuroshio water driven by shelf break upwelling... From this experiment a quantitative estimate of 0.085PW of heat transport, and 0.03Sv $\perthous$ of salt transport, representing 5% of the total Kuroshio transport of heat and salt, have crossed 33$\sp\circ$N into the Yellow and Japan...
Radiation response of mammalian cells: Probing with iodine-125
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CHO cells were pulse-labeled with $\rm\sp{125}I$-iododeoxyuridine during early-S phase, harvested 30 min or 5 h after labeling for accumulation of $\rm\sp{125}I$ decays. Cells harvested 30 min after labeling yielded low-LET survival... In related experiments, synchronized CHO cells were pulse-labeled with $\rm\sp{125}IUdR$ in S phase and harvested for decay accumulation at the $\rm G\sb2$ phases of two successive cell cycles. When decays were accumulated during the...
The effects of electronic data interchange on corporate organizations
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Applications of computer and telecommunications technology have been increasingly being employed within organizations to perform an expanding variety of business functions. Yet, while this information technology has been shown to affect... Using Social Interactionist Theory as theoretical foundation, the following relationships were indicated by the findings. Generally, the organizational environment (strategy, culture, management intention, and stakeholder aims), ...
COMPOSITIONALLY CONVECTIVE AND MORPHOLOGICAL INSTABILITIES OF A FLUID LAYER OF BINARY ALLOY WITH FREEZING AT THE LOWER BOUNDARY
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A fluid layer of binary alloy is cooled from above with solidification occurring at the lower boundary. Some latent heat and light material is released at the freezing boundary. We assume, due to a small cooling rate and a large thermal... account the effect of the curved interface, the surface tension tends to suppress the unstable growth of the freezing interface. For fixed values of Q and S, morphological modes with surface tension have larger minimum eigenvalues than...
A study of fund-raising at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) affiliated public black colleges and universities
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The value of public black colleges has been well-documented. These institutions have played an important role toward ensuring minority participation in higher education. Yet, unstable government support has threatened their survival. The... The conceptual framework, the resource dependency model, evolved from organizational theory. In resource dependency, organizations must competitively acquire and maintain resources from the environment to survive (Pfeffer & Salancik, ... The results showed that the mean enrollment for state colleges (SCU) was 3, 798, land-grant institutions (LGI) 3, 500, and two-year colleges (TYI) 931. The first fund-raising programs in SCU and LGI were established over thirty years ago...
Enhancing learner motivation in an instructor-facilitated learning context
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In this study the results are presented of a disciplined inquiry into the area of motivation to learn and systematic ways of influencing learners in this regard. Attention focuses on the clinical use of motivational messages, a strategy... It is defended that a naturalistic mode of inquiry is the most appropriate one for the particular research interest, and that, within that mode, a case study approach, within an embedded multiple-case perspective, is called for.... Three basic research interests are addressed in the study, i.e. that of the validity of the strategy under consideration, the question as to how and why the messages work, and the issue of their optimality. Evidence is presented and... As to the overall interpretation of the totality of phenomena discussed, the study concludes that motivational messages should not be looked upon in isolation, but as part of a more complex motivational system, in the context of which...
THE PICTORIAL NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM OF THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH: ITS DEVELOPMENT AND USE AS A METHOD OF PROVIDING RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH DURING THE FOURTH THROUGH THE FIFTEENTH CENTURIES; WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR VISUAL LITERACY
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The diversity of languages, cultures, creeds, and competing religions during the Church's rise to power contributed to the use of a visual form of communication to instruct, inspire, and solidify the Christian faith by reinforcing the... The purpose of this study therefore is (1) to identify those historical events influencing the evolution and use of the pictorial communication system employed by the artist to communicate the religious teachings of the Medieval Church;... The pictorial symbolism used by the Christians in the first three centuries became the visual communication system of the Church in the fourth century, promulgated by the artist according to a set of rules prescribed by the Church... Following the Iconoclastic controversy, the bishops in the council of 787 restored the veneration but not the worship of the icons ". . .as a legitimate expression of Christian piety and faith." More significantly for the Western Church... By combining the Platonic concept of the human soul with the Aristotelian treatment of the mnemonic token, the Church could teach those Christian concepts such as the Last Judgment, Paradise, the Resurrection, and the divinity of Christ... St. Augustine refined Origen's systematic outline of theological doctrine into the educational philosophy of the Middle Ages by allegorical interpretation of the scriptures. This method allowed for the inclusion into the visual... It became a visual language to be used by western artists and poets alike for the next thousand years. It is the only known visual communication system that can be traced from its inception in the fourth century to its culmination in the... The Merode Altarpiece, created at the beginning of the Rennaissance, stands as the epitome of the visual communication system of the Medieval Church. From its early beginnings in the catacombs of Rome, when the unknown artist first...
The relationship of "use of self" skills to predicting therapeutic effectiveness
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This study provided a synthesis of the theoretical, clinical, and empirical foundations for the "use of self" in marriage and family therapy. Consideration is given to the therapist's family of origin, psychotherapy for psychotherapists, ... The purpose of this study was to investigate the "use of self" skills delineated in the Person-in-Practice Model developed by Aponte and Winter (1987a) with the goal of understanding the person and systems the therapist brings to... The population studied consisted of 11 doctoral students in the Interdivisional Program in Marriage and Family at The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. The 11 therapists provided 25 videotaped therapy sessions to be rated.... The statistical analysis was conducted using a canonical correlation to determine the multivariate effect. Stepwise regression was used to determine the significance of predictor variables, with family cohesion entered initially. The results indicated no significant relationships between the rater's perception of the use of structuring, relationship, historical, structural/process, or experiential skills by the therapist and the client's perception of therapeutic... Although the hypotheses tested did not prove to be statistically significant, the study has implications for further research. This study is an initial step toward advancing family therapy to an arena where the therapist is considered an...
ARTS EDUCATION AND CONVENTIONAL ART EDUCATION: DEPICTING ACTION AND DETAIL IN CHILDREN'S DRAWINGS, GRADES 1-3
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The purpose of this study was to describe and compare three art(s) programs and to explore the influence of selected arts experiences (combined dance, theatre, music, and the visual/plastic arts) and conventional art experiences (visual... The Subjects. The subjects were elementary school students involved in an arts education program or a conventional art program in three different school systems in the United States. In total, there were 335 subjects; 118 first graders, ... Procedures. A motivational package was sent to each of the participating classrooms in each of the three school systems. This package contained a short cassette tape, a map, a set of photographs, and drawing paper. The tape presented... Instruments. Two different instruments were used to obtain data for this study. The data obtained from the two instruments were used for statistical analysis of the amount of action and detail between students in arts education and... The Broyles Drawing Action Inventory was designed by the investigator for the purpose of assessing the amount of action students depicted in their drawings. The Broyles Drawing Detail Inventory was designed by the investigator for the purpose of assessing the amount of detail students depicted in their drawings. Conclusions. (1) According to the findings of this study, it would be presumptuous to conclude that students involved in arts education programs significantly include more action in their drawings than their counterpart in a more...
DETERMINATION OF WAVE FUNCTIONS FOR THE SINGLET-2S AND TRIPLET-2S STATES OF THE HELIUM ATOM AND THE STUDY OF SPATIAL CORRELATION IN THE SINGLET-S, SINGLET-2S AND TRIPLET-2S STATES OF TWO-ELECTRON ATOMS
AN INVESTIGATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF TEACHING USING A RESEARCH-BASED OBSERVATION INSTRUMENT
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether the outside factors of the gender of the principal, the choice of subject matter used for the demonstration of competence, or years of teacher experience have an effect on the mean... The evaluations of five hundred twenty-one elementary personnel teaching in the Leon County school system were additionally coded to reflect the three outside factors. Each outside factor was addressed using a different test. Student's t... Results from Student's t-tests for true mean differences between teachers' scores and principals' gender on each of the four Areas were significant: Area Two: Initiating Instruction, was significant (t = 8.62, p < .01); Area Three:...
On nonparametric regression for current status data
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In some studies, it is not possible to observe directly the time at which an event of interest occurs, instead each experimental unit is examined at one time only, and it is noted whether or not the event of interest has occurred. This... We show that the estimate of the conditional distribution function from the LNPML method can be characterized as a solution to an isotonic regression problem and hence easily computed. This estimate does well in our simulation studies....
Clothing interest, self-esteem, body satisfaction and fashion opinion leadership compared with weight of college females
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This study was conducted to determine whether there were differences in clothing interest, body satisfaction, fashion opinion leadership qualities and self-esteem among underweight, average weight, and overweight females. In addition, ... Three out of the five null hypotheses were rejected (using a point.05 rejection level) when subjects were grouped according to the MET chart. Two out of the five null hypotheses were rejected when subjects were regrouped according to the...
The rabbit VH region has been the subject of extensive and continued serological and biochemical analysis during the past three decades. Four VH subgroups (a, x, y, w) have been characterized, each of which displays a distinct set of... In this report, we present the sequence of a rabbit VH gene (pRVH831), which was selected from a rabbit genomic library using the mouse VH gene, pS107V1, as a cross-species hybridization probe. Our analysis reveals that pRVH831 is a... We have determined that pRVH831 is a member of the VH subgroup III. When used as a probe in filter hybridization experiments pRVH831 reveals 10-15 VH subgroup III genes, a number consistent with results obtained in human and murine... When the sequence of pRVH831 was analysed for internal repetitiveness, three similar copies (73-90%) of a 14-15 bp sequence were detected. These sequences are located in FR1, CDR1, and CDR2. Our analysis indicates that this repeat is...
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