Preschool Attainment Record Attainment Quotients and Category scores were compared to determine whether there were significant differences between the way parents and teachers evaluate 5-year-old children. The subjects were 20 Head Start and 20 middle-income children as well as their mothers, fathers, and teachers. A total of 120 Preschool Attainment Record interviews were collected, 40 with teachers and 80 with parents. Attainment Quotients and Category scores were calculated by computer. A repeated measurement design was used to test for significant differences in Attainment Quotient and Intellectual, Social, and Physical Category scores. No significant differences were found for mothers', fathers', and teachers' Attainment Quotients. There was a significant difference between parents' and teachers' ratings for Intellectual and Social Category scores for lower-income boys. Attainment Quotient means were grouped and analyzed for differences in ratings within and between the five preschool centers used in the study. Attainment Quotient means were highest in the two middle-income centers. Attainment Quotient means were also compared for first and later-born children. No significant difference existed between ratings by mothers, fathers, and teachers. / Master of Science

A linear programming model for multiple use was developed for the High Knob Unit of the Jefferson National Forest. The model was intended to be a pilot study for the development of similar models for other units in the Appalachians. The model was developed to provide information about trade-offs between timber, recreational activities, and budgets during the 10 year planning period. Currently used estimates and "rules of thumb" were used as the means for relating the activities considered in the model. The objective function used was timber maximization and it was constrained by the activity and budget constraints. The maximum possible timber volume that could be cut was found for the High Knob Unit by using only acreage constraints on the objective function. Then the constraints for the other activities were added, each of which being tied to the timber variables. An initial optimal solution was found which not only gave values for the amounts of the activities that would be best to produce but also where they were to occur on the ground. To provide information about trade-offs, a sensitivity analysis was done to provide a series of solutions for the High Knob Unit. These solutions were evaluated and recommendations were made for the High Knob Unit. Benefits and limitations of the model were discussed as were the problems encountered in developing the High Knob LP. Suggestions for future study were also made. / Master of Science

The purpose of this investigation was to characterize the effect of ozone upon a selected textile dyeing and finishing wastewater, with primary emphasis placed on noting the effect of ozone on the color of the wastewater. The parameters measured during the study included color, chemical and five-day biochemical oxygen demand, pH, dissolved oxygen, total organic carbon, ozone residual, total and suspended solids, and turbidity. The results of the investigation showed that color was removed to a significant degree from the selected wastewater by the action of ozone. Up to 80 percent of the original color of the wastewater was removed by ozonation. COD removals ranging from 20 to 30 percent were also measured. In addition, significant increases in the amounts of suspended solids and turbidity were noted to occur with increased ozonation. / Master of Science

This thesis is serving as a study report on 15 years or wildlife research performed at the 11,422-acre Broad Run Wildlife Research Area, also known at the Broad Run Management Area, in Craig County, Virginia, Incorporated in this thesis is a synthesis of all pertinent data, conclusions, evaluations, and recommendations emanating from the 17 theses written from studies undertaken at Broad Run. From these 17 theses there has been gleaned 193 results which are included in this thesis. These results took the form as either facts, summary conclusions, distilled background discussions, or as evaluations on information unearthed or research performed. Five works emanating from studies at Broad Run concerned attempts to quantify browse and mast. Four theses concerned the wild turkey, its movements, distribution, and abundance as influenced by wildlife management practices. Three theses concerned deer, its abundance and the influence, if any, on its population by dogs. Two theses were concerned with such wildlife practices as agricultural clearings and herbicide use, while the remaining theses were on the subjects of wild grapes, birth control in foxes, climate as an influence on the deer hunter, and the influence of forest habitat on songbird populations. / Master of Science

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Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2014

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Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2019.

Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2014-2015 / Cette étude prend pour objet la pratique sculpturale de l’artiste québécois David Altmejd, né en 1974. Aménageant des paysages bigarrés s’articulant autour de la rencontre d’une affluence d’objets, de matériaux hétéroclites et personnages étranges, Altmejd conçoit ses sculptures comme de petits mondes à part qui toujours semblent traversés par une énergie transformatrice. L’enjeu de cette recherche est de mettre en lumière les stratégies formelles et conceptuelles par lesquelles l’artiste réinterroge la notion classique de la métamorphose. Par l’analyse des œuvres et du discours de l’artiste, le tout tenant compte de l’expérience du spectateur, cette étude veut montrer comment David Altmejd s’approprie et reformule cette notion de métamorphose dans un langage qui lui est propre. Propice aux échanges et aux communications contre-nature, ce langage permet, selon-nous, de remettre en question certains codes par lesquels nous appréhendons et définissons le mouvement, voire, le monde en mouvement. / This study investigates the sculptural practice of David Altmejd, an artist from Québec born in 1974. Setting up mixed landscapes, in which are blended numerous objects, heterogeneous materials and strange characters, Altmejd creates sculptures as if they were small worlds in themselves, expressing their own transformative energy. We will seek to unveil the formal and conceptual strategies that the artist uses to re-examine the classical notion of metamorphosis. Taking into consideration the experience of the spectator, we will analyse David Altmejd’s work and speech in order to demonstrate how he manages to grasp and reformulate the notion of metamorphosis using a language of his own: permeable to exchanges and communications that go beyond our natural way of seeing things, a language that enables him to challenge some of the codes traditionally used to apprehend and define movement, and, extensively, the world itself.