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Mature Women Students: Effects Of The Gender Division Of Labor On Education, Sarah Jane Brubaker

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This thesis seeks to better understand the trend toward mature women college students as impacted by the gender division of labor. It is based on qualitative research involving in-depth, semi-structured interviews with ten African-American and eleven white mature women students age 30 and over enrolled at Virginia Commonwealth University.

The interview questions focus on two main decision points in the lives of mature women students. The first is defined as the point at which they chose a course of action, other than attending college, after high school, or when they left college. The second is defined as the point at …

Child-Parent Attachment Style And Adult Attachment Style As Predictors Of Psychological And Interpersonal Problems, Lisa Deutsch Nava

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The relationship among perceptions of child-parent attachment, current adult attachment style, psychological symptoms, and interpersonal problems was investigated. Subjects were 94 female undergraduate students at a large urban university in Richmond, Virginia. The modal age of the subjects was 22 years. Subjects were administered a packet comprised of six pencil-and-paper measures: Parental Caregiving Measure, Bartholomew Adult Attachment Style Questionnaire, Social Avoidance and Distress Scale, Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire-Revised, and Inventory of Interpersonal Problems. The results indicated that the set of child-parent attachment and adult attachment style variables significantly predicted fear of negative evaluation, social avoidance and …

Family Life Education In The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In The 20th Century: A Historical Review, Ray W. Stringham

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This thesis reviewed selected educational literature in almost 350 texts published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) from General Authorities and manuals which included content curriculum in adult family life education; for the adult women's organization (Relief Society); for the men's Melchizedek Priesthood; and for parents instructing their children at home (Family Home Evening).

Topics were ranked by century, according to frequencies of occurrence (FO) in the five major publications. Topics were also summarized by each decade. Tables were provided which summarized the top 40 of 78 topics identified. Recurring Themes suggest family is the basis …

The Southern Utah Expedition Of Parley P. Pratt: 1849-1850, Rick J. Fish

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In 1849, President Brigham Young commissioned a fifty man company, headed by Parley P. Pratt, to explore Southern Utah for possible colonization. The four month trek spanned the coldest months of the winter, and afforded some very harrowing and hazardous experiences. These events weave a heroic story filled with excitement and adventure, while simultaneously revealing the tremendous dedication and fortitude on the part of the explorers to successfully complete their mission.

Many of the Southern Utah colonies that were initiated in the subsequent years following the expedition were based on information gathered during this seven-hundred mile expedition. In addition, their …

Adolescents' Perceptions Of The Effects Of School-Based Family Life Education On Utilization Of Parents As A Resource For Problem Solving And For Sex-Specific Information, Bonnie B. Dowdy

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Parental involvement is assumed to be an important component of successful school-based family life education programs. Historically, however, parents have been described as uninvolved in their adolescents’ sexuality education. Few data exist that explain either parents’ non-involvement or adolescents’ perceptions of parents as resources to support healthy sexual development. Existing research adopts a narrow, social control perspective on adolescent sexuality and on evaluation of community-based sexuality education programs. Given the increasing numbers of school-based family life education programs and of national organizations encouraging parental involvement components in preventive programs, empirical research on the interface of school and home-based sexuality education …

Distributed Ray Casting For High-Speed Volume Rendering, Patricia L. Brightbill

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The volume rendering technique known as ray casting or ray tracing is notoriously slow for large volume sizes, yet provides superior images. A technique is needed to accelerate ray tracing volumes without depending on special purpose or parallel computers. The realization and improvements in distributed computing over the past two decades has motivated its use in this work. This thesis explores a technique to speedup ray casting by distributed programming. The work investigates the possibility of dividing the volume among general purpose workstations and casting rays (using Levoy's front-to-back algorithm) through each subvolume independently. The final step being the composition …

Changes In Occipital Capillary Perfusion Pressures During Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery, Jacalyn A. Steinmetz

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Education On Proper Handling Of Pesticides Reduces The Risk Of Contamination, Mary Long Schlosser

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Attitudes And Personal Decisions Of Registered Nurses Regarding Advance Directives, Nancy J. Horpedahl

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The Effects Of Increased Knowledge On Students' Attitudes Towards Aids Patients, Mary Ann Graham

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Attitudes Of Nursing Students Toward Caring For The Elderly, Marlys J. Bohn

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Two Types Of Supervisory Feedback And Student Clinicians' Generalization Of A Targeted Clinical Behavior, Sonya Kay Nielson

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New Realism In Twentieth Century Adolescent Literature, Shelly Morgan

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Attacking The Flanks : The Union Cavalry's Pursuit Of Lee, July 3-6, 1863, Thomas W. Mcconn

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Vietnam : The Question Of An Alternative Revolution, Philip A. O'Brien

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When Is It Rape? : Victim And Perpetrator Factors Involved In Acquaintance Rape, Maria L. Niemi

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Basic Concepts And Number Conservation, Heather M. Clark

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English For Specific Purposes : Breakdown In Aircraft Radio Communication, Emerson Dale Case

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Writing Apprehension : A Study Of Learning Disabled Students' Anxiety Toward Composing, Andrew T. Freeman

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A Certified Public Accountants Key Considerations In Establishing A Personal Financial Planning Practice, Darrell A. Flynn

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A Catalog Use Study Of The Library Online Catalog, Randy Pederson

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The Blood-Oocyte Barrier: Morphological Evidence Implicating The Zona Pellucida, Allan D. Forsman

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A developing oocyte is capable of synthesizing "non-self" proteins recognized as foreign by the maternal immune system. Since the oocyte may be perceived as foreign it must be protected from interaction with the immune system in order for it to mature to the point of ovulation. Oocytes that begin development but do not mature to the point of ovulation become atretic and are destroyed and phagocytized by the maternal system. This study proposes that the zona pellucida of the ovarian follicle is the barrier between the immune system and the oocyte. The suggestion is made that the oocyte may play …

Mathematical Writing: A Descriptive Study To Explore The Relationship Between Analytical / Creative Writing And The Understanding Of Mathematical Problem Solving In A Seventh-Grade Classroom, Shiela Ann Puffe

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This naturalistic inquiry explored the relationship between writing and mathematical problem solving. The use of analytical writing and creative writing was examined to see if it was a beneficial heuristic for teaching understanding of mathematical problem solving in a seventh-grade class. The teacher acted as the principal researcher.

The treatment consisted of two distinct segments. Students wrote narrative, analytical accounts of their problem-solving process. They used a teacher-constructed study guide based on Polya's problem-solving framework (Understand the Problem, Devise a Plan, Carry Out the Plan, and Look Back / Evaluate) with metacognitive questioning as a guide for this writing. Students …

An Analysis Of Reading Growth Of Two Randomly Selected "At-Risk" Students: A Four Year Study, Gayle D. Moyle

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Establishing A Methodology For Evaluation And Selecting Computer Aided Software Engineering Tools For A Defined Software Engineering Environment At The Air Force Institute Of Technology School Of Engineering, Jody L. Mattingly

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This thesis identifies the software engineering environment (SEE) as it exists at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) School of Engineering. It also describes the software process model employed and the software development methods presented as part of the curriculum. Based on this information, criteria was established to evaluate computer aided software engineering (CASE) tools being considered for integration into the SEE. Each criterion was weighted to indicate its importance when selecting CASE tools. The criteria were further used to establish a methodology to be used to evaluate and select the CASE tools under consideration as well as future …

Effect Of Spatial Locality Prefetching On Structural Locality, Dirk D. Schalch

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The purpose of this research was to analyze the effect that spatial locality prefetching in cache memory has on the structural locality of program memory referencing behavior. To examine this, a software simulator was built to model a proposed two-level cache memory subsystem. The proposed subsystem was designed to use spatial locality prefetching to exploit the structural locality contained in executing computer workloads. New memory referencing models were developed to incorporate the combined use of structural locality and spatial locality prefetching. From these models, equations were derived to predict the hit rates for both caches. Combined with the state transition …

Speech Recognition Using Multiple Features And Multiple Recognizers, Thomas F. Rathbun

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The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate the feasibility of using multiple features and multiple recognizers to perform isolated word recognition. This is accomplished by performing multiple independent recognition tests and fusing the results together to get a single recognition result. The speech data is recorded and each word is extracted into a separate file. Eight features are calculated for each word. The features are calculated on 512 sample time slices and produce 16 component vector output. The three recognizers use the eight features to produce a total of 24 error distance lists. These lists are then fused together …

Three-Dimensional Medical Image Registration Using A Patient Space Correlation Technique, Patrick J. Rizzuto Jr.

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The routine clinical use of three-dimensional data provided by modern medical imaging procedures is often impeded by the difficulty in accurately correlating the resultant volume datasets. These data are frequently obtained at different times using the same modality, or images of the same patient are sometimes produced using more than one imaging modality. In order to analyze the similarities and differences between such images, it is necessary for the medical imaging data to be spatially aligned using a process known as image registration. This research investigated a structure-based image registration technique based upon simple, three-dimensional relationships among user identified landmarks. …

A Spatially Partitioned Parallel Simulation Of Colliding Objects, Robert S. Moser

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This study investigated the application of a conservative synchronization paradigm to the classical, distributed pool balls simulation executed on an eight node, Intel iPSC/2 hypercube. Wieland's concept of spatial partitioning and limited data replication was used. Analysis has shown that 100% parallelization of execution is possible in a conservative environment via assignment of multiple sectors to nodes. Two conservative formulations for minimum safe time were derived. A tradeoff exists between scalability and efficiency. Optimum sectoring prediction has been shown possible through application of linear regression techniques. The results of this research reveal that a conservative approach to distributed, discrete event …

Improved Task Scheduling For Parallel Simulations, Andrew E. Mcnear

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The objective of this investigation is to design, analyze, and validate the generation of optimal schedules for simulation systems. Improved performance in simulation execution times can greatly improve the return rate of information provided by such simulations resulting in reduced development costs of future computer/electronic systems. Optimal schedule generation of precedence-constrained task systems including iterative feedback systems such as VHDL or war gaming simulations for execution on a parallel computer is known to be N P-hard. Efficiently parallelizing such problems takes full advantage of present computer technology to achieve a significant reduction in the search times required. Unfortunately, the extreme …