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This research joins the gender equity conversation within science education by providing a feminist poststructural analysis of teachers' doing gender and teaching science. Feminist poststructuralism is used in recognition of the...
The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of the affect and gender of pedagogical agents as learning companions (PALs) on learning, interest, self-efficacy, and agent persona. Two experiments were conducted to examine PALs'...
The South is a region of mystery, of tradition, of shifting identity. As a cultural region within the United States, the South has always defined (and redefined) itself in such a way that it remains distinctive from, even oppositional to...
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of music assisted systematic desensitization (MASD) on guitar competency, observed anxiety, and self-perception of anxiety during guitar performance with music therapy and...
In recent years, studies have shown that independent/sparse components of local windows of natural images resemble the receptive fields of cells in the early stages of the mammalian visual pathway. However, the role of the independence...
Photograph, black and white, of Hurricane Frances Relief - Brevard County, 2004. Three people sit on a bench and smile at the camera. Two of the people wear military uniforms.
Hate crimes are thought to result in greater psychological and emotional harm to the victim and to other members of the targeted group than to others. Students, 46 African Americans and 52 Whites, viewed a one-minute videotaped news...
A new concept of thermal design to optimize the operating temperature of HTS magnets is developed, aiming simultaneously for compactness and efficiency. The optimization procedure seeks the operating temperature to minimize the power...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of music on non-responsive patients in a hospice setting. Non-responsive was defined as those patients who were comatose or whose terminal illness had progressed to the point that the...
An interactive model of bulimic symptom development, first suggested by Vohs et al. (1999), was tested in middle-aged women (mean age = 45.19). The hypothesis that women high in perfectionism, low in self-esteem, and who perceive...
In recent years, NASA has become interested in densified fuels such as solid hydrogen. A change from liquid to solid-state fuel storage would result in an approximately 15% smaller onboard fuel tank, and thus a lower gross vehicle lift...
The Oregon Bach Festival completed its thirty-fifth season of performances in Eugene, Oregon on Sunday, July 11, 2004. Beginning as a summer school program organized by Royce Saltzman in 1970 at the University of Oregon, the Festival's...
NCEP multi-sensor hourly rainfall data and ground-baed GPS zenith total delay (ZTD) were used for data assimilation and evaluation of quantitative precipitation forecasts (QPFs) through three case studies. Improvements in QPFs were...
Photograph, color, of Hooding Ceremony; 2004; April or May. A woman is being hooded by another woman. Both wear academic robes and they stand near a podium. Other women in academic robes are visible, as well as an empty chair. A banner, ...
This thesis explores the links between early twentieth-century haute couture and the Italian avant-garde movement, Futurism. Although a definite cause-to-effect relationship cannot necessarily be assigned, the artistic and aesthetic...
The purpose of this study was to identify college choice factors that are most important in track-and-field student athletes' choice to attend a HBCU. This study employed a three-fold approach: a) to expand research on track-and-field...
This thesis aims to show a relationship between mental imagery and sensory perception through texts that prime change blindness between mental images and visual displays. In Experiment 1, participants read short texts depicting a visual...
Few studies have investigated the impact of nutrition education in community based diabetes education programs. This study evaluated the effectiveness of both a diabetes program with and without a nutrition education component designed...
This analysis provides a fact-based examination of the doctrine of nationalism and its idol, the national interest, couched within the context of twentieth century wartime presidential speeches and writings. What is significant about...
As composite materials gain wider acceptance within the transportation industry, it is pertinent to investigate the available coating processes with a view to reduce emissions and associated costs. Current painting processes are not only...
In this study, two kinds of methodology are proposed for incorporating total column zone data from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) into initial conditions of a mesoscale prediction model. The first methodology is based on the...
Solid-state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has come to be considered the pre-eminent analytical technique for the study of soil organic matter in its entirety. Despite its widespread use, carbon-13 CP-MAS NMR of...
High groundwater table exerts detrimental effects on the roadway base and the whole pavement. Base clearance guidelines have been developed to prevent water from entering the pavement system in order to reduce its detrimental effects....
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a lyric analysis and group discussion vs. other music therapy techniques, on values clarification and decision- making styles of adolescent delinquents. Eighteen middle school...
In today's world, data information, exchange, and processing are sustenance to corporations, organizations, and government agencies. Communications networks are relied upon to meet the computing needs of such organizations. These groups...
The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge and insight into how student- and school-level factors impact mathematics performance. Within the school and student systems, there are numerous variables that can have significant impacts...
In this thesis, an approach is proposed for the design and implementation of fuzzy traffic controllers using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).The focus of this study is to develop an effective traffic signaling strategy to be...
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I conducted a follow-up, qualitative evaluation to help me understand how participation in a contextual science research course influenced two pre-service science and/or mathematics teacher participants as they begin to teach in their...
A multiple baseline design across participants was used to investigate the effects of reciprocal questioning strategy instruction delivered in cooperative pairs on the reading comprehension of children with autism spectrum disorder....
With current computational limitations, the accuracy of high resolution precipitation forecasts has limited temporal and spatial resolutions. Forecast accuracy drops dramatically after a 24 hour forecast. Current operational mesoscale...
Diabetes is a significant problem in the health care arena today, impacting morbidity and mortality. Approximately 1.3 million people aged 20 years or older are newly diagnosed each year with diabetes. Additionally, obesity, has now...
Previous published investigations into the relationship between the menstrual cycle and sport behavior have focused on physiological variables associated with incidence of injury, specifically ACL laxity. More recent research has begun...
Small intestinal submucosa (SIS) is an extracellular matrix (ECM) harvested from pig. It contains primarily collagen with multiple proteins and growth factors. It is a biocompatible scaffold that supports cell growth in vitro and can be...
Differentiation of Obsessive-Compulsive, Anxiety Disordered and Non-Disordered Individuals by Variation in the Promoter Region of the Serotonin Transporter Gene
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a severe and debilitating anxiety disorder with relatively little known about its etiology. The serotonin-transporter gene is one likely place to start investigating the genotypes associated with...
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