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The impact of domestic violence on marital satisfaction among African Americans, 1999
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to examine the impact of domestic violence on marital satisfaction. The sample for this study consisted of forty female respondents from one women's shelter in Atlanta, Georgia. One questionnaire consisting of eighteen items was administered by the researcher and one assistant. The variables tested in the domestic violence section were hitting, kicking, shoving, and slapping. Marital satisfaction was measured by the respondents assessment of the couples cohesiveness, agreement on issues, sexual relationship, and love and affection displayed. The results were analyzed utilizing frequency distribution, means, standard deviation, chi-square and GAMMA. The findings indicate a statistical significance between domestic violence and marital satisfaction existed, with a meaningful relationship between the variables. Thus the null hypothesis was rejected
An exploratory study of the relationship between psychosocial stressors and coping techniques among stepfamilies, 1996
Get PDFThe objective of this study was to examine the psychosocial stressors experienced by stepfamilies and the types of coping techniques they utilize in order to reduce the impact of the stressor on family equilibrium. To attain this objective, an original questionnaire was developed and a survey was administered to forty-two subjects in a self- administered, one-shot episode. The findings revealed that the normal psychosocial stressors experienced by stepfamilies involved finances, previous marriages, doubts about the relationship, housing, careers, the discipline of stepchildren, the partner's former spouse, and in-laws. The findings also revealed that the normal coping techniques utilized by stepfamilies to reduce the stress involved: Fighting, negotiation, compromise, open communication, ignoring the family, trusting the family, and establishing realistic family goals
An LU-gradient formulation for the eigenvalue moment method, 1995
Get PDFThe Eigenvalue Moment Method (EMM) has proven to be an effective technique for generating converging lower and upper bounds to the bosonic ground state energy of singular, strongly coupled, quantum systems. An alternate gradient method formulation for the EMM as previously developed by Dr. Carlos Handy is presented. The present method is numerically faster and is based on an LU decomposition formulation for the underlying Hankel-Hadamard moment matrices. The LU-EMM gradient formulation deals with a sequence of functions, each convex over a corresponding subset. The LU-EMM gradient method is applied to the octic, sextic and quartic anharmonic oscillator potentials in one dimension
The African development crisis: an evaluation of the ECA's policy responses 1975-1993, 1995
Get PDFMost literature on development in Africa readily assumes that every leader is interested in development and that when they proclaim their commitment to development and fashion their impressive development agendas, they are ready to deliver. Those in this school of thought seem to forget the primacy of power and its conflict with other goals. This is what this study is about. This research therefore, presents a critical evaluation of the alternative development strategies which have been proposed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA) in conjunction with the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and other Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as solutions to the Africa development problems and why, despite this concerted effort, no significant changes have occurred in Africa. To put this in proper perspective, some of the major EGA regional blue-prints since 1975 to date have been reviewed. The Economic initiatives appear in Chapter IV and the Political and Social initiatives appear in Chapter V. The primary source of the materials reviewed in this research is the UN-ECA supported by other secondary sources like the UN-Africa Recovery based in New York and the OAU, based in Addis Ababa. Our finding revealed that there are two major reasons for the abandonment of these initiatives: 1. The incompatibilities between the pursuit of development on the one hand, and the quest for political survival by the leaders on the other hand. 2. The reproduction of existing forms of economic and political domination by the ruling class. The researcher therefore comes to the conclusion that if the continent is to recover and confront the 21st century unencumbered by debt, hunger, poverty, disease and ignorance, it needs leaders who are strong, self-confident and generators of great ideas who are able to command the loyalty of their people and who are totally committed to the development of their countries. Africa's salvation, this researcher believes, lies in the hands of Africans
An analysis of the literature pertaining to technical processes in high school libraries, 1961
No full textThe effects of graphing calculators on the mathematical achievement and attitudes of urban students in high school geometry, 1998
Get PDFThis study examined the impact of the graphing calculator on performance and attitudes of urban students in high school geometry. The design for this study was true experimental, quantitative, and pretest-posttest control group design with 30 subjects, who were African Americans, in each group. The graphing calculator was used with the treatment group. The statistical procedures used were the F-Test and ANOVA. A Prentice Hall Geometry Achievement Test was used as a pretest and posttest to measure change due to treatment. A Mathematics Attitude Inventory was used as a pretest and posttest to measure change in academic attitude. The study was based on the logical conditional that if urban students perform poorly in mathematics; and if the graphing calculator increases mathematics achievement in general, and improves attitudes toward mathematics, then can the inclusion of graphing calculators on a greater scale increase the mathematical performance and attitudes of these students? The findings were that there were significant differences in the Geometry Achievement Test, the Conceptual Subtest, and the Procedural Subtest scores in favor of the treatment group. However, no significant difference was observed in the scores obtained from the Mathematics Attitude Inventory. The post inventory scores of the treatment group, however, reflected less anxiety and more enjoyment while the control group�s scores reflected more anxiety and less enjoyment. The conclusions were that the graphing calculator, when used as an instructional tool, does improve the performance and probably the attitudes of urban students enrolled in high school geometry
Predicting the metastatic potential of prostate cancer, 1992
Get PDFLittle progress has been made in assessing the metastatic potential of prostate cancer. In this investigation, attempts were made to assess metastatic potential of anaplastic tumor-1 (AT-1), Mat-Lu (ML), and Mat-LyLu (MLL) cells of the Dunning System. To accomplish this, we applied -Bioquant biometric parameters, i.e. area, shape factor, and cell motility. Also, Bovine Aortic Endothelial Cell Monolayer Adhesion (BAEC) and Fibronectin Adhesion assays were performed to distinguish metastatic cells from nonmetastatic cells. The data investigation revealed that metastatic potential could be accurately indicated via area and shape factor in some cases. Cell motility and tumor cell adhesion to fibronectin-coated plates did correlate with metastatic potential. Dunning tumor adhesion to BAEC monolayers and chemotactic response to fibronectin correlated inversely to metastatic potential. This investigation demonstrated that the study of tumor cell motility and adhesion to fibronectin could play a positive role in developing a prognostic indicator of prostate cancer metastasis
A comparison of the relationships between levels of intelligence and achievement in social studies, 1958
Get PDFThe effects of peer counseling on the academic achievement, self-concept and grade-point average of underachieving freshman at Cedar Shoals High School, Athens, Georgia, 1986
Get PDFPurpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of peer counseling on improving the classroom performance of underachieving ninth grade students at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens, Georgia. Significance of the Study In implementing this study, certain outcomes were expected. The following includes some of the benefits of this study. 1.High School Counselors will be able to use the results of this study as a partial basis for helping underachieving ninth graders and motivating them to become achieving high school students. 2.The results will provide high school counselors with information to use generally in counseling underachieving students. Methods and Procedures The 120 underachieving ninth graders who were selected for the study were randomly selected from a pool of possibly five-hundred freshmen students at Cedar Shoals High School. The research design includes 120 students combined in group 1 and group 2. Group 1 is the experimental group; group 2 is the control group. In implementing the study, three major steps were carried out. First, it was necessary to obtain parental permission to recruit peer counselors and students participants for the study. Secondly, the selected peer counselors received intensive training in the peer-helping relation-ship. Finally, instruments that were chosen for the study were administered, scored and tabulated. The investigator provided approximately 40 hours of didactic- experiential training in interpersonal functioning, counseling, and small group procedures for the twenty peer counselors. The training consisted of ten one-hour sessions for ten weeks throughout the fall quarter of 1985. An orientation session was held prior to the fall quarter and a summary session was held at the beginning of the winter quarter. A consultant, who was trained in systematic human relations training (Carkhuff), was available for three sessions to deal with small group procedures and some personal frustrations of the peer counselors. Participants The one-hundred twenty (120) students used in this study, were randomly selected from a pool of possibly five hundred freshmen students at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens, Georgia. The students who were selected for this project ranged in age from fourteen through fifteen years. Ninety percent of these students came from families with an annual income of 15,000.00. The racial composition of this group consisted of 95 percent Black and 5 percent White. The study also consisted of 75 percent males and 25 percent females. Instruments The instruments used in this research were the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, and the Metropolitan Achievement Tests. Conclusions The results of this study have demonstrated that successful students can be effective in working with other less-successful students. Peer counselors appear to have somewhat of an advantage over professional counselors in that the student-to-student situation creates an atmosphere which provides the opportunity for students to discuss more fully and openly their thoughts and feelings about academic achievement and themselves
