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Whose Story Is It, Anyway, Janet L. Massa
Whose Story Is It, Anyway, Janet L. Massa
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Induced Labor Intervention For Self-Efficacy: A Nursing Intervention For Women Prone To An Unpredictable Labor Pattern, Shelley Stone Bochain
Induced Labor Intervention For Self-Efficacy: A Nursing Intervention For Women Prone To An Unpredictable Labor Pattern, Shelley Stone Bochain
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The New Global Worker In Organizations: Implications For International Management, Peruvemba S. Jaya
The New Global Worker In Organizations: Implications For International Management, Peruvemba S. Jaya
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Relating Objective And Subjective Measures Of Water Quality In The Travel Cost Method: An Application To The Peconic Estuary System, Jerry Diamantides
Relating Objective And Subjective Measures Of Water Quality In The Travel Cost Method: An Application To The Peconic Estuary System, Jerry Diamantides
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Are Iq Discrepancies Between Ses Groups Primarily The Result Of Verbal Scale Differences?, Carol Lee Macnaught
Are Iq Discrepancies Between Ses Groups Primarily The Result Of Verbal Scale Differences?, Carol Lee Macnaught
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Historically, comparison groups of children from low socioeconomic status (SES) have done less well on intelligence tests than their more well-to-do counterparts. This study was undertaken to explore the contribution of verbal ability to general intelligence and to consider the possibility of developmental change in the relative contributions of the verbal and performance scales. The analyses used verbal, performance, and full scale scores of a subgroup of the standardization sample of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Third Edition (WISC-III). The scores used were attained by children in three age groups (7, 11, and 15 years) with four levels …
Universal Newborn Screening For Developmental Risk, Grace Cox Ashton
Universal Newborn Screening For Developmental Risk, Grace Cox Ashton
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This study examined the relationship between at-birth risk factors and three year child developmental outcome. The purpose of this study was to design a multifactor risk screening system to identify those children who are at risk for developmental delay and behavior problems in Rhode Island. The sample was drawn from three separate datasets: the Rhode Island Universal Newborn Screening (Level One) database (N=27,282), the Early Intervention (El) database (N=l ,793), and the Maternal Lifestyle Study Providence/Teen samples (N= 311). Study One investigated the predictive probability of Level One for EI eligibility by age three. Results showed that Level One has …
Maintaining Behavioral Changes: A Descriptive Account From Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes, Rosemary Fedrigon Hall
Maintaining Behavioral Changes: A Descriptive Account From Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes, Rosemary Fedrigon Hall
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Type 2 diabetes is a serious metabolic disorder occurring in over 90% of the people in the United States diagnosed with diabetes. The standard treatment for type 2 diabetes requires individuals to self-manage a diet, exercise, and self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) to control blood glucose levels and reduce the onset of serious complications. Although there is a plethora of literature addressing the difficulty individuals have to maintain these three behaviors, few studies exist describing how these behaviors are sustained. This descriptive qualitative study was designed to learn how individuals with type 2 diabetes maintained behavioral changes of diet, exercise, …
A Mediational Coping Model Of Sociopersonal Well-Being And Quality Of Life, William Burton Disch
A Mediational Coping Model Of Sociopersonal Well-Being And Quality Of Life, William Burton Disch
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The current study assessed relationships between composite and latent measures of stress, coping, and sociopersonal well-being and quality of life. A latent variable mediational coping model was proposed and it was hypothesized that coping would be a significant mediator between measures of stress and measures of quality of life. The process of mediational coping is theoretically explained using a pragmatic and teleological application of need motivation and goal directed behavior (Maslow, 1968, 1971), and behavioral specificity, delay of gratification, and context (Mischel, 1973, 1986). Social learning and humanistic concepts are synthesized within a discussion of ontological, epistemological, and methodological congruence …
An Investigation Of Children's Timing Abilities As A Model For Understanding The Nature Of Adhd Deficits, Timothy John Heitzman
An Investigation Of Children's Timing Abilities As A Model For Understanding The Nature Of Adhd Deficits, Timothy John Heitzman
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Historical Uncertainty And Moral Ambiguity In Postwar America: An Examination Of Selected Black Humor Novels Of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Jeffrey Matthew Foster
Historical Uncertainty And Moral Ambiguity In Postwar America: An Examination Of Selected Black Humor Novels Of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, Jeffrey Matthew Foster
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Staff Support Of Parents In The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: What Are We Doing And Is It What Parents Want, Lori Kay Myren-Manbeck
Staff Support Of Parents In The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: What Are We Doing And Is It What Parents Want, Lori Kay Myren-Manbeck
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Health Promoting Behaviors In Women With And Without Sexual Assault Histories, Jennifer Parsons Read
Health Promoting Behaviors In Women With And Without Sexual Assault Histories, Jennifer Parsons Read
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Dyspnea As A Perceptual-Interpretive Response Process: A Qualitative Inductive Study Of The Concept In Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Dawn Marie Delaurentis Schultz
Dyspnea As A Perceptual-Interpretive Response Process: A Qualitative Inductive Study Of The Concept In Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Dawn Marie Delaurentis Schultz
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The Influence Of Cultural Values In The Judgment Of Student Behavior, Eliana Shavitt Lesser
The Influence Of Cultural Values In The Judgment Of Student Behavior, Eliana Shavitt Lesser
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Lars Saabye Christensen's "Beatles": A Study In Literary Translation And Cross-Cultural Influence, Kerstin Elizabeth Ketteman
Lars Saabye Christensen's "Beatles": A Study In Literary Translation And Cross-Cultural Influence, Kerstin Elizabeth Ketteman
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The Design And Implementation Of A Depression Prevention Program, Karyn Mary Forsyth
The Design And Implementation Of A Depression Prevention Program, Karyn Mary Forsyth
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Blood Glucose Estimation Accuracy In Children With Diabetes: An Investigation Of Repeated Practice With Latent Growth Curve Modeling, Julie Ann Wagner
Blood Glucose Estimation Accuracy In Children With Diabetes: An Investigation Of Repeated Practice With Latent Growth Curve Modeling, Julie Ann Wagner
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Blood glucose (BG) estimation is an important part of maintaining euglycemia in individuals with diabetes. Interventions to increase accuracy were designed without taking into account the natural effects of practice. The current study investigated the effects of naturalistic practice on BG estimation accuracy. Latent growth curve modeling (LGCM) was used to analyze data from 43 children with insulin dependent diabetes. LGCM consists of two stages. In the first stage, a growth curve was fit to the repeated measures of each individual in the sample. Results indicated that the true growth trajectory was curvilinear, and best represented by a quadratic function. …
Elimination Of The Hindsight Bias In Individual Versus Group Decision Making, Holly Anne Sindelar
Elimination Of The Hindsight Bias In Individual Versus Group Decision Making, Holly Anne Sindelar
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The hindsight bias refers to the tendency of people, after an event, to overestimate how accurately they would have predicted the outcome had they been asked in advance. The consequences of the hindsight bias on clinical decision making are significant. The bias is believed to impede one's ability to learn from experience and to lead to an undue level of confidence in future decision making. Research has shown that, under some conditions, groups have been shown to be less susceptible to bias than individual decision makers. The hindsight bias also has been found to be attenuated under certain conditions involving …
Becoming Long-Term Caregivers: A Qualitative Study Of Meaning-Making And Transformation In Families Of Persons With Mental Retardation Or Other Developmental Disabilities, Beatrice Rose Guilbault
Becoming Long-Term Caregivers: A Qualitative Study Of Meaning-Making And Transformation In Families Of Persons With Mental Retardation Or Other Developmental Disabilities, Beatrice Rose Guilbault
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This is a study of the process by which families make meaningful and adapt to mental retardation or other developmental disability in a family member. Learning that a child has disabilities which will require long-term caregiving is a disorganizing event which precipitates a shift in a family's self-defining paradigm, a reframing of what it means for this group of people to call themselves "family." In order to become long-term caregivers, family members must first make meaningful the event which will transform their lives. Next, they must revise their definition of family so that it includes long-term caregiving. Seventeen families contributed …
Can The Influence Of Base Rate Information Be Distinguished From The Influence Of Gender Stereotypes In The Psychiatric Diagnostic Decision Making Process?, Maureen Mccormick
Can The Influence Of Base Rate Information Be Distinguished From The Influence Of Gender Stereotypes In The Psychiatric Diagnostic Decision Making Process?, Maureen Mccormick
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A correct diagnosis may be critical to the implementation of an appropriate treatment plan for a patient. Many factors contribute to the difficulty of assigning a correct psychiatric diagnosis, including misuse, or less than optimal use, of information. Many studies have documented underutilization of base rate data in prediction. Research into the use of stereotypes has demonstrated that too much reliance on an individual's membership in a group may also affect decision making. What is the appropriate use of base rate data and group membership in psychiatric diagnosis? It was hypothesized that participants would underutilize base rates in a low …
To Parcel Or Not To Parcel: The Effects Of Item Parceling In Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Brett A. Plummer
To Parcel Or Not To Parcel: The Effects Of Item Parceling In Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Brett A. Plummer
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When testing confirmatory factor analysis (CF A) models, the researcher may either utilize individual items as the manifest variables for the model, or use item parcels or composites, i.e., the sum or average of a set of individual items. Utilizing parcels instead of items may affect the chance of obtaining a proper solution, the fit of the model, and model parameter estimates. Unfortunately there is little previous research to guide the decision to choose between a parcel-level analysis and an item-level analysis. This investigation examined the current status of parceling in the literature and the impacts of parceling through three …
Toni Morrison: Rethinking The Past In A Postcolonial Context, Hanan Abdullatif
Toni Morrison: Rethinking The Past In A Postcolonial Context, Hanan Abdullatif
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Recovering submerged histories is instrumental in counteracting colonial cultural hegemony and its persistent attempts to erase the past that subject peoples had prior to the epoch of colonial rule. In Toni Morrison's novels reclaiming the past is a necessary condition of subjectivity since it restores a voice and history to those who were deprived of the awareness of both. In other words, it is a restoration of subjectivity. In a postcolonial context, reclaiming the past means more than a linear or literal recording of historical facts. Rather the process of redeeming a past requires that victims of oppression recover their …
Self-Efficacy In Women Following Myocardial Infarction: An Investigation Into The Effects Of A Cognitive-Interactive Nursing Intervention On Efficacy Enhancement, Joanne F. Roy
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By Whom And How Is Service-Learning Implemented In Middle-Level Schools Involved In Documenting School Improvement: A Quantitative Study Of Opportunity-To-Learn Conditions And Practices, Anne M. Seitsinger
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How Diverse Is Ethnic Diversity In Books For Young Children, Jacque Lynne Washkwich
How Diverse Is Ethnic Diversity In Books For Young Children, Jacque Lynne Washkwich
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No abstract provided.
Comparing The Achievement Of Eighth-Grade Boys And Girls On Norm Referenced And Performance Tests In Language Arts, Reading And Mathematics, Helen Christina Barboza
Comparing The Achievement Of Eighth-Grade Boys And Girls On Norm Referenced And Performance Tests In Language Arts, Reading And Mathematics, Helen Christina Barboza
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Attachment Classifications Among Eighteen-Month-Old Children Of Adolescent Mothers, Lynne Meredith Andreozzi
Attachment Classifications Among Eighteen-Month-Old Children Of Adolescent Mothers, Lynne Meredith Andreozzi
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Phonological Representations Of Adult Poor Readers: An Investigation Of Specificity And Stability, Jean A. Dietrich
Phonological Representations Of Adult Poor Readers: An Investigation Of Specificity And Stability, Jean A. Dietrich
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The Determinants Of Consumer Attitudes And Intentions Toward Technology-Based Customer Interfaces Used In Service Delivery: An Empirical Investigation, James M. Curran
The Determinants Of Consumer Attitudes And Intentions Toward Technology-Based Customer Interfaces Used In Service Delivery: An Empirical Investigation, James M. Curran
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Blood On The Tracks: Biblical Law And Sacrifice In The Eighteenth-Century English Novel, Penelope Hope
Blood On The Tracks: Biblical Law And Sacrifice In The Eighteenth-Century English Novel, Penelope Hope
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