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Induction And Expression Of Cocaine-Induced Behavioral Sensitization: Modulation By A Partial D₂-Like Agonist, Janet Marie Sibole Jan 2003

Induction And Expression Of Cocaine-Induced Behavioral Sensitization: Modulation By A Partial D₂-Like Agonist, Janet Marie Sibole

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a partial D₂-like dopamine agonist (i.e. terguride) would block the induction or expression of cocaine-induced behavioral sensitization in pre-weanling rats. The ability of terguride to induce behavioral sensitization was also examined, as partial D₂-like agonists have agonistic actions in cases of low dopaminergic tone.

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Perceptions Of The Transition To Assisted Living As A Function Of Psychological Well-Being, Instrumental Activities Of Daily Living, And Coping: A Prospective Study, Brooke Evangeline Crabb Jan 2003

Perceptions Of The Transition To Assisted Living As A Function Of Psychological Well-Being, Instrumental Activities Of Daily Living, And Coping: A Prospective Study, Brooke Evangeline Crabb

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This study examined the influence of three predictor variables on perceptions of assisted living: psychological well-being, functional status, and coping strategies. A multiple regression analysis was used to examine the influence of these factors on perceptions of the transition to assisted living.

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Integration Of Technology In The Curriculum Language Arts: Spanish Phonemic Awareness, Maria Esperanza Haley Jan 2003

Integration Of Technology In The Curriculum Language Arts: Spanish Phonemic Awareness, Maria Esperanza Haley

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This paper explores the importance of providing teacher training in the use of technology to reap the benefits of adding computers to the classroom. It describes how a basic software program was used to create an interactive program to teach phonics in Spanish to kindergarten students in a Structured English Immersion Program. A benefit to having good phonemic awareness skills in Spanish is that it will help the student in developing phonemic awareness skills in English and will facilitate learning to read English words.

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Internal Dialogues: Construction Of The Self In The Woman Warrior, Ann Shirley Modzelewski Jan 2003

Internal Dialogues: Construction Of The Self In The Woman Warrior, Ann Shirley Modzelewski

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This thesis considers past autobiographical theory and questions whether it addresses the autobiography of the female writer. Autobiographies of Harriet Jacobs, Margaret Sanger, and Maxine Hong Kingston are examined to reveal their polyvocality, use of the autobiographical "I", and rhetorical strategies maintained in order to create a close relationship with the reader. Particular attention is paid to Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism and Sidonie Smith's autobiographical "I."

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Streaming Video For Parental Involvement Education, Ching-Ping Lin Jan 2003

Streaming Video For Parental Involvement Education, Ching-Ping Lin

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to develop a way of communication between school and parents. It aims to help parents to be more involved in their children's education. One of the main aspects and focus of this project is the analysis of the use of streaming video.

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Symptoms Of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Police Officers Following September 11, 2001, Jennifer Danielle Urban Jan 2003

Symptoms Of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Police Officers Following September 11, 2001, Jennifer Danielle Urban

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to examine what, if any, symptoms of a traumatic stress reaction were still being experienced by police officers, as a result of the events of September 11, 2001, who were geographically distant from the events of that day. Participants included 60 police officers at two southern California law enforcement agencies.

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Using Technology In Language Arts To Motivate Students, Tonya Cherie Coats Jan 2003

Using Technology In Language Arts To Motivate Students, Tonya Cherie Coats

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This project will serve as a media rich tool to aid students and teachers in the classroom. It is designed to examine whether or not a computer based learning environment motivates and helps fourth grade at-risk students in vocabulary development. The project included creating a guide in Macromedia Authorware to help educators develop a multimedia environment in the classroom.

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Instructional Designer's Toolkit: A Practical Approach To The Effective Design Of Instruction, Andrew Casimer Masiewicz Jan 2003

Instructional Designer's Toolkit: A Practical Approach To The Effective Design Of Instruction, Andrew Casimer Masiewicz

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the project was to develop a web-based instructional design tool. The tool provides guidelines, templates, and checklists to simplify the overall process, and give the designer a path to follow to help manage the instructional design project. It is based on the generalized model of Instructional Systems Design (ISD), but is applicable to the design of instructional materials for delivery by an instructor, by Computer-based Training (CBT), or a combination of instructor-led and technology-based delivery.

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Persuasive Behavior As A Moderator Of The Relationship Between Strategic Behavior And Leadership Effectiveness, Daniel Rojas Vieira Jan 2003

Persuasive Behavior As A Moderator Of The Relationship Between Strategic Behavior And Leadership Effectiveness, Daniel Rojas Vieira

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Based on the notion that leader behaviors are mutually facilitative on their effects on leader effectiveness, this study tested the hypothesis that Persuasive behaviors enhance the predictive relationship between Strategic behaviors and Leadership Effectiveness. Persuasive was hypothesized to act as an enhancer based on the notion that the leader's ability to influence others and develop followership can enhance the impact of a leader's ability to set strategy, provide direction, make decisions and plan on perceived effectiveness.

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Web Development In Correspondence To Motivating Fourth Grade Students To Gain Knowledge Of California History, Carolyn Eve Ramirez Jan 2003

Web Development In Correspondence To Motivating Fourth Grade Students To Gain Knowledge Of California History, Carolyn Eve Ramirez

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The goal of this project was to determine whether using a web-based project incorporating John M. Keller's ARCS model would motivate students to want to learn and explore new ways of learning. California history was taught to fourth grade students, including English as a second language students and Title 1 students, through a website. Lessons incorporated online quizzes, web designing, PowerPoint, Excel and other computer programs.

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Identification Of The Spiritual Nursing Care Practices Of Volunteer Parish Nurses, Lynne Denise Roy Jan 2003

Identification Of The Spiritual Nursing Care Practices Of Volunteer Parish Nurses, Lynne Denise Roy

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Parish nursing, a specialty nursing practice which includes the spiritual component of integration of faith and health, has been growing rapidly over the last decade. Standards of Parish Nursing Practice developed in 1998 are consistent with the nursing process and include the spiritual dimension.

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Social Workers Attitudes And Perceptions Toward Transracial Adoption, Karla Eduviges Carranza, Nicol Alejandra Stolar Jan 2003

Social Workers Attitudes And Perceptions Toward Transracial Adoption, Karla Eduviges Carranza, Nicol Alejandra Stolar

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Overall attitudes, beliefs, and values have been shown to effect how individuals evaluate and process information. This knowledge is important and relevant to the practice of social work. Social workers are expected to put their attitudes, values, and perceptions aside when working with their clients. Attitudes are effecting processing and evaluation of events, therefore, it is imortant to understand the possible implications of workers perceptions and attitudes. Highly embedded attitudes toward transracial adoption, will influenceSocial workers behavior.

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The Relationship Between Coping Strategies And Delinquency In Young Adolescents Who Endure Stressful Life Events, Marjorie Lorraine Pardo Jan 2003

The Relationship Between Coping Strategies And Delinquency In Young Adolescents Who Endure Stressful Life Events, Marjorie Lorraine Pardo

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate resiliency by examining the relationship between coping ability and stressful life events on delinquent behaviors in young adolescents.

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Effect Of The Severity Of Autism On Parental Marital Satisfaction, Georganna Hemingway Jesser Jan 2003

Effect Of The Severity Of Autism On Parental Marital Satisfaction, Georganna Hemingway Jesser

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This was a quantitative research project whose goal was to compare the level of autism and its affect on the parental relationship. Further, it sought to look at different family attributes of the subject child to see how they affected the marital satisfaction as well. The findings indicate that the hypothesis was correct, that the level of severity of autism does negatively affect the parental marital satisfaction.

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Second Grade Life Science Curriculum Design Using Howard Gardner's Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Mary Anne Stover Jan 2003

Second Grade Life Science Curriculum Design Using Howard Gardner's Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Mary Anne Stover

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to bring the subject of life sciences to second grade students through a diverse curriculum design. The theory of multiple intelligence and the principles of brain-based learning areused to incorporate elements that will reach each student on an individual basis.

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Teaching Film To Enhance Brain Compatible-Learning In English-As-A-Foreign Language Instruction, Emi Shintani Jan 2003

Teaching Film To Enhance Brain Compatible-Learning In English-As-A-Foreign Language Instruction, Emi Shintani

Theses Digitization Project

These learning strategies have presented a theoretical framework for applying brain-based learning to EFL teaching. The model is based on the holistic principles of brain based learning rather than memorization of skills and knowledge as has been previously employed in EFL instruction.

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The Effects Of Lesions To The Superior Colliculus And Ventromedial Thalamus On [Kappa]-Opioid-Mediated Locomotor Activity In The Preweanling Rat, Arturo Rubin Zavala Jan 2003

The Effects Of Lesions To The Superior Colliculus And Ventromedial Thalamus On [Kappa]-Opioid-Mediated Locomotor Activity In The Preweanling Rat, Arturo Rubin Zavala

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The purpose of this thesis was to determine the neuronal circuitry mediating U50,488-induced locomotion in preweanling rats. To this end, preweanling rats received bilateral electrolytic lesions of the ventromedial thalamus or superior colliculus and, two days later, the same rats received a challenge injection of U50,488. It was predicted that bilateral lesions of the ventromedial thalamus or superior colliculus would attenuate the U50,488-induced locomotor activity of 18-day-old rats.

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Boot Camps: An Alternative Sanction For Better Or Worse, Angela Dawn Macdonald Jan 2003

Boot Camps: An Alternative Sanction For Better Or Worse, Angela Dawn Macdonald

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In the past twenty years boot camps have been evaluated for effectiveness on reducing recidivism, crowding, and costs to the Departments of Corrections. Program and offender characteristics have been studied. This analysis intends to determine how well studied boot camps are, why there is so much disagreement in the findings, and what impact, if any, boot camp programming has had in corrections.

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Marketing Plan For Neustile Roof Tile For Cpac Roof Tile Co., Ltd. (Thailand), Amornrat Soongkitkarn Jan 2003

Marketing Plan For Neustile Roof Tile For Cpac Roof Tile Co., Ltd. (Thailand), Amornrat Soongkitkarn

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The goal of this thesis is to develop a marketing plan to achieve the company's sales revenue target and marketing objectives for its Neustile product line in the next five years.

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A Guide To Motivating Students To Twist To Better Spelling, Kim Elaine Du Cloux Jan 2003

A Guide To Motivating Students To Twist To Better Spelling, Kim Elaine Du Cloux

Theses Digitization Project

Students learn and retain more when they enjoy the process or avenue of learning. Students have fun learning to spell when visual, auditory, and hands-on learning are included in the process. In addition, the intervention project can be used to support and assist second language learners. The benefits from this intervention project will not only strengthen students' phonemic and spelling foundation, but will also enhance their reading comprehension and writing effectiveness.

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A Comprehensive Examination Of The Precode Horror Comic Books Of The 1950'S, Gene Marshall Broxson Jan 2003

A Comprehensive Examination Of The Precode Horror Comic Books Of The 1950'S, Gene Marshall Broxson

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This thesis examines the precode horror comic books of the 1950's as an original American art form and as a popular medium in postwar America.

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Irlen Syndrome And The Reading Process, Jodi Beth Altman Jan 2003

Irlen Syndrome And The Reading Process, Jodi Beth Altman

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the project was to determine if a school-wide intervention for students demonstrating symptons of Irlen Syndrome would result in improvements in reading skills and a reduction in physical symptoms that might impede visual processing necessary for successful reading.

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Using Interactive Reading And Writing Activities To Promote Literacy In A Kindergarten Class, Chaches Garcia Ross Jan 2003

Using Interactive Reading And Writing Activities To Promote Literacy In A Kindergarten Class, Chaches Garcia Ross

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No abstract provided.

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Electronic Access To Academic Records By Department Of Children's Services Social Workers, Pamela Jean Wagner, Christal June Quam Jan 2003

Electronic Access To Academic Records By Department Of Children's Services Social Workers, Pamela Jean Wagner, Christal June Quam

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not DCS social workers would obtain client's educational records if they had electronic access to these records. If a social worker could access client school records quickly and easily and then enter the information into the case management computer system, the school history would travel with the client to their new environment. This information would insure that the foster child with special education needs was placed in the proper classroom, giving the child a better chance to succeed.

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Supportive Work Relationships Effect On Child Welfare Worker's Retention, Renee Josephine Bombaci Jan 2003

Supportive Work Relationships Effect On Child Welfare Worker's Retention, Renee Josephine Bombaci

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The purpose of the current study was to clarify the importance of social relationships in the retention of social workers in Child Welfare agencies. Data had been gathered by the California Social Work Education Center, University of California Berkeley, in a 2-year state funded study, titled "Retention of California's Child Welfare Workers".

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The Feasibility Of Saudization: Costs And Benefits To Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman Abdulrahman Al-Khuzaim Jan 2003

The Feasibility Of Saudization: Costs And Benefits To Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman Abdulrahman Al-Khuzaim

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Following the discovery oil in Saudi Arabia, five year plans for economic development and modernization followed. Foreign workers were needed to provide skills required for the projects. Although most of the major projects have been completed, a high percentage of foreign workers continue to be employed in the kingdom.

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Arab-Muslim Views, Images And Stereotypes In United States, Nader Al-Aulaqi Jan 2003

Arab-Muslim Views, Images And Stereotypes In United States, Nader Al-Aulaqi

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What are the perceptions, attitudes, and feelings of Arab-Muslim students about racism and prejudice towards their ethnicity and religious affiliation before September 11, 2001 and after?.

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Depression And Diabetes In Adolescents, Leanne Marie Graff, Karin Yakira Jan 2003

Depression And Diabetes In Adolescents, Leanne Marie Graff, Karin Yakira

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The purpose of this study was to examine the levels of depression in adolescent with diabetes (type 1), non-insulin dependent diabetics (type 2) and the general adolescent population.

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Gender Segmentation And Its Implementation In Saudi Arabia, Ghassan Mohammed Altawail Jan 2003

Gender Segmentation And Its Implementation In Saudi Arabia, Ghassan Mohammed Altawail

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The purpose of this project is to gain a better understanding of gender segmentation strategy possibilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The findings from this survey graphically illustrate and statistically demonstrate some critically important information about the consumer demographics, needs, and behaviors of the targeted female Saudi shopper.

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Impact Of September 11th On Older American Veterans, David Lee Baptist, Tamra Denise Snook Jan 2003

Impact Of September 11th On Older American Veterans, David Lee Baptist, Tamra Denise Snook

Theses Digitization Project

The terrorist attack of September 11th has been widely viewed as a traumatic event. Traumatic events have demonstrated psychological, emotional, behavioral, developmental and physiological detriment to individuals. Among older adults there may be compounding factors such as losses of function, resources, friends, family, and support.

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