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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...
THE EFFECTS OF NON-SEX-TYPED FILMS AND PARENTAL CHARACTERISTICS ON CHILDREN'S OCCUPATIONAL STEREOTYPING (ROLE MODEL)
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The present study investigated the effects of non-sex-typed films on children's occupational stereotyping. In addition, the relationship between parental characteristics and children's occupational beliefs was explored. As background for...
FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE THE PLACEMENT OF STUDENTS COMPLETING POSTSECONDARY MACHINE SHOP PROGRAMS IN FLORIDA
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The purpose of this study was to identify factors which influence the placement of postsecondary students who completed machine shop programs in Florida's vocational-technical schools. Specifically, this study was designed to seek answers to the following questions: (1) What are the positive factors which facilitate the placement of postsecondary machine shop program completers of Florida's vocational-technical schools... Population of the study consisted of ninety-seven of the students who have completed postsecondary machine shop programs in nineteen of the Florida institutions during the academic year 1982-83, and forty-four instructors and placement... The study was conducted in two phases. The first phase consisted of the administration of two questionnaires. The second phase consisted of personal interviews and observations. The data collected during the two phases of the study were... Based on the analysis of the data the following factors emerged as factors which facilitated the placement of 1982-83 machine shop graduates: adequacy of training; commitment of school personnel to placement of graduates; involvement... The result of the study also pointed toward several factors which inhibited the placement of the graduates. These factors were: lack of adequate work experience; lack of specific training; limited number of jobs available in area; lack...
Human fibroblasts possess five distinguishable systems for amino acid transport. Initial rates for three of these normalized against cell protein decline with in vitro age. The decline most noticably affects the L system, whose rate for... In spite of L system transport reduction, pool levels of L system amino acids do not decline markedly with age. The present study found the total pool for five L system amino acids (val, ileu, leu, tyr, phe) as 29 nmol mg('-1) in IMR-90... Growth of fibroblasts is relatively insensitive to pool alterations irrespective of age. Fivefold dilution of the amino acid complement of culture medium (DME) reduced L system amino acid pools about 40% in both young and old cells...
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF CURRICULAR VARIATIONS OF HEALTH ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT COURSES ON SELECTED PHYSICAL FITNESS COMPONENTS AND EXERCISE HABITS (TEACHING METHODS)
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of three types of curricular variations of Health Analysis and Improvement courses on selected physical fitness components and exercise habits. Subjects for the study were 176 male... Pretests and posttests for resting heart rate, submaximal oxygen uptake, 1.5 mile run, body fat, and total body weight were given at the beginning and the end of the semester. Ten hypotheses regarding fitness scores for men and women... The Health Analysis and Improvement Activity and Exercise Habit Survey was also administered at the end of the semester, and provided answers to nine research questions. As a result of taking the class, students indicated that they: (a)...
SOLVENT-MEDIATED PROTON TRANSFER. THE INTIMATE ROLE OF THE SOLVENT IN EXCITED-STATE TAUTOMERIZATION REACTIONS
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Excited-state proton transfer reactions are investigated for three different molecular species, 3-hydroxyflavone, 7-azaindole, and lumichrome. Both steady-state and picosecond spectroscopic techniques are used to establish the dominant... Proton transfer in 3-hydroxyflavone is formally an intramolecular process. The tautomerization process in this molecule, however, is found to depend sensitively on interactions with the surrounding solvent molecules. Distinct ground... The isolated 7-azaindole molecule possesses no direct pathway for tautomerization. If proton transfer is to occur it must do so through a molecular bridge of some sort. This class of excited-state reactions is refered to as... Lumichrome provides a particularly interesting case of pseudo-intramolecular proton transfer. Tautomerization takes place in the solvents pyridine, glacial acetic acid, and in the various derivatives of these. The roles of solvent...
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY: IMPACTS ON FAMILY LIFE (WELL-BEING, MILITARY, ECONOMICS, STUDIES)
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The purpose of this study was to examine the financial management practices of families in the United States Army and the relationship of those practices on key variables affecting family life. Variables analyzed included financial well... Data were obtained through two methods. The first method utilized personal interviews regarding family demographics, household income, expenditures, money management practices, financial planning background, and perception of financial...
NARRATIVE IN THE MODERN SHORT POEM (CONTEMPORARY, THEORY)
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This study takes a structural approach to narrative in short poems (under 300 lines) by British and American poets of the 20th-century, using examples by a wide range of poets to investigate a number of narrative tactics and to consider... The introduction outlines some causes for the critical neglect of narrative in short poems and calls for a reappraisal of the terms lyric and narrative as they apply to such works. Chapter 2 considers the influence of point of view and...
THE USE OF VERBAL SELF-REPORTS IN MARKETING RESEARCH: A TEST OF THEIR VALIDITY
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In marketing research a great deal of reliance is placed upon the acquisition of data through verbal self-reports. Recent research has cast some doubt as to the validity of data provided by verbal self-reports. Counter evidence...
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF A HIGH SCHOOL CAREER DECISION INTERVENTION BASED ON THE OSIPOW DECISION MODEL (DEVELOPMENT, COUNSELING, EDUCATION, WORKSHOPS)
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a series of career decision-making enhancement workshops (CDEW) on subsequent career decision-making attitudes and behaviors of high school students (Juniors) in a mid-size high... Seven research questions structured the investigation and were subsequently reformulated in terms of seven hypotheses. The hypotheses were developed based on factors delineated by the Career Decision Scale (Osipow et al., 1976). Six... The seventh hypothesis was tested by the administration of a follow-up questionnaire six months after the workshops. The questionnaire assessed researcher selected career exploratory behaviors that were initiated through workshop... The CDEW workshops proved to have a significant effect (P < .05) on the following Osipow (1980) factors: Personal Conflict, and Firmness of Career Choice. Also, CDEW proved to have a significant effect (P < .05) on four of six career... Post hoc analysis of data was used to determine whether initial levels of career decisiveness had any effect on the six Osipow (1980) factors. The experimental and control groups were divided, using a median split procedure, into high...
THE EFFECTS OF ASSIGNED VERSUS OPEN TOPICS ON THE WRITING SCORES OF UNIVERSITY-LEVEL NONNATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS (ESL (ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE), TESTING, COMPOSITION)
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This study examined the effects of topic choice on ESL essay writing by answering the following research question: What are the differences between the mean scores of 98 adult university-level nonnative English speakers on each of five... The subjects were selected by availability from the Center for Intensive English Studies at Florida State University and from the university at large and were randomly assigned into one of two treatment groups. Group 1 was administered... Pearson product-moment correlations were run first between all variables, with no relationship shown between the topics and subscores of the writing test. In order to test the null hypothesis (H(, O): (mu)(, T) = (mu)(, NT) for the total...
JUDITH, MARIA THERESA, AND METASTASIO: A CULTURAL STUDY BASED ON TWO ORATORIOS (REUTTER, GEORG; GASSMANN, FLORIAN; AUSTRIA)
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The figure of Judith has been used throughout the Christian era as an inspiration for writers, artists, and musicians. She is the heroine of epics, plays, and Jesuit dramas. Nowhere had this story greater impact than in the world of... One reason for the popularity of Judith as an oratorio heroine lay in Maria Theresa, who was connected to the apochryphal heroine. She did not sponsor this connection, but an extensive allegory can be developed between the two, showing... The other reason for Judith's popularity in oratorio was Betulia liberata, a libretto by Pietro Metastasio. Metastasio wrote six other oratorios in Vienna, but Betulia liberata remains his most interesting and most dramatic, ... The first setting of Betulia liberata was done by Georg Reutter, a Viennese composer, who designed it as part of Lenten religious services. He was not an original composer but did an acceptable job. He set the work for string orchestra... By 1772 the musical scene in Vienna had changed, and Florian Gassmann's setting of Betulia liberata reflects this. As the inaugural concert for the Tonkunstler-Sozietat, it needed to appeal to a bourgeois audience made up primarily of...
A PROFILE OF COLLEGE STUDENT LEADERS RELATING PERSONALITY TYPES, LEARNING STYLES, AND LEADERSHIP APPROACHES
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether an identifiable profile relating personality type, learning style, and leadership approach exists for college student leaders. Subjects were 100 student leaders at The Florida State... Respondents were predominantly white (86%); female (59.0%); 20 years of age (25%); full-time (96%) and in the junior class (33%). Findings indicated that as a total group, student leaders' personality types tended to be extroverted, both... The results of this study suggest that an identifiable profile can be developed for college student leaders. Through the assessment of personality type, and leadership approach of leaders, valuable information can be...
EGYPTIANIZING THEATRE IN EGYPT, 1963-1970: A DESCRIPTIVE AND CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE CLASH BETWEEN A QUEST FOR AUTHENTICITY AND A TENDENCY TO ASSIMILATE WESTERN METATHEATRE
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This research examines the movement of the 1960's to develop a genuine Egyptian theatre which would be recognized on the international level; this movement is herein termed the "movement to Egyptian theatre." The title itself points up... This thesis argues that the movement could not bring a divorce from Western influences, that the movement instead represented a new phase in the apprenticeship of Egyptian theatre wherein the playwrights departed from realism and turned... The core of this argument is that it was not possible for Egyptian playwrights to satisfy the long quest for a national theatre rooted in Egypt's indigenous theatrical practices because these practices were rudimentary and formless, and... This study includes, in addition to the historical background and survey of the different stages of the movement, a study of selected literature of the movement: three theoretical documents and eleven plays. Also, a detailed analysis of... Although I conclude that in its purpose to develop a truly Egyptian drama the movement failed, it is credited with (1) promoting the assimilation rather than the imitation of the Western theatrical model, (2) initiating the use of...
HERBERT BLUMER'S THEORY OF METHOD: ITS DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURE
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This study provides a comprehensive and critical account of Herbert Blumer's methodology. Beginning with a reflexive look at its own program for reading, the study proposes to regard Blumer in light of the systematic character of his... The characterization of Blumer's methodology begins with its general framework: Blumer regards methodology as a self-reflective exercise in which the principles underlying scientific inquiry are developed and criticized. This view... As regards the substantive results of his methodological thinking, Blumer's work presents a decidedly variegated visage. This is admittedly less so in ontological concerns--where Blumer adherred rather consistently to universalist... But there is another facet of Blumer's work which, inconsistent with the reductive empiricism, is more suggestive for current methodological thinking. That facet concerns the semantic unity of theory and method. In such areas as public...
A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE PROCEDURES UTILIZED FOR THE IDENTIFICATION, ASSESSMENT, AND PLACEMENT OF LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY (LEP) STUDENTS IN FLORIDA COMMUNITY/JUNIOR COLLEGES (INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS, IMMIGRANTS, REFUGEES, ENTRANTS)
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The procedures used to identify, assess, and place LEP students at Florida community/junior colleges were examined. A review of the current literature indicated that procedural guidelines had been established for international (F-1)...
PARTIAL ORDERINGS, WITH APPLICATIONS TO RELIABILITY (PARTIAL ORDERINGS, SCHUR-OSTROWSKI THEOREM, INEQUALITIES)
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This dissertation is a contribution to the use of inequalities in reliability theory. Specifically, we study three partial orderings, develop some useful properties of these orderings, and apply them to obtain several applications in... The first partial ordering is the notion of convex-ordering among life distributions. This is in the spirit of Hardy, Littlewood, and Polya (1952) who introduced the concept of relative convexity. Many parametric families of distribution... The second partial ordering is the ordering of majorization among integrable functions. This ordering is a generalization of the majorization ordering of Hardy, and Polya (1952) for vectors in n-dimensional Euclidean spaces.... The third partial ordering is the ordering of unrestricted majorization among integrable functions. This partial ordering is similar to majorization but does not involve the use of decreasing rearrangements. We establish another analogue...
A PRELIMINARY MATHEMATICAL TEST FOR DEPENDENCY THEORY: AN OPERATIONAL DEFINITION, A MEASURING INDEX, AND AN ANALYTICAL METHOD FOR MILITARY DEPENDENCY (IRANIAN - UNITED STATES RELATIONS)
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This study reports some empirical results from examining data on the Iranian military establishment during the Shah's rule, 1953-1979. The preliminary findings suggest an operational definition, a measuring index, and an analytical... First, qualitative attempts have been explored to compile theoretical response(s) to a central research question: What is military dependence? To this end, it has been hypothesized that military dependence may be a situation in which a... Second, the quest for an index to measure the extent of military dependence has been equally expounded. For this study the index NEED is being proposed. NEED is a composite vector index, having both magnitude and direction. It is the... Finally, the methodological framework is causal modeling. Through this method, the extent of association between military dependence, measured by NEED, and four of its predictors has been explained. That is, the individual, partial, and...
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE RECRUITMENT OF TWO SUBTIDAL INVERTEBRATES (GORGONIAN, ASCIDIAN, SAND, LEPTOGORGIA, APLIDIUM)
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I studied factors affecting recruitment of the gorgonian Leptogorgia virgulata and the compound ascidian Aplidium stellatum onto a subtidal limestone outcropping. The recruitment of L. virgulata was significantly reduced by the presence... Microhabitat also affected recruitment of the compound ascidian Aplidium stellatum. Almost half of the recruits appeared on vertical surfaces, which are rare in the field. In the lab, larvae settled on vertical surfaces with a two to one...
DIRECT FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND JOINT-VENTURE AGREEMENTS IN YUGOSLAVIA: A MICROECONOMIC MODEL
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At first the dissertation focuses on Yugoslavia's unique socioeconomic system and her labor-managed enterprise as a host of direct foreign investment. Subsequently, the analysis turns to the foreign partner--multinational corporations ... The dissertation develops a microeconomic model of joint ventures established between profit-maximizing multinational corporations and Yugoslav labor-managed enterprises which maximize income per worker. It analyzes the issues of... In addition, the study examines the actual experience of Yugoslav joint ventures, particularly in light of the new joint-venture legislation enacted in November, 1984.
EMPLOYEE TRAINING IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PRACTICES IN TWO COUNTRIES (UNITED STATES, IRAN)
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This research compared bank employee training programs in two countries--the United States and Iran. It also examined managerial perceptions regarding selected training programs, and the existing and desired level of training practices.... The study was conducted in two phases: (a) an exploratory research effort, and (b) data collection using a questionnaire sent to a selected sample of 33 banks in the two countries. For data analysis, appropriate SPSS programs were used. The findings indicated that in terms of leadership perceptions, bank trainers in both countries preferred relationship behavior patterns (two-way communication) over task behavior patterns (one-way communication). They also agreed that... Data analysis showed that in each of the 33 respondent banks, training programs were planned according to some philosophy from which clearly formulated goals and objectives were derived. These goals were achieved through functions and...
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