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Attributions in social interactions: A qualitative study
(2003-12)
The purpose of this study was to investigate people's attributions in explaining ambiguously described behavior, and to discover whether and how those attributions reflect their social identities and social roles. A ...
A concurrent validity study comparing executive functioning of the Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Ability and the NEPSY
(2003-05-30)
The purpose of this study was to examine the concurrent validity between the Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Ability (WJ III COG; Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001) executive functioning tests and the NEPSY (Korkman, ...
Neurodevelopmental profiles for a sample of children originally diagnosed with ADHD
(2004-08-30)
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a commonly diagnosed childhood psychological disorder. The diagnosis of this disorder is ideally based upon clinical evaluation rather than a singular test or measurement. ...
Attentional impairment and processing speed in children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(2009-08-30)
The behavioral and cognitive symptomology that children with ADHD typically
show can have a widespread impact on their overall functioning in everyday life.
Children with ADHD may show poor short term memory, poor ...
A rhetoric of peace and protest: Discourse analysis, semiotics and the murals in Northern Ireland
(2002-08-30)
This dissertation offers an examination of applied protest rhetoric through a unique form of public discourse that promotes a problematic accessibility for individual, regional, and global audiences. The nontraditional ...
Trinity Valley Quilters' Guild: Quiltmaking practices and motivations
(2003-05-31)
The primary problem was to identify and describe the demographic characteristics,
quiltmaking motivations, and quiltmaking practices of members of the Trinity Valley
Quilters' Guild (TVQG). The study resulted in a ...
Elements of folklore in “House of Houses” by Pat Mora
(2002-08-30)
Growing up in an immigrant family in America is a challenge for individuals, for they face the dilemma of abandoning their cultural identity through assimilation into the mainstream Anglo-American culture. Pat Mora, a ...
Jessie Redmon Fauset: Out of the shadows
(2000-08-30)
The purpose of this project is to reclaim a lost woman writer, Jessie Fauset, by detailing her contributions to literature during the Harlem Renaissance. Fauset's contribution as literary editor at The Crisis, the National ...
Put Your Mother on the Ceiling: Feminist dance-making as a worldmaking process of three women choreographers
(2001-05)
Richard de Mille (1967) considers personal invention crucial in comprehending and shaping socially constructed realities. Intrigued by what a woman's reality brings to the creative process and how these experiences become ...
Semiotics and cyberspace beyond Charles Sanders Peirce
(2002-12-30)
In 1867 Charles Sanders Peirce detailed a pansemiotic perspective of the world that defines a sign as “something that stands to somebody for something.” The triadic semiotic theory that Peirce developed includes all phenomena ...