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The purpose of the study was to develop a standardized curriculum for pilot training which can be used in response to ever-increasing demand for the pilot-with baccalaureate. The demand is partly in response to the military's curtailment... Precedent for standardization exists, expecially in the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP) in World War II. The expense and complexity of pilot training today demand optimum use of resources. The many curricular organizational models which exist indicate the necessity for organization. Development of a list of elements is but one step in the organizational model used. The four groups represented within the panel were Air Carriers, the Air Force, the Navy and General Aviation. The differences exhibited as groups were generally attributable to differences in mission . The Delphi survey technique was... Programs reviewed were the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, Purdue University, the University of Illinois, the University of South Alabama and the Federal Aviation Administration. Of the 756 elements listed as being taught by any of the... A standardized aviation pilot training program at the pre-specialization level which will satisfy the needs of all sectors of aviation is possible. Organizations which teach pilots do not teach significantly different elements through...
EFFECTS OF TEACHER MARITAL STATUS AND KNOWLEDGE OF A CHILD'S FAMILY'S MARITAL STATUS ON TEACHER RATINGS OF SELECTED TRAITS OF THE CHILD
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The purposes of this study were to determine whether knowledge of a child's family's marital status (divorced home/intact home/family status unknown) and/or teacher's marital status (single/divorced) would affect the teacher's ratings of... To test the hypotheses, two instruments were employed. The Personality Trait Rating Scale (PTRS) and the Predicted Behavior in School Form (PBS) were used by the teachers to rate behaviors of a five year old child observed on a videotape. Findings were: (1) knowledge of a child's family marital status did not have any significant effect on teachers' ratings on the PTRS or on the PBS. Mean rating scores on both instruments did not differ significantly among the three...
The trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 brought world-wide attention to the Nazi concentration camps and led to countless discussions by historians and theologians. In addition to American and British novelists and playwrights, many poets... The first literary response to the Holocaust was mainly autobiographical in accounts by camp inmates. Literary critics have discussed these memoirs and novels. Little attention, however, has been given to the impact of the Holocaust on... Through a discussion of eighteen poets and the characteristics of American and British poetry since World War II, this essay attempts to demonstrate three points: First, images of the concentration camps are used metaphorically by a...
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF PHONEMIC REGRESSION
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Research in word discrimination testing shows that performances vary as a function of the materials and procedures employed. The concept of phonemic regression, however, was based on a specific word list (PB-50) and sensation level (30... regression is not argued, rather caution is advised is attaching the phonemic regression label until all variables associated with discrimination testing, particularly the sensation level and word list utilized, have been manipulated.
A methodological expose of Thomasville, Georgia, during the 1890s using photographs taken during the period by Algernon Moller as a primary source for establishing historical sequences and journalistic narrative. The glass plates, ...
This study was designed to test the reliability and validity of Cushman's conceptualization of communication rules. Reliability and validity were tested by operationalizing communication rules and having subjects rate the rule for... Communication rules were operationalized by utilizing behaviors from Shimanoff's Communication Rules and situations constructed by the researcher. Behaviors were classified using Bale's Interaction Process Analysis. Situations were... Primary data analysis for reliability were measures of internal consistency. Crombach alpha was used for combinations of items. Standard deviations were used to compare individual items. The apparent reliability of some items could be... Future research should strive to reduce the ambiguity of rules and to develop a more precise scale for determining orientation toward a rule.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SELECTED VARIABLES AND CURRENT PRACTICES IN THE ASSESSMENT AND ACADEMIC RECOGNITION OF NONSPONSORED EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AS REPORTED BY CAEL MEMBER INSTITUTIONS
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This study was concerned with gathering and analyzing data relative to the practices utilized by the Council for the Advancement of Experiential Learning (CAEL) member institutions in the assessment and academic recognition of... Problem. This study focused on determining: (1) how nontraditional assessment practices were integrated into traditional academic structures, and (2) how practitioners evaluated their assessment and credentialing process. Purpose. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency with which specific assessment and academic recognition practices were being implemented by practitioners of nonsponsored experiential learning assessment... Methodology. A modified version of a CAEL instrument was developed, validated, and mailed to the CAEL institutional membership. Each questionnaire contained a letter of support from Dr. Morris Keeton, President of CAEL, and Dr. William... Selected Findings. The findings of the study suggest that practitioners were generally consonant in how they applied and valued assessment and academic recognition practices. They were, however, uncertain concerning appropriate practices...
ALPHA LAMBDA DELTA, PHI ETA SIGMA, MORTAR BOARD AND OMICRON DELTA KAPPA: THE EFFECT OF TITLE IX AS MEASURED BY THE SEX OF MEMBERS, OFFICERS, AND FACULTY ADVISERS IN 1981-82 (SCHOLASTIC AND LEADERSHIP HONOR SOCIETIES)
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Title IX on four national scholastic and leadership honor societies. The effect of Title IX on the proportion of male and female members of these organizations was compared on... A survey was mailed to the chapter advisers and presidents of 676 honor societies. Responses from 585 chapters (86.5%) were analyzed. The survey data revealed that Title IX has had a significant effect on the membership practices of honor societies. Women students hold a higher percentage of the membership and positions of leadership than men students in all four honor... Unlike the findings of previous research on sex differences in leadership assumption, this study found that female students have not yielded positions of leadership to male students in these coeducational honor societies. Except in... A significantly higher proportion of male members and officers were found in historically male honor societies, while a significantly higher proportion of female members and officers were found in historically female honor societies. The proportions of male and female members were unaffected by the enrollment size of the institution or the presence of a parallel honor society on the campus. Institutional control had no effect on the proportion of male and female... Women faculty members have not been as successful in achieving adviser roles in historically male honor societies as male faculty members in achieving adviser positions in historically female honor societies.
THE EFFECT OF IMMEDIACY AND TYPE OF INFORMATIVE FEEDBACK ON RETENTION IN A COMPUTER-ASSISTED TASK
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of timing and type of feedback on retention in an instructional task involving the learning of verbal information and defined concepts. Specifically, there were two levels of feedback... Analyses of Covariance indicated that timing of feedback had no significant effect on retention of either verbal information or defined concepts. Similarily, there were no significant differences between groups with respect to type of... Further research is necessary to determine the precise circumstances under which timing or type of informative feedback best facilitate retention. It is recommended that the learned capability called for in the experimental learning task...
BEHAVIORAL COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY: A BEHAVIORAL-BASED PROGRAM FOR TEACHING EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEWING SKILLS TO VOCATIONALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS
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Ten handicapped subjects participated in a short-term behavioral training program to increase their verbal employment interview behaviors. Treatment consisted of a two hour training session using instruction, modeling, role-playing, ... The results indicated increased appropriate and work-related statements during post-training and follow-up interviews. The rate of statements increased to a level comparable with the higher level of reference group subjects. Employers'... Subjects rated their level of anxiety after each interview and this data revealed no change in their anxiety levels during pre-, post-, and follow-up interviews. Satisfaction measures showed subjects' positive ratings of the training... This study revealed that a short term behavioral training program enabled handicapped persons to improve their verbal interview behaviors to a level consistent with non-handicapped persons. Further, the study indicated verbal behaviors...
THE SUBCELLULAR DISTRIBUTION, METABOLISM AND COMPOSITION OF AXONALLY TRANSPORTED GLYCOCONJUGATES
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This study investigated the distribution and composition of glycoconjugates axonally transported to subcellular fractions of goldfish optic tectum, specifically the SPM, SV and soluble fractions. In addition this study also assessed the... The subcellular distribution of radioactivity in the goldfish optic tectum 12 hrs and 24 hrs postintraocular injection of ('35)S-sulfate or ('3)H-fucose, respectively, indicated that the RSA of both SV and SPM was greater than those of... Compositional analysis of the SPM glycoconjugates demonstrated that fucosylated molecules had a broad MW distribution mainly below 100k daltons, whereas sulfated molecules had MWs > 100k daltons. In contrast to SPM, transported sulfated... Anion exchange chromatography resulted in the separation of 3 populations of transported soluble GC. Those molecules eluting with increasing ionic strength from the anion exchange column showed a progressive increase in MW as seen by gel... To determine conditions which would lead to solubilization of membrane-affiliated AT GC, pooled optic tecta were sequentially homogenized in different solvents 12 hrs PIO injection of ('35)SO(, 4). Approximately 20% of the recovered...
The authors report on major trends and emerging issues in state education policy-making. Two parts cover, first, the history, status, and future of educational governance and, second, the alternatives open to state leaders in structuring...
THE CRYSTALLIZATION AND MELTING OF LINEAR POLYETHYLENE
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Changes in the crystallite size distribution during the isothermal crystallization of linear polyethylene fractions were studied using low frequency Raman spectroscopy. Increases in the crystallite size and broadening distributions were...
ECOLOGICAL MORPHOLOGY OF BREEDING BIRDS IN OLD WORLD AND NEW WORLD PEATLANDS (MINNESOTA, FINLAND)
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Morphological convergence is defined here as evolution toward similar dimensions of traits in unrelated animals that live in the same or similar environments. Because a genus is a taxonomic unit in which differences among congeners... I identified similar peatland habitats in Finland and in Minnesota in a space determined by discriminant function analysis. Shrub areas and coniferous forest areas were similar to shrub areas and coniferous forest areas, respectively, ... The species in shrub vegetation were smaller, had relatively longer pelves and legs, and had wider and shallower sterna compared with their congeners in coniferous forest. With the exception of Emberiza, the length of the bill and the... These results indicate significant (p = .03) directional patterns among taxonomically distantly-related genera for morphology associated with movement through the vegetation. Morphology associated with feeding, however, shows trends at a...
EVOKED POTENTIALS AND IMPULSIVITY IN A CRIMINAL POPULATION
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Two samples of residents were selected from a Florida work release center. Each group of eight residents differed in their membership with respect to the Megargee MMPI-based inmate classification system. One group was made up entirely of... The experimental portion of the research involved a paradigm in which latencies for both reaction time and a late component (P300) of the auditory evoked potential were measured under two conditions designed to assess the subject's... A difference score index of the P300/RT relationship revealed a significant shift in cognitive strategy for the Normal Group but not the Impulsive Group. Other findings include the possibility of order of presentation effects and a trend...
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AND ITS IMPACT ON ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND POLICIES
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This dissertation is about the competition among the economies of the sovereign nation-states and its impact on the optimality, from the point of view of the national government, of various economic policies. The competition among the... A review of economic history is first presented to demonstrate that competition among the economies of sovereign countries has existed from the beginning of written history to the present. It changed throughout history in accordance with... Based on this finding, the theoretical analysis is conducted to analyze the fundamental incentives which have caused governments to engage in international economic competition. The analysis reaches the conclusion that there have been... The next step in the inquiry is to analyze the effectiveness of various economic policies which, although frequently proposed in the economic literature, are derived from analyses that either exclude the phenomenon of competition among...
COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS IN THE SUBFAMILY HELICONIINAE (LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE) IN PUERTO RICO: CONTROLLED FIELD EXPERIMENTS
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Using an experimental approach, I have elucidated the role of competition among Heliconiinae larvae in Puerto Rico. I used field cages to control predators and parasitoids while otherwise simulating natural conditions. By vegetatively... One year of observation at two climatically distinct forests, Guanica (dry) and Cambalache (wet), shows variations in the relative density and distribution of heliconians and Passiflora. Guanica's distinct precipitation-induced... Comparing experimental results to field observations, I found no interspecific competition and insignificant intraspecific competition at Cambalache. At Guanica, where larvae depend on new growth, which occurs in distinct pulses, intra-...
A PROGRAM OF SERVICES FOR HANDICAPPED STUDENTS IN PUBLIC POSTSECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN IRAN
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The purpose of the study was to develop a program of services for handicapped students in public postsecondary educational institutions in Iran. In order to develop the program of services a panel of experts in the field of handicapped students and/or in educational planning in developing countries was selected to react to an opinion survey questionnaire. The survey questions... Following the analysis of the data by tabulation of frequencies and percentages for each item, the program of services was refined and recommended. The major findings of the study were: (1) The panel of experts agreed with the overall philosophical base of the program of services. There was some variance of agreement concerning the program of services. (2) Services and programs for... It may be concluded that Iran, and other developing countries with similar cultural and religious background, should find the recommended program of services for handicapped people reflective of the philosophy of Islamic beliefs and...
THE OPERATION OF GENDER SCHEMA IN THE CATEGORIZATION OF FEMALE AND MALE CHARACTERISTICS
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The present study is an investigation of hypotheses derived from gender schema theory. As background for the study, gender schema theory was discussed along with research in the areas of sex-typing, person categorization, and general...
EFFECTS OF THERAPIST FEAR OF NEGATIVE EVALUATION IN SUPERVISION AND SUPERVISORY FOCUS ON THERAPIST AND CLIENT ANXIETY AND ON A MEASURE OF THERAPY EFFECTIVENESS
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This study explored the effects of therapist fear of negative evaluation in supervision (FNE-S) and supervisory focus on therapist and client anxiety states and client satisfaction. Thirty clinical psychology graduate student therapists... The results showed that compared to low FNE-S therapists, high FNE-S therapists were more anxious before supervision, were more receptive to therapist-focused supervision, and had clients who were more anxious before therapy and less... Overall, results suggest that identifying high FNE-S therapists and low RSI therapists may be useful in research and training settings. They also clearly point out that supervisor-therapist interactions are highly complex and dependent...
EFFECTS OF SYNCHRONOUS NONVERBAL CUES IN A CONVERSATIONAL EXCHANGE UPON RATINGS OF INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION AND COMMUNICATION SATISFACTION
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This study examined synchronous nonverbal behaviors between interactants in a dyadic conversational exchange as a plausible explanation for differences in ratings of interpersonal attraction and communication satisfaction by outside... Two video tapes were produced utilizing a male and a female confederate engaging in a short conversation. Synchrony was manipulated by altering the turn-taking cues employed during the conversation. High synchrony was depicted as... Subjects were led to believe that the video taped conversation was part of an interviewer rating procedure for a university survey center and the two confederate actors were but two of a large number of newly hired interviewers. Subjects... Eighty-nine undergraduate males and 213 undergraduate females were randomly assigned to rate one of the two participants (male/female) in either the high or low synchrony condition. Two dependent measures were used to test the hypotheses... Results indicated that subjects who viewed the high synchrony conversation perceived the interactants as more interpersonally attractive than persons who viewed the low synchrony tape. Subjects also gave higher ratings of communication... The two main effect hypotheses regarding level of synchrony were statistically supported. However, attempts to uncover associations between sex of interactant and sex of observer in explanatory terms of interpersonal attraction and...
SELF-CONCEPT AND CREATIVE THINKING OF ASIAN-AMERICAN KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN
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This investigation was designed to determine levels of self-concept and creative thinking abilities of Vietnamese refugee kindergarten students. Children in a bilingual program were compared with their counterparts in regular classes in... The sample used consisted of 105 Vietnamese children: 47 in a bilingual program and 58 in regular classes. The following tests were administered: Purdue Self-Concept Scale for Preschool Children and Thinking Creatively in Action and... All the hypotheses were rejected. It was found that: (1) Participation in a bilingual program had a positive effect on the self-concept of Asian-American kindergarten children (regression coefficient beta = .194). (2) Sex, years in the...
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN FAMILY LIFE CYCLE AND FAMILY FUNCTIONING
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This study was conducted to determine the relationship between certain dimensions of family functioning (cohesion, expressiveness, conflict, organization, independence, control, and general family functioning) and family life cycle...
A COMPARISON OF RHYTHMIC RESPONSIVENESS IN NORMAL AND HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN AND AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF RHYTHMIC RESPONSIVENESS TO THE SUPRASEGMENTAL ASPECTS OF SPEECH PERCEPTION
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The study had two major objectives: (1) To compare the rhythm responsiveness of hearing and hearing impaired students on six subtests designed to measure beat identification, tempo change, accent as a factor in meter discrimination, ... Sixty-two hearing impaired and normal hearing public school students served as subjects. Ages ranged from nine to sixteen with a mean age of twelve. Speech reception thresholds (SRT) for hearing impaired subjects better ear ranged from... Results indicated that hearing impaired subjects performed as well or better than normal hearing subjects on subtests I, II, III, and V with regard to beat identification, and... Two additional speech perception tests were administered to hearing impaired subjects, the Children's Auditory Test and the Auditory Numbers Test. These tests evaluated subjects' ability to discriminate suprasegmental (i.e. nonlinguistic...
HEROIC ARCHETYPES IN THE COMEDIES OF ARISTOPHANES AND LATER PLAYWRIGHTS
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Some comedies feature a protagonist strongly reminiscent of the archetypal hero as described by Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Paul Radin. Thus various principles taken from their writings coalesce into a model which helps to elucidate... In those plays which conform to the model, character development for the protagonist follows a pattern analogous to psychological development through the process of individuation, while the protagonist's activities parallel the... Aristophanes' Wasps provides a detailed illustration of the application of the model for heroic comedy. Other comedies by Aristophanes also correlate well with the model, including the Birds, Clouds, and Knights, but the Women in... Finally, to delineate clearly heroic from non-heroic forms of comedy, a comparison of both types is provided, relying on examples taken from the broad spectrum of western literature. Non-heroic works include comedies by Menander, Moliere...
EFFECTS OF TRIIODOTHYRONINE ON RNA SYNTHESIS IN THE LIVER OF RANA CATESBEIANA
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The effects of triiodothyronine on RNA synthesis in the liver of Rana catesbeiana were studied using both in vitro transcription of RNA by isolated liver nuclei and in vitro translation of isolated liver poly A RNA in a rabbit... Melanin free nuclei were obtained by four cycles of short centrifugations followed by ultracentrifugation through 2.4 M sucrose. When these nuclei were analyzed for RNA polymerase activity, extremely low levels of RNA synthesis were... Conventional phenol extraction methods yielded degraded RNA upon isolation from Rana catesbeiana liver. Intact total RNA was isolated by modifying the guanidinium thiocyanate procedure of Rutter et al. to include four subsequent...
A STUDY OF MANAGERIAL FUNCTIONS PERFORMED BY BEGINNING ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS AND THEIR PERCEPTION OF THEIR PREPARATION FOR THESE RESPONSIBILITIES
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This study contained two parts, Part A and Part B. Part A was a national survey of beginning academic librarians to determine what management functions they perform, their perception of their preparation to perform these functions, and... Results indicated that 81 percent of beginning academic librarians have supervisory responsibilities. Over half of them perform all five of the management functions included on the research instrument (planning, organizing, staffing, ... Little difference was noted in the perception of preparation of librarians in small, medium, and large libraries, with only 2 of the 33 activities showing a significant difference in the means. Males and females had a significant... Management courses taught in ALA accredited library schools in the U.S. were surveyed in Part B to determine if these courses were required of students planning to be academic librarians, and if the courses were oriented toward the... Fifty-four of the 62 library schools replied, revealing that 68.5 percent required a basic management course, 33.5 percent required an academic library management course, 20.4 percent required both, and 14.8 percent have no required... Course materials furnished by faculty revealed that the basic management courses emphasized management functions, while the academic library management courses were oriented toward the type of library concept. Conclusions are that beginning academic librarians perform a variety of management functions, and that library schools' curriculum should include a course that covers these basic functions as a required course for all students....
AN ANALYSIS OF OLDER ADULT RETENTION FROM A TELEVISION PROGRAM
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The purpose of this study was to investigate what a group of older adults remembered after viewing a television program. The study sought to discover how much was learned, what proportions were main and subordinate ideas, what ideas were... Fifty-nine older adults from an association of retired persons participated in the study. They were randomly divided into two groups, the immediate recall group and the delayed recall group. The narration of a NOVA television program, shortened to be 30 minutes long, was subjected to a text analysis procedure to identify main ideas and subordinate ideas. A total of 1, 317 ideas were presented, 315 main ideas, and 1, 002... Both groups viewed the television program. The immediate recall group took the test immediately afterwards, the delayed recall group took the test two days latter. Results indicate that both groups recalled approximately 54% of the main ideas immediately after viewing the program and 53% after two days. There was no significant difference in recall of the main ideas. However, 54% of the subordinate... A three way analysis of the variance indicated that mean performance scores on all recall tasks were significantly higher with education levels above high school.
ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STAFF TRAINING FUNCTION IN HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the development of the staff training activities in human service organizations to determine whether the level of development of the training functions is related to the organization's meeting... The data collection instrument was a mailed questionnaire which elicited data giving two types of information. These types of information included: (1) the level of development of each of the jails' training functions and (2) information... The major findings were as follows: (1) there is a significant association between the level of development of the training function and the meeting of accreditation standards; (2) some external training mandates are associated with the...
One of the most interesting features of the late Norman Perrin (d. 1976) as a scholar is the fact that he changed his mind a number of times about a number of issues. This study uncovers some of the factors behind those changes, sets his... Chapters I and II bring into focus, and posit a reciprocal causative relationship between, the methodological and theological perspectives which governed his research. They demonstrate that his scholarly development followed a pattern... The shifts in his theology moved him from a position where he viewed history as the basis for faith toward a position where history was not important for faith. While he was moving toward an ahistorical perspective, he never reached it, ... In addition to uncovering the internal factors mentioned above, this study views his shifts with respect to method and conclusions in the context of New Testament scholarship. Chapters III and IV discuss the particular exegetical conclusions he arrived at with respect to the Kingdom of God, parables, Son of man, and Gospel of Mark. His treatment of these issues is discussed in light of (1) the twin issues of...
MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS OF THE MARANGONI INSTABILITY
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The Marangoni (surface-tension-induced) instability of surfactant-containing lenses of paraffin oil was investigated experimentally in the first part of this work. Results of these experiments are described and qualitative explanations... Attention was then shifted to the instability at a plane interface between two immiscible fluids, each containing a surface-active solute. The literature on this instability is reviewed and a simple finite-layer model is developed and... The mathematical apparatus of the model was then used to elucidate the mechanism of conversion of chemical potential energy to kinetic energy. It was found that this connection cannot be made unless the surface excess concentration is... The model was used in a global thermodynamic analysis to show that a convecting system does correspond to a process with less entropy production than a quiescent, diffusing system, at least for marginally supercritical values of the... A model for Marangoni instability at a cylindrical interface is developed in an Appendix.
THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ACCOUNTING-BASED AND MARKET-BASED ESTIMATES OF SYSTEMATIC RISK UNDER ALTERNATIVE INCOME MEASUREMENT MODELS
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The purpose of this empirical study is to examine the relationship that exists between an accounting-based estimate of systematic risk (accounting beta) and market beta, where accounting beta is determined using four income measurement... The study utilizes a non-parametric statistical design and data from four primary sources: the Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 33 data base, the quarterly and annual COMPUSTAT tapes, and the CRSP monthly returns file. The results of the study offer the following conclusions: (1) There exist significant differences among accounting betas computed using the various income models tested. These differences exist primarily between the price-level adjusted ... Overall, for purposes of assessing accounting-based estimates of systematic risk, the RC model offers a potentially useful alternative to historical cost. However, price-level adjustments appear to be counter-productive.
AN ADAPTATION OF BEM'S SEX-ROLE INVENTORY TO THE STUDY OF ANDROGYNOUS BEHAVIOR OF THE CHARACTER "NORA" IN HENRIK IBSEN'S "A DOLL'S HOUSE" (NORWAY)
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This study reports four content analyses of the character Nora in Henrick Ibsen's A Doll's House. The first three studies examine different media: the printed page, the play, and a film. The fourth study examines the film again using... An adaptation of Sandra Bem's Sex-Role-Inventory was applied to the study of androgynous behavior of the character, Nora. Bem's original scale was used in the first two content analyses with minor modifications. The final two content... Dietrich's motivational unit was used to unitize the play for each coding. The first three studies used unit-by-unit analysis while the fourth study used longer cluster units. The first two studies were based on one male and one female... The intercoder reliability improved with each analysis. The book reliability was .25; the play's was .33; the film was .61; the second coding of the film was .92. Intrascale reliability remained high throughout, but especially with the... Coding results were consistent with a subjective, independent dramatic analysis of the play and contributed to a deeper understanding of the character. It was concluded that the adapted BSRI was a promising instrument for studying sex...
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