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JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ AND NATIONAL MASS CONSCIOUSNESS IN PUERTO RICO
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Since the 1930s, the problem of national identity has become one of the most crucial issues in the Puerto Rican political and cultural arena. Politicians like Pedro Albizu Campos, Luis Munoz Mar(')in, and Luis A. Ferre, and writers like... This dissertation tries to show how Jose Luis Gonzalez has attempted to achieve his primary aim of helping develop and enrich a national mass consciousness in Puerto Rico. It also describes the evolution of his humanist views. Gonzalez's...
THE EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO HYPOXIA PLUS COLD ON METABOLISM AT REST AND DURING EXERCISE
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Seven normal, healthy, male volunteer subjects were exposed to four different environmental conditions at random on four separate occasions: breathing room air with an ambient temperature of 25(DEGREES)C (NN); breathing room air with an... Hypoxia led to significant increases in heart rate, systolic blood pressure, ventilation, respiratory quotient, blood lactate, and perceived exertion during exercise, while causing significant depression of core temperature and oxygen...
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...
HOW IS AN ATTITUDE TOWARD PRACTICAL USE OF A NEWLY LEARNED SKILL FORMED? AN INTERDOMAIN INTERACTION STUDY
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This study explored supportive relationships among objectives from different domains of learning outcomes, namely, the learning of a concept classification skill, information, and attitudes toward the skill. Two versions of an... The results indicated that the relevant version of the material had a positive effect on the pre-instructional motivation for personal commitment. Such an effect, however, was not found on the acquisition of the skill and on attitude...
Recentralization, exemption, and privatization of state-owned enterprises in Saudi Arabia
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This study dealt with state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Saudi Arabia and the changes encountered by these organizations: recentralization by imposing civil service rules and regulations, exemption from civil service rules, and... Recentralization of SOEs is an action taken by the government to impose greater control over SOEs, whether financial or administrative. In the Saudi case, the reasons for recentralization were to reduce the multiplicity of personnel... Exemption of SOEs is an action taken by the government to release these institutions from financial or administrative restrictions. The Saudi experience shows that exemption occurs because those SOEs are self-supporting and operate... Privatization is the transfer of ownership of an SOE from the government to the private sector. Ten general methods of privatization were identified, one of which is divestment of SOEs. Four methods of divestment as well as various... It was concluded that political, economic, and administrative forces influenced the movement of SOEs from one status to another. The changes in SOEs can also be explained by technical rationality, differences in organizational culture, ... New classifications for SOEs were recommended as well as methods to improve their performance. Exemption was recommended only for those SOEs which generate revenues, are engaged in activities of a business nature, and have national...
THE EFFECTS OF PRESENTATION OF OBJECTIVES FOR A SET OF INTERACTIVE VIDEODISC CHEMISTRY LESSONS
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The primary purpose of this study was to determine the effects of various presentations of objectives on learning a set of four acid-base chemistry lessons presented on a microcomputer interactive videodisc (MCIV) system. Focusing on the... Time data were collected and analyzed; again, there were no significant differences among treatment groups in the amount of time spent on the instructional materials, nor was there a correlation between time and posttest score....
A COMPARISON OF THE TROPE DENSITY AND READABILITY OF NEWBERY BRONZE MEDAL AWARD BOOKS AND SELECTED TEACHER'S CHOICES, 1983--1985
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The trope density of the Newbery Bronze Medal winners and the selected Advanced Teacher's Choices books (1983-1985) was studied to determine the most common type of trope found in each of the eight prize-winning children's literature... Is there is significant difference between the trope density of the Newbery Bronze Medal Award books and the Advanced Teacher's Choices Books? Is there a significant difference in the readability levels of the two categories of books? Is... The four hypotheses were tested by using the following: (1) The Mann-Whitney U Test for small samples was employed for hypotheses 1 and 2; (2) The Spearman Rank Order Correlation was employed for hypothesis 3; (3) Chi-square and Binomial... No significant differences were found in the mean trope densities of the three Newbery Bronze and the five selected Advanced Teacher's Choices books. No significant differences were found in the readability levels of the three Newbery... Further studies of metaphorical language should be conducted utilizing advanced fictional and nonfictional children literature books, pop literature, and newspapers. The readability levels of prize winning literature books, pop...
CANONICAL SYSTEMS OF TORI AND KLEIN BOTTLES IN NON-ORIENTABLE 3-MANIFOLDS OF GENUS TWO
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Let M be a closed non-orientable 3-manifold with a Heegaard splitting of genus two. We show that, if M has a non-separating essential Klein bottle, then there is a non-separating essential Klein bottle (or torus) K such that the...
AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE FLORIDA ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION: A CRIMINOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
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By a 1978 legislation, the State of Florida legislated to commit itself to the alternative education concept. Having recognized that the regular school program was not satisfying the academic needs of certain students, thereby leading to... This study proposed to provide an empirical assessment of the outcome of Florida's experiment with alternative education. To avoid bias in findings associated with the use of aggregate data alone, two levels of measurement were performed. At the macro-level, statewide education data were examined. At the micro-level, case study and participant observation... The analysis of the statewide data showed general program ineffectiveness. The alternative school study showed appreciable improvements in student affective and behavioral growth, in attitude toward school and in scholarship, and high... Methodologically, the study showed that aggregate data obliterate differences between programs, fail to identify successful programs, and the reasons for success or failure. Substantively, it showed that school districts may have...
FUNCTIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE CROSSED AND UNCROSSED HINDBRAIN AUDITORY TRACTS IN THE CAT
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The auditory system has long been known to contain both crossed and uncrossed lemniscal tracts. Few attempts have been made to uncover the functions of the crossed tracts vs. those of the uncrossed tracts, and the results are conflicting... These differential deficits may be determined by the anatomical organization of the superior olivary complex with its differential distribution of high and low frequency information bound for inferior colliculus. Although a few deficits in frequency or amplitude modulation detection were found, these deficits seem to be a secondary result of the loss in absolute sensitivities for the frequencies in question.
A microscopic study of nucleon elastic scattering from light non-zero spin nuclei
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A microscopic study of nucleon elastic scattering from the light non-zero spin nuclei $\sp{6, 7}$Li, $\sp9$Be, and $\sp{10, 11}$B is performed utilizing target densities constructed to be consistent with the known electro-weak data. The...
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS RIGHTS IN THE ADJUDICATION OF STUDENT MISCONDUCT IN FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
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The purpose of this study was to determine what changes occurred in student procedural due process rights in four-year colleges and universities in the Southeastern United States since 1975. Changes in the composition and structure of... Data for this study was collected through the mailing of a survey questionnaire to 328 four-year colleges and universities in the Southeastern United States. A total of 220 questionnaires were returned representing a 67% response rate. Results indicated that since 1975, nine changes occurred in procedural due process rights afforded students, and six changes occurred in the composition and structure of campus judicial hearing boards. A smaller percentage of... The following changes occurred in the composition and structure of campus judicial hearing boards: (1) a smaller percentage of institutions in the 1986 study utilized more than one type of campus judicial hearing board; (2) a smaller...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UPWARD INFLUENCE AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG SPORTS MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL OF THE GENERAL PRESIDENCY OF YOUTH WELFARE IN SAUDI ARABIA
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The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine the relationship between the degree of use of upward influence strategies and job satisfaction of sports management personnel of the General Presidency of Youth Welfare (GPYW) in... The data were obtained from 186 sports management personnel who were employed in the headquarters of the GPYW and its branches. Five instruments were used in the investigation: the Personal Data Sheet, the Evaluation of Superior, the Goals of Influence, the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ)-Short Form, and the Kipnis-Schmidt Profiles of Organizational... The following conclusions were drawn: (a) when the degree of use of Assertiveness, Bargaining, Coalition, and Friendliness increased, the job satisfaction of the influence agent decreased; and (b) the personal goals, the organizational... The following recommendations are made: (a) similar studies should be conducted to determine the relationship betweeen successful and unsuccessful attempts to use upward influence strategies and job facet satisfaction among sports...
JOSEPH A. SCHUMPETER AND HIS METHODOLOGY IN HIS "HISTORY OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS": DO AS I DO VS. DO AS I SAY
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In Part 1 of History of Economic Analysis, Joseph A. Schumpeter describes a method for presenting a history of economics that emphasizes objectivity and a strict focus on the evolution of the "science" of economics. The approach he... This dissertation begins with a presentation of two extreme approaches which have been advocated for presenting the history of economics. This is accomplished by delineating and subsequently analyzing statements made by the protagonists... Next Schumpeter's biography is presented, then his "vision" of how the economic universe functions is addressed. Following this presentation of Schumpeter's biography and vision, what other economists have written concerning Schumpeter's methodology is addressed. An analysis of History of Economic Analysis is then conducted to demonstrate the extent to which Schumpeter deviated from his stated approach. Along with a great deal of biography and an attempt to delineate each major thought creator's... It is shown that Schumpeter's approach, far from being the objective, positivistic approach for which he calls, is much more akin to the biographical approach espoused by Wesley Clair Mitchell. It is thus shown that Schumpeter's work is... Finally History of Economic Analysis is compared to Economic Theory in Retrospect by Mark Blaug, whose work comes closest to consummating what Schumpeter called for. Though successful at presenting the history of economics in a ...
A COMPARISON OF PERCEIVED STRESS LEVELS OF COLLEGE FRESHMAN ATHLETES AND NON-ATHLETES
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The primary purpose of this study was to investigate differences in the perceived stress levels of university freshman athletes and non-athletes by sex, race, high-school size, hometown size, and basic stress knowledge. Subjects for the... This study included the use of two instruments, a biographical information sheet and the stress levels inventory. The stress levels inventory instrument contained five sections. The first four sections included assessment scales and were... The hypotheses were tested using two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Data were analyzed by five independent variables (sex, and basic stress knowledge). The dependent variable was the stress score...
KINETIC STUDIES OF NEPTUNIUM(VI) REDUCTION REACTIONS WITH KOJIC ACID AND TROPOLONE
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For safe disposal of nuclear wastes, it is necessary to improve our understanding on the long-term behavior of long-lived actinides in the environment. With respect to the problems of potential migration of radionuclides from a nuclear... From results on the kinetic studies of these reactions, the NpO(, 2)('++) is reduced to the NpO(, 2)('+) in a one-electron transfer process with no structural change of the dioxo neptunium species. The rates for both reactions are directly... The activation parameters for the Np(VI) reduction with kojic acid and tropolone have the same values within the uncertainties: i.e., (DELTA)H('(NOT=)) = 82.7 (+OR-) 3.4 KJ/mol, (DELTA)S('(NOT=)) = 34 (+OR-) 12 J/mol/deg for kojic acid...
Academy education in antebellum Florida, 1821-1860
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Antebellum Florida developed an informal system of academies that served as dominant educational institutions until after the Civil War. Academies followed people; they grew in size and number as cities and towns grew. Four basic types... Teachers in academies varied in origin, longevity and quality. Most came from outside Florida; many were transient, some were career educators who remained in Florida. College degrees were more common in latter decades of the era. Men...
THE CHARACTERIZATION OF NORMAL BONDED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY COLUMNS
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Three liquid chromatography bonded stationary phases--amino-, diol- and cyano-silica--have been characterized by two different methods. In the first, the retention of polar solutes in binary mixtures of hexane and polar solvents by the... The second approach utilized the relationship between experimentally generated solvent strengths and bonded phase solubility parameters. These parameters were used to position the three bonded phases on the selectivity triangle. An important result to emerge from both studies is the necessity for characterizing solute/solvent/bonded phase combinations. A bonded phase simply cannot be characterized apart from the solute and solvent.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COMMITMENT AND ROLE OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IN REGIONS I, III AND V IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA REGARDING MEDIA AND THE QUALITY OF THE SCHOOL MEDIA CENTER
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Principals and media specialists serving in the same elementary schools in Regions I, III and V in the State of Florida were surveyed separately and analyzed. The principals' survey rated their acceptance and implementation of the... It was concluded from this study: (1) Principals showed an acceptance or strong endorsement for the components of a quality educational media program, but were not implementing them to the same degree, according to media specialists; (2)... The study offers some recommendations to help make needed improvements in elementary school educational media center programs. With these improvements, quality educational media services could be provided to support educational programs, ...
GENERALIZATION OF A TREATMENT STRATEGY FOR SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR
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A two-step program designed to enhance generalization of treatment was implemented with four dually diagnosed autistic/severely or profoundly retarded subjects. The first step involved training the subjects to associate treatment with a... A multiple baseline design across settings was used. For each subject, one setting served as the treatment setting; two others served as generalization settings. A one-month follow-up was also conducted. In Setting One, 8 days of baseline data were collected followed by treatment. Training was conducted during four ten-minute blocks of time. During discrimination training, the first 10 minutes, the subjects wore an S$\sp{\rm D}$ (e.g., a... The S$\sp{\rm D}$ was then taken into the generalization settings. Baseline was continued in each generalization setting until that setting was incorporated for generalization. Results from all four subjects show that the presence of the S$\sp{\rm D}$ in the generalization settings suppressed self-injury in those settings. In all cases, there was an immediate drop in SIB when the S$\sp{\rm D}$ was introduced.... This procedure has several practical advantages over current generalization strategies, namely, ease of application and use of a systematic analysis of the treatment effect through S$\sp{\rm D}$ - S$\sp{\Delta}$ comparisons.
This study describes in detail the structure and evolution of two depressions observed during the 1979 Summer Monsoon Experiment with the objective of determining what changes took place during their intensification. The first depression... Detailed subjectively produced windfield analyses provided the basis for vorticity, heat and moisture budgets as well as the 4-dimensional description of both depressions. The principal deduction from the analyses was that both... Both depressions propagated towards the west during their period of maximum intensity. Vorticity budgets of the rain areas west of each depression's center showed this motion to result from the dominance in the lower troposphere of the... Heat budget calculations for the rain areas showed a balance between warm advection and adiabatic cooling at 850 mb, though diabatic heating was large above this level. Rainfall was closely coincident with the maximum of warm advection...
THE EFFECTS OF A DECISION-MAKING PROGRAM FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH
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This study is an evaluation of a decision-making program specifically designed to increase the career maturity of incarcerated youths. The program was developed by the researcher and was designed with the needs of the target population... The study included 2 groups of incarcerated youths who were part of an on-going program at the Dozier School in Marianna, Florida. The subjects' growth in career maturity was measured by the Career Development Inventory. The decision... Analysis of the results employed a t-test of the pretest-posttest differences between groups on all measures, a t-test of the pretest, follow-up differences of the experimental group and the pretest-posttest differences of the comparison...
A DIDACTIC CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP VERSUS AN INTENSIVE TEACHER TRAINING INTERVENTION: THE EFFECTS ON DAY CARE TEACHERS' PRAISE AND THEIR CHILDREN'S ON-TASK BEHAVIOR
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Training day care teachers to utilize effective behavior management procedures with their preschool children is an area which has received little investigation. The most common form of training day care teachers behavior management... The effects of the teacher training interventions were assessed on two day care teachers and three children from each of the teachers' classes in a multiple baseline design study. Two of the children from each class were identified... Results indicated that a didactic workshop was ineffective in changing the teachers' approval and disapproval rates, supporting results of previous studies investigating didactic workshops. The intensive workshop and class training... Correspondingly large, positive behavior changes in child behavior as a result of positive behavior changes in the teachers were not found in this study, contrary to the findings of other teacher training studies. Possible methodological...
PLEA BARGAINING: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
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This dissertation is a systematic qualitative examination of the ways plea bargaining has been researched. It provides a thorough description and discussion of the various theoretical and methodological approaches used to examine plea...
A comparative study of quantitative vs. qualitative synthesis of Title VII Bilingual Education Programs for Asian children in New York City
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Research investigating the effects of Title VII Bilingual Education Programs has been a topic of interest for the past decade. Federal funding stimulated the evaluation of Title VII Bilingual Education Programs around the nation, and a... The present research synthesis offers quantitative evidence of a large, overall positive effect of Title VII Bilingual Education Programs. Across the 54 studies analyzed, the overall average pre-post effect size was 1.21 standard... While these findings must be qualified by the fact that federal regulations precluded the use of a control group, one cannot dismiss achievement gains of this magnitude on the part of children previously identified as extremely low...
FAMILY OF ORIGIN EXPERIENCES AND SELECTED FACTORS AS PREDICTORS OF ADULT CHILD CAREGIVING TO AN AGED PARENT
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This study examined the influence of family of origin experiences of autonomy and intimacy and other selected variables as predictors of adult children choosing the roles of caregiver or non-caregiver for their aged dependent parent. The... The researcher contacted the adult children and their siblings. The selected volunteer subjects had at least one sibling, a single (divorced, widowed, or separated) parent aged 65 and older, unemployed, and in reasonably good health. Seventy-nine subjects with complete data were classified into one of two criterion groups: caregivers lived geographically closer than non-caregivers and had regular and frequent contact with the parent; the non-caregivers kept touch... The data were analyzed through ANOVA and post-hoc tests. Three hypotheses were examined: the perceived intimacy of the family of origin of the caregiver would be rated higher than that of the non-caregiver; the perceived autonomy of the... Further analyses provided a three variable discriminant function equation for post hoc classification of subjects into groups: classification was more accurate for caregivers than non-caregivers. Analyses and results were discussed with regard to family theory, future research, social policy, and family therapy.
THE PLANNING FUNCTION IN DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT (SELF-ORGANIZATION; LOCAL GOVERNMENT)
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There has been continuing debate concerning the appropriate organization for municipal planning. The integration of comprehensive plan preparation and implementation into the local government political process and administration was... A conceptual model of development management was developed using recent findings in general systems theory concerning the dynamics of self-organizing systems. Two major concepts are those of "dissipative structures" and "autopoiesis".... This inquiry investigated historical precedents and current practices in municipal planning, evaluated the role of planning in development management in selected municipalities, and identified organizational factors impairing planning... Results indicated that much municipal management is based on a different time frame and toward different objectives than is planning. The data also suggested that the management of development has not been the primary focus for much...
GEOCHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY AND ORIGIN OF MESOZOIC DIABASE DIKES OF VIRGINIA
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Mesozoic diabase dikes of Virginia, part of the Eastern North America dike swarm, display a wide variety of mineralogical and chemical characteristics, representative of most mineralogical and chemical groups described from other... Petrographically, the diabases can be classified into three groups, which also display some geochemical distinctions. The OSB group is characterized by abundant olivine as a phenocryst and/or groundmass component and the presence of a Cr... Major- and compatible trace-element geochemical trends show that typical SGA-group samples can be derived by crystallization of approximately 17-20% olivine with minor spinel from a magma similar in composition to primitive OSB-group... OSB-group samples with compositions that are primitive with respect to major- and compatible trace-element chemistries display a wide and continuous range of incompatible trace-element (ITE) contents and ratios. While some of this...
AN EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECTS OF REPEATED READING INSTRUCTION AND CONTEXT-FREE INSTRUCTION ON INCREASES IN CHILDREN'S WORD RECOGNITION AUTOMATICITY
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Word recognition automaticity is defined as the rapid and accurate processing of whole words as units, rather than the use of word attack skills to sound words out for identification. Individual words that are recognized to a level of... This investigation examined the effects that two different instructional techniques (context-free and repeated reading) have on increases in the sight vocabulary of children who have been identified as moderately delayed readers. Both... All children received two weeks of repeated reading instruction and two weeks of context-free instruction. The repeated reading condition consisted of multiple oral readings of stories. The context-free condition consisted of practice on... The four testing conditions were (1) an immediate context-free posttest, (2) a delayed in-context posttest, (3) a delayed context-free posttest, and (4) a diagnostic progress test. The results of a series of analyses of variance with repeated measures indicate that repeated reading instruction may be more effective than context-free instruction for increasing the number of words in the sight vocabulary of...
FACTORS RELATING TO NEEDS FULFILLMENT OF DEPARTMENT CHAIRS AT FOUR YEAR COLLEGES IN PUERTO RICO
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State-of-the-art organization theory indicates that if organizations are to achieve their goals, they must pay attention to the needs of human resources. In spite of the vital role of department chairs in higher education, their needs... Three need aspects were measured: Need Fulfillment, Need Satisfaction, and Need Importance. The results indicated that Self-Esteem was the most fulfilled need and Autonomy the least fulfilled. While the department chairs are equally... This study also found that private colleges provided greater collegiality and opportunities for participation in decision making than public colleges, and that public colleges were subject to greater outside influences on institutional...
Douglas Nielsen with Madeleine Scott at Mainstage Theatre
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Performance included: Headstart (choreography by Douglas Nielsen), Written on the Wall (choreography by Madeleine Scott), Breakdown 2 (choreography by Douglas Nielsen), Mon Petit Lapin (choreography by Douglas Nielsen), Last Call ...
EFFECTS OF CONTINGENT REINFORCEMENT ON PARENT INVOLVEMENT WITH A SPELLING PRACTICE TASK: ASSESSMENT OF THESE EFFECTS ON STUDENT SPELLING PERFORMANCE
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The effects of contingent child and parent reinforcement on levels of parental involvement with a take-home spelling packet, as well as on subsequent in-class spelling performance were assessed with 250 students in grades two through...
CIRCADIAN REGULATION OF GASTROINTESTINAL PHYSIOLOGY UNDER CONDITIONS OF PERIODIC FOOD AVAILABILITY
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Periodic feeding has been shown to synchronize a number of physiological and behavioral rhythms. In the present study, three experiments were carried out to investigate the role of periodic food availability in the regulation of the...
ROLE OF SULPHATE-REDUCING BACTERIA INVOLVED IN CORROSION USING PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACID BIOMARKERS AND ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS
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Sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are both ecologically and industrially significant in that they not only make a large contribution to detrital mineralization but also create massive corrosion problems. Methods for rapid detection and... faster corrosion rates than with Vibrio natriegens alone. Clearly the biomarker and electrochemical techniques may be used to quickly characterize a bacterial corrosion problem and then establish if SRB are a major component in the...
THE APPROPRIATENESS AND IMPORTANCE OF SELECTED ROLES AND COMPETENCIES FOR TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT SPECIALISTS IN SAUDI ARABIA
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The purpose of this study was to determine the appropriateness and importance of selected trianing and development roles and competencies identified in the United States to the case of Saudi Arabia. The emphasis on training and... The purpose of the study was operationalized through four research objectives. To achieve the first two objectives, responses on a Likert-type scale were analyzed to establish the degree and ranking of appropriateness and importance for... The findings indicate that these roles and competencies were appropriate and important. There was high agreement between respondents from the universities and respondents from the Institute of Public Administration concerning these...
Revision of neotropical species and cladistic analyses of all known Tyloderma (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae)
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Forty-four species of Tyloderma are known to occur in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies. A redescription of the genus is provided, and the species are keyed and placed in 11 species groups, which also are...
AN APPLICATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL TASK ANALYSIS AND BIOMECHANICAL MOTION ANALYSIS TO ELEMENTARY COGNITIVE AND PSYCHOMOTOR PIANO LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE. (VOLUMES I AND II)
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the cognitive and psychomotor parameters of the task of learning and performing a selected elementary level piano piece chosen from a widely used piano instructional series. This descriptive process entailed the application of instructional task analysis techniques as developed by Robert M. Gagne. In attempting to diagram all of the cognitive and motor components (i.e., knowledge and skills) which a student... The second element of this musical description involved the application of biomechanical motion analytical techniques to the investigation of particular movement patterns in skilled pianists. Two highly skilled pianists were selected as... Although this study found little similarity between the movement patterns of the two subjects, striking similarities were found to exist within each subject's performances of the same musical material (repeated phrases). Otto Ortmann...
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