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The Effects Of The Provision Of An Interactive Teaching Program And Word Processors On The Writing Of Year 9 Students With Learning Disabilities, Cecily Cropley

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Three male year nine students with learning disabilities were given an intervention program that involved use of a word processor to write science fiction stories. The program was conducted over a five-week period. The effects of the use of the word processor alone were compared to the effects of the provision of an interactive teaching course program in conjunction with a word processor. The treatment program was a single subject treatment design. One participant's writing improved to an equal extent whether or not an interactive teaching program was provided. A second participant's fluency, spelling and the number of unique words …

Exploring The Criteria Used By Managers To Measure The Effectiveness Of Customer Loyalty Programs, Peter D. Simms

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Since the 1970s there has been a paradigm shift away from mass marketing towards the establishment and maintenance of individual relationships known as relationship marketing. Customer loyalty programs can be seen as the tactical strategies that have resulted from this change in focus, as they attempt to retain existing customers by developing a long-term, mutually satisfying relationship. The first of these such strategies was introduced in 1981, and they are still a relatively new and unexplored phenomenon. The limited research on these strategies conducted thus far has shown the many purported advantages to be doubtful at best, yet their number …

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 …

Development Of Self-Adaptive Back Propagation And Derivative Free Training Algorithms In Artificial Neural Networks, Shamsuddin Ahmed

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Three new iterative, dynamically self-adaptive, derivative-free and training parameter free artificial neural network (ANN) training algorithms are developed. They are defined as self-adaptive back propagation, multi-directional and restart ANN training algorithms. The descent direction in self-adaptive back propagation training is determined implicitly by a central difference approximation scheme, which chooses its step size according to the convergence behavior of the error function. This approach trains an ANN when the gradient information of the corresponding error function is not readily available. The self- adaptive variable learning rates per epoch are determined dynamically using a constrained interpolation search. As a result, appropriate …

Development, Management And Economy Of Show Caves, Arrigo A. Cigna, Ezio Burri

International Journal of Speleology

The problems concerning the development of show caves are here considered by taking into account different aspects of the problem. A procedure to carry out an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been established in the last decade and it is now currently applied. Such an assessment starts with a pre-operational phase to obtain sufficient information on the undisturbed status of a cave to be developed into a show cave. Successively a programme for its development is established with the scope to optimise the intervention on the cave at the condition that its basic environmental parameters are not irreversibly modified. The …

The Influence Of Cave Tourism On Co2 And Temperature In Baiyun Cave, Hebei, China, Linhua Song, Wei Xiaoning, Liang Fuyuan

International Journal of Speleology

Baiyun Cave in Hebei Province is one of the main show caves in North China. The speleothem landscape is wonderful, but strongly weathered. In order to set up the relationship between visitor flow and CO₂ content and temperature, these parameters were measured at observation sites No. 1 and No. 2 in the tourist peak period of May Day Holiday from May 1 to May 7, 2000. and general tourist season August and October, 2000. The results show that visitor flow strongly affects the fluctuations of cave CO₂ content and temperature, that the cave topography and dimensions affect the …

The Freshman Connection: Implementing And Assessing A Plan To Increase Student Success, Pamela Downing-Hosten

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The purpose of this practicum was to develop, implement, and assess a plan for reducing the number of freshmen at the high school who failed the grade, with failure being defined as the inability to earn 4 credits within 1 year. From the 1993-1994 school year until the 1997-1998 school year, an average of 17.7% of the 9th-grade class had to repeat the grade. Through the year-long implementation of the plan called the Freshman Connection program, the researcher hoped that the failure rate of 21.9% in 1998 would be reduced to 10.0% in 1999.

The Freshman Connection program entailed (a) …

Mobile Agents: Motivations And State-Of-The-Art Systems, Robert S. Gray, George Cybenko, David Kotz, Daniela Rus

Dartmouth Scholarship

A mobile agent is an executing program that can migrate, at times of its own choosing, from machine to machine in a heterogeneous network. On each machine, the agent interacts with stationary service agents and other resources to accomplish its task. In this chapter, we first make the case for mobile agents, discussing six strengths of mobile agents and the applications that benefit from these strengths. Although none of these strengths are unique to mobile agents, no competing technique shares all six. In other words, a mobile-agent system provides a single general framework in which a wide range of distributed …

Federal Income Taxation Of Investments By Nonprofit Organizations: Beyond A Primer, Stephen Schwarz

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Limits Of Privilege: The Developing Scope Of Federal Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege Law, Melissa Lee Nelken

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Cultural Resistance To Global Governance, Joel R. Paul

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Political Corruption As An International Offense, Joel R. Paul

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Appreciating Collaborative Lawyering, Ascanio Piomelli

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Foreward: A Parallel Community–People Of Color Legal Scholarship Conferences And The Advancement Of Legal Education, H.G. Prince

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Decanal And Administrative Opportunities In The New Millennium, H.G. Prince

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Property, Privacy, And The Human Body, Radhika Rao

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Enlarging The Administrative Polity: Administrative Law And The Changing Definition Of Pluralism, 1945-1970, Reuel E. Schiller

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Free Speech And Expertise: Administrative Censorship And The Birth Of The Modern First Amendment, Reuel E. Schiller

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Administrative Relationship Between The District And Bankruptcy Courts, William W. Schwarzer, Neil Mcgaraghan

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Risk Of Imported Filariasis In Pakistan, M A. Beg

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

No abstract provided.

Independence Standard No. 2: Certain Independence Implications Of Audits Of Mutual Funds And Related Entities, December 1999 (As Amended-July 2000); Isb No. 2, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Exposure Draft: Deferral Of Effective Date Of Isb Standard No. 2, Certain Independence Implications Of Audits Of Mutual Funds And Related Entities, June 2000; Ed 00-1, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Exposure Draft: Statement Of Independence Concepts - A Conceptual Framework For Auditor Independence, November 2000; Ed 00-2, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Independence Standards Board - Minutes, Meeting Of October 17, 2000: Public Session, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Independence Standards Board - Minutes, Meeting Of May 2, 2000: Public Session, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Independence Standards Board - Minutes, Meeting Of January 14, 2000: Public Session, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Independence Standards Board - Minutes, Meeting Of March 20, 2000: Public Session, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Highlights Of The June 1, 2000 Isb Meeting: Independence Standards Board Issues Standard Requiring Safeguards When A Former Firm Professional Joins An Audit Client And An Exposure Draft To Defer The Effective Date Of Isb Standard No. 2, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

News Release, June 22, 2000: Notice Of A Telephonic Public Meeting, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

Comment Letters Re: Exposure Draft (Ed) 99-2, Employment With Audit Clients, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.