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The Current And Potential Future Roles Of The Internet In The Field Of Health Education, Wendy L. Boman

Master's Theses

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Components Of Marianist Educational Culture: In A Content Analysis Of Published Works Of William Joseph Chaminade And In Phenomenological Interviews Of Persons Designated As Best Experienced In Marianist Education, Joseph H. Lackner

Master's Theses

Digitized thesis

An Examination Of Women's Access To Professional Positions In Hospital Foundations, Bettina Kohlbrenner

Master's Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the extent to which professional women in hospital foundations perceive career barriers in their organizations-particularly whether women in mid-level management perceive greater barriers to their career advancement than do women in senior-level management. The researcher also strove to identify the barriers identified in the literature review that women felt were the most significant in their organizations.

A self-administered questionnaire was mailed to 204 women in 113 hospital foundations in California. The subjects were selected from the membership directory of the Association of Philanthropy. The questionnaire was designed to collect three types of …

The Relationship Between Alumni Relations And Fund-Raising: A Study On The Effect Of Departmental Integration On Alumni Giving, Susan M. Todaro

Master's Theses

This study examined the effect of integration between alumni relations and development departments on alumni giving. Integration was defined as the degree to which members of alumni and development departments achieve unity of effort. To determine the level of integration, the study looked at organizational structure, collective planning, collaboration, communication, and participation.

As a primary focus, the study measured the level of interdepartmental integration and compared the results with actual alumni giving at each school. The study also compared the level of integration between schools with centralized and decentralized organizational structures.

The study demonstrated an inverse relationship between interdepartmental integration …

The Silver Bullet Hypothesis : Case Studies Of Post-Webster Virginia Gubernatorial Elections, Anne M. Morgan

Master's Theses

The 1989 Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services U.S. Supreme Court decision triggered a "new politics of abortion," marked by a shift in venue of the abortion political debate to the states and by invigorated mobilization of pro-choice activists alarmed about a potential erosion of abortion rights in state laws. Surfacing in the wake of the decision was a "silver bullet" theory of abortion: that unrestricted support for legal abortion guarantees a candidate's electoral victory. Case studies of two post-Webster gubernatorial elections in Virginia fail to confirm the validity of the silver bullet theory. Public opinion findings reveal that the electorate …

Senior Volunteerism: Dissatisfaction And Turnover Among Older Volunteers, Joan Pokroy

Master's Theses

This study examined levels of satisfaction with dimensions of the volunteer job to determine whether there was a meaningful association between dissatisfaction with the volunteer job and the decision to discontinue volunteering among senior volunteers.

Very little association was found to exist. Senior volunteers who stopped volunteering were only somewhat less satisfied with their volunteer jobs than those who continued to volunteer. Rather, the findings suggest that other reasons, namely poor health, the need for paid employment, and other personal reasons accounted for turnover among older volunteers.

For Appearance's Sake : Gender Attitudes And Risky Health Behavior, Jennifer L. Douglas

Master's Theses

One hundred and forty male and female students were given questionnaires which assessed their gender attitudes, their tanning and smoking behavior, their knowledge about and perceived personal risk of lung and skin cancer, and their beliefs that tanning and slenderness are attractive. A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) revealed significant gender differences in tanning and in gender attitudes; women tanned more than men ... and women had more egalitarian attitudes toward gender than did men ... However, there were no differences between men and women in amount of weight-control smoking. A standard multiple regression revealed that the belief that tanning …

Twixt Ocean And Pines : The Seaside Resort At Virginia Beach, 1880-1930, Jonathan Mark Souther

Master's Theses

America's seashore was virtually untouched prior to the Civil War. The American attitude toward leisure held that any time spent engaging in unproductive activities was time wasted. In antebellum society, industrialization had yet to transform the lifestyles of rank and- file Americans. In a predominantly agrarian society, work and leisure were ill-defined. No widespread notion of"leisure time" existed. To be sure, a few resorts did flourish in the antebellum United States. With the notable exceptions of Newport, Rhode Island, and Cape May, New Jersey, these tended to be health resorts situated in close proximity to inland springs believed to offer …

Morphine Disruption Of Maternal Behavior And Modifications Of Underlying Neural Activity, Graciela Stafisso-Sandoz

Master's Theses

Morphine significantly impairs maternal behavior; N aloxone, an opiate antagonist, restores it. Maternal behavior is associated with c-fos expression, an immediate early gene product, in medial preoptic area (mPOA) of females. In this series of experiments, the effects of morphine and Naloxone on the expression of c-fos were examined. On postpartum day 5 or 6, females were injected with morphine or saline ( Exp. 1 ), or morphine+Naloxone or morphine+saline (Exp. 2) and placed back in the homepage, separated from their pups by a wire-mesh partition. Sixty minutes later processing for cfos immunohistochemistry commenced. The c-fos positive cells in a …

A Needs Assessment Of The Cambodian Community In San Jose, California, Akemi Flynn

Master's Theses

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The Use Of Literature As A Source Of Occupational Modeling For Children, Tracy L. Nemecek

Master's Theses

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A Discerning Heart: The Core Of Psycho-Spiritual Healing, Dudley Mendonca

Master's Theses

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Virginia Celebrates The Yorktown Centennial Of 1881, Julie Anne Sweet-Mcginty

Master's Theses

This study chronicles the planning, execution, and aftermath of the Yorktown Centennial of October 1881 in Yorktown, Richmond, and Norfolk. Beyond its original expectation of memorializing the one hundredth anniversary of the last major battle for independence, as the first nationally prominent celebration to occur on Southern soil after the Civil War, it made reconciliation among the states a significant aspect of the occasion. Also, it marked the first national gathering after the assassination of President James A. Garfield as well as the occasion for the first public speech given by the new President, Chester A. Arthur. The presence of …

A Client Evaluation Assessing The Effects Of Psychosocial Counseling On A Vietnamese American Woman, Hieu T. Tran

Master's Theses

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Every Woman Her Own Midwife : A Study Of Empowerment Through Wise Woman Health Care, Kimberly A. Bick-Maurischat

Master's Theses

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Home Health Nurses' Knowledge Of Diabetes And Diabetic Patient Outcomes : A Replication Study, Valerie D. Isaacson

Master's Theses

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Oncology Nurses' Attitudes Toward The Legalization Of Voluntary Active Euthanasia, Andrea Linder

Master's Theses

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African American Adolescents' Perception Of Social Support And Self-Esteem, Vo Alexander Hoang

Master's Theses

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An Investigation Into The Psycho-Social Factors Related To The Academic Attrition Of Minority Graduate Students, Denise Daniels

Master's Theses

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Comparison Of The Effectiveness Of Computer Based Instruction With Video Cassette Instruction For Cardio-Pulmonaary Resuscitation, Janine Ricketts-Byrne

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Disease-Relevant Information On Subjective Probability Estimates Of Causal Factors For Symptoms, James Richard Swinehart

Master's Theses

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Heterosexuals' Attitudes Toward Gay Fathers And Their Children, Andrew Mcleod

Master's Theses

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The Picture Of Health: A Case Study Of The Use Of Alternative Therapies And The Creation Of Community By People Living With Hiv And Aids, Lorraine Anne Lynn

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Between Gender And Attitude Toward Counseling In University Students, Elizabeth A. Call

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Of Racial Identity And Gender Identity Attitudes Among College-Aged African-American Women, Samoan C. Johnson

Master's Theses

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The Relationship Between Self-Efficacy And Task Performance For Women In Science Related Careers, Saba Rasheed

Master's Theses

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An Historical Review Of The Cosmetology Profession, Amy Ruff

Master's Theses

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A Comparison Between The Training Systems Of Malaysia And Singapore, Keri Schoenborn

Master's Theses

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Applications Of The Scientific Method In Recent Studies Pertaining To Survivors Of Incest, Jane E. Dillingham

Master's Theses

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Elderly Patient Satisfaction At An Outpatient Clinic, Dennis E. Dew

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.