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Searching For Worlds Beyond The Canon: Narrative, Rhetoric, And Legal Change, Susan Bandes

College of Law Faculty

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Doing All You Can, Brother?': Visual Themes Of World War Ii American Propaganda Posters, Justin Rives Nicholas

Honors Theses

This thesis is a result of an in-depth analysis of the three thousand plus propaganda posters used in the United States during World War II. The bulk of these posters are housed at National Archives II in College Park, Maryland. The analysis was conducted within the context of several questions. What were the goals of the propagandists? How were those goals visually represented in the posters? What were the visual themes? Why were these goals and themes deemed necessary? How do the goals and themes fit into the overall context of a total war? The concept of being in a …

Predicting Occupational Injuries Among California Hired Farmworkers, Monique E. Brammeier

Master's Theses

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Multi-Level Evaluation Of A Career Development Training Program, Laura K. T Cox

Master's Theses

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Cost Cutting And Employee Attitudes, Susan Marie Jensen

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Attractiveness, Ethnicity, And Gender On Causal Attributions Of Promotion, Masashi Toyoda

Master's Theses

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An Examination Of The Psychology Major And Affective Outcomes Among Students, Georjanna J. Parkinson

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Ethnicity, Status Stability, And Ethnic Identity On Social Competition, Stacie Granada

Master's Theses

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Effects Of Pictorial Depth Cues On Size Perception In A Target Acquisition Task, Lucia Arsintescu

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Interactional Approach To Investigating Individual Creative Performance, Norman R. Lopez

Master's Theses

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Effect Of Changes In Line Length And Spacing On Speed Of Reading From The Tablet Pc, Victoria Lee Dulchinos

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Reporting Discrepancies : Information Needs Of Airline Mechanics And Pilots, Pamela A. Munro

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Organizational Support, Motivation, And Goal Achievement : A Cross-Cultural Study, Sara Morris

Master's Theses

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Technology As A Moderator Of The Role Stressor-Burnout Relationship, Tu P. Lam

Master's Theses

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Understanding Sexual Prejudice : Heterosexual Attitudes Toward Lesbians And Gay Men, Summer Lyn Brandt

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Perceptual Depth Cues On Movement Time In A Target Acquisition Task, Audra J. Ruthruff

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Friendship Transition And Conflict., Danielle R. Jaroscak

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The transition from acquaintanceship to friendship was examined in this study.In particular,the study focused on the development of friendship and how situations that may invite conflict affect that process.Participants were assigned to one of three relationship conditions(exchange,pre-friendship,communal) and read about a negative(conflict) and positive(non-conflict)scenario involving the assigned relationship partner.Each participant reported how he or she would feel in the imagined situations.The results of this study showed differences between the pre-friendship conditions and exchange and communal conditions.There is a pre-friendship condition felt as comfortable with the other's behavior as friends,and attributed their negative behavior to unstable,situational conditions,as is done for friends …

A Different Place: Student Learning In An Online Course, Susan Jane Mannan

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore and describe the learning experience of students in two online courses at a multi-campus, two-year technical/community college in the Midwest. The study focused on student learning behaviors and adjustments, on the interaction between student and instructor and among students, and on students' perceptions of their experience. During the spring, 2002 semester, the researcher gathered data from students and instructors in a technical writing and a nutrition online course through online observations, face-to-face interviews, time logs, reflective e-mail journals, surveys, and analysis of archival material. The study describes the experiences of a …

Identifying Factors That Contribute To The Performance Of Campus -Level Boards In A Multicampus System, Daniel L. Schenk

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Limited research exists on assessing the performance of campus-level boards involved in the governance of campuses within multicampus systems. The purpose of this mixed-method study was to identify factors that contribute to the performance of campus-level boards. The study included 13 campus-level boards that served the Ivy Tech State College multicampus system. Seventy of the 90 trustees appointed to the 13 boards participated in the quantitative element of the study. The Board Self Assessment Questionnaire (BSAQ) developed by Chait, Holland, and Taylor provided data for the quantitative element of the study. Interviews of 10 trustees, purposefully selected from the 70 …

Personal Projects And Motives For Drinking Behavior In College Students: An Exploratory Study, Nicole Ann Shiber

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Goals are used as ways to guide behavior. Goals have also been suggested to be related to an individual's decisions to use alcohol. A well-accepted model is the motivational model of alcohol use which utilizes goals and other factors that weigh into the final common pathway” which is a motivationally influenced decision. Part of this motivational model are the four motives for drinking established by Cooper (1994), which are enhancement, coping, social, and conformity. In addition, this motivational model has a strong affective component and is considered an emotional regulation model of alcohol use. College students' general life goals for …

Predicting Level Of Employment In Substance Abusing Veterans, Tracy Ann Spence-Jones

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine whether the specific set of variablesEducation, ethnicity, severity of substance abuse, dual/polysubstance abuse, and severity of psychiatric problems was able to predict level of employment in substance abusing veterans. Initial data were gathered utilizing archival data from the Addiction Severity Index from 148 consecutive referrals to a substance abuse unit at the Veterans Administration of Western New York Healthcare System in Buffalo, New York from June 1997 to September 1997. The final sample consisted of archival data from 102 veterans who met inclusion criteria. The following null hypothesis was tested by multiple …

The Relationship Between Correctional Officers' Personality And Job Satisfaction, Performance, And Turnover, Robin A. Lemmon

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This study examined correctional officers' personality and job satisfaction, performance, and turnover. Two hundred newly hired correctional officers from 9 facilities across a Midwestern state were administered the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF). They were contacted 3 to 5 months after their date of hire and then again 6 to 8 months after their date of hire to complete the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ). At that time employment status and performance evaluations were also collected. A discriminant function analysis was used to identify which of the five global factors from the 16PF discriminated between correctional officers who stayed, those who …

The Relationship Of Attitude, Social Influence, And Self -Efficacy To Diabetes Type Ii Outcomes, Autumn Lee Keefer-Ward

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the Attitude-Social Influence-Self Efficacy model and its relationship to Type II diabetes outcomes. One hundred-twelve adults ages 55–75 with Type II diabetes were recruited from a physician's office in West Central Indiana. Participants completed instruments that assessed (a) attitude, (b) social influence of the physician, (c) diabetes-specific self-efficacy, and (d) diabetes-specific quality of life. A measurement of metabolic control was also obtained. Multiple regressions were performed using (a) quality of life, and (b) metabolic control as criterion variables. Only one subscale of the self-efficacy variable scale, Managing the Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes, …

Predictors Of Networking Behavior, Campbell Jung

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Moderating Effects Of Work Values On Stressor-Strain Relationships, Peter Senatore

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of Hotel Rates In Four Cities: New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, And Atlanta, Hui Ping Chang

Theses

Hotel rate is essential to every traveler, every hotelier, every key person in travel planning for their company, and even the tourism planner for the city. The graduate students from RIT's hotel management program had conducted serial surveys on hotel rates in 100 major cities in US from 1989-1999. This study employed the data that RIT students collected as a foundation. First, four cities were chosen in every region (East, Midwest, West and South). These four cities were New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta. Second, other possible factors were added in to evaluation. They are national average hotel …

Retribution For Rats: Cooperation, Punishment, And Atonement, Michael A. Simons

Vanderbilt Law Review

To mobsters, he is a "rat"; to drug dealers, a "snitch." To school children, he is a "tattletale"; to corporate executives, a "whistle- blower." To cops, he is an "informant"; to prosecutors, a "cooperator." By whatever name he is known, the person who betrays his associates to the authorities is almost universally reviled. In movies, on television, in literature, the cooperator embodies all that society holds in contempt: he is disloyal, deceitful, greedy, selfish, and weak. The cooperator, though, has long been a mainstay of our criminal justice system. For centuries, criminal defendants have received leniency in return for testimony …

Corrective Justice In Contract Law: Is There A Case For Punitive Damages?, Curtis Bridgeman

Vanderbilt Law Review

Twentieth-century American legal theory has been dominated by utilitarian and economic approaches. As a result, scholarly analyses of contract and tort law have focused on the public effects of the resolution of private disputes. But in the last twenty years or so justice has undergone a renaissance as so-called corrective-justice theorists have tried to shift the discussion in private law back to the relationships between individual parties. Tort law has been a particularly fertile ground for corrective-justice theorists, and a lively debate has developed about what the best corrective-justice account of tort law would look like.

By contrast, comparatively little …

Imsa 2003 Profile, Office Of College And Academic Counseling

IMSA Profile

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Media Ownership And Objectivity, Xinkun Wang

LSU Master's Theses

The purpose of this study is to examine whether the different type of ownership will affect the degree of objectivity of newspaper coverage of 2000 presidential election. It is predicted by Shoemaker’s news content theory that publicly-owned newspaper is more objective than privately-owned newspaper. The findings of this study support this theory. A content analysis of 238 news stories and eight editorials from publicly-owned the Boston Globe and privately-owned the Boston Herald showed that not only does the ownership affect the objectivity of the coverage of these two newspapers on 2000 presidential election, the endorsements also affect the degree of …