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The Effect of Faculty Development on Active Learning in the College Classroom
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This study examined the effect of active learning seminars and a mentoring program on the use of active learning teaching techniques by college faculty. A quasi-experimental study was conducted using convenience samples of faculty from two private Christian supported institutions. Data for the study were collected from surveys and faculty course evaluations. The study lasted one semester. Faculty volunteers from one institution served as the experimental group and faculty volunteers from the second institution were the comparison group. The experimental group attended approximately eight hours of active learning seminars and also participated in a one-semester mentoring program designed to assist faculty in application of active learning techniques. Several individuals conducted the active learning seminars. Dr. Charles Bonwell, a noted authority on active learning, conducted the first three-hour seminar. Seven faculty who had successfully used active learning in their classrooms were selected to conduct the remaining seminars. The faculty-mentoring program was supervised by the researcher and conducted by department chairs. Data were collected from three surveys and faculty course evaluations. The three surveys were the Faculty Active Learning Survey created by the researcher, the Teaching Goals Inventory created by Angelo and Cross, and the college edition of Learner-Centered Practices by Barbara …
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Evans, Cindy
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Steroid Dose Regimen on the Relationship Between Lower Extremity Muscle Function and Cardiac Function in Post Heart Transplant Patients
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Differences in cardiovascular/aerobic function in heart transplant patients might be attributed to the rate of corticosteroid withdrawal and/or to skeletal muscle function. This hypothesis was tested among nine male, cardiac transplant recipients. Prednisone dosage was monitored, and isokinetic strength testing was performed at 4 different time periods throughout the first year post-transplantation. Cardiovascular/aerobic measurements were obtained at the fourth time period. Pre-surgery characteristics were obtained from the patient's medical record. Significant Pearson-product moment correlations were only found between muscle function and aerobic function and between pre-surgery characteristics and cardiovascular/aerobic performance. The results of this study show no evidence that rapid reduction of prednisone dosage enhances aerobic function by benefiting skeletal muscle function.
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Galatas, Mary V.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
Extensions to Jinni Mobile Agent Architecture
We extend the Jinni mobile agent architecture with a multicast network transport layer, an agent-to-agent delegation mechanism and a reflection based Prolog-to-Java interface. To ensure that our agent infrastructure runs efficiently, independently of router-level multicast support, we describe a blackboard based algorithm for locating a randomly roaming agent. As part of the agent-to-agent delegation mechanism, we describe an alternative to code-fetching mechanism for stronger mobility of mobile agents with less network overhead. In the context of direct and reflection based extension mechanisms for Jinni, we describe the design and the implementation of a reflection based Prolog-to-Java interface. The presence of subtyping and method overloading makes finding the most specific method corresponding to a Prolog call pattern fairly difficult. We describe a run-time algorithm which provides accurate handling of overloaded methods beyond Java's reflection package's limitations.
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Tyagi, Satyam
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
The Essercizii musici: A Study of the Late Baroque Sonata
Telemann's Essercizii musici is a seminal publication of the 1730's representative of the state of the sonata in Germany at that time. Telemann's music has been largely viewed in negative terms, presumably because of its lack of originality, with the result that the collection's content has been treated in a perfunctory manner. This thesis presents a reappraisal of the Essercizii musici based on criteria presented in Quantz's Versuch. A major source of the period, the Versuch provides an analytical framework for a deeper understanding of the sonatas that comprise Telemann's last publication. A comparison of contemporary publications of similarly titled collections establishes an historical framework for assessing the importance of the Essercizii musici as part of a tradition of publications with didactic objectives that may be traced to the late 17th century.
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Volcansek, Frederick Wallace
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
Virtual teams: The relationship between organizational support systems and effectiveness
This study investigates the effects of eight organizational support systems on virtual team effectiveness in five areas: communication, planning tasks and setting goals, solving problems and making decisions, resolving conflict, and responding to customer requirements. One hundred and eighty surveys were sent to information technology managers and collaborative team members, representing 43 companies. The results indicated that developing new roles for IT professionals and senior managers significantly increased virtual team effectiveness in several areas. The findings support the theory that organizations that utilize virtual teams must create high-level structures, policies, and systems to support the teams and the information tools they use.
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Townsley, Carole
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
A Transcription of Op. 94 Morceau de Concert, by Camille Saint-Saëns For Solo Bass Trombone and Brass Ensemble
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The transcription is an addition to the repertoire for brass ensemble and bass trombone. Consideration is given to the nineteenth-century orchestration treatises of Berlioz and Strauss as well as the twentieth-century texts of Erik Leidzén, Walter Piston, and Samuel Adler. The transcription process is shaped by the principles of these writers. The score is contained in the appendix.
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Woods, Christopher P.
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Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
Equivalency of paper-pencil tests and computer-administered tests.
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Are computer-administered versions of a multiple choice paper-pencil test equivalent? This study determined whether there were any significant differences between taking a traditional pencil-paper test and taking the same test using a computer. The literature has shown that there are intervening variables that have caused differences when not controlled. To prove equivalency between test modes, scores have to have similar means, dispersions, and shapes; the ranked-order of the scores must also be similar. Four tests were given over the course of a 16-week semester. The sample was divided, half taking paper-pencil tests and half taking the same test administered by a computer. The mode of administration was switched with each test administration. The analysis showed that, when the intervening variables were controlled, the two modes of administration were equivalent. The analysis used a 2x4 ANOVA, which showed no difference between test modes, but showed that each test administration was significantly different. The Levene statistic was used to test whether dispersions were equivalent and confidence intervals were established to test the kurtosis and skewness statistics. Finally, each of the test scores were transformed into their Normal Curve Equivalents so that Pearson's coefficient could be used to determine the equivalency of the …
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Whitworth, Clifford K.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
Parts of Women
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Parts of Women contains a scholarly preface that discusses the woman's body both in fiction and in the experience of being a woman writer. The preface is followed by five original short stories. "Parts of Women" is a three-part story composed of three first-person monologues. "Controlled Burn" involves a woman anthropologist who discovers asbestos in her office. "Tango Lessons" is about a middle-aged woman who's always in search of her true self. "Expatriates" concerns a man who enters the lives of his Hare Krishna neighbors, and "Rio" involves a word-struck man in his attempt to form a personal relationship.
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Murphy, Maria Christine
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
Teen ages: Youth market romance in Hollywood teen films of the 1980s and 1990s
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This thesis examines the differences between teen romantic comedy films marketed to Generation X teenagers in the 1980s and Generation Y teenagers in the 1990s, focusing on the presentation of gender roles, consumptive behavior, and family. The 1980s films are discussed within the social context of the Reagan era and the conservatism of the New Right. The 1990s films are examined as continuing a conservative sensibility, but they additionally posit consumption as instrumental to achieving an idealized romance. Romantic comedy is traditionally a conservative genre, but these films illustrate female liberation through consumption. The source of difference between the cycles of teen romantic comedy is attributed to the media's attempt to position Generation Y teenagers as ideal consumers.
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Murphy, Caryn E.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
Inequality in Access to, and Utilization of, Health Care - The Case of African American and Non-Hispanic White Males
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Using data from the Household Component of the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, the study compares (1) the accessibility, and (2) the predictors of health care services utilization among African American and non-Hispanic White males, 18 to 65 years old in the United States. Using ANOVA procedure in comparing the means for use of physicians, hospitals, doctors, and difficulty obtaining care, seven hypotheses were tested in the study. First, it was hypothesized that African American men of working age will have less access to health care services (physicians, hospitals, and dentists), and be more likely to report having experienced delay or difficulty obtaining care, compared to non-Hispanic white males of working age. Second, it was hypothesized that, controlling for health status, African American men of working age will have less access to health care services (physicians, hospitals, and dentists), and will also be more likely to experience delay or difficulty obtaining care, than non-Hispanic white males. This was followed by the third hypothesis which compared utilization of physicians, hospitals, dentists, and difficulty obtaining care among African American and non-Hispanic white males, controlling for health status and insurance coverage (any insurance, private insurance, any public insurance, and Medicaid). Hypotheses four through …
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Sakyi-Addo, Isaac
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Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Impact of CACREP Accreditation of Counselor Education Programs on Student Knowledge Outcomes
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The principal investigator (PI) for this study analyzed mean scores on the National Counselor Examination (NCE) of students from CACREP accredited and non- CACREP accredited programs. Data was provided by the National Board of Certified Counselors, Inc., for a total of ten examination administrations across six years. The fourteen variables examined in the study consisted of the eight common-core knowledge domains identified in CACREP standards, the five counselor work behavior areas identified by NBCC via periodic job analysis of counseling practice, and one overall or total score on the NCE. NCE mean scores of students from CACREP accredited programs were higher than NCE mean scores of students from non-CACREP accredited programs on all variables across all ten NCE administrations. Data seem to indicate that students from CACREP accredited programs perform significantly better on the NCE than students from non-CACREP accredited programs, in all fourteen variables. Sample size was large, totaling 9707, so the PI calculated effect sizes using Cohen's d for each variable to aid interpretation of statistical significance. Five variables had large effect sizes of .70 or higher. The higher effect size statistics were associated with the counselor work behavior areas, with the highest effect size (.85) associated with …
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Scott, Susan W.
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Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
Temporally Correct Algorithms for Transaction Concurrency Control in Distributed Databases
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Many activities are comprised of temporally dependent events that must be executed in a specific chronological order. Supportive software applications must preserve these temporal dependencies. Whenever the processing of this type of an application includes transactions submitted to a database that is shared with other such applications, the transaction concurrency control mechanisms within the database must also preserve the temporal dependencies. A basis for preserving temporal dependencies is established by using (within the applications and databases) real-time timestamps to identify and order events and transactions. The use of optimistic approaches to transaction concurrency control can be undesirable in such situations, as they allow incorrect results for database read operations. Although the incorrectness is detected prior to transaction committal and the corresponding transaction(s) restarted, the impact on the application or entity that submitted the transaction can be too costly. Three transaction concurrency control algorithms are proposed in this dissertation. These algorithms are based on timestamp ordering, and are designed to preserve temporal dependencies existing among data-dependent transactions. The algorithms produce execution schedules that are equivalent to temporally ordered serial schedules, where the temporal order is established by the transactions' start times. The algorithms provide this equivalence while supporting currency to the …
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Tuck, Terry W.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
Reflections on the Development of Children of Alcoholics
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The specific purpose of this study was to try and understand why unique experiences of living with an alcoholic parent could create developmental deficits which emotionally challenge COAs' when faced with the life lessons a college environment offers. This study offered four possible explanations for experiencing challenges in its theoretical background: (1) psychosocial development, (2) the epistemology of alcoholism and its effects on the family, (3) personality development and the concurrence of building resilience, and (4) the college environment itself, with the phenomenon of binge drinking--forcing COAs to confront family alcoholism. A total of 7 participated in this study--4 men and 3 women. Despite the dynamic differences in the answers overall, all 7 participants acknowledged one important concept. When the participants were asked about their own drinking habits, each participant said, though in different ways, they had to be careful with their drinking habits. Participants seemed to be aware that whether alcoholism is genetic or a learned addiction, they were at risk of becoming alcoholics themselves. This study found overall, as previous literature suggests, no matter how COAs are studied, they are found to be a heterogeneous population. Specifically, this study's results points out that they are indeed heterogeneous, yet …
Date:
May 2001
Creator:
Weise, Molly Amanda
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
Theoretical STM signatures and transport properties of native defects in carbon nanotubes
Article on theoretical STM signatures and transport properties of native defects in carbon nanotubes.
Date:
May 15, 2000
Creator:
Orlikowski, Daniel; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco; Bernholc, Jerry & Roland, Christopher
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Article
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The UNT Digital Library
[Letters to the BRAC Commission - May-June 2005]
Letters from concerned citizens to the BRAC Commission in response to the recommendation regarding the consolidation of military media organizations into a new agency at Fort Meade, Maryland.
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May 2005
Creator:
Proctor, Gerry & Kresge, James C., Jr.
Object Type:
Letter
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The UNT Digital Library
[Letters from Residents of Maine to the BRAC Commission - May-June 2005]
Letters from citizens of Maine to the BRAC Commission in response to the possible realignment of Brunswick Naval Air Station.
Date:
May 2005
Creator:
Murphy, David R.; Austin, Al & Wachtl, Timothy C.
Object Type:
Letter
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The UNT Digital Library
[Letters from Doctors to the BRAC Commission - 2005]
Letters from several pathologists to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission regarding the disestablishment of the AFIP and their opposition to the recommendation to close the facility.
Date:
May 17, 2005
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Letter
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The UNT Digital Library
[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Air Depot Cherry Point, May 24, 2005]
Memorandum of Meeting with Naval Air Depot Cherry Point staff regarding the initial introduction/orientation for the BRAC staff visit.
Date:
May 24, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Air Depot Cherry Point, May 27, 2005]
Memorandum of Meeting with Naval Air Depot Cherry Point staff to close out the BRAC visit to Cherry Point.
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May 27, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Hospital Cherry Point, North Carolina, May 25, 2005]
Memorandum of Meeting with Naval Hospital, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point officers regarding initial introduction/orientation of BRAC staff visit.
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May 25, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
[Memorandum of Meeting: Naval Hospital Cherry Point, North Carolina, May 26, 2005]
Memorandum of Meeting with Naval Hospital Cherry Point, Craven Regional Medical Center, and Carteret General Hospital staff regarding the assessment of the community hospitals' ability to handle Naval Hospital Cherry Point's in-patient care.
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May 26, 2005
Creator:
United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 58, Number 9, May/June 2006
This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
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2006-05/2006-06
Creator:
American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
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Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
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The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 61, Number 9, May 2009
This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date:
May 2009
Creator:
American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
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Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
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The UNT Digital Library
Mexico-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress
This report explores the relationship between the United States and Mexico in terms of trade, drug trafficking, and cooperative disease control and management. Specifically, the report discusses the Mérida Initiative, the trade dispute involving the implementation of NAFTA trucking provisions, Secretary of State Clinton's March 2009 visit to Mexico, and the April 2009 outbreak of the H1N1 "swine flu" virus.
Date:
May 1, 2009
Creator:
Sullivan, Mark P. & Beittel, June S.
Object Type:
Report
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The UNT Digital Library