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Organizational Culture: An Impetus To Influence Organizational Behavior And Decision Making, Thomas M. Schultz Jan 2005

Organizational Culture: An Impetus To Influence Organizational Behavior And Decision Making, Thomas M. Schultz

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Coverage Of The Endangered Species Act In Four Major Newspapers, Laura J. Hendrickson Jan 2005

Coverage Of The Endangered Species Act In Four Major Newspapers, Laura J. Hendrickson

Natural Resources Journal

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2005-2006 Unm Catalog, Unm Office Of The Registrar Jan 2005

2005-2006 Unm Catalog, Unm Office Of The Registrar

Course Catalogs

Course catalog for the years 2005-2006.

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Multi-National Project Team Communications And Cultural Influences, Morgan E. Henrie Jan 2005

Multi-National Project Team Communications And Cultural Influences, Morgan E. Henrie

Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Theses & Dissertations

This exploratory case study dissertation examined multinational project teams' communication satisfaction as influenced by the project team's cultural attribute of power distance. Utilizing a exploratory case study, semi-guided interview research approach, ordinal scale data and open-ended contextual based question responses was obtained. This data was gathered from United States---Russia and Canada---Angola multi-national, complex, high technology oil transportation project teams. Triangulation data gathering techniques were utilized to obtain empirical data from multiple sources of data and multiple data types. Subsequent data analyses combined descriptive statistical analysis, graphical analysis, cluster analysis, and content analysis techniques to derive a theoretical construct of multi-national …

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Prime-Time Lies: Do Portrayals Of Lawyers Influence How People Think About The Legal Profession, Victoria S. Salzmann, Philip T. Dunwoody Jan 2005

Prime-Time Lies: Do Portrayals Of Lawyers Influence How People Think About The Legal Profession, Victoria S. Salzmann, Philip T. Dunwoody

SMU Law Review

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Building Hypertext In The Elementary School Art Classroom: An Integrated Approach To Learning And Curriculum, Talitha Church Jan 2005

Building Hypertext In The Elementary School Art Classroom: An Integrated Approach To Learning And Curriculum, Talitha Church

Theses and Dissertations

In response to the many demands and pressures faced by both students and teachers in public schools, the art teacher in this action research study searched for ways to change her teaching practices to facilitate active inquiry. She utilized Thinking Maps®, a specialized form of graphic organizers, and Inspiration®, a hypertext linking program to promote interdisciplinary teaching and learning. The goals of the study were to increase student engagement, improve learning, and promote higher order thinking in elementary school art classes. The target group was comprised of the third grade students at Saunders Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia. Each …

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The Effect Of Traumatic Brain Injury On Expression Levels Of Ankyrin-G In The Corpus Callosum And Cerebral Cortex, Andrew S. Vanderveer Jan 2005

The Effect Of Traumatic Brain Injury On Expression Levels Of Ankyrin-G In The Corpus Callosum And Cerebral Cortex, Andrew S. Vanderveer

Theses and Dissertations

The ankyrins comprise a family of proteins serving as components of the membrane cytoskeleton, and participate in a diverse set of associations with multiple binding partners including the cytoplasmic domains of transporters, ion channels, some classes of receptors, and cell adhesion proteins. Moreover, evidence is accumulating that ankyrin participates in defining functionally distinct subcellular regions. The complex functional and structural roles of ankyrins indicate they are likely to play essential roles in the pathology of traumatic axonal injury. The current study examined changes in ankyrin-G expression following a moderate central fluid percussion injury administered to adult rats. At 1d, 3d, …

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Parental Memory Predictors Of Children's Daily Diabetes Management And Metabolic Control, Sheryl J. Kent Jan 2005

Parental Memory Predictors Of Children's Daily Diabetes Management And Metabolic Control, Sheryl J. Kent

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined, for the first time, specific links between parents' memory and children's diabetes behaviors and metabolic control. Data revealed that parental memory and responsibility predicted children's percentage of calories from fat and carbohydrates, and metabolic control, accounting for 7.3% of the variance in calories from fat and 18.5% of the variance in metabolic control for the total sample. These effects were stronger when limited to dietary behaviors of younger youth; parental memory accounted for 30.3% and 33.6% of the variance in percentage of calories from fat and carbohydrates, respectively, for younger children. Level of parent responsibility, with memory, …

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Mad Art And The Essential Image: Unearthing The Conversation Between Oscar Wilde’S The Picture Of Dorian Gray And Roland Barthes’S Camera Lucida, Sarah Joy Cowger Jan 2005

Mad Art And The Essential Image: Unearthing The Conversation Between Oscar Wilde’S The Picture Of Dorian Gray And Roland Barthes’S Camera Lucida, Sarah Joy Cowger

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Roland Barthes's notion of "mad art" (introduced in Camera Lucida)--that is, art which is compelling, arresting, and uncovering-serves as a useful lens through which the portrait in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray may be viewed. In doing so, Wilde's framed image, behaving as mad art, must expose Dorian's authentic self. Such an expose is, importantly, both the product of a spectator's engaged eye as it is the result of a piece which always already contains an essence. When both elements are present (that is, both the essentialness of the art and the engagement of the viewer), the "text" …

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Images Of God: The Effect Of Personal Theologies On Moral Attitudes, Political Affiliation, And Religious Behavior, Christoper Bader, Paul Froese Jan 2005

Images Of God: The Effect Of Personal Theologies On Moral Attitudes, Political Affiliation, And Religious Behavior, Christoper Bader, Paul Froese

Sociology Faculty Articles and Research

Social scientists often explain religious effects in terms of religious group affiliations. Typically, researchers identify religious groups by denomination or some broader popular categorization, such as “fundamentalist” or “evangelical.” To capture religious differences more effectively, Steensland et al. (2000) propose an intricate classification of American denominations that takes into account the theology and historical development of various American religious traditions to predict individual attitudes and behaviors. We believe that equal care and attention should be devoted to the development of key measures of belief that may cross denominational lines. In this article, we propose one such measure: personal conceptions or …

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Defining (Multiple) Selves: Stories From The Field, Chang Yau Hoon Jan 2005

Defining (Multiple) Selves: Stories From The Field, Chang Yau Hoon

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The ‘Self’ in late-modernity is never singular but multiplies across different discourses, practices and positions. It is constructed through difference. It is only through a relation to the ‘Other’ that the ‘Self’ can be defined. This paper endeavours to map the endless negotiations of my ‘Self’ as male Australian academic of Chinese descent, a Malaysian citizen, a Bruneian resident, and an Indonesian specialist, over a period of fieldwork in Jakarta in 2004. It discusses how I defined my multiple ‘Selves’ to different individuals and communities, how they in turn defined me, and how these constructions were always shifting. Depending on …

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Survivor Artist At Work : The Fort Lincoln Haiku Poetry Of Itaru Ina, Carolyn Denise Baker Jan 2005

Survivor Artist At Work : The Fort Lincoln Haiku Poetry Of Itaru Ina, Carolyn Denise Baker

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Critical Audio/Visual Literacy : Composition In Light Of Film, James P. Kambeitz Jan 2005

Critical Audio/Visual Literacy : Composition In Light Of Film, James P. Kambeitz

Theses and Dissertations

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The Perceptions Of Graduate Students In Speech-Language Pathology, Teaching, Counseling Toward People Who Stutter, Renee Morin Jan 2005

The Perceptions Of Graduate Students In Speech-Language Pathology, Teaching, Counseling Toward People Who Stutter, Renee Morin

Theses and Dissertations

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Learning Culture In The Zone Of Proximal Development: E-Mail Exchanges Among Foreign Language Learners, Marc. Smasal Jan 2005

Learning Culture In The Zone Of Proximal Development: E-Mail Exchanges Among Foreign Language Learners, Marc. Smasal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Scaffolding is the assistance of an expert learner provided to a novice learner to fulfill a given task. This study examined scaffolding in email messages between non-native speakers learning about German culture. The instructor used Internet resources to teach aspects of the target culture to students enrolled in a second semester German course. Email exchanges between two separate classes of German students were designed to elicit scaffolding. Unlike previous studies that have concentrated on the grammatical competence of the students, this study focused on the development of cultural competence as subjects discussed four topics of German culture via email messages. …

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Party Gaze/Male Gaze: (Re)Construction Of Femininity In Post-Communist Romanian Women's Magazines, Anca N. Birzescu Jan 2005

Party Gaze/Male Gaze: (Re)Construction Of Femininity In Post-Communist Romanian Women's Magazines, Anca N. Birzescu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This thesis examines how post-communist Romanian women's magazines engender a particular representation of women in transition. This is both a challenge to the previous communist ideology which promoted an asexual type of femininity, and the product of a hegemonically masculine culture revived by the reality of the newly born capitalist Romanian society. By means of a feminist semiotic analysis, the study concentrates on visual and textual discourses of femininity in two popular Romanian women's magazines. It concludes that Romanian women's publications during transition advance a concept of femininity constructed through a passivity/power complementariness. On the one hand, constructed images of …

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Politics, Citizenry, And Tabloid-Style Journalism: The Case Of The Clinton/Lewinsky Scandal, Stein Amber Nicole Pradines Jan 2005

Politics, Citizenry, And Tabloid-Style Journalism: The Case Of The Clinton/Lewinsky Scandal, Stein Amber Nicole Pradines

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Tabloids, often defined by the half-broadsheet size of regular newspapers, feature titillating, sensationalized stories of crime and/or scandal offered in a piquant manner. The exploratory study asks how the tabloid style was manifested in the coverage of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal of 1998 and related news, thereby fostering a hegemony in which the citizenry was distracted from more important political issues and events. The study also assesses how a critique of such tabloidization developed among journalists and scholars during the scandal. The print media analyzed are the tabloids Star magazine, The National Enquirer, and Globe , and mainstream media The New …

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Retrieval Of Simple Arithmetic Problems In Digit And Verbal Formats Using Siegler's Choice, No-Choice Method, Evangelie. Daskagianni Jan 2005

Retrieval Of Simple Arithmetic Problems In Digit And Verbal Formats Using Siegler's Choice, No-Choice Method, Evangelie. Daskagianni

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A total of 96 adults (mean age 23.5 years) solved simple arithmetic problems in digit and verbal format, using Siegler's choice, no-choice method. In the choice condition, they produced the answer and gave a self report of how they solved it. In the no-choice condition, they were asked to use only retrieval. Naming latencies of numerals in both formats were assessed. Verbal problems were solved more slowly than digit problems in all conditions but format did not interact with problem size effect for reaction times. This latter result does not support an effect of presentation format on calculation processes. Participants …

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Clarity-Parity Community Nursing Practice Framework: A Critical Ethnonursing Study Of Women In Recovery From Chemical Dependence And Their Return To The Community, Bernadette M. Lange Jan 2005

Clarity-Parity Community Nursing Practice Framework: A Critical Ethnonursing Study Of Women In Recovery From Chemical Dependence And Their Return To The Community, Bernadette M. Lange

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Women in recovery from chemical dependence represent a unique culture that should be viewed through a transcultural lens in order to facilitate and sustain their recovery in the dominant culture community. The purpose of this research was to explore the perceptions and experiences of women in recovery from chemical dependence and their return to the community. Leininger's ethnonursing method was used to obtain a holistic transcultural view of the beliefs, values and lifeways of twelve women in recovery. A communal moral focus was used to understand patterns of meaning, values, virtues and principles using Ray's Transcultural Nursing Ethics. Critical Social …

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Comparison Of The Boston Naming Test And Miami Naming Test In An Afro-Caribbean Population Over The Age Of 55, Florence. Keane Jan 2005

Comparison Of The Boston Naming Test And Miami Naming Test In An Afro-Caribbean Population Over The Age Of 55, Florence. Keane

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The Boston Naming Test (60 items) and the newly developed Miami Naming Test (76 items) are designed to assess naming deficits and word-retrieval capacities. These two tests were compared in a sample of 106 Afro-Caribbean elders. Analysis included inter-rater, test-retest reliability and internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha. The correlation between the scores of both raters on the Boston Naming Test was r=.9974 and r=.9984 on the Miami Naming Test. The test-retest reliability scores were r=.936 for the Boston Naming Test and r=.931 for the Miami Naming Test. The alpha level for the Miami Naming Test was .95 and the Boston …

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Fashion And Power: The Representation Of Gender In Store Window Displays, Kami T. Barrett Jan 2005

Fashion And Power: The Representation Of Gender In Store Window Displays, Kami T. Barrett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Fashion and dress have a complex relationship to identity. The clothes we choose to wear can express our identities in terms of gender, race, class, and/or sexuality, among other things. This study examines how gender, race, and class are used to interpellate primarily female shoppers through store window advertising in the city of London, England. Using a feminist cultural and media studies approach, I analyze eight store window display advertisements as texts, and how their portrayals of women are presented to consumers. This study concludes that stereotypical, degrading, humiliating and violating representations of women and femininity abound in store window …

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Un-Resistive Reproduction? Medical Hegemony, Pregnancy, And Reality Television, Serena R. Bruno Jan 2005

Un-Resistive Reproduction? Medical Hegemony, Pregnancy, And Reality Television, Serena R. Bruno

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A new trend of unscripted, reality television programming chronicling the real-life childbirth experiences of American women and families has gained considerable ground in recent years. These programs, especially Discovery Health's BirthDay and The Learning Channel's A Baby Story, record, edit and broadcast the prenatal, childbirth, and postnatal health care of "everyday" women volunteers, including their physical, social, and emotional concerns. This research study focuses attention on the authoritative, technological and therefore, medically hegemonic perspective of this type of programming, illuminating through content, textual, focus group, and survey analyses the abundance of medically hegemonic meanings in both the discursive and visual …

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Absence Of Intellect? Spike Tv And A Crisis In Masculinity, Wesley R. Akers Jan 2005

Absence Of Intellect? Spike Tv And A Crisis In Masculinity, Wesley R. Akers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study analyzes the programming, narrative structure and scheduling of Spike TV to reveal how this "first network for men" continues to support hegemonic masculinity through a strategy of gendered narrowcasting. Such representations mediate a crisis in masculinity by glorifying action-oriented males and, therefore, marginalize intellectual representations. The study suggests that such hegemonically masculine representations are contributing to the academic struggles currently plaguing young males in our culture.

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