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"Effects of Illiteracy in the Workplace
I. The Problem
Introduction
Illiteracy has become an increasingly significant problem in the workplace. American Demographics (Illiteracy at work..., 1996) reported that illiteracy costs American businesses about $225 billion per year in lost productivity, and that many Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) are beginning to "go public" with their concerns about this formerly "hidden" issue. In general, it is argued that illiteracy results in lower productivity, injuries, employee mistakes, absenteeism and even employee turnover. A survey conducted by Opinion Research Corporation revealed that about 22 percent of participating organizations have an illiteracy remediation program in place. More.."

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"Need for the Study
Shelton (1998) commented that a results of the National television Violence Study confirmed the worst fears of the American Medical Association (AMA) and other public health and
other children's advocates in that [prime time TV violence has been seen as increasingly on both broadcast and cable networks. The study found that much of the aggression that appears no television is glamorized, sanitized, and trivialized. About 60 percent of all entertainment programming was found to contain some type and level of violence, a figure that has remained constant over the past three years (Federman, 1996, 1997, 19980). "

Abstract
The paper hypothesizes that Isoproterenol will increase the heart rate of a chick embryo heart, in which the chick was incubated for approximately 48 hours, when topically applied. The author of the paper shows that the reasoning for this hypothesis is that Isoproterenol acts as a sympathetic stimulant by stimulating the beta receptors found in the heart, and these kinds of stimulants (hence the name stimulant) tend to speed up actions. Especially since this chemical mimics norepinephrine's effects, I deduced that this would speed up the heart rate. An experiment was performed on 48-hour chick embryos and the results are discussed in the paper.

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"Description: An egg was incubated for approximately 48 hours. I am approximating 48-hours based on the comparison of my embryo to pictures of the different stages. Once removed from the incubator, I made an incision around the circumference of the egg and removed the roof, exposing the interior. The embryo with all structures still attached- in situ- (yolk, egg white, etc.) was poured into a dish of saline solution. The egg remained in the same position for a couple of hours, blunt-end up, so that the embryo conveniently lay on top. The temperature of the water was measured as 32?C and the normal heart rate of the chick was recorded as 76bpm."

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"Individual differences in learning and memory abilities have long been a topic for social science research. However, little basic research has been done concerning the possibility of a dichotomous split between verbal and mathematical cognitive functions. This study examines the achievement scores of a sample of college freshmen and discovers clear evidence of such a cognitive division. Limitations of the study are noted, and possibilities for future research are proposed.

Introduction
Individual differences in learning and memory abilities have long been a controversial topic among researchers. Psychologists, sociologists, educators, and even politicians have struggled to either make sense of or denounce such differences. While most such..."

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" Ant colonies are typically founded by one or a few queens. These queens produce all of the worker ants. Workers are responsible for finding food, caring for immature ants, and defending the nest. Ant ecology is greatly influenced by competition; in fact, it is perhaps the primary force determining colony size and organization. Given such competition, ants must be able to discriminate between members of their own colony (i.e., nestmates) and members from other colonies (i.e., non-nestmates). This ability to recognize nestmates--as opposed to aliens--is primarily mediated through chemical signals.

Ants, in general, have attained considerable ecological..."

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"The purpose of this research is to explore the issues involved in animal experimentation from the perspectives of theology and ethics. Christian and other religious viewpoints are considered, along with the specific body of ethics that has built up around biomedical research. Some fundamental questions are raised. What is humankind's relationship with the rest of the animal world? Do humans have moral responsibilities and obligations toward animals and, indeed, toward the natural environment of which humans are all a part? Should animals be used at all in biomedicine? Are there alternatives? Do animals have rights? Do they deserve to be treated humanely? What limits should be set in animal experimentation? What ethics should guide the use of animals in ..."

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"Steffensmeier, Streifel and Shihadeh (1992) have noted that:
Involvement in crime generally diminishes after adolescence, implying that fluctuations in the age composition of a population may have a significant impact on overall crime rate. (p. 306)

The authors provide an example in the dramatic increases in the rates of serious crime in American observed during the 1960s being linked to the rise in babies associated with the post-World-War II "baby boom." Similarly, they note that the fact that these rates leveled off in the 1980s was associated with the post-1960s "baby bust."

Given that there appears to be a systematic association..."

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Educational practice is developed in part through the results of educational research, and an analysis of a number of recent studies shows how theory, research, and practice. Researchers have a strong awareness of the fact that what they develop in an empirical study may lead in time to changes in the classroom or administrative office, and they take this responsibility seriously and consider its ramifications, often in terms of how research should be shaped. A number of theorists indeed conduct what amounts to research on research or on specific aspects of the research process as it is utilized in the educational field. One of the ideas that emerges from a number of theoretical studies is that the experience of teachers itself serves as a form of research and that teachers who are aware of this or who are involved in more direct forms of research benefit..."

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"This research describes a behavioral modification applied experimental intervention designed to increase the homework completion rate in seventh grade social studies classes at a cooperating public middle school. Literature related to the research performed is reviewed. The experimental intervention is discussed within the contexts of the problem behavior, research population and sample, the intervention and procedure, and research results.

Literature Review
Wells and Miller (1993, p. 781) reported the development of an intervention model to deal with affective aggressive behavior exhibited by ..."

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"Do ESL students enrolled in informal classes which emphasize conversation with native-speakers of English experience greater gains in English proficiency than do ESL students enrolled in formal or traditional ESL classes which do not emphasize conversation with native speakers? This study was designed to answer this question.

Subjects in the study consisted of Arab ESL students, all of whom had been originally taught English by non-native speakers of the language and who were now taking ESL classes with native-speakers of English. All subjects were pre- and posttested using a researcher-designed instrument measuring language proficiency. The instrument was designed using the cloze procedure.

One half of the students were assigned to ESL classes where..."

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"This research presents an overview of factor analysis and multivariate analysis procedures. Additionally, the advantages and disadvantages of each set of procedure are identified.

Factor Analysis
Many research studies generate vast quantities of data. These data more often than not are multidimensional and are characterized by multicollinearity (Summers, Peters, and Armstrong, 1993, p. 555). In most instances, if the data are to be used effectively, it is necessary to reduce the number of explanatory variables to more manageable proportions.
Factor analysis is a general descriptor for a group of specific computational procedures (Emory, 1992, p. 559). Each of the ..."

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"On May 19, 1995, the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations under section 861 of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to the allocation and apportionment of research and experimental expenses for purposes of determining taxable income from US and foreign sources. The proposed regulations would amend regulations issued in 1977. The issue of research and experimental expenses is a critical one since companies, particularly high-technology companies, depend on these expenses in order to fund their future growth. The ramifications of changing the regulations are far-reaching, and the considerable changes which the regulations have already undergone have caused some amount of upheaval in the business community. This research considers the proposed changes and their possible effect on research and development a..."

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"ABSTRACT
The proposed research project will explore the issue of stress experienced by working mothers in relation to family/work conflicts. The goals of the proposed research project are to (1) accurately identify the sources of anxiety and stress experienced by working mothers in relation to conflicts between family and organizational responsibilities, and (2) identify feasible organizational responses to the problem sources. The attainment of these goals will benefit working mothers, employing organizations, and society.

The proposed research will be cross-sectional in character. The cross-sectional approach will be used because it is desired to assess the stress related to family-work conflicts as that stress is experienced by women working at all hierarchical levels of an organization, .."

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"THE RISE OF EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE
AND THE SHAPING OF PSYCHOLOGY
Introduction
This research explores the influence of the rise of experimental science in the nineteenth century on the shaping of the theoretical and conceptual bases of psychology. The effect of the relationship between experimental science and psychology on perceptions of the validity of psychology also is addressed.

The Rise of Experimental Science
The rise of experimental science in the nineteenth century initiated a shift away from a process whereby discoveries were fitted into existing views of nature and toward a development of new concepts and theories (Wolpert, 1992, pp. ix-xiv). Mendel's work in the 1860s on inheritance factors led to the development of the science..."

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"The purpose of this research is to examine the pattern of ideas in Warrior Dreams by James William Gibson. The plan of the research will be to set forth the principal lines of argument of the work, and then to explore the means by which the arguments are developed and resolved, with reference to classical sociological theories, modern theoretical constructs, and the method used by the author to elaborate themes and sociological interpretations, all with a view toward evaluating the validity of the through line of reasoning, interpretation, and recommendations made in the work.

The pattern of ideas in Warrior Dreams is to chart the response of a particular subculture to the transformation of society and persons in the popular American culture brought about by the disillusionment of the U.S. loss of the Vietnam war and the ..."