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Critical thinking: Implications for argumentativeness, verbal aggression and organizational leadership.
(2000)
This study was conducted to determine the relationships among critical thinking, the composite of critical thinking disposition and skill; argumentativeness, the tendency to approach or avoid controversial communication; ...
Anisotropic effects upon amplitude-vs-offset response in realistic earth models.
(2000)
The derivation and computation of the reflection coefficient for general anisotropic media is described along with software written to implement the computation. This program is then used to compare the reflection response ...
Romantic partners' communication about their cross-sex friends: Dialectical tensions and management strategies.
(2000)
A mixed method approach (including diaries, questionnaires, and critical incident scenario discussions) was utilized for data collection. Of the ten married couples who participated in the study, only four couples successfully ...
Application of the transtheoretical model to reduce dropout from outpatient psychotherapy.
(2000)
This study investigated the utility of a central construct of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM), Stage of Change, as an ad hoc predictor of premature termination (PT) from outpatient psychotherapy. In addition, a TTM-derived ...
Prefacing the poetess: Gender and textual presentation in seventeenth-century England.
(2000)
A.B.'s Covent Garden Drollery (1672) is important to the history of the anthologized preface. The prologues and epilogues in the drollery participate in the discourse of the professional woman in theatre, representing women ...
Conducting pedagogy: Teaching through musicianship.
(2000)
The purpose of this study is to examine the process of awakening the musician in young conductors, and to present strategies for teaching conducting through musicianship. A conducting curriculum is recommended that utilizes ...
The mountain man in American history and culture.
(2000)
The mountain man hero evolved mostly during the nineteenth century owing to various media and changing cultural currents. He embodied and projected Jacksonian ideals (as an adventurous enterpriser), notions of Manifest ...
Holy terror: The vampire as numinous experience in British and American literature.
(2000)
This dissertation investigates the experience of the numinous in a specific category of Gothic literature, which employs a vampire as the primary focus of its action, regardless of whether that figure is literal or metaphoric. ...
Waking angels, a light unto the darkness, and a crescent still abides :
(2000)
Since the late 1970s, the wind and percussion music of David R. Gillingham has been enthusiastically received and frequently performed. Among the reasons often cited for their popular acceptance into the repertoire is the ...
Peer tutoring and at-risk students: The effects of peer tutoring on attendance rates, misbehavior in school, and academic progress for students identified as at risk for dropping out of high school.
(2000)
When at-risk students who participated in a six-week tutoring project were compared to at risk students who did not participate as a tutor, significant differences were found in academic performance in math class and on ...