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The demand for high-voltage and high-power power electronics devices, especially for the next generation electrical ship system, has increased rapidly these years. The three-phase three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) rectifier...
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...
Past research suggests that reading comprehension performance relies not solely on cognitive skills such as decoding, vocabulary, and inference skills, but also on attention and behavior. Specifically, the literature has pointed to...
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN AN ISOPOD PARASITE, PROBOPYRUS PANDALICOLA, AND ONE OF ITS CARIDEAN SHRIMP HOSTS, PALAEMONETES PALUDOSUS
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In Chapter I the habitats of the larval and adult Probopyrus pandalicola on Palaemonetes paludosus are described. The female was obliquely positioned within the shrimp branchial chamber, with its head directed posterodorsally in relation... In Chapter II information is provided on the reproduction, parasite attachment, postlarval development and population structure of P. pandalicola on P. paludosus collected monthly for two years from a site in the Wakulla River and a... In Chapter III the distribution of infected P. paludosus and the infection levels of P. pandalicola with respect to site, season and host size and sex are described. Infected P. paludosus occurred as far as 33 km upstream in many coastal... In Chapter IV the effects of P. pandalicola on the sex characters of P. paludosus are described, and possible mechanisms for these effects are discussed. P. pandalicola sterilize the female host by preventing ovarian maturation but do... The potential economic importance of crustacean castrators is detailed in Chapter V. Many hosts of crustacean castrators are of commercial value to man as a direct source of food. At least 28 species of economically valuable caridean...
Abstract This study examines state agency leadership and the viability of the traditional politics-administration dichotomy in state government. Despite all the academic theorizing about how appointed public managers should be involved...
This work analyzes the intersections between the notions of geography, power, and resistance, specifically focusing on how these concepts produce and are productive of one another within a French Caribbean context. Focusing on the works...
EXPOSITORY PROSE RECALL BY YOUNG HOSPITALIZED SCHIZOPHRENICS
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A number of studies, employing a variety of standard verbal learning tasks, have addressed the problem of deficits in schizophrenic recall processes. Recent research has suggested that, due to the simplistic nature of their experimental... This dissertation investigated the differences in prose recall of three groups, each composed of 32 male volunteer subjects: hospitalized medicated schizophrenics; hospitalized nonschizophrenics; and nonschizophrenic college... Each subject received both topics and both top-level semantic structures. To prevent transfer effects, each subject received only one top-level structure for each topic, thus yielding a nested design under topic and top-level structure-... Analysis of variance on the proportional recall scores (proportion of idea units recalled at each level in the content structures) showed a significant top level structure X groups X levels interaction (p < .04), which suggests that the... The results were interpreted to indicate different semantic information processing styles among the three subject groups. The schizophrenic subjects, as evidenced by their proportional recall scores and other supporting data, did not...
Mobile platforms have become ubiquitous in our society; however, classical benchmarks have not kept up with their growth. When not entirely incompatible, current benchmarking techniques often provide very little useful information about...
THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A ROUTINE USING A DIAGNOSTIC PRETEST, INDIVIDUALIZED ASSIGNMENTS AND DIENES BLOCKS FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION MAJORS IN CUPM LEVEL-1 MATHEMATICS
It is clear that the genetic networks that control the shape and patterning of important phenotypic traits are much more important to trait evolution than was previously thought. This study addresses the ability of the Drosophila...
This collection of personal essays and short fiction investigates a post-9/11 America locked in forever war. Centered upon the American veteran and the veteran family experience, Anchor & Knife showcases wide-ranging narratives that...
Robert Douglas was a Church of Christ missionary to Libya, Egypt, and Lebanon during the 1960s. Traveling during this period introduced Douglas to the reality of post-colonial context of the countries. He and his family lived as...
This dissertation explores the nature and significance of fear in the works of Seneca the Younger. While a variety of emotions have already been examined within the writings of this author, fear remains largely neglected despite its...
THE IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF PHILOSOPHICAL ORIENTATIONS OF CONTINUING EDUCATORS
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The purpose of this study was to identify the philosophical orientations of continuing educators in higher education and to determine the extent of similarities and/or differences between them and the relationships that may exist between... For purposes of data analysis, frequencies and percentages were used to compare the responses of the sample population. Chi-square was used to test for significant associations. The .05 alpha level was used as the criterion for the...
A new numerical method is developed for the solution of the diffusion problem in a system of several materials. In such a system, the diffusion coefficients are piecewise continuous and jumps in their values can occur across the complex...
This dissertation tests if fetal loss can be applied as an extension of prior literature on the weathering hypothesis. To do so, this study extends upon the weathering hypothesis: the observation that blacks experience substantially...
A study of fund-raising at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) affiliated public black colleges and universities
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The value of public black colleges has been well-documented. These institutions have played an important role toward ensuring minority participation in higher education. Yet, unstable government support has threatened their survival. The... The conceptual framework, the resource dependency model, evolved from organizational theory. In resource dependency, organizations must competitively acquire and maintain resources from the environment to survive (Pfeffer & Salancik, ... The results showed that the mean enrollment for state colleges (SCU) was 3, 798, land-grant institutions (LGI) 3, 500, and two-year colleges (TYI) 931. The first fund-raising programs in SCU and LGI were established over thirty years ago...
Public library development in Florida greatly benefited from the New Deal relief programs that emerged out of the Great Depression. Historians and librarians had advocated for expansion of state support for libraries and the creation of...
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...
Towards a new framework for artificial intelligence research
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This dissertation constitutes an attempt to reconcile artificial intelligence research with the philosophical movement of phenomenology. It is not an easy task, as the initial work relating phenomenology and AI, done by Hubert Dreyfus, ... After an introductory chapter, I examine Dreyfus's arguments against AI. I conclude that these arguments, though they point to difficulties which AI researchers must face, do not provide compelling reasons for AI workers to abandon their... In the next chapter, I examine another set of criticisms of AI done by phenomenologists, that of Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. I draw similar conclusions with these criticisms as I do with those of Dreyfus. In the fourth chapter, I examine the emerging AI paradigm of "embedded computation." Advocates of this paradigm hold that AI should rely on an "interactionist" theory of mind rather than the "mentalistic" theories traditional AI uses.... Because so many of the criticisms of AI discussed in Chapters Two through Four are inconclusive, in the fifth chapter I attempt to strengthen the arguments involved. I find some of the fundamental tenets of AI research, such as the...
A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century American Clarinetists is designed as a resource to provide information on the lives and careers of American clarinetists and pedagogues of note, active primarily between the years 1900 and...
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of pre-service music education majors regarding participation in competitive concert and marching band events. Participants (N = 168) were undergraduate pre-service music education...
Emergent phenomena are one of the most profound topics in modern science, addressing the ways that collectivities and complex patterns appear due to multiplicity of components and simple interactions. Ensembles of random Hamiltonians...
The photophysical characteristics of 5-arylvinyl-5Oe-methyl-2, 2Oe-bipyridyls (AVMB) and their zinc complexes were investigated in order to recognize the factors that influence the emission band shift and fluorescence quantum yield change...
"The purpose of this study by a teacher of the fourth grade was to peruse some of the literature in the fields of child growth, child development, and mental health in order to learn some characteristics of nine-year-olds--physical,...
Cooperation is a complex behavior in which individuals act in ways that increase the fitness of others, at some cost to themselves. In cooperatively breeding vertebrates, helpers capable of reproducing forgo their own reproduction to...
A study of the effectiveness of public library service to young adults
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This study examined the effectiveness of the young adult library specialist and the generalist librarian in reference to user satisfaction scores given by young adult clientele and based on their evaluation of their local public library.... Based on the findings of the study, the following conclusion was reached: a specialist young adult librarian makes a significantly positive difference in user satisfaction scores for the following factors: a feeling of welcome to the... The major recommendation of this study is that young adult public library users be provided with a young adult specialist and a room in the public library dedicated to their special needs. These needs include improved collection strength... Other recommendations and suggestions for further study are also included.
School library media specialists have a flexible role within the structure of a school's environment, which allows for a unique opportunity to promote students' reading motivation. This study qualitatively explored school library media...
The purpose of this dissertation is to argue that while a discussion of the nature of human knowledge might be a worthy goal to pursue in public education, the science classroom is not the appropriate place for this discussion. 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'...
This study examined ways in which a simultaneously bilingual child increased her productive communicative ability in her weaker language through interaction in pretend play with more capable peers. Resting in the framework of Vygotskian...
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...
A STUDY OF THE REACTIONS FLUORINE-19(PROTON,ALPHA)OXYGEN-16, SODIUM-23(PROTON,ALPHA)NEON-20 AND ALUMINUM-27(PROTON,ALPHA)MAGNESIUM-24 WITH 3 TO 12 MEV PROTONS
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