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Computational Simulation Of Seismic Damage In A 2-Story Cmu Wall System Using Composite Section Shell Elements, Anupa Gopinath Jan 2000

Computational Simulation Of Seismic Damage In A 2-Story Cmu Wall System Using Composite Section Shell Elements, Anupa Gopinath

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Design Of A Scalar Network Analyzer Using Detector-Log Amplifier Rfic Chips, Maqsud M. Alam Jan 2000

Design Of A Scalar Network Analyzer Using Detector-Log Amplifier Rfic Chips, Maqsud M. Alam

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Evaluation Of Hybridization Kinetics For Biosensor Applications Utilizing Single And Dual Fractal Analysis, Sunita Vontel Jan 2000

Evaluation Of Hybridization Kinetics For Biosensor Applications Utilizing Single And Dual Fractal Analysis, Sunita Vontel

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Elucidation Of The Mechanisms Of Heterogeneous Reburning Through Parameter And Kinetic Studies / By Lin Tang, Lin Tang Jan 2000

Elucidation Of The Mechanisms Of Heterogeneous Reburning Through Parameter And Kinetic Studies / By Lin Tang, Lin Tang

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The Effects Of Achilles Tendon Vibration On The Spectral Qualities Of Postural Control, J. Todd Bullard Jan 2000

The Effects Of Achilles Tendon Vibration On The Spectral Qualities Of Postural Control, J. Todd Bullard

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A Nonlinear Stochastic Model Of Carbon Oxidation, Leili Gordji Jan 2000

A Nonlinear Stochastic Model Of Carbon Oxidation, Leili Gordji

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Rediscovering The Balcony : A Director's Analysis Of The Processes Of Translating, Adapting And Staging Jean Genet's The Balcony, Alana Jean Ghent Jan 2000

Rediscovering The Balcony : A Director's Analysis Of The Processes Of Translating, Adapting And Staging Jean Genet's The Balcony, Alana Jean Ghent

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Scale Model Experiment For Acoustic Parameter Estimation Of Rooms, Donghua Li Jan 2000

Scale Model Experiment For Acoustic Parameter Estimation Of Rooms, Donghua Li

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Herbal Medicine : Consumers, Knowledge, And Self-Disclosure In The Rural Elderly, Dawn R. Bucher Jan 2000

Herbal Medicine : Consumers, Knowledge, And Self-Disclosure In The Rural Elderly, Dawn R. Bucher

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The purpose of this study was fourfold: (1) to identify the knowledge level of elderly rural residents concerning the safety, efficacy, and quality of herbal medicine; (2) to determine how many elderly rural residents are using herbs; (3) to identify if herbal medicine users disclose their use to their healthcare provider; and ( 4) to determine if a relationship exists among elderly rural residents, demographic characteristics, knowledge level, likelihood of self-disclosure, and use of herbal medicine. This study was a descriptive correlational design. The sample was elderly males and females residing in southwestern Minnesota who were members of their local …


A Cohort Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The Student Support Services Program At Southwest Virginia Community College, Michael J. Henry Dec 1999

A Cohort Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The Student Support Services Program At Southwest Virginia Community College, Michael J. Henry

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The Student Support Services Program is one of five federally funded “TRIO” programs provided for by Congress and administered by the Department of Education that are designed to improve grade-point averages and the retention and graduation rates of low-income individuals, firs t-generation college students, and students with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to determine if the students who participated in the Student Support Services Program at SVCC achieved higher grade-point averages, retention rates, and graduation rates than did non-participants. There were no significant differences in grade-point averages between Student Support Services (SSS) Program participants and non-participants, The Student …


A Qualitative Study Of A Team-Teaching Classroom And A Traditional One-Teacher Classroom In An Elementary School Setting, Johnny D. Thompson Dec 1999

A Qualitative Study Of A Team-Teaching Classroom And A Traditional One-Teacher Classroom In An Elementary School Setting, Johnny D. Thompson

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This study describes two heterogeneously grouped second-grade classrooms during the 1998-99 school year. One class featured collaborative team teaching, and the second class was taught by a traditional single teacher. There were 33 regular education students and nine at-risk students in the team classroom and 14 regular education students and eight at-risk students in the one-teacher classroom. One hundred three interviews were conducted with 21 students in the team classroom and 18 students in the one-teacher classroom, with 13 parents, with three teachers, and with the school principal. The researcher observed the two classes 61 times from September to May. …


Characteristics Of Viable And Sustainable Workers For The Year 2015, Brenda P. Dean Dec 1999

Characteristics Of Viable And Sustainable Workers For The Year 2015, Brenda P. Dean

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The purpose of the study was to forecast characteristics of valuable workers within Middle Eastern Tennessee for the year 2015. The following areas were studied as they related to the forecast: (1) the projected employment skill demands of business and industry; (2) the initiatives required and proposed by business and industry to meet their respective employment demands; and (3) the external support by education required for industry and business to meet their employment needs. The Delphi panel was composed of 22 business and industry leaders who were nominated by the county executive of the ten counties of the study, officials …


Comparison Of State Appropriations By Function And By Program To Actual Expenditures For The Two-Year Institutions In The Tennessee Board Of Regents System, Rosemary Y. Jackson Dec 1999

Comparison Of State Appropriations By Function And By Program To Actual Expenditures For The Two-Year Institutions In The Tennessee Board Of Regents System, Rosemary Y. Jackson

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The purpose of this study was twofold. The first purpose was to determine the extent to which the 14 two-year institutions of the Tennessee Board of Regents system expended funds in functional categories equal to the amount of funds provided by the appropriations funding formula for the same functional categories. The second purpose was to determine the extent to which the 14 two-year institutions expended funds for direct instructional purposes for each academic program equal to the amount of funds provided by the appropriations funding formula for direct teaching purposes for each academic program. Using an archival research design, appropriations …


Perceptions Of Factors Associated With Academic Success Among African American Students On Four Predominantly White Campuses In Northeast Tennessee, Jean M. Harper Aug 1999

Perceptions Of Factors Associated With Academic Success Among African American Students On Four Predominantly White Campuses In Northeast Tennessee, Jean M. Harper

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the perceptions of successful African American sophomore students and their adjustment to academic success at predominantly White colleges and universities. Twenty African American sophomore females and twenty African American sophomore males from two predominantly White community colleges and two predominantly White universities participated in the study. Each subject completed a demographic survey and participated in an interview. Results indicated that both the attitudes of African American students toward education and their perceptions of the attitudes of those in the educational system towards African American students played an integral role …


Staff Development Programs In Public Elementary Schools In Northeast Tennessee, Richard A. Mcinturf Aug 1999

Staff Development Programs In Public Elementary Schools In Northeast Tennessee, Richard A. Mcinturf

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The purpose of this study was to collect and report on the perceptions of elementary school teachers as to the quality of staff development programs being offered in schools and school systems throughout Northeast Tennessee. A second purpose was to study the relationship between certain school district characteristics and teacher perception scores related to the staff development programs. The National Staff Development Council's Self-Assessment and Planning Tool was used to collect data related to teacher perceptions. Mean scores were calculated and t-test analysis completed for each variable named in the study. Conclusions of the study are consistent with most findings …


Food Habits And Diet Overlap Of Age-1 And Older Walleye And White Bass In Lake Poinsett, South Dakota, Andrew B. Starostka Jan 1999

Food Habits And Diet Overlap Of Age-1 And Older Walleye And White Bass In Lake Poinsett, South Dakota, Andrew B. Starostka

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White bass Marone chysops and walleye Stizostedion vitreum coexist in several of the large glacial lakes in eastern South Dakota. I collected age-1 and older white bass and walleye in Lake Poinsett, South Dakota during May, July and September, 1998 to determine food habits and diet overlap using percent by weight to describe diets and Schoener's index (Cxy) to determine diet overlap. Macroinvertebrates were common prey items for white bass in all length groups during all sample dates. The primary macroinvertebrates consumed by white bass were corixids, amphipods and dipterans. Fish, as a group, were second in diet importance over …


Before Assumption / By Leandra C. Urruita, Leandra C. Urruita Jan 1999

Before Assumption / By Leandra C. Urruita, Leandra C. Urruita

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Modeling Jupiter's Atmospheric Response To The Impact Of Comet Shoemaker-Levy Nine / By C. Tim Rich, C. Tim Rich Jan 1999

Modeling Jupiter's Atmospheric Response To The Impact Of Comet Shoemaker-Levy Nine / By C. Tim Rich, C. Tim Rich

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Stopping Time Algorithms For Radio Frequency Identification Systems, Javed Rahman Jan 1999

Stopping Time Algorithms For Radio Frequency Identification Systems, Javed Rahman

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Effects Of Endurance Training On Swimming Performance And Hematological Characteristics Of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon Idella Valenciennes), Dalma Martinovic' Jan 1999

Effects Of Endurance Training On Swimming Performance And Hematological Characteristics Of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon Idella Valenciennes), Dalma Martinovic'

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Race, Receptivity, And Compromise : An Experimental Investigation, Jerome Burt Jan 1999

Race, Receptivity, And Compromise : An Experimental Investigation, Jerome Burt

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Modeling Growth Of Heterogeneous Tumor, Phanidhar R. Annamreddy Jan 1999

Modeling Growth Of Heterogeneous Tumor, Phanidhar R. Annamreddy

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An Efficient Frontier For Multiple Parallel Path Constraint-Based Routing, Kishore V. Chitrapu Jan 1999

An Efficient Frontier For Multiple Parallel Path Constraint-Based Routing, Kishore V. Chitrapu

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Investigation Of Drying Behaviors Of New York Harbor Dredged Sediment And Coupled Oxygen Transport Model Development In A Confined Disposal Facility / By Zhongming Wang, Zhongming Wang Jan 1999

Investigation Of Drying Behaviors Of New York Harbor Dredged Sediment And Coupled Oxygen Transport Model Development In A Confined Disposal Facility / By Zhongming Wang, Zhongming Wang

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The Effects Of A Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Stretching Technique On Involuntary Movements, Allyson Maureen Carter Jan 1999

The Effects Of A Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Stretching Technique On Involuntary Movements, Allyson Maureen Carter

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Learning Design I At Northeast Mississippi Community College Through Lecture And Example Or Lecture And Project : A Comparison Of The Two Methods And Their Effects On Test Scores, Terry Frank Anderson Jan 1999

Learning Design I At Northeast Mississippi Community College Through Lecture And Example Or Lecture And Project : A Comparison Of The Two Methods And Their Effects On Test Scores, Terry Frank Anderson

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Nexus / By Melinda Rye, Melinda Rye Jan 1999

Nexus / By Melinda Rye, Melinda Rye

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Modeling Of Channel Planform Evolution / By Fernando Toro, Fernando Toro Jan 1999

Modeling Of Channel Planform Evolution / By Fernando Toro, Fernando Toro

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From Euclid, Through Chebychev, Toward The Prime Number Theorem / By Kimberly Rose Smith, Kimberly Rose Smith Jan 1999

From Euclid, Through Chebychev, Toward The Prime Number Theorem / By Kimberly Rose Smith, Kimberly Rose Smith

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Technology Integration In Tennessee Twenty-First Century Classrooms, Lois J. Markee Dec 1998

Technology Integration In Tennessee Twenty-First Century Classrooms, Lois J. Markee

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In the study, the population of educators in 21st Century Classrooms across the State of Tennessee was surveyed to determine teachers' satisfaction with 21st Century program implementation and associated changes in instructional practices. During fall 1998, six hundred of the 4,800 21st century classroom teachers were surveyed using the Technology Use Questionnaire. Three hundred two completed surveys were returned. Frequency rates and percentages were calculated for each of the 33 questions and the 8 demographic items. The questions were grouped into 7 subscales: Administration, Teacher Training, Implementation, Integration, Use on the Job, Use at Home and Instructional Change. Correlation analysis …