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Making The Decision To Seek Care For A Non-Urgent Illness: A Qualitative Study, Anne Phyllis Manton

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Modeling Electrocardiogram Waveforms And Evaluating Qrs Detectors, Seth Bowen Suppappola

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Vector Competence In Lyme Disease : Studies On Ixodes Scapularis, Dermacentor Variabilis, And Amblyomma Americanum, Min-Tsung Yeh

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Ticks in the Ixodes ricinus-species complex have been implicated as vectors of Lyme disease spirochetes (Borrelia burgdorferi). A variety of other ticks, notably American dog ticks (Dermacentor variabilis) and Lone Star ticks (Amblyomma americanum) in the U.S., appear incapable of transmitting Lyme disease spirochetes despite ingesting these bacteria. In this study, I confirmed that deer ticks, but not dog ticks or Lone Star ticks became infected with Lyme disease spirochetes after feeding on infected hosts. In addition, I assessed several potential physiologic factors that could affect the ability of ticks to acquire, maintain, …

Blood/Injury And Snake Phobias: Cognitive, Behavioral, And Physiological Characteristics, Martin Edward Franklin

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Blood / injury phobia is a simple phobia unique in its association with fainting, underlying physiological processes, and potentially dire consequences for sufferers due to avoidance of medical attention. Laboratory studies of blood/injury phobias (e.g, Ost et al., 1984) have demonstrated a diphasic physiological response (immediate increases in heart rate and blood pressure above previously recorded baseline levels followed by significant decreases below baseline) when patients view videotapes of thoracic surgery. Little is known about the physiological responses to blood/injury stimuli of college students reporting fear of blood. It is important to examine the cognitive, behavioral, and physiological characteristics of …

Social Class Differences In Treatment Effectiveness For Preterm Children, Karen Ann Despirito

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Masculinity Salience And Homophobic Reactions: Affective And Cognitive Responses Of Sex-Typed Men To A Gay Male Individual, Christopher Darby Dunstan

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Development And Evaluation Of Drug Delivery Systems For Geriatric Patients, Mary Kathryn Zichelli Kottke

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Would It Matter If Her Hair Were Brown? The Ethical Contract Between The Writer And The Reader Of Historical Fiction, Barbara Warren Harris

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Housework Redone: The Representation Of Domestic Work And Homemakers In Depictions Of The Middle Class In American Literature And Film, Marilyn Perkins Wisehart

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The Methodological Characteristics Of An Independent Living Skills Assessment Form For Adolescents In Placement, Susan Maria Lotto

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Due to a recent upsurge in interest over the success of preparing state supervised youth for independent living, New York State has revised the majority of its regulations concerning how adolescents in placement should be prepared for independent living. The new regulations require that all adolescents in placement, fourteen years of age and over, have their independent living skills periodically assessed. The present research study examined a 140 item inventory, designed to measure the independent living skills of adolescents in placement, in terms of its internal consistency and concurrent validity. In this study 210 subjects, who resided in either the …

Development Of A Scale To Predict Adherence To Treatment Of Hypertension, Mark Peter Babich

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A Study Of A Marriage Preparation Program, Mary Elizabeth Callaway

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Metatheoretical Blueprint For Cumulating Nursing Knowledge: A Reconstructed Theory Of Chronic Illness, Nancy M. Dluhy

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Staff Approaches During Episodes Of Fear In Children, Theresa Ann Downey

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Early Start: An Early Intervention With Teenage Mothers And Their Newborn Babies, Karen Corwin Mook

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Dance Of Re-Membered Life: An Analysis Of Memory Process In The Novels Of Toni Morrison, Kathleen Moore

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Making Sense Of It: The Icu Experience. A Participant Observation-Patient Centered Study, Paula Tripp Lusardi

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The Politics Of Representation/Reading: A Feminist Critique Of Virginia Woolf, Jin Sook Oh

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Comparison Of Eeg Of Depressed And Non-Depressed College Students During An Attention Task, Luz C. H. Teixeira

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Marie De France And Layamon: Cultural Subversives, Barbara Gall Von Mettenheim

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The Incidence Of University Sexual Harassment Complaints Related To Institutional Factors, Caron Lyn Zlotnick

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Multiple Determinants Of Postdivorce Nonresidential Fathering, Anthony Joseph Giuliano

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Translation Of The Capeverdean Novel, "Chuva Braba" ("Wild Rain"), Rosendo Evora Brito

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Critical Action Research And The Changing Role Of Nurse Executives: A Case Study, Inger Margrethe Holter

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Explaining Drug Abuse Through The Intergenerational Transmission Of Family Functioning, Judith Anne Goldman

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A Structural Equation Model Of A Set Of Operationalized Cognitive Social Earning Variables And Citizen Participation In Neighborhood Organizations, Donald Ray Whitworth

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Editing As Parallel To Writing And Reading, Subordinate To Communication, And Connected To Teaching, Karen Marie Petit

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A Structural Equation Model Of A Set Of Operationalized Cognitive Social Learning Variables And Citizen Participation In Neighborhood Organizations, Donald R. Whitworth

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This study investigated the salience of a cognitive social learning model for understanding the process by which an individual decides to participate in a neighborhood association. An operationalized set of cognitive social learning variables served as the dimensions of the hypothesized model to explain citizen participation. The subjects included 229 adult (18 years and older) Jewish Israelis. Of the total pool of subjects, 112 were graduates of Project Renewal neighborhood activist training programs who were interview in their homes. The remaining 117 subjects were nonactivists randomly selected from the same neighborhoods as the activists. Forty nine percent of the subjects …

Reading Ability, Vocabulary Acquisition, And Phonological Processes: An Investigation Of Vocabulary Acquisition By Skilled And Less-Skilled Readers, Linda Aguiar

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Previous research has found that skilled and less-skilled readers differ in their ability to incorporate aurally encountered words into their personal lexicons. The primary purpose of this study was to corroborate and expand these results. In addition, the present project investigated the associations among reading skill, vocabulary knowledge, and two phonological processes: verbal working memory and lexical access.

Data from 105 fourth-grade students were analyzed for this study. Each student took part in an experimental word learning procedure and completed three memory measures, two lexical access measures, and a test of basic reading skills. Data from subsets of 28 skilled …

Stress, Temperament, And Academic Achievement, Patricia M. Lemay

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The relationship among stress, temperament, and academic achievement in middle-school children was explored. It was hypothesized that: (1) various types of stressors differ in their relationship with academic achievement, (2) temperamental variables differ in their relationship with children's perceived stress, and (3) temperament mediates the relationship between stress and academic achievement.

Subjects were 263 sixth graders from three public school systems in southeastern New England. Using a group format, the subjects were administered two self-report measures of stress and one self-rating temperament survey, the predictor variables. The criterion measure was the Metropolitan Achievement Test scores for the 1991-1992 academic year. …