Motor learning; Art -- Study and teaching (Preschool)
As the art teacher of kindergarten through grade three students, I am very much aware that children enter kindergarten at various stages of physical, emotional, mental and artistic development. Because art education requires fine motor skills in...
Mnemonics; Multiplication -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
As the art teacher of kindergarten through grade three students, I am very much aware that children enter kindergarten at various stages of physical, emotional, mental and artistic development. Because art education requires fine motor skills in...
Central Connecticut State University; Augmented reality
Augmented reality is the concept of overlaying digital information on top of the real worldview. One application that makes use of Augmented Reality is the Layar Reality Browser, which shows what is around oneself by displaying real time digital...
Mathematics -- Remedial teaching; Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Can low achieving mathematics students succeed in the study of linear inequalities and linear programming through real world problem based instruction? This study sought to answer this question by comparing two groups of low achieving mathematics...
Coping with everyday life stressors is a salient topic in our fast-paced society. The field of Health Psychology has an active interest in the study of personality in the stress and coping process, and its relationship to well-being. The present...
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Selections. 1984 -- Criticism and interpretation
Critics have been struggling to find a consistent theme that permeates Herman Melville’s Pierre; or, the Ambiguities (1852). There is the pamphlet on which a lecture by a man named Plotinus Plinlimmon is written down in the middle of the story....
Archaeology -- Connecticut -- Data processing; Geographic information systems; Historical geographic information systems; Archaeology -- Connecticut -- Methodology
Cultural resources in the form of historic and prehistoric archaeological sites can be found throughout the State of Connecticut. Such resources offer society numerous benefits when properly studied, protected and managed. In order to protect and...
Violence in video games; Video games -- Social aspects
Current contextual models of aggression (e.g., General Aggression Model); Anderson & Bushman, 2002) suggest that exposure to violent video games can lead to the expression of aggression (e.g., anger, physical/verbal aggression, hostility)....
Cyclin D1 is the major regulator of cell cycle --- the division of cells to copy themselves. Cyclin D1 is the product of ccnd1 gene and plays an important role in regulation of cell cycle transition from G1 phase to S phase. The cell cycles of...
Multivariate analysis; Stratified sets; Bayesian statistical decision theory
Data mining, at times, involves applying cluster analysis to large databases
containing multivariate normal parameters. Most finite mixture clustering methods use
the expectation-maximum (EM) algorithm to find solutions to the unknown parameters,...
Discovering RNA editing sites in model organisms provides an insight into their adaptations in addition to finding potential sites for gene expression regulation. In this study, we focused on the grin1b gene of Zebrafish due to its important...
Dragonfly and damselfly (Odonata) species are known to vary in abundance due to location. These variations are hypothesized to result from habitat differences in plant species available for landing (Abbott, 2001). This study will answer, in part,...
Cultural awareness -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States; Language and culture -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States; Inquiry-based learning
Due to globalization, multiculturalism, and the necessity of context while learning a language, the study of culture is becoming increasingly more important. Currently, world language teachers spend most of their instructional time teaching grammar...
Balance of trade -- Connecticut; Connecticut -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Japan -- Foreign economic relations -- Connecticut; Connecticut -- Foreign economic relations -- Japan
Due to the manufacturing and export-driven orientation of Connecticut's economy, the impetus behind educational reform in the state during the 1980s must be understood in the context of concern that resulted from increased American competition with...
Drug traffic -- Colombia; Guerrilla warfare -- Colombia; Colombia -- Social conditions
During the 1980's, Latin America was one of the major concerns of the U.S. foreign policy. Countries like Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Colombia had unstable governments and civil war created a clear and present danger to the national security of the...
Educators and policymakers have noted and expressed concern about a lack of academic motivation among adolescent high school students. Research has confirmed that intrinsic motivation does decline as students progress through school (Lepper,...
Hospitals -- Emergency services -- Utilization; Children -- Health and hygiene
Emergency department care and primary care are ideally distinct parts of the health care delivery system. In theory, each answers a specific and different health care need. However, in practice this distinction blurs. Many visits to hospital...
Exercise-induced asthma, more accurately called exercise induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) has been defined as a clinical syndrome characterized by transient airflow obstruction following several minutes of exercise. EIB is also recognized as...
Discrimination in housing -- Connecticut -- New Haven; Housing -- Connecticut -- New Haven; African Americans -- Housing -- Connecticut -- New Haven
From the mid-1950s to the present, social scientists have produced an everincreasing
number of discourses on the topic of the concentration of urban poverty in the
United States. Although broad agreement exists on the effects of urban property,...
Given the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the need to find alternative treatments for pathogenic microbes, and the obvious medical potential of bacteriophages, we designed a study to display evidence that phage therapy is a viable...
