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An examination of the social characteristics and beliefs of delinquent and non-delinquent youth
(2008-09-09)
Within the last year, over 3,000 youth have been admitted into the juvenile justice system in the state of Alabama with one-third of those youth participating in a High Intensive Treatment (HIT) program. Most delinquents ...
Making Students’ Writing Bloom: The Effect of Scaffolding Oral Inquiry Using Bloom’s Taxonomy on Writing in Response to Reading and Reading Comprehension of Fifth Graders
(2008-09-09)
This pretest-posttest control group study attempted to investigate the effects of using Bloom’s Taxonomy as an oral-questioning scaffold to improve writing in response to reading and reading comprehension by encouraging ...
The Effect of Medical Malpractice Award Amount on Health: A Cross-Sectional Review of 1998 State Date
(2008-09-09)
This thesis examines the relationship between amount awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits and the health of a population. Data from 1998 is collected for each state and a crossectional analysis is performed. Two stage ...
A Property Based Approach to Integrated Process and Molecular Design
(2008-09-09)
In this work, a new simple yet effective, systematic method to synthesize and design molecules is presented. Visualization of the problem is achieved by employing an annex to the recently developed property clustering ...
An Examination of the Relationship Between a Realistic Job Preview and Job Applicants' Psychological Contract Perceptions
(2008-09-09)
Psychological contracts have generated considerable interest from organizational scholars and practitioners for the past several decades, largely due to the negative organizational outcomes that arise when these contracts ...
The Role of Perspective Taking in Leader-Member Exchange
(2008-09-09)
A two-part model is proposed to investigate the relationship between dyad-specific perspective taking and leader-member exchange (LMX). In addition, a series of dispositional and situational antecedents of dyad-specific ...
Effect of Silver nanoparticles on tomato plants and Development of a Plant Monitoring System (PMS)
(2008-09-09)
Smart Agriculture will determine whether farmers in the US can compete internationally. Engineering plays a significant role in Smart Agriculture through the development of sensor networks, data acquisition, and control ...
Preliminary Study of Tribology: Uniform Control of the Density Control of the Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles on a Modified Silicon Surface
(2008-09-09)
Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) are important in diverse fields such as BioMEMS, optical MEMS, and radio frequency MEMS. The low cost, small device size and high reliability are contributing to successful commercialization ...
Effective Organizational Characteristics for International Student Enrollment Service
(2008-09-09)
Historically the U.S. has attracted international students to its campuses deliberately and enrolling additional international students has become an increasingly important subject (Cravcenco, 2004; Phanchantraurai, 2005). ...
Laser Beam Shaping Optical System Design Methods and Their Application in Edge-emitting Semiconductor Laser-based LIDAR Systems
(2008-09-09)
LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) systems are employed for numerous applications such as remote sensing, military applications, optical data storage, display technology, and material processing. Furthermore, they are ...