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American Workers In The Soviet Union Between The World Wars: From Dream To Disillusionment., Vincent Edward Baker
American Workers In The Soviet Union Between The World Wars: From Dream To Disillusionment., Vincent Edward Baker
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
This is a an examination of those Americans who went to the Soviet Union to live and work during the interwar period, and what became of them. Why they went, how many went, and whether they survived the experience. American attitudes, both private and public of the Soviet Union are also discussed.
A Study Of Factors Relating To The Attrition From The West Virginia University - Marshall University - West Virginia Graduate College Cooperative Doctoral Program Administered By The West Virginia Board Of Trustees., Rudy Dale Pauley
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This study examined the statistical relationship between 12 selected demographic and situational variables and the completion of the doctorate from the West Virginia University - Marshall University - West Virginia Graduate College Cooperative Doctoral Program. In order to explore this relationship, the Doctoral Student Survey was designed utilizing variables drawn from a search of the literature pertaining to attrition from doctoral programs. This survey was sent to the 226 students that were admitted to the Cooperative Doctoral Program between 1980 and the Fall of 1993. Responses were received from 62% of those surveyed. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences …
The Relationship Of The Communication Styles Of Public School Principals In West Virginia And Their Schools' Climates To Student Achievement., Linda Sue Roberts
The Relationship Of The Communication Styles Of Public School Principals In West Virginia And Their Schools' Climates To Student Achievement., Linda Sue Roberts
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This study examined the relationships between and among the three variables of communication style of the public school principal in West Virginia, school climate, and student achievement. Demographic variables included sex of the principal, school level, school size, and socioeconomic status. The population of this study consisted of K–12 teachers from 350 different public schools in West Virginia who were surveyed regarding their perceptions of the communication style of their principals and the climates of their schools. Data on student achievement, sex of the principal, school level, school size, and socioeconomic status were also collected. Multiple regression and Pearson correlations …
A Study Of The Relationship Between Leadership Style And Selected Demographic Characteristics Of Principals And Their Predisposition To Use Creative Insubordination In Decision-Making., Yvonne Santin
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This study examined the relationship between leadership style and selected demographic characteristics of principals, including gender, degree level, school level, and years of experience, and their predisposition to use creative insubordination in decision making. To examine this relationship, the Leader Behavior Questionnaire - Self (LBDQ-Self) was used to measure principal leadership style and the Decision Making Survey was utilized to measure the principal's predisposition to use creative insubordination in decision making. The design of the Decision Making Survey used measures related to the work of Crowson (1989), Haynes (1991), Haynes and Licata (1995) and Morris, Crowson, Porter-Gehrie and Hurwitz (1984) …
Determining The Environmental Training Needs And Training Preferences Of Tribal Officials On Reservations In The United States., Jeeta Lakhani Saxena
Determining The Environmental Training Needs And Training Preferences Of Tribal Officials On Reservations In The United States., Jeeta Lakhani Saxena
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The problem of this research was to determine the priority environmental management training needs (drinking water, wastewater, and solid waste), classroom training system preferences and related cultural factors of Native American tribal officials with environmental responsibilities living on reservations in the United States. The researcher conducted telephone interviews with 18 tribal officials on reservations in diverse geographic areas of the United States to determine their classroom training preferences. These officials also responded to a mail/fax survey comprised of 28 statements describing their environmental responsibilities in the areas of drinking water, wastewater, and solid waste. Tribal officials indicated how important the …
Constructing Identities And Defining The Nation: Germany Since 1949., Frank Anthony Allevato
Constructing Identities And Defining The Nation: Germany Since 1949., Frank Anthony Allevato
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Not long after Germans began the historic task of dismantling the Berlin Wall in 1989, their country was again reunited after forty-five years of division. For the second time in less than a century, a majority of Europe’s Germans were brought together under the banner of a single political sovereignty. As the enlarged Federal Republic psychologically reorients and physically reconstructs itself, the event is likely to have continued European and worldwide implications. Understanding the new Germany’s internal development and its evolving self-perceptions is to conceive of the country’s role now and in the years ahead; central to understanding Germany today …
Gendered Expectations: An Exploration Of Identity And Power In The Life Of Katherine Of Aragon., Jennifer R. Daum
Gendered Expectations: An Exploration Of Identity And Power In The Life Of Katherine Of Aragon., Jennifer R. Daum
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
How is it that Katherine of Aragon, a woman seemingly destined for a major impact on world events, has been relegated to the role of scorned wife and stubborn obstacle to historical progress? Beliefs about women’s roles limited Katherine while she was alive and influenced historical interpretations about her after her death. Katherine’s own interpretation of her role as a wife and mother evolved out of her perceptions of the opinions of others. The role that others had created for her was rigidly interpreted and internalized by Katherine. By not allowing herself to be used as a pawn by either …
Documentation: "Conversations: Picasso And His Paintings"., Sonda Folk Cheesebrough
Documentation: "Conversations: Picasso And His Paintings"., Sonda Folk Cheesebrough
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
In planning and preparing a project for a Masters degree in Art Education my concerns and intentions were to design and implement a learning experience that would teach an art history topic and involve children in theatre production from the beginning stages to final production, integrating theatre as well as art history into the elementary art curriculum. This would involve designing a production in which the subject would be based in the area of art while the vehicle for the subject would be live theatre. Through this project I hoped to create a better and more memorable understanding of the …
Hydrogeochemical Response Of An Acid-Producing Mine Spoil Aquifer To Induced Alkaline Recharge., Matthew H. Daly
Hydrogeochemical Response Of An Acid-Producing Mine Spoil Aquifer To Induced Alkaline Recharge., Matthew H. Daly
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An experiment involving in situ neutralization of acidic ground water was performed on a mine-spoil aquifer in central West Virginia. The 45-acre aquifer was subjected to infiltration of lime slurry through a sludge pond located near the center of the mine. Ground-water and spring-water samples collected before lime infiltration indicate that a localized zone of neutralized ground water (pH 7) existed close to the sludge pond prior to the experiment. Concentrations of elevated sodium, pH and alkalinity correlate with the extent of neutralized ground water. This alkalinity is attributed to infiltration of sodium hydroxide-treated sludge, pumped into the sludge pond …
Development: A Dedication To Discovery., J. Diane Martonis
Development: A Dedication To Discovery., J. Diane Martonis
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My artwork creates a mystical interpretation of how discovery, development, and culture can be seen. Although created to interpret my own personal life and growth, it is also a reminder of a history of people that have become forgotten. By establishing and defining our own state of mind, religion, thought process and emotion we can better understand the similarities of the past and, without fear or surrender, accept our own mortality.
Student Interest And Teacher Behaviors., Keith David Weber
Student Interest And Teacher Behaviors., Keith David Weber
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Literature from the fields of educational psychology, instructional communication, and organizational management are reviewed to lend insight into the relationship between interest and empowerment. Theoretical similarities of these two constructs are highlighted in an attempt to argue for concept isomorphism. The discussion of student interest will address (a) how interest has been examined to date, (b) the definition and components of interest, (c) qualitative differences in types of interest, (d) how interest has been manipulated, and (e) measurement and operationalization concerns in interest. This discussion of interest will be followed by a section that looks at how some of the …
Identification Of Content, Priority, And Methods Of Instructional Delivery For A Women's Health Component In An Internal Medicine Residency Program: A Modified Delphi Study., Alicia Jean Williams
Identification Of Content, Priority, And Methods Of Instructional Delivery For A Women's Health Component In An Internal Medicine Residency Program: A Modified Delphi Study., Alicia Jean Williams
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
The purpose of this research was to determine the general content, topics and sub-topics, priorities of the content, and methods of instructional delivery for a women's health component within the Internal Medicine residency program at West Virginia University. Panel members chosen for the study were MD's and PhD's who worked in a health-related field for at least two years and had an interest in women's health. A modified Delphi method was used for this study to determine the content. Panel members also identified their current and preferred methods of instructional delivery in a separate section of the study. The panel …
A Universal Amperometric Membrane-Covered Gas-Sensing Electrodes System: Measurement Of Dissolved Oxygen, Ozone And Chlorine Dioxide., Rener Wang
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
A Universal Amperometric Membrane-Covered Gas-Sensing Electrode System has been designed which can be used with a wide variety of electrochemical sensors. The system is composed of two parts: an electrode detection unit consists of an Intel 8051 microprocessor as the control unit which receives operational commands through the serial port of a personal computer. The assembly language has been written and is embedded in a 32K EPROM and the data collected are temporarily stored in a 32K RAM. A potentiostat with an auto-adjustable 100 nA to 100 {dollar}\\mu{dollar}A range is used to polarize the electrode. A 12 bit D/A convertor …
A Study Of Job Satisfaction Of Female Administrators In The National Education Association And Its Affiliates., Jacqueline G. Goodwin
A Study Of Job Satisfaction Of Female Administrators In The National Education Association And Its Affiliates., Jacqueline G. Goodwin
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between age, tenure of employment, level of administrative position, educational level, and personality type and the degree of self-expressed job satisfaction among female administrators in the National Education Association (NEA) and affiliate organizations. The total population of 181 female administrators employed at the National Education Association and its affiliates were surveyed. Each participant was mailed a survey packet containing a cover letter, a demographics sheet, and two questionnaires. Personality type was determined by scores on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator-Form G (1977). Demographic information was collected using the Survey of National …
The Impact Of The Principals' Academy On Teachers' Perception Of Their Empowerment In Group Decision Making In West Virginia Faculty Senates., Margaret Dickinson Miller
The Impact Of The Principals' Academy On Teachers' Perception Of Their Empowerment In Group Decision Making In West Virginia Faculty Senates., Margaret Dickinson Miller
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The purpose of the study was to determine if principals' attendance to Principals' Academy had an effect on teachers' perception of empowerment in faculty senate group decision making. Faculty senate members in 120 West Virginia schools received the Short and Rinehart School Participant Empowerment Scale survey to provide perception of overall empowerment and six domains of empowerment. Data derived from 66 responding schools were analyzed using Statistical Analysis System and Analysis of Variance and produced the following results: There was no significant relationship, overall nor within domains, between the perceived level of empowerment of teachers in faculty senate group decision …
A Study Of The Relationship Between Tenure And Non-Tenure Track Faculty Of West Virginia University Extension And Public Service Unit And Job Satisfaction., Patrick Irving Nestor
A Study Of The Relationship Between Tenure And Non-Tenure Track Faculty Of West Virginia University Extension And Public Service Unit And Job Satisfaction., Patrick Irving Nestor
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Extension and Public Service has completed ten years in the tenure system at West Virginia University. During the ten year time span, problems associated with the tenure system have occurred. Tenure status of Extension faculty and their job satisfaction have been an important problem for supervisors as well as faculty members. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between tenure status, selected demographic characteristics of faculty and their job satisfaction. Procedure. The respondents for the study were all Extension faculty in the tenure and non-tenure status at West Virginia University. The data were collected by means of …
The Ambassador Of Development: Aretas Brooks Fleming, West Virginia's Political Entrepreneur, 1839-1923., Jeffery Blane Cook
The Ambassador Of Development: Aretas Brooks Fleming, West Virginia's Political Entrepreneur, 1839-1923., Jeffery Blane Cook
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839–1923) businessman and Democratic party boss came from a prominent Fairmont family with extensive political connections throughout the region. He was not rich, but was well born, and able and followed the Virginia tradition of marrying well. He used an extensive kinship network, which was a community unto itself, to build a successful law practice and to start his climb up the political ladder. Fleming's dedication brought both political and business success, as he served in the West Virginia legislature and then judge of the second judicial circuit of West Virginia. Fleming's basic interest in politics, however, …
Late Quaternary Fluvial Stratigraphy Of The St. Albans Archeologic Site (46ka27), West Virginia, Courtney Andreas Nugent
Late Quaternary Fluvial Stratigraphy Of The St. Albans Archeologic Site (46ka27), West Virginia, Courtney Andreas Nugent
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The St. Albans archeologic site, recognized since 1964, occurs on a low terrace of the Kanawha River. Stratigraphic and magnetic susceptibility studies at the site have lead to the development of a model for predicting artifact recovery potential that is important to planning future excavations at the site.;Charcoal fragments, reddened soils and fire-cracked rocks indicate that most high magnetic susceptibility readings are produced by fire. The association of artifacts in many of these high magnetically susceptible sediments indicates they are cultural fire hearths. When executed early, magnetic susceptibilities studies should help archeologists.;The waxing and waning of late Pleistocene glaciation caused …
An Assessment Of Presidential Perceptions Of Goal Compliance Stated In West Virginia Senate Bill 547., Mark Stephen Carter
An Assessment Of Presidential Perceptions Of Goal Compliance Stated In West Virginia Senate Bill 547., Mark Stephen Carter
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The article is a report of a qualitative study to determine whether Presidents of West Virginia higher education institutions maintain attitudes commensurate with goal statements contained in Senate Bill 547: a West Virginia legislative initiative that requires institutional compliance with various legislated goals. Findings of the study are presented in a brief, case study format for each President. In addition, a global assessment of Presidential perceptions with associated issues of compliance/noncompliance is presented.
The Relationship Between Student Characteristics And Math Achievement When Using Computer Spreadsheets., Jeanne Heindel Gasiorowski
The Relationship Between Student Characteristics And Math Achievement When Using Computer Spreadsheets., Jeanne Heindel Gasiorowski
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
The use of computer hardware and software technology in schools is on the rise while there are increasing demands for success in mathematics by all students, despite diverse backgrounds. The problem is to determine the characteristics of students who most benefit from the use of spreadsheet software as a cognitive tool to assist them as they learn to organize and analyze data. For a period of six weeks, 114 seventh grade students received standard instruction in their mathematics classes in basic statistics/data analysis content. Concurrently, in a separate computer class, the students received instruction which focused on the use of …
Design Of Powered Supports For Longwall Mining., Jinsheng Chen
Design Of Powered Supports For Longwall Mining., Jinsheng Chen
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For the purposes of production and safety, the roof exposed in the working area of a longwall face must be supported and protected. A hydraulic powered support with an improper structural design or insufficient capacity may result in roof failure or falls at the face, or its structural failure under intensive roof activity, while a heavier-than-required support can dramatically increase its cost. To ensure a safe and stable face condition at a minimum cost during the longwall retreat, the roof loading behavior above the face support, the structural stability and resultant loads of a hydraulic powered support under different mining …
Emotional Hijacking Versus Safe Behavior., Christopher Monteressi
Emotional Hijacking Versus Safe Behavior., Christopher Monteressi
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
This research investigated the types of reasoning used by coal mine employees when exposed to potentially dangerous situations. Information was gathered through interviews of coal miners who related actual experiences in the coal mines. The information in the interviews and in the review of the literature was used to develop and implement an experiential program that promoted an individual's responsibility for their safety and the safety of co-workers. The experiential program addressed safe work behaviors from the perspectives of emotional and cognitive memories and the functions of the human brain. This program had three overall objectives of assisting miners to …
Interactive Television Instructors' Perceptions Of Students' Nonverbal Responsiveness And Effects On Distance Teaching., Timothy Patrick Mottet
Interactive Television Instructors' Perceptions Of Students' Nonverbal Responsiveness And Effects On Distance Teaching., Timothy Patrick Mottet
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
The objective of this study was to examine the relationships between interactive television instructors' perceptions of students' nonverbal responsiveness and their perceptions of distance students, teaching effectiveness, teaching satisfaction, teacher-student interpersonal relationships, and their preferring to teach in the interactive television classroom versus the traditional face-to-face classroom. The sample included 157 interactive television instructors who currently teach or have recently taught in both the traditional face-to-face and interactive television classrooms. All participants were mailed two identical surveys. One was to be completed on students in the traditional face-to-face classroom and the other in the interactive television classroom. The surveys contained …
Online Education: The Effect Of Computer-Mediated Communication On Tutor-Tutee Interactions., April Terese Reed
Online Education: The Effect Of Computer-Mediated Communication On Tutor-Tutee Interactions., April Terese Reed
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of CMC on the interactions between teacher/tutors and students/tutees on a commercial Internet provider's educational service. Specifically, this study endeavored to discover if using CMC for tutoring purposes allowed both students/tutees and teachers/tutors to increase the tutee access to tutor expertise, judge content based solely on the merit of the message and to determine what types of educational strategies were used in this medium. The results of this study showed that students generally functioned at the lower levels of learning complexity; that is, they asked questions and received answers at …
Organizational Culture And Leadership At Berea College: An Historical Inquiry Into Saga Development And Underlying Cultural Assumptions., Gerald Emerson Wood
Organizational Culture And Leadership At Berea College: An Historical Inquiry Into Saga Development And Underlying Cultural Assumptions., Gerald Emerson Wood
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Culture is a pervasive concept that is not easily encompassed in any one definition. Culture within an organization is both process and product. It is both a dynamic agent of influence within the temporal and spatial context of organizational life and an object of study approached from the actor's point of view and thickly described. My general interest is in the cultural context of colleges, and more specifically in the part that culture has played in the formation and transformation of the mission and role of Berea College as it has sought to educate marginalized people for nearly 150 years. …
Constructing Identities And Defining The Nation: Germany Since 1949., Frank Anthony Allevato
Constructing Identities And Defining The Nation: Germany Since 1949., Frank Anthony Allevato
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Not long after Germans began the historic task of dismantling the Berlin Wall in 1989, their country was again reunited after forty-five years of division. For the second time in less than a century, a majority of Europe’s Germans were brought together under the banner of a single political sovereignty. As the enlarged Federal Republic psychologically reorients and physically reconstructs itself, the event is likely to have continued European and worldwide implications. Understanding the new Germany’s internal development and its evolving self-perceptions is to conceive of the country’s role now and in the years ahead; central to understanding Germany today …
Gendered Expectations: An Exploration Of Identity And Power In The Life Of Katherine Of Aragon., Jennifer R. Daum
Gendered Expectations: An Exploration Of Identity And Power In The Life Of Katherine Of Aragon., Jennifer R. Daum
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
How is it that Katherine of Aragon, a woman seemingly destined for a major impact on world events, has been relegated to the role of scorned wife and stubborn obstacle to historical progress? Beliefs about women’s roles limited Katherine while she was alive and influenced historical interpretations about her after her death. Katherine’s own interpretation of her role as a wife and mother evolved out of her perceptions of the opinions of others. The role that others had created for her was rigidly interpreted and internalized by Katherine. By not allowing herself to be used as a pawn by either …
The Influence Of Vegetative Incompatibility Genes On The Transmission Of Hypoviruses Between Strains Of Cryphonectria Parasitica., Clarissa Jacqueline Balbalian
The Influence Of Vegetative Incompatibility Genes On The Transmission Of Hypoviruses Between Strains Of Cryphonectria Parasitica., Clarissa Jacqueline Balbalian
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Double stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) in the virus family Hypoviridae can be effective agents for the biological control of chestnut blight, however, a vegetative compatibility system in Cryphonectria parasitica is a major barrier to hypovirus transmission in the diverse populations of this fungus in North America. Hypoviruses are carried in the cytoplasm of the fungus and can be transmitted by cytoplasmic exchange during hyphal anastomosis. Anastomosis in C. parasitica is controlled by at least five biallelic vegetative incompatibility genes (vic genes). Laboratory results show that heteroallelism at some vic genes is more likely to inhibit hypovirus transmission than heteroallelism at other …
The De/Re-Territorialization Of Struggle In Appalachia: The Legacy Of "Coal And Class" And The Cultural Politics Of Community., Stuart Lorkin
The De/Re-Territorialization Of Struggle In Appalachia: The Legacy Of "Coal And Class" And The Cultural Politics Of Community., Stuart Lorkin
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Appalachia is a region that continues to represent a paradoxical place in the geographical imagination of its residents, scholars and popular writers. There is a long and well documented history of the often violent exploitation of its land and people, and a marginalized tradition of protest. The geography of economic, social and political development in the central core region is highly uneven, the product of tensions between raw material extraction such as coal, by capital, political control through an elite-state class, and variously organized social struggles. Studies of social movements within a cultural political framework provided a powerful mechanism of …
A Cognitive Developmental Approach To Racial Stereotyping, Empathy And The Relationship Between The Development Of Empathic Understanding And Racial Stereotyping In Euro-American Children., Z. Nilufer Bilgesu
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In countries where population consists of the members of different ethnic and racial groups, it is important to use a multicultural approach in education. The goal of the present research is to explain the connection between age, cognitive abilities, empathic understanding and their relationship with the social attitude of racial stereotyping. It is possible to see the effect of cognitive limitations of the children in their reasoning about others, and consequently in their empathic understanding and in their racial stereotyping behavior. In this study it was predicted that while the age (maturation) of the children increases, their cognitive abilities would …