The study which was presented in this thesis was an attempt by the administrators at a state institution for the mentally retarded to determine the effects of providing staff with performance feedback in order to increase the staff's implementation of assigned duties, which were defined as implementing the training programs and writing of weekly progress notes relative to the training objectives for assigned residents. During the course of the study additional interventions were introduced which compounded or appeared to intensify the effects of the pro-vision of performance feedback to the staff. Prior to the discussion of the afore mentioned study, the thesis presents a brief historical view of the development of institutions for the mentally retarded in the U. S.

This study presents a comprehensive overview of pedestrian mall design and associated criteria. The pedestrian has, over time, been removed as the most dominant form of street life by automated and mass transportation. Cities are attempting to solve this dilemma. Several cities have renovated lengths of street to pedestrian malls in the hopes of drawing people back to the downtown environment. Detailed looks at selected case studies provide several relevant criteria including programmed activities, the need for some form of vehicular access and large retail diversity. The criteria were utilized in the design of a pedestrian corridor in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, in conjunction with the renovation of the Louisville Galleria. Two site designs were performed based upon the criteria to provide multiple solutions for the selected site. While the solutions presented represent the work of one individual, others may have a very different approach to the same problem. / Department of Landscape Architecture

The purpose of the study was to describe how educational specifications are utilized by architects in the design process for conventional, systems, and design-build methods of construction for educational facilities. Both a review of the related literature and interviews with architects experienced in utilizing educational specifications for designing educational facilities served as data for the study.

This thesis explores the relationship between existing museum exhibition development strategies and the potential practices which arise from the virtualisation of the museum. It does so within the context of the new disciplines which are the phenomena of new media practices, the discourses surrounding exhibition development and broader changes to museum provenance, patrimony, collection and display. / Focusing on the establishment of an exhibition discourse within diversifying new media environments, the thesis proposes a theoretical framework of textual strategies and spatial sequences which emerge from the virtualisation of the museum. The research investigates the semiotic structures which enable museum display to be conceived of as a text and proposes methods of visual analysis which can be used to evaluate exhibition as a communication form. A series of spatial and temporal sequences of virtual display are derived from theoretical exploration and case-evaluation. These form the basis of the development of the notion of sites of virtual display. Situated within an interdisciplinary framework, the research aims to contribute to exhibition development praxis by identifying generic and specific factors which contextualise the development of virtual display. / The thesis tests the theoretical framework of textual strategies and spatial sequences through the development of an ontology of virtual display. The ontology is tested through education materials developed within a social constructivist pedagogical model. Using qualitative methods, the studies test the validity of the ontology as a model for situating reflective practices within museum exhibition design. The model is intended to inform the ways in which new media technologies are applied in the museum exhibition environment. / The research responds to the challenges posed by new media technologies in negotiating and appropriating techniques of communication and display in the museum exhibition environment. / Thesis (PhDArchitectureandDesign)--University of South Australia, 2004.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (ℓ. 151-157)

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of North Texas, May, 2007. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D.Min.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2006. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 184-188).

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, August, 2001. / Title from PDF t.p.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, November, 1982. / Title from PDF t.p.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Univ., 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.