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(2012-04-30)Writers in the genre of science fiction often use their novels to explore our understanding of society by creating scenes outside the normal plan of existence in futuristic or parallel worlds. Since language is the ultimate ...
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(2012-04-30)Charles Vernon Eskridge was an influential leader in Kansas politics in the middle and late nineteenth century. By mixing politics with business, Eskridge epitomized the Gilded Age local politician. He arrived in Lawrence, ...
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(2012-05-01)Quality of life has been determined to be an important factor in the treatment for individuals who experience seizure disorder. Areas such as problem solving perceptions can be linked to quality of life through mastery, ...
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(2012-04-30)Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, and We Were the Mulvaneys, by Joyce Carol Oates, both present the female protagonists, Tess and Marianne, as commodities, or less-than-human goods to be exchanged among men. ...
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(2012-05-01)In Paradise Lost and Comus, John Milton portrays the two tempters, Satan and Comus, as having similar skills and character traits and using similar approaches to tempt their victims. Yet Comus fails in his temptation of ...
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(2012-05-01)This study examined the effects of smoking withdrawal on several depressive dimensions, and specifically on loss of interest, a core but less investigated symptom of depression. 17 women and 11 men engaged in relatively ...
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(2012-04-30)U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics anticipates a shortage of employees by 2010, a result of older workers retiring and fewer skilled younger workers. Organizations should encourage older workers to remain in the workplace. ...
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(2012-04-30)This study examined the utility of curriculum-based measures (CBM) of reading to predict proficiency levels on the Kansas Reading Assessments. The CBM reading probes were administered during the spring semester to third ...
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(2012-04-30)The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between college students' level of conceptual development and their preferences regarding types of advertisements aimed at alcohol behavior intervention. The ...
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(2012-05-01)Bullying damages the self-esteem of the victim. This study identified implications of this behavior into adulthood. A sample of 214 volunteers was used for data analysis. Subjects completed two self-report questionnaires, ...
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(2012-04-30)This study examined the anxiety levels of first generation college students (FGCS) in Project Challenge (a program designed to aid FGCS in college success), FGCS not in Project Challenge and non-first generation college ...
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(2012-05-01)Each year, organizations in the United States spend millions of dollars on training their employees. The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of the training investment by looking at its relationships with ...
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(2012-04-30)The ice-shoved terrain south of Devils Lake was formed by the last advance of the Late Wisconsinan glaciers approximately 12,000 years ago. Two series of ice-shoved ridges and associated source depressions (lake basins) ...
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(2012-05-01)Epothilones are a novel class of microtubule stabilizers produced by the bacterium Sorangium cellulosum. Although distinct from paclitaxel (Taxol®), they possess a similar mode of action. Epothilones have several advantages ...
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(2012-04-30)Most of us would agree that a translator's aim should generally be "to provide semantic equivalence between source and target languages" (Crystal 346). Despite the seeming simplicity of this definition, there are as many ...
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(2012-04-30)This study investigated the modality effect in a leading prose recall assessment tool. Participants were 60 college-educated adults from a northeastern metropolitan area. The Logical Memory I (LM I), an immediate recall ...
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(2012-04-30)This study investigated the perceived ages of actors in print advertisements for alcohol and the target audience. Participants were separated into two groups of advertisement conditions and asked to estimate the age of the ...
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(2012-04-30)The purpose of this study was to compare scales to scores on a behavioral laboratory measure of temporal discounting. Participants were 99 college students recruited from psychology classes at a midwestern University. All ...
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(2012-04-30)This thesis is an investigation into the human physiological response to a neutral drawing experience, drawing from art therapy and biofeedback to examine what is happening as the participants draw. The hypothesis was that ...
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(2012-05-01)Trapped in the exploitive system of objectifying definitions generated by the dominant society, the black female body has been the signifier of black women's identities as victims. In the writings of Angelina Weld Grimke, ...
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