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Perceptions of sexual harassment: The influence of physical attractiveness and status
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The current study was an investigation of extralegal factors in the perception of sexual harassment. Undergraduate students who were enrolled in introductory psychology classes watched a videotape of an interaction in a work setting. A... Contrary to predictions based on the "beauty is good" stereotype, the physical attractiveness of the harasser did not influence subjects' perceptions of the interaction. Regarding status, subjects were more likely to view comments from a...
Odd couples/romantic texts: The writings of Charles and Mary Lamb, William and Sarah Hazlitt, and Paul de Man
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This dissertation brings together essays written on various texts by Charles Lamb, Mary Anne Lamb, William Hazlitt, Sarah Hazlitt and Paul de Man. In Chapter One, I draw on Bakhtin's ideas of heteroglossia and dialogism to argue that the... In Chapter Two, I use Michel Foucault's work on sexuality and madness to re-read Lamb's essays "Confessions of a Drunkard" and "Edax on Appetite" and William Hazlitt's novel Liber Amoris as confessions that partake of the pedagogical...
An empirical examination of environmental externalities and the least-cost selection of electric generation facilities
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In recent years, several state public utility commissions have required electric utilities within their respective jurisdictions to incorporate predetermined external environmental costs into fuel choice selection decisions for electric...
Structural function and unifying processes in selected organ music by American composers of the twentieth century
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The present study proposes the application of the principle of structural function as an analytical method for that music of the twentieth century which employs some tonal attributes but is not formally structured by tonality. Four basic... The works chosen for this study are: (1) Resurrection (1981) by Larry King; (2) Versets (1988) by Daniel Pinkham; and (3) A Quaker Reader (1976) by Ned Rorem. The works were chosen because they represent recent organ works by American... The study begins with a summary of related research, including studies of form in twentieth-century music and a summary of literature related to structural function. The second part of the study identifies analytical techniques, and the... A primary concern for this analysis was to decide the relationship between this music and tonality; specifically, to determine how structural processes may be projected without the influence of tonality. Stability and instability, ...
An analysis of psychological and educational variables and their relationship to global self-worth, scholastic competence, and social acceptance in male children diagnosed with a learning disability
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Self-concept is believed to play a significant role in the learning process. Since the learning process for children with learning disabilities is fraught with difficulty, there is concern that self-concept for these children is at risk. This research makes a contribution to the larger body of literature dealing with the self-concept of male children with learning disabilities. There appears to be a substantial body of literature which suggests that self-concept can be... In order to investigate the different factors involved in children's self-concept, several self-report measures were employed. These included a scale measuring perceived competence in the different domains (plus global self-concept), a...
Literature, music education, and characteristics of selected Virginia beginning high school choirs
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To investigate and describe the literature and characteristics of a population of "beginning" high school choirs, this study developed a 47-item questionnaire and then distributed it to 263 VA high school choral directors who were... Chi-square and Kendall's tau-b analyses indicated significant relationships between selected characteristics and different levels of high school student enrollment, choral enrollment, and teacher experience; the analyses found only one...
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...
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....
Predictors of post-combat violent behavior in Vietnam veterans
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This study examined the predictors of post-combat violent behavior in Vietnam veterans. Phone interview and archival data were used to obtain information on the predictor variables of mental disorder, combat exposure, exposure to abusive...
A stylistic analysis of three selected trios for clarinet, viola, and piano: "Fairy Tales" by Robert Schumann, "Eight Pieces" by Max Bruch, and "Kleines Konzert" by Alfred Uhl
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This treatise focuses on three works for clarinet, viola, and piano. Included are biographical sketches of Schumann and Bruch, limited to the period concerning the respective compositions. An extended biography of Uhl, with historical... Individual discussion of the pieces centers on formal and stylistic analysis. Each area of study is divided into chapters that include examination of compositional background, score particulars, form, and stylistic techniques. Musical...
Arginine kinase is a member of what appears to be a highly conserved enzyme family which reversibly catalyzes the transfer of phosphate from phosphoguanindine to ADP, yielding ATP. Phosphagens serve as temporal ATP buffers during periods... the resulting mutant enzyme showed a significant decrease in specific activity compared to both the native and recombinant wild-type AK. Furthermore, the mutant enzyme showed no detectable change in substrate specificity. The results...
Cognitive therapy with depressed, female outpatients in individual, couple, and group treatment modalities: An evaluation
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The effectiveness of cognitive therapy utilized within the individual, couple, and group treatment modalities was examined using an A-B-A single subject research design. The subjects were 15 depressed, female outpatients between the ages...
Gender bias in biological crime-related research: An examination of trends in lead-related research, 1975-1993
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This study examined whether or not gender-bias was present in biological-crime related research using the lead-behavior research as a sample. A content analysis was conducted using secondary data from academic journal articles. The... The findings indicate gender-bias in terms of (a) the limited extent to which females were used as research subjects; (b) the lack of consideration of female/male brain differences; and (c) the use of a sexist/biological image of females...
The employment relevance of the undergraduate business education curriculum for prospective teachers at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, 1983-1993
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This study was designed to assess the perceptions of recent Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University graduates (1983-1993) regarding the relevance of the institution's undergraduate business teacher education curriculum to the... The questionnaires were sent to 130 business education graduates employed in middle, secondary, postsecondary, vocational-technical, private business, government, and other enterprises throughout the United States. Fifty-four percent of... The primary conclusions of the study were: (1) Business education students perceived themselves to be less prepared in the instruction of computer-related courses than in other types of program offerings, (2) Demographic factors such as... Major recommendations for the Business Teacher Education curriculum at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University are as follows: (1) An ongoing review of the curriculum should be conducted periodically by members of the business...
On algebraic and analytic properties of Jacobian varieties of Riemann surfaces
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The main purpose of this dissertation is to study some basic properties of Riemann surfaces. The Jacobian of a Riemann surface is one of the most important algebraic and analytic characteristics for the surface. Related to Jacobian of a... In Chapter 2, we will establish a number of algebraic properties of complex lattices and tori that are fundamental to the study of Jacobians of Riemann surfaces. In Chapter 3, we will consider an extremal problem of Riemann surface. The... Among all the essential work to this paper are the results obtained by Rauch and Lewittes (RL), Quine (Q1) (Q2), and the classic discussions of perfect and eutactic forms introduced by Voronoi (VO) and studied extensively by Barnes (BA3)... Buser and Sarnak in their paper (BS) have obtained a number of interesting characteristics for surfaces of large genus. Our discussion is very computational and probably not applicable to higher genus case. We will also provide some...
The biographical and sociohistorical context for military and dance music in the manuscripts of Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1798-1870)
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The purpose of this treatise is to place military and dance music genres found in the music manuscript books of the Hitchcock Collection of flute music housed in the Warren D. Allen Music Library at Florida State University and the... There are nine music manuscript books in the Hitchcock Collection which are broadly representative of American musical traditions during the nineteenth century and serve as partial cultural and musicological records of pre-Civil War... Hitchcock's activities as a military officer and musician are outlined in the prose journals he recorded during the years 1816 to 1868, and the principal source for quotations from them in this treatise is the "W. A. Croffut Papers, Copy...
Far-infrared studies of strongly correlated electron systems
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Results of far-infrared and IR reflection measurements of Y$\sb{1-x}$Pr$\sb{x}$Ba$\sb2$Cu$\sb3$O$\sb{7-\delta}$, U$\sb{1-x}$Th$\sb{x}$NiSn and FeSi are presented. The experiments were performed over a spectral range of 10-3000 cm$\sp{-1}... The results of the reflectance measurements on U$\sb{1-x}$Th$\sb{x}$NiSn alloys are consistent with the semiconducting-to-metallic transition observed in these materials. Four phonon lines were observed in the reflectance spectra at all... The reflectance measurements of FeSi were performed over the spectral range of 10-700 cm$\sp{-1}$. The reflectance shows an unusual temperature dependence between 129 and 95 K, a range where the resistivity shows very little change. This...
Detection of Vibrio vulnificus using oligo-DNA ribosomal RNA-targeted probes and investigation of the "viable but non-culturable" state
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Infection with the marine pathogenic bacterium Vibrio vulnificus, via contact with open wounds or ingestion of raw or improperly cooked seafood, can result in serious illness and a potentially fatal septicemia which, if untreated, can... The concept of a "viable but non-culturable" (VBNC) state, defined as "an inability of cells to produce colonies on appropriate solid media even following prolonged incubation" (L. Nilsson, J. D. Oliver and S. Kjelleberg. 1991. J.... Studies of the effects of reduced temperature and salt concentration on V. vulnificus survival led to the conception of a method, involving rapid chilling of oyster shellstock in low salinity iced water, which has the potential to...
The growth patterns of public pension expenditures of sixteen advanced industrial democracies in the period of 1961-1984: Pooled cross-sectional and time series analysis
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The objective of the present study is which determinants under what conditions have important impacts on pension growth, modeling the social, economic, and political forces that explain variations in nations' development of public... This study attempts to answer two central research questions. The first research question is why previous studies produce inconsistent results on welfare policy determinants concerning impacts of political actors. Reviewing literature on... The analytic tool for the first research question is conducted within the framework of pooled cross-sectional and time series data analysis design. The pooled data set includes 24 annual time periods, 1961 to 1984, with 16 advanced... The present study finds that a dominant leftist government is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for pension growth. Leftist dominant governments with medium or weak labor unions and weak oppositional parties lead to greater... The present study shows that results of previous studies are incorrect due to the problem of model mis-specification. Although both multiplicative nominal and red growth models in this study are applied to only one specific welfare...
Integrated product and process design for resin transfer molded (RTM) parts
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Composite materials have gained increasing attention in the past several years due to their superior mechanical properties and improved strength-to-weight ratio over traditional materials. With this focus on composite materials, a... The resin transfer molding process involves a large number of variables that are linked to the design of the component, the selection and formulation of the constituent materials, such as resin and fiber, and the design of the mold and... Optimum design of RTM product and process design variables will result in high quality parts and enhance the efficiency and robustness of the RTM process. An intelligent, adaptive process control procedure yields consistently high... The proposed research outlines two major tasks, (1) the integration of modeling and simulation technologies that support an integrated product and process design (IPPD) approach, and (2) the intelligent, adaptive control of the RTM...
Numerical models of saltwater intrusion from brackish canals in southeast Florida
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Salt water intrusion has been a major threat to the water supply in south Florida. A conceptual model has been developed to study the dynamical characteristics of the groundwater system of brackish water canals. The conceptual model with a low permeability layer including tidal changes in the canal and seasonal changes of groundwater level provides a full explanation of the salt water intrusion process from the brackish water canal. The salt... The model is applied to the Hollywood wellfield to determine if water management strategies can prevent further intrusion. The model predicts that the brackish water intrusion of the C-10 canal is a slow process. It appears that one year...
An investigation into the nature, origin and use of indicators for evaluating training results in an organizational setting
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Business and industry training is a growing area of practice in the field of adult education. Evaluation of the results of training is a challenge for both practitioners and scholars. A qualitative study of the nature, origin and use of... Data collection involved in-depth interviews, participant observations, document reviews, journal writing, and member checking. Field notes were coded and categorized based on themes and patterns. Data analysis involved deriving... The study posits four models, grounded in practice and integrated with theoretical literature. The first model, a Training Results Framework, provides a classification tool that is organized using three distinct types of results ... The study provides implications for theory showing how the findings support and build on the adult education field's existing knowledge base. The study's findings fill a gap in the literature on evaluation and monitoring of training/HRD...
Testing for a time-dependent covariate effect in the linear risk model
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We propose two tests to identify a time dependent covariate effect in the partly parametric linear risk model, and derive asymptotic distributions of the test statistics under the assumption that the covariate effect of interest is...
An investigation into the effects of how children are informed of their parents' divorce process decisions
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between how children are informed of their parents' divorce process decisions and (1) their emotional reactions to the news, (2) their view of their relationships with their... Seventy parents, representative of recently divorced residents of Leon County, Florida, along with one child of each, between the ages of 7 and 17, were studied, using a highly structured interview research design. Two relationships were found that could be considered significant. There was a statistically significant inverse relationship between the child's age when told about the divorce and the degree of unhappiness the child felt at the news.... The results of analysis of the data did not support the hypothesis that if a child receives a one-sided account of the divorce decision, the child is significantly more likely to blame only one parent for it.
A case study of network organization, performance and librarians' attitudes in Taiwan, R.O.C
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate NBINET, the national bibliographic utility in Taiwan, in three fields--organization, performance and librarians' attitudes--in order to identify its achievements and problems. It is hoped that the... This study adopted the model proposed by Turock (1981) as a framework to conduct the research. The variables included: (1) organization: planning, governance, funding, communication, administration, evaluation, and training; (2)... The results of this study revealed that: (1) the overall attitudes of network staff and librarians toward the NBINET's organization are not quite positive; (2) the hit rates in NBINET were not high, especially for books published in...
Value/situation incongruence: An alternate perspective of work-nonwork conflict
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Past work-nonwork conflict literature has failed to consider the values of an individual as an important aspect of work-nonwork conflict. This research proposes that work-nonwork issues should be redefined using a value/situation... The results, based on a sample 510 full-time workers from a variety of organizations, suggested that values and situational factors directly influence the degree of conflict an individual experiences. However, the hypothesized... How this research both replicates and extends past findings is discussed in the conclusion. In addition, the practical implications from this research are discussed. Finally, implications for future research are considered.
Challenge preference in young children: Stability and relationship to goal orientation and maternal behaviors
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate response to challenge in young children and to determine its concurrent and predictive relationship to children's goal orientation and mother's verbalizations. Participants included 72...
Tests of the demographic bottleneck hypothesis in four stone crab populations
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The structural complexity of a habitat dictates the availability of shelter, and shelter may affect population and community structure in many systems. I test a specific hypothesis of the effects of habitat structure, the demographic... These results provide support for the demographic bottleneck hypothesis, but they do not address its generality. It is a common problem in ecology that we rely on singular tests of hypotheses and the scientific generalization of these... To address these concerns, I repeat the shelter supplementation experiments in St. Joseph Bay and in three additional haphazardly-selected bays in the northeast Gulf of Mexico in a mixed-model experimental design. In addition to the... I find differences among bays in the natural population-level parameters of stone crab size structure and density and in crab responses to shelter supplementation. The demographic bottleneck hypothesis best accounts for these differences...
A study of the usefulness and effectiveness of a self-instructional print module on multicultural behaviour change in apprentices in Manitoba
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This study assessed the usefulness and effectiveness of a self-instructional print module on multicultural behaviour change (i.e., knowledge and ideology) in apprentices in the province of Manitoba. The review of literature reported the... The Multicultural Ideology Scale, Instructional Materials Motivation Survey, Background Information Questionnaire, researcher-constructed Canadian Multiculturalism Knowledge Inventory and self-study module, underwent a one-to-one... The main experimental research study followed a "Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design" with randomization. Descriptive and inferential statistics provided answers to the hypotheses posed. All data were analyzed at the.05 level of... The findings of the study revealed: (1) no significant entry knowledge or attitudinal differences between majority and minority apprentices regarding Canadian multiculturalism or their acceptance of a multicultural ideology. (2) a large... The conclusion was drawn that the same or similarly designed instruction provides one avenue to fostering multicultural behaviour change in learners in trade apprenticeships.
Study of library fund-raising activities at colleges and universities in the United States
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In recent years, financial support for academic libraries has been inadequate to meet the many demands that these types of institutions face. The library literature has increasingly recommended that libraries become involved in fund... Library directors were surveyed at 600 randomly selected colleges and universities, proportionally stratified by Carnegie Foundation type, and classified as being baccalaureate granting colleges or above. Usable responses were received... Responses indicate that approximately 66% of all academic libraries engage in fund raising activities, with research libraries being more likely to engage in fund raising than other types of libraries. Most libraries take part in fund... This report examines which types of fund raising activities are most successful, how fund raising income is utilized by academic libraries, how fund raising efforts are organized and staffed, what role friends of the library groups play...
An empirical investigation of claimants' legal representation and workers' compensation case outcomes in Florida
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This dissertation examines the relationship between claimants' legal representation and the magnitude of workers' compensation benefits in the State of Florida. Attorney involvement in workers' compensation has been cited as a primary... Data from the State of Florida, consisting of 44, 130 workers' compensation claims from 1985 to 1992, is segmented into forty-eight groups by injury type and body part injured as a control the severity of the injury. Two-stage least... For all injury type/body part groups there was a positive statistically significant (.10 level) relationship between claimants' legal representation and the claimants' impairment rating. The results suggest that for the date to maximum...
The conflict between body and mind, dust and deity, is a well-established theme which appears in a variety of guises in Byron's poetry. One recurring element in the body of Byron's work that reflects this dichotomy is the phenomenon of... Chapter One provides background information about time, emphasizing its importance to humanity's exploration of ourselves and our world. Time was becoming a much more intrusive force in human life during Byron's era, as rapid change and...
Measuring the assertive behavior of low-income, minority women: Culturally appropriate versus mainstream criteria
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The objectives of this research were (a) to identify three new criteria to measure the assertive verbal behavior of low income Black, Hispanic, and Caucasian women; (b) to contrast the assertiveness ratings obtained using these new... The new criteria differ from the mainstream criteria in that they detail specific courses of action to specific situations that are in themselves passive, assertive, and aggressive strategies. The groups agreed the most in terms of what... Generally, the culturally appropriate criteria produced either the same or higher assertion ratings in contrast to the mainstream criteria. Through the development of the new criteria and an examination of their content, lessons for the...
An examination of the NCAA Division I-A university athletic boosters/foundations pertaining to their organizational structure and policies concerning institutional control
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The purpose of this research was to examine: the differences in the organizational structure between those NCAA Division I-A booster organizations which raised over $3.4 million and less than \$1.1 million during the 1993-94 fiscal year, ... Subjects for the study were Division I-A booster organization executive directors. The survey instrument contained three sections which addressed the areas complexity, formality, and institutional control present in the booster... The four components of complexity measured were size/horizontal differentiation, education of employees, vertical differentiation, and spatial dispersion. The three components of formality measured were job descriptions/contracts, ... A combination of telephone and mail survey methods was used. The telephone survey resulted in a response rate of 96% (100 out of 104). The mailout survey provided a 87.5% (91 out of 104) return rate. Two types of analysis were conducted. A t-test for differences between independent sample means was conducted on the mean scores of complexity and formality. Individual questions concerning complexity, and institutional... There was a significant difference found in the degree of organizational complexity present between the boosters which raised over $3.4 million and under \$1.1 million. There was no significant difference found in the degree of...
This ethnographic study is set in the milieu of a shelter for runaway youth as they participate in a ten-week series of poetry workshops, a Florida State University outreach effort. In the style of naturalistic and organic research, this... Subjects considered within the study include the student-centered, student-driven, interactive classroom; praise; authority; respect; community; identity; writing as a practice of wondering; the craft of writing; literacy as a creative... Using qualitative methods of data collection, including field notes, participants' observations, tape-recordings of workshops, and photographs of workshops in progress, the researcher examines herself as ethnographer, creative writer, ...
Di-zi: The history and performance practice of the Chinese bamboo transverse flute
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The di-zi is a type of side-blown bamboo flute which has been popular in Chinese music for approximately 1500 years. The instrument is constructed from a special type of bamboo grown in the southern part of China. The di-zi is especially... The long history and use of the instrument has been relatively well-documented in Chinese sources; however, there are few resources in English which are dedicated solely to this instrument. In addition, the few English sources on Chinese... In preparation for this treatise, I returned to China in the summer of 1992 in order to gather more resources and written documentation about the history of the di-zi. Because the instrument is so popular in Chinese music, it was...
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