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Bon Mot And Other Confections, Darla J. Kalman

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A Proposed Study Of The Value Of An Exercise And Nutrition Program For Obese Children In A Public School Setting, Barbara Mcdougal

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This proposed study addresses the question: Will a daily exercise and nutrition program help increase the level of fitness for children determined to be obese?

A plan of classifying students as being obese is included as well as a recommended program of exercise and nutrition. The program consists of student participation for 24 weeks for 30 minutes daily in addition to their regular physical education class.

Obese students would be divided into two groups. One group would continue their normal daily schedule and the second group would participate in the exercise and nutrition program.

Because this author is enrolled in …

A Science Curriculum Incorporating Process Skill Activities Into Content-Oriented Science Programs, Holly Richards

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This curriculum of science activities was developed to be used with a content-oriented text in the intermediate grades of elementary school. It was specifically designed to give students additional practice in using the process skills in the various units of science, The author felt the need for this curriculum after teaching both content- and process-oriented programs, as each left much to be desired when taught in isolation.

This researcher believes that children learn best by doing, and that science is an ideal area in which to develop the skills that produce independent learners and critical thinkers. However, as research shows, …

An Application Of Multi-Dimensional Scaling To The Re-Examination Of Preferred Tone Reproduction, David J. Porter

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Black and white prints were produced of several scenes that varied in both negative contrast and negative exposure. Subjects rated the various prints by categories based on their own personal understanding of what an excellent print was. The boundaries of the categories were found and used to determine the preferred tone reproduction characteristics. Individual differences were also scaled with the use of a proximity measure determined from the categorical data. The preferred contrast (1.46 +0.24) was significantly higher than the contrast that has been found to be preferred in earlier studies. The application of this study to more general situations …

Dream Images, John Nasif Samaha

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Please seek out the real purpose of this report in the photographs. It is with these images that I have tried to communicate what I have thought, felt, and dreamt. My work is experimental in technique. The images are created as fantasies juxtaposed with the tradition of design, figure, line, planes of dimension, and overall composition. By using color materials in a non-conventional way, I am exploring the range of photographic possibilities with color, form, drama, emotion, mystery, and life. Photography functions beautifully for these narrative elements because of its ability to transform a real event into something mysterious, removed …

Form, Donna Colebeck

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The body of work in this thesis embodies an exploration on form. My interpretation has primarily dealt with form as it relates to hollowware, both functional and non-functional in nature. The hollowware pieces maintain relatively simple shapes with smooth contours, linear dimensions and movement. The linear elements have opened different interpretations so that the work may extend and expand the forms beyond the geometric shapes to allow new contours and directions . Various transitory lines, subtle curves and gradual taperings all work to enhance gentle flow, movement and elegance within each piece.

A Decision Theory Approach To Tone Reproduction, Kevin E. Spaulding

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The concepts of statistical decision theory were applied to the photographic tone reproduction system to develop an objective measurement of tone reproduction accuracy called the "expected loss" of the system. Reproductions were made of four scenes using systems with a wide range of tone reproduction characteristics. The expected loss for each system/scene combination was calculated, and the perceived tone reproduction accuracy was determined using the psychophysical scaling method of magnitude estimation. A statistically significant correlation was found between the subjectively determined accuracy, and system expected loss, but the degree of correlation was not high enough for the merit function to …

Industrial Art Materials, Frank S. Defrancis

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Anyone, who has ever tried to paint has become well acquainted with the fact that huge sums of money too often buy the meagerest amounts of supplies. Faced with the possibility of either breaking into art supply stores at night or learning to vent my hostilities elsewhere I traded my studio supplies for their industrial counterparts and gratefully have never looked back. The following report will document the advantages as well as the disadvantages that I have encountered in working exclusively with industrial art materials. The first half will deal the materials themselves while the second half will offer a …

Determining Techniques And Alternatives For Pupil Recruitment For Enrollment In The Head Start Program, Nancy Vanzant

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This report examines strategies for improving recruitment and enrollment in Head Start programs serving low-income families in St. Louis. Head Start is a federally funded initiative designed to provide early childhood education, health services, and family support to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Despite the program’s benefits, many eligible families remain unenrolled, highlighting a persistent gap between available resources and community participation.

The study identifies multiple barriers to enrollment, including limited awareness of Head Start, transportation difficulties, and misconceptions about eligibility. Families often perceive Head Start as a program for others rather than as an opportunity for their own children, while …

Paired Comparisons And Personal Compensation: A Computer-Aided Approach, H. D. Simpkin

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H.D. Simpkin's Paired Comparisons and Personnel Compensation: A Computer-Aided Approach explores the use of the paired comparison method in employee performance evaluation and salary determination. The study examines the challenges human resource managers face in linking salary increases with performance assessments, emphasizing the limitations of traditional ranking and rating systems. The paired comparison method, which systematically compares employees against each other in pairs, is proposed as a more reliable and objective alternative.

The thesis details a study conducted with laboratory technicians, where supervisors used both conventional ranking methods and a computerized paired comparison system. Statistical analysis demonstrated a high correlation …

The Adventures Of Rose And Jody, Chapter 17: Jody Does Her Thesis, Jody Williams

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Today's Woman On Canvas, Rebecca R. Sizer

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Process, Color, Form, Space And Motion, Susan Pineo

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The Painful, Hidden Handicap Known As "Shyness": Its Devastating Effects On Young And Old, Rose Marie Liuzza

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The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship, if any, and the nature of the relationship between a condition of shyness in a juvenile individual and manifestations of antisocial behaviors on the part of that individual. The study was designed utilizing two sample groups, each totaling 40 juvenile individuals. The first sample group was an experimental group, composed of juvenile individuals who had been detained for a period of 48 hours or longer by the St. Louis County Juvenile Court. The second sample group was selected at random from among the student populations of two St. Louis County …

A Taxonomical Study Of Literary Criticism, Joanne M. Shroba-Wehner

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This paper explores the foundational influence of Plato and Aristotle on the development of literary criticism, tracing how their contrasting philosophies have shaped Western literary theory through successive historical periods. Plato’s skepticism toward mimetic art and his emphasis on divine inspiration set the stage for a long tradition of Platonic influence, later adapted by thinkers such as Sir Philip Sidney, Wordsworth, and Shelley. These Neoplatonists reinterpret Plato’s ideas, often granting greater value to poetic imagination and emotional resonance.

In contrast, Aristotle’s systematic approach to poetics—centered on imitation, catharsis, and structured drama—formed the bedrock for classical and neoclassical criticism. His ideas …

A Twelve-Week Syllabus Designed For Beginning Level Adult Learners Of English As A Second Language, Bettie Jean Simon

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This project reflects the writer's interest in creating and combining relevant, notional, communicative, sociocultural, and grammatical materials into meaningful units for English as a Second .Language syllabi. Every attempt is made to make each step meaningful and useful to the special needs of students from vastly different cultural backgrounds(for example, Indo-Chinese refugee adults).

After a brief preface, a syllabus is presented for students who have had some background in English as a Second Language. The curriculum for each week includes the notions, communicative functions, sociocultural aspects , syntactical patterns , and grammatical categories to be taught. Morphological features and new …

Controlling Market Variability By The Restructuring Of The Investment Portfolio, Dennis G. Welker

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The major concern in a financial transaction is to maximize profit while minimizing the possibilities of capital loss . The first step necessary to obtain either of these goals is to enhance the financial investor's knowledge of the industry and specific company's history, prospects, and management intentions for the future. Secondly, the present and future economic conditions should be analyzed and their effect on how the respective investment reacts in these types of environments should be determined. After this knowledge has been obtained the investor may have enough supportive information to quantify the components of risk and make his investment …

Motivation, Management Motivation, And Its Perceived Decline In American Bureaucratic Organizations In The Context Of Changing Attitudes And Values, Jon Lawrence Johnson

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This Culminating Project represents an inquiry into the existence, applications, and parameters of human motivation and its impact on perceived management attitudes, values, and motivation to manage.

The topic is examined from three vantage points. Part I embodies a selective indoctrination in human motivation concepts and suggests relevant organizational applications and examples in illustration. The term "motivation" has evolved into a popular but often misapplied catch phrase. Therefore, a foundation in prominent human motivation theory is provided as precedent to issues subsequently discussed in the Project, to offer the reader an accurate base of subject knowledge.

Part II addresses the …

The Effects Of Low-Sugar Diets On Behavior And Paired-Associate Learning In Normal Children, Elizabeth Louise Eller

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An experiment was conducted to determine whether reduced sugar diets improve learning and/or alter behavior in normal children . The 14 Ss--seven males and seven females- -were elementary school students, ranging in age from 8.01 to 10.06, matched for age, sex, race, and SES, and screened for med i cation and learning disabilities . They were sequentially assigned to low- sugar and usual diet groups for two - and four- week periods . In a pretest-pottest design, assessment instruments were a paired- associate (PA) learning task and a Nutrition Behavior Inventory {NBI) . The pretest mean NB! indicated at least …

An Artificial Intelligence Approach To The Game Of Backgammon, Chang-Chung Yang

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We have designed a backgammon program to play intelligent games. It can make good decisions of the moves of its checkers. It also can learn from its past experience. This thesis describes how this program works. This thesis is divided into seven chapters. Chapter one gives some background in Artificial Intelligence and the backgammon game. Chapter two summarizes the history of the last 30 years of computer game playing by some well-known researchers in A.I. field. Chapter three "briefly describes the overview of this backgammon pro gram, including the basic playing, input, move verification, output, game starting and terminating, and …

The Dream: Artists Within Universities, James A. Mirabito

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The Computer And The Secondary School English Curriculum, Marjorie Schmieder

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Parsing Natural Language, Leonard E. Wilcox

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People have long been intrigued by the possibility of using a computer to "understand" natural language. Most researchers attempting to solve this problem have begun their efforts by trying to have the computer recognize the underlying syntactic form (the parse tree) of the sentence. This thesis presents an overview of the history of syntactic parsing of natural language, and it compares the major methods that have been used. Linguistically, two recent grammars are described: transformational grammar and systemic grammar. Computationally, three parsing strategies are described and compared: top-down parsing, bottom-up parsing, and a combination of both of these methods. Several …

A Design Of A Master Of Arts In Education Program For The Teaching Of English As A Second Language, Susan Relyea

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This study is undertaken in an attempt to create a viable curriculum for a Master of Arts in Education for the teaching of English as a Second Language. The field of English as a Second Language has evolved into a profession unto its own only in the last thirty years and has been attracting professionals who have had little or no training in pedagogy or English as a Second Language methodology. Much has been learned about the field in the past thirty years. Second language teachers must have special training that is different from English teachers and foreign language teachers. …

Rasa: A Sense Of Meditation, Ismail B. Abdullah

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Alphabet Soup, Beth April Smolev

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The Value Of Antiquities: Historical Development And Evaluation Of Trends In The Current Market Through Graphic Analysis And Sales Data Compilation, Mary Thornton Holton

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The purpose of this project will be to examine some of the most central issues in the evaluation and methodology for valuing the category of fine arts known as antiquities. This category covers several historical periods and includes artifacts which originate anywhere in the present countries of Egypt, Greece, or Italy from 4000 BC in the pre-dynastic ages of Egypt through the various dynasties of the Pharaohs, through the Minoan, Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic ages of Greece, and through the times when the Roman Empire rose and dominated practically the entire known world. The final date which defines antiquities …

The Value Of Antiquities: Historical Development And Evaluation Of Trends In The Current Market Through Graphic Analysis And Sales Data Compilation, Mary Thornton Holmes

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Dyad: Biography Of A Relationship, John Fergus-Jean

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On The Use Of Cognitive Principles And The Personalized System Of Instruction In Computer Science Education, James Bradley

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