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Perceived Health Status, Preventive Health Behaviors, Formal Education, And Potential Barriers To Health Care In A Rural Population, Tori Renee Gaultier Jan 2000

Perceived Health Status, Preventive Health Behaviors, Formal Education, And Potential Barriers To Health Care In A Rural Population, Tori Renee Gaultier

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine preventive health behaviors, perceived health status, level of formal education, and potential barriers to health care in a rural northern mid-westem state using Leininger’s Cultural Care Theory. A short questionnaire was designed to identify factors that may influence health for rural residents. The sample consisted of 159 adults. The questionnaires were hand delivered to 299 randomly selected homes. Analysis was performed using descriptive and Chi-square statistics. The results supported an association between fewer preventive health behaviors and more potential barriers to health care (χ2 = 36.72, p < .001). A higher level of formal education was associated with higher perceived health status (χ2 = 13.99, p < .001). Potential barriers to health care were not found to be associated with lower perceived health status.

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Is There A Relationship Between Stages Of Change And Perceived Self-Efficacy Related To Exercise Among Low Risk Pregnant Women?, Rebecca Weiner Jan 2000

Is There A Relationship Between Stages Of Change And Perceived Self-Efficacy Related To Exercise Among Low Risk Pregnant Women?, Rebecca Weiner

Masters Theses

The theoretical framework used for this study was based on Prochaska and DiClemente’s (1983) Transtheoretical Model. The purpose of the study was to determine if there is a relationship between stage of change (pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance) and perceived self-efficacy regarding exercise among low risk pregnant women. Data was obtained through a survey of 140 low risk pregnant women from two private obstetricians’ offices. Participants were between 18 and 43 years old and primarily Caucasian (75%) and high school educated (85%). Each participant was successfully categorized into a stages of change based on their reported exercise behavior. The levels …

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Evaluation Of The Effect Of Home Care Interventions On The Self-Care Agency And Hospital Readmission Rate Of Patients With Congestive Heart Failure, Patricia K. Rau Jan 2000

Evaluation Of The Effect Of Home Care Interventions On The Self-Care Agency And Hospital Readmission Rate Of Patients With Congestive Heart Failure, Patricia K. Rau

Masters Theses

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is prevalent and patients with CHF incur costly hospital readmissions. It is crucial to reduce rehospitalizations and improve self-care in these patients. This blind experimental study based on Dorothea Orem’s self-care deficit theory evaluated two nursing interventions provided to 49 home care patients with CHF from 42 to 94 years of age in western Michigan. The study results were drawn from a larger longitudinal study in progress by researcher Dr. Kay Setter-KIine, RN. PhD. One group received supportive-educative interventions and the other received placebo interventions. The study sought to determine if supportive-educative nursing interventions improved medication …

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Relationship Of Osteoporosis Knowledge And Perceived Susceptibility To Osteoporosis Among Hispanic Women, Johannie M. Troncoso Jan 2000

Relationship Of Osteoporosis Knowledge And Perceived Susceptibility To Osteoporosis Among Hispanic Women, Johannie M. Troncoso

Masters Theses

The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the relationship of osteoporosis knowledge to perceived susceptibility to osteoporosis among Hispanic women. The Health Belief Model (Rosenstock, Strecker, & Becker, 1994) was the theoretical framework for the study. Data were collected from a convenience sample of 54 Hispanic women, ages 18 years and older, from two different areas in a Mid-Western state. The final sample, based on the inclusion criteria, constituted 41 subjects. The participants completed the Osteoporosis Knowledge Test (OKT) developed by Kim, Horan, and Gendler (1991) and the Osteoporosis Health Belief Scale (OHBS) also developed in 1991 by …

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The Section 5 Mystique, Morrison, And The Future Of Federal Antidiscrimination Law, Margaret H. Lemos, Samuel Estreicher Jan 2000

The Section 5 Mystique, Morrison, And The Future Of Federal Antidiscrimination Law, Margaret H. Lemos, Samuel Estreicher

Faculty Scholarship

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Poetry, Life, Literature, Lawrence Kimmel Jan 2000

Poetry, Life, Literature, Lawrence Kimmel

Philosophy Faculty Research

The question and theme of the poetry of life reaches deep into the essential questions of human existence. In the sense that poetry is the central core of literature, it is essential to the meaning of our lives. This question does not necessarily place human life, nor indeed biological life at the center of inquiry. We will examine the sense in which life itself is poetry, and great literature--in this essay we will refer only to that--is recognized by its capacity to capture and express that poetry. When it does this it penetrates to the heart of human accord and …

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A Traditional Lakota Zoological Folk Taxonomy : An In Depth Study Of Biological And Cosmological Views Of Animal Classification And Nomenclature Among The Lakota, Gerald R. Scott Jan 2000

A Traditional Lakota Zoological Folk Taxonomy : An In Depth Study Of Biological And Cosmological Views Of Animal Classification And Nomenclature Among The Lakota, Gerald R. Scott

Honors Capstones

The focus of this work is to record and clarify the traditional views of the Lakota People, in regards to how they name and classify their zoological world. The focus for many ethnozoologists is to study how mankind conceptualizes his natural environment. A number of scholars in ethnozoology have tried to show cross cultural links to possibly explain similarities in the way mankind names and classifies objects in his natural environment. The idea of there being recognizable groupings of animals is found in all languages. These are referred to as ethnozoological categories. According to some scholars (Berlin, Breedlove, and Raven …

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A Glimpse At The Twentieth Century: Through Children's Eyes, Kelli M. Allen Jan 2000

A Glimpse At The Twentieth Century: Through Children's Eyes, Kelli M. Allen

Honors Capstones

Children's literature is an important part of every child's life. Through literature, a child is able to learn about distant lands and time periods and may experience a multitude of adventures. Unfortunately, authentic children's literature is not used in the classroom often enough. To demonstrate how effectively and easily children's literature can be incorporated into the elementary curriculum, I have created an interdisciplinary unit to be used in a sixth grade classroom. I have chosen six books which each represent one major historical event in the American Twentieth Century. After reading each book I have written a three to four …

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Washington University Magazine And Alumni News, Spring 2000 Jan 2000

Washington University Magazine And Alumni News, Spring 2000

Washington University Magazine

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Washington University Magazine, Winter 2000 Jan 2000

Washington University Magazine, Winter 2000

Washington University Magazine

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Malay Materials In The Houghton Library, I. Proudfoot Jan 2000

Malay Materials In The Houghton Library, I. Proudfoot

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

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Perspective, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 2000, Eastern Washington University. Division Of University Relations. Jan 2000

Perspective, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 2000, Eastern Washington University. Division Of University Relations.

Alumni Publications

This issue contains articles on David Scheerer, the JFK Library collection of science fiction pulps, Eastern Washington University's involvement in a archaeological dig near Yakima, and the Department of Music at EWU.

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Conditional Intent To Kill Is Enough For Federal Carjacking Conviction, Chris Norborg Jan 2000

Conditional Intent To Kill Is Enough For Federal Carjacking Conviction, Chris Norborg

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Deceit And The Classification Of Crimes: Federal Rule Of Evidence 609 (A)(2) And The Origins Of Crimen Falsi, Stuart P. Green Jan 2000

Deceit And The Classification Of Crimes: Federal Rule Of Evidence 609 (A)(2) And The Origins Of Crimen Falsi, Stuart P. Green

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

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Book Review Jan 2000

Book Review

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

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Stretching Venue Beyond Constitutional Recognition, Todd Lloyd Jan 2000

Stretching Venue Beyond Constitutional Recognition, Todd Lloyd

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

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The Battle's Lost And Won: Ratification Of The Nineteenth Amendment In Tennessee, Judith Beale Jan 2000

The Battle's Lost And Won: Ratification Of The Nineteenth Amendment In Tennessee, Judith Beale

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Tennessee ratified the Nineteenth amendment by a margin of one vote. This circumstance has generated myths that serve to obscure rather than enlighten the events that occurred. Historians generally attribute women winning the right to vote to the improvements in their legal status, education, and employment that encouraged women to demand the right to vote. Following suffragists' rhetoric, historians believe that national opposition to women's enfranchisement came from the liquor industry and from railroad industries because they feared that women would vote to maintain prohibition and pass regulating legislation damaging to their industries. Suffragists, therefore, mounted many campaigns that led …

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View-Centric Reasoning About Parallel And Distributed Computation, Marc L. Smith Jan 2000

View-Centric Reasoning About Parallel And Distributed Computation, Marc L. Smith

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The development of distributed applications has not progressed as rapidly as its enabling technologies. In part, this is due to the difficulty of reasoning about such complex systems. In contrast to sequential systems, parallel systems give rise to parallel events, and the resulting uncertainty of the observed order of these events. Loosely coupled distributed systems complicate this even further by introducing the element of multiple imperfect observers of these parallel events. The goal of this dissertation is to advance parallel and distributed systems development by producing a parameterized model that can be instantiated to reflect the computation and coordination properties …

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Field Evaluation Of Ultrasound Enhancement Of Permeable Treatment Walls, Aamod Sudhakar Sonawane Jan 2000

Field Evaluation Of Ultrasound Enhancement Of Permeable Treatment Walls, Aamod Sudhakar Sonawane

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this research was to demonstrate the application of ultrasound to field sites having problems with precipitation build up and corrosion. PTW s are passive reactive walls containing zero-valent iron metal for in-situ remediation of contaminated groundwater. However, loss of reactivity over time due to build up of corrosion and other precipitates on the iron surface is a major concern. Ultrasound energy has been established as an effective tool for revitalizing iron surface. This research applied ultrasound energy to a zero-valent iron wall constructed below the ground surface to remove precipitates and iron corrosion, increasing iron reactivity. Two …

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2000 Faculty Senate Meeting Summaries, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate. Jan 2000

2000 Faculty Senate Meeting Summaries, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting summaries for 2000.

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Comparing The Travel Rules In Other Countries Designing An Implementations Plan For Taiwan, Ya-Li Hu Jan 2000

Comparing The Travel Rules In Other Countries Designing An Implementations Plan For Taiwan, Ya-Li Hu

Theses

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The Use Of The Cognitive Status Examination In Detecting Cognitive Impairment In Elderly People, Geoff Mccann Jan 2000

The Use Of The Cognitive Status Examination In Detecting Cognitive Impairment In Elderly People, Geoff Mccann

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Dementia is a growing social problem in Australia because as the population ages, the incidence of dementia increases. While the prevalence rates are only about I% at age 65, they double every five years until by 85 years of age the rate is over 24%. It is expected that by the year 2030, the number of elderly people with dementia will increase by 200%. Dementia is easily recognized in its advanced stages but can be overlooked in the early phase. Family members, care-givers and even the treating medical practitioner may mistakenly attribute the early decline in mental function to the …

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Influence Of Public Image Of Nurses On Nursing Practice, Miyuki Takase Jan 2000

Influence Of Public Image Of Nurses On Nursing Practice, Miyuki Takase

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Many researchers believe that nurses live in a dual structure, encompassing both the social and nursing worlds. They contend that these two worlds have contrasting views toward nurses. This is, while nurses are guided to establish professional status, society still expects them to remain in a dependent role. This conflict is assumed to have a negative impact on nurses’ psychological and functional states (Kalisch & Kalisch, 1983 & 1987). However, this assumption has not yet been explored sufficiently. The aim of this descriptive correlational study was therefore to investigate the relationships among the public image of nurses, nurses’ self concept, …

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Indeterminacy In First And Second Languages: Case Studies Of Narrative Development Of Chinese Children With And Without Language Disorder, Bee Hong Lo Jan 2000

Indeterminacy In First And Second Languages: Case Studies Of Narrative Development Of Chinese Children With And Without Language Disorder, Bee Hong Lo

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Bilingual children with specific language impairment (SLI) from non English speaking background (NESB) present a major diagnostic problem to speech pathologist and educationist in an English speaking country. There has been no known study on the simultaneous narrative development involving bilingual Chinese children with and without SLI. This longitudinal case study examined the relationship of Chinese (L1) and English (L2) in narrative development in a child with no language difficulty (Child LN) and a child (Child L1) diagnosed as having SLI. The hypothesis posed for this study was that Child L1 has the same developmental profile for narrative skill in …

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Conceptions Of Learning Identified By Indigenous Students Entering A University Preparation Course, Alison M. Bunker Jan 2000

Conceptions Of Learning Identified By Indigenous Students Entering A University Preparation Course, Alison M. Bunker

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The increase in Indigenous participation in university courses in recent years has not been matched by an increase in graduation. In the mainstream university population, student success has been linked to approaches to learning, which are linked to conceptions of learning. This study investigates what conceptions of learning Indigenous students identify at the beginning of their university career. Thirty six students completed a 'Reflections on Learning Inventory' developed by Meyer (1995). Nine of these students were interviewed in depth about what they thought learning was and how they would go about it. The interview analysis for each of the nine …

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Does A Rising Intonation At The End Of A Spoken Statement Affect A Witness's Credibility?, Genevieve L. Willis Jan 2000

Does A Rising Intonation At The End Of A Spoken Statement Affect A Witness's Credibility?, Genevieve L. Willis

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Past research has shown that the speech style employed by 11 witness in a jury trial may affect their credibility (Erikson, Lind, Johnson, & ()'Barr, 1978). One common linguistic device used by witnesses is a rising intonation, which is defined as the inflection of a speaker’s tone that occurs at the end of a spoken passage. Past research has shown that the use of a rising intonation in speech can add a questioning tone to a passage or signify that the speaker is unsure of what they are saying (Smith and Clark. 1993). If a witness uses a rising intonation …

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Shamanism And Alien Abductions : A Comparative Study, Simon Brian Harvey-Wilson Jan 2000

Shamanism And Alien Abductions : A Comparative Study, Simon Brian Harvey-Wilson

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Some UFO researchers (ufologists) claim that being abducted by aliens can be compared with shamanic initiation experiences in traditional societies in that both types of experience may be similarly transformative, leading to a more spiritual or animistic world-view, a deep concern for the environment and the development of paranormal abilities such as healing. This qualitative study is designed to investigate the validity of such claims. The research aim is to see whether the experiences and subsequent world-view of eleven alien abductees (eight women and three men) from a local abduction support group are similar to those of the typical shaman …

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Vol Ix (2000) Jan 2000

Vol Ix (2000)

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

No abstract provided.

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Between Friends: Seven Letters From Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings To Ethel Fairmont Snyder Beebe, Nancy S. Weyant Jan 2000

Between Friends: Seven Letters From Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings To Ethel Fairmont Snyder Beebe, Nancy S. Weyant

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

No abstract provided.

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Literary Reference Into The New Century, Michael Adams Jan 2000

Literary Reference Into The New Century, Michael Adams

Publications and Research

Changes in providing reference services for academic research in literature are examined, with the emphasis on the effects of new technologies.

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