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Profitability Determinants In South Dakota's Beef Cow/Calf Enterprise, Amy N. Singrey

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South Dakota beef cow/calf producers who had completed a 2000 Standardized Performance Analysis were surveyed and interviewed to gain a better understanding of what personal characteristics and management factors may help determine profitability. Low, medium and high profitability categories were defined by calculating one standard deviation above or below a mean ROA. Producers were unaware of their profitability category at the time of the interview. Statistically significant differences were found in reference to the involvement of the operator in physical labor and management functions, and in the percentage of other family members involved in the management functions in the enterprise. …

New Methods For The Synthesis Of Substituted Nitriles, Venugopal Gudipati

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Part I of the thesis describes stereoselective chelation controlled conjugate addition of grignard reagents to hydroxy alkynenitriles.

Part II describes annulation of w-halonitriles to oxa and carbocycles.

An Examination Of The Development Of Personal Power Among Trainees At Various Stages Of The Counselor Education Process, John Welburn

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The study investigated the effect that participation in counselor training had on the personal power levels of 45 student volunteers representing three levels of counseling training. Group I (Beginning level) consisted of 15 students beginning counselor training, Group II (Practicum level) was comprised of 16 students beginning the practicum experience, and Group III (Graduating level) was consisted of 14 students graduating from the counselor training program. Individual assessment of personal power levels was accomplished utilizing Hagberg's Personal Power Profile, a 72 question instrument designed to measure individual personal power levels. The six stages of personal power that the instrument is …

Slides Of A Life In Blue Air, Louis E. Bourgeois

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The Role Of Androgens In Pre-Nuptial Molt Progression Of The American Goldfinch (Carduelis Tristis), Meredith Joan Graham Hunter

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Reading The Impurities : Repetition And Authorship In The Late Warren / By Franklin Wayne Ridgway, Franklin Wayne Ridgway

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Darwin Revisited : A Naturalistic Interpretation Of Barbara Kingsolver's First Three Novels The Bean Trees, Pigs In Heaven, And Animal Dreams, Glinda K. Hall

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Shifting Stages : Response To William Inge And Picnic, 1953 To The Present, Susannah Lynne Northart

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A Lighting Design Process For Cabaret, Michael G. Knight

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The Effectiveness Of Sound Field Frequency-Modulated Amplification On Early Reading Skills In Elementary School Classrooms, Lindsay Marr Mcmillan

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Comparative, Kaoru Ochiai

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Latin American Baseball Players And The Process Of Acculturation In The United States, Juan M. Garcia

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Tidal Pool And Other Stories, Jennifer Barnes Moffett

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Restless Spirits : Ghosts And The Supernatural In Edith Wharton's Short Fiction / By Katharine Mclaren Todd, Katharine Mclaren Todd

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Power, Sex, Jesus, And Mama : Poor-White Women In Southern Literature, Ashley M. Craig

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A Rock, Sword And Shield : The History Of Tougaloo College, 1960-70, Sharelle Antoinette Grim

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Evaluating Cross-Cultural Equivalence Of The Korean Mmpi-2 Via Bilingual Test-Retest, Chun-Mo Chŏng

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A Curriculum Model For Teaching Romantic Choral Lieder To High School Choirs, William P. Rayburn

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The Effect Of Cultural Self-Construal Priming On Responses To Value-Based Scenarios, David Jerome Dalsky

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The Man Sitting Down Is Playing A Mountain Dulcimer : The Changing Face Of The Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer, Mary Kathleen Boland

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Writing Across Racial Boundaries In American Literature : Women And Cross-Racial Friendships / By Latonya L. Todd, Latonya L. Todd

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Child Abuse : Alternative Styles Addressed In The Concept For And Rehearsal Of A Production Of Sam Shepard's Buried Child / By Mary Katherine Simons, Mary Katherine Simons

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Vicarious Traumatization And Its Impact On The Pennsylvania Child Welfare System, Jo Ann Jankoski

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Although many studies have addressed burnout, secondary trauma, and job satisfaction among child welfare workers throughout the United States, a review of the current and available literature revealed limited research addressing the impact of vicarious trauma and its relationship to worker retention, recruitment, and job satisfaction. This study was conducted within the context of traumatology theory and examined how vicarious trauma affects child welfare workers and to what degree vicarious trauma has had an impact on their collective community, the child welfare system. The research question that guided this study was: How does vicarious trauma affect child welfare workers and …

Politics And Poetry : Emily Dickinson's Civil War Poetry, Sylvia Christine White

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University of Mississippi. Department of English -- Doctoral essays

New World Order : The Changing Themes Of Southern Americana In The Twenty-First Century, Sherry Gayle Jeffries

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Male Visual Dominance Continues: A Global Study Of Images Of Men And Women In 750 Online Newspapers In 74 Nations., Kelly Blake Price-Rankin

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This study examined how women were represented globally in online newspapers. Depiction of men and women in online newspapers was investigated via cropping of photographs. The photograph was examined to determine if emphasis was placed on the face or body of the human image.

The researcher used the Body Index Scale coding instrument. A simple random sample of 1,969 published photographs in 750 global online newspapers was examined.

A major finding was that men dominate the front screens on global online newspaper Web sites. The data concluded men were cropped with an emphasis on the head, emphasizing intellect. Women were …

Perceptions Of Online Distance Education Within The North Carolina Community College System By Chief Academic Officers And Chief Distance Education Officers., James A. Benton

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The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of chief academic officers (CAOs) and chief distance education officers (CDOs) regarding faculty satisfaction in areas of released time for training and course development, workload, overall support of distance education, and extra compensation.

One-hundred-sixteen surveys were sent out by e-mail to all 58 community colleges in North Carolina. The data for this study came from the returned surveys. The combined return rate of surveys was 78%. The SAS Institute program procedures were used for the analysis of the data. An alpha level of .05 was used for all statistical analyses. …

Comparison Of The Academic Achievement Of Primary School Students In Multiage And Traditional Classrooms., Mary Frances Harmon

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The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether students in a kindergarten/first-grade multiage class achieve at a different level than students enrolled in a traditional kindergarten or first-grade class in a selected primary school in East Tennessee. The question of the interaction between gender and type of instruction was also analyzed.

The causal comparative quantitative research method was used to analyze data differentiating between students enrolled in multiage and traditional classes, retrospectively. A t-test was used to determine the level of performance the students demonstrated on the BRIGANCE K Screen at the beginning of the study. The number of …

An Analysis Of The Academic Success Achieved By Five Freshman Cohorts Through A Community College Developmental Education Program., Nancy K. Gray-Barnett

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The challenge of underprepared students' entering America's colleges and universities is not new. Because of their "open door" policies, community colleges are more likely to enroll students who are not college prepared. This retrospective study focused on the performance of students who had completed required developmental education courses compared to the performance of students without developmental requirements. The study examined developmental education success measures for five cohorts of first-time degree-seeking freshmen each tracked for a six-year period enrolled at Walters State Community College located in Tennessee.

The success measures compared included grade point averages earned in college-level mathematics and English …

Stakeholder Beliefs, Satisfaction And Assessments Of School Climate After Implementation Of A Year-Round Calendar., Robin Lee Adams

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Year-Round Schooling (YRS), a calendar or scheduling concept, has become quite common in this country over the past thirty years. Generally schools have adopted YRS scheduling in an effort to: (1) increase efficiency in the operation of the schools and (2) enhance student development and learning.

The University School at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), a public K-12 school located on the ETSU campus, implemented a YRS calendar in the Summer of 1996. Over a period of six years data were collected to assess the effectiveness of YRS at University School. Study participants (students, parents and teachers) were surveyed initially …