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The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

Creator:: Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth
Abstract:: The story of Leo Szilard has not been told in its full complexity. This is especially so of the role imagination played in Szilard’s worldview. Szilard, like many other scientists in the mid-twentieth century, worked on the Manhattan Project. Like these other wartime participants, the work and relationships formed during...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: DISSERTATION OF Anna Elizabeth Dvorak for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science

Therapeutic non-directive play with low achievers in reading

Creator:: Hoyser, Elizabeth Emily
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of therapeutic non- directive play treatment with third grade boys who were low achievers in reading and to determine how treatment was associated with changes in reading achievement: vocabulary and comprehension; reading attitude and academic self-concept; role expectations and self-adequacy....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: reading AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF ELIZABETH EMILY HOYSER for the (Name) in EDUCATION (Major

Structure and Dynamics of the Canine (Canis familiaris) Nasal Microbiome

Creator:: Knorr, Elizabeth
Abstract:: The diverse community of bacteria living within and on host organisms, known as the microbiome, has an important role in maintaining host health. Dysbiosis, known as a change in the healthy community of the microbiome, has been associated with a number of diseases across host organisms and body sites including...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Elizabeth Knorr for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology

A study of perceptual correlates to role-taking ability with fourth through sixth grade children

Creator:: Perkins, Charlotte Jeanne
Abstract:: This study was designed for the purpose of expanding knowledge of the correlates of role-taking as measured by Feffer's Role-Taking Task. The variables of perception, sex, age, reading achievement, and ordinal position were investigated. The perceptual variables measured were visual memory, field dependence/independence, auditory memory, and organizing and synthesizing ability....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Redacted for privacyAbstract approved: Anna R. Meeks This study was designed for the purpose of expanding

Factors influencing individual attitudes toward environmental health communications

Creator:: Lenz, Holly Hanson
Abstract:: The likelihood of achieving an effective environmental health communications program increases with a knowledge of the target audience's attitudes toward their environmental health concerns, source credibility, preferred channels of communication, and desire to participate in environmental issues. With this in mind, the purpose of this study was threefold: 1) to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Attitudes Toward Environmental Health Communications. Abstract approved: Anna K. Hard The likelihood

The effectiveness of therapeutic self-directive play in self-concept of educationally handicapped children in Saratoga, California elementary schools

Creator:: Wall, Mary Jane
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of therapeutic self-directive play as a means of developing positive self-concepts and motivation of educationally handicapped children. Further consideration was also given to behavioral changes as viewed by the classroom teacher and aide. The population of the study consisted of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: EDUCATIONALLY HANDI- CAPPED CHILDREN IN SARATOGA, CALIFORNIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Redacted for Privacy Dr. Anna

Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

Creator:: Devan-Song, E. Anne
Abstract:: Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Five Systems Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ Anna E

Relationships of self-directive group play, self-concept and social behavior in first grade children

Creator:: Braden, Gary Edgar
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-directive play and social behavior and between self-directive play and self-concept in matched pairs of first grade children. The sample consisted of 12 pairs of first grade children matched for sex, age, school experience, and number of siblings. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: CHILDREN Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Dr. Anna RC Meeks The purpose of this study was to

A study of the relationships between selected perceptual-motor behaviors and: achievement in reading; achievement in mathematics; classroom behavior; academic self-concept; and academic motivation for first and third grade boys and girls

Creator:: Levenspiel, Mary Josephine
Abstract:: This study investigated the relationships between selected perceptual-motor behaviors and the following: achievement in reading, achievement in mathematics, academic self-concept, academic motivation and classroom behavior. This investigation was designed to explore the suggestion of Newell Kephart that there is a relationship between perceptual-motor behavior and school success, and to provide...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Redacted for privacy Anna R. Meeks This study investigated the relationships between

A study of the relationship between a small group discussion activity, the self-concept and reading achievement of selected fourth grade boys and girls

Creator:: Jackson, Wilbur John
Abstract:: This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the Human Development Program (HDP) and reading achievement and between HDP and the self-concept of selected fourth grade students attending a public school. A further purpose was to investigate the relationship between fourth grade students' measured feelings of responsibility for the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: GIRLS. Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Dr. Anna R. Meeks This study was conducted to

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

Therapeutic non-directive play with low achievers in reading

Structure and Dynamics of the Canine (Canis familiaris) Nasal Microbiome

A study of perceptual correlates to role-taking ability with fourth through sixth grade children

Factors influencing individual attitudes toward environmental health communications

The effectiveness of therapeutic self-directive play in self-concept of educationally handicapped children in Saratoga, California elementary schools

Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

Relationships of self-directive group play, self-concept and social behavior in first grade children

A study of the relationships between selected perceptual-motor behaviors and: achievement in reading; achievement in mathematics; classroom behavior; academic self-concept; and academic motivation for first and third grade boys and girls

A study of the relationship between a small group discussion activity, the self-concept and reading achievement of selected fourth grade boys and girls

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