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Book Of Mormon Costume Resource Guide, Rory R. Scanlon Nov 2015

Book Of Mormon Costume Resource Guide, Rory R. Scanlon

Faculty Publications

This report offers visual costume research support for artists working on Book of Mormon projects, with an historical overview of Mesoamerica and how to understand its historical clothing pieces, an annotated listing of the best research sources, a list of garment and fabric terms for the 2000 BC to 600 AD period, and sample sketches from historical artifacts to suggest how to interpret the original research images the artist will encounter.

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Differences In Patterns Of Reproductive Allocation Between The Sexes In Nicrophorus Orbicollis, Ashlee N. Smith, J. Curtis Creighton, Mark C. Belk Nov 2015

Differences In Patterns Of Reproductive Allocation Between The Sexes In Nicrophorus Orbicollis, Ashlee N. Smith, J. Curtis Creighton, Mark C. Belk

Faculty Publications

Organisms are selected to maximize lifetime reproductive success by balancing the costs of current reproduction with costs to future survival and fecundity. Males and females typically face different reproductive costs, which makes comparisons of their reproductive strategies difficult. Burying beetles provide a unique system that allows us to compare the costs of reproduction between the sexes because males and females are capable of raising offspring together or alone and carcass preparation and offspring care represent the majority of reproductive costs for both sexes. Because both sexes perform the same functions of carcass preparation and offspring care, we predict that they …

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Old Testament Costume Resource Guide, Rory R. Scanlon Nov 2015

Old Testament Costume Resource Guide, Rory R. Scanlon

Faculty Publications

This report offers visual costume research support for artists working on Old Testament Bible projects, with an historical overview of Mesopotamia and how to understand its historical clothing pieces, an annotated listing of the best research sources, a list of garment and fabric terms for the 4000 BC to 0 AD period, and sample sketches from historical artifacts to suggest how to interpret the original research images the artist will encounter.

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Asian Values-Swiss Values?, Elmar Holenstein Nov 2015

Asian Values-Swiss Values?, Elmar Holenstein

Swiss American Historical Society Review

For years one is reading of "Asian values." Traveling through Asia, one is rubbing one's eyes. The whole of Asia, from the Bosporus and Ural all the way to the Pacific Ocean, is thrown into one great pot, as if they all, Turkic peoples and Mongols, Arabs, Iranians and Malaysians as well as Chinese, Koreans and Japanese had been educated by Confucius. Business people as well as political scientists who tell us of "Asiatic values" are flying in twelve hours from Frankfurt and Zurich to Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo. Those shortcuts therefore?

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Book Review: Beyond The Lens Of Conservation: Malagasy And Swiss Imaginations Of One Another, John H. Barnhill Ph.D. Nov 2015

Book Review: Beyond The Lens Of Conservation: Malagasy And Swiss Imaginations Of One Another, John H. Barnhill Ph.D.

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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A Path To Empathy: Child And Family Communication, Sarah Ann Stone Nov 2015

A Path To Empathy: Child And Family Communication, Sarah Ann Stone

Theses and Dissertations

This longitudinal study examined the association between communication in the family on the development of empathy in young children. Co-regulation and family expressiveness measured communication in parent-child dyads at age 12 months (N = 186), 24 months (N = 100), and 36 months (N = 78). A follow-up was conducted at 60 months (N = 47) to measure empathy-related responding in children. Co-regulation styles change over time, generally increasing in the most engaged, two-way style of communication (symmetrical) and decreasing in one-sided and less engaged types. Greater family expressiveness predicted higher levels of empathy as observed in an empathy-eliciting experiment, …

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The Anatomy Of Porcine And Human Larynges: Structural Analysis And High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging Of The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, Nena Lundgreen Mason Nov 2015

The Anatomy Of Porcine And Human Larynges: Structural Analysis And High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging Of The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, Nena Lundgreen Mason

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The recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) innervates all the intrinsic muscles of the larynx that are responsible for human vocalization and language. The RLN runs along the tracheoesophageal groove bilaterally and is often accidentally damaged or transected during head and neck surgical procedures. RLN palsy and vocal cord paralysis are the most common and serious post op complications of thyroid surgeries. Patients who suffer from RLN injury can develop unilateral or bilateral vocal fold paralysis (BVFP). Theoretically, selective reinnervation of the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle would be the best treatment for BVFP. The phrenic nerve has been shown in several studies to …

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Book Review: The Hutterites In North America, Christopher Cumo Nov 2015

Book Review: The Hutterites In North America, Christopher Cumo

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Full Issue Nov 2015

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Processing Implicit Control: Evidence From Reading Times, Jeffrey Jack Green, Michael Mccourt, Ellen Lau, Alexander Williams Oct 2015

Processing Implicit Control: Evidence From Reading Times, Jeffrey Jack Green, Michael Mccourt, Ellen Lau, Alexander Williams

Faculty Publications

Sentences such as “The ship was sunk to collect the insurance” exhibit an unusual form of anaphora, implicit control, where neither anaphor nor antecedent is audible. The non-finite reason clause has an understood subject, PRO, that is anaphoric; here it may be understood as naming the agent of the event of the host clause. Yet since the host is a short passive, this agent is realized by no audible dependent. The putative antecedent to PRO is therefore implicit, which it normally cannot be. What sorts of representations subserve the comprehension of this dependency? Here we present four self-paced reading time …

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Use Of External Characteristics For Rapid Identification Of Gender Of Pocket Gophers, Roger A. Baldwin, Ryan Meinerz Oct 2015

Use Of External Characteristics For Rapid Identification Of Gender Of Pocket Gophers, Roger A. Baldwin, Ryan Meinerz

Western North American Naturalist

Pocket gophers are of great importance both for their function in ecological systems and for their impact on anthropogenic environments. Managing pocket gopher populations requires a fundamental understanding of population demographics, specifically sex ratios; yet quick and reliable techniques for visually identifying gender of pocket gophers are lacking. We developed a visual identification method based on external characteristics of genitalia and mammae that allows for rapid, yet correct assessment of gender in pocket gophers. This approach was particularly accurate (>99%) for visual identifications in the field. Our approach was also accurate (>98%) for frozen specimens, although care must …

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An Irrigation Canal As A Lotic Mesocosm: Examining The Relationship Between Macroinvertebrate Benthos And Drift, Peter Koetsier, Luana M. M. Mccauley Oct 2015

An Irrigation Canal As A Lotic Mesocosm: Examining The Relationship Between Macroinvertebrate Benthos And Drift, Peter Koetsier, Luana M. M. Mccauley

Western North American Naturalist

We explored the notion that small canals could be good experimental proxies of streams by documenting physiochemical parameters and macroinvertebrate community development in an aridland irrigation canal. Further, we tested the production-compensation hypothesis between benthic invertebrates and invertebrates in the water column (drift). If the hypothesis held, invertebrates in the drift would be low until the benthic carrying capacity was reached; then organisms in the drift would increase as individuals avoided overcrowded conditions in the substrate. In a small, naturalized freshwater canal, we sampled macroinvertebrates in the substrate and those in the drift once every 2 weeks over 170 days …

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Food Habits Of Coyotes, Gray Foxes, And Bobcats In A Coastal Southern California Urban Landscape, Rachel N. Larson, Dana J. Morin, Izabela A. Wierzbowska, Kevin R. Crooks Oct 2015

Food Habits Of Coyotes, Gray Foxes, And Bobcats In A Coastal Southern California Urban Landscape, Rachel N. Larson, Dana J. Morin, Izabela A. Wierzbowska, Kevin R. Crooks

Western North American Naturalist

Many carnivores are sensitive to habitat fragmentation, and the capacity to shift diets may improve their ability to persist in urban areas. We collected and identified contents of a total of 119 scats from coyotes (Canis latrans), 58 scats from gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), and 31 scats from bobcats (Lynx rufus) within habitat fragments ofvarying size in the San Diego area in coastal southern California. Coyote diet was generalist, composed of mostly mammals but also anthropogenic items, fruit and seeds, birds, and invertebrates. Dietary breadth of coyotes was similar in small urban habitat fragments and …

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Microhabitat Selection Of Brood-Rearing Sites By Greater Sage-Grouse In Carbon County, Wyoming, Leslie A. Schreiber, Christopher P. Hansen, Mark A. Rumble, Joshua J. Millspaugh, R. Scott Gamo, Jon W. Kehmeier, Nate Wojcik Oct 2015

Microhabitat Selection Of Brood-Rearing Sites By Greater Sage-Grouse In Carbon County, Wyoming, Leslie A. Schreiber, Christopher P. Hansen, Mark A. Rumble, Joshua J. Millspaugh, R. Scott Gamo, Jon W. Kehmeier, Nate Wojcik

Western North American Naturalist

Declines in Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus, hereafter sage-grouse) populations could be attributed to low chick survival, which may be influenced by the availability of food and cover at sites used by females rearing broods. Habitat attributes important to broods may vary regionally; thus, it is necessary to understand factors affecting regional sage-grouse brood-rearing site selection, especially when estimating the impacts of development. We monitored brood-rearing female sage-grouse equipped with solar Argos Global Positioning System Platform Transmitter Terminals from 2011 to 2013 to assess microhabitat selection by broods in Carbon County, Wyoming. We measured vegetation and arthropod characteristics at diurnal …

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Reproductive Notes On Shrews (Family Soricidae) In Louisiana, Leann Lucas, Justin D. Hoffman Oct 2015

Reproductive Notes On Shrews (Family Soricidae) In Louisiana, Leann Lucas, Justin D. Hoffman

Western North American Naturalist

Little information is known about reproduction in the 3 species of shrews in Louisiana. We examined reproductive notes from specimen records for the southern short-tailed shrew (Blarina carolinensis), least shrew (Cryptotis parva), and southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris). Most breeding activity occurred from March to December for B. carolinensis and C. parva. Average number of embryos was 3.75 for B. carolinensis and 5.5 for C. parva. The average length of testes was 5.2 mm for B. carolinensis and 3.8 mm for C. parva. One male S. longirostris possessed a testis length of 3 …

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Notes On The Ecology Of Reithrodontomys Microdon Based On New Records In The Eje Neovolcánico, México, Francisco X. González-Cózatl, Elizabeth Arellano Oct 2015

Notes On The Ecology Of Reithrodontomys Microdon Based On New Records In The Eje Neovolcánico, México, Francisco X. González-Cózatl, Elizabeth Arellano

Western North American Naturalist

Based on the first record in the state of Morelos and a new record for the Estado de México, we suggest that Reithrodontomys microdon preferentially uses an arboreal habitat. Specimens described here, for the most part (75%), were captured >4 m above ground on trees. Although historical records indicate that R. microdon is rare, our data may suggest otherwise. Assuming this species is preferably arboreal and that most inventories of rodents have focused on the ground, it is evident that, historically, this species has not been surveyed in its preferred habitat.


Con base en el primer registro de Reithrodontomys microdon …

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A Note On The Observable Bark Coloration Of Quaking Aspen (Populus Tremuloides), Oren Rabinowitz, Erin A. Tripp Oct 2015

A Note On The Observable Bark Coloration Of Quaking Aspen (Populus Tremuloides), Oren Rabinowitz, Erin A. Tripp

Western North American Naturalist

The bark of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), a clonal hardwood that is dominant in many Rocky Mountain forests, varies from white to orange to green among both ramets and populations. The proximate causes of this color variation remain controversial. We collected 72 samples of aspen bark from 11 locations in Boulder County, Colorado, and used microscopy, dissection, and thin layer chromatography to assess the structural and biochemical basis for the color gradient. Our study shows that the cork cells closest to the cork cambium of the aspen were consistently orange and conglutinated. Outward from this layer, the cork …

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First Contemporary Record Of Jaguar At Morelos And The Sierra De Huautla Biosphere Reserve, Mexico, David Valenzuela-Galván, Floriely Castro-Campos, Jorge Servin, Manlio Martínez-Barona, Juan Carlos Martínez-Montes Oct 2015

First Contemporary Record Of Jaguar At Morelos And The Sierra De Huautla Biosphere Reserve, Mexico, David Valenzuela-Galván, Floriely Castro-Campos, Jorge Servin, Manlio Martínez-Barona, Juan Carlos Martínez-Montes

Western North American Naturalist

Herein we present the first contemporary record of the jaguar (Panthera onca) in Morelos State and the Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve. The record is based on 3 photographs of an adult jaguar obtained by photo-trapping. This noteworthy record extends the geographical distribution of the species into central Mexico by more than 100 km.


Presentamos el primer registro contemporáneo confirmado de la presencia de jaguar (Panthera onca) en Morelos y en la Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Huautla. El registro se basa en tres fotografías de un jaguar adulto, obtenidas mediante fototrampeo. Este registro representa …

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Microhabitat And House Use By Dusky-Footed Woodrats (Neotoma Fuscipes) In Northwestern California: Insight From Trapping Data, Ted J. Slowik Oct 2015

Microhabitat And House Use By Dusky-Footed Woodrats (Neotoma Fuscipes) In Northwestern California: Insight From Trapping Data, Ted J. Slowik

Western North American Naturalist

Capture data differed at woodrat houses associated with selected microhabitats in a chaparral-oak woodland site in the foothills of northwestern California. Mean trapping success was significantly higher at houses located under dense tree canopy (and in low scrub cover) compared with houses in high scrub cover (and under less tree canopy), as was trapping success at houses found in non-edge versus edge habitat. Woodrats trapped at houses under dense canopy also were significantly heavier than those captured in high scrub cover; however, mean body masses at edge- and non-edge houses were similar. Broadly, our results mirror existing research but indicate …

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Stream Macroinvertebrates And Habitat Below And Above Two Wilderness Fords Used By Mules, Horses, And Hikers In Yosemite National Park, Jeffrey G. Holmquist, Jutta Schmidt-Gengenbach, James W. Roche Oct 2015

Stream Macroinvertebrates And Habitat Below And Above Two Wilderness Fords Used By Mules, Horses, And Hikers In Yosemite National Park, Jeffrey G. Holmquist, Jutta Schmidt-Gengenbach, James W. Roche

Western North American Naturalist

Wilderness stream crossings used by mules, horses, and hikers are localized disturbances that may affect habitat immediately downstream, but the potential influence of fords on streams has received little investigation, particularly in terms of possible effects on fauna. Our overall null hypothesis was absence of below-above differences for either benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages or habitat characteristics at such fords. We further sought to determine (1) whether any such differences were present prior to annual use, suggesting longer-term effects, and (2) whether differences were present in late season, after annual use. We examined macroinvertebrates and habitat immediately below and above 2 fords …

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Validation Of Accelerometer Thresholds And Inclinometry For Measurement Of Sedentary Behavior In Young Adult University Students, Neil E. Peterson, John R. Sirard, Pamela A. Kulbok, Mark D. Deboer, Jeanne M. Erickson Oct 2015

Validation Of Accelerometer Thresholds And Inclinometry For Measurement Of Sedentary Behavior In Young Adult University Students, Neil E. Peterson, John R. Sirard, Pamela A. Kulbok, Mark D. Deboer, Jeanne M. Erickson

Faculty Publications

Sedentary behavior (SB) is a major contributing factor to obesity and significant morbidity and mortality in adolescence and into adulthood, yet measuring SB is difficult. The purpose of this study was to assess the degree of construct validity of the ActiGraph GT3X+ inclinometer function and accelerometry metrics in objectively measuring SB and physical activity in young adult university students while performing semi-structured activities: lying, sitting, reading, playing seated video gaming, video watching, seated conversation, standing, stationary biking, and walking. These nine activities were objectively assessed using inclinometry and four output metrics from the ActiGraph based on the axis used to …

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Repeated Trait Evolution Driven By Divergent Natural Selection At Early And Late Stages Of Speciation, Spencer J. Ingley Oct 2015

Repeated Trait Evolution Driven By Divergent Natural Selection At Early And Late Stages Of Speciation, Spencer J. Ingley

Theses and Dissertations

Speciation – the process by which new species arise – is of fundamental importance in the biological sciences. The means by which new species arise, and the relationship among living species, has been a topic that has captivated both lay and scientific observers for centuries. In recent years, the study of speciation has enjoyed increased attention, resulting in significant advances in our understanding of how species form. Although our understanding of the processes that contribute to speciation has increased dramatically in recent years, our knowledge of how reproductive barriers accumulate as speciation proceeds is still limited. Thus, studies that evaluate …

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Mass Spectrometry Based Proteomics And Lipidomics Studies, Huan Kang Oct 2015

Mass Spectrometry Based Proteomics And Lipidomics Studies, Huan Kang

Theses and Dissertations

Mass spectrometry has emerged as having a vital role in various applications to biochemical fields. In this thesis, we have utilized a variety of mass spectrometry techniques for both bacteriophage proteomics and colostrum and milk lipidomics studies. Our first study was the proteome characterization of Great Salt Lake bacteriophage NS01 with SDS-PAGE GEL to separate the viral proteins and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with an LTQ Orbitrap to identify the proteins after in-gel digestion. In this project, we have successfully identified 11 proteins with high confidence, p-values < 0.01, including coat protein gp88 with a coverage of 91% and tail protein gp86 with a coverage of 40.96%, which facilitated the classification of NS01 as a T7-like phage. Our second study was the discovery of colostrum and milk biomarkers that can be used to predict the likelihood of development of production-related metabolic diseases (PRMDs) in dairy cows through a lipidomics approach. In this study, an electrospray ionization, time-of-flight mass spectrometer was applied to lipid profiling, quantification and significant biomolecule selection. A Q-Star quadrupole, orthogonal time-of-flight mass spectrometer and an Agilent 6530 accurate-mass quadrupole/time-of flight mass spectrometer were both used for lipid biomarker fragmentation and identification. According to linear discriminative statistical modeling, three panels of biomarkers were defined. A combination of 2 milk lipid predictors, including DG18:0/18:0 and TG 18:0/18:0/18:1, provided PRMD predictions with 75.0% sensitivity at 90.0% specificity. A combination of 3 colostrum lipid predictors, including TG16:0/18:1/18:3, DG16:0/16:0 and C40H60NO, provided PRMD prediction with 90.0% sensitivity at …

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Design And Validation Of A Complex Loading Whole Spinal Segment Bioreactor, Amanda Marie Beatty Oct 2015

Design And Validation Of A Complex Loading Whole Spinal Segment Bioreactor, Amanda Marie Beatty

Theses and Dissertations

Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is a prevalent health problem that is highly linked to back pain. To understand the disease and tissue response to therapies, ex-vivo whole IVD organ culture systems have recently been introduced. The goal of this study was to develop and validate a whole spinal segment culturing system that loads the disc in complex loading similar to the in-vivo condition, while preserving the adjacent endplates and vertebral bodies. The complex loading applied to the spinal segment was achieved with three pneumatic cylinders. The pneumatic cylinders were rigidly attached to two triangular alumni plates at each corner, comprising …

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Human Anatomy In The Lds Standard Works, Heather M. Seferovich Oct 2015

Human Anatomy In The Lds Standard Works, Heather M. Seferovich

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

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Image-Charge Detection €“ Novel Instrumentation And Applications, Brandon Lee Barney Oct 2015

Image-Charge Detection €“ Novel Instrumentation And Applications, Brandon Lee Barney

Theses and Dissertations

Image-charge detection is an analytical technique in which a highly-charged particle is detected by the magnitude of the image current that it generates in a detecting electrode. This current is represented as a voltage between the charged particle and the sensing electrode. It is a single particle detection method, ideal for the analysis of large, variable mass particles such as biological cells. Some of the physical properties of Bacillus subtilis spores were explored using different applications of image-charge detection. B. subtilis is a gram-negative spore-forming bacteria that has been shown to exhibit extremophile behavior. The particular extremophile behavior that was …

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Vitamin B12: Identification And Treatment Of Deficiencies, Max Mitchell, Donna S. Freeborn Sep 2015

Vitamin B12: Identification And Treatment Of Deficiencies, Max Mitchell, Donna S. Freeborn

Student Works

Vitamin B12 is essential for the proper functioning of all cells. A deficiency can cause serious hematologic and neurologic damage. Groups at high risk for developing vitamin B12 deficiency include the elderly, vegetarians, pregnant women, persons with pernicious anemia, and patients with a history of gastrointestinal (GI) surgery. The purpose of this article is to increase awareness of vitamin B12 deficiency and discuss its pathophysiology, symptoms, diagnostic testing, and management

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A Biosystematic View Of Civilizations: Western Europe And Japan Before And After The Industrial Revolution, Kunio Kawamura Sep 2015

A Biosystematic View Of Civilizations: Western Europe And Japan Before And After The Industrial Revolution, Kunio Kawamura

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Andrew Targowski, The Limits Of Civilization, Joseph Drew Sep 2015

Andrew Targowski, The Limits Of Civilization, Joseph Drew

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Bibliotherapy As An Intervention For Aggressive Elementary Children, Kari Newman Sep 2015

Bibliotherapy As An Intervention For Aggressive Elementary Children, Kari Newman

Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the effect of bibliotherapy as an intervention for aggressive elementary children at a residential treatment center in the western United States. Bibliotherapy was provided for six children, three boys and three girls, ages 9 to 11, Caucasian and Hispanic, who took part in one of two groups. The study involved a multi-baseline design, beginning with a baseline phase, followed by two separate intervention phases comprised of eight sessions of bibliotherapy. Data gathered from almost daily observations along with pre- and post-intervention ratings of aggressive behaviors indicated that four of the six students demonstrated notable decreases in observed …

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