Reading -- Remedial teaching -- Case studies; Reading (Elementary) -- Case studies
Many children enter school at risk of literacy failure. Early intervention programs have been designed to reduce the daily frustrations and failures experienced by these children. Reading Recovery is one such program. It was designed by Marie Clay,...
The techniques of art may have developed by accident, however the growth of the profession has been quite deliberate. Many individuals who enter counseling, struggle with the placement of feelings into words. Therefore, the use of art therapy...
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Characters -- Women; Eliot, George,1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation; Women in literature -- 19th century
The reception of George Eliot’s female protagonists has undergone dramatic transformation in the wake of feminist criticism. Feminists tend to reproach Eliot for a depiction of women that did not demonstrate Eliot’s own social...
Although high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLCC) is the standard technique for the analysis of most pharmaceutical finished products and raw materials, voltammetric techniques, such as cyclic voltammetry, are rarely used for such analyses....
Tick-borne diseases have become a principal public health concern in the United States due to the tremendous increase in human contact with deer. This concern has been reflected in Connecticut as well in recent years. With changing demographic...
Valle-Inclán, Ramón del, 1866-1936--Criticism and interpretation.; Honor in literature.
"Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master in Arts in Spanish."; Thesis advisor: Ángela Morales.; Also available via the World Wide Web.; M.A.,Central Connecticut State University,,2012.; Includes...
Customer relations -- Management -- Data processing; Self-organizing maps; Data mining
This study outlines a method of determining individual customer potential, based solely on data present in the customer database: descriptive information and transaction records. We define potential as the incremental turnover that any particular...
Test anxiety is the emotional and physical distress experienced by students prior to, during or after taking an assessment. The purpose of this study was to determine if a short, simple to implement relaxation technique employed immediately prior...
The role of defensive pessimism in memory recall was examined in a comparison of an imagery and non-imagery technique; as compared to an individual’s own best method. Defensive pessimism, an academic motivational strategy used to harness anxiety...
steps required to represent the knot as a polygon in the cubic lattice. Several lower bounds for the lattice step numbers of different knots have been obtained by computer simulations but the exact value of the lattice step number seems to be ...
Spanish language -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
The written work of high school Spanish II and Spanish III students is characterized by and suffers from frequent miscues, or errors. When selected miscues are identified, re-taught and revisited, the result may be improved application of correct...
Dick, Philip K. -- Criticism and interpretation; Borges, Jorge Luis,1899-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation; Mysticism in literature
The mysticism of Philip K. Dick and Jorge Luis Borges make for a pairing that exposes a similarity of technique in the invention of imaginary worlds. The use of the double becomes an especially noticeable method that will be explored at length. ...
Latin American drama -- History and criticism; Latin American drama -- 20th century
In this research study, based on eight contemporary Latin American plays. I examine the characterization strategies utilized by the authors in order to reflect the crisis of the modern Hispanic man. The titles and playwrights are the following:...
Product non-conformances which is one aspect of manufacturing that for the most part is ignored by researchers, analyst and media at large, has a significant effect on the cost of production. This research focuses on the processes and practices...
RNA editing is a mechanism which is used to increase the number of possible protein products from a specific gene. The catalytic enzymes for RNA editing are known to be present in a wide variety of organisms, including many different insects. It...
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Self-evaluation
This researcher sought to develop a technique of self-assessment that was easy to implement on an everyday basis and increased student achievement in mathematics.
Pharmacy -- Study and teaching; Pharmacy -- Study and teaching -- Fluorescein; Hospitals -- Home care programs
Pharmacy technicians compound sterile I.V. solutions to be administered to
patients in hospitals, long term care facilities and in home care settings. These products
must be prepared without contamination. This necessitates sound aseptic techniques...
The intent of this research project was to purify the Shigella flexneri virulence plasmid without the use of ultra-centrifugation. The ultra-centrifugation is the most commonly used technique; however the PFGE has proven to isolate the plasmid...
This project proposes to situate Cooper's Chingachgook and Hetty,Melville's Queequeg, and
Hawthorne's Pearl and Priscilla, as rhetorical characters of what shall be termed the primitive-as-savior
tradition of American fiction. This rhetoric...
