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A Study Of The Relationship Between The Black And White Solid Ink Density And Image Quality In Lithography, Chia-Wei Wu

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The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between the solid ink density and image quality by application of an image quality scaling method. The results quantify the relationship between image quality and printed solid ink densities. Six different solid ink density prints were produced, including solid ink density 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 and 1. 8. A paired comparison evaluation procedure was used to determine which of solid ink density prints was the best in this experiment. The optimum tone reproduction corresponding to the solid ink density which produced the best possible image quality is shown by …

Family Album, Julie Gelfand

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The intent of this thesis is to photograph individuals in Rochester, New York devoted to improving the quality of their lives and the lives of others. In these photographs, I will attempt to combine both aesthetic and social concerns while investigating methods of self-expression through the documentary form.

When Attitudes Become Form, Elizabeth Coyne

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My Pursuit Of A Successful Glass Business, Margery Pearl

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Teacher Stress And Time Management, Sandra Sunderland

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This study was conducted to determine the relationship between time management skills and levels of stress in teachers.

The sample used consisted of all the teachers i n grades K-12 in the Wentzville R-IV School District. The number of surveys returned totaled 113 which was 58%.

The respondents completed two self-administered questionnaires. One was a Time Management Survey and the other was the Wilson Stress Profile for Teachers. Each survey contained 36 items which were scored on a Likert-type scale of 1 to 5.

The Pearson r correlation between the two sets of scores was .623 which was found to …

A Study Of Need Achievement Motivation: Motivational Differences In A Private For Profit Hospital Versus A Non Profit Private Hospital Setting, Kenneth W. Mihill

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The subject of need achievement is of prime importance in today's industry . Motivating employees and using the resources the modern corporation has at its disposal have never been as important to industry as they are today . Unmotivated employees cost corporations heavily in terms of absenteeism and loss of productivity , which are then reflected in profits.

This research project concerns whether or not there are different levels of need achievement in a private non- profit hospital organization versus a private investor- owned (for profit) hospital organization . Three groups , each of 20 subjects, were studied . The …

Martial Instability: Its Probability Based On A Demographic Profile Of Couple Seeking Counseling, Mary Frances Nail

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This study was an investigation of the marriage relationship. It specifically investigated those spouses who are experiencing severe enough difficulties in their marriage to seek professional counseling.

The subjects (N = 405) for this study were couples who had come for counseling at PACT (formerly PAC), a private counseling agency in the St. Louis metropolitan area. The information was gathered by reviewing the files of couples who had come to PACT over a 10 - year period, from 1977 through 1986. The criteria to qualify as a "couple subject" was (a) that it was the first marriage for each spouse, …

A Presentation Of The Self-Organizing Paradigm; Speculation On Its Impact On Health, Gail Dahl Schomaker

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This thesis explores the emergence of a new paradigm in understanding health, grounded in the scientific principles of self-organization and systems theory. Gail Dahl Schomaker presents a comprehensive examination of the shift from the traditional Newtonian mechanical worldview to the dynamic, process-oriented perspective rooted in the theory of dissipative structures as formulated by Ilya Prigogine. Central to this new worldview is the conceptualization of living organisms, including humans, as open systems that maintain and increase order through continual interaction with their environment.

The paper is structured to introduce key theoretical models from systems theory, cybernetics, and holistic health, progressively building …

Management Of Personnel Systems, James P. Ward

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The "Management of Personnel Systems" course (BA-332), taught at Lindenwood College in Spring 1986, provides a comprehensive framework for understanding key components in personnel and industrial relations. Designed for graduate-level students, the course emphasizes both theoretical foundations and practical applications of human resource management. Its core objective is to equip students with the philosophy, skills, and experiential learning necessary to operate effectively within the personnel function of organizations.

The syllabus covers a broad spectrum of topics, including job analysis and design, staffing and recruitment, equal employment opportunity, performance appraisal systems, compensation and benefits, labor relations, collective bargaining, organizational development, safety …

Voices Production, Elsa Burroughs Fritts

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Home-Tutoring Programs With Special Education Students: Four Descriptive Studies, Susan M. Broom

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The purpose of this study was to determine the positive and negative effects of home-tutoring on four handicapped students and their families, and to ascertain if a home-tutoring program would be positively accepted by the students and their families. The descriptive studies were conducted using students of different handicaps and age levels.

During an interview prior to the involvement program, parents were asked about the amount of time presently spent studying with the child, the family members involved with studying, the familiarity of the parents with the IEP goals, and their feelings about involvement. At the post-treatment interview, the same …

A Suggested Personal And Family Care Curriculum For The Vocational Skills Centers Of The Special School District Of St. Louis County, Ruth Elaine Hellweg

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A Suggested Personal and Family Care Curriculum for the Vocational Skills Centers of the Special School District of St. Louis County is designed to provide an open entrance-open exit approach to developing skills for coping with specific activities of daily living. It is intended for use with handicapped students of all categories including BD, LD, MR, SH, and orthopedically handicapped and could be used with slow learners in any area. It is a task analyzed curriculum, written with measurable behavioral objectives to facilitate IEP formulation. Areas covered are grooming and hygiene, nutrition, food preparation, first aid, home health, safety, substance …

Marketing Customer Service Within The Information Movement And Management Industry, Mark Jones

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The goal of this project is to determine what characteristics of the service firms are considered critical to success of vendors within the information movement and management industry.

The first task undertaken was to determine a definition for the information movement and management industry and which firms were major competitors within the industry . The size of the industry in terms of employees and revenues was then estimated. Some of the characteristics of the major competitors were then expanded.

The next activity involved the determination of what factors the information movement and management market members used to select a vendor …

A Curriculum For The Teaching Of Writing At The Fifth Grade Level Using Cerebral Symmetry, Karen Sue Roth

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Children's writing doesn't just happen. The transferring of private thoughts onto paper is a fragile and complicated press. To make the best use of instructional time and assure the quality of children's writing experiences, this author upon reviewing the current research felt a writing program based on integrating the right and left modes of thinking in a non-threatening environment was necessary. This is a curriculum designed to involve both modes of perceiving. It allows for the right hemisphere modes by encouraging clustering, body movement, color, image making, and metaphoric thinking. It enhances the left hemisphere modes by providing exercises for …

One Actor/Director Among Millions, Jannell L. Robinson

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Jannell L. Robinson’s thesis explores the vital role of communication in theatre, both in acting and directing. The study highlights how directors must effectively convey their artistic vision to actors, designers, and stage managers to ensure a cohesive production. Through her experiences as an actress in Harold Pinter’s The Lover and Mark Medoff’s Healure, Robinson analyzes character development using the Stanislavski method, emphasizing emotional depth and psychological realism. She details her challenges and discoveries in portraying complex female roles, including the necessity of improvisation, physical commitment, and character backstory creation.

Robinson also examines her directorial process in staging A …

The Effect Of Corporate Advertising On Stock Prices, Teresa M. Burke

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Persistence Of Vision, J Catherine Bebout

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Film Granularity And The Effect On Subjective Image Quality, James A. Wisner

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The evaluation of subjective image quality in pictures is investigated as a function of the scene content of the images and the grain level of the images . In the pictures studied, no relationship was observed for the effect of scene content when the only other variable was the grain level.

Brighton Beach -- An Interaction, Dory E. Thanhauser

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An Analysis Of Electronic Color Scanning Techniques For Application To The Dye Transfer Process, William Allan Six

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The dye transfer process is the photographic printing process used to produce the highest quality photographic prints to be submitted to printers for reproduction. Dye transfer prints are valued by advertising agencies for their highly saturated colors and ease of retouching. Photographers, museums, art galleries and collectors also value dye prints for the archival qualities. Dye transfer uses cyan, magenta, and yellow dyes to reproduce a color image. Photographic masking is used extensively for color correction, tone compression, and detail enhancement. The masks are projected with the original transparency to make continuous-tone separation negatives. Shallow-reliefgelatin positive-image matrices are made by …

Rose-Marie Hicks (Drac): A Photographic Documentation, Susan Myers

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Determination Of Trace Quantities Of Selenium And Arsenic In Canned Tuna Fish Using Electroanalytical Techniques, Ann Marie Higham

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Toxic metals are present in the environment and are known to be present in food. Selenium, which is considered an essential micronutrient, is recognized as a toxic metal at slightly higher concentrations. Arsenic is also recognized as a toxic metal. Selenium and Arsenic tend to accumulate in food, specifically fish and seafood.

Fifteen brands and types of tuna fish were analyzed for selenium using differential pulse cathodic stripping voltammetry. The cans with the high and low concentrations of selenium were analyzed for arsenic using differential pulse polarography. Three samples with three percent recoveries and a blank were analyzed for each …

An Investigation Of The Application Of Utility Theory To Determine The Value Of Time: The Demand For Interactive Information Systems In Student Markets, Gordon S. Kalley

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The economic rational of many contemporary businesses is the provision of services or labor saving equipment which their customers' pay for in order• to save themselves time. A major decision such an enterprise must make prior to entry into the market i=_ whether enough of a market exists to make its entry worthwhile. Such firms would be able to make better resource allocation decisions if they could have a quantitative measure of the relationship of their consumer's valuation of time vis a vi money. This study proposes such a measure.

Interactive information systems, whose viability depends to a large degree …

The Romance And Reality Of Art And Laundry, Susan Blumendale

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Access Control Models: Authorization Mechanisms For Database Management Systems, Diana Anglero

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Rochester: Documented, Peter Eberlin

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Over a two-year period certain unappreciated, visual and factual aspects of the City of Rochester were systematically documented. These aspects of the City of Rochester consisted of Mobil Gas Stations and their owners, closed gas stations, and new businesses in former gas stations; the City Limits and residents, animals, and other noisemakers existing proximal to the City Limits; places where I had to wait in line; the MEN and WOMEN of City Hall; the dotted lines that separate traffic lanes; and a short, dead-end street that was bull dozed over and left for field. The process of documenting these aspects …

Effects Of Standardized Supplementary Activities And Reading Level On Spelling Achievement In First Grade, Lois A. Evans

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Spelling programs in the primary grades often seem to lack internal continuity . Although students may receive appropriate activity lessons early in the school year, by the end of the year they are expected to master weekly lists of high frequency Dolch words in isolation . That is, the students are not given any predeveloped lessons that would allow them to use their spelling words in a meaningful context. It was the present researcher's contention that primary students would show higher levels of spelling achievement when the words were mastered through a standardized program of creative and functional writing exercises …

Entropus: Entropia Ex Aisthetikos, Gerald Lamarsh

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Displaced Vignettes/Memory Trace, Elizabeth Gafarian

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The Accident Prevention Responsibilities Of Management, Kenneth A. Hogue

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The principles of industrial safety described in this paper are discussed from the viewpoint of the industrial supervisor. Maintaining a safe work environment is considered to be a prime responsibility of line supervisors. Accident prevention is viewed as avoidance of unsafe acts and conditions. Guidelines are suggested which enable the the supervisor to impart a safety consciousness on the worker. The Occupational Safety and Health Act and its practical implications are discussed from the standpoint of reporting, correction of unsafe conditions, and penalties. Recommendations are made in the areas of training, communication, and employee motivation.