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Cultural mistrust, occupational aspirations and achievement motivation of black students

Description: The purpose of this study were three-fold: First, this study examined occupation prestige ratings of African American adolescents using a modified version of the Hatt-North (1947) Occupation Prestige Scale. A second purpose investigated the effects of cultural mistrust on occupation prestige preferences, as well as aspirations and expectations. Finally, this study examined the effects of cultural mistrust and achievement motivation on the occupational aspirations of Black youth.
Date: December 1991
Creator: Cuffee, Deborah Robinson
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Current admissions and transition practices among Christian college coalition members

Description: The problem of this study concerns the admissions and transition programs of undergraduate institutions which are members of the Christian College Coalition. The purposes of this study are to determine whether Christian College Coalition member institutions have encountered the same national concerns in the area of the transition from high school to college as identified by Ernest Boyer in College: The Undergraduate Experience in America, and to determine whether admissions programs in the memb… more
Date: August 1991
Creator: Jeffrey, Tony G. (Tony George)
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Predictors of success in a community college basic skills program

Description: The purpose of this study was to determine if certain student demographics and measures of previous high school academic achievement could differentiate between students who are successful in remedial and college level English and algebra courses and students who are unsuccessful in those courses.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Burke, Sherry Ann
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Relationship between background knowledge and reading comprehension of teachers-college students in Thailand

Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of background knowledge on Thai teachers-college students' reading comprehension in relation to topic familiarity, reading ability in English as a Foreign Language, and the amount of time required for reading familiar and unfamiliar passages.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Angthong, Nattakarn
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Six sonates pour une flute et basse ou hautbois et basse by Ernst Eichner: a performing edition with critical commentary, a lecture recital, together with three other recitals

Description: From the sources published by R. Wornum and Mme. Bérault a performing edition of the Six Sonates pour une Flute et Basse où hautbois et Basse was produced. The music was adopted to twentieth-century notation and supplied with suggestions for articulations and the performance of ornamental figures.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Hobbs, James A. (James Alton)
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Planning strategies as predictors of DWI recidivism for problem and non-problem drinkers

Description: This study investigates the relationships between planning strategies on how to avoid future DWI arrest and actual DWI recidivism for a group of problem and non-problem drinkers. A sample of 75 individuals who were arrested for DWI and completed a DWI training program in 1987 was gathered.
Date: December 1991
Creator: Christiansen, Thomas J. (Thomas James)
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Social factors in adolescent suicidal ideation and behavior

Description: The decision by teenagers either to consider or to attempt to commit suicide was addressed in this research. Covariance structure analysis (LISREL) techniques were used to examine the influence of four social-psychological factors (psychic disruption, delinquency, family disruption, and school problems) upon a suicidal orientation.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Jones, Ian F.
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The Bombay Stock Exchange: tests of market efficiency

Description: This dissertation analyzes the efficiency of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the relationship of stock return patterns on the BSE with those of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The data includes daily closing values of the BSE and S&P 500 Indexes for the period 1979-1990 and bi-weekly closing prices on 27 of the most active stocks on the BSE for the period 1980-1990.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Ignatius, Roger
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Association between learning-style preferences of journalism students, internship experience, and selected demographic factors

Description: the study explores learning-style preferences of journalism students to determine the differences in learning-style preferences between journalism students with internship experience and those without internship experience, and the association of selected demographic factors.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Johnson, Cathy
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Sequencing as a factor associated with students' ability to learn programming

Description: The problem of this study concerns the performance of students in computer programming following exposure to a computer-aided instruction (CAI) drill in sequencing and practice exercises. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not student success rates improve in computer programming after completing CAI sequencing drills and practice exercises.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Honarvar, Hassanali
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An analysis of absenteeism cases taken to arbitration: factors used by arbitrators in the decision-making process

Description: The purpose of this study was to examine factors used by arbitrators in deciding the outcome of disciplinary labor arbitration cases involving excessive employee absenteeism. The seven key tests of just cause identified by Carroll Daugherty in the 1966 Enterprise Wire Co. arbitration case were used as the basis for examining the cases in the study.
Date: May 1991
Creator: Clay, Joan Marie
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Particle size distribution and qualitative/quantitative analysis of trace metals in the combustion gas and fly ash of coal/refuse derived fuel

Description: This work includes two different areas of research. Both areas are related to the combustion of the binder-enhanced densified refuse derived fuel (bdRDF) with high sulfur coal and examining trace elements. The first area of this work involved studying the trace metals in the combustion gas of bdRDF/coal blend and the effect of the binder, CA(OH)2, on reducing the trace elements emissions. The second area of work involved studying the trace elements in the fly ash and the effect of the dRDF and … more
Date: December 1991
Creator: Attili, Bassam Saleem
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The principle of "sankofa" in elementary music instruction in southern Ghana: selected school personnel's views of and their role in its implementation

Description: The study ascertained elementary school teachers' and supervisors' views about their role in the implementation of Sankofa (Go back and retrieve) in school music. Sankofa mandates the integration of distinctive Ghanian traditional values and practices with Western educational concepts in the school curriculum. In music, it calls for the fusion of multi-ethnic musics of Ghana with Western musical concepts in public school music instruction. Some concerns expressed by Ghanian music educators rega… more
Date: May 1991
Creator: Attah, Joe K. (Joe Kofi)
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A study of factors influencing job satisfaction among faculty members at degree-granting colleges of education in Nigeria

Description: The purpose of this study was to analyze the job satisfaction among the faculty members of degree-granting colleges of education in Nigeria. The study was based on the six subsections of the Job Descriptive Index developed by Smith and associates: present work, pay, promotion, supervision, coworkers and job in general.
Date: May 1991
Creator: Duru, Canice Chuma
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The emergence and development of Browning's auditor

Description: By presenting the auditor as a unifying principle that links Browning's earliest works to his dramatic monologues, this dissertation enhances the importance of the ever-ignored experimental works in developing the dramatic monologue technique. An exploration of the emergence and development of the auditor has an additional, but never ancillary, effect of proclaiming the originality and inventiveness of Browning's dramatic technique.
Date: December 1991
Creator: Cho-Tak, Byong Eun
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Additional evidence on informational asymmetry at acquisition announcement

Description: This dissertation examines the partial anticipation hypothesis by employing the bid-ask spread approach in market microstructure theory. Selecting the OTC bidding firms with a careful research design, this dissertation divides sample firms into firms with acquisition programs and firms without acquisition programs.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Kim, Young Kook
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The effects of coronary α₁-adrenergic stimulation on coronary blood flow and left ventricular function

Description: This study examines the α-adrenergic constrictor tone varies with intensity of exercise, the effects of coronary α1-adrenergic blockade on left ventricular contractile function and regional myocardial perfusion, and compares the effects of increasing coronary blood flow by removing α1-constrictor tone.
Date: May 1991
Creator: Dodd-o, Jeffrey M. (Jeffrey Michael)
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The governance style of Irl Allison, Sr., as evidenced in documentation of the development of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, 1929-1963

Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the governance style of Irl Allison, Sr., as evidenced in documentation of the development of the NGPT. The questions guiding the study were to find: (1) how Dr. Allison involved others in the early development of the Guild; (2) whether he resolved issues of importance to the development of the Guild in consultation with others or by himself, and (3) how issues of concern to the membership were resolved.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Hatch, Sarah J.
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