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Strategic Verbal Aggression: Attacking The Self-Concept To Enhance Motivation In The Classroom., Alan D. Heisel

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Numerous studies have identified a variety of negative consequences associated with the use of verbal aggression. This study examines the impact of verbal aggression in the instructional context as strategic verbal aggression. A self-report survey of 552 students enrolled in basic communication courses at West Virginia University was collected. Participants received measures reflecting the teacher's immediacy, competence, character, and perceived caring, as well as indices of the participants' argumentativeness, self-esteem, verbal aggressiveness, and Machiavellianism. Each Participant received a scenario reflecting either high/low intensity verbal aggression or high/low intensity no verbal aggression. Finally, participants were asked to evaluate the appropriateness, future …

Suffolk University Beacon Yearbook, 2000, Suffolk University

Undergraduate Yearbooks

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Parallel Computing To Start The Millennium, Joel C. Adams, Chris Nevison, Nan C. Schaller

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

The experience of three undergraduate computer science programs offering courses on parallel computing is described. On particular, three different solutions to the problem of equipping a lab are discussed. It is shown these solutions may affect the content of the course.

Attendance And Participation In The College Classroom: The Role Of The Instructor., Kelly A. Rocca

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study examined the attendance and participation behaviors of undergraduate students. Much of the existing literature had focused on student variables in determining attendance and participation in the classroom. Here, the focus was on instructor variables instead. Students completed questionnaires and reported their own perceptions on their attendance and participation in class as well as their perceptions of their instructor's nonverbal immediacy, homophily, interpersonal attraction, and verbal aggression. The results indicated that students who perceived their teachers as higher in immediacy, homophily, and interpersonal attraction were more likely to attend class and more likely to participate in class. Students who …

Recent Efforts To Change Discovery Rules: Advice For Draftsmen Of Rules For State Courts, Paul D. Carrington

Faculty Scholarship

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The Influence Of Friendship, Friendship Quality, And Gender On Collaborative Processes And Performance., Lisa Marie Swenson

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Characteristics of peer collaborators (gender) and the collaborative context (friendship, friendship quality, same-gender peer) may affect task processes and performance. Forty six same-gender adolescent dyads (26 girl dyads, 20 boy dyads; mean age = 15.69 yrs) collaborated on a problem-solving task that involved planning a route around a hypothetical town to obtain various items. Goals for and perceptions of collaboration were assessed as an index of collaborative processes. Performance was assessed through route length, time to complete the task, total cost, and errors on the task. Contrary to predictions, collaborating with a friend, though not detrimental to performance, did not …

Symposium: States' Rights In The Twenty-First Century, Jay Tidmarsh, Mark Racicot, Robert Miller, Michael Greve

Journal Articles

My name is Jim Schueller and I'm the Symposium Editor of the Law School Journal of Legislation and every two years we organize a symposium to discuss relevant issue of public policy and the topic this year is States Rights in the 21st Century.

Well, way back in the 18th century when the framers drafted the Constitution they created a unique system of governing where power was shared between the states which already existed and the newly created federal government. The framers in their day debated the proper allocation of power between these two governments and today, two hundred eleven …

2000-2001 Just The Facts, University Of San Diego

USD Fact Books (1985- )

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Usd President's Report 2000, University Of San Diego

President's Reports (1985- )

A Worldwide Presence, Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim, Mexico, Africa, Latin America, The Year in Review, 1999-2000 Giving Summary, 1999-2000 Financial Operations, Leadership Donors, Planned Giving, Board of Trustees and Executive Officers

A Tale Of Two Counties: Divergent Responses In Los Angeles And Orange County Superior Courts To The Ban On Electronic Recording In California Court Reporters Ass'n V. Judicial Council, Glenn S. Koppel

San Diego Law Review

This Article explores the authority of superior courts to use electronic recording technology to make a verbatim record of superior court proceedings-without express statutory authorization-in the aftermath of the CCRA decisions. Rather than just arguing that the CCRA decisions were wrongly decided, this Article explores ways to narrowly construe the CCRA opinions to permit superior courts and their litigants to use rapidly evolving electronic recording technologies as an alternative to traditional stenographic court reporting.

African American Identity, Experience With Racism, And Meaning In Life Among Black College Students, Brian L. Ragsdale

Open Access Dissertations

Experience with racism and its relationship to meaning in life (i.e., the degree to which a person feels the world is a safe and caring place), African American identity, and African American acculturation were explored in a sample of Black college students (N = 48) who attended a predominately White, public, state university in the Northeastern United States. Black men and women who have Black nationalistic ideals and were immersed in Black culture reported more lifetime racist experience than those students who were less immersed in African American culture. As a group, Black women who were under the age of …

Studies Of Grief: Narratives Of Incarcerated Women Who Experienced The Death Of A Significant Person While In Prison, Ginette Gosselin Ferszt

Open Access Dissertations

One of the most important issues that an individual confronts during one's life is the death of a significant person. Given the contextual nature of grief, incarcerated women are faced with unique challenges when the death of a person occurs during their imprisonment. Yet, little is known about grief experiences under these circumstances.

The research questions guiding this qualitative study were: What are the meanings of the grief experience of incarcerated women? How does their grieving process compare with images of grief depicted as a normal process? To what extent do the women perceive incarceration influencing their grief? In-depth interviews …

Recovered And Continuous Memories Of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Quantitative And Qualitative Analysis, Linda Ribble Stoler

Open Access Dissertations

This study is an in-depth examination of women who reported childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Among a non-clinical sample of 26 women, ages 22 - 65, 11 reported they had always remembered CSA (continuous memories) and 15 reported they had forgotten CSA for some period of their lives (delayed memories). Participants completed a questionnaire which included demographics, abuse history, therapy history, symptom checklists, Family Functioning Scale, Dissociative Experiences Scale, and the Adult Sexual Victimization Scale, and were then interviewed. Eighty-six percent of women with delayed, and 46% with continuous, memories reported corroboration. Only one woman reported a therapist was the first …

Integrating Theories And Methods In Assessing Longitudinal Change In Heterosexual Hiv Risk Among Women, Gary J. Burkholder

Open Access Dissertations

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Parasitic Error Compensation In Cascaded Sigma-Delta Modulators, Alan Joseph Davis

Open Access Dissertations

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Decision-Making Between Nurse-Midwives And Clients Regarding The Formulation Of A Birth Plan, Doherty Mary Ellen

Open Access Dissertations

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Emergent Readers' Joint Text Construction: A Descriptive Study Of Reading In Social Context, Mary Lee Prescott Griffin

Open Access Dissertations

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Cognitive Function And Food Preparation Ability In Schizophrenia, Margaret M. Knight

Open Access Dissertations

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Understanding Children's Perspectives: Sixth Graders Talk About Their Art, Christine Anne Mulcahey

Open Access Dissertations

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Boundedness, Global Stability, And Periodicity Of Some Difference Equations, Norman Ray Prokup

Open Access Dissertations

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Unitary And Hermitian Fractional Operators And Their Extensions: Fractional Mellin Transform, Joint Fractional Representations And Fractional Correlations, Olcay Akay

Open Access Dissertations

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Interactive Self-Modeling Mixture Analysis Using Principal Component Approach, Dongsheng Bu

Open Access Dissertations

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Interaction Of Neurotransmitters On The Proboscis Muscles Of The North American Channeled Whelk Busycon Canaliculatum, Timothy John Fort

Open Access Dissertations

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Evaluating The Efficacy Of The Rhode Island Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program (Tdvpp): A Process And Outcome Approach To Determining The Success Of Both Primary And Secondary Prevention Projects, Amy Beth Silverman

Open Access Dissertations

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Induced Labor Intervention For Self-Efficacy: A Nursing Intervention For Women Prone To An Unpredictable Labor Pattern, Shelley Stone Bochain

Open Access Dissertations

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The New Global Worker In Organizations: Implications For International Management, Peruvemba S. Jaya

Open Access Dissertations

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Market Making In Dealership Markets, Chunlin Liu

Open Access Dissertations

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A Risk Assessment Of Nursing Personnel Injuries Occurring While Lifting, Transferring Or Repositioning Nursing Home Residents., James T. Culligan

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The primary objective of this research thesis was to identify the root causal factors associated with lost time injuries occurring among nursing personnel in long term care facilities. The critical elements assessed and evaluated include: length of service; time of day injury occurred; task being completed when injury occurred; similar incidents in the past (accident repeaters); type of shift on which injury occurred; number of hours worked the day injury occurred; impact of company policy; availability of mechanical lifts; training on how and when to use mechanical lifts; exercise; stretching; training on safe lifting techniques or good body mechanics; gait …

An Empirical Investigation Of The Flexible Price Monetary Model Of The Exchange Rate: The Case Of Colombia., Marcelo Saenz

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The monetary model of the exchange rate has proven to be an unreliable representation of exchange rates. Nevertheless, the monetary model is applied to the case of Colombia in this study. There are two reasons to believe that the model may offer an accurate description of exchange rates for Colombia. First, Colombia is a moderately high inflation economy, especially when compared to G7 countries. Second, the target zone arrangement established since 1991 was not fully credible, and as a result, the exchange rate appropriates a purely flexible exchange rate system. The results show that since 1980, the relation between exchange …

The Relationships Of Organizational Personality Variables With Worker Socio-Communicative Orientation, Communication Apprehension, Immediacy, And Job Satisfaction., Heather Teresa Smith

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study examined the organizational personality types of "upward mobile," "ambivalent," and "indifferent" with reference to their relationships with worker sociocommunicative orientation, communication apprehension, immediacy, and job satisfaction. The study examined self-report data from the measures of organizational personality scales, job satisfaction, communication apprehension, immediacy, and assertiveness/responsiveness. The study found that each of the three personality variables have unique relationships (some linear, some non-linear) with communication apprehension, immediacy, assertiveness, responsiveness, and job satisfaction.