Reading (Kindergarten); Reading comprehension -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the effectiveness of small group literacy instruction on kindergarten students' text comprehension. A comparison study of half-day kindergarten programs in an urban city in Educational...
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Preschool); Gifted children -- Education (Preschool); Teachers of gifted children -- Training of
The purpose of this record is both to explore and enlighten our understanding of the relationship between the capabilities of highly gifted youth and the current recommendations for teaching such students, and to describe the process of one such...
Repeated exposure to addictive drugs causes unmistakable changes to occur on both a neuronal and a behavioral level. Certain circuits in the brain of an addict are forced to change and adapt to an environment of drug-induced chemical imbalance....
The military revolution had an important impact on the New Model Army of Great
Britain and because of its impact the New Model Army was able to transform Great Britain
into the dominant world power in early modern Europe. The military revolution,...
The eastern spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus holbrookii) is listed endangered in Connecticut having only one viable population in the state. Efforts to understand their distribution in Connecticut are frustrated by both their rarity, and their nocturnal...
The purpose of this research is to determine how a student's need for relatedness affects his or her motivation and academic achievement in mathematics. In addition, student motivation is examined independently of relatedness to determine its...
In this paper Euclidean and hyperbolic discontinuous isometries* are discussed and compared. The graphic artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) produced works which have for the structure points, lines, and angles, which repeat in the plane (Euclidean and...
Animal models of Huntington's disease (HD) that utilize 3-nitropropionic acid (3-NPA) in the initiation of oxidative stress
and accelerated brain-aging have been extensively studied. When administered to rodents, 3-NPA irreversibly...
Cell migration is an essential part of many processes including embryonic development, wound healing, and unwanted processes like metastasis. Further study of cell migration is needed to help understand these processes. A cell model system (F9...
Educational counseling--Connecticut.; Counseling in secondary education--Connecticut.; Counseling in middle school education--Connecticut.
Dissertation advisor: Anthony Rigazio-DiGilio.; Ed.D.,Central Connecticut State University,,2012.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-231).
Response to intervention (Learning disabled children); Verbal ability in children.
"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education."; Dissertation advisor: Sheldon Watson.; Ed.D.,Central Connecticut State University,,2012.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-159).
During the last decade, new technologies created a deluge of potential drug targets. Sifting through thousands of potential drug targets is a major industry bottleneck. Pharmaceutical companies can save billions of dollars by identifying most...
Said, Edward W; Orientalism in literature; India -- Fiction
In his ground-breaking books, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said explains how the Eastern, colonized other was textually created by the imperial powers that controlled them. Specifically, Western experts on and creators of texts...
Surface Fitting is useful to researchers in fields from engineering to medicine. The expertise of mathematicians is needed to help with the analysis of data to help the experts in those fields draw appropriate conclusions. The research that this...
Sex offenders -- Rehabilitation; Psychosexual disorders -- Treatment
Sex offenses have been in the news for many years. Many offenders are not sent to prison but rather are supervised in the community. Sex offender treatment has been used to treat sex offenders to reduce the risk to reoffend and improve community...
This study investigated psychological and personality factors related to the onset of cancer. Stressful life events and coping strategies were investigated in a retrospective study of 69 cancer patients from local support groups and their controls....
Post-traumatic stress disorder in children -- Prevention -- Connecticut
The identification of the diagnostic category of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association (1994) has sharpened the focus on the psychological aspects...
Substance abuse -- Treatment; Head -- Wounds and injuries -- Treatment
This research established that the rehabilitation process of individuals who have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) would be incomplete without integrating substance abuse treatment components into head injury rehabilitation programs. The...
Norwich (Conn.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History; City and town life -- Connecticut -- Norwich -- History; Norwich (Conn.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects
During the mid 1800s and early 1900s, large numbers of European Immigrants
sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of the United States. While many of these
immigrants still came from the European countries that migrated to this country...
