Gendered law: A discourse analysis of labor legislation, 1890-1930
This dissertation studies the discourse of legal scholars and reformers, exploring the ways in which their assumptions about gender shaped their arguments in relation to shorter hours and minimum wage...
View ArticleA descriptive study and analysis of two first-grade teachers' development and...
This study is a descriptive analysis of the perceptions of selected first and second grade teachers on the design and implementation of writing-portfolio assessment. The literature supported the need...
View ArticleOptimal test designs with content balancing and variable target information...
Optimal test design involves the application of an item selection heuristic to construct a test to fit the target information function in order that the standard error of the test can be controlled at...
View ArticleGender relations and patriarchy in South Africa's Transkei
This dissertation explores the nature of gender relations and their significance within Transkei society in South Africa. It focuses on how gender inequality is a process embedded in the social,...
View ArticleAn expert system and flow-through digestion device for the automation of...
Many elemental analysis techniques can accurately produce and process a large volume of data in a relatively short time. However, many techniques require that the sample be in the form of a solution....
View ArticleExperiences of Puerto Rican teachers in the integration of gender equity into...
The educational system in Puerto Rico has been characterized by the lack of gender equity. The projects conducted in this centralized system have proposed alternatives to overcome sexism but have not...
View ArticleIdentifying the van Hiele levels of geometric thinking in seventh-grade...
The purpose of this study was to implement the van Hiele model of geometry in the seventh grade of a public school and determine if the levels of knowing, determined by the van Hieles, could be...
View ArticlePaleomagnetism of Mesozoic intrusions in New England: Implications for the...
Selection of the paleomagnetic data base is fundamental to constructing an APW path, particularly as modelers increasingly rely on only a few studies. Substantial changes to recently constructed North...
View ArticleTHE MYTHOLOGY OF STONE: A STUDY OF INTERTEXTUALITY OF ANCIENT CHINESE...
The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the intertextual relations between the composite symbolism of ancient Chinese stonelore and the literary stone imageries presented in three classic...
View ArticleMutual and contradictory relationships among education, oppression, and class...
Relationships among education, oppression and class have been presented and explained in distinct and different ways by different social theories, namely, neo-classical and orthodox Marxist...
View ArticleA case study of human service professionals' perceptions of a community-based...
In-depth interviews were conducted with five human service professionals who worked in a community-based residential group home for developmentally disabled adults. The interviewing process used a...
View ArticleSynthesis, structure and phase behavior of liquid crystalline polyurethanes
This dissertation describes the synthesis, structure and phase behavior of polyurethanes based on the mesogenic biphenol 4,4$\sp\prime$-bis(6-hydroxyhexoxy)biphenyl (BHHBP) and meta substituted...
View ArticlePublic talk in the afterglow of the Gulf War: The slight magics of gender
This study used metaphors and narrative elements in prominent media coverage of the Gulf War aftermath to examine how the Gulf War was being memorialized. As America's most recent war and most current...
View ArticlePLC1, a putative phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C gene from yeast,...
We have used in vivo genomic footprinting to investigate the protein-DNA interactions within the conserved DNA elements (CDE I, CDE II, and CDE III) in the centromere from chromosome III of the yeast...
View ArticleMulticultural teacher education curricula: Educators' perceptions of the...
The purpose of this study is to describe the multicultural curricula that are currently being offered to prospective elementary teachers for promoting learning for diverse students. First,...
View ArticleThe politics of reception: Audience decoding of HIV/AIDS coverage in the media
As the first handful of cases of what was to become known as AIDS were identified, social meanings were attached to a "meaningless" biological phenomenon. As the scope of the epidemic widened, these...
View ArticleTeenage pregnancy in a health-insured population: Social bonds of young women...
The theory selected as the potential framework for better explaining teenage pregnancy, among a cohort of health-insured sexually active teens, was Social Bond Theory. With this theoretical framework...
View ArticleSpecifiers and subject positions
In this dissertation I argue that the explanatory power of the A/A-bar distinction, as it is traditionally used within the framework of Parameter Setting Theory Chomsky (1981 and ff.) is much weaker...
View ArticleEntry and exit in the United States food and tobacco manufacturing industries
Firm entry and exit in the U.S. food and tobacco manufacturing industries were examined over the time period of 1972 to 1982. Net exit was much more common than net entry across the 50 industries that...
View ArticleMicroprobe and molecular beam mass spectrometry in plasma-enhanced chemical...
Concentrations of stable molecules and of free radicals have been measured from a methane plasma during plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition of carbon films. A novel PECVD reactor was designed...
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