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A Study Of The Effects Of The Posse Technique On The Perceptions Of Pre-Service Teachers In Teaching Learning Disabled Students., Kim H. Rotruck

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This study seeks to establish a benchmark on the perceptions of pre-service teachers (interns) in order to understand the factors influencing successful teaching of disabled students in the general education classroom. With the extensive body of research that indicates general educators request more training to teach disabled students, this study begins with four interns and generates information about the effects of a specific technique designed for teaching learning disabled students and observes the interns' perceptions as they teach learning disabled students. This technique predicts, organizes, searches, summarizes, and evaluates expository text (POSSE), which is characteristic of many effective reading techniques. …

An Investigation Of Demographic, Psychosocial And Self-Reported Behavioral Influences On Career Maturity Levels Of College Student-Athletes., Rebecca L. Ahlgren

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Career maturity is operationally defined as the readiness of an individual to make informed, age-appropriate career decisions and cope with career development tasks (King, 1990; Savickas, 1984). The matched sample consisted of a total of 344 participants including college freshmen student-athletes (n = 107), freshmen non-student-athletes (n = 107), senior student-athletes (n = 65), and senior non-student-athletes (n = 65). It was hypothesized that there would be significant, positive relationships between the psychosocial variables of educational involvement (EI), career planning (CP), career decision making self-efficacy (CDMSE), and career locus of control (CLCS), and significant, negative relationships between these measures and …

The Present Status Of Geography Education In Boys' Intermediate Schools Of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia., Abdulrahman Mohammed Al-Gahtany

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The purpose of this study was to describe the present status of geography education in boys' intermediate schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as perceived by geography teachers and supervisors; that is, to investigate the objectives, content, methods of teaching, tools and resources that are available and used in classrooms, evaluation techniques, and problems encountered in the teaching of geography. To collect data from this representative sample population, a questionnaire was developed by the researcher specifically for this study. Questionnaire data was collected from 19 social studies supervisors and 213 geography teachers. Percentages, frequencies, means, and standard deviations were computed for …

The Making Of The Korean Financial Crisis Financial Liberalization Without Regulations, Shalendra D. Sharma

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The Effectiveness Of Argon Laser Irradiation Of Pumiced And Etched Enamel On Decalcification During Orthodontic Treatment: An In Vivo Study., Anissa Monseau Anderson

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Enamel decalcification is a significant problem in orthodontic patients. The argon laser has been shown to reduce decalcification during an acidic challenge in vitro. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of argon laser irradiation on decalcification under banded teeth during orthodontic treatment in vivo. Eight volunteers requiring four bicuspid extractions for orthodontic treatment were enrolled and each bicuspid was assigned a group. A specially designed plaque-collecting band was cemented on each tooth following the treatment and remained for five weeks. Treatment involved the following: Control (C)-no treatment prior to the band cementation, Pumice-lase (PL)-pumiced and lased …

Ueber Den Feministischen Tellerrand Hinausblicken: Welche Forderungen Stellen Kassandra Und Medea An Den Leser Heute? "Menschliches" Statt "Maennliches" Fehlverhalten Dargestellt In Christa Wolfs Mythischen Erzaehlungen "Kassandra" Und "Medea. Stimmen"., Susanne Buettner

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Christa Wolf gelang es mit einer Neuverfassung mythischer Figuren und Erzählungen in Kassandra und Medea. Stimmen , Mechanismen darzustellen, die seit Jahrtausenden zur Unterdrückung weiblicher Elemente in Gesellschaft und Kultur und zur Fremdbestimmung von Frauen in patriarchalischen Systemen geführt haben und immer noch führen. Es ist daher mehr als natürlich, beide Romane von einem feministischen Standpunkt aus zu betrachten, dessen Erörterung den ersten Teil meiner Arbeit darstellt und in einen Vergleich beider Werke mündet. Diese Arbeit wird weiterhin zeigen, welche Aussagen in Kassandra und Medea. Stimmen erkennen lassen, dass es für Christa Wolf mehr als das bloße (Macht-) Verhältnis der …

A Computational Study Of Mixing In Stratified Liquid-Liquid Flows Using Analogy Between Heat And Mass Transfer., Andrew Charles Burt

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Research is being conducted at West Virginia University (WVU) in collaboration with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) to study the mixing that occurs during the refueling of U.S. naval vessels. These vessels employ a series of tanks to both store fuel and to maintain the balance of the ship by taking on seawater as the fuel is consumed. Hence, these are referred to as Compensated Fuel/Ballast Tanks (CFBT). This study is applicable to naval destroyers such as the DDG 51 (Arleigh Burke) class. Previous work by Umbel and Wilson under the direction …

The Phenomenological Lived Experience Of Rheumatoid Arthritis., Monica Lena Iaquinta

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Previous qualitative studies about the lived experience of persons with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have yielded common themes, such as becoming aware, seeking help, learning to live with the disease, and uncertainty (Brown & Williams, 1995; Ryan, 1996; Shaul, 1995, 1997; Yoshida, 1996). Gaps identified included lack of personalized guidance and support from health care providers, gender differences, and the active role of the patient in managing the disease (Brown & Williams, 1995; Ryan, 1996; Shaul 1995, 1997). This study addressed two of the three gaps previously mentioned: (a) personalized nursing care, and (b) patient as active manager of the disease. …

Defining Environmental Theology: Content Analysis Of Associated Literature., Robert J. Jacobus

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Environmental theology is a term used often by religious communities describing theological doctrines concerning the relationship of deity and ethical conduct to the environment. After an extensive literature search, an operational or declarative definition for environmental theology was not discovered. The objectives of this study were to establish an explicit and scholarly definition of environmental theology and introduce deoview as a descriptor associated with the term. People have and will continue to act according to their belief systems: this paper has value in understanding beliefs, ethics, and behavior of people and people groups.

Processing Improvement Of Moirã© Interferometry For Accurate Crack-Tip Deformation Measurement., Ridha Kamil

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Recent research advancement of moiré interferometry has incorporated phase shifting, a technique for better accuracy and easier digital image processing. However, moiré interferometry with phase shifting also revealed some sensitivity problems. Background noise associated with the topography of the specimen and optical effect produces rough and discontinuous displacement fields, which makes it difficult to obtain accurate strains and stresses. In this research, two alternate methods that improve the sensitivity of moiré interferometry, with and without phase shifting is developed. The result is a smoother displacement fields with higher sensitivity at the crack tip area. A single edge notched bend specimen …

Still Life: A Collection Of Poems., Kelly Anne Moffett

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The poetry manuscript Still Life: A Collection of Poems focuses on issues of domesticity, estrangement, and recognition within an estranged landscape. A critical introduction includes a discussion of the poetics of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Frost.

A Comparison Of The Effects Of Different Wavelengths Of Argon Laser Irradiation On The Solubility Of Human Enamel: An In Vitro Study., Bradley Fulton Kendzior

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Decalcification around orthodontic appliances is an ongoing problem during orthodontic treatment. Argon laser irradiation has been shown to decrease the solubility of enamel. The objectives of this study were to: 1) determine the length of time necessary to create lesions of adequate depth, an intact surface zone, and a distinct body of the lesion zone; 2) determine if different wavelengths of argon laser irradiation (457-501nm or 457 514nm) of non-pumiced and non-etched enamel provided different levels of resistance to demineralization; 3) determine if different wavelengths of argon laser irradiation (457 501nm or 457-514nm) of pumiced and etched enamel provided different …

A Life Cycle Cost Estimation Model For Frp Bridge Decks., Pratik Roychoudhury

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This research developed a prototype life cycle cost-estimating model for FRP bridge decks called “bridgeMATE”. The model considers the agency costs, user costs and the third party costs to establish the life cycle cost of an FRP bridge deck. The model features two condition indices for maintenance and for repair that can estimate the condition of the bridge deck in any given year. Based on the limiting values set on the indices, a decision for maintenance and repair is made when the index value for a year exceeds the limiting value. These limiting values can be entered by the user …

A Comparison Of The Instructional Effectiveness Of Intensive And Semester-Length Courses., Marc C. Seamon

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A broad research literature base on the instructional effectiveness of intensive-format courses often finds the intensive courses equal or superior to semester-length versions, but many of the studies from which those conclusions are drawn were theoretically or methodologically flawed. This examination of student characteristics and instructional effectiveness in one matched pair of educational psychology classes found that students in the intensive version of the course performed significantly better than students in the semester-length course on posttests of content and questions tapping higher-order learning. Despite indications of better learning in the intensive-course group, the two groups of students did not differ …

Object-Oriented Expert System Design: Texpert., Maryam Farmani

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Object-Orientation is a powerful approach to managing complexity, which has received widespread attention in the past few years. Object-Oriented Design is based on a small number of basic concepts: object, classes, operations and relationships. Some important relationships are inheritance, message passing, and encapsulation. Different methods and notations have been proposed within this paradigm, and a Unified Modeling Language has been developed based on several of these methods. Most rule-based expert systems are not flexible enough to handle problems that mix logical deductions, rule-based inferences, and procedure execution, but mixed problems are common in modern society. Management decisions, for example, are …

Spatial Models Of Forest-Environment Relationships On The Appalachian Plateaus: The Allegheny Mountain Section, Western Maryland., Joshua Andrew Kincaid

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The goal of this thesis research was to show that spatial data do affect the results of the analysis of vegetation-environment relationships. Vegetation-environment relationships were modeled within the Allegheny Mountain section of the Appalachian Plateaus physiographic province in western Maryland. Specifically, this research focused on two state forests, namely Garrett and Potomac State Forests, in Garrett County, Maryland. Four regression models were utilized in this research to model the basal area and diversity of the fifteen most prominent species relative to environmental factors within the two forests combined. A standard Ordinary Least Squares regression model with diagnostics for spatial effects …

A Prototype Automatic Dental Identification System (Adis)., Diaa Eldin Mohamed Nassar

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In this work we apply combined digital image processing and artificial neural network techniques in developing a prototype of an automatic dental identification system (ADIS) to be employed for postmortem forensic identification. The prototype ADIS follows a pyramidal image-matching architecture used in developing an analogous fingerprint comparison system. Owing to the differences in image natures, we used new techniques and modified some mathematical models. We introduce an adaptive technique for dental radiograph enhancement and an adaptive strategic searching technique for neural network training. The training and testing results we obtained are promising.

Trisomy 8 Mosaicism: Cell Cycle Kinetics And Distribution Of Trisomy 8 And Normal Cells In Embryonic And Extra-Embryonic Tissues., Bonnie J. Pettit

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Amniocentesis identified a fetus with trisomy 8 in one third of metaphase cells while remaining cells were normal. The purpose of this project was to determine the level of trisomy 8 mosaicism within embryonic and extra-embryonic tissues and cell cycle division rates for the two cell lines. Tissue samples collected at birth included cord blood, cord tissue, peripheral blood, and placental tissues. The level of trisomy 8 and normal cells was determined in G-banded metaphases and fluorescence in situ hybridization of interphase cells. Trisomy 8 metaphase and interphase cell investigations identified a significant decrease of trisomy 8 cells undergoing mitosis. …

Interethnic Communication Apprehension: Another Look At Predictor Variables With More Diverse Populations., Kari Elizabeth Albertson

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Using an African-American sample, this study replicates the work of Toale and McCroskey (in press) on predictor variables associated with interethnic communication apprehension. Participants responded to Canary and Stafford’s (1992) relational maintenance strategies typology, Personal Report of Interethnic Communication Apprehension (PRECA), Person Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24) and Neuliep and McCroskey’s (1997b) General Ethnocentrism scale. The results indicated that interethnic communication apprehension was not correlated with relational maintenance strategies used in interethnic relationships. Although trait communication apprehension and ethnocentrism were both predictive of IECA, ethnocentrism was more predictive, accounting for most of the variance in IECA scores. This study gives …

Manufacturing Security: Mass Media Coverage Of Depleted Uranium Weapon Use In Okinawa, Japan., Yoko Abe

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Despite the reversion of Okinawa to Japan in 1972, thirty-eight U.S. military bases still remain in the prefecture. While the local residents’ entreaties to end their suffering from the consequences of the U.S. military presence remain strong, the U.S. and Japanese governments have adopted measures to maintain the U.S. military foothold. This study examined the viewpoints of six claimsmakers to illustrate an overlooked political process in the perpetuation of the U.S. military presence. The research applied a content analysis of newspaper articles appearing in the Okinawa Times following the disclosure of the U.S. Marine Corps’ use of depleted uranium weapons. …

The Relationship Of Mental Skills To Performance On A Tennis Accuracy Task Under Fatigued And Non-Fatigued Conditions., Mark Christopher Booras

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether athletes with higher mental skills perform tennis accuracy skills better than athletes with lower mental skills under two conditions. Division 1 tennis players (N = 11 men, N = 10 women) were divided into high and low mental skills groups by a median split on the ACSI-28. They were taken through two exercise conditions, fresh and fatigue, on two separate days and given a tennis accuracy task at the end of each condition. A repeated measure ANOVA determined there was no significant interaction between mental skill level and task condition scores. …

Exploring The Linkage Of Environmental Impact Assessment (Eia) And Geographic Information Systems (Gis): A Case Study Of The West Run Expressway (Wre), Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia., Sewelo S. Keleagetse

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a process that seeks to identify potential environmental impacts resulting from development projects and to use this information to minimize those impacts on the social and ecological systems. EIA has been in existence for over three decades and has evolved from a single legislative mandate to a broad methodology. Since the introduction of EIA in the National Environmental Policy Act legislation in 1969, many techniques have been developed to help identify and assess the environmental impacts arising from human activity. Due to the complex nature of both social and natural systems, questions have been raised …

A Comparison Of White-Tailed Deer Population Estimation Methods In West Virginia., Christopher A. Langdon

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I compared 5 methods of estimating white-tailed deer density, evaluated the area a baited automated camera surveys, and examined the effects of baiting on deer movement at the Westvaco Wildlife and Ecosystem Research Forest in Randolph County, West Virginia during 2000 and 2001. A concurrent study provided a marked deer population (267 radiocollared and 2118 total marked deer) and deer telemetry data.

I compared deer density estimates derived from pellet group counts, spotlight distance sampling, spotlight mark-resighting, automated camera surveys, and automated camera mark-resighting among summer, fall, winter, and spring. A pellet group count was not performed in the winter …

Mechanisms Of Lung Injury Caused By Residual Oil Fly Ash: Role Of Metal-Induced Reactive Oxygen Species., Anthony Brent Lewis

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Inhalation of residual oil fly ash (ROFA) has been shown to increase pulmonary morbidity in exposed workers. We examined the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in ROFA-Induced lung injury. ROFA (ROFA-Total) was suspended in saline, incubated, centrifuged, and separated into soluble (ROFA-Soluble) and insoluble (ROFA-Insoluble) fractions. The generation of ROS from ROFA samples was measured by electron spin resonance (ESR). Sprague-Dawley rats were intratracheally instilled with saline, ROFATotal, ROFA-Soluble, and ROFA-Insoluble (1 mg/ 100 g body wt). Lung tissue and bronchoalveolar lavage cells were harvested at 4, 24, and 72 hours after instillation. Chemiluminescence, lipid peroxidation, and biochemical parameters …

The Impact Of Statehood And Republican Politics On Women's Legal Rights In West Virginia, 1863-1872., Amanda Jean Ray

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While the nation debated the rights of citizenship and freedmen’s rights, legislators in the newly formed state of West Virginia instigated a legal revolution in women’s rights in the state. During the nineteenth century a married woman suffered “civil death” upon marriage in that she became the property of her husband. Thus, laws governing divorce, dower, and married women’s property held an unparalleled amount of control over a woman’s daily life. Oftentimes, issues of who could marry and remarry; who gained custody of minor children; who was entitled to alimony, maintenance, insurance, and curtesy; who had the ability to sue …

A Kinetic Treatment Of A Perpendicular Gradient In Field-Aligned Flow In A Thermally Anisotropic Plasma., Robert Samuel Spangler

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The linearized dispersion relation describing waves in a plasma having a uniform magnetic field, uniform density, and inhomogeous parallel (to the magnetic field) flow [G. Ganguli, M.J. Keskinen, H. Romero, R. Heelis, T. Moore, and C. Pollock, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 8873 (1994)] is generalized to include thermal anisotropy, a key feature existing in many space and laboratory plasmas. The effects of ion thermal anisotropy on the ion acoustic mode is examined. The growth rate of the ion acoustic mode is shown to increase with TT ii ^ P , and the real frequency at which the maximum growth rate …

A Neural Network-Based Sensor Validation Scheme Within Aircraft Control Laws., Brian Michael Stolarik

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In 1992 NASA launched its "faster, better, cheaper" initiative to increase the number of missions while decreasing mission cost and time. Accordingly, NASA began supporting research efforts to replace physically redundant systems on board spacecraft with analytically redundant systems. The sensor failure, detection, identification and accommodation (SFDIA) system eliminates physical redundancy by supplying neural network estimations for the pitch, roll, and yaw rate gyros. A Boolean logic scheme utilizes the estimations to detect and identify gyro sensor failures. Additionally, the SFDIA replaces a faulty sensor with its estimate to ensure nominal flight conditions after a sensor failure. The SFDIA was …

A Comparative Analysis Of Perceptions Of Technology Among Doctoral Students From Selected Science, Technology, And Society (Sts) Programs In The United States., Chain-Wen Wang

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The purpose of this research was to investigate, compare, and analyze perceptions of technology among the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) programs doctoral students, and to identify the institutional factors that influenced these perceptions. The data were collected through literature review, survey, interviews, and Internet searches. The treatment and analysis of data were combinations of quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings of this research indicated that: (1) various perceptions of technology exist among the scholars of technology identified for this research, (2) the STS doctoral students seem to differ in their perceptions of technology, (3) the majority of STS doctoral …

2001 Aasu Men's Tennis Schedule And Results, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Tennis Records (Archived)

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2001 Aasu Tennis Guide, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Tennis Records (Archived)

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