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Assessing Semantic Context Effects In Good And Poor Readers Using A Moving Window Paradigm., Lina. Murdaca Jan 1991

Assessing Semantic Context Effects In Good And Poor Readers Using A Moving Window Paradigm., Lina. Murdaca

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Using a moving window paradigm, sixth graders read sentences containing target words varying in context congruity, and difficulty. Mean word reading times across the varying conditions were recorded for target words, words immediately following the target word (target+1 word), and the last word of sentences. Contrary to expectations, the findings failed to yield any differences in good and poor readers' use of context. The only significant difference between good and poor readers was noted on last word reading times. Poor readers were found to read last words significantly faster than good readers. As was hypothesized, target word difficulty was found …

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Issues For Managing Tourism Information, Robert M. O'Halloran, Donald F. Holecek Jan 1991

Issues For Managing Tourism Information, Robert M. O'Halloran, Donald F. Holecek

Hospitality Review

The need for a high quality tourism database is well known. For example, planners and managers need high quality data for budgeting, forecasting, planning marketing and advertising strategies, and staffing. Thus the concepts of quality and need are intertwined to pose a problem to the tourism professional, be they private sector or public sector employees. One could argue that collaboration by public and private sector tourism professionals could provide the best sources and uses of high quality tourism data. This discussion proposes just such a collaboration and a detailed methodology for operationalizing this arrangement.

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Education: The Constitutionality Of Oklahoma's Public School Financing System: Does The State Have A Duty To Provide An Adequate Education For All Schoolchildren?, Karen Richardson Jan 1991

Education: The Constitutionality Of Oklahoma's Public School Financing System: Does The State Have A Duty To Provide An Adequate Education For All Schoolchildren?, Karen Richardson

Oklahoma Law Review

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Plant Production Cost-Accounting/ Management System, Kevin C. Power, Jay Fitzgerald, George Meyer, Dennis D. Schulte Jan 1991

Plant Production Cost-Accounting/ Management System, Kevin C. Power, Jay Fitzgerald, George Meyer, Dennis D. Schulte

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

A microcomputer program has been developed to keep records on energy, labor costs, product pricing, and revenue predictions for greenhouse and nursery production. The program manages plant production data, potentially enabling the grower to improve production and profits. The grower can use the program to determine how much it costs to produce individual plants, to ascertain labor costs and where to reallocate employees. Advertising and other indirect costs can be included to determine cost of production on a per-plant or per-square-foot basis.

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Potential Alumni Fund-Raising Efforts For The University Of Montana : An Analysis Of Peer Campuses., William S. Johnston Jan 1991

Potential Alumni Fund-Raising Efforts For The University Of Montana : An Analysis Of Peer Campuses., William S. Johnston

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Successful High School Learner In Profile: A General Model Of Scholastic And Psychological Characteristics, Michael John Barnes Jan 1991

The Successful High School Learner In Profile: A General Model Of Scholastic And Psychological Characteristics, Michael John Barnes

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Criticisms of secondary schooling invariably highlight four unresolved issues; weaknesses and deficits in graduates' proficiency, subject area failure rates, disorder in the classroom, and dropout rates. These issues persist despite the efforts of educators, periodic reforms imposed by governments, and a seeming abundance of school learning and achievement research. However, this research primarily concerns either pre- or post-secondary schooling. The limited secondary school research mainly has focused only on particular subject areas and, moreover, has considered relatively few of all the potentially relevant variables. Yet the issues clearly implicate the student as a functional entity of biological, cognitive, and affective …

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Age-Associated Changes In The Kinetics Of Ventilation And Pulmonary Gas Exchange, Mark Anthony Babcock Jan 1991

Age-Associated Changes In The Kinetics Of Ventilation And Pulmonary Gas Exchange, Mark Anthony Babcock

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The purpose of these studies was to examine ageing effects on the dynamics of pulmonary gas exchange and ventilation during the transition from light to moderate work. In the first study maximal oxygen uptake (VO{dollar}\sb2{dollar}max), ventilation threshold (VeT), the time constant for VO{dollar}\sb2{dollar} ({dollar}\tau\sp\prime{dollar}VO{dollar}\sb2{dollar}), and efficiency were determined from a ramp forcing test in eighty-three males aged 30 to 84y. The results showed a decline in VO{dollar}\sb2{dollar}max with age of {dollar}-{dollar}0.037 1{dollar}\cdot{dollar}min{dollar}\sp{lcub}-1{rcub}{dollar} per year. The VeT also declined with age but at one-third the rate of loss of the VO{dollar}\sb2{dollar}max. The {dollar}\tau\sp\prime{dollar}VO{dollar}\sb2{dollar} increased with age; the older group (60+y) had …

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