Feelings of personal control and the social categorization of powerful others
A core feature of organized societies is the existence of power relations, so that some people are in a position to control the outcomes of other people. Yet, the stability of the power structure...
View ArticleThe effects of dimensionality and item selection methods on the validity of...
Many of the measurement models currently used in testing require that the items that make up the test span a unidimensional space. The assumption of unidimensionality is difficult to satisfy in...
View ArticleSynthesis, storage and utilization of yolk proteins in Lymantria dispar
Egg maturation in insects depends on the uptake of extraovarian proteins, mainly vitellogenin, the hemolymph precursor of vitellin. Vitellin has been shown to be the most abundant protein component of...
View ArticleDevelopment of a computerized audio-visual system that uses interactive...
This dissertation will document the development of a computerized audio-visual system that uses interactive instructional modules to inform and educate United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
View ArticleGenetic synthesis of repetitive polypeptides: Self-assembly of...
A series of repetitive polypeptides was synthesized in vivo from artificial genes. Target proteins were characterized to determine if chain-folded lamellar crystals could be formed and to gain insight...
View ArticleLearning object recognition strategies
Most knowledge-directed vision systems recognize objects by the use of hand-crafted, heuristic control strategies. Generally, the programmer or knowledge engineer who constructs them begins with an...
View ArticleConstructive-developmental theory: An application to motherhood
This study examines the relationship between developmental stage and psychological experience in the transition to motherhood. Kegan's constructive-developmental theory (1982) is used to divide new...
View Article"The office becomes a woman best": The Machiavelle in Shakespearean comedy
The Machiavels of tragedy are back-stabbing villains who manipulate events and who murder for their own self-aggrandizement. The comedies and romances, however, employ another kind of manipulator, a...
View ArticleInvestigation of peroxidation-associated processes involved in senescence and...
Apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) fruits often develop the physiological disorders senescent breakdown and superficial scald following storage at low temperature. Possible relationships of lipid...
View ArticleA study of the development life cycle of work groups: A critical incident...
The emphasis on groups in the workplace has increased rapidly creating a need for a substantial body of knowledge in the area of group development which has been formulated from research done on work...
View ArticleThe costs and benefits of literacy
This study evaluates literacy levels of education using senior high school mathematics textbooks. It uses content analysis, the latent approach and the evaluation research design, to study the costs...
View ArticleIntertextual representation in Hawthorne's fiction: Spectacular metaphors in...
Metaphors of spectacle in Hawthorne's four major published novels provide a means of analyzing a range of concerns from character motivation and behavior to social organization and the institution of...
View ArticleFeature discovery for problem-solving systems
Since Samuel's work on checkers over thirty years ago, much effort has been devoted to learning evaluation functions automatically from examples. Many methods have been developed that, given examples...
View ArticleThe development of a second generation electrically scanned thinned array...
The development of a second generation Electrically Scanned Thinned Array Radiometer, ESTAR-B, is presented. The design of ESTAR-B and how it relates to ESTAR-A is described, including the use of...
View ArticleCharacterizations of character sheaves for complex reductive algebraic groups
Character sheaves are geometric objects associated to a reductive algebraic group. They are closely related to irreducible characters of finite Chevalley groups. The existence of character sheaves was...
View ArticleEducational games: A case study of children's responses to a mathematical...
The purpose of my study was to explore and investigate how children respond to the use of a new learning center, which is focused on the concept of multiplication, and to the use of specifically...
View ArticleA national study of alternative certification for school administrators
This study examines the status of alternative certification policies for school administrators in the United States using a descriptive research methodology. The research questions guiding this...
View ArticleTo sing her own song: The literary work of Harriette Simpson Arnow
Harriette Simpson Arnow's ambivalent relationship to her native Appalachia and to her family is evident in the ambiguity of her literary work. The struggle between her love of the region and a need to...
View ArticleComparative effects of baccalaureate degree and associate degree nursing...
Nursings' lack of full professional status based on the criteria of autonomy coupled with the need for a more independent practitioner in today's complex health care system was the basis for this...
View ArticleThe process of self-abusive behavior in adolescents
Ten adolescent females were assessed in regard to level of object relations and degree of self-abusive behavior. Subjects were administered a structured clinical interview and the Bell Object...
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