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Abstract:The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of war and peace of young American and German children. The sample consisted of 80 fourth graders, 40 from each country, chosen from urban schools, with an equal number of boys and girls. Each child was asked to take two photographs, one representing war and one peace, and was interviewed individually about the photographs, the sources of information regarding war and peace, the...

Abstract:This experimental study looked at the effects of newspaper "adwatches" designed to check the factualness of political advertising in a local campaign. Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model as a framework, the study tested source credibility as a peripheral cue vs. argument quality as a central processing cue. Dependent variables included evaluation of the candidate, the ad, and likelihood of voting for the candidate. Dissertation Dis...

Abstract:This experimental study looked at the effects of newspaper "adwatches" designed to check the factualness of political advertising in a local campaign. Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model as a framework, the study tested source credibility as a peripheral cue vs. argument quality as a central processing cue. Dependent variables included evaluation of the candidate, the ad, and likelihood of voting for the candidate. Dissertation Dis...

Abstract:Sleep behaviorDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Sleep Length and Variability:" by Royce Marvin White, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, th...

Abstract:forms(mathematics)Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "On the Existence of a Primitive (properly or Improperly) Ternary Quadratic Form Associated With a Given Determinant." by Syed Asadulla, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digita...

Abstract:Structure theorems for the generalization of all modules over all rings.Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Certain Well-factored Categories." by Stephen Jackson Maxwell, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work...

Abstract:A phenomenological study of the criminal "careers."Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The Nonprofessional Property Offender" by Thomas Matthew Meisenhelder, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may also be ...

Abstract:The disinfection of public water supplies with elemental iodine.Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The Disinfection of Public Water Supplies With Elemental Iodine." by Riley Nelson Kinman, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digita...

Abstract:Dissertation on Fission Fragment Excited Argon and XenonDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Spectroscopy of Fission Fragment Excited Atmospheric Pressure Argon and Xenon Plasmas" by Robert Nelson Davie, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. ...

Abstract:This research investigated the mating behavior of the horn fly in laboratory studies and examined the role of selected semiochemicals in mating behavior.Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The Role of Semiochemicals in the Behavior of the Horn Fly Haematobia Irritans (L.) (Diptera: Muscidae)" by H...

Abstract:Fluctuation phenomenon (both thermal and shot noise) were measured in the junctions of bipolar junction transistors (BJT's) at liquid nitrogen temperatures and beyond.Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Noise in Bipolar Junction Transistors at Cryogenic Temperatures." by Thomas Edward Wade, was ob...

Abstract:DissertationDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The Round Jet." by Donald Arthur Dietrich, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, the IR@UF. The ...

Abstract:An econometric model employing panel data from Burkinabe farms in West Africa's Sahel region accounting for goods both supplied and demanded by the household to determine the supply and demand elasticities for staple cereals.Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "An Agricultural Household Model for B...

Abstract:DissertationDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The Round Jet." by Donald Arthur Dietrich, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may also be found in the university's institutional repository, the IR@UF. The ...

Abstract:Studies of the mechanism of action of the fungal toxin, Victorin.Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Physiological and Ultrastructural Studies of Oat Membranes Treated With Helminthosporium Victoriae Toxin" by Vernon Edward Gracen, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with...

Abstract:A method for modeling non linear systems. A FORTRAN program is included. Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Discrete Modeling of Nonlinear Systems." by Saul Goldberg, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work ma...

Abstract:Dissertation on Fission Fragment Excited Argon and XenonDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Spectroscopy of Fission Fragment Excited Atmospheric Pressure Argon and Xenon Plasmas" by Robert Nelson Davie, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. ...

Abstract:A phenomenological study of the criminal "careers."Dissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "The Nonprofessional Property Offender" by Thomas Matthew Meisenhelder, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. A free digital copy of this work may also be ...

Abstract:The widow is a recurrent character type in the novels of Anthony Trollope. Widows are major characters in many of the forty-seven novels. Ordinarily Trollope tends to repeat and to endorse the conventionally-approved patterns of behavior that governed the values of women who expected to marry or who were already married. He approves or disapproves of maidens and wives in his fiction according to their belief in or adherence to the sta...

Abstract:Tensor products of spaces of measures, and vector integrationDissertation Discovery Company and the University of Florida are dedicated to making scholarly works more discoverable and accessible throughout the world. This dissertation, "Tensor Products of Spaces of Measures and Vector Integraion in Tensor Product Spaces" by Donald P. Story, was obtained from the University of Florida and is being sold with permission from the author. ...