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An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Occupational Noise And Hearing Loss In Firefighters, Jane Callahan Rackl

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The present study was designed to measure the noise levels to which professional firefighters are exposed during the process of responding to emergency calls and to investigate the effects of these noise levels upon the auditory sensitivity of the professional firefighters .

Subjects for this study consisted of two groups of firefighters at the Minneapolis Fire Department who were less than 35 years of age. Group A consisted of 17 firefighters with six months to two years of continuous paid firefighting experience. Group B consisted of 17 firefighters with eight to eleven years of continuous paid firefighting experience. An air …

Verbal And Imaginal Mediation In Cognitive-Behavior Modification, Steven L. Shearer

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There has been a recent proliferation of outcorie research on cognitive-behavioral treatment packages; however, little attention has been directed toward investigating the active ingredients of such conglomerate packages. The present study was designed to investigate the relative contributions of verbal and imaginal cognitive mediators in reducing publicspeaking anxiety with other treatment factors held constant.

Therapists' manuals were constructed for the two tynes of intervention so that they were identical except for the focus on either verbal or imaginal mediation. The treatments drev/ from techniques suggested by Meichenbaum (1974a), Goldfried (1971), and Suinn (1975a; 1975b), but the parallel format of the …

The Effects Upon Specific Nonverbal Behaviors Of Focusing Student Clinician's Attention On These Behaviors Through Videotape Feedback And Instruction, Pamela Hagen Gudmundson

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The purpose of this study was to determine if a systematic approach to the study of nonverbal movements through the use of videotape playback and instruction provides a useful procedure for teaching nonverbal patterns and actions to student clinicians.

Thirty female student clinicians who had completed between ten and 400 hours of clinical practice were divided into three groups and matched according to the number of practicum hours completed by each student.

Group I received a one-hour training session which involved viewing of their videotapes accompanied by verbal instructions to attend to specific, defined, nonverbal behaviors. Group II received a …

The Effects Of A Family Designed Learning Program Upon Selected School Related Student Attitudes, Scott J. Norsted

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The Problem: This study had as its purpose the investigation of the relationship between changes in selected school related student attitudes and participation in an experimental educational program, Family Designed Learning. The objective of Family Designed Learning was the individualization of learning through a goal-referenced model giving students, their parents and school faculty the opportunity to cooperate in the planning of the student's academic program.

Sample: Students at Edina East Secondary Schools, Edina, Minnesota, participating in Family Designed Learning did so voluntarily. These students registered on a one semester or one full academic year basis for one or more courses …

Expectancy And Apparatus Placebo Effects In An Emg Feedback Task, Ryan Douglas Jagim

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Although both theoretical and clinical issues are being investigated in the area of biofeedback, the need for the delineation of the potent variables is evident. Research must be designed to separate out the nonspecific placebo factors which are involved in biofeedback procedures. The present study incorporates a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design to investigate the effects of two placebo variables--"expectancy of gain" and an apparatus placebo--on an electromyogram (EMG) feedback task.

Each of the forty-eight male undergraduate subjects had baseline EMG frontalis levels recorded. Two baseline periods were utilized to assess the before and after effe cts of …

The Measurement And Reporting Of Human Resources - Its Feasibility And Utility, Wesley J. Simonson

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Financial accounting is dynamic. It's generally accepted accounting principles are the result of an evolutionary process that can be expected to continue. Accounting is not an art which is an end in itself, rather it is an activity with a purpose. It is an information system whose principles change in response to changes in economic and social conditions, to new knowledge, and to demands of users for more serviceable financial information. Human Resource Accounting (H.R.A.) is a part of this evolutionary process. It is a response to a need for information in an area previously considered to be outside the …

Relationship Between Student Participation In A Secondary School Reading Program And Selected School Performance Variables, Marylin Jean (Walter) Guy

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Problem: The purpose of this study is to investigate four questions: 1. Are Students' reading achievement gains that are attained through participation in a remedial reading program during the sophomore year retained thoughout high school? 2. Does participation in a secondary remedial reading program affect students' general school-related behavior? 3. What benefits do students perceive from participating in a remedial reading program? 4. What recommendations can be made to improve the existing remedial reading program at Red River High School in Grand Forks, North Dakota?

Identified from reading achievement and nonverbal IQ scores and selected from the 1973-74 sophomore class, …

Futures Research: A New Approach To Long-Range Corporate Planning, Conley A. Byrnes

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This study is an attempt to illustrate the potential use of futures research in long-range corporate planning. The basic purpose of futures research is to involve the corporate concern with an active role in creating future conditions. Outcomes and even the seemingly inevitable can be changed.

The paper will study the development of futures research, discuss various techniques and approaches, apply these to the corporation and discuss problems of forecasting. The paper will show that futures research concentrates on the development and application of systematic processes and procedures which are intended to unveil alternatives available to companies over the long-run. …

The Effect Of The Presence Of An Unfamiliar Peer On Stranger Preference And Separation From The Mother In 15-Month-Olds, Robert Arlyn Harms

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the responses of 15-month-old toddlers to unfamiliar peers in the context of toddler-mother attachment. The subjects were twenty-two 15-month-old toddlers, who were observed singly and in pairs under mother-present and mother-absent conditions. Each toddler was involved in a sequence of six 3-minute episodes in an experimental room with toys. Using a counter-balanced procedure, three of the episodes for one toddler overlapped with three of the episodes for the other toddler so that one experimental session consisted of nine episodes. In both the one- toddler and the two-toddler halves of the six-episode …

An Investigation Of The Effects Of Imagination Enhancement Materiials On The Creative Abilities Of Fifth Grade Students, Michael William Radis

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Problem: The purpose of this study was to determine if enhancement of children's imaginations by activities in a school classroom could improve their creative abilities.

The study was divided into two parts. Part one dealt with the effect of the imagination enhancement materials on the figural and verbal creativity of children as measured by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Part two looked at the effect of the imaginative materials on children's choice of reading materials and on the fantasy content of their creative writing.

Procedure: The research population for this study was one fifth grade classroom consisting of 25 …

Relationships Among Teacher And Pupil Self-Concept And Pupil Reading Achievement At The First Grade Level, Verna L. Brantley

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Problem: The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among teacher and pupil self-concept and pupil reading achievement at the first grade level. To accomplish this purpose pupil self-concept and pupil reading achievement were measured on a pre and post basis. Teacher data comprised of scores of teacher self-concept, teacher's views of the teaching profession, and teacher's views of children as students were also obtained. Attention was given to determining whether changes in the pupils' levels of self-concept had taken place during the school year, whether any exhibited changes in pupil self- concept correlated to changes in pupil reading …

An Investigation Of The Vocabulary Recognition And Syntactic Performance Of Normally-Developing And Educable Mentally Handicapped Children, Myrna Fladeland Moore

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This study was designed to investigate the relationship between the performance of normally-developing subjects and educable mentally handicapped (EMH) subjects on standardized measures of vocabulary recognition and syntax.

Nine male and nine female normally-developing subjects, with a mean age of five years seven months, and ten male and seven female educable mentally handicapped subjects, with a mean age of nine years six months, participated in this study. All of the subjects were administered the Full Range Picture Vocabulary Test (FRPVT) (Ammons and Ammons, 1948) and Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) (Lee, 1974) in the present study and were administered the Peabody …

Effects Of Emotional Inoculation And Supportive Therapy On Stress Incurred From Nursing Home Placement, Mary B. Carman

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Research indicates that relocation of an elderly person to a nursing home constitutes a major stress to the individual which can be life threatening. The present study was designed to assess the efficacy of two different treatment approaches in attenuating that stress.

Thirty-six elderly persons being placed in nursing homes for the first time were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Subjects in the Emotional Inoculation (El) Group x;ere seen for three consecutive days in the hospital, prior to entering a nursing home, for purposes of giving them information about the facility and preparing them for some of the …

Source And Setting Credibility As Determinants Of Self-Referring Attitude Change, Charles D. Sullivan

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The present study was designed to demonstrate the possible applicability of the concepts and findings from attitude change research to a counseling or psychotherapy situation. Expanding and elaborating on a study by Bergin (1963), the effects of source credibility and setting credibility were investigated with respect to their independent and combined effects upon changes in the self- referring attitude of masculinity following a male subject's reception of communication indicating a discrepancy between his own and the communicator's judgment. Changes in anxiety as a result of receiving the discrepant communication were also measured.

Each of 60 male college student volunteers was …

Financial Reporting Of Environmental Information, Richard Peters

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The Pioneer Chinese Of Utah, Don C. Conley

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With the single exception of a survey of Chinese history in the Western United States written by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, there exists no other documented history of the Chinese experience in Utah.

This paper offers an overview of Pioneer Chinese life in Utah territory from the Chinese railroad laborers in Box Elder County to the Chinatown settlement in Silver Reef mining camp in Washington County. Old Chinese customs, individual Chinese personalities and communities are rediscovered through the use of census data, newspaper editorials, and oral interviews. Chinese religion is analyzed from available data about pioneer Chinese funeral …

The Influence Of Population Knowledge And Concern On Acceptable Family Sizes And Expected Family Size, Nancy Ross Hugo

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This study focused on the influence of population knowledge and population concern on acceptable family sizes and expected family size. Analysis of the responses of 212 students in Introductory Sociology classes to a questionnaire survey revealed that the greater the student's population knowledge, the greater the degree of concern over population growth. Furthermore, the study revealed a stronger relationship between general knowledge of population processes and population concern than between specific knowledge of population sizes and growth rates and population concern.

Analysis of the relationship between population concern and acceptable family sizes revealed that the greater the degree of concern …

A Study Of The Career Maturity Of The 1976 Graduating Class Of Stuttgart American High School, Ludwigsburg, West Germany, Mary Frances Anthony

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Perspectives Of Expressionism In Selected Works Of Georg Heym And Georg Kaiser, Horst Winderlich

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Information And Management : The Role Of Information In The Organization, Dick H. Young

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The Effects Of Diet And Alcohol On Phosphatidyl Ethanolamine Methyltransferase And Choline Phosphotransferase Activity In Liver Microsomes, Eric O. Uthus

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An Analysis Of Job Characteristics And Responsibilities Of Office Employees In Entry-Level Positions In Fort Dodge, Iowa, With Implications For The Development Of Appropriate Business Education Curriculum, Mary St. Clare, Sister Wingert

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The German Effect On D. H. Lawrence And His Works, 1885-1912, Mitzi Mallarian Brunsdale

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Memory Change As A Product Of Improved Schematic Conceptualization, Craig D. Stevens

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The Image Of Provo, Utah, As Seen Through The Perceptions Of Its Residents, J. Larry Murdock

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The data for this study was gathered through a random stratified geographic sample from all residential areas of Provo. The study was based on 84 completed questionnaires which were gathered on the basis of a broad socio-economic cross section. All of the questions were open-ended, and included the drawing of mental maps of residents' images of Provo. The data was analyzed on the basis of respondents' areas of residence, age, length of residence in Provo and religious background.

The purpose of the study was to focus on the visual perception of Provo, Utah, as seen by its residents. The study …

Sexual Adjustment After Myocardial Infarction, Brenda Hove Long

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"Cardiovascular diseases claim more American lives than all other causes of death combined,”¹ as stated in the American Heart Association's Heart Facts 1975. In 1972, it was estimated that 1,036,560 individuals died of cardiovascular disease; 683,100 of these were attributable to acute myocardial infarction.² In addition, an estimated 28,420,000 Americans have some type of cardiovascular disease at a cost of $20 billion annually.³ The figures ”bring home" a stalking reality; cardiovascular disease is epidemic in this country, the incidence and ramifications of which make it an ever-present threat to all Americans. The greatest threat is heart attack, …

Homogeneous Versus Heterogeneous Groups For Clients With Different Presenting Problems., Glen Harry Gruba

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The Effects Of Imagined Scene Selection And Encouragement Of Association On Covert Reinforcement And Covert Sensitization., Diana Graham Pace

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Heads Of An Answer To Rymer And The Development Of Dryden's Critical Theory., Edward Silling

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Effects Of Feedback, Incentive And Relationship Variables On Voluntary Control Of Unilateral Skin Temperature., James Michael Fico

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