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The Effects Of Pubertal Timing On Deviant Behaviors In Adolescent Females, Angela Sadowski Jan 2001

The Effects Of Pubertal Timing On Deviant Behaviors In Adolescent Females, Angela Sadowski

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this research project was to examine the relationship between age at menarche and the development of behavior problems. The research was designed to determine if there is any significance to the hypothesis that early maturing girls engage in more problematic behaviors than their on-time or later maturing peer.

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Study Of A Gang Risk Intervention Program: A Profile Of At-Risk Youth In The Public School Setting, Patrick Saint Francis Muller Jan 2001

Study Of A Gang Risk Intervention Program: A Profile Of At-Risk Youth In The Public School Setting, Patrick Saint Francis Muller

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was (1) to review programs directed towards students defined "at risk" in the literature, (2) to construct a profile of the at-risk population served by the Gang Risk Intervention Program (GRIP) in Riverside County, and (3) to make future recommendations towards enhanced service delivery to the same.

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Differences Between Personality Traits Of Dcs Intake And Carrier Workers, Their Goodness Of Job Fit, And Its Effect On Job Satisfaction, Diane Lynne Mathis, Virginia Lynne Reed Jan 2001

Differences Between Personality Traits Of Dcs Intake And Carrier Workers, Their Goodness Of Job Fit, And Its Effect On Job Satisfaction, Diane Lynne Mathis, Virginia Lynne Reed

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a different personality trait between Department of Children's Services, intake and carrier workers. If there is a difference, does it effect job satisfaction when the worker is placed in a position that is not compatible with their personality trait?

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Strategy-Based Listening Comprehension For Junior High School Students Of English In Taiwan, Yu-Chi Yang Jan 2001

Strategy-Based Listening Comprehension For Junior High School Students Of English In Taiwan, Yu-Chi Yang

Theses Digitization Project

This project provides research on listening-process pedagogies for teachers and learning strategies that can assist learners' listening comprehhension. Based on these perspectives, a theorectical model of strategy-based listening process instruction is offered for the purpose of promoting listening comprehension.

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An Examination Of The Association Between Psychosocial Stressors And Drinking Patterns Among Gay Men, Dawn Melissa Linne, Jamie Danielle Grossberg Jan 2001

An Examination Of The Association Between Psychosocial Stressors And Drinking Patterns Among Gay Men, Dawn Melissa Linne, Jamie Danielle Grossberg

Theses Digitization Project

This study examined alcohol usage among gay men in terms of the relationship between specific psychosocial stressors and rates of alcohol usage.

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Developing Effective Learning Programs For Adults, Rosemary Cafarella Jan 2001

Developing Effective Learning Programs For Adults, Rosemary Cafarella

APC Monographs

Discusses the challenge of designing and delivering professional development that has an impact on the participants, not only at the time of the activity, but also transfers into their practice, and into that of others around them.

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About Our Contributors, P L. Gross, S. I. Shapiro Jan 2001

About Our Contributors, P L. Gross, S. I. Shapiro

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

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Nurturing Thenext Generation Of Wisconsin’S Dairy Farmers, B. Barham, Douglas B. Jackson-Smith, S. Stevenson, J. Taylor Jan 2001

Nurturing Thenext Generation Of Wisconsin’S Dairy Farmers, B. Barham, Douglas B. Jackson-Smith, S. Stevenson, J. Taylor

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

A strong dairy economy has both economic and social benefits for Wisconsin. While support for beginning dairy farmers is not the only way to sustain and increase dairy productivity, it is an important strategy that can renew the dairy industry with new farmers. There are many challenges in attracting new people to the dairy business. New dairy farmers often face high start-up costs for land, equipment, and facilities. Volatile milk prices, long hours, and hard work reduce the appeal of a career in dairy farming. In the 1990s, prospective dairy farmers could readily find off-farm jobs that often paid better …

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Bridgewater College Catalog, Session 2001-02, Bridgewater College Jan 2001

Bridgewater College Catalog, Session 2001-02, Bridgewater College

Bridgewater College Catalogs

No abstract provided.

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Choosing A Life Of Service, Ariel Zwang Jan 2001

Choosing A Life Of Service, Ariel Zwang

Special Topics, General

In an age of material excess, it has become a challenge to reorient the Jewish community towards service work. Throughout the community, many parents encourage their children to pursue lucrative careers at the expense of less profitable positions in service fields. There is even a tacit stigma associated with careers in helping others, as compared to the social prestige of high-wage jobs or the intellectual prestige of academia and science. Despite this, as the following article indicates, tile satisfaction of choosing a life of service can more than make up for these difficulties.

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South Dakota State University 2001 Jackrabbit Women's Soccer Media Guide, South Dakota State University Jan 2001

South Dakota State University 2001 Jackrabbit Women's Soccer Media Guide, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Soccer Media Guides (2000-2014)

Player Roster/Team Information [page] 1
Coaching Staff/Administration [page] 2-4
Team Preview [page] 5
Returning Player Profiles [page] 6-7
Newcomer Profiles [page] 8-10
Officials Signals [page] 10
2000 Statistics/Season Review [page] 11
2000 Game-By-Game Recaps [page] 12-13
North Central Conference Review [page] 14
North Central Conference Preview [page] 15
About South Dakota State University [page] 16

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2001 Jackrabbit Volleyball Media Guide, South Dakota State University Jan 2001

2001 Jackrabbit Volleyball Media Guide, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Volleyball Media Guides (1988-2014)

Behind the Scenes
Jackrabbit Information
2001 Team Preview
Jackrabbit Coaches
Assistant/Support Staff Jackrabbit
Player Profiles
2000 Season Review
History / Letterwinners
Award Winners
Career Leaders
Jackrabbit Record Book
Conference Information
Conference Opponents
Year-By-Year Results
About SDSU
2001 Volleyball Schedule

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The Level Of Foster Parent Satisfaction With The Department Of Children's Services, Tracy Paille Mccuskey Jan 2001

The Level Of Foster Parent Satisfaction With The Department Of Children's Services, Tracy Paille Mccuskey

Theses Digitization Project

This research project surveyed San Bernardino County non-relative licensed foster parents to assess their level of satisfaction with the Department of Children's Services. This research also explored factors related to communication and feelings of support and determined their impact on over all feelings of satisfaction with the agency.

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Accessibility And Consumer Knowledge Of Services For Deaf Adolescents, Gillian Reynolds Jan 2001

Accessibility And Consumer Knowledge Of Services For Deaf Adolescents, Gillian Reynolds

Theses Digitization Project

The percentage of deaf and hard of hearing people who need mental health crisis services is similar to the percentage of the general population needing such services. Yet, coordinated mental services for deaf and hard of hearing individuals are virtually nonexistent. People who are deaf and hard of hearing, like everyone else, find themselves, from time to time, in need of mental health services.

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Financial Abuse Of Elders, April Lashawn Thomas-Holmes Jan 2001

Financial Abuse Of Elders, April Lashawn Thomas-Holmes

Theses Digitization Project

The proposed research study explored the extent and nature of financial abuse crimes amongst elders in San Bernardino County. This study utilized a descriptive research method. This study identified characteristics of victims and perpetrators, contributing factors associated with financial abuse, the degree of trauma an elder will experience depending on the type of financial crime committed. This study will provide an overview of the different types of financial abuse cases reported and determine if there is a significant difference and/or similarities of these types of crimes committed against male and female elderly in San Bernardino County.

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Teaching The Reading/Writing Connection In The Diverse Community College Classroom, Claudia Eleanore Wissbeck-Kittel Jan 2001

Teaching The Reading/Writing Connection In The Diverse Community College Classroom, Claudia Eleanore Wissbeck-Kittel

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis argues that with the racial and ethnic diversity becoming more pronounced in the diverse disciplines of the two year college we are going to need to adapt a cultural studies pedagogy in the writing class.

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Motivation To Volunteer Within A Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, Stefani June Massongill Jan 2001

Motivation To Volunteer Within A Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, Stefani June Massongill

Theses Digitization Project

This exploratory study sought to identify factors which motivate individual participation in volunteer services for the Long-Term Ombudsman Program of the Volunteer Center of Riverside County.

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The Representations Of Masculinities In 1920s American Literature: Ernest Hemingway And Willa Cather, Omar Agustin Moran Jan 2001

The Representations Of Masculinities In 1920s American Literature: Ernest Hemingway And Willa Cather, Omar Agustin Moran

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis examines how masculinity is attained through various displays of violence, ambivalence, heterosexuality, and sentimentality in the works of Ernest Hemingway and Willa Cather.

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An Exploratory Study Of Foster Care Emanicipation In An Adult Population: Home Again, Home Again, Elizabeth Waldon, Debbie Ann Davis Jan 2001

An Exploratory Study Of Foster Care Emanicipation In An Adult Population: Home Again, Home Again, Elizabeth Waldon, Debbie Ann Davis

Theses Digitization Project

This qualitative study explored the foster care emanicipation experience of adults who had "aged out" of the foster care system. This study found that foster care had negative impacts on participants' ability to form attachments while in foster care and in their adult relationships.

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In-Laws And Marital Relationships, Trisha Marie Terry Jan 2001

In-Laws And Marital Relationships, Trisha Marie Terry

Theses Digitization Project

This study examined the relationship between married individuals, their mothers-in-laws, fathers-in-law and marital adjustment. Participants were 33 male and 123 female married college students (mean age of 30) who responded to a questionaire assessing perceived in-law social support, perceived dissimilarity in family values with in-laws, triangulation with in-laws, and marital adjustment.

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Client Outcomes In The Adult Protective Service System, Susan Lee Brown Jan 2001

Client Outcomes In The Adult Protective Service System, Susan Lee Brown

Theses Digitization Project

This study examined the outcomes that clients are experiencing with the Adult Protective Services System in the County of San Bernardino. The study was exploratory and discriptive. Data were extracted from closed case records from the period of September 1, 1999 until August 31, 2000.

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Social Work Students: The Learning Of Professional Values In A Graduate Program, Soyna Hester Farrow, Donna Marie Monroe Jan 2001

Social Work Students: The Learning Of Professional Values In A Graduate Program, Soyna Hester Farrow, Donna Marie Monroe

Theses Digitization Project

This research may facilitate a discussion concerning the most efficient way of instilling social work values and ethics into the personal value systems of graduate social work students.

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Aligning Brain-Based Middle School Reform With The California State Standards, John Ray Adams Jan 2001

Aligning Brain-Based Middle School Reform With The California State Standards, John Ray Adams

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

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Social Welfare Policy And The Crisis Of Hunger, Karen Bolesworth, Susan Tufts Jan 2001

Social Welfare Policy And The Crisis Of Hunger, Karen Bolesworth, Susan Tufts

Theses Digitization Project

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 has lead to reduced welfare assistance to the needy. This thesis analyzes how families have become increasingly homeless and hungry during the welfare reform years.

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Development Of A Life Science Curriculum For Kindergarten And First Grade Reflecting The Theories Of Multiple Intelligence And Brain-Based Learning, Barbara Jean Dudeck Jan 2001

Development Of A Life Science Curriculum For Kindergarten And First Grade Reflecting The Theories Of Multiple Intelligence And Brain-Based Learning, Barbara Jean Dudeck

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to address the need for making the subject matter of life science accessible to all kindergarten and first grade students.

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Promoting Listening Strategies Use In Elementary English As A Foreign Language Computer-Assisted Learning Environment, Makiko Kojima Jan 2001

Promoting Listening Strategies Use In Elementary English As A Foreign Language Computer-Assisted Learning Environment, Makiko Kojima

Theses Digitization Project

In Japan, English education in elementary schools is still in the process of innovation. The purpose of this project is to seek the most appropriate and effective way for elementary-level students to acquire listening skills in a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) environment.

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Elder Care Based Work-Family Conflict: Antecedents And Outcomes, Jaime Lynn Barrah Jan 2001

Elder Care Based Work-Family Conflict: Antecedents And Outcomes, Jaime Lynn Barrah

Theses Digitization Project

Examing the antecedents and outcomes of elder care based work-family conflict, - presenting family interference with work and work interference with family as major components.

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Ethnic Identity Formation And Self Esteem In Adolescents Of Mexican Descent, Barbara Jean Hale Jan 2001

Ethnic Identity Formation And Self Esteem In Adolescents Of Mexican Descent, Barbara Jean Hale

Theses Digitization Project

A survey of four classes of ELD (English language deficient) students of Mexican descent was performed at Rancho Verde High School, Moreno Valley, CA in March, 2001 in an attempt to determine whether adolescents of Mexican descent who develop an identity close to their Mexican roots have higher levels of self-esteem than those who develop an identity close to their American experience.

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Concentration Of Specific Biogenic Amines In Ventricular Csf Of Type A And B Parkinson's Disease Patients On Sinemet, Justin Robert Ahlman Jan 2001

Concentration Of Specific Biogenic Amines In Ventricular Csf Of Type A And B Parkinson's Disease Patients On Sinemet, Justin Robert Ahlman

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

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The Effect Of Substance Abuse On Nonverbal Emotional Expressiveness, Amy Lee Gnade Jan 2001

The Effect Of Substance Abuse On Nonverbal Emotional Expressiveness, Amy Lee Gnade

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to compare nonverbal emotional expressiveness between substance users and nonsubstance users.

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