This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
The Purpose of the Study:
The purpose of this study was to examine early teacher
attrition through a follow-up of Washington County teachers
in Oregon who left the profession with five years of experience
or less. Focus was given to background data and
areas of greatest professional concerns for former...
The purpose of the study was to develop a schematic model
that would make motivation and learning theories more comprehensible
to beginning theory students by providing a common method of displaying
and integrating theories in such a way that they could claim
a mutual language and could be examined and...
The central purpose of this study was to examine the
influence of achievement orientation and teaching methodology on
the learning of theoretical content related to nursing.
The sample came from Senior nursing students from the
Oregon Health Sciences University, enrolled in Nursing 460 during
the academic year 1982-1983. Fall Term...
Four assumptions--
1. That there is an effective and potential demand for processed
fruit products in the Western State of Nigeria.
2. That current supply of raw materials in the Western State
of Nigeria is more than sufficient to meet the increased demand
which the short-term addition or expansion (or...
Changes in the structure of the U.S. agricultural
industry since World War II have transformed it into a
highly productive component of the domestic economy. But
these changes have not occurred without indirect costs. For
example, the reliance on agricultural chemicals has produced
environmental effects causing growing concern. In addition,...
An enhancement of the therapeutic effect and/or a reduction in
the toxicity have been shown by a variety of antineoplastic compounds
when glucose is added to the treatment schedule. A possible explanation
for this involves a selective change in intracellular pH of the
tumor tissue initiating a greater uptake of...
Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is a gram-negative, facultative anaerobic bacteria with the capability of dissimilatory metal reduction. The ability of the organism to reduce a wide range of solid metal-oxides during anaerobic respiration makes it an ideal candidate for the powering of microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which capture the electrons discharged...