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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Blount"”.
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Academic Success of African American Males in the Blount County, Tennessee: Perceptions of the Community
… success of African American males in the Blount County Area. More specifically, the study was focused on the perception of the participants concerning noncognitive, demographic, and institutional variables associated with the academic success of African-American males. The participants for …
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Late-onset Blount's disease
In 1937 WP Blount published a review of tibia vara or osteochondrosis deformans of the proximal tibia. Late-onset Blount's disease is varus deformity of the proximal tibia that occurs at or after 6 years old (excluding late presenting infantile Blount's) and has an associated femoral varus.
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Year-Round School Calendars Versus Traditional School Calendars: Parents' and Teachers' Opinions.
… from teachers and parents from schools in both Blount and Sevier Counties. The surveys were given to teachers who worked in a traditional school setting, teachers who worked in the year-round school setting, parents who had children attending a traditional school, and parents who had children …
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An examination, analysis, and evaluation of the employee onboarding process in a southeastern university
… of belonging and organizational commitment (Blount, 2022; Pike, 2014). The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a southeastern university’s current onboarding process. The problem to address was the lack of data on the effectiveness of the onboarding process and whether …
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The Lexicographical and Lexicological Procedures and Methods of John Wilkins
… I have compared entries from the dictionaries of Blount (1656), Kersey (1708), Bailey (1721) and Johnson with the alphabetical dictionary appended to the Essay. In the sections on the lexicological practice of Wilkins I document the semantic organization underlying the classification tables based …
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Die suprakondyläre Humerusfraktur im Kindesalter
… An Behandlungsmethoden kamen zwei konservative (Blount und Gips), die perkutane gekreuzte Kirschner-Draht-Osteosynsthese und die offene Reposition als Therapiemethoden zum Einsatz. Die perkutane Kirschner-Draht-Osteosynthese erzielte mit 94 Prozent Ideale und Gute Ergebnisse in der Bewertung nach …
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The Helping Professional Wellness Discrepancy Scale (HPWDS): Development and Validation
Wellness is an integral component of the helping professions (Myers & Sweeney, 2005; Witmer, 1985). Specifically, wellness is included in ethical codes, suggestions for practice, and codes of conduct throughout counseling, psychology, and social work fields (see American Counseling Association Code …
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Church Broughton Parish, Derbyshire: An oral history, 1900-1940
… when entrepreneur Basil Mallender bought Barton Blount, in 1925, and tried to align Church Broughton with his estate and impose his authority, generally against the wishes of villagers, who were accustomed to a cooperative community. Collecting oral contributions and letters from parishioners …
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Academic Interventions in Secondary Schools: Examining Teachers' Perceptions of Implementing a Multi-Tiered System of Support
… and beyond. In a review of the literature, Blount (2012) deduced that academic failure is one of the main predictive risk factors in secondary students for dropping out of school, which can have long term social, emotional, and financial ramifications. The importance of reading and math …
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Triton Wave Functions Using Realistic Potentials.
Because the study of three-nucleon systems may provide information pertaining to the interaction between nucleons, much theoretical effort during the past forty years has been devoted to such systems. Provided that a means is found to predict accurately the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions which …
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Effects of drop size and drop velocity on cooling characteristics of sprays
The effect of drop size and drop velocity on the cooling characteristics of sprays was investigated in this study. Various line pressures and distances from the nozzle were used to obtain Sauter mean drop sizes between 200 and 300 microns, and velocities between 80 and 130 m/s. Local heat flux data …
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Policy Implementation by Executive Order: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effects of Agency Decisions and Organizational Characteristics on Government Expenditures Through a Minority Businesses Enterprise Set-Aside Program in Ohio
Government agencies use minority business enterprises (MBEs) to provide goods, services, and access to opportunities as strategies to respond to citizens’ demand for equality in obtaining governmental bids. Set-aside programs have come under scrutiny in the United States since their inception in …
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Mississippi ASL Project
American Sign Language (ASL) is a manual language used by many deaf people in the United States and Canada. For much of its existence, ASL was believed to be a system of rudimentary gestures and signs based on the English language. However, studies that analyzed the linguistic properties of this …
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Writers Write and Sometimes They Teach
Teaching, essays, fiction, and poetry.
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The Effects of Stereotype Threat on State Levels of Stigma Consciousness and Overall Performance on a Stereotype-Relevant Task
Situational anxiety surrounding performance has been shown to adversely impact task performance by members of negatively stereotyped groups, creating a stereotype threat effect. This study tested the hypothesis that the anticipation of being stereotyped, known as stigma consciousness, is one of …
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Blood of ruminants and the haematology of the domestic fowl in health and disease
The general objects of the investigation were: (1) To study the histological appearances of the cells concerned. (2) To determine whether normal blood standards, comparable with those of man, exist in the species examined. (3) To observe the changes occurring in the type and distribution of blood …
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Non-Invasive Techniques for the Detection and Diagnosis of Dementia
It is estimated that there are currently fifty million people living with dementia worldwide. An accurate and early diagnosis of dementia is important in order to initiate appropriate treatment programs as soon as possible. Common methods of neuropsychological assessment can be sensitive to …
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Self-organizing news
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993.
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