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The Relationship Of Ptsd In Vietnam Veterans To Family Dysfunction As Mediated By Marital Functioning: A Structural Model, Catherine A. Mora

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This Is My Body Which Will Not Be Given Up For You: The Postmodern Feminist Avant-Garde And The Female Body, Carla Marie Oleska

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Host-Related Variability In Feeding And Oviposition Behaviors Of Mexican Leptinotarsa Decemlineata (Say) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Wenhua Lu

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Social Support: A Fieldwork Study Of Adjusting To Life In A Nursing Home, Barbara J. Patterson

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Gender Roles And Drunken Behavior: A Cognitive Analysis Of Normative And Counternormative Social Expectations, Patricia Allison Minugh

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Family Functioning And Learning Disorders, Abigail A. Seibert

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A Hedonic Price Model Of The Portland Fish Auction Market, Nida R. Ty

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The Impact Of A Treatment Program For Male Batterers On Their Sex Role Attitudes And Abusive Behaviors, Donna Caldwell

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Forms Of Knowledge And The Use Of The Representativeness Heuristic In Clinical Inferencing Tasks Of Community Health Nurses, Eileen Sjoberg O'Neill

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Authorized Infidelity: A Confidant Rereading Of Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Marie C. Hennedy

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Retrospective Study Of Environmental, Intrapersonal, And Behavioral Predictors Of Alcohol-Associated Problems In College And Middle Adulthood, Robert Joseph Porter

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Modeling Vessel Mobility: The Gulf Of Mexico Shrimp Fleet, John Michael Ward

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Given the heterogeneous nature of the fishing fleet and the complex behavior of vessels, the traditional marginalist supply models are not well suited for modelling vessel mobility. A discrete choice model is utilized in this analysis to predict the probability that a vessel will enter, exit, or remain in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery based on a myopic profit maximization criteria. The multinomial legit model indicates that fisherman behavior in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery is not influenced by stock variability. The crowding externality as represented by the size of the fishing fleet exhibited a strong negative impact …

Knowledge Acquisition And Development Of An Expert System For Type Synthesis Of Mechanisms, Biwu Yang

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Modelling Vessel Mobility: The Gulf Of Mexico Shrimp Fleet, John Michael Ward

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Validity Studies On The Family Functioning Scale: Family Of Origin Version, Laura Ann Green

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A Transtheoretical Analysis Of Change Among Cocaine Users, Dena Rosenbloom

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The Course Of Change In Time-Limited Psychotherapy, Kathy Laighton Harvey

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In The Belly Of This Story: The Role Of Fantasy In Four American Women's Novels Of The 1980s, Bettina Havens Letcher

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A Voice In Ramah: Rhetorical Structure And Cultural Context In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Pamela Ann Marks

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Experientially-Modulated Neuronal Death In Overconnected Neural Networks, Thomas J. Skrmetti

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This experiment was designed to examine the possible physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of critical periods in development. It was hypothesized that experientially-modulated neuronal death, coupled with an overconnected neural network, and acting early in the developmental sequence, could produce a learning effect similar to that described as a "critical period effect."

A computer-based associative memory model was used to simulate a simple neural network representing the associative cortex. Three different independent variables were manipulated in the experiment. The first was the type of connectivity matrix used when the model was initialized prior to training.

Four different developmental paradigms were …

Preconscious Factors In Romantic Attraction, Jay T. King

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The purpose of this study was to discover whether or not the character and or behavior of parents is a factor in the romantic attraction and mate selections made by adults. The study examined the correlation between the parent's temperament and the partners temperament under two different conditions. The first condition involved a comparison when the participants identified their parent as a nurturant parent. The second condition involved a comparison when the participants identified their parent as a person with whom they had a conflicted parent-adolescent relationship. Four predictions were tested based upon psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory; 1) adults will …

Correlates Of Sibling Jealousy And Parental Favoritism, Catherine Gray Deering

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This study explores selected situational, relationship, and personality variables in sibling jealousy among college students (n=320). The research is based on a blend of social psychological and family systems theory, building on recent advances in romantic jealousy research. Vignettes portraying sibling and parent-initiated comparison situations were used as a projective technique to elicit sibling jealousy. Results indicate that parent-initiated comparisons produced significantly more jealousy than simple sibling comparisons. Sibling-initiated jealousy was significantly higher in domains of higher relevance or importance to the sample. Comparisons in physical attractiveness, social competence, and athletic achievement produced the highest levels of sibling jealousy. More …

Chretien De Troyes' Perceval: Androgynous Development Of The Hero, Michele F. Cooper

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An Exploratory Investigation Of Stepfamily Functioning, Joan Elizabeth Crook

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The Development Of Adaptive Behavior Of Mentally Retarded Adults As A Function Of Level Of Mental Retardation And Institution Versus Community-Based Residence, Frank D. Scott

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Reading Allegory In The Old Poet And The New: The "Canterbury Tales" And The 1590 "Faerie Queene", Mark A. Sherman

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Great Expectations: A Workshop On Responsible Dating, Rita C. Chrappa

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This study was designed to investigate whether a 50-minute workshop educating students in the areas of rape and rape myths would have an effect on attitudes and knowledge about responsible dating.

Great Expectations is a 50-minute workshop which incorporates both a lecture and an affective component in its approach to educating students. Its focus is on educating students around responsible dating as well as rape and rape myths.

The sample was made up of 150 high school seniors, 75 of whom participated in the workshop and 75 served as a control group. Three measures -- Rape Myth Acceptance, Knowledge of …

Validity Of Tasks Of Executive Functions With School-Aged Children: Potential Efficacy In Discriminating Clinical Groups, Lisa L. Weyandt

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The purposes of the present study were (a) to investigate the performance of three groups of children, those diagnosed with Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, those diagnosed with Developmental Language Disorder, and a matched group of nondisabled children on a battery of neuropsychological tasks purported to measure executive function, and (b) to investigate the validity of tasks used to measure executive function across three age levels. A double-dissociation paradigm was used. Six executive function tasks and two nonexecutive function (i.e., vocabulary) tasks were administered to all participants in a counterbalanced order. Results revealed significant group and age effects. Significant differences were found …

Level Of Satisfaction And Commitment To A Decisional Choice As Mediated By Locus Of Control, Michael Anthony Surrette

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The present study investigated the relationship between an increase in decisional choices and an individual's subsequent level of satisfaction and commitment with their choice. An individual's locus of control was also investigated as a mediating variable between decisional choice and satisfaction. Participants read a brief biographical scenario which described an individual's attempt to get accepted into graduate school. The scenario portrayed the individual getting accepted into either one, three, or five graduate programs from a list of ten. Participants were required to complete two measures of satisfaction (Job in General scale & Kunin's Faces Scale) and one measure of commitment …

The Role Of Working Memory In Phoneme Awareness, Bernadette F. Evans

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The primary goals of this study were to examine the association between working memory and phoneme awareness, and to explore the relationships of these phonological processes with decoding and comprehension components of reading ability. Previously, only a few studies had examined the role of working memory in phoneme awareness, and the findings were inconclusive. A further goal of the present study was to examine whether simple phoneme awareness tasks (requiring counting or segmenting of phonemes) relate differently to reading skills than do compound phoneme awareness tasks (requiring deletion or manipulation of phonemes).

Second-grade children whose reading skills were normally distributed …