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Determination of leakage from subsurface containment systems using informational entropy and hydraulic signature assessment methods.
(1998)
The use of physical and hydraulic containment systems for the isolation of contaminated ground water and aquifer materials associated with hazardous waste sites has increased during the last decade. The existing methodologies ...
A study of barriers and facilitators to participation in distance higher education by working engineers.
(1998)
Recommendations: Conduct a study of nonparticipation; incorporate new DE participation barriers and facilitators into revised engineering DE questionnaires. Use refined DF model Z234T with short questionnaire as DE ...
Conceptual development and retention within the learning cycle.
(1998)
Qualitative analyses were used to examine how students' concept development is mediated by classroom discussions and the students' small cooperative learning group. It was discovered that there was a correlation between ...
A Rhetorical analysis of the polular society addresses of Thermidor /
(1998)
The encouragement the letters give to violence and further terror are products of their orality. Because they were composed by committees' deliberations and for the specific purpose of being read aloud, the letters are ...
Fictive kinship, racial identity, peer influence, attitudes toward school, and future goals: Relationships with achievement for African-American high school students.
(1998)
This study examined the relationships among measures of fictive kinship, racial identity, attitudes towards school, influence of peers, and future goals and achievement among African American high school students. The study ...
Iconic and schematic maps: A comparative study.
(1998)
One study finding is disappointing: that schematic maps do not promote greater map comprehension than do iconic maps. However, the study suggests that prior verbal instruction may have positive results for recalling map ...
Determinants of Collaborative Leadership: Civic Engagement, Gender or Organizational Norms?
(Political Research Quarterly, 1998-12-01)
This analysis attempts to unravel competing explanations of collaborative leadership styles of state legislative committee chairs. Specifically, the paper considers the influence of community or volunteer experience, gender, ...
Ethos and the politics of habit: Class, character, and coercion in Aristotelian rhetorics.
(1998)
Middle-class professional ethos has undergone significant shifts from the "personality market" described by Erich Fromm and C. Wright Mills to the postmodern knowledge worker or "symbolic analyst" described by Robert Reich. ...
Current and Future Research Methods in Strategic Management
(Organizational Research Methods, 1998-01-01)
Early work in strategic management emphasized single case studies, followed by research on corporate diversification strategy, firm heterogeneity, strategic groups, and generic business strategies. Intermediate work added ...
Simultaneous determination of relative permeability and capillary pressure from displacement data by simulated annealing.
(1998)
The requirements for unique estimation of the two-phase flow functions are investigated. The number of observable parameters is increased by including both the external and internal data. The flow functions are represented ...