A comprehensive survey of aquatic plant communities in Pickerel Lake, Colchester/East Haddam, Connecticut, was conducted during the growing season of most regional macrophyte species (May 2001 to October 2001). Five weed maps were constructed to...
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...
France is a country with a strong sense of its own identity and traditions, the so-called exception franaise. Currently, there is widespread concern about what it means to be French that stems from threats such as the global economy, the European...
Healthcare costs are projected to skyrocket as medical services become increasingly specialized and more expensive. Medicare spending in particular is growing rapidly representing approximately 16% of all federal spending. Recently, Medicare fraud...
Isokinetic exercise; Back exercises; Lifting and carrying -- Back exercises
Identifying optimal strength training programs for increasing lifting capacity is of paramount importance to clinicians attempting to improve function and decrease the risk of low back injuries in their patients. The purpose of this study was to...
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
In the middle of the 1800s the American nation ceased to be the United States and engaged in five horrible years of bloodshed. As the facts concerning the battles and fighting became concrete, and the actions of those who fought in the Civil War...
Emotive (Linguistics); College students -- Psychology
Over the last decade, research has demonstrated that individuals writing their
thoughts and feelings about stressful experiences show significant improvements in
subjective well being, as well as physical and mental health. Yet, researchers...
Pathological gambling is a severe, crippling, epidemic in our modern society. Pathological gambling has been linked with a host of personality disorders. The present study will examine the relationship between pathological gambling and the Big...
Recent physiological investigations examining the cardiac calcium handling abilities of tuna and rainbow trout suggest increased reliance on sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium contribution for heart contractility that is both temperature and frequency...
Social media has become popular for both personal and business use. Employees are increasingly using blogs and social networking sites. Companies are utilizing social media for marketing and advertising as well as for connecting with their publics....
The dream of building a great canal across the Isthmus of Panama dates back
several centuries ago when Spanish explorers first visited the area. Their goal was to
build a canal designed to facilitate communications between the colonies and...
Social movements -- Colombia; Minorities -- Political activity -- Colombia; Blacks -- Colombia
The Evolution of the Afrocolombian Social Movement was driven by the pressures that black communities face daily. Colombia is a multicultural country, but it was not until the 1991 Constitutional reform that this was officially recognized. The...
Geometry -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Escher, M. C.(Maurits Cornelis),1898-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation; Geometry in art
The integration of discovery-based learning activities into mathematics curricula has been shown to aid in students’ conceptual understanding of many topics, especially in the subject of geometry. Using artwork as the basis of discovery lessons...
Monitor (Ironclad); United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations; Armored vessels -- History -- 19th century
The object of this study is the restoration to the public memory of the revolutionary United States Ship (USS) Monitor. It follows the history of the vessel from inception to destruction and on to its recent discovery utilizing the works of...
Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980. Pasos perdidos -- Criticism and interpretation; Rivera, José Eustasio, 1888-1928. Vorágine -- Criticism and interpretation; Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
The purpose of this investigation is to discuss and compare the effects of travel on the main characters in two Spanish American fictional works: Los pasos perdidos by Alejo Carpentier and La vorágine by José Eustasio Rivera. Utilizing the...
Teachers -- Attitudes; Science -- Study and teaching (Early childhood); Science -- Attitudes
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitudes of early childhood educators toward teaching science, while also examining the relationship between teacher attitudes toward teaching science and how much science is taught in early childhood...
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...
Educational indicators; Education -- Mathematical models; Educational planning -- Mathematical models; School management and organization -- Mathematical models
This case study investigated the manner in which one elementary school operationalized DDDM. Utilizing a mixed-methods design, findings were generated from survey, interview, observation, and artifact data to identify the structures and processes...
Fractions -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Arithmetic -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
This investigation examined the impact real-life situations have on the understanding of multiplication of fractions. Two groups of sixth graders, each consisting of 15 students, came to instruction with prior knowledge related to the partition...
