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Who To Watch Out For, Penny Ann Newbury

Open Access Dissertations

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Mediators Of Aggression Against Lesbians And Gay Men: A Laboratory Experiment, Julian Lee Fernald

Open Access Dissertations

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Use Of An Auditory Continuous Performance Task In The Assessment Of Qeeg Measures In Asymptomatic Hiv-Seropositive And Hiv-Seronegative Women, Laura Costa

Open Access Dissertations

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Community Ecology Of Cetacean Habitat, Robert Bruce Griffin

Open Access Dissertations

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The Influence Of Contemporary Music On Responses To Visually Presented Mainstream Sexually Explicit Images, Renee N. Saris

Open Access Dissertations

This study investigated the influence of contemporary music on young adults’ evaluations of and reponses to sexually explicit erotic, nonviolent pornographic and violent pornographic depictions. Two hundred and ninety-four women and men respondents were administered a survey to assess their experiences with various types of media, including their use of sexually explicit materials. Upon completion of the survey, respondents were exposed to one of three types of music primes (sexist rap, neutral rap, neutral rock/pop), and then viewed six sexually explicit slides (2 erotic, 2 nonviolent pornographic, 2 violent pornographic). Respondents were asked to evaluate each slide by means of …

Gender Stereotyped Descriptors In Children's Picture Books: Does "Curious Jane" Exist In The Literature?, Diane M. Turner-Bowker

Open Access Master's Theses

The purpose of this research was to examine the subtle effects of gender stereotyping in children's literature through the use of differential language, and to test hypotheses derived from a feminist framework. One general hypothesis tested was that female and male characters would not be represented equally in the literature. It was expected that female characters would be underrepresented in titles, pictures, and central roles. A second hypothesis was that there is a relationship between gender stereotypes and adjectives used to describe female and male characters in children's picture books. It was predicted that (a) adjectives used in children's books …

User Satisfaction With A Computer Based Instruction Behavior Change Intervention For Adolescent Smokers, Peter C. Pirillo Jr.

Open Access Master's Theses

This study examined user satisfaction with two computer based instruction (CBI) programs for smoking cessation, with three intervention sessions, and with several participant characteristics. Participant factors included gender, prior computer experience, stage in the behavioral change process, and reasons to smoke (Pros) and not to smoke (Cons). While the user satisfaction and computer experience data were collected for this study, the study was part of a bigger Cancer Prevention Research Consortium (CPRC) core study, which is the source of the other data. The two CBI smoking cessation programs were: (1) A transtheoretical model, stage of change matched, individualized, interactive program …

Individual Group Flight Of European Starlings And Budgerigars In A Wind Tunnel Without A Horizon Reference, Robert G. Moyle

Open Access Master's Theses

I studied the ability and willingness of European Starlings (Stumus vulgaris) and Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) to fly under different lighting conditions in a wind tunnel. My observations indicate that these birds can fly under conditions that supply no visual reference points, but their flight ability is more proficient when some light is available. The addition of a single horizon line to dark conditions improved the birds' flight ability and willingness, as indicated by an increase in the number of birds that took flight after landing. When small flocks were flown in the wind tunnel there was …

Design For Disassembly And Environment, Andrew Abbott

Open Access Master's Theses

Government pressure, increased consumer awareness, and decreasing landfill space are affecting manufacturers. As product take-back becomes the norm, manufacturers will need tools to help them deal with end of life products.

Environmental policies are changing. Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and other countries are forming partnership strategies with manufacturers, aiming for resource management and eco-development. "Green" products and product reclamation are important parts of these programs.

Designing for disassembly can be profitable, but needs planning. Tools exist for determining economically optimized and environmentally optimized disassembly sequences for end of life products. However, there is a lack of a system that balances between …

Measuring Public Values And Priorities For Natural Resources: An Application To The Peconic Estuary System, Marisa Joan Mazzotta

Open Access Dissertations

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Environmental Factors And The Demand For Nonconsumptive Wildlife Recreation: A Time Allocation Approach, Robert John Johnston

Open Access Dissertations

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Ecology And Life History Traits Of The Benthopelagic Mysid Boreomysis Oparva From The Eastern Tropical Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone, Jennifer Saltzman

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

The ecology and life history traits of Boreomysis oparva, a recently described benthopelagic mysid,were examined from the seamount Volcano 7 which penetrates into the oxygen minimum zone. In the near-bottom waters, B. oparva was very abundant at the lower summit in the oxygen minimum zone (<0.2 ml O₂ l^-1). It decreased in abundance with increasing depth and increasing oxygen at the flank and was absent from the base of Volcano 7. Length distribution of free-living stages was continuous, from 4 to 26 mm, and similar at the lower summit and flank. This and the presence of larvae of all …

Digital Modeling Of Pollutants To The Narrow River Estuary, Virgil E. Carr

Open Access Dissertations

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Interactions Between Wage Employment And Subsistence Lifestyle: Oil Development On The North Slope, Alaska, Uma Ganapathy

Open Access Dissertations

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Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Programs: An Assessment Of Public Participation As A Means Of Fostering Environmental Stewardship, Christopher Damon

Marine Affairs Theses and Major Papers

Volunteer water quality monitoring organizations from across the country were surveyed (n=516) to determine the relationship between public involvement and the generation of stewardship within the community. Program coordinators were asked first to rate the level of stewardship values within the community, and then respond to questions covering four broad areas of public involvement: pre-existing conditions, public education, volunteer behavior, and communal involvement. For each question, organizations were aggregated by response, and a frequency analysis was performed to discover the most common responses in each of the four public involvement categories. the mean of perceived stewardship values was graphed as …

Timing Of Metamorphosis In A Freshwater Crustacean: Comparison With Anuran Models, Saran Twombly

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

Many crustaceans have complex life cycles characterized by a metamorphosis, yet variation in metamorphic traits, and the causes and consequences of this variation, have rarely been examined. Food concentrations were changed during specific larval stages of the freshwater copepod Mesocyclops edax Forbes (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) to examine whether age and size at metamorphosis remain flexible or become fixed during the larval period. Results were compared to predictions of both flexible (the Wilbur—Collins model) and fixed (Leips—Travis model) rate models for the timing of amphibian metamorphosis. Age and size at metamorphosis were variable in all treatments, and age was always more variable …

Field Validation Of Annular Growth Rings In The American Eel, Anguilla Rostrate, Using Tetracycline-Marked Otoliths, Kenneth Oliveira

Past Departments Faculty Publications (CELS)

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Study And Analysis Of The Water Quality Of The Blackstone River Watershed, Shahriar Mahbub Alam

Open Access Dissertations

Wet weather water quality of the Blackstone River was analyzed. Three wet weather events were successfully captured for the wet weather program: Storm 1 (September 22-24, 1992), Storm 2 (November 2-5, 1992) and Storm 3 (October 12-14, 1993). Grab samples were collected at specific time intervals throughout the Blackstone River watershed. The concentrations and EMC's (event mean concentration) for different constituents were determined. Two types of violations were compared for fecal coliform in the Blackstone River: log mean > 200 md/100 ml and 10% of samples exceeding 400 md/100 ml. Acute and chronic criteria were compared with the concentrations measured for …

Human Babesiosis In Rhode Island: Epizootiological, Epidemiological, And Vector Competency Studies, Renjie Hu

Open Access Dissertations

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Towards An Integrated Model Of Participation In Community-Based Alcohol And Other Drug Problem Prevention Coalitions, Benjamin David Kerman

Open Access Dissertations

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Newton: An Interactive Environment For Exploring Mathematics, Michael Barry Hayden

Open Access Dissertations

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Texture Modification Of The Soft-Fleshed Giant Grenadier (Albatrossia Pectoralis), Charles Alan Crapo

Open Access Dissertations

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Stability Of Some Difference Equations With Nonhyperbolic Equilibria, George K. Tzanetopoulos

Open Access Dissertations

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Aggregation And Precipitation Phenomena In N-Phenyl Poly(Iminomethylene), Jiun Tang Huang

Open Access Dissertations

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Space-Time And The City: Glasgow And The Literature Of The Urban Peripheries, Lorraina Barr Pinnell

Open Access Dissertations

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The Three Hundred And Thirtieth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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The Three Under And Twenty-Ninth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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The Three Hundred And Twenty-Eighth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee: Proposal For Bachelor Of Science Degree In Resource Development With An Interdisciplinary Major In Environmental Economics And Management, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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The Three Hundred And Twenty-Fourth Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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The Three Hundred And Twenty-Second Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee: Section Iii - Joint Report Of The Curricular Affairs Committee And University College And General Education Committee On Uri 101, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Bills

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