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An Evaluation by Recovered Alcoholics of Those Who Tried to Help
No full text33 leaves.The problem. It was the purpose of this study to ask recovered alcoholics for their opinions on what worked to help them achieve sobriety.
Procedure. After reviewing current literature, an opinionnaire wae prepared. The opinionnaire asked the respondents, recovered alcoholics, for a rating of the Help and Understanding they reoeived from the following six groups:
1-Physicians.
2-Spouse.
3-Clergy.
4-Psychiatrists and Psychologists.
5-Members of the court, attorneys, and legal officials.
6-Recovered Alcoholios.
The opinionnaire was validated by colleagues of the writer who work in the field of alcoholism treatment and by members of the Drake University faculty.
The opinionnaire was presented to the members of five Alcoholics Anonymous clubs in Iowa and to twenty residents of the North Central Alooholism Research Foundation in Fort Dodge,lowa. Copies and addressed envelopes were also left in the Carroll, Fort Dodge, and Webster City referral offices of the North Central Alcoholism Research Foundation.
Findings. On the basis of one hundred completed opinionnaires and the results thereof validated through F ratio tests and t-tests, it is the conclusion of this study, that of those who responded to the opinionnaire, they felt that the greatest source of Help and Understanding that they had received while drinking was from Recovered Alcoholics. The amount of Help and Understanding received from the group of Recovered Alcoholics was significantly greater than it was from each of the other five groups. In addition, no one of the other five groups was significantly more effective in Help or Understanding than any other groups out of this five
Drake Passage summary report: Cruises on RRS "James Clark Ross", 1993-2000. Drake Passage repeat hydrography: WOCE Southern Repeat Section 1b - Elephant Island to Burdwood Bank.
No full textThis report documents five early cruises in the Drake Passage annual repeat series conducted by Southampton Oceanography Centre in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey. The series began under the auspices of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment as southern repeat section SR1b with a SeaSoar (towed undulating profiler) occupation in 1992. We document cruises from 1993 (JR0a), 1994 (JR0b), 1996 (JR16), 1997 (JR27) and 2000 (JR47). The cruises were all hydrographic CTD sections across Drake Passage between Burdwood Bank and Elephant Island, comprising 30 stations. One cruise (JR27) was occupied at higher resolution with 52 stations; also additional chemical measurements were made. On two cruises (JR16 and JR27), a lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) was introduced to provide full-depth water velocity profiles. Other measurements (vessel-mounted ADCP, sample salinity, navigation, expendable athythermographs, etc.) are described in context
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL FOR BEHAVIORAL OBSEWATfON PERF0 CE OF INSTRUCTIONAL PERSONNEL
No full textby Raymond L. F e l t n e r Approved by Committee
Deep boundary current disintegration in Drake Passage
No full textThe fate of a deep boundary current that originates in the Southeast Pacific and flows southward along the continental slope of South America is elucidated. The current transports poorly ventilated water of low salinity (a type of Pacific Deep Water; PDW), into Drake Passage. East of Drake Passage, the boundary current breaks into fresh anticyclonic eddies, nine examples of which were observed in mooring data from December 2009 to March 2012. The observed eddies appear to originate mainly from a topographic separation point close to 60°W, have typical diameters of 20–60 km and accompanying Rossby numbers of 0.1–0.3. These features are likely to be responsible for transporting PDW meridionally across the ACC, explaining the near-homogenization of Circumpolar Deep Water properties downstream of Drake Passage. This mechanism of boundary current breakdown may constitute an important process in the Southern Ocean overturning circulation
The Effect of a Guided Aural Reinforcement Model on Perceived Improvement in Intonation of Middle School Trombone Players
No full textvii, 80 leaves. Advisor: C. David HarrisThe purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a guided aural reinforcement model on perceived improvement in intonation of middle school trombone players. Based on their responses to the Watkins-Farnum performance test and a
questionnaire, subjects were matched by grade-level equivalent-pairs and then assigned by rank-order to control and experimental groups.
All subjects taking part in the investigation were given a researcher-designed pretest to determine initial skill level of intonation performance. Following the pretest, all subjects received nine periods of instruction on trombone. The experimental group practiced with a pre-recorded guided aural intonation component as a part of each lesson instruction period. The control group received instruction which included, for this school district, a traditional method of learning intonation rather than the prerecorded guided aural intonation component. A researcher-designed posttest was administered to all subjects following the nine periods of instruction.
Pretests and posttests were recorded and later evaluated by a panel of experts. Reliability of coefficient tests and ANOVAs were used to determine inter-evaluator reliability. Results yielded a high degree of reliability among evaluators.
Statistical t-tests were used to determine significant (p=.05) differences between the
gain scores of students in the control and experimental groups. Results indicated no
significant gain score differences between the control and experimental groups on part I (unison test). Analysis of gain scores for part II (interval test) and part III (melodic test)
portions of the pretests/posttests revealed significant differences between the control
and experimental groups with regard to improvement in intonation performance. As a result of practice with the guided aural reinforcement model, the experimental group demonstrated improvement in intonation performance which was significantly greater than the control group. Additional research possibilities and educational implications have been included
Control of Mode and Intermediate Water Mass Properties in Drake Passage by the Amundsen Sea Low
No full textThe evolution of the physical properties of Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) and Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) in the Drake Passage region is examined on time scales down to intraseasonal, within the 1969–2009 period. Both SAMW and AAIW experience substantial interannual to interdecadal variability, significantly linked to the action of the Amundsen Sea low (ASL) in their formation areas. Observations suggest that the interdecadal freshening tendency evident in SAMW over the past three decades has recently abated, while AAIW has warmed significantly since the early 2000s. The two water masses have also experienced a substantial lightening since the start of the record. Examination of the mechanisms underpinning water mass property variability shows that SAMW characteristics are controlled predominantly by a combination of air–sea turbulent heat fluxes, cross-frontal Ekman transport of Antarctic surface waters, and the evaporation–precipitation balance in the Subantarctic zone of the southeast Pacific and Drake Passage, while AAIW properties reflect air–sea turbulent heat fluxes and sea ice formation in the Bellingshausen Sea. The recent interdecadal evolution of the ASL is consistent with both the dominance of the processes described here and the response of SAMW and AAIW on that time scale
A Study of Test-Taking Skills and Achievement Scores upon Secondary Students
No full textv, 55 leaves. Advisor: Bruce Vennard.The problem. This study was conducted to determine if secondary students whose reading abilities were below grade level could improve their reading comprehension and vocabulary test scores on standardized tests, whether the test-taking skills program influenced these students' test scores, and how a test-taking skills program could improve
students' future standardized test scores.
Procedure. The Nelson-Denny Reading Tests were used as the measuring instrument. Form E tests were given to all students for the pre-test scores. Students were randomly placed in experimental and control groups. After thirty-six,
twenty-minute sessions (a total of twelve hours of
instruction time) using published test-taking skills and strategies by World Book, students were post-tested with Form F tests. The statistical findings were calculated using t-Test results on paired and group scores.
Findings. This study provided evidence that there was a siqnificant difference in the mean gain scores of the reading comprehension scores of the experimental group. The null hypothesis was held tenable with the mean gain scores of the vocabulary sections and the reading comprehension of the control group, Data indicated that secondary students whose reading abilities were below grade placement could improve reading comprehension and vocabulary test scores with the use of a published test-taking skills program.
Conclusions and Recommendations. Data suggested that secondary students whose reading abilities were below grade level be given training in test-taking skills because students' scores on standardized tests tend to improve. Teachers should recognize that test scores are not solely
the result of content knowledge. Knowing how to select the best possible choice for an answer can improve the student's test results. Other studies in test-wiseness, test-taking skills, long- and short-term training, uses of various published skills programs, and replication of this study
with other locales and different subjects should be encouraged
Tachygerris adamsoni Drake 1940
No full textTachygerris adamsoni (Drake, 1940) Know distribution in Colombia. Casanare and Meta. Examined material. 3 Ƥ macropterous 1 3 macropterous. Putumayo: Puerto Leguízamo, Caserío Bajo Casacunte, 178m, 19.XI. 2008, F. J i m é n e z leg.Published as part of Morales-C, Irina T. & Castro-Vargas, Maria I., 2013, A new species and new records of Tachygerris Drake, 1957 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) from Colombia, pp. 277-283 in Zootaxa 3616 (3) on page 280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/21803
RRS James Cook Cruise JC031, 03 Feb-03 Mar 2009. Hydrographic sections of Drake Passage
No full textRepeat hydrographic sections (WOCE sections SR1 AND SR1b) were occupied in Drake Passage during February - March 2009 aboard the RRS James Cook (JC031). The primary objective of this cruise was to measure ocean physical, chemical and biological parameters in order to establish regional budgets of heat, freshwater and carbon. A total of 84 CTD/LADCP stations were sampled across Drake Passage. In addition to temperature, salinity and oxygen profiles from the sensors on the CTD package, water samples from a 24-bottle rosette were analysed for salinity, dissolved oxygen and inorganic nutrients at each station. Water samples were collected from strategically selected stations and analysed onboard ship for SF6, CFC’s, pCO2, TIC, alkalinity, and phytoplankton. Some bottle and underway samples were analysed for Ar/O ratios. In addition, salinity samples were collected and analysed from the ships’ underway system to calibrate and complement the data continually collected by the TSG (thermosalinograph). Full depth velocity measurements were made at every station by an LADCP (lowered acoustic Doppler current profiler) mounted on the frame of the rosette. Throughout the cruise, velocity data in the upper few hundred metres of the water column were collected by the ships’ VMADCP (vessel mounted acoustic doppler current profiler) mounted on the hull. Meteorological variables were monitored using the onboard surface water and meteorological sampling system (SURFMET). This report describes the methods used to acquire and process the data on board the ship during cruise JC031
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