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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Landis"”.
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Development of an integrated forest management decision support system: integrating the LANDIS model and ArcGIS
… Support System (FMDSS) by integrating the LANDIS 4.0 model with the ESRI ArcGIS platform. FMDSS was developed with Visual Basic, ESRI ArcObjects libraries and Microsoft Access database. FMDSS eliminates the time-consuming parameter editing work necessary for the LANDIS model, simplifies the …
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Bending and breaking the boundary between horror and comedy: an exploration of the existentialist function of the abject in the works of John Landis and Woody Allen
… postmodern world through the cinema of John Landis and Woody Allen. Chapter One explores the theoretical and historical material that link Landis and Allen, namely in their dealing with (1) Edgar Allan Poe’s effect, (2) Julia Kristeva and Judith Butler’s abject, (3) Sigmund Freud’s “uncanny,” …
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Application of a Periosteum-bone Allograft for Healing of Segmental Bone Defects
… original bone.[2] Under such circumstances, the Landis Laboratory is now trying to use periosteum as a `tissue bridge’ to create a viable junction or union between an allograft and the host bone. It has been proposed that periosteal cells enhance formation of tissue-engineered bone better than …
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Computer use and integration of middle school teachers
… was developed and distributed to 56 teachers at Landis Intermediate School in Vineland, New Jersey. The 20 questions on the survey that pertained to computer use and integration were assessed and a score was given to each subject. These scores were used to run independent sample t tests.</p> …
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Harnessing Technology: Art Therapy as Early Intervention in School-Based Counseling for Latino Adolescents with Low SES
<p>Students from lower socioeconomic status families continue to underachieve within the public educational setting. The cycles of violence and poverty are becoming more widespread and cannot be broken without prevention and early intervention. The Art Therapy intervention described in this grant …
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I sistemi di controllo interno negli enti locali: i casi tedesco e italiano a confronto
The research analyses the development of internal control systems in German and Italian municipalities. The modernization process of public administrations promoted by the New Public Management movement has implied worldwide the adoption of private sector derived techniques and tools in order to …
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Refugee housing in the United States: improving the Refugee-Welcoming Rental Market
In this thesis, I explore the vital connection between the US Reception & Placement (USRAP) refugee resettlement program and the health of the US’s refugee-welcoming rental market (RWRM). I focus on USRAP because it plays a unique and vital role in the international protection system for refugees …
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Heroes and villains: an analysis of the treatment of individuals in world history textbooks
Since textbooks are a standard feature of social studies classrooms and frequently are considered the central tools of social studies instruction, their content and manner of presentation are critical issues for the social studies. This study concentrated on identification and analysis of the …
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THE RACIAL SOCIALIZATION OF BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES REGARDING SKIN TONE IN A COHORT OF OLDER AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
… in cross-validation of the study's findings (Landis & Koch, 1977). Kappa coefficients demonstrated that of the twenty-three subthemes, which emerged from the analysis, 7 had slight inter-rater agreement 5 had fair inter-rater agreement, 7 had moderate inter-rater agreement, 2 had substantial …
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Understanding Forest Landscape Response to Global Climatic Change: An Uncertainty Evaluation Based on Spatial Modeling
… For this purpose, a forest landscape model (LANDIS-II) was coupled with a forest ecosystem process model (PnET-II) to examine how small-scale processes can affect large-scale processes and patterns using different statistical methods. Specifically, three questions were addressed in this …
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The Relationship Between Select Variables and the Breast Cancer Screening Practices of a Convenient Sample of African-American Women From Grambling State University and the Willis-Knighton Neighborhood Clinic
… Cancer Society; National Cancer Institute; Landis, Murry, Boldern & Wingo, 1998). This is the fourth highest of all women living in the United States (Early Cancer Detection Program, Annual Report, 1999). Breast cancer mortality is correlated to the stage at diagnosis. The earlier breast …
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Perspectives on the management of humerus fractures due to gunshot trauma: an inter- and intra-observer agreement and reliability study
… analyse data. Kappa was interpreted according to Landis and Koch guidelines. Results: There was slight yet significant overall interobserver agreement on the AO classification (k=0.20); the highest interobserver agreement ('fair') was achieved by the upper extremity specialists and senior …
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Regards sur l’Être et le Paraitre dans Trois Portraits du XVIIe Siècle
Introduced in French Salons as a parlor game, the literary portrait appears in mid Seventeenth-Century. It is similar to the literary portraits inserted in Roman à clé but it does not hide the identity of the subject behind a pseudonym, it depicts the individual as is. In a self-portrait subjects …
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Breastfeeding and Mothers with Chronic Health Conditions
Breastfeeding and Mothers with Chronic Health Conditions Breastfeeding may be most beneficial for women with specific chronic illness and may decrease the risk or prevent those illnesses from developing in their children. This study examined the initiation and duration rates of mothers identified …
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An Analysis of the Relationship Between Newly Constructed or Renovated Ohio High Schools and Measurable Student Data Indicators
<p> The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between newly constructed or remodeled high schools and academic achievement and behavioral measures. School districts ranked in the lowest quartile of property wealth in Ohio were identified as the sample group which built or remodeled …
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Comparison in Academic Performance Between Distance Learning and Traditional On-Campus Students in Allied Healthcare Education at the Medical College of Georgia
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the differences in academic performance between distance learning students and traditional on-campus students in allied healthcare education. The research was conducted at an academic medical university and three programs were included in the …
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Last Snow: An Analysis of an Original Electronic Music Suite
Last Snow is a suite of compositions in a genre that most closely approximates a contemporary jazz style with electronic elements and shifting meters. While there are clear examples of imitative synthesis within the work, many abstract examples of a more diffuse, impressionistic bent are also …
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Mapping Cultural Models of Authority
"As the United States' workforce becomes more diverse, the incidence of cross-cultural supervision will increase. Cross-cultural supervision is a workplace situation in which the culture of the supervisor and of the subordinate differ. Anecdotal evidence and cross-cultural psychological theory …
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Physiology and Ecology of Pupal Diapause in Sarcophaga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T18:05:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212136.pdf: 3209436 bytes, checksum: e7902630f1f11ba2564149bb20dce328 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Steinitz Classes of Relative Galois Extensions
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T22:17:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7021010.pdf: 2149632 bytes, checksum: c0f60a71b8030ee8d0be140d4837db79 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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