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Title: Zukofsky and Stevens: Poetry, music, and knowledge.
Creator: Scroggins, Mark, Cornell University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation aims in part to undermine the widely-held notion that American Modernist poetry can be divided into two camps dominated respectively by the poetics of Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens. It does so by conjoining Stevens and the Pound "disciple" Louis Zukofsky, two poets of widely divergent poetics who share a consuming interest in problems of epistemology. Zukofsky's categorical rejection of epistemological speculation in favor of the reliability of direct sensory evidence, a...
Show moreThis dissertation aims in part to undermine the widely-held notion that American Modernist poetry can be divided into two camps dominated respectively by the poetics of Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens. It does so by conjoining Stevens and the Pound "disciple" Louis Zukofsky, two poets of widely divergent poetics who share a consuming interest in problems of epistemology. Zukofsky's categorical rejection of epistemological speculation in favor of the reliability of direct sensory evidence, a view advanced primarily in his prose works, is complicated in his poetry, which depicts knowledge as produced within a community, rather than as the property of the single perceiver. Zukofsky believes that the knowledge poetry conveys is a function, not of its informational content, but of its form; poetic form, in turn, is profoundly analogical to musical form. Zukofsky's own poetry is itself grounded in specific musical models, as an examination of the structures of his epic-length poem "A" shows., The supposed lack of commonalities between poets in the Stevens and Pound "traditions" is belied by the specific and generous praise Zukofsky gives Stevens in a 1971 lecture. While Zukofsky reads Stevens's work in a distinctively postmodernist, appropriative manner, he perceives in Stevens's highly symbolistic work musical structures that are analogous to the ones he has plotted his own poems upon. While Stevens frames his own epistemological speculations in far different language than Zukofsky--where Zukofsky uses more strictly philosophical terminology, Stevens invariably speaks of "reality" and the "imagination"--the knowledge he sees poetry communicating to its readers is in many ways comparable to that which Zukofsky sees as embodied in a poem's "musical" form. Indeed, one can draw a close analogy between the structure of Stevens's "Credences of Summer" and that of the classical sonata. While Stevens actively disparages the fascination with form that is such a central element of Zukofsky's poetics, a comparative, formalist reading of Zukofsky's sestina "Mantis" and Stevens's "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together" demonstrates that the former poet's work is composed as much within a "constructivist" tradition as that of his younger contemporary.
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Date Issued: 1993, 1993
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40729
Subject Headings: Literature, Modern, Literature, American
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Title: Yankee Dutchman: A biography of Franz Sigel.
Creator: Engle, Stephen D., The Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Franz Sigel was born November 18, 1824 at Sinsheim in the grand duchy of Baden Germany. Like many of the young German revolutionaries he was educated at the Karlsruhe Military Academy and after graduating received a commission in the Regular Army. He participated in the German Revolution and eventually acted as minister of War for the revolutionary forces which were overthrown by the Prussians. He fled to Switzerland then to England and finally to New York City in 1852. Before the Civil War...
Show moreFranz Sigel was born November 18, 1824 at Sinsheim in the grand duchy of Baden Germany. Like many of the young German revolutionaries he was educated at the Karlsruhe Military Academy and after graduating received a commission in the Regular Army. He participated in the German Revolution and eventually acted as minister of War for the revolutionary forces which were overthrown by the Prussians. He fled to Switzerland then to England and finally to New York City in 1852. Before the Civil War he taught school in the German American Institute in New York and in 1857 moved to St. Louis. In 1861 he was made director of the St. Louis school district and then joined the Union forces. He played a major role in unifying the German population and "I fights mit Sigel" became a passport among the Germans in the ranks. He performed well at Camp Jackson, Carthage and at Wilson's Creek, Missouri. At Pea Ridge he was mainly responsible for the Union victory. His career then took a turn for the worse as he was transferred to the East in 1862 and came under the direct scrutiny of General Halleck. He participated in the Battles of Cedar Mountain and Second Manassas. Soon after he was transferred to the District of Lehigh, Pennsylvania and remained there until 1864. After lobbying for a new command Sigel was appointed to command the Department of West Virginia where he suffered his greatest loss at the Battle of New Market. Soon after he was relieved from command. After his resignation in May 1865 he engaged in literary and political pursuits. He travelled often and gave lectures and speeches in favor of the Republican Party. He held several political appointments throughout his post war career and continued to be a major force in rallying German support for the Republicans. He died at his home in the Bronx on August 22, 1902.
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Date Issued: 1989, 1989
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40666
Subject Headings: Biography, History, European, History, United States
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Title: World Wide Web hypertext linkage patterns.
Creator: Schoon, Perry Lee., Illinois State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of the study was to: (a) investigate the efficiency of navigating World Wide Web sites constructed using different hypertext linkage patterns; (b) identify the differences between experienced and inexperienced World Wide Web users in their efficiency in navigating web sites constructed using different hypertext linkage patterns; (c) identify the differences between males and females in their efficiency in navigating web sites constructed using different hypertext linkage patterns;...
Show moreThe purpose of the study was to: (a) investigate the efficiency of navigating World Wide Web sites constructed using different hypertext linkage patterns; (b) identify the differences between experienced and inexperienced World Wide Web users in their efficiency in navigating web sites constructed using different hypertext linkage patterns; (c) identify the differences between males and females in their efficiency in navigating web sites constructed using different hypertext linkage patterns; and (d) to identify any interaction effects between gender and experience on the efficiency of using any of the linkage patterns., Data were collected from the 261 participants in the study through demographic and experience questionnaires, activity sheets, and computer generated text files. The questionnaires were used to gather information about a participant's age, gender, and World Wide Web browsing experience. The activity sheets were used to verify that the participants had actually found the location of the answer to the question posed by the activity sheet. The computer generated text files were used to collect data on participant's navigation through the web sites in the study. The data were analyzed using the SPSS (version 7.5 for Windows 95) software program to compute frequencies, t-tests, Analyses of Variance (ANOVA) and Analyses of Covariance (ANCOVA)., Results of the analyses showed that web sites patterned after the star and hierarchy linkage patterns were more efficient to navigate for informational use than were the linear and hierarchy web sites. Females were shown to have a much more difficult time navigating arbitrary web sites than males. Females in the study also had less experience using the World Wide Web than did males. They also produced more restarts and revisits on a majority of the web sites.
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Date Issued: 1997, 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40846
Subject Headings: Education, Technology
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Title: Working parents' perceptions of employer-supported sick child care.
Creator: Chalker, Rhoda N., The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Abstract/Description: Throughout the 1980s employers have demonstrated an increased interest in providing some measure of support for employees' child care needs. Although studies reported in the literature have identified the many problematic areas working parents experience in solving their child care needs, little attention has been directed toward sick child care assistance provided by the employers. The purpose of this study was to describe working parents' perceptions of employer-supported sick child care....
Show moreThroughout the 1980s employers have demonstrated an increased interest in providing some measure of support for employees' child care needs. Although studies reported in the literature have identified the many problematic areas working parents experience in solving their child care needs, little attention has been directed toward sick child care assistance provided by the employers. The purpose of this study was to describe working parents' perceptions of employer-supported sick child care. Data were compared for two groups of subjects employed at two organizations which differed in geographic locale, work function, and sick child care assistance. The measures used included a two-part questionnaire survey, the Sick Child Care Employee Questionnaire and the Sick Child Care Inventory. The findings revealed no significant difference between the perceptions of working parents whose employer provided sick child care assistance and the perceptions of working parents whose employer made no such provisions. Although no comparative studies of this nature were reported in the literature, these findings do not support the general body of literature concerning working parents and sick child care. Adjusting the overall alpha level according to Bonferroni t statistics procedure for multiple comparisons to.003, a significant difference was indicated between the two groups on 3 of the 15 individual items of the inventory, and 1 approached significance. The respondents perceived (a) productivity on the job when their children are sick, (b) absenteeism from the job when their children are sick, (c) personal conflicts in balancing their dual roles as parents and workers when their children are sick, and (d) difficulty in making alternate child care arrangements when their children are sick. These findings are congruent with other research concerning working parents and sick child care. Recommendations were presented for future studies.
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Date Issued: 1988, 1988
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40658
Subject Headings: Business Administration, General, Education, Early Childhood, Sociology, Individual and Family Studies
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Title: Who owns the Jewish past? Judaism, Judaisms, and the writing of Jewish history.
Creator: Pasto, James., Cornell University
Abstract/Description: This work criticizes the representation of "Judaism" as a post-exilic religion set against pre-exilic "Israel," and characterized by contradictory combinations, e.g., universalism versus particularism, prophecy versus law. It is argued that this model is not based on the evidence of the primary sources, but arose from 19th century debates on German Protestant and German Jewish identity. Liberal Protestant scholars, such as W. M. L. de Wette and J. Wellhuasen, promoted this model to posit...
Show moreThis work criticizes the representation of "Judaism" as a post-exilic religion set against pre-exilic "Israel," and characterized by contradictory combinations, e.g., universalism versus particularism, prophecy versus law. It is argued that this model is not based on the evidence of the primary sources, but arose from 19th century debates on German Protestant and German Jewish identity. Liberal Protestant scholars, such as W. M. L. de Wette and J. Wellhuasen, promoted this model to posit themselves as true "Israelites," but not "Jews," as the basis for a common German identity, and to promote the dissolution of a separate Jewish identity in Germany. It is also argued that this representation of Judaism constitutes a discourse, which is called "Judeography" in this work, characterized by specific rules of formation. Some 19th century German Jewish scholars, such as L. Zunz and H. Graetz, attempted to resist this representation by offering counter-models characterized by continuity and coherence. The Liberal Protestant model prevailed and "Judeographic" models of the Jewish past persist in the work of scholars such as J. Neusner, P. R. Davies, N. P. Lemche, and T. L. Thompson. An alternative model is offered against the dominant Judeographic representation. The primary evidence does not support the kind of radical rupture between pre- and post-exilic religions as posited 19th century scholars. Nor does it support the Persian-invented "Judaism" as posited by Davies and Thompson, or the multiple Judaisms posited by Jacob Neusner. Archaeological and other evidence indicates a continuity of the Judean-Jewish population throughout Babylonian deportations and after the destruction of the Second Temple, and source analysis reveals that "Israel" and not "Judaism" remained the primary term of self-reference. Continuity and coherence remained characteristic of Jewish, identity throughout later periods. This model does not discount diversity among Jews at that time. Instead, building upon alternative anthropological models, this work postulates a common Judaism as the "big tradition" represented by the temple, monarchy, and sacred canon, and local judaisms as the "little traditions" represented by various texts and social groups.
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Date Issued: 1999, 1999
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40891
Subject Headings: Religion, History of, Religion, Biblical Studies, History, Ancient
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Title: WAVING DISPLAY AND SOUND PRODUCTION IN THE COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR OF UCA PUGILATOR WITH COMPARISONS TO UCA MINAX AND UCA PUGNAX.
Creator: Salmon, Michael, University of Maryland, College Park
Date Issued: 1965, 1965
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40296
Subject Headings: Biology, Zoology, 0472
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Title: Wanting to care and hoping to control: Student teacher inquiries into their classroom actions.
Creator: McLaughlin, Harry James., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstract/Description: This 7-month interpretive study initially focused on how three middle grades student teachers ("participants") inquired into their classroom interactions with students. The study concerned two forms of inquiry: deliberative (carried out in practice) and reflective (engaged in after practice). The researcher asserted that inquiry incorporated behavior and mental mediations, and that inquiry was linked with intentional actions taken to alleviate classroom uncertainties. The research questions...
Show moreThis 7-month interpretive study initially focused on how three middle grades student teachers ("participants") inquired into their classroom interactions with students. The study concerned two forms of inquiry: deliberative (carried out in practice) and reflective (engaged in after practice). The researcher asserted that inquiry incorporated behavior and mental mediations, and that inquiry was linked with intentional actions taken to alleviate classroom uncertainties. The research questions centered on student teachers' responses to recollected and projected problems: (1) Before student teaching, what were the participants' projections of the problems they would encounter as a teacher? (2) During student teaching, what were the participants' accounts of their actions in response to problems they encountered? (3) After student teaching, what were the participants' current intentions to respond to classroom problems?, Data on the student teachers' means of inquiry were derived from interviews before student teaching, observations of teaching episodes, follow-up interviews after the observations, and a student teaching journal kept throughout the experience. When the dissertation data was analyzed, problems related to two sorts of classroom interactions were assigned importance by the three participants. They spoke often, and with great feeling, about the problems of caring and controlling as a teacher. It was decided that in addition to interpretations of the process of student teachers' inquiries, there would be an examination of the substance of those inquiries. The substantive focus was caring and controlling., In the paper, the research questions are answered in a profile of each student teacher, by analyzing the student teachers' accounts of classroom interactions. Following that, the participants' processes of deliberative and reflective inquiry are compared. There is a subsequent summary of the similarities and differences between deliberative and reflective inquiry., The final chapter depicts the participants' prior desires to care for others, and their hopes to reduce uncertainty through control. The participants' enactions of caring and controlling during student teaching are portrayed. This section bares the conflicts of caring and controlling. Finally there is a consideration of how caring and controlling may work in complementary ways, and how ethical caring incorporates the need to be both person and teacher.
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Date Issued: 1990, 1990
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40687
Subject Headings: Education, Teacher Training, Education, Secondary, Education, Curriculum and Instruction
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Title: VISUAL MASKING AND THE TEMPORAL COURSE OF LATERAL INHIBITION IN THE HUMANVISUAL SYSTEM.
Creator: WHITE, CHARLES WAYNE., Stanford University
Date Issued: 1970, 1970
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40440
Subject Headings: Psychology, Experimental
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Title: Violence between married and unmarried cohabiting partners: An analysis using couple-level data.
Creator: Boba, Rachel Louise., Arizona State University
Abstract/Description: Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), this study examines relationship violence between married and unmarried cohabiting partners. Incidence of violence, perpetrators of violence, and aspects of victimization (injury) are investigated. By using responses from both partners, data regarding each partner's perceptions of the relationship are used to predict the incidence of violence. The role of violence in predicting separation is also examined through the use...
Show moreUsing data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), this study examines relationship violence between married and unmarried cohabiting partners. Incidence of violence, perpetrators of violence, and aspects of victimization (injury) are investigated. By using responses from both partners, data regarding each partner's perceptions of the relationship are used to predict the incidence of violence. The role of violence in predicting separation is also examined through the use of both waves of the NSFH. Competing models are tested by examining structural characteristics of the couple (which includes prior cohabiting status of married couples and current marital status), relationship quality, relationship dependence, and gender ideology. Paired and independent t-tests revealed a number of differences between violent and non-violent couples. However, logistic regression analysis reveals more similarities than differences across the analyses and confirms several findings of previous studies. For example, cohabitors are more likely to be violent and to inflict or sustain injury than married couples. However, married couples who cohabited prior to marriage have a higher likelihood of violence than spouses who did not previously cohabit. Quality of relationship was found to be the best predictor of violence, but the causal order is unclear. Still, the couples' lower levels of happiness, higher reports of both trouble and sexual activity, reports of disagreements, and the higher amount of household labor for women were most strongly related to both violence and injury. An analysis of attitudes regarding separation revealed that although violence does not predict separation, cohabiting couples are about ten times more likely to separate than married couples. These findings suggest that future research might profitably examine relationship quality, factors more closely and over time, in addition to examining the interplay between relationship quality and social factors.
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Date Issued: 1996, 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40822
Subject Headings: Women's Studies, Sociology, Criminology and Penology, Sociology, Individual and Family Studies
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Title: Variable bit rate video transmission for code-division multiple-access systems in wideband fading channels.
Creator: Iskander, Cyril-Daniel., The University of British Columbia (Canada)
Abstract/Description: Efficient real-time transmission of video data over bandwidth-constrained wireless channels is challenging in several ways: in particular, due to the underlying compression algorithms, the source rate can vary in bursts, which complicates the resource allocation problem, isolated channel errors can totally corrupt a video frame if sensitive information is affected, and errors in earlier frames can cause damage to later frames due to error propagation. This thesis will deal in particular with...
Show moreEfficient real-time transmission of video data over bandwidth-constrained wireless channels is challenging in several ways: in particular, due to the underlying compression algorithms, the source rate can vary in bursts, which complicates the resource allocation problem, isolated channel errors can totally corrupt a video frame if sensitive information is affected, and errors in earlier frames can cause damage to later frames due to error propagation. This thesis will deal in particular with the effect of source rate variability on current and future cellular systems which employ code-division as the multiple-access strategy; such as IS-95B and IS-2000 systems. The problem will be approached from a physical-layer perspective: hence issues relating to the channel- and cellular-level performances will be addressed in detail, and then integrated into the system-level performance., In the first part of this thesis; several contributions are made to the theory of wide-band fading channels, which will be considered as the physical channel model throughout the thesis. We derive the analytical level-crossing rates; average fade durations, envelope auto correlations and baseband spectra of several channel models for some common diversity techniques., In a second part, we derive accurate analytical or semi-analytical error probability expressions for the multicode and multirate configurations used in the physical layers of both the uplink and downlink of IS-95B and IS-2000 systems, in the presence of wideband fading. It is demonstrated that the effect of the multicode interference must be precisely taken into account to obtain reliable error statistics in wideband channels, especially for cellular systems with a low number of users. To this end; the fading dependence across multiple codes of a given user must be taken into account in the analysis; whereas for single-code systems this situation didn't occur. We consider systems which employ either maximal-ratio or equal-gain combining., In the final part of this thesis, we demonstrate the benefits of employing rate smoothing for variable bit rate video applications in DS/CDMA cellular systems, and present and evaluate practical algorithms to achieve these gains. To support our exposition, a generic rate smoothing algorithm is developed; whose goal is to minimize the degradation caused by source bursts in such systems. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Date Issued: 2003, 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40281
Subject Headings: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical
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Title: VALUES AND VALUE SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS RELATING TO PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS.
Creator: HOOKS, KAREN LEAH., Georgia State University
Abstract/Description: Big-Eight accounting firms have significant influence in the field of public accounting. Further, they are under scrutiny by groups and individuals both inside and outside of the profession. Little research has been performed addressing the behavioral aspects of these firms and the individuals who work for them. Obtaining additional knowledge in this area was one purpose of this study., Organizational socialization, the process by which individuals change and adapt to the firms for which they...
Show moreBig-Eight accounting firms have significant influence in the field of public accounting. Further, they are under scrutiny by groups and individuals both inside and outside of the profession. Little research has been performed addressing the behavioral aspects of these firms and the individuals who work for them. Obtaining additional knowledge in this area was one purpose of this study., Organizational socialization, the process by which individuals change and adapt to the firms for which they work, and to their positions within those firms, is a phenomenon which has been studied and documented in many industries. Organizational socialization, the adapting process, had not previously been studied in Big-Eight firms. Another purpose of this study was, therefore, to address organizational socialization in the Big-Eight firms. This was done through median tests, by addressing differences in values of individuals at the various levels of management. It was also accomplished through use of the sign test which evaluated trends in changes of values., A final area of interest toward which this study was directed was any examining effects resulting from the fairly recent increase in the number of women in management ranks in Big-Eight public accounting firms. This was also addressed through median tests, in which were examined differences in values of men and women at various hierarchical levels in the organizational structure., The method used to accomplish all of the above purposes was a survey measuring values of successful public accountants working for Big-Eight firms. Values, as fairly stable, but still adaptable guides used by individuals in their lives, were the variables chosen for measurement., Overall conclusions include the following. No indication of organizational socialization at management levels of Big-Eight public accounting firms was found. No major differences in values between male and female employees of Big-Eight firms was identified. And, no major differences in values of individuals in the partner group which might be related to age were isolated. Perhaps the study supports what many accountants have continued to say, that accountants are individuals, and there exists no typical accountant.
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Date Issued: 1981, 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40557
Subject Headings: Business Administration, Accounting
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Title: THE VALUE OF REPUTATION ON THE FINANCIAL SIGNALS OF THE FIRM UNDER ASYMMETRICAL INFORMATION (DIVIDENDS).
Creator: JESSELL, KENNETH ARTHUR., The Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study analyzes the market's response to dividend increases of a sample of firms. Unlike most studies addressing dividend changes and the informational content of dividend hypothesis, this study incorporates financial signaling theory into the analysis. Specifically, the sample of firms studied were characterized by repeated or many dividend changes prior to the dividend change when market response is studied., The study posits that the presence of repeated dividend changes enables one to...
Show moreThis study analyzes the market's response to dividend increases of a sample of firms. Unlike most studies addressing dividend changes and the informational content of dividend hypothesis, this study incorporates financial signaling theory into the analysis. Specifically, the sample of firms studied were characterized by repeated or many dividend changes prior to the dividend change when market response is studied., The study posits that the presence of repeated dividend changes enables one to measure the extent to which firms signal the market via dividend changes. In addition, firms that repeatedly change dividends to signal the market establish a reputation with the market, and the reputation that the firm establishes may be good, bad, or otherwise. In assuming that dividend changes signal to the market management's knowledge of the expected level of a firm's earnings, this study attempts to classify firms by their level of reputation and to measure market response to dividend changes announced by firms in different reputation classes., Nine different models are used to generate portfolios of high reputation firms, medium reputation firms, and low reputation firms. The models are generally consistent in their classifications. The market model is utilized to perform a residual analysis of daily returns surrounding the announcement date of dividend changes made by firms of different reputation classes., The results of the study demonstrate statistically significant differences in residual behavior between the three reputation portfolios. The results provide support for the hypothesis that firms which change dividends frequently establish a reputation with the market and that the market is able to distinguish between firms of different reputation levels.
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Date Issued: 1985, 1985
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40606
Subject Headings: Economics, Finance
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Title: The validity of the organizational commitment construct: Investigating the dimensionality and discriminant validity of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire.
Creator: Cooke, Donna Kaye., University of Miami
Abstract/Description: Organizational commitment has been widely investigated both as an independent and as a dependent variable over the past 15 years, linking hypothesized antecedents such as age, role conflict, leader behaviors, and union presence to important work outcomes such as absenteeism. Current research designs and methodologies (e.g., structural modeling) have yielded results indicating that the hypothesized antecedents are mediated by job satisfaction, and organizational commitment's outcomes are in...
Show moreOrganizational commitment has been widely investigated both as an independent and as a dependent variable over the past 15 years, linking hypothesized antecedents such as age, role conflict, leader behaviors, and union presence to important work outcomes such as absenteeism. Current research designs and methodologies (e.g., structural modeling) have yielded results indicating that the hypothesized antecedents are mediated by job satisfaction, and organizational commitment's outcomes are in turn mediated by behavioral intentions (e.g., Bateman & Strasser, 1984; Williams & Hazer, 1986). Based on the literature, it is argued that the dominant measure employed in this research, the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (the OCQ; Porter, Steers, Mowday, & Boulian, 1974), has construct validity problems. Some of the OCQ's items may be confounded with aspects of job satisfaction and turnover intentions and could cause researchers to erroneously conclude that the OCQ, and consequently, organizational commitment, is a relatively poor predictor of important work-related outcomes. Thus, it appears necessary to investigate the discriminant validity of the OCQ with respect to commonly-used satisfaction measures and turnover intentions., It also appears that the OCQ measures two (and not one) distinct types of commitment frequently discussed in the literature (e.g., Scholl, 1981; Wiener, 1982). At issue, then, is the dimensionality of the OCQ. The purpose of this research is to investigate ways to improve the OCQ's psychometric properties and the utility of the organizational commitment construct in explaining important employee work behaviors and attitudes., The OCQ's discriminant validity vis-a-vis measures of job satisfaction and turnover intentions and its factor structure were estimated using LISREL's confirmatory factor analysis and maximum likelihood structural equations modeling programs (Joreskog & Sorbom, 1985). The results of the factor analyses suggested that while the OCQ's discriminant validity problems are not considerable, it should be edited. The results of the bivariate correlations partially supported the proposed distinction between normative and instrumental commitments. The results of the structural model analyses favored the one-dimensional model over the proposed two-dimensional model. Suggestions are made for improving the OCQ as a measure of organizational commitment and for continuing research on its two subdimensions.
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Date Issued: 1989, 1989
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40678
Subject Headings: Psychology, Industrial, 0624
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Title: UTD TERRAIN REFLECTION MODEL WITH APPLICATION TO ILS GLIDE SLOPE.
Creator: UNGVICHIAN, VICHATE., Ohio University
Abstract/Description: The capability to calculate the reflection of electromagnetic signals from uneven terrain has many applications. One of these is the determination of Instrument Landing System (ILS) glide slope performance. For this application the wavelength is approximately 1 meter, incidence angles are usually near grazing, and the fields are horizontally polarized, so that gross irregularities such as drop-offs and hills are more important than surface roughness., Past approaches used to calculate the...
Show moreThe capability to calculate the reflection of electromagnetic signals from uneven terrain has many applications. One of these is the determination of Instrument Landing System (ILS) glide slope performance. For this application the wavelength is approximately 1 meter, incidence angles are usually near grazing, and the fields are horizontally polarized, so that gross irregularities such as drop-offs and hills are more important than surface roughness., Past approaches used to calculate the ground reflections for this application have been three-dimensional physical optics models which were very cumbersome, time-consuming, and which neglected important diffraction and shadowing phenomenon, a two-dimensional physical optics model which was faster than the three-dimensional models but ignored many shadowing and transverse terrain variation effects, and half-plane diffraction model which is applicable only to a specific type of terrain geometry., In this paper a terrain reflection model based on the Uniform Theory of Diffraction (UTD) is described which can accomodate any piecewise linear terrain profile, requires less computer time than the physical optics models, is capable of including transverse terrain effects, and determines the reflected fields with all important diffraction and blockage effects included., The results when compared to measurements indicate that this UTD model can accurately predict ILS flight path effects due to ground irregularity. Furthermore, the results obtained from this UTD model are compared against the predictions of a previously developed Physical Optics (PO) model. UTD and PO predictions in most cases agree with one another, but better results are obtained from the UTD model for truncated or severely upsloping terrain.
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Date Issued: 1981, 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40559
Subject Headings: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: USE OF THE MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHOD FOR PHASE ESTIMATION.
Creator: Erdol, Nurgun, The University of Akron
Abstract/Description: The use of traditional spectral estimation techniques with comparison to modern methods is presented., The information content of the phase of a signal is recognized through an echo detection problem encountered in echocardiography. The development of a phase estimation method by using the maximum entropy spectral estimator is an original contribution of the author. This technique employs the maximum entropy method on the even and odd components of a signal to achieve phase estimation that is...
Show moreThe use of traditional spectral estimation techniques with comparison to modern methods is presented., The information content of the phase of a signal is recognized through an echo detection problem encountered in echocardiography. The development of a phase estimation method by using the maximum entropy spectral estimator is an original contribution of the author. This technique employs the maximum entropy method on the even and odd components of a signal to achieve phase estimation that is non-committal to unavailable data., Relevant analysis of this method and computer simulation of echo location using this technique are presented.
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Date Issued: 1982, 1982
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40570
Subject Headings: Engineering, Electronics and Electrical
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Title: The use of recall and recognition techniques in eliciting experienced-inexperienced auditor differences in the detection of management fraud.
Creator: Bhattacharya, Somnath., University of South Florida
Abstract/Description: This dissertation aims to elicit differences between experienced and inexperienced auditors in their ability to recall and recognize characteristics of management fraud. It is motivated by the litigious environment and the public's increased interest in fraud detection by auditors., The dissertation uses the Graesser and Nakamura (1982) and Hastie (1980) paradigms previously used by Choo and Trotman (1991) in auditing research. The two paradigms predict that expert (experienced) auditors...
Show moreThis dissertation aims to elicit differences between experienced and inexperienced auditors in their ability to recall and recognize characteristics of management fraud. It is motivated by the litigious environment and the public's increased interest in fraud detection by auditors., The dissertation uses the Graesser and Nakamura (1982) and Hastie (1980) paradigms previously used by Choo and Trotman (1991) in auditing research. The two paradigms predict that expert (experienced) auditors develop and retain schemata of relevant information. This leads to a more accurate recall (recognition) of information considered "atypical" of a given schema than of information considered "typical" of a given schema. This is predicted to occur because information considered "atypical" of a given schema requires greater mental processing than information considered "typical" of a given schema. Four cases are used to examine memory-measure differences between experienced and inexperienced auditors., The results suggest that experienced auditors demonstrate higher estimates of the likelihood of management fraud than do inexperienced auditors. The inexperienced auditors lack "professional skepticism" to the same degree as experienced auditors. The results also suggest that the Graesser and Nakamura (1982) and Hastie (1980) paradigms may be mitigated when the "atypical" items have a lower degree of audit relevance than the "typical" items. Lastly, recognition may be a stronger measure of memory trace than recall in audit situations. It can be argued that given the overwhelming use of memory cues in audit working papers, it may be a better measure of audit expertise than recall.
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Date Issued: 1994, 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40768
Subject Headings: Business Administration, Accounting, Psychology, General
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Title: THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY TO STUDY CHILDREN'S PERCEPTIONS OF THEMSELVES AND OTHERS.
Creator: VOSS, STEPHEN HEARD., University of Florida
Date Issued: 1961, 1961
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40317
Subject Headings: Education, Educational Psychology
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Title: THE USE OF OREM'S SELF-CARE CONCEPT OF NURSING IN CURRICULA OF SELECTED BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMS OF NURSING EDUCATION.
Creator: Parker, Marilyn, Kansas State University
Abstract/Description: This study is an analysis and description of curriculum documents of selected baccalaureate programs of nursing education in which Orem's Self-Care Concept of Nursing is used. The ultimate purpose of the study is to provide findings to assist in curriculum development and knowledge structure based on this concept of nursing. The study seeks answers to research questions about ways in which Orem's concept of nursing is used in curricula, relationships of the concept with knowledge about nurses...
Show moreThis study is an analysis and description of curriculum documents of selected baccalaureate programs of nursing education in which Orem's Self-Care Concept of Nursing is used. The ultimate purpose of the study is to provide findings to assist in curriculum development and knowledge structure based on this concept of nursing. The study seeks answers to research questions about ways in which Orem's concept of nursing is used in curricula, relationships of the concept with knowledge about nurses and nursing in the curricula, and similarities and differences among the curricula., The sample includes five baccalaureate programs of nursing education which met criteria for inclusion in the study. Sources of data are five Self-Evaluation Reports and one Progress Report prepared for accreditation by the National League for Nursing between the years 1978 and 1981. Analysis of documents was directed by guides for analysis derived from the research questions. Profiles of documents, parent institutions, nursing programs and curricula are described. Results of analysis of documents, interpretations and recommendations are presented., This study produced information about how Orem's Self-Care Concept of Nursing is used in curricula of five baccalaureate programs of nursing education. It is evident that logical, comprehensive philosophies and frameworks for curriculum can be designed and effectively employed using Orem's concept of Nursing and that explicit statement of use of this concept is important to a thoroughly developed curriculum. It is not clear how elements of the concept should be used and related although nursing agency, self-care agency, therapeutic self-care demand, self-care deficit and nursing systems have wide general use., Seventy-five syllabi were reviewed for content about nursing's social field, nursing as a profession and occupation, nursing history, nursing ethics and nursing sciences. Items of content were aligned with focuses of the courses and placed into the categories of knowledge about nurses and nursing. This content and relations with elements of Orem's concept of nursing is presented. The majority of content in the five curricula is knowledge of the nursing sciences. The most frequent relationships of all content of the curricula is with the elements nursing agency and nursing systems.
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Date Issued: 1982, 1982
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40575
Subject Headings: Education, Curriculum and Instruction
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Title: UNSEEN REALITY: A STUDY OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DRAMATIC THEORIES OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS.
Creator: PEYTON, ANN COLEMAN., The Florida State University
Date Issued: 1973, 1973
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40467
Subject Headings: Literature, Modern, 0298
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Title: THE UNQUIET CRISIS: COMMUNITY NOISE AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
Creator: BRAGDON, CLIFFORD RICHARDSON., University of Pennsylvania
Date Issued: 1970, 1970
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/40436
Subject Headings: Urban and Regional Planning
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