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Psychometric Properties Of Measures Of Behavioral Inhibition With Preschool -Age Children, Randy Granville Floyd

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Measures of behavioral inhibition offer promise in identification of young children with ADHD. This study investigated the factorial validity, ecological validity, and temporal reliability of 6 performance-based measures of behavioral inhibition in a sample of 70 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children. A single factor, Behavioral Inhibition, appeared to influence the scores on these measures. This factor was found to be significantly correlated with teacher ratings of aggression and inattention and to differentiate between genders and between older and younger children. Several individual measures were correlated with ratings of aggression and inattention and demonstrated adequate 1- to 2-week test-retest reliability.

The Difference Between The Social Support Systems Of The Hiv -Infected Who Did And Did Not Utilize Mental Health Services, Michael Anthony Vandehey

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Two variables were assessed for their impact upon social support systems of the HIV-infected over a two-year period. First, the difference between the utilization of mental health services and the number of frequency of contacts with family, friend, and professional social support providers was investigated. Second, the difference between stage of illness and number of and frequency of contacts with family, friend, and professional social support providers was investigated. The Health Status Questionnaire, Social Support Questionnaire and Client Information Form were used to collect data. The utilization of mental health services was not found to significantly increase or decrease the …

The Effects Of Acute Exercise On Cognitions Related To Depression, Julia M. Lash

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Exercise is known to improve mood and reduce depression. However, the mechanism(s) responsible for the antidepressent effects of exercise are not known. Cognitive therapy, one of the most effective psychological treatments of depression, is based on the assumption that changes in a person's negative thoughts will result in a remission of depression. The purpose of this study was to determine if a similar change in cognitions might occur with exercise. Self-report measures of mood (Profile of Mood States and Visual Analog Mood Scale) and depressive cognitions (Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire, Beck Self-Concept Test and Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale) were measured before and …

Predicting Competitive Involvement Of Masters Swimmers Age 55 And Over, Laurel S. Hill

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Spiritual Formation Curriculum For Oakland City University, Ray Gene Barber

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Challenge Of Generation X : Unchurched Xers And The Churches That Reach Them, Patrick Mays

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Tongan Pentecost Of 1834 : A Revival In The Kingdom Of Tonga : A Possible Key For Renewal And Unity For The Tongan Church Today, Manase Koloamatangi Tafea

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of Brethren In Christ Preaching Using Hermeneutical Principles Distilled From An Inductive Interpretive Methodology, Glenn Edward Pfeiffer

ATS Dissertations

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Introduction: Looking Ahead In Canadian Law School Education, Joost Blom

All Faculty Publications

The author [who was then Dean] speculates on the coming decade or two in Canadian legal education.

Assessing Career Value Of Hospitality Management Curriculum From Program Alumni, James Reid

Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the assessment of hospitality management baccalaureate program alumni from New York Technical College (NYCTC) as being a valuable resource to the Hospitality Management curriculum assessment effort . Through the development of an alumni questionnaire, participants in this study were asked to rate individual courses of their curriculum (both core and elective) by the degree of value each course had been in terms of usefulness to their career development and/or relevance to meeting the demands of their current positions. Although the questionnaire response rate was less than desirable, it is stressed that survey …

Dropout Prevention Among Chicano/Latino Students : The Effectiveness Of Group Counseling, Rene Mesa

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Best And The Brightest: Canadian Law School Admissions, Dawna Tong, W. Wesley Pue

All Faculty Publications

This article assesses the admissions policies commonly employed by law faculties in common law Canada. These faculties rely heavily on admissions criteria and policies developed in the United States and, like their American counterparts, typically admit students on the basis of "index scores" produced by combining Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) performance with Undergraduate Grade Point Average (UGPA). The appropriateness of this American model to the Canadian context has never been rigorously assessed. This raises serious questions as to whether Canadian law school admissions policies serve either of their stated goals of finding the "best" students or of advancing social …

Running From The Law: Should Bounty Hunters Be Considered State Actors And Thus Subject To Constitutional Restraints?, Andrew D. Patrick

Vanderbilt Law Review

The issue of bounty hunter misconduct catapulted into the public spotlight in September, 1997, when a team of commando-like criminals who claimed to be searching for a bail-jumper gunned down a Phoenix couple in their own bedroom. Though the perpetrators' story was later uncovered as a hoax, and though the men would likely have been convicted of second-degree murder regardless of their profession,s their case and others like it aroused impassioned demands for bounty hunter regulation and, more radically, constitutional restraints on the bail bond industry.

Constitutional protections are applicable only against the government and "state actors." Bounty hunters have …

A Comparison Of Two Approaches Of Symbolic Modeling And Self -Efficacy, Roy James Hamilton

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The effect of video and written modeling on self-efficacy of 70 master's degree students enrolled in their first techniques course was investigated. The ability to understand and use reflection of content, feeling, and meaning was presented to the experimental group through videotaped instruction and examples and the control group through written instruction and examples. Facts about reflecting skills, which included information and three vignettes, demonstrated the use of the skills. Through two pilot studies, the Reflecting Skills Questionnaire (RSQ) developed for this study showed convergent validity with the Counseling Self-Estimate Inventory (COSE). Participants' indication of self-efficacy for the reflection of …

African-American Freshmen Student Persistence Factors In Comparison To White Freshmen Student Persistence Factors At Indiana State University, Gwendolyn Lynette Lee-Thomas

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The 1990 national census report revealed that Indiana ranked 47 th in the nation in regard to individuals over the age of 25 with bachelor degrees. Forty-nine percent of the 1995–96 Indiana high school graduates matriculated into Indiana higherEducation institutions—56 percent in-state and out-of-state (Indiana Commission for HigherEducation Report, 1998). However, the African-American student persistence rate is 24 percent, regarding those who attain a bachelor degree within four years compared to 51 percent for all students. However, if extended to six years, the percentage increases to 42.2 percent compared to 57.5 percent for all students. This study determined certain retention …

Portland State Magazine, Portland State University. Office Of University Communications

Portland State Magazine

PSU’s alumni magazine, published 2-3 times a year. In this issue: More powerful than a locomotive, Dark Horse Comics becomes the third largest comic book publisher in the U.S.; from Back to Beatles, the PSU Chamber Choir is spreading music around the globe; the university honors the life’s work of the late George Hoffman; students are getting into medical school with the help of PSU’s premed program; KPSU 1450 AM—it’s student-run radio at its boldest; an influx in immigration to the United States is changing the face of America; and more.

Critical Multiculturalism And The Globalization Of Capital: Some Implications For A Politics Of Resistance, Ramin Farahmandpur, Peter Mclaren

Educational Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Despite the historic defeat of Marxism and constant attempts by so-called progressive educators to exorcize any residual Marxist discourse from the literature on multiculturalism, the contradictions of capital playing themselves out in the theater of contemporary social relations are beckoning Marx's spectre to return and further trouble those theories proclaiming that the "end of ideology" is upon us and that all we need to do in order to rescue humanity is to heed the clarion call of diversity. Too often overlooked in the debates over multiculturalism at present engulfing the academy are the myriad ways in which globalization is shaping …

Remote Versus Laboratory Usability Evaluations With Static Versus Interactive Graphical User Interfaces, Naomi Ruth Jobrack-Mcdaniel

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

On Teaching Mediation, Edwin H. Greenebaum

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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A Study Of Teacher Behaviours As Interpreted By Low Achieving Passive Students, Carolyn Crook

Theses : Honours

This study explores the nature of low achieving, passive students' interpretations of teacher behaviour towards them, how these interpretations cluster into specific categories and the possibility of a mis-match existing between a teacher's intended behaviour and the student's interpretations of that behaviour. The sample consisted of four year five students, one female and three male students, who were selected from two Perth metropolitan schools. Ethnographic-case study methods were used to conduct the investigation which included fieldnotes, observations, video-taped observations, student interviews and informal teacher interviews. The study revealed that low achieving, passive students have varying interpretations of teacher behaviour. As …

Training Methods For Shunting Inhibitory Artificial Neural Networks, Son Lam Phung

Theses : Honours

This project investigates a new class of high-order neural networks called shunting inhibitory artificial neural networks (SIANN's) and their training methods. SIANN's are biologically inspired neural networks whose dynamics are governed by a set of coupled nonlinear differential equations. The interactions among neurons are mediated via a nonlinear mechanism called shunting inhibition, which allows the neurons to operate as adaptive nonlinear filters. The project's main objective is to devise training methods, based on error backpropagation type of algorithms, which would allow SIANNs to be trained to perform feature extraction for classification and nonlinear regression tasks. The training algorithms developed will …

An Investigation Of Selected Factors On Golfer Attachment, James F. Petrick

Visions in Leisure and Business

While little change has occurred in the total number of golfers in the United States, the total number of golf courses is rapidly increasing (3). This increase in market competition has made it vital for resort owners and managers to examine the variables which influence golfers to use and return to their facilities. A relationship that appears to form between golfers and golf courses which has been neglected is place attachment. The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not place attachment actually occurs on a golf course. A second purpose was to investigate the relationship between attachment …

A Qualitative Analysis Of The Decision Making Process For Selecting Travel As A "Value-Added" Incentive, Stuart Cottrell, Kelly Bricker, Deborah Kerstetter, Peter Verhoven

Visions in Leisure and Business

The purpose of this study, using a qualitative method, was to explore and identify key factors in the decision-making process that led business owners/managers to select an advertising program which included travel as a "value-added" marketing incentive. During September-November 1996, a California based adventure travel company organized two incentive travel experiences to Fiji and Kenya for radio stations in San Francisco, CA and Detroit, MI. Results indicate that a program to a unique exotic destination is a factor worth considering. Other key factors derived included safety traveling within a group, reputation of the radio station, expectation for the type of …

Potential Impacts Of A Major Sport/Tourism Event: The America's Cup 2000, Auckland, New Zealand, Mark B. Orams, Anouska Brons

Visions in Leisure and Business

The America's Cup is reputed to be the oldest international sporting competition. It has been contested between yachts representing yacht clubs of foreign nations since 1851. Team New Zealand, representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, successfully challenged for the Cup of San Diego in 1995. In the austral summer of 1999/2000, for only the second time in history, the America's Cup will be hosted by a country other than the United States of America. The hosting of this event presents an enormous challenge for a small isolated nation like New Zealand. A record 18 syndicates have lodged entries for …

George Macdonald And The Fairy Tales Of Francis Paget And Frances Browne, Colin Manlove

North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies

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The Macarthur Risk Assessment Study: Implications For Practice, Research, And Policy, Kirk Heilbrun, Gretchen Witte

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

Learning Design I At Northeast Mississippi Community College Through Lecture And Example Or Lecture And Project : A Comparison Of The Two Methods And Their Effects On Test Scores, Terry Frank Anderson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Cultural Mistrust And Social Climate : A Psychometric Investigation, Shawn La Trece Clark

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Developing An Assessment For Identifying The Artistically Gifted And Talented In The Ninth Through Twelfth Grades, Patricia Potwin Ellis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Alienation And The Motif Of The Unlived Life In Liu Heng's Fiction, Birgit Linder

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

Critics have long argued that alienation is the essence of modern culture. Having long served as a theme in literature that profoundly reflects the changes and challenges of modernity, alienation has, after a hiatus of a few decades, undergone a conceptual resurgence during the 1990’s as recent research in the West indicates a correlation with the phenomenon of postmodernity. With the breakdown of communism in vast parts of the world and the development toward pluralistic societies, the field of human possibilities has expanded considerably and the response thereof demands, therefore, a new definition of alienation. If previously alienation signified the …