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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Taber"”.
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Food Habits, Starvation and Growth in the Hellbender, Cryptobranchus Alleganiensis
… very closely followed growth rate predictions of Taber, Wilkinson and Topping (1975).
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Intersectional Examination of Individuation and Emotional Intelligence: Longitudinal Associations with Positive Psychology and Multicultural Psychology
… been introduced into the literature (Arnett & Taber, 1994). Gaps exist in explicating underlying concepts of positive development in this developmental period. Individuation and emotional intelligence have been identified as crucial developmental tasks for emerging adults (Lapsley & Edgerton, …
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An analysis of the role of culture in the tradition of Northern Sotho idiomatic expressions into English
… theorists such as Cartford (1965), Nida and Taber (1969) and House (1977).
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Essays in the economics of education
… I use two techniques from Altonji, Elder, and Taber (2005) to address the issue of selection on unobservables. Single-equation estimates suggest a positive effect of diversity on voting behavior and on satisfaction with the college attended, but I do not find an effect on other outcomes. …
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Ultrasonic Microscopy Analysis of Corrosion -- A Nondestructive Evaluation of Paint Weathering Effects <i>and</i> Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoscale Water-reducible Polymer Particles
… water reducible PMMA-MAA would be measured by Taber abrasion test compared with the latex paints"--Abstract, page iii.</p>
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Reasons for attrition from a smoking cessation program.
The present study examined various psychosocial variables that may influence success in a stop smoking program (QuitSmart) used by the North Texas Veterans Health Care Service (NTVHCS). The QuitSmart program utilizes the Stages of Change Model, with its focus on the last three stages (preparation, …
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Guilt and Shame as They Relate to Combat Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): An Analysis of Trauma Content And Resulting Symptomatology
This study began testing the Sewell and Williams (in press) model that differing trauma types yield differing presentations in social versus event processing domains. Other hypotheses explored trauma type with levels of guilt, and shame-proneness with anxiety. Volunteers were 44 male combat …
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Canyon Road: A Novel
Novel.
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Novel techniques for the run by run process control of chemical-mechanical polishing
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Device independent process control of dielectric chemical mechanical polishing
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2000.
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Advanced Composites for Design and Rehabilitation of Hydraulic Structures
… to perform comparative abrasion tests using TABER reciprocating abrader. Among six different coating systems, ceramic composite based coatings provided better performance (up to twice or better) over the conventional coatings.
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The National Committee for Liberation ("ARM"), 1960-1964 : sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
… the Second World War: here the work of Robert Taber, John Bowyer Bell, Kenneth Grundy and Edward Feit was central. The history of the NCL itself was reconstructed from trial records, newspapers and personal interviews. Archival sources such as The Karis-Carter collection, the Hoover Institute …
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Three essays on the economics of education
… recently developed by Altonji, Elder, and Taber (2005b) that estimates the ratio of the influence of omitted variables relative to observed variables that would be required to completely explain the estimates one obtains via OLS. The results indicate that students from urban areas …
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A Study to Determine the Effect of Hemispheric Preference on Mathematical Problem Solving Activity
This study was undertaken to determine if hemispheric brain dominance has an effect on problem solving ability. The study involved two intact third grade classrooms. The Zenhausern Hemispheric Cognitive Style and a teacher-made problem solving test were administered to all students reported in the …
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The Effects of Recruiting Source and Employee Demographic Similarity on Employee Outcomes: Is Recruiting Source Merely a Proxy for Employee Demographic Similarity
Research on recruiting sources has found that the use of employee referrals is positively related to employee tenure and performance. However, it is unclear whether a relationship exists between recruiting source used and applicant gender and race. Research has also found that organizational …
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Projectively Equivalent Metrics Subject to Constraints
This thesis concerns the relationship between pairs of projectively equivalent Riemannian or Lorentz metrics that share some property along a hypersurface of a manifold. The first chapter is devoted to the construction of projectively equivalent metrics and to the recollection of classical results.
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Satisfaction and Motivation as Functions of Expectancy, Valence, and Goalattainment
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7219946.pdf: 8553608 bytes, checksum: bb9a8987bb74c66e1f1a2e42a3ee73c9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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The Policy Arguer: A computational model of United States foreign policy belief systems, 1949-1960
"One of the more fruitful systematic approaches to the study of foreign policy views nations as information processors and explains foreign policy as a function of information and processes on that information. Much of the processing of input information depends on the prior beliefs of decision …
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Sailing vessel dynamics : investigations into aero-hydrodynamic coupling
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1982.
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