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Utilization Of Selected Physical Fitness Measures In Predicting A Fire Fighter Entrance Exam Time, Michael Keith Mietz

Theses and Dissertations

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The Effects Of Cigarette Smoking On The Phonatory Function Of Older Female Adults, Lygia R. Melanchuk

Theses and Dissertations

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The Effect Of An Injury On Worry, Anxiety, And Performance In College Football Players, Mike A. Mannausau

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An Investigation Of The Relationship Between High-Frequency Hearing Loss And Exposure To Loud Sounds Among Female College Students, Tania Langhan Lafournaise

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Variables Affecting Inclusion And Transition Of High School Students With Disabilities : Case Study, Linda K. Novacek

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A Crisis Of Caring: A Catholic Critique Of American Welfare Reform, Vincent D. Rougeau

Journal Articles

The current deterioration of the American economy is bringing new attention to the problem of poverty in the United States. After falling over the last few years, the number of Americans living in poverty has begun to rise once again. Notwithstanding the achievements of recent "welfare reforms," the American poor continue to be numerous by any measure.

Unfortunately, decades of affluence have exacerbated American tendencies to view liberal concepts such as freedom, autonomy, tolerance, and choice in ways that accentuate personal autonomy over community integration. These liberal values have been increasingly unhinged from strong countervailing principles like duty and responsibility, …

Non-Legitimate Illness, Embodied Experience And The Moral Career: The Case Of Me/Cfs, T Collett

Peninsula Medical School

The condition known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is an illness of unknown aetiology. In the absence of any organic proof of its existence, the prevailing UK view is that it is a form of atypical depression or a somatic disorder. ME/CFS is said by sufferers to affect physical and cognitive functioning and last for years. However, many argue that because ME/CFS is seen as a psychological illness their complaints of ‘being really ill’ are not taken seriously. Based on a mixed method study of 266 persons with ME/CFS, this paper explores how individuals experience a chronic …

The Relationship Between Coaching Burnout And Coaching Efficacy In Head High School Basketball Coaches, Christian Robert Haugen

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Various Orientation Methods And Weight Training Technique, Corey L. Grenz

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Effects Of Public And Private Evaluation On Procrastination In A Laboratory Setting, Joel Deloy

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A New Hplc‐Elsd Method To Quantify Indican In Polygonum Tinctorium L. And To Evaluate Β‐Glucosidase Hydrolysis Of Indican For Indigo Production, Lg Angelini, E Campeol, S Tozzi, Et Al

Peninsula Medical School

A method to quantify the indigo precursor indican (indoxyl-β-d-glucoside) in Polygonum tinctoriumL. has been developed. Plant material was extracted in deionized water, and indican was identified and quantified using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled to an evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD). Results confirmed that with this method it is possible to measure indican content in a short time, obtaining reliable and reproducible data. Using this method, leaf indican content was quantified every 15 days during the growing season (from May to October) in P. tinctorium crops grown in a field experiment in Central Italy. Results showed that indican increased …

Analysis And Development Of A Vibration Isolation System For The Agicultural Camera : (Agcam) Remote Sensing Camera System, Adam L. Webster

Theses and Dissertations

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Cognitive Biases In Anxious And Angry Individuals, Chad M. Lystad

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Creativity, Intelligence, Cognitive Inhibition And Thought Organization : Links Among A Non-Clinical Schizotypal Population, Erica R. Hoff

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Farm-Level Pesticide Use In Bangladesh: Determinants And Awareness, S Rahman

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Farmers' awareness of beneficial and harmful effects of pesticides and factors determining use of pesticides were analyzed using survey data from 21 villages in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Pesticide cost accounts for about 7.7% of the gross value of output in cotton, 3.6% in vegetables, 2.5% in potato, 1.8% in modern rice, 1.6% in spices and less than 1% in other cereal and non-cereal crops. About 77% of farmers (highest 94% in Comilla) used pesticides at least once (37% applied once and 31% applied twice, and the rest applied for 3-5 times) in a crop season. Cultivation of traditional …

The International Telecommunications Sector : A Financial Investigation Of Post Privatisation Performance, Nasser Mubarak Shafi Al-Shafi

Plymouth Business School Theses

The focus of this thesis is an investigation of the post-privatisation performance of the international telecoms sector. Firstly, the general hypothesis (1) of this thesis has been pursued, which states that the privatised telecoms companies perform differently from their non-privatised (private) counterparts. Several tests were applied; namely, ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis. The principal finding was that there was no significant difference in performance. Secondly, the next hypothesis (2) states that the financial performance of each company is positively related to that of the other two selected companies. For this purpose, multiple regression tests were performed to investigate any inter-relationships …