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Adolescent Dissociation: The Development And Initial Validation Of The Adolescent Dissociation Scale., Colleen Mary Fitzmaurice Jan 1995

Adolescent Dissociation: The Development And Initial Validation Of The Adolescent Dissociation Scale., Colleen Mary Fitzmaurice

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The present study attempted to develop and initially validate a self-report screening measure for adolescent dissociative experiences. The Adolescent Dissociation Scale (ADS) is a 49-item, empirically derived, self-report scale designed as a research, screening measure to examine the degree of dissociative experiences in the general population as compared to clinical subjects. Results obtained suggest the ADS is a reliable, highly internally consistent measure. Initial content, construct and discriminate validity were explored. The ADS was found to discriminate between high and low dissociative adolescents. The ADS also was positively correlated with other measures of dissociation.

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Arsenic Characterization In Soil And Arsenic Effects On Canola Growth., Michael Scott Cox Jan 1995

Arsenic Characterization In Soil And Arsenic Effects On Canola Growth., Michael Scott Cox

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Reactions of soil arsenic with arsenic addition and the effects of soil arsenic on canola were studied because of a lack of information on this subject. The reactions of different pools of soil arsenic to arsenic addition were studied. The effects of soil arsenic and arsenic form and concentration in solution on canola growth and nutrient uptake were also investigated and an attempt to model arsenic uptake with a mechanistic computer model was made. In a solution study, rate of inorganic arsenic did not appear to effect arsenic accumulation in roots and shoots of canola. However, shoot and root arsenic …

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Functional Anatomy Of The Integument And Subcutaneous Structures Of The Head, Neck And Thorax Of The Domestic Turkey, Meleagris Gallopavo., Kumudini Nishantha De Silva Jan 1995

Functional Anatomy Of The Integument And Subcutaneous Structures Of The Head, Neck And Thorax Of The Domestic Turkey, Meleagris Gallopavo., Kumudini Nishantha De Silva

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The microdissection of the integument and subcutaneous structures of the head, neck, and thorax of the Domestic Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, revealed a complex system with several distinct layers of connective tissue, smooth and striated musculature, and fat bodies (corpora adiposa). These layers show structural variations across the body surface, and the patterns of variation of the different layers correlate with one another. The smooth apterial muscles and the striated subcutaneous muscles complement each other in moving certain feather tracts. Fat tissue is deposited in the dermis as dermal fat, in the Fascia superficialis, and in distinct fat bodies associated with …

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Voices In The Storm: Confederate Rhetoric, 1861-1865., Karen Elizabeth Fritz Jan 1995

Voices In The Storm: Confederate Rhetoric, 1861-1865., Karen Elizabeth Fritz

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From 1861 to 1865, as white southerners waged their unsuccessful struggle for independence, they experienced shattering calamities. With the Civil War mostly fought on southern soil, Confederates witnessed the destruction of their environment, the deaths of their friends and family members, and the demise of their slave labor system. This study concerns the effects of this experience on the southern mindset. In short, this is an examination of discovery and transformation through ordeal. The Confederacy has been the subject of many a historical study. However, this interpretation approaches the subject from a slightly different perspective. Departing from the traditional reliance …

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The Evolution Of The Romantic Ballet: The Libretti And Enchanter Characters Of Selected Romantic Ballets From The 1830s Through The 1890s., Tamara Lee Gebelt Jan 1995

The Evolution Of The Romantic Ballet: The Libretti And Enchanter Characters Of Selected Romantic Ballets From The 1830s Through The 1890s., Tamara Lee Gebelt

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With the collapse of Neoclassicism and its worn-out mythological subject matter, the middle class increasingly attended performances previously dominated by aristocratic audiences. New artistic tastes developed; people sought a return to nature and all its mysteries. An interest in folklore, fairy tales, legends, and old literature accompanied a timeless human need for periodic escapism and fantasy. Ballet became a major vehicle for that need. When Marie Taglioni initiated dancing on pointe as the Sylphide in La Sylphide (1832), ballet gained favor, and the Romantic era was born in dance. Ballet flourished, and new scientific methods for training dancers included a …

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The Study Of Oxidation Of Magnesium(0001)., Anura Upul Goonewardene Jan 1995

The Study Of Oxidation Of Magnesium(0001)., Anura Upul Goonewardene

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The oxidation of Mg(0001) was studied using ESDIAD (Electron Stimulated Desorption Ion Angular Distributions), LEED (Low Energy Electron Diffraction) and STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscopy). Disassociated oxygen and two species of oxygen were observed morphologically by STM and were identified as incorporated oxygen (mixed layer) and ionic oxide MgO(111). We observed that the step terraces and the dissociated oxygen are highly mobile and interact easily with the STM tip at room temperature. The true oxide was first observed on a double step pinning site as a protrusion elongated along the step edge. These sites pin the top terrace to the one …

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A Normative Study Of The Diagnostic Assessment For The Severely Handicapped (Dash) Scale., Martha Lyle Hamilton Jan 1995

A Normative Study Of The Diagnostic Assessment For The Severely Handicapped (Dash) Scale., Martha Lyle Hamilton

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The prevalence of psychopathology in a large institutionalized population (N = 1259) of individuals with severe and profound mental retardation was examined, using the Diagnostic Assessment for the Severely Handicapped (DASH) scale. Over 60% of the sample exhibited at least one form of disorder according to newly established DASH criteria. Forty percent exhibited two or more disorders. Differences between severely and profoundly mentally retarded groups were found, especially in terms of the duration of symptoms. Profoundly mentally retarded persons had significantly more persistent symptoms. Items were examined for frequency and duration, and items of critical importance to diagnosis were identified. …

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Flow Cytometric Analysis Of Avian Blood Cells: Differentiation Of Erythrocytes And Leukocytes By Fluorescence., William Weaver King Jan 1995

Flow Cytometric Analysis Of Avian Blood Cells: Differentiation Of Erythrocytes And Leukocytes By Fluorescence., William Weaver King

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Automated analyzers have revolutionized diagnostic hematology in mammalian species. These commercial instruments utilize flow cytometric technology to enumerate blood cell concentrations. Because of the nuclei present in most non-mammalian erythrocytes and thrombocytes, these instruments are unable to calculate leukocyte counts in birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish. These investigations sought to determine if three commonly used methodologies in flow cytometry could sufficiently differentiate avian erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes, and ultimately form a basis for performing total leukocyte counts. Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) and thiazole orange (TO) were used to stain samples of whole, erythrocyte-, and leukocyte-enriched chicken blood. Although fluorescent microscopic and …

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The Interview For The Diagnosis Of Eating Disorders-Iv: Application To Dsm-Iv Diagnostic Criteria., Vesna Kutlesic Jan 1995

The Interview For The Diagnosis Of Eating Disorders-Iv: Application To Dsm-Iv Diagnostic Criteria., Vesna Kutlesic

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The standard diagnostic system in the United States, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual III-Revised, has recently been revised (i.e., DSM-IV) to include recent research and clinical advances that have enabled further specification of the existing diagnostic criteria. One set of diagnostic criteria that is representative of this increased specification are the criteria for the eating disorders. The expansion of these criteria in the recent publication of DSM-IV creates a need for the development of a structured interview that would enable differential diagnosis among these diagnostic categories. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to develop and evaluate the psychometric …

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The Politics Of Decolonization: Race, Power, And Ideology In Contemporary American Drama., Byung-Eon Jung Jan 1995

The Politics Of Decolonization: Race, Power, And Ideology In Contemporary American Drama., Byung-Eon Jung

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This dissertation traces the politics of decolonization dramatized in selected plays from the contemporary American playwrights: African Americans (Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Adrienne Kennedy, and August Wilson), white Americans (Arthur Kopit and David Rabe), and a Chinese American (David Hwang). Through the application of cultural theory to an analysis of dramatic texts, I demonstrate how the plays enact the struggle for decolonization on social, political, and cultural levels. In keeping with the interactions of race, power, and ideology, the plays deconstruct the white cultural formulations of racial minorities. I explore the ways in which the playwrights reclaim the authority of …

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The Determination Of A Matroid's Structure From Properties Of Certain Large Minors., Allan Donald Mills Jan 1995

The Determination Of A Matroid's Structure From Properties Of Certain Large Minors., Allan Donald Mills

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This dissertation solves some problems related to the structure of matroids. In Chapter 2, we prove that if M and N are distinct connected matroids on a common ground set E, where $\vert E\vert \ge 2,$ and, for every e in $E,\ M\\ e = N\\ e$ or M/e = N/e, then one of M and N is a relaxation of the other. In addition, we determine the matroids M and N on a common ground set E such that, for every pair of elements $\{ e,f\}$ of E, at least two of the four corresponding minors of M and …

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Further Evaluation Of The Psychometric Properties Of The Toddler Behavior Screening Inventory., Alyson Powell Mccain Jan 1995

Further Evaluation Of The Psychometric Properties Of The Toddler Behavior Screening Inventory., Alyson Powell Mccain

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Many children display problematic behavior during the toddler period (12 to 41 months). Although many behavior problems are transient, some children continue to have difficulties through school age and beyond. Recent literature has identified risk factors correlated with continuity of behavior problems. Early identification and intervention with these children may reduce the likelihood of long-term difficulties. The first step in detecting children with problematic behavior is screening. The Toddler Behavior Screening Inventory (TBSI) is a 40-item instrument designed to be used for the rapid assessment of maternal-perceived toddler behavior problems. The present study further evaluated the psychometric properties of the …

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Multiplicities And Transforms Of Ideals., Juan Antonio Nido Valencia Jan 1995

Multiplicities And Transforms Of Ideals., Juan Antonio Nido Valencia

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Let (R, M$\sb{\rm R})$ be a regular local ring of dimension 3 of the form k (x,y,z) $\sb{\rm (x,y,z)},$ where k is an algebraically closed field and let I be an M$\sb{\rm R}$-primary ideal that admits generators. We prove that if I$\sb1$ is the proper transform of I to a quadratic transform (A, M$\sb{\rm A})$ of(R, M$\sb{\rm R})$ such that the analytic spread of I$\sb1$ is 3 and the generators of I$\sb1$ induced by those of I satisfy certain divisibility conditions, then the inequality of multiplicities$$\rm e\sb{A}(M(I\sb1)) < e\sb{R}(I)$$is valid, where M $\rm(I\sb1) \supseteq I\sb1$ is an M$\sb{\rm A}$-primary ideal associated to I$\sb1$ (the ideal I$\sb1$ may not be M$\sb{\rm A}$-primary if dim (R) = 3) through an operation M that we define for ideals in a regular local ring.

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Race And The Fragmented Self In Twentieth-Century American Literature., Jerold Malcolm Martin Jan 1995

Race And The Fragmented Self In Twentieth-Century American Literature., Jerold Malcolm Martin

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Beginning with a definition of "race" as a system of discourse about human difference sustained by its symbolic articulations, I approach "race" as analogous to the social disciplines that Foucault describes as constructing the modern subject. Bringing together certain speculations of Lacan, Fanon, and Morrison, I suggest that this racial discipline facilitates a racial "mirror stage" through which "blackness" and "whiteness" are projected as distinct and unified conceptions of identity. My readings of representative texts examine how such racial identity patterns are both seductive as resolutions of self-discord and destructive in tension with the multiple, interpersonal, and historical determinations of …

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The King And His People In The Discourse Of The Ancien Capitaine., Jerry A. Micelle Jan 1995

The King And His People In The Discourse Of The Ancien Capitaine., Jerry A. Micelle

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The linkage between king and people in the discourse of the ancien capitaine is based on the dual roles of the captain as an intermediary representing the people to the king and as a royal officer commissioned by the king to exercise royal sovereignty. Maritime captains, Indian chiefs, and French missionaries participated in a discourse that advanced and nurtured the village leader and post captains as links between France and New France, between the king in the old world and his people in the new. Tracing the development of the diplomatic language in New France and observing the old Canadian …

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Elongational Rheometry Of Coextruded Polymer Melts., Ajit Vijay Pendse Jan 1995

Elongational Rheometry Of Coextruded Polymer Melts., Ajit Vijay Pendse

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In most key polymer processing operations such as fiber spinning, blow molding and extrusion through a converging die, the dominant mode of flow is elongational. Rheological characterization of polymeric materials in elongational flow is critical for material quality control as well as for process modeling applications. Unlike shear flows, which have been studied extensively, elongational flows are not well understood, primarily due to the experimental difficulties involved in generating a pure and steady elongational flow field. There is a dearth of commercially available elongational rheometers in the present rheological literature; those that are commercially available, are useful only at elongational …

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Attraction Vs. Repulsion: The Narrative Ambivalence Of Gender In Byron's "Don Juan"., Melinda A. Piontek Jan 1995

Attraction Vs. Repulsion: The Narrative Ambivalence Of Gender In Byron's "Don Juan"., Melinda A. Piontek

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Previous studies of gender in Byron's Don Juan, such as those by Susan Wolfson and Louis Crompton, have concentrated primarily on identifying gender ambivalence and attributing that ambivalence to factors outside the text, such as Byron's ambivalence toward his personal homoeroticism as well as to the social attitudes of Regency England toward questions of gender ambiguity. In this dissertation, I propose to turn the critical gaze back to the text in order to go beyond identifying gender ambivalence to track how that ambivalence works within Don Juan. In order to bring into focus the serial and episodic nature of Byron's …

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Changes Of Antioxidants And Fatty Acid Composition In Stabilized Rice Bran During Storage., Taisun Shin Jan 1995

Changes Of Antioxidants And Fatty Acid Composition In Stabilized Rice Bran During Storage., Taisun Shin

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The effects of extrusion temperature and post extrusion holding time, microwave heating, and gamma irradiation on antioxidants and lipid composition in rice bran were studied. Post extrusion holding time had no apparent effect on rice bran stability. Increased holding times reduced (p $<$ 0.05) total vitamin E. Oryzanol concentration was lower (p $<$ 0.05) only with 6 min holding time. Inactivation of lipolytic enzymes was obtained by extrusion temperatures of 120, 130, and 140$\sp\circ$C. Increased extrusion temperatures reduced the retention of vitamin E and oryzanol during storage. An extrusion temperature of 110$\sp\circ$C provided the highest retention of vitamin E and oryzanol during storage although FFA level was higher (p $<$ 0.05) than that of the other extrusion temperatures from 105 to 375 days. There were no significant (p $>$ 0.05) decreases in individual vitamin E vitamers until 4 min microwave heating. After 8 min heating, individual E vitamers decreased significantly (p $$ 0.05) in FFA level by 24 weeks of storage with microwave heating for 12 min. Microwave heating for 4, 8, and 12 min did not provided adequate inactivation of lipolytic enzymes. Total vitamin …

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A Study Of The Relationship Among Teacher, Process, And Outcome Variables Within School-Based Consultation., Katherine Frances Wickstrom Jan 1995

A Study Of The Relationship Among Teacher, Process, And Outcome Variables Within School-Based Consultation., Katherine Frances Wickstrom

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This study investigated the relationship among several teacher, process, and outcome variables within school-based consultation. A total of 32 consultant-consultee dyads participated in the study until completion of a problem identification interview, a problem analysis interview, and a follow-up session. Four types of data were collected. First, sessions were tape recorded and coded to examine the effect of an "expert" versus a "collaborative" interaction style. Second, teachers completed paper and pencil measures pertaining to (a) attributions of child behavior, (b) preferred service delivery, (c) severity of behavior problem, (d) consultant verbal interactions, (e) treatment acceptability, and (f) teacher satisfaction. Third, …

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Encoding Imperialism: Homelessness In American Naturalism, 1890-1918., Janet M. Whyde Jan 1995

Encoding Imperialism: Homelessness In American Naturalism, 1890-1918., Janet M. Whyde

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Homelessness occurs with uncommon regularity in the works of American naturalists, and in each case, the result of a character's homelessness results in a crisis of social identity and self definition. This pattern recurs in the works of the canonically identified naturalists, such as Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, as well as other writers who have only been tangentially associated with naturalism--Edith Wharton and Paul Laurence Dunbar, for example. In this study, I analyze the relationship between homelessness as it is represented in the novels and the political debate over the United States's imperialist aspirations at the turn …

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Differentiation Of Tobacco Etch Virus Strains Affecting Pepper., Indra Ariyaratne Jan 1995

Differentiation Of Tobacco Etch Virus Strains Affecting Pepper., Indra Ariyaratne

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Tobacco etch virus (TEV) causes an important viral disease of pepper (Capsicum spp.) in the Western Hemisphere. In this study, 36 isolates of TEV from the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America were mechanically inoculated in the greenhouse to selected pepper lines reported to have resistance to one or more TEV isolates. Goals of the research were to evaluate reactions of the resistant pepper lines to the TEV isolates, and to determine if the TEV isolates could be grouped into pathotypes based on their reactions in pepper lines chosen as differentials during the course of the …

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Psychological Well-Being As A Predictor Of Adaptive Behavior In Older Adults., Heather Casper Jahnke Jan 1995

Psychological Well-Being As A Predictor Of Adaptive Behavior In Older Adults., Heather Casper Jahnke

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Six dimensions of psychological well-being were used to predict effective coping across three context domains. Participants rated themselves on dimensions of psychological well-being and the coping behaviors used for problems they reported in a health, financial, and isolation or loss of relationship context. For each participant, a close friend or family member also rated them along the same six dimensions to provide an alternate measure of well-being. The criteria for effective coping was based on the use of emotion-focused coping in situations perceived as uncontrollable and problem-focused coping in situations perceived as controllable. Results indicated that the personal growth dimension …

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Sallie Rhett Roman (1844-1921): A New Orleans Woman Writer., Nancy Dixon Jan 1995

Sallie Rhett Roman (1844-1921): A New Orleans Woman Writer., Nancy Dixon

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Roman was a New Orleans writer who contributed political editorials and works of fiction to the New Orleans Times Democrat for nearly twenty years beginning in 1891. She was a culturally-aware intellectual woman of the nineteenth century, and her works offer a clearer picture of the political, cultural, and historical post-Reconstruction South. In my extensive scholarly investigation of Roman's work, I began to realize that it was not enough to write about her life and works without making the primary texts, which are hidden away on microfilm in the rare book rooms of South Louisiana, accessible to scholars of Southern …

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Locally Generated Semigroups., Genaro Segundo Gonzalez Jan 1995

Locally Generated Semigroups., Genaro Segundo Gonzalez

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For a topological semigroup S, Lawson constructed a semigroup $\Gamma(S)$ with the property that any local homomorphism defined in a neighborhood of the identity of S to a topological semigroup T extends uniquely to a global homomorphism defined on $\Gamma(S).$ In this work we obtain conditions on S to topologize the semigroup $\Gamma(S)$ via an uniformity such that the extended homomorphism is continuous and such that $\Gamma(S)$ is a topological semigroup. We also investigate a different approach of the problem via the relatively free semigroup RF(U) where U is a suitable neighborhood of the identity of S and show that …

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Consultant Effectiveness And Treatment Acceptability: An Examination Of Consultee Requests And Consultant Responses., Dinah Stuart Graham Jan 1995

Consultant Effectiveness And Treatment Acceptability: An Examination Of Consultee Requests And Consultant Responses., Dinah Stuart Graham

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Consultation is a process whereby a consultant (e.g., a psychologist) works with a direct caregiver (e.g., a teacher) to provide services to a client (e.g., a child). There has emerged a very strong supposition in the literature and in practice that consultation be a collaborative venture between co-equal professionals. Although a collaborative approach has been generally assumed beneficial, an emerging body of research is calling this into question. Further explication of the collaborative process is needed. Commonly held notions of "collaborative behavior" and "expert behavior" may be misleading, or inaccurate. This study was designed to elucidate the collaborative process. Teachers …

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Oral Noetic And The Communicative Rubric In "Beowulf"., Paul David Muller Jan 1995

Oral Noetic And The Communicative Rubric In "Beowulf"., Paul David Muller

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Theoretically, this treatise is a study at the nexus of two fields: oral tradition and the philosophy of language. In application, it is a "reading" of the Anglo-Saxon epic narrative of Beowulf. It proceeds from the hypothesis that in its present, performative moment, the oral traditional narrative instantiates a moment of communicative meaning evincing characteristics of oral, thus speakerly, and thus intention-vitalized meaning, as defined by linguistic philosophers Austin, Grice, Searle, Schiffer, Strawson, and others. In the light of this theoretical perspective, the oral noetic and thus the communicative moment of the Beowulf poem is sought in its most dynamic …

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A Synthesis Of Resource And Governance Theories In The Context Of Horizontal Expansion Strategies., James Gayle Combs Jan 1995

A Synthesis Of Resource And Governance Theories In The Context Of Horizontal Expansion Strategies., James Gayle Combs

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Extant literature has yet to fully examine the antecedents to, and performance implications of, horizontal expansion strategies. Defined as strategies that increase a firm's domain within an industry, these business level strategies constitute an important component of a firm's overall scope. This study takes a complementary view of two theories of the firm--resource theory and governance theory--in order to explain horizontal strategy and performance. An empirical investigation of 101 restaurant chains shows that firms respond to governance cost pressures when choosing among alternative horizontal strategies, except when strategically valuable resource stocks are low. However, no clear link was found between …

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Aerobic Fitness And Leisure Physical Activity As Moderators Of The Stress-Illness Relation., Cindy Lynn Carmack Jan 1995

Aerobic Fitness And Leisure Physical Activity As Moderators Of The Stress-Illness Relation., Cindy Lynn Carmack

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This study examined exercise as a moderator of the stress-illness relation by exploring leisure physical activity and aerobic fitness as "buffers" of the effects stress has on physical and psychological symptoms in a sample of 135 college students. Specifically, the goal was to provide information regarding the mechanisms by which exercise exhibits its "buffering effects" against minor stress. It was questioned as to whether both increased aerobic fitness associated with exercise and actual participation in the activity itself were necessary for the apparent buffering effects exercise has on stress or is one factor more important than the other. Existing data …

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Biogeographic, Ecological, And Evolutionary Aspects Of South American Austral Migration, With Special Reference To The Family Tyrannidae., Robert Terry Chesser Jan 1995

Biogeographic, Ecological, And Evolutionary Aspects Of South American Austral Migration, With Special Reference To The Family Tyrannidae., Robert Terry Chesser

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South American austral migrants are bird species that breed in temperate South America in the southern summer and migrate north, towards or into northern South America, for the southern winter. Austral migration is similar to other avian migration systems in many ways, but its uniquely South American locale is reflected geographically by the relatively short-distance migrations of most austral migrants, and taxonomically by the numerical dominance of the suboscine family Tyrannidae (the tyrant-flycatchers), of which more than 70 species migrate. Detailed examination of the distributions of austral migrant flycatchers revealed that each is to some extent unique, but that discernible …

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The Pathogenesis Of Equine Endometritis Due To Streptococcus Zooepidemicus., Robert Crawford Causey Jan 1995

The Pathogenesis Of Equine Endometritis Due To Streptococcus Zooepidemicus., Robert Crawford Causey

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The ability of uterine isolates of Streptococcus zooepidemicus to resist phagocytosis was explored by the organism's ability to grow in equine fresh blood. Although isolates grew in fresh blood of many horses, any given isolate was killed by blood of certain horses. Killing required leukocytes, heat labile and heat stable components of plasma and appeared to follow phagocytosis of the organism by neutrophils. This led to the working hypothesis that killing was mediated by phagocytosis requiring complement and isolate-specific antibody to variable surface antigens. Variation in killing between horses was attributed to differences in circulating isolate-specific antibody. This is a …

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