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Lindenwood College Resource Center: A Development Plan, Elizabeth Ann Herod

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This project developed out of the need for an in-house on-campus graduate and post graduate training program for the non-traditional students of LCIE (Lindenwood College for Individualized Education> in Professional Psychology. The need for a college counseling center to meet those training expectations was established by literature review. Colleges need counseling centers which offer a variety of high quality services and training to students and to the community. Off-campus practicum sites are beset with problems. Graduate students who have the opportunity to involve themselves in training programs at college centers reap the optimum benefits of professionalism and ethics in coordination …

A Specialty Orthopedic Skilled Unit, Vivian K. Landes

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Feasibility Study And Premarket Analysis Of Sites For A Sportsmedicine Facility, Deborah Anne Hardel

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The purpose of the study was to develop criteria for determining an advantageous site for a sportsmedicine facility from among 91 municipalities in greater St. Louis. Two types of clinics, referral base and doctor-in-house, were compared to select the most appropriate type of facility for the specific site.

To facilitate data collection, greater St. Louis was divided into four regions, including the city of St. Louis as one region and three other regions formed from 90 municipalities in the county. For each community, data were gathered on median household income, median age, real estate valuation, and number of schools and …

A Study Of Productivity Levels Under Theory X And Theory Y Management Styles, Kevin R. Hranicka

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This thesis will focus on management and the effect of management orientation and style upon work group productivity.

Researchers have attempted to find methods for managers to use to increase employee work output or productivity for decades. As early as the beginning of the nineteenth century industrialists were experimenting with different methods of operation and organization in the hopes of raising output levels and increasing worker satisfaction. In the last fifty years management styles and employee productivity have played an ever increasingly important role in the economy as society has continued to institutionalize its needs and its providers.

This change …

A Survey Of Psychotherapists Conceptions Of Self-Actualization, Constance C. Jones

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Therapists views of the nature, function, and effect of the self-actualizing capacity in their clients were investigated. Variation in views as a function of therapists ' gender, experience, and theoretical orientation was also examined. The researcher gathered the information by randomly selecting psychologists from the American Psychological Association's Register and as king 35 men and 25 women to respond to a 12-quest ion self -administered questionnaire.

The results from the questionnaires were coded and grouped into general categories . The responses seemed to fall naturally into two broad groupings of (a) psychological and physical (internal phenomena) effects or (b) factors …

The Relationships Between Employment Status, Leisure, And Self Esteem For Women In Mid-Life, Yvonne Rocco

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Women between the ages of 35 and 50 were the subject s of a study to explore the relationship between level of self- esteem and amount of planned lei sure time . The differences between employed and unemployed women with regard to level of self-esteem and amount of planned leisure time were also examined . Seventy-five subjects completed a self-administered self- esteem test (the Personal Data Inventory) and a Leisure Diary. Significant relationships were not found between level of self - esteem and amount of planned leisure time or between employment status and self- esteem . For a one-week period, …

The Use Of Word Association To Examine Conscious Attention, Laura A. Batchelor

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This study applied statistical analysis to the word association method of psychological research to investigate the element of conscious attention, defined as those mental processes which deliver a word a s a response to a stimulus word.

The subjects were 15 males and 15 females from a middle-class suburban community. They were tested individually with a 100 - item word association test. Each subject participated in two testing sessions, and the word association test was administered twice during each session.

Two variables were measured, response time and response reproduction. These were used to classify each subject's reactions to the test …

Enhancements To The Frame Virtual Machine, Archna Bhandari

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The Enhanced Frame Package is a tool to build Expert Systems. It is a frame based system, that initially was developed in C-Prolog by LaMora S. Hiss at Rochester Institute of Technology in 1987 for her master's thesis. It was enhanced in the current thsis to provide much larger expressive power andgreater ease of use. Several operators were modified/enhanced, and several new operators were added, while providing the user a balance of computational tractability, expressive power and consistency. Major concepts provided in the Enhanced Frame Package include - local consistency checking as opposed to global consistency checking and how the …

Intelligent Knowledge Acquisition System, Bong-Soo Youn

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IKAS (Intelligent Knowledge Acquisition System) is an expert system building shell with a machine-assisted concept checker for easy integrated rule-entry. Unlike most expert system shells currently available, IKAS not only performs rule syntax checking, but also maintains semantic integration of the knowledge base by using a Concept Base. The Concept Base is incrementally grown during the cycle of expert system application development and safeguards the whole domain from conceptually conflicting rules by finding possible inconsistencies or duplications of concepts and giving recommendations for possible solutions. Also automatic generalized concept forming using the Inductive Extension Generalization method gives IKAS a capability …

My Spirit, Kathy Clem

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The Opinions Of Parents And Teachers Of Children In Grades K-6 In The Francis Howell School District Regarding Homework, Rita Freebairn Beard

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The purpose of this study was to survey parents and teachers of children in kindergarten through sixth grade in the Francis Howell School District to determine opinions regarding the value and scope of homework in the elementary school. It was also designed to determine t heir awareness of district homework policy.

All data in the study were gathered by means of a printed questionnaire, which was developed so it could be answered by both parents and teachers . Two hundred participants (150 parents and 50 teachers) were randomly chosen to be part of the study. The questionnaires, along with cover …

The Nature Of Realism, Lauren Anne Maines

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Furniture For Children, Sooyun Ahn

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Nexus, Robert Reichhardt

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A Study Of The Effect Of Surround And Ambient Lighting Conditions On Crt Screen Colors, Diane Ouellette

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The use of CRT monitors as a soft copy proof in color electronic pre-press systems (CEPS) has become common. This has raised some question as to the appropriate viewing conditions for such terminals. This writing discusses the effects of ambient illumination as well as screen surround conditions on optical, psychophysical, and physical characteristics of CRT colors in a complex color field. A review of related literature, specifically those studies of chromatic adaptation, and effects of surround conditions on brightness, hue, and saturation is included. These studies are compared to the experimental data and both an ambient light model and surround …

Development Of A Knowledge-Based System For Human Error Analysis, Bang-Chiang Sung

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Human Factors is one of several essential issues in a discussion of system productivity. Its consideration must be included in the design, development, operation, and maintenance of any human-machine system. In order to maximize the system productivity, humans must perform with their maximum possible efficiency. To achieve this, all human-related activities must be evaluated to determine their possible causes of errors and the consequences. Then, if unable to completely remove, the causes of human errors must be minimized.

This thesis integrates a knowledge of expert system into an analysis of human errors. Its objective is to develop a knowledge-based system …

The Architecture Of Automobile And Building Design : Learning From 100 Years Of Parallel Processes, Vojislav Ristic

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The industrial revolution has had a critical impact on society in general and architecture in particular. How we design, build and use buildings is different due to industrial changes in materials, processes and techniques. A key manifestation of the industrial revolution has been the automobile. Since the automobile is a more direct result of application of technique, it is helpful to examine its design to better understand the less direct influences of technique in architecture. This is especially important at a time when the role of technology in architecture is becoming both more significant and more difficult to define and …

Personal Icons, Donna Nadine Bratcher

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Computerizing The Human Resource Information System, Dur-Chih Wang

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In the past twenty years we have moved from an industrial society to an information society in which 60% (Personnel, 1985) of the work force is occupied with the creation, processing, and distribution of information. Because of this change in work distribute effective management of information is now and continue to be the key to employee productivity, competitive strength, and economic achievement. The business community is coming to realize that after people, information is its most important asset. At the same time, many aggressive firms are learning to use information technology and their people as strategic weapons to gain a …

Breast Cancer: Options In Care And Treatment, Elliot Friedman

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Color Theory As Applied To Typographic Letterforms, Mark Lewis

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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate color theories through the use of typography while using the Pantone Color System as a guide. The examples used are not, nor were they intended to be, the best or only definition of a particular color theory. Rather, they represent one solution to a given problem. In this thesis I intended to illustrate color effects, (by combining color and typography,) that cannot be achieved through the use of colored shapes alone.

A 3-D Tactile Sensor With Digital Output, Sin-Shou Cho

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This thesis details the design of a new tactile sensor for general-purpose robot manipulators. Such manipulators, designed to be functionally equivalent to the human hand, will require sensor arrays that fulfill several requirements : (1) many sensor elements to minimize tactile imaging time, (2) close spacing of small sensing elements for fine spatial discrimination, (3) ability to be molded to a convex fingertip surface for taction on concave surfaces, (4) tolerance to over-scale forces without damage. In addition to the above, which are considered requirements, several other characteristics are desirable. Foremost is the ability to sense shear forces, which provide …

Messaging, The Effects Of The Use Of Voice Mail On The Use Of Electronic Mail, Terese M. De Troia

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A number of office automation products have evolved over the years to address the messaging needs of organizations. The 1800's brought us telegraph systems which led the way for teletype and Telex systems, followed by facsimilie, computer-based message systems, document based electronic mail and, most recently, voice store and forward (or voice messaging) systems (Advances in Office Automation, 1985). Voice messaging systems, a newly emerging method of communications, are having a significant impact on communications. The concept of messaging services is rapidly gaining acceptance in business communities (Girishankar 1986, Hirschheim 1985). With costs rising and time becoming more valuable, organizations …

Effective Techniques For Selection Of Information Systems Personnel, Robert Reginald Downs

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Although major developments in information systems have occurred within the last two decades, staffing to manage these systems has received limited attention. Staffing information systems personnel is investigated in this study to develop effective techniques that can be used in the selection process.

Recent literature on selection and staffing has been reviewed to establish methods that can be used to identify qualified candidates. Technological developments and the resulting effects upon organizational operations are examined, revealing the transition in the information systems management function as well as the effects upon the role of these personnel. The qualifications that are associated with …

Culture Analysis In A Merger Environment, Dorairaj Sharathram

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The effects of the merger upon the People Express Airline company is studied with particular emphasis upon changes in corporate culture and structure.

A case study approach utilizes an extensive literature search and interviews with People Express executives. It is confirmed that the structural change has led to the cultural change.

With a unique style of management structure and culture, People Express, due to its own mistakes and problems, quickly lost its market share and allowed itself to be taken over by Continental Airlines a subsidiary of Houston based Texas Air Corp.

It is interesting to note that the corporate …

Seaforms, Karen Louise Wright

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A Survey Of Computerized Writing Aid Systems And Implementation Of A Homonym Checker Using Artificial Intelligence, Anna Marie Robbins

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Computerized writing aid systems ideally determine whether word usage in written text is appropriate both syntactically and semantically. Currently developed computerized writing aid systems are reviewed with emphasis on their methods for and success at grammar checking. A limited homonym checker and correction advisor is devised and implemented using the Prolog programming language and artificial intelligence techniques. Insight is gained into the problem of developing a comprehensive computerized system for determining appropriate syntactic and semantic word usage.

Port-A-Map, Viriya Pungthong

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An Investigation Of Consumers' Preference For A Typestyle In Relation To A Display Poster, Brad Weaver

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A Colorimetric Analysis Of Color Variation Due To Changes In Simulated Ink Trapping, Mary Louise Bulger

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The purpose of this study was to address, through colorimetric analysis, color variation as it relates to the efficiency of trapping. A developing awareness of colorimetric analysis in the graphic arts, as well as the realization of some of the limitations of densitometry when applied to color analysis provided impetus for such a study.