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Teachers' Perception Of School Climate As A Function Of Personality Traits, Mary Carmen Pacheco

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between teachers' perception of school climate and their personality traits. The instruments used to gather the data are the Revised Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire ( OCDQ-RE ) and the NEO-Five Factor Inventory ( NEO-FFI ). Both instruments were administered to 290 Hispanic, Mexican-American, elementary teachers during team or faculty meetings. Exploratory and confirmatory analyses are used in the present study. The mean, standard error of mean, variance, skewness, standard error of skewness, kurtosis, and standard error of kurtosis are reported. Box-and-whisker plots and stem-and-leaf displays are also reported. Correlation …

Attitudes Of Migrant Receiving And Home District Teachers And The Academic Successes Of Migrant Children, Martha Alicia Cantu

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The purpose of this research was to investigate the attitudes of teachers in receiving and home districts toward migrant students and measure the academic achievement of migrant students. The study also serves the purpose of accessing the preparation needs of teachers who work with migrant students.

The instrument used to gather the attitudinal data from 215 receiving and home district teachers was the Migrant Education Survey . The surveys were mailed or delivered to the receiving and home district migrant teachers. Initially, 125 migrant students were selected as participants for the study. However, only 77 were used in the final …

Cascading Visions, Noel Palmenez

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

I view my work as a look into dreams, thoughts, ideas. My themes are universal, but their source derives from my specific surroundings, the Rio Grande Valley. They come out from the rows in the fields where we grow our foods, in the skies, and from the sun that warms our blood. Themes come from what I see as well as what I imagine, living and not. I consider myself a farmer, but now I harvest ideas and concepts, and have my paintings and drawings to show for my labor. I believe one must contribute to the land before one …

Nasa Light-Emitting Diodes For The Prevention Of Oral Mucositis In Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Patients, Harry T. Whelan, James F. Connelly, Brian D. Hodgson, Lori Barbeau, A. Charles Post, George Bullard, Ellen V. Buchmann, Mary Kane, Noel T. Whelan, Ann Warwick, David Margolis

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of prophylactic near-infrared light therapy from light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in pediatric bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients.

Background Data: Oral mucositis (OM) is a frequent side effect of chemotherapy that leads to increased morbidity. Near-infrared light has been shown to produce biostimulatory effects in tissues, and previous results using near-infrared lasers have shown improvement in OM indices. However, LEDs may hold greater potential for clinical applications.

Materials and Methods: We recruited 32 consecutive pediatric patients undergoing myeloablative therapy in preparation for BMT. Patients were examined by two …

The Use Of Psychological State Terms By Late Talkers At Age 3, Eliza Carlson Lee, Leslie Rescorla

Psychology Faculty Research and Scholarship

The use of psychological state words during mother-child play sessions at age 3 was examined in 31 children diagnosed with delayed expressive language at 24-31 months and 21 age-matched typically developing comparison children. Children and mothers in the late talker group made more references to physiological states and fewer references to cognitive states than the children and mothers in the typically developing comparison group. The children's use of cognitive terms correlated significantly with measures of language ability, including mean length of utterance, Index of Productive Syntax score, and use of propositional complements, as well as with their mothers' use of …

Automation Of The Superpave Mix Design Process For The West Virginia Division Of Highways, Martin Felix Padula

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

During the fifty years between 1940 and 1990, the nation's bituminous roadways were predominantly designed using either the Marshall or Hveem method. The Superior Performing Asphalt Pavements (Superpave)(TM) method was later developed to address the issues of increased traffic volumes and heavier loads on the nation's roadways. This new mix design process relies on volumetric calculations and graphs, which are cumbersome to perform by hand. There is no current public domain Superpave software package available which is independent of any commercial laboratory product and available to an asphalt mix designer. A component of this research project consisted of creating a …

Harvested Log Damage And Value Loss Associated With Two Ground-Based Harvesting Systems In Central Appalachia, Michael R. Vanderberg

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Damage is often seen as an important consideration when conducting partial harvests in hardwood stands, as excessive damage to residual trees will significantly reduce the potential value of the residual stand. Damage to harvested logs, especially hardwood saw and veneer logs can be an even more important concern relative to value loss associated with log degrade. The log damage and value loss were examined by harvesting system, felling function, species, and damage type in central Appalachia. Observations were made of all grade logs during the felling, skidding, decking/sorting, and loading functions of the harvesting operations. Saw logs or veneer logs …

Newsletter, Florida Ornithological Society, Volume 28, No. 1, Winter 2002, Katy Nesmith

Florida Ornithological Society - Records - Full Collection

Winter 2002 edition of the Florida Ornithological Society Newsletter, including note from the editor, announcements, requests for assistance, and notes.

Revision Of The Neotropical Genus Trizogeniates Ohaus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Geniatini), Karla Villatoro

University of Nebraska State Museum: Entomology Papers

A comprehensive, systematic treatment of the poorly studied Neotropical genus Trizogeniates (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Geniatini) is provided. This revision includes a key to species, species descriptions, and distributional and temporal data. Based on this study, the genus Trizogeniates now includes 30 species. The following eight species are new: Trizogeniates ohausi Villatoro, T. venezuelensis Villatoro, T. geminatus Villatoro, T. caiporae Villatoro, T. crispospinatus Villatoro, T. catsus Villatoro, T. aphilus Villatoro, and T. eris Villatoro. Trizogeniates zischkai Martínez is a new synonym of T. temporalis Ohaus; T. grandis Ohaus is a new synonym of T. cribicollis (Lucas). T. andicola Ohaus is a …

Notes On Oriental Lamiini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae), Karl-Ernst Hüdepohl, Daniel J. Heffern

Insecta Mundi

Longhorned beetles of the Tribe Lamiini have evolved into approximately 180 genera in South East Asia and nearby regions. Many genera and species are poorly-known and some taxa are still undescribed. As a prelude to a checklist and further studies of this group, the authors propose some taxonomic changes and provide corrections to previous literature.

The private collection and literature of the senior author are deposited in Zoologische Staatssammlung Munchen, Munchhausenstrabe 21, D-8000, Munchen, Germany.

New County Records Of Chewing Lice (Mallophaga) On Birds In Florida, J. Adam Holt

Insecta Mundi

County records for avian lice are less significant than the host records themselves. Considering that most avian lice are host specific, the county records should resemble the area the host would most likely be encountered. Nonetheless, the list cited in Forrester and Spalding (2003) contains few and spotty county records. The main source of material for this publication has been the Marathon Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Marathon, Monroe Co., Florida. The center takes in specimens of about 90 species of birds per year. The following is a list of the avian lice species, hosts, and localities with collection dates. All …

Power Scaling Feasibility Of Chromium-Doped Ii-Vi Laser Sources And The Demonstration Of A Chromium-Doped Zinc Selenide Face-Cooled Disk Laser, Jason B. Mckay

Theses and Dissertations

Tunable lasers in the 2-4 µm wavelength range are needed for Air Force sensor applications. Chromium-doped II-VI materials are a promising class of laser material for tunable operation in this wavelength range, but until recently had not produced enough output power to meet application requirements. This dissertation investigates Cr²⁺:II-VI material properties and potential laser designs, then experimentally demonstrates and analyzes the performance of a Cr²⁺:ZnSe disk laser design that can produce sufficient output power. Cr²⁺:II-VI laser materials are found to be susceptible to overheating and thermal lensing, but are otherwise satisfactory laser materials. The …

Active Processor Scheduling Using Evolution Algorithms, David J. Caswell

Theses and Dissertations

The allocation of processes to processors has long been of interest to engineers. The processor allocation problem considered here assigns multiple applications onto a computing system. With this algorithm researchers could more efficiently examine real-time sensor data like that used by United States Air Force digital signal processing efforts or real-time aerosol hazard detection as examined by the Department of Homeland Security. Different choices for the design of a load balancing algorithm are examined in both the problem and algorithm domains. Evolutionary algorithms are used to find near-optimal solutions. These algorithms incorporate multiobjective coevolutionary and parallel principles to create an …

Deception Detection: Study Of Information Manipulation Through Electronic Identity Theft-Email Forgery In The U.S. Military, Roy V. Rockwell

Theses and Dissertations

This research describes the results of a field experiment which examines the effects of warnings on system trust and individual awareness in government computer systems through the use of email forgery. The experiment consisted of forging a trusted government email account and trying to get government computer users to reply to a forged email address. The results revealed that warning individuals about possible email forgery did not increase their awareness or reduce their level of system thrust in the email system nor did it increase their ability to detect email forgery. The results did determine that government computer users are …

A Public Trust Argument For Public Access To Private Conservation Land, Sarah C. Smith

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Diplomats Or Defendants? Defining The Future Of Head-Of-State Immunity, Michael A. Tunks

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Review Of Parasitism: The Diversity And Ecology Of Animal Parasites By Albert O. Bush, Jacqueline C. Fernández, Gerald W. Esch And J. Richard Seed (Cambridge University, 2002), Daniel R. Brooks

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Review of Parasitism: The Diversity and Ecology of Animal Parasites by Albert O. Bush, Jacqueline C. Fernández, Gerald W. Esch and J. Richard Seed (Cambridge University, 2002).

The First "Establishment" Clause: Article Vii And The Post-Constitutional Confederation, Gary S. Lawson, Guy I. Seidman

Faculty Scholarship

It is a great pleasure for academics to realize that fellow scholars sometimes read their work and take it seriously. We are genuinely flattered that Vasan Kesavan has chosen to comment on our article, When Did the Constitution Become Law?,1 and has done so with the intellectual rigor and generosity of spirit that characterizes his prodigious scholarship. 2 We are grateful to Mr. Kesavan for engaging us and grateful to the Notre Dame Law Review for accommodating the dialogue.

Monitoring By The Financial Press And Forced Ceo Turnover, Kathleen A. Farrell, David A. Whidbee

Department of Finance: Faculty Publications

This paper examines Wall Street Journal news stories about 79 firms that forced CEO turnover and a matched sample of firms that did not force CEO turnover. In the two years prior to turnover, firms in the forced-turnover sample were the subjects of 76% more news stories about poor firm performance despite being from the same industry, of similar size, and similar performance as a sample of matched firms. Overall, the evidence suggests that scrutiny of poor firm performance by the financial press increases the likelihood of forced CEO turnover.

Pig Industry Biosecurity Plan - March 2003 - Protecting The Pig Industry Is Everyone's Business, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Biosecurity published reports

Farmnote 71/2002 - Farm Biosecurity

Farmnote 43/2002 - Biosecurity in the livestock industries

StockGuard has been initiated to develop a series of biosecurity plans for the animal industries in Western Australia. Through StockGuard, representatives from the animal industries have been working with the Western Australian Department of Agriculture to identify potential threats to each of the animal industries and to develop action plans detailing how these threats can be managed.

The overall purpose of StockGuard is to identify threats to the animal industries and to develop effective ways to minimise the potential impact of these threats.

If an emergency pig …

Strategi Mengatasi Masalah Kesehatan Dan Lingkungan Hidup Di Pemukiman Kumuh Lewat Program Pemasaran Sosial, Wahyuni Pudjiastuti

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

The research has a starting point from assumption that compose accurate social marketing strategy is being needed to overcome social health and environmental problems in the sleim settlement area in Jakarta. The strategy should consider the condition of target area, target adopters and some factors that influence in the community participation to some social products. The research was done in three sleims area, (i) narrow street, (ii) flood plain river and along the railway track. The research was designed as descriptive research correlation which is analyzed by multiple regression and distribution frequency table. The result of the research is being …

Confessions Of A Deceitful Correspondent, Mary Jo Kline

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

In evaluating personal correspondence, most editors must spend considerable time speculating on authorial intention and the responses of the women and men who were the intended audience for each letter. Tonight I shall discuss what may be learned from an archive of letters where little such informed guesswork is necessary. At least on my part.

Minutes Of The Ade Annual Business Meeting, Hotel Washington, Washington, D.C., 2 November 2002

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Secretary's Report--Treasurer's Report--Committee Reports--Documentary Editing editor--Future Meetings--Other Business

Documentary Editing: Index For Volume 24(2002):1-4

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Names of Persons and Places; Titles of Articles, Books,Joumals, and Reviews

Institute For The Editing Of Historical Documents

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The Wisconsin Historical Society, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) sponsor the annual Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents. Fondly called "Camp Edit," the 2003 Institute will be conducted from June 16 to 21, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and will provide 15 to 18 interns with classroom instruction and hands-on experience in the techniques of documentary editing.

Brain Potentials Elicited By Prose-Embedded Linguistic Anomalies, Mark D. Allen, Kayo Inoue, Judith Mclaughlin, Lee Osterhout

Faculty Publications

Linguistic theories distinguish between syntax (sentence form) and semantics (sentence meaning). Correspondingly, recent studies have shown that syntactic and semantic anomalies elicit distinct changes in the event-related brain potential (ERP). However, these results have been obtained with highly artificial methodologies and have not yet been generalized to more natural reading conditions. Here, we recorded ERPs while subjects read a naturalistic prose passage. The subjects either read for comprehension with no other task being assigned or read for comprehension and made acceptability judgments after each sentence. Consistent with prior work and regardless of the subjects’ assigned task, syntactic anomalies elicited a …

Rhoa Kinase And Protein Kinase C Participate In Regulation Of Rabbit Stomach Fundus Smooth Muscle Contraction, Paul H. Ratz, Joel T. Meehl, Thomas J. Eddinger

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

1. The degree to which the RhoA kinase (ROK) blockers, Y-27632 (1 µM) and HA-1077 (10 µM), and the PKC blocker, GF-109203X (1 µM), reduced force produced by carbachol, a muscarinic receptor agonist, and phenylephrine, an α-adrenoceptor agonist, was examined in rabbit stomach fundus smooth muscle.

2. When examining the effect on cumulative carbachol concentration-response curves (CRCs), ROK and PKC blockers shifted the potency (~EC50) to the right but did not reduce the maximum response.

3. In a single-dose carbachol protocol using moderate (~EC50) and maximum carbachol concentrations, Y-27632 and HA-1077 reduced peak force, but GF-109203X had no effect. By …

Estate Planning Basics: A Letter Of Last Instructions, Barbara Rowe

All Current Publications

No abstract provided.

Legal Environment For Technology Transfer In Taiwan, Kung-Chung Liu

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

In an effort to become an industrialized country, Taiwan, the Republic of China (ROC) has relied heavily on technology transfers and investment from abroad. The Taiwanese government adopted a heavy-handed policy of regulating investments made by foreigners and overseas Chinese in 1954. These policies include the Foreigner Investment Act (FIA) and the Overseas Chinese Investment Act (OCIA), which require all foreigners and overseas Chinese to obtain the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approval prior to making any investments.1 Such investments may also be in the form of patents, trademarks, copyright, know-how, and other intellectual property (IP).2 In 1962, the Technology …

Comments On: Procedure For Profiling Unemployed Citizens In Russia, Christopher J. O'Leary

Reports

No abstract provided.