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Pleasing the teacher: An exploration of the construct and its behavioral and motivational patterns.
(1997)
The current study examined motivational patterns related to high school students reasons for pleasing the teacher, and motivation in classes where they like and dislike the teacher. One hundred and twenty-five high school ...
Journal of the Faculty Senate, April 14, 1997
(The University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 1997-04-14)
Primal-dual techniques for nonlinear programming and applications to artificial neural network training.
(1997)
In this work, new developments in primal-dual techniques for general constrained non-linear programming problems are proposed. We first implement a modified version of the general nonlinear primal-dual algorithm that was ...
An investigation of latitude models of service-encounter evaluation.
(1997)
Recently, Zeithaml, Berry, and Parasuraman (1993) (ZBP) have proposed a "zone of tolerance" model of perceived service quality. Its fundamental propositions are that (1) the standard of comparison is a zone which is bounded ...
Molecular systematics of Artemisia section Tridentatae (Asteraceae).
(1997)
Chloroplast DNA restriction site variation was used to examine phylogenetic relationships in Artemisia sect. Tridentatae, a complex of eleven species of woody shrubs dominant in the sagebrush communities of western North ...
Activity, certainty, optimism, and realism: The verbal style in televised presidential campaign commercials.
(1997)
Presidential campaign commercials have been analyzed to determine their effectiveness with respect to length and style. However, to this point, no study has attempted to count and categorize the words used in the commercials. ...
Individuality in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce.
(1997)
The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate that Peirce's Theory of Individuality, in its later form, is consistent, plausible, and applicable to all possible phenomena. This is done by carefully analyzing Peirce's ...
Aging with Disney: Depiction of gender and age in seven Disney animated fairy tales.
(1997)
Walt Disney Productions is considered by conventional wisdom to be synonymous with wholesome family entertainment in the global marketplace. Parents and well meaning adults may use what they consider to be Disney's wholesome ...
Methods for determination of the conicity tolerance
(1997)
This thesis attempts, for the first time, to develop comprehensive equations for determination of the conicity tolerance. No such attempts are evident in the current literature in conicity analysis. This thesis develops ...
Reading readers: An examination of the aesthetic reading events of four experienced readers of narrative fiction reading self-selected novels.
(1997)
This investigation focused on (1) transactions between the readers and the novels they had chosen, (2) the readers' purposes and processes, (3) and the contexts, experiential and socio-cultural, that influence these readers ...