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On merging sequencing and scheduling theory with genetic algorithms to solve stochastic job shops.
(1997)
The stochastic job shop problem was solved using two genetic algorithms. The first was a stochastic constrained genetic algorithm to minimize total tardiness and to evaluate chromosomes using probability Gantt charting. ...
The determinants of community college faculty attitudes toward unionization.
(1999)
This study examines unionization among faculty in higher education. Specifically, C. Wright Mills' theory of white-collar unionism is used to analyze the factors affecting attitudes toward unionization among community ...
Integration of the ecological and error models of overconfidence using a multiple-trace memory model.
(1999)
This research examined a memory processes account of the calibration of probability judgments. A multiple-trace memory model, MINERVA-DM (MDM; Dougherty, Ogden, & Gettys, 1999), was used to integrate the ecological ...
Transfer of learning in choral settings.
(1998)
Effective choral pedagogy should be concerned with more than the next performance. Conductors who hope to enable the efficient development of performance skill must design instruction that induces transfer on a conceptual ...
A rhetorical analysis of "The Contract with America".
(1997)
The Contract with America (CWA) was rhetorically analyzed to answer the question of how Ludwig Wittgenstein, Aristotle, and Jean Gebser might have reacted to the document based on their philosophies. Wittgenstein's language ...
Classroom interaction: A study of undergraduate teaching examining the existence of gender bias in freshman english instruction
(1991)
This study over a four month period of freshman English Composition classrooms provided a data based analysis for determining if the independent variables of (1) Instructor gender and (2) Instructor Gender Communication ...
A study on the effects of situated cognition on the study of foreign language.
(1997)
This study examined situated cognition and anchored instruction in the context of foreign language learning. Based upon situated learning models proposed by McLellan (1996) and Thurman (1993), a situated lesson was adapted ...
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 ...
Marital satisfaction and Cherokee language fluency.
(1999)
The Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised norms were compared with scores for 162 volunteer Cherokee participants. In addition, aspects of marital satisfaction were examined for participants classified as fluent or ...
Development and validation of a scale measuring willingness to forgive.
(1999)
Long studied within the realm of religion and philosophy, forgiveness recently has emerged as an area of study within psychology, and research has burgeoned in the last decade. Early attempts to measure forgiveness suffered ...