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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...
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...
An Open Boat is a novel about a woman who sits down one day to confront the central mystery of her life: how she acquired the faith to give birth to a baby she believed she had conceived with a stranger. The story the woman sets out to... In this novel, I explore the psychological and spiritual processes that lead a woman away from a will o' the wisp blind faith in "what happens" to a faith based on responsible self-determining. Of particular interest to me is the role of...
A materialist view of Santeria and the expenses associated with the initiation
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The religion of Santeria has been in the news lately. Many Americans have come to know about this secretive religion because of the huge controversy in Hialeah, Florida regarding the right of practitioners to sacrifice animals to their... Santeria is a syncretic Afro-Cuban religion that evolved from the mixture of certain African religious rites with European spiritualist and Roman Catholic beliefs. This mixture started in the 16$\sp{\rm th}$ century with the importation... Today, Santeria is a growing religion with millions of practitioners spread across Latin America and the United States. This religion transcends the different social and economic boundaries that societies create. Santeria brings many...
Sampling effects of writing topics and discourse modes on generalizability of individual student and school writing performance on a standardized fourth-grade writing assessment
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This study investigated generalizability of writing performance of individual students and schools within the context of a large-scale direct writing assessment. The study focused on the sampling effects of the two major components of... Results at both individual and school level indicate that topics requiring the same discourse skills had little effect on writing performance. The study found significant discourse mode effects, which strained the generalization of... The study also investigated the effects of school size on generalizability of school writing scores. The study found that writing scores of large schools have a higher level of generalizability than those of smaller schools, indicating a... The study confirmed the need for a large number of tasks to obtain a reliable estimate of writing competency in both individual- and school-level assessments. The study, however, demonstrated that an assessment can provide a more...
The effects of an individual's learning style preference on psychomotor achievement for college students
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Using college students as test subjects, this study sought to determine the results/effects of matching teaching styles with individual learning style preference. Test subjects for the study included 49 undergraduates enrolled in two co-educational, beginning tennis classes at Waycross College, a two-year unit of the University System of Georgia. Teaching styles used for the study were Teacher... practice drills--the Auditory Preference Group made extensive use of audio cassettes recordings. The Visual Preference Group made used of loop films, videotapes, (no sound) charts, diagrams, and written descriptions of tennis skills and... The Tactile Preference Group used their access to peer helpers/partners for hands on assistance. Each student in each PEPS group worked at his/her own pace to progress from the simple to the complex tennis skill. At the end of the ten ... The investigator concluded that instructional strategies developed, designed and implemented in accordance to student learning preference can serve as a means of improving psychomotor performance. All methods were effective in the...
Gislebertus’s Eve: An Alternative Interpretation of the Eve Lintel Relief from the Church of Saint-Lazare, Autun by Areli Marina / The Art of the Spiro Warrior: Engravings in Shell from the Spiro Site by Joanna Minich / Caravaggism in...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Psychological hardiness as a predictor of academic performance and its relationship to stress and health status of community college transfer students
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The purpose of this study was to investigate two widely diverse bodies of knowledge, i.e., adjustment to academic environments and the stress-illness relationship, in an attempt to (a) identify community college transfer students who may... This correlational study utilized 12 independent variables including gender, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, aptitude, stress appraisal, and physical health, with psychological hardiness serving as a moderator variable. The outcome... Volunteers were solicited from a criterion group of community college transfer students, at least eighteen years of age, who had achieved at least 60 semester hours of college credit, and participated in the 1995 spring semester...
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...
The ontogeny and evolution of gregarious behavior in juvenile Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus
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Newly settled Caribbean spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus, undergo an ontogenetic habitat shift from vegetation (algal phase) to crevice shelters (postalgal phase). I experimentally observed the nocturnal behavior and diurnal shelter... Den sharing behavior by postalgal spiny lobsters has been postulated as a form of cooperation. I examined four hypotheses of how lobsters might benefit from sharing dens and/or being gregarious. By sharing dens, lobsters may increase... I found (1) lobsters did not consistently utilize the most defensible dens nor occupy dens to capacity. (2) Den sharing was not correlated with predator or competitor density, but was positively correlated with conspecific density. (3)...
The effects of high versus low context congruity on accuracy in detecting deception
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This study was designed to explore the impact of situation-based behavioral expectancies on accuracy in detecting deception. Two experiments were conducted. The research question for Experiment 1 centered on whether subjects would be... 296 undergraduates viewed videotapes of target persons making true and fabricated presentations. The subjects rated the sincerity, believability, and truthfulness of each presentation on a 9-point scale. The initial analyses found that...
The minimal repair process assumes that upon repair a system is restored to its functioning condition just before failure. For systems with few vulnerable components it is more reasonable to assume that repair actually brings the state... In this dissertation, we introduce a repair model that generalizes Kijima's models so as to include both the notions of age reduction and extra life. We then look at the problem of estimating system reliability based on observations of...
Maugis d'Aigremont, chanson de geste du treizieme siecle: Traduction et commentaires
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This thirteenth-century epic comes from the manuscript 2.0.1. of the Peterhouse College at the University of Cambridge. It has been written in an Old French dialect and contains 9608 verses which constitute 246 rimed laisses (two other... The introduction of this bilingual translation analyzes the main characters, Maugis, Charlemagne, Espiet and the emir Vivien, through a variety of different themes such as the feudal relations between vassals and king, crusades against... In conclusion, this epic will be reinserted into the cycle to which it belongs, the rebel cycle, in order to understand better the frequent allusions to other epic heroes such as Girart de Roussillon, Renaut de Montauban ou les quatre...
Terror-rhetoric: An historical-critical account of Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's coercive and rhetorical responses to Shining Path's international terrorism campaign following the suspension of Parliament, April 1992-December 1993
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This dissertation is a detailed account of Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's use of coercion and rhetoric against Shining Path's international terrorism campaign. This work considers the spectrum of ploys--from his 5 April 1992... Chapter One describes the social, political, and economic conditions that Fujimori faced, while pointing to the dearth of communication research concerning Shining Path and Fujimori. Chapter Two reviews the varied literature concerning...
The importance of research-based quality of life indicators to adults with learning disabilities and postsecondary education service providers
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The purpose of the study was to identify variables for use in a future instrument assessing the quality of life of adults with learning disabilities. The study focused on the social validation of select variables addressed by the... Demographic information and opinions about the participants' perception of important variable items to be included on a future instrument for assessing quality of life were gathered via the Quality of Life Variable Verification Survey ... Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) procedures were used to compare and analyze sample group ratings. Descriptive analyses were used to identify additional variables participants considered important to be included on an... Results indicated that participants in all three sample groups rated 83% of the variable items from important to extremely important. Few significant differences were identified between group ratings. Variables related to education of...
Polarized lithium-6 and carbon-12 scattering at 30 and 50 MeV
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A complete set of analyzing powers ($iT\sb{\it 11}, \ T\sb{\it 20}, \ T\sb{\it 21}$, and $T\sb{\it 22}$) for 50 MeV $\sp{12}\rm C(\sp6Li, \sp6Li)\sp{12}$C scattering has been taken at the FSU Nuclear Accelerator Laboratory using the... The coupled channels calculations use an optical potential with double folded (DF) real central, Woods-Saxon imaginary central, and Thomas real spin-orbit potentials. Calculations include reorientation terms and coupling to the first... The elastic cross sections and AP are described well. The need for an explicit spin-orbit term is apparent in the elastic and inelastic $iT\sb{\it 11}$, more so at 30 MeV than at 50 MeV. The rank-2 AP up to 50$\sp\circ\rm \sb{c.m.}$...
Characteristics of established international student programs at three Florida universities
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This study was designed for the purpose of comparing the efforts at selected major universities which have relatively large international student populations, with a set set of characteristics extrapolated from the literature, and...
Diversification strategy and top management team fit
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This dissertation examines the diversification strategy and top management fit proposition. Three general research questions guide the investigation: (1) To what extent are different types of managers required to manage different types... The results of the hypotheses tests and additional exploratory analyses suggest that (1) firms with different strategies do have different top management teams that appear to be matched to the task demands posed by their strategy, (2)...
Performance assessment: Measurement issues of generalizability, dependability of scoring, and relative information on student performance
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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the limited number of observations that might be included in a performance assessment would adequately generalize to potential circumstances that would not be observed. Related studies... A generalizability study was used to estimate the dependability of the performance assessment and to improve the design of the assessment. Dependability of scoring was analyzed through the application of classical test theory and... This study found that raters do not introduce substantial error into the measurement of performance. Rather, the major source of error is the inconsistency of student performance across tasks, indicating that the number of tasks could be...
Development of China's rural industry and measurement of its productive efficiency at firm level
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Through the remarkable growth of over a decade China's rural industry has already become an important pillar of its national economy. The primary goal of this dissertation is to place China's rural industry in a historical and a market... Using 1988-1992 data of 500 rural non-agricultural enterprises, which are collected from four counties of Sichuan province by author, and using stochastic frontier production function approach, this dissertation primarily examines...
The costume collection at the Goodwood Plantation, Tallahassee, Florida: One hundred and fifty years of the most intimate possessions of Margaret Wilson Hodges Hood and her family, 1823-1975
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The Goodwood Plantation located in Tallahassee, Florida is one of the state's premier sites. At the time of this study it was being restored to its 1920s splendor, the time period when it was purchased by Senator William Cabot Hodges and... The purpose of this research was to provide information about the historic costume collection of the Goodwood Plantation in regard to its individual parts, the people it represents, and the ways in which the data obtained can contribute... The costume collection contains 797 objects and spans 150 years. It represents the objects Margaret and many of her family members accumulated over their lifetimes and was used to construct meanings about them which may have otherwise...
The impact on children of brand and product placements in films
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While industry and the popular press have shown considerable interest in the concept of brand and product placements within motion pictures, very little academic research exists in the area. This study was designed to identify and...
College students' attitudes toward older adults, and the relationship of spiritual well-being, race, gender, and knowledge about aging
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This study was designed to investigate and compare attitudes toward the elderly of African American freshman college students at a historically black college and white freshman college students at a predominantly white college. In... The students completed the Aging Semantic Differential Scale (ASD), the Facts on Aging Quiz (FAQ), and the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWB). The ASD Scale is an attitude assessment instrument consisting of a list of 32 bipolar adjective... Results showed that freshman college students overall maintained positive attitudes toward the elderly with white students reporting more positive attitudes. Also, both African American and white college students showed a consistent lack...
Understanding ethnicity: Preservice teachers' constructions of the meanings of ethnicity
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the understandings and meanings of ethnicity as constructed by preservice teachers within the context of a semester-long, junior level, multicultural education course and to develop grounded... The methods implemented in this naturalistic, interpretive study included the collection of qualitative data through participant observation, audiotaping of selected class meetings, and document analysis of dialogue journals, reader... The research questions that guided the development of this study were: (1) What understandings of ethnicity do preservice teachers bring with them to the course? (2) How do preservice teachers construct their understandings of ethnicity?... Through inductive analysis three themes emerged: Responding, Understanding, and Envisioning. Responding addresses the preservice teachers' transaction with children's and adult's literature as a validation of their prior experiences, pre... It demonstrates a need for teacher educators to assist preservice teachers' understanding that multicultural education is not simply curriculum content, but it includes teaching for equity and the reduction of racism.
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