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  • Attitudes Toward Disability in Self and Other : Assessment and Educational Intervention

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    Bonnett, Amy K.
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    Negative attitudes towards people with disabilities persist in our society, limiting the inclusion of people with disabilities in a multitude of social roles. Despite existing research on the nature of these attitudes and interventions to improve them, people with disabilities continue to cite social barriers as some of their greatest...
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    ., primarily the African American and Women’s movements. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited

  • China and France in the Nineteenth Century

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    Leggatt, Nick
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    In studying Western, especially French, imperialist action in China during the nineteenth century, this thesis argues that contemporary Sino-Western relations took various forms across various social strata on both sides, and the general terms used to classify them are erroneous: in effect, there was no "Chinese" response to "the West,"...
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  • Change in some aspects of Chinese core values, 1978-1988

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    Qi, Xiaoping
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    Great change has taken place in China during the past decade. As core values represent the most basic aspects of social life, change in some aspects of Chinese core values indicates that China is moving rapidly from being an agricultural society toward becoming a modern industrial society. China today can...
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    multiplied many times over for Dr. Roberta Hall. Special thanks to my good friends Yuejian Chen and Xingwu

  • Mayan Bilinguality and Cultural Change in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica

    Creator:
    Smith, William Hoyt
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    The importance of language and bilinguality in the development, perpetuation, and "degeneration" or change of culture is a central theme throughout this treatise. Original pictorial representations of Mayan hieroglyphic sculpture are included as examples, and represent artistic styles and language variations of written Cholan and Yucatec. Modern Cholan and Yucatecan...
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    writing systems, believed that their writing system was of divine origin (Arias-Larreta, 1964: 7). The

  • What Do Girls Learn from Dolls? Sexualized Stimuli and Girls’ Body Esteem and Academic Performance

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    Lundeberg, Pamela J.
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    Although a significant amount of research has investigated the effect of sexualization on women's body esteem and cognitive performance, few researchers have examined the effect of sexualization on girls. Additionally, research that has been conducted regarding girls' experiences of sexualization has primarily focused on media influences. The effect of dolls...
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    better when the experimenter has a low level of anxiety (Winkel & Sarason, 1964). Experimenters who

  • Serving from the center : servant leadership and social capital

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    Easdale, Daniel
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    The perception that there exists a lack of leadership can be found throughout history. Currently, according to Robert Putnam, there does appear to be a decline is social capital. This research examines the connection between business leadership style and effects on social capital. Most research on corporate social responsibility focuses...
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    trait theories dead (Bennis and Nanus, 1986; Slater and Bennis, 1964) other researchers continued to

  • Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

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    Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
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    Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
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    ; Flexner 1914; O'Kelly 1980; Calverton and Schmalhausen 1929; and Benjamin 1964). Limited research

  • Inspiring End-user Programming Through Exposure to Multi-platform Computing and Improved Integrated Development Environments

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    Beardsley, Dedrie
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    The art of software engineering inherently requires high-level problem solving and perseverance, as programmers and designers wrestle with complex design and implementation challenges in the process of turning loose concepts and ideas into working code. In the current developer ecosystem, engineers are commonly incentivized extrinsically by monetary rewards, approval or...
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    virtual environments and video games Chen and Jang [11] drew on SDT to measure online learner motivation

  • Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

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    Bruno, Mark P.
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    This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
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