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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Scott, James"”.
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Rock, Paper, Aliens: Effects of Labels and Iconicity on Non-Linguistic Cognition
Linguistic labels are not merely passive tags. Instead, emerging evidence suggests that they play an active role in linguistic processing and even aspects of non-linguistic cognition. Labels have been found to augment cognitive functions such as categorisation, and visual discrimination and …
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Review, analysis, and recommendations of the 1990-99 Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the public's attitudes towards public schools top responses to the question "What do you think are the biggest problems facing public schools in your community?"
Since their inception, public schools had been faced with inert problems. The purpose of this study was to discover what the American public believed were the biggest problems facing public schools from 1990-1999 and what education experts believed could be done to eliminate or lessen the problems. …
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Towards Implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action in Law Schools: A Settler Harm Reduction Approach to Racial Stereotyping and Prejudice Against Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Legal Orders in Canadian Legal Education
Many Canadian law schools are in the process of implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Call to Actions #28 and #50. Promising initiatives include mandatory courses, Indigenous cultural competency, and Indigenous law intensives. However, processes of social categorization and …
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The Effects of Movie Time Social Learning on Emotion Recognition, Perspective Taking and Empathy in Children with Autism
Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in the world, with the latest estimates showing that 1 in 68 children will be diagnosed with the condition. One of the core deficits associated with autism is social communication. Theory of mind (Baron-Cohen, 1985) posits that children with …
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The effect of trunk stability and leg strength training on vertical take-off velocity in athletes
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of trunk stability training on the performance of vertical jumping as assessed by vertical take-off velocity. Athletes (20 males, 35 females) were randomly assigned to one of four training groups: trunk stability (TS), leg strength (LS), trunk …
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Response of Grapes to 2,4-D, Dicamba, and Glyphosate Simulated Drift
In the USA, herbicides are widely used as an integral tool for weed management. With genetically modified crops such as Roundup Ready® (glyphosate-resistant) corn and soybean, herbicides that normally would have killed a crop can be used for weed control. Over years of use, some weed species have …
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Unintended Consequences?: The Governance of Modern Foreign Language Learning in Scotland (1962-2014)
<p>In Scotland, modern foreign language (MFL) learning is declining. This thesis provides a new perspective on this issue by investigating the nature and effectiveness of MFL governance from national to school level. I examine politico-educational rationales for MFL, layers, structures and elements …
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The effects of intra-dorsal raphe administration of strychnine on rat behaviour and its interactions with ethanol
Previous studies have identified a population of inhibitory strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors, which are expressed on the serotonergic neurons which originate from the dorsal raphe nucleus. In addition, the serotonergic neurons of the dorsal raphe nucleus, which mediate the release of the …
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Bayesian Adjustment for Multiplicity
<p>This thesis is about Bayesian approaches for handling multiplicity. It considers three main kinds of multiple-testing scenarios: tests of exchangeable experimental units, tests for variable inclusion in linear regresson models, and tests for conditional independence in jointly normal vectors. …
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A Survey of Public High School Journalism Departments in the State of Washington
The purpose of this study was to obtain an understanding of the current practices and procedures now in effect in the high school journalism programs throughout the State of Washington and to provide data for educators on the present status of the journalism departments for curriculum study and …
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Development of an Open Source Prosthetic Hand Platform
… an Open Source Prosthetic Hand Platform</p> <p> Scott Garrett</p> <p> In the field of upper extremity prosthetic devices, advancements in technology drive the design of products which are becoming capable of restoring the lost functions of the native hand. While several dexterous devices have …
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Phase equilibria, thermal expansion and symmetry relations within the HfO2-Ta2O5-TiO2-temperature system
Most material applications rely on a foundation of knowledge of phase equilibria. In this dissertation, a systematic approach to the rapid production of the high temperature HfO2-Ta2O5-TiO2 phase diagrams is presented that highlights the combined use of: (i) in-situ high temperature X-ray …
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Acceleration of the noise suppression component of the DUCHAMP source-finder
The next-generation of radio interferometer arrays - the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its precursor instruments, The Karoo Array Telescope (MeerKAT) and Australian Square Kilometre Path finder (ASKAP) - will produce radio observation survey data orders of magnitude larger than current …
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Availability and distribution of nitrogen and phosphorus from sewage sludge in the plant-soil-water continuum
Research was conducted in 1984 and 1985 to determine N and P availabilities for barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and com ( Zea mays L.) grown on four sludge-amended soils. Tests were conducted on the Acredale silt loam (Typic Ochraquall), Bojac loamy sand (Typic Hapludult), Davidson clay loam (Rhodic …
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Coagulation study of a bound water bulked sludge
The objective of this research was to determine the coagulation effects of alum, ferric chloride, and cationic polymer when the coagulants are added to a sludge which has bulked due to a high bound water content. The effect of coagulant addition upon microbial metabolism was studied using dissolved …
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An experimentally designed melt rheological characterization of starblock polymers
The melt rheological behavior of structurally defined starblock polymers was investigated using the experimental design technique of response surface methodology. A rotatable central composite design (ccd) was employed with linear 2⁵ factorial structure and with axial points to fit the pure …
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The Language of Real Life: Self-possession in the Poetry of Paul Celan, T. S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Paul Valéry
In his “Letter on Humanism,” Martin Heidegger conveys the importance he attributes to poetry when he states: “Language is the house of being” (“Letter” 239). In response to his early Jesuit education, he developed a secular alternative to theology with his existential phenomenology. Theology, …
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Suggested guide for the establishment of the office of public relations in Seventh-Day Adventist colleges
<p>An experimnental state of development of the Office of Public Relations exists in a few' Seventh-day Adventist colleges as a. result of a partial awakening to the need. A full realization oi' the importance of public relations is lacking as is a standard criteria for the establishment of this …
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