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Novel Technique For The Retrieval Of Compressed Image And Video Databases, Pornvit. Saksobhavivat Jan 1997

Novel Technique For The Retrieval Of Compressed Image And Video Databases, Pornvit. Saksobhavivat

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

The classic methods in indexing image and video databases are either using keywords or analysis of color distribution. In the recent year, there is a new standard in image and video compression standard called JPEG and MPEG respectively. One of the basic operations of JPEG and MPEG is Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). The human visual system is known to be very dependent on spatial frequency. The DCT has capability to provide a good approximation of the images' spatial frequency that is sensitive to human eyes. We take this advantage of DCT in indexing image and video databases. However, the two-dimensional …

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Nurses' Attitudes Toward The Care Of The Attempted Suicide Patient, Jodie Demay Schmidt Jan 1997

Nurses' Attitudes Toward The Care Of The Attempted Suicide Patient, Jodie Demay Schmidt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

This study explored the attitudes of emergency department nurses toward the care of the attempted suicide patient. The independent variables were the ages of nurses and their length of work experience in the emergency department. One-hundred and one surveys were collected from emergency department nurses employed in three Broward County hospitals. In general, there were no significant differences between the two study groups; however, variances did appear in several areas relating to knowledge about attempted suicide. The less experienced group and the younger group rated lower on these items. The nurses responding to this survey expressed generally favorable attitudes toward …

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Oh, Fanny! What A Deep Voice You Have: Masculinist Narration In John Cleland's "Fanny Hill Or Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure", Ilana. Cohen Jan 1997

Oh, Fanny! What A Deep Voice You Have: Masculinist Narration In John Cleland's "Fanny Hill Or Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure", Ilana. Cohen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

John Cleland, author of Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, employs a female narrative voice, but his novel reinforces traditional gender roles of male domination and female submission. By co-opting his female narrator, Cleland makes Fanny appear to be a willing and available sexual partner. His pornographic novel depicts sexual situations that raise virile men to the position of authority and devalue both men and women who are submissive, not "masculine." The most devalued and objectified character in the novel is Fanny herself, even though the novel portrays her as happy and satisfied.

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Perceptions Of Effectiveness Of Mentoring Relationships In Higher Education, Doreen K. Jadwick Jan 1997

Perceptions Of Effectiveness Of Mentoring Relationships In Higher Education, Doreen K. Jadwick

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

The purpose of this study was to measure the perceptions of effectiveness between faculty mentors and proteges involved in formal mentoring relationships in higher education. The subjects were drawn from a non-probability sample of 35 faculty mentors and 53 proteges active in the 1995-96 Mentor Program sponsored by the Office of Minority Student Services at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). The responses from faculty mentors (n = 17) represented a 48.6% response rate. The responses from proteges (n = 22) represented a 41.5% response rate. Four out of the seventeen faculty mentors who responded had more than one protege. The variable …

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Predicting Readiness On The Florida Entry-Level-Placement Test From A Set Of High School Academic Variables, Joseph Martin Forman Jan 1997

Predicting Readiness On The Florida Entry-Level-Placement Test From A Set Of High School Academic Variables, Joseph Martin Forman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

This study explored the predictive accuracy of three, two-group linear discriminant function equations. The grouping or criterion variables employed were scores from the three sections (math, reading, and writing) of the Computerized Placement Test (CPT). The predictor variables used were gathered from the academic history for each case. These variables ranged from the GPA in grade eight, through the normal-curve-equivalent test scores in both math and reading from the Grade Ten Assessment Test (GTAT), and included several actual GPAs achieved in science and math courses at all three levels of difficulty in high school (Appendix A). The data set was …

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Presence And Progression Of "Saudade" In The Poetry Of Rosalia De Castro, Ruth Waltrip Mccollum Jan 1997

Presence And Progression Of "Saudade" In The Poetry Of Rosalia De Castro, Ruth Waltrip Mccollum

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Saudade, a sentiment similar to but stronger than the English word "melancholy," has been a subject of much interest on the Iberian peninsula for centuries, especially among Galician-Portuguese writers. Rosalia de Castro, a nineteenth-century poet and author from Galicia, is recognized as one of Spain's most talented writers, partly because of her ability to express the various phases of a sentiment which is so difficult to understand. In her poetry Castro skillfully describes the feelings of the Galician people and, in doing so, bares the depth of her own saudade. The loss of love and departure from one's homeland are …

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Prayer And The Well-Being Of The Older Adult, Sandra Lee Clark Ragl Jan 1997

Prayer And The Well-Being Of The Older Adult, Sandra Lee Clark Ragl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Using a purposive sample of older adults, a qualitative descriptive study was conducted to illuminate the influence of prayer on their well-being. Content analysis was the method used to discern this relationship. Through the analysis of eight stories two themes on the "notion" of prayer and a primary theme on the influence of prayer on the well-being of the older adult emerged. The themes of prayer that emerged were: prayer was a conversation with God and an intimate relationship with God that fostered trust and belief. The primary theme was that a relationship with God through prayer fosters a sense …

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Recurring Vocabularies: Narrating Voices In "Anne John", "Jasmine", And "Middle Passage", Donna J. Schlosser Jan 1997

Recurring Vocabularies: Narrating Voices In "Anne John", "Jasmine", And "Middle Passage", Donna J. Schlosser

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

This thesis examines the first-person narrator's development of an autonomous identity, which is characterized by the individual's self-interest on the one hand and social engagement on the other, in the following novels: Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John (1983), Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989), and Charles Johnson, Middle Passage (1990). Examination focuses on autobiographical moments in which language discloses identity development as each narrator employs a unique vocabulary and rhetorical strategies to build and maintain autonomous identity, establish social relationships, and infuse life with personal and collective meaning. Recurrent vocabularies and rhetoric produce narrative voices of distinction as well as of similarity in …

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Production Of Meaning In A Gendered Environment: A Communication Study Of Nurses In Management, Lisa A. Summerlot Jan 1997

Production Of Meaning In A Gendered Environment: A Communication Study Of Nurses In Management, Lisa A. Summerlot

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

This study explores the ways in which female nurses in management negotiate their roles within the male dominated institutions of medicine and administration. Our culture provides to this highly gendered profession a dominant construction of unambiguous identities for both management and nursing. The principles of semiology and feminist media criticism are used to show that negotiation with dominant messages takes place in lived reality in ways that are very similar to the negotiation in which consumers of media texts engage. Nine interview transcripts of nurses in management positions were analyzed for evidence of negotiated decodings of dominant meanings. The analysis …

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Relationship Between Body Art And Adolescent Self Esteem, Nancy Koppel Kuniansky Jan 1997

Relationship Between Body Art And Adolescent Self Esteem, Nancy Koppel Kuniansky

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Adolescents are experimenting with body art such as tattoos and body piercing, despite documented medical risks. Nurses are in a key position to formulate appropriate educational and counseling strategies to minimize the complications associated with these practices. Low self esteem has been linked to poor health behaviors and harmful life style choices in adolescents. The purpose of this study was to determine how self esteem differed between adolescents engaging in body art and those who do not. A non experimental, descriptive research design utilizing the Coopersmith Self Esteem Inventory was used to evaluate self esteem in a group of 53 …

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Relationship Between Mobility And Academic Performance Among African-American Fifth Graders Attending Urban Schools, Wesley Merle Jr Mabin Jan 1997

Relationship Between Mobility And Academic Performance Among African-American Fifth Graders Attending Urban Schools, Wesley Merle Jr Mabin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between mobility and academic performance among African-American fifth grade urban public school students. Blacks in South Florida are a diverse group. As of 1990 the U.S. Census Bureau identified 12 different ethnic groups that comprise the Black ethnic category in Broward County, Florida. The term African-American and the data used in this study reflect the ethnic diversity. This study examined Stanford Achievement Test scores in mathematics (SATM) and reading (SATR) over the years 1992, 1993 and 1994. The SATM (N = 2208) and SATR (N = 2178) scores over the …

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School Affect And Academic Achievement In Relation To Expected Self-, Best Friend, And Peer-Group Reactions, Elizabeth A. Ashley Jan 1997

School Affect And Academic Achievement In Relation To Expected Self-, Best Friend, And Peer-Group Reactions, Elizabeth A. Ashley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Children's (Grades 4-8) expected self, best friend, male and female peer groups' reactions to academic performance and school affect were examined in relation to academic outcomes as measured by achievement test scores, school grades, and peer-based performance and affect judgments. The main hypothesis that expected self-reactions would show the strongest relationship to school outcomes was supported for both sexes. Some evidence of best friend influences was found for girls, with best friend reactions to positive affect in girl targets a positive predictor of achievement, and best friend reactions to positive affect in boy targets a negative predictor. Both boys' and …

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Self-Care Agency In Adults With Diabetes Mellitus, Marybeth Eleanor Thompson Jan 1997

Self-Care Agency In Adults With Diabetes Mellitus, Marybeth Eleanor Thompson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic illness which provides numerous and varied self-care challenges to those individuals seeking to avoid or delay complications. The purpose of this study is to determine the self-care agency, as defined by Orem, of sample of 100 adults diagnosed with non-insulin dependant diabetes mellitus. Self-care agency was measured by the Self-As-Carer Inventory, a 40-item questionnaire, and a descriptive, cross-sectional design was utilized to structure the study.

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Achievement And Satisfaction In Adult Spanish Language Courses With Compressed And Standard Formats, Alyse Lesser Schoenfeldt Jan 1997

Achievement And Satisfaction In Adult Spanish Language Courses With Compressed And Standard Formats, Alyse Lesser Schoenfeldt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

This study examined the achievement and satisfaction level attained by adults studying elementary Spanish in compressed and standard terms. Each format included 60 hours of classroom instruction; compressed terms were completed in 6 weeks, while standard terms were 15 weeks. The 90 minute, multiple choice, standardized achievement test, the Dantes Beginning Spanish I-SF 583, an attitudinal survey, and a 15 minute questionnaire developed for this study were completed by 129 students in southeast Florida, 73 in standard format courses, 56 in compressed formats. The findings indicated that adult students learning Spanish as a foreign language in compressed and standard time …

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"Floating Realities": Multi-Dimensionality In T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock", Monica Laine Lewman Jan 1997

"Floating Realities": Multi-Dimensionality In T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock", Monica Laine Lewman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Concentrating on Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," with M. L. Rosenthal's term "floating realities" as my starting point, I discuss how time and its malleable nature relates to Prufrock's "linear reality" and his "non-linear" "floating realities." Prufrock's "linear reality" is the external world of appearances and his internal psychological landscape. I then reveal the "floating realities" that are generated by Eliot's otherworldly allusions. Finally, I discuss chaos theory, another way to explore the poem's multi-dimensional nature.

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A Comparison Of Interpersonal Communication Style And Relationship Satisfaction Of Academic And Student Affairs Administrators In Two-Year Colleges, Patricia Jean Anderson Jan 1997

A Comparison Of Interpersonal Communication Style And Relationship Satisfaction Of Academic And Student Affairs Administrators In Two-Year Colleges, Patricia Jean Anderson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

The purpose of this dissertation was to compare the communication style of academic and student affairs administrators and to determine whether these administrators were satisfied with their mutual relationship. The study was conducted among 109 chief academic and student affairs administrators in two year colleges from five states who took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the researcher's Relationship Satisfaction Survey. Oneway analysis of variance and the Selection Ratio Type Table were used to compare responses by groups of academic or student affairs administrators on MBTI scales of sensing or intuition and thinking or feeling. Oneway analysis of variance was …

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All The Kaiser's Men: German Volunteers And The Great War, 1914-1918, Michael Brian Petersen Jan 1997

All The Kaiser's Men: German Volunteers And The Great War, 1914-1918, Michael Brian Petersen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Since its end, scholars and historians have viewed World War I primarily in terms of its impact upon the military and diplomatic spheres of European life and have also made attempts to determine responsibility for starting the war. What has been largely ignored is the plight of those who did the fighting--especially German volunteer soldiers. These young men enlisted in the war effort because of a concrete set of assumptions that were later radicalized during the war experience, which was characterized by seemingly endless labor and episodic periods of extreme violence. This transformation of beliefs had a profound impact upon …

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Analysis Of The Utility Of A Normalized Difference Vegetation Index For Inventorying Urban Greenspace, Thomas J. Dobbs Jan 1997

Analysis Of The Utility Of A Normalized Difference Vegetation Index For Inventorying Urban Greenspace, Thomas J. Dobbs

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Satellite derived vegetative data of urban areas is normally classified into several classes of trees, fields, grass and bare soil using unsupervised and supervised classification methods. Normalized Difference Vegetation Indexes (NDVI) have traditionally been applied to agricultural satellite images to assess the health and maturity of commercial crops. When a NDVI is used to examine urban vegetation, many discrete data values are generated which can be differentiated into meaningful vegetation classes.

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Adolescent Relationships And Their Contributions To Social And Academic Competence, Vonda Dionne Jones-Hudson Jan 1997

Adolescent Relationships And Their Contributions To Social And Academic Competence, Vonda Dionne Jones-Hudson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

School success is associated with parent- and peer-relationships. To study the connection between these alliances and school success, 30 African-American and 30 European-American 6th graders were given the Relationship Closeness Inventory, Network of Relationships Inventory, Self-Perception Profile, Revised Class Play, and Youth Self-Report. A parent and best friend also completed surveys. Results show parent and peer support relates to the social competence of youth. Father support is associated with female aggressive-disruptive behavior, and best friend support is associated with sensitive-isolated behavior in boys. African-American parents do more social events with their children than European-American parents do with their children. European-Americans …

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Case Study Of Leadership Practices Of Elders In South Florida Churches Of Christ, Joseph Monroe Jr Roberts Jan 1997

Case Study Of Leadership Practices Of Elders In South Florida Churches Of Christ, Joseph Monroe Jr Roberts

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

The purpose of this study was to investigate, describe, and analyze the leadership practices of elders in three growing South Florida Churches of Christ. The objective of this descriptive case study was to present findings that would enable the development of leadership training for elders in the Churches of Christ. A qualitative, multiple-case study design was utilized. Data were gathered from each site through interviews with elders and ministers, formal and informal observations of elders' leadership practices in meetings and interactions with their respective congregations, and a review of relevant documents used in the ministry of each congregation. Data were …

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Content Analysis Of Design Practices, Prerak Pradyumna Shah Jan 1997

Content Analysis Of Design Practices, Prerak Pradyumna Shah

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

A database based on best manufacturing practices documents is explored relative to the "design" component of such best practices. This content analysis study yields lexical maps of key terms. Maps are categorized depending on their node arrangement in the following main groups: Cyclic maps, Sequential maps, Spoke-patterned maps and Isolated maps. A comparative study of names selected by different naming algorithms helps us in establishing the relation between map patterns and naming algorithms. Super network and distributions maps generated from the same database are useful in defining relations among the different maps. This study outlines the overall structure of design …

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Comparison Of The Writing Products Of Students With Learning Disabilities In Inclusive And Resource Room Settings Using Different Writing Instruction Approaches, Kimberly Ann Curry Jan 1997

Comparison Of The Writing Products Of Students With Learning Disabilities In Inclusive And Resource Room Settings Using Different Writing Instruction Approaches, Kimberly Ann Curry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

The teaching of writing has become a major research focus in the field of education. In general education classrooms, the teaching of writing is increasingly being taught as a process, in which students write for authentic purposes and develop a community of writers. This study was designed to investigate the effects of teaching students with learning disabilities (LD) writing using four different instructional approaches. These approaches included a process-writing approach called Writers' Workshop, writing strategies, Writers' Workshop/strategies, and a skills-based model. This study also focused on the educational setting in which the student with LD was taught. A pull-out resource …

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'Delicious Riot Of Things': Aspects Of Discontinuity In "Tristram Shandy", William B. Gerard Jan 1997

'Delicious Riot Of Things': Aspects Of Discontinuity In "Tristram Shandy", William B. Gerard

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Tristram Shandy is a famously formless text in which the "life and opinions" of the title character appear to spill forth from the narrator without a governing theme or structure. Chronology and plot are interrupted and re-ordered. Characters are defined as mere fragments of personality, "strokes of a pen"; objects are represented as broken, snarled, and discombobulated. The subtexts and digressive tales included within the novel are incomplete as well as disruptive of the larger whole. Sterne withholds the "complete" picture a conventional novel provides, and fragmentation becomes the prevailing motif of his book: the author's motley meaning lies hidden …

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Development Of A Telecollaborative Program For An Adult Learning Community: A Case Study Of The Program Planning Process, Alicia Christine Miller Jan 1997

Development Of A Telecollaborative Program For An Adult Learning Community: A Case Study Of The Program Planning Process, Alicia Christine Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the program planning process used for planning technology programs for the South Consortium of Schools and of two member schools. This study sought to understand power and interests of the planning community and how they influenced the program process. A qualitative multi-case study design was used and the primary sources of data were interviews, document analysis, and researcher participant and nonparticipant observations. The sample of thirteen included a cross section of school personnel, parents, and community business partners. Findings were grouped into three categories, program planning community, program planning process, …

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Domestic Sybil: Feminist Concerns In P. L. Travers's "Mary Poppins" And "Mary Poppins Comes Back", Donna M. Revtai Jan 1997

Domestic Sybil: Feminist Concerns In P. L. Travers's "Mary Poppins" And "Mary Poppins Comes Back", Donna M. Revtai

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Certain elements in P. L. Travers's Mary Poppins (1934) and Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935) depict concerns that feminist critics deem important, such as mother figures, females as artists, women who exert power or lack it, female self-concepts, matrilineal connections and mother/child relationships. Travers sometimes treats these subjects ambiguously or ambivalently, but her attention to them indicates a riveting interest at the time. Her creative process whereby she projected childhood fantasies onto her ideal nanny, Mary Poppins, with whom she identified herself and others, relates to a feminine psychology. Travers's cyclic and web-like plots may link her to feminist aesthetics …

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Echoes Of Wordsworth And Coleridge Resound In "The Accidental Tourist", Susan Clare Finger Jan 1997

Echoes Of Wordsworth And Coleridge Resound In "The Accidental Tourist", Susan Clare Finger

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Anne Tyler, who lived a "Romantic" childhood in mountain-terrained communes of North Carolina, borrowed ideas from Wordsworth and Coleridge for her 1985 novel The Accidental Tourist. Reflections of these Romantic poets are seen primarily in images but are also seen in Tyler's simple writing style. Macon Leary, the protagonist of the novel, is a wandering writer who loves the English language, but struggles to communicate his feelings verbally, a reflection of Romantic ideology. Other motifs include home as a place abandoned as well as a refuge for the mind and body; the destructive and renewing powers of the city; physical …

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Effect Of 4mat Training On Teachers' Attitudes Towards Student Behaviors Associated With Creativity, Phyllis Schiffer Klenetsky Jan 1997

Effect Of 4mat Training On Teachers' Attitudes Towards Student Behaviors Associated With Creativity, Phyllis Schiffer Klenetsky

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

The purpose of this study was to determine if 4MAT training had an impact on teachers' attitudes towards students' behaviors associated with creativity. Specifically, this study analyzed the relationship between the dependent variable of attitude toward creativity, and the independent variables of levels of training, grade level, years of teaching experience, and subject area. A sample of 459 subjects consisted of an experimental (N = 310) and control group (N = 149). The experimental group received either Fundamental 4MAT training or both Fundamental and Intermediate training, while the control group received no intervention. The Ideal Child Checklist (ICC), developed by …

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Effectiveness Of Dropout Prevention Models As Perceived By High School Principals And High School Guidance Counselors In Florida, Joyce Tropea Bacon Jan 1997

Effectiveness Of Dropout Prevention Models As Perceived By High School Principals And High School Guidance Counselors In Florida, Joyce Tropea Bacon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

This study investigated the perceptions of high school principals and guidance counselors, in the State of Florida, of nine dropout prevention models and their effectiveness. Six of the models exemplify the most frequently used programs throughout Florida: (a) the transitional ninth grade class, (b) computer-assisted instruction, (c) teaching high school competency test strategies, (d) educational alternative centers/schools of choice, (e) vocational technical centers, and (f) youth services programs. The three newer program models, cities in schools, block scheduling and telecommunications abeyance programs, have been in use for less than three years in the State of Florida but literature identifies them …

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Effects Of Accommodating Students' Learning Styles On Academic Achievement And Attitudes Towards Algebra, Nabil Afif Husni Jan 1997

Effects Of Accommodating Students' Learning Styles On Academic Achievement And Attitudes Towards Algebra, Nabil Afif Husni

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

The purpose of this study was to compare the academic achievement and attitude of students who were enrolled in Algebra for College Students taught by traditional lecture methods of instruction with students taught by methods of instruction that matched student learning style preferences. This study included 84 students who were enrolled in Algebra for College Students at Palm Beach Community College. The study was designed to determine whether students' age, gender, GPA, and the number of hours worked were correlated with students' attitude gain scores or with their algebra gain scores. Four instruments were used to collect information for this …

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Effects Of Nature-Based Sounds On Patient Anxiety During The Preoperative Period, Alcinda Louise Cullum Jan 1997

Effects Of Nature-Based Sounds On Patient Anxiety During The Preoperative Period, Alcinda Louise Cullum

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

This study investigated the effect of nature-based sounds on the preoperative anxiety of 30 patients scheduled for elective surgical procedures. Preoperative anxiety was measured utilizing a visual analog scale. Of the 30 subjects who were randomly placed in either control or experimental groups, 15 subjects comprised the experimental group who were provided with nature-based sounds, and 15 subjects comprised the control group who listened to non-vocal musical sounds. Pre-test data were collected upon admission to the preoperative area, while post-test data were collected prior to entering the operating room suite. Measurements consisting of blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate …

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