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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"College of Arts"”.
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A WEB-BASED TEMPERATURE MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS
… them via the Internet. Servers also cost a lot of money. For this reason, server rooms also need to be protected against overheating. This will prolong the lifecycle of the units and can prevent data loss from hardware failure.</p> <p>The California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB), …
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The Creighton Student-Worker: A Study of Fifty Students Who are Working their Way Through the Creighton College of Arts and Sciences
A number of popular fallacies have clustered about the problem of student employment. Many offer criticisms that the students who work are deprived of time for diversion, that they are forced to neglect their lessons, and that they have no time to participate in campus activities. It has been …
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Grade twelve achievement and score on the American Council on Education psychological examination for college freshmen as predictors of freshmen achievement among type C students in the College of Arts and Science University of Saskatchewan
Of the perennial problems of education, probably none has proved more fascinating and perplexing than that of prognosis. At all levels of a child's educational career, parents and educators with varying criteria and degrees of expertness endeavor to discern those characteristics predictive of his …
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Academic Clustering of Student-Athletes: A Case Study of Football and Basketball Programs
<p>This study explores the topic of academic clustering within the football and men's and women's basketball teams at the University of Arkansas. Given the prominence of collegiate sport in America, this paper examines a relatively understudied topic regarding student-athletes and education. Using …
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A Socio-Psychological Analysis of Eating Behaviors at Fast Food Restaurants
The purpose of this study was to explore the mutual interaction of attitude toward taste and the nutritional information of fast foods to explain fast food consumption behavior. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was used to examine from the mutual interplay of attitude toward taste and nutritional …
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Students' understanding about clinical research and their willingness to participate in clinical trials
… willingness to participate. During the spring of 2016, an in-class paper survey was conducted to determine whether providing a brief introduction to clinical research would affect the willingness of undergraduate students from the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Technology at …
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Instrumental and integrative motivation among undergraduate Libyan students of English as a foreign language
… motivations among undergraduate Libyan students of English as a foreign language (EFL). It investigates whether EFL Libyan students are instrumentally or integratively motivated to study English. The study also looks at the relationship between EFL Libyan students' motivation and their …
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Searching for identity : the approaches of three Pakistani architects
This thesis attempts to deal with some of the major issues relating to Pakistani architecture today as well as the consequent development of an architectural identity. In order to establish the framework for the study various discourses that reflect on the notion of identity have been examined. Due …
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Neusch Automated Filter System: A Custom-Designed Photo-Filter Switching Apparatus for Embry-Riddle’s 1 Meter Telescope
<p>The one-meter telescope on the roof of Embry-Riddle’s College of Arts and Sciences building in Daytona Beach, FL is an advanced piece of technology supporting education and public outreach. One part of this telescopic system is a custom-made Cassegrain Instrument Mount. This one-of-a-kind mount …
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Writings, Readings and Not Writing: poems, prose fiction and essays
This submission of published work consists of a number of different modes of writing that interrelate as the concerns of a poet, essayist and teacher. There are twenty-seven separate publications, presented under six categories headings: (A) poems, including prose-poems, written for the page; (B) …
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Processing Writing: From Text to Textual Interventions
This submission comprises the main bulk of the critical and textual work I have researched and developed over the last five years. Throughout this period, I have been particularly interested in exploring issues of interdisciplinarity for writers and text-practitioners, at both a critical and a …
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Student characteristics, institutional characteristics, and undergraduate achievement: a study of Virginia Tech, 1985 to 1989
One of the most compelling questions in higher education is why some students achieve and others do not. In this study, 1323 Virginia Tech students who completed the 1985 Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) freshman survey were followed up over a four-year period in order to identify …
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Psychosocial Adjustment Following Stroke
Stroke is the third most common cause of death in Australia. To date, there has been extensive research conducted on the reactive consequences following the diagnosis of stroke. In contrast, there has been limited research effort directed at understanding how some stroke survivors manage to adjust …
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Psychological Factors Influencing Adherence to Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Patients
… adverse health consequences, poor quality of life, and also impacts negatively on society. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is widely acknowledged as the best available treatment for moderate to severe OSA. CPAP treatment has been linked to reduced co-morbidities as well as …
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The Effect of a Responsive Parenting Program on Maternal Perception of Child Temperament, Mother-Child Bonding, and Maternal Mood
… problems. This study extends current knowledge of programs by examining improvements in maternal and child outcomes one week after completing a three to four night Residential Responsive Parenting Program at Tweddle Child and Family Health Service; whether improvements were sustained at …
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Mixed hues on the palette: reflections of the diasporic artist painting across two landscapes
Mixed Hues on the Palette: Reflections of the Diasporic Artist Painting Across Two Landscapes deals with the experiences of Maltese-Australian artists in diaspora that, willingly or otherwise, affects them in working across two different cultural landscapes. More specifically, the study explores: …
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Diasporic orchestrations: a database narrative of Australian and Bulgarian cultural entanglements
… whose potential for producing cultural knowledge often remains underutilized and underappreciated. By challenging conventional ways of doing research that rest exclusively on the medium of written language and testing novel means of presenting and disseminating research data, the study casts light …
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Sustainable microfinance in Indonesia : a sociocultural approach
Microfinance programs were established in the Netherlands East Indies as a strategy to alleviate poverty in pre-dominantly Moslem rural communities. When Indonesia won its independence, these government-subsidized microfinance programs based on the payment of interest were continued until 1983, …
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Gossip pop: A performative investigation of the role of pop in contemporary art practice
… exhibition that will demonstrate the development of the series of Gossip Pop performances and exhibitions, together with a written exegesis. The practical component of this research will consist of writing, producing, performing and exhibiting a series of interdisciplinary visual artworks in a …
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Meaning-Making in an Engineering Problem-Based Learning Classroom: an Analysis of Activity and Multimodality
… learning supported by the provision of information and the active support of a facilitator. PBL can be seen as a process of meaning making, and, in this research, this meaning making occurs in the context of an academic subject in the first year of an engineering degree and a …
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