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Understanding breast-cancer patients’ perceptions: Health information-seeking behaviour and passive information receipt
(2011-06-07)It is critical to understand patients’ information use from the patient perspective, especially when patients are from different cultures and levels of health literacy. A cross-sectional survey supplemented with ... -
User Interface Implementation for Network License Management System
(1992-08-01)This paper describes a project to understand and enhance a distributed application - the Applied Science Microlab Network License Management System(NLMS1, and to design and implement an improved user interface for that ... -
Using Matched Samples to Look for Sex Differences
The reasons for observed differences in physics performance between men and women have yet to be clearly determined. This study asks the question: if men and women have a similar background at the start of an introductory ... -
Using microrespirometers to measure oxygen consumption by insects and small invertebrates.
A variety of physiological studies require the measurement of oxygen consumption. Unfortunately, the techniques for measuring respiration rate often require expensive equipment or difficult procedures that are not available ... -
Using Model Averaging to Determine Suitable Risk Measure Estimates
Recent research in loss modeling resulted in a growing number of classes of statistical models as well as additional models being proposed within each class. Empirical results indicate that a range of models within or ... -
Using the Inverted Classroom to teach Software Engineering
(2007-01-01)An inverted classroom is a teaching environment that mixes the use of technology with hands-on activities. In an inverted classroom, typical in-class lecture time is replaced with laboratory and in-class activities. Outside ... -
UTILIZATION OF MODIFIED WHEAT AND TAPIOCA STARCHES AS FAT REPLACEMENTS IN BREAD FORMULATION
Using fat in bread production is expensive, and from the diet point of view, it counts as high caloric food. Since obesity is a significant problem in the USA and many other countries, food industries are turning to the ... -
Virtual Charter Schools and the Democratic Aims of Education
Virtual schooling is expanding as an alternative to traditional public schooling in the early twenty-first century. This paper analyzes virtual schooling with regards to the democratic associational aims of public schooling ... -
Visual Depiction of Decision Statements: What is Best for Programmers and Non-programmers
(1997-03-01)This paper reports the results of two experiments investigating differences in comprehensibility of textual and graphical notations for representing decision statements. The first experiment was a replication of a prior ... -
Visual Programming: Concepts and Implementations
(1994-08-01)The computing environment has changed dramatically since the advent of the computer. Enhanced computer graphics and sheer processing power have ushered in a new age of computing. User interfaces have advanced from simple ... -
The War on Public Education: Agonist Democracy and the Fight for Schools as Public Things
Agonistic critiques of democratic theory conceptualize democracy as a site of conflict and struggle; as the fight against privatization escalates, these critiques become more relevant for educational governance. Public ... -
Weintraub et al. 2018 - JSP - Data and Procedures
This study seeks to disentangle the effect of polychronicity on work-home conflict, home-work conflict, and life satisfaction, by evaluating mindfulness as a moderator. We propose that mindfulness moderates the relationship ... -
What Do Students Want? Small Group Instructional Diagnoses of STEM Faculty
Small Group Instructional Diagnoses (SGIDs) are informal, mid-semester evaluations of courses, which the instructors request voluntarily. The facilitator of the SGID comes into a class, the instructor leaves, and the ... -
What is the Problem? Prejudice as an Attitude-in-Context
Keywords: prejudice, negativity, stereotypes, social roles, socioeconomic change This chapter contains section titled: Allport's Views on “The Nature of Prejudice”, Developments since Allport: Evidence of Prejudice in ... -
What makes a Public School Public? A Framework for Evaluating the Civic Substance of Schooling
Between the banality of the phrase in some contexts and its sacredness in others, it is hard even to ask the most basic question: what makes a public school public? In realms of governance, curriculum, and pedagogy, ... -
What we regret most . . . and why
(2011-02-07)Which domains in life produce the greatest potential for regret, and what features of those life domains explain why? Using archival and laboratory evidence, the authors show that greater perceived opportunity within ... -
What’s pragmatic about community organizing?
In this paper I explore whether and how philosophical pragmatism might be a useful tool for achieving educational reform through social action work such as community organizing. I explore Aaron Schutz’s arguments relevant ... -
Winter biology & freeze tolerance in the goldenrod gall fly
Birds migrate. Bears hibernate. Turtles and frogs retreat to the bottom of lakes. Most animals must avoid harsh winter conditions; few can survive freezing. Larvae of the goldenrod gall fly (Eurosta solidaginis), can ...