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Resultant Suicide from Prolonged Grief for Caregivers of Cancer Victims
Aim: The aim of this work was based around the question “How can suicide from prolonged grief for family members/caregivers of cancer victims be identified earlier and treated successfully?” Problem/Purpose: The research focus was the impact of suicidal ideation, identifying areas of improvement to …
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Correlation study of methamphetamine abuse and resultant levels of child neglect
This positivist research project will attempt to show a correlation between levels of child neglect and proportionate levels of methamphetamine abuse. The term abuse will be used to refer to the chronic, compulsive use of methamphetamine in such a manner, that it will assume a central and negative …
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Development and Resultant Implementation of Custom Software for Analyses of Galactic Neighborhoods
The structure and organization of galaxies and their environments within the universe is a critical and fundamental question in the field of astrophysics. The amount of data available necessitates computer software to aid analyses. Previous research in the field utilized software built in FORTRAN …
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Markov-Switching models and resultant equity implied volatility surfaces: a South African application
Standard Geometric Brownian Motion is the stock model underlying Black-Scholes famous option pricing formula. There are however numerous problems with this stock model as certain features do not follow some empirical stylised facts we see from the observation of actual asset prices. In particular, …
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Effects of foot placement on resultant joint moments in the lower extremity joints during the squat
… the effects of foot placement on normalized resultant joint moments of the lower extremity joints in sagittal and frontal planes during the squat. A total of 42 skilled participants (21 male and 21 female) performed squat trials (five trials per condition) with a weighted barbell of 75% of 1 …
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Resolution of signal components of a resultant electromagnetic wave received in a multipath field of microwave frequencies
The growing use and demand for microwave communication systems has led to an increase in system density, particularly in urban areas. Consequently this rise has increased the risk of interference. Especially in urban areas the abundant presence of potential obstacles increase the risk of multipath …
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The effect on family life during the late Georgian period of indisposition, medication, treatments and the resultant outcomes.
This thesis addresses the dearth of published scholarship relating to the effect of ill health upon the late Georgian family. While historians of medicine have failed to adequately address questions relating to the family, so family historians have not fully considered the effects that ill health …
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Examination of the Influence of Instructional Coaching on Teacher and Principal Behavior, Attitudes, and the Resultant Learning Environment
Over the past few decades, stakeholders in education have placed significant emphasis on student achievement. Educational reform in the United States and internationally has set ambitious goals for student learning. Additionally, educational reform demands transformations in classroom practices for …
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A comparison of resultant fibrils upon environmental and sequential manipulations of α-synuclein, a Parkinson’s disease associated protein
α-Synuclein (AS) fibrils are the main component of Lewy bodies, filamentous inclusions known as the pathological hallmark of Parkinson’s disease (PD). The normal function, toxic state and detailed fibrillation pathway of AS are not well understood. However, AS is further implicated in PD by the …
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La Famiglia: Twentieth-Century Transisitons of the Italian-American Family and the Resultant Changes in Gender and Generational Relationships
<p>In the first half of the twentieth century the United States became the recipient of six million Italian immigrants. These men, women and children arrived with few personal possessions but many Old World cultural values regarding family unity, honor, and tradition. This project, coupling …
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The transfer of endrin via the milk to pine mouse pups and the resultant effects on hepatic microsomal activity
Many lipophilic pesticides are known to be transferred to offspring via the mother's milk. The present study was conducted to determine how much endrin was transferred from endrin resistant and susceptible dams to their suckling pups and to further characterize the effects that endrin may have on …
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A study to determine degree of inferred story-character identification and its resultant effect in reading comprehension in selected multiethnic reading texts
This study attempted to investigate the relationship between inferred identification and two types of reading comprehension, molar and specific, at the third grade level. Subjects for this study were selected from six schools located in four midwestern urban centers. The 121 Negro and Caucasian …
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Merges and acquisitions and the resultant ramifications on employees in the transaction. a study of South Africa's Section 197 Labour Relations Act 1995 as amended in 2002
Business organizations engage in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to accomplish various objectives, including, but not limited to, increasing growth potential, expanding product lines, entering new markets at a faster speed, eliminating competitors gaining access to intellectual capital and gaining …
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How an Organization's Environmental Orientation Impacts Environmental Performance and its Resultant Financial Performance through Green Computing Hiring Practices: An Empirical Investigation of the Natural Resource-Based View of the Firm
… impacts their environmental performance and resultant financial performance through the firm's Information Technology hiring practices. Specifically, it was hypothesized that firms with a strong relationship between the environmental orientation of their strategy and their green computing …
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The new music building at the Amos Alonzo Stagg High School : a need arising from an expanded high school population and resultant growth in the music programs in the past ten years (1945-1955) in Stockton
It was the purpose of this study (1) to present the proposed plans for the music building at the Amos Alonzo Stagg High School, and (2) to show the growth in school population and interest in music which guided the planning of new music buildings over the past ten years (1945-1955) in Stockton that …
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The limitations of law pertaining to incest cases: observations of the confines inherent in the current criminal jurisdiction of the County Court of Victoria, which may limit justice for the victims of incest, and the resultant equivocal footing of social policy in this area
The crime of incest is rendered invisible in the 1990's under the all-embracing label of "child abuse", where the public eye is alerted to grave cases of physical abuse, by a media hungry for sensationalism. Likewise, incest is effaced amid the current outrage over the deviant outsider - typically …
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Effect of high heat treatment and β-casein-reduction on the rennet coagulation and ripening of Cheddar and Emmental cheeses manufactured from micellar casein concentrate
… the heat stability of MCC and its impact on resultant cheesemilk was also analysed. Compared to MF without a DF step, DF with water increased the removal of whey protein and small molecules, such as lactose and soluble salts, from feed milk to permeate and the depletion of solutes present in …
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Solder Interconnect Life Prediction under Complex Temperature Cycling with Varying Mean and Amplitude
… surrounding environment. Temperature histories resultant from these concurrent loading would be a complex temperature cycling with varying cyclic temperature mean and amplitude, as well as spatial thermal gradient. This study developed modeling approaches and quantified accuracies for predicting …
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