Research was undertaken to determine consumers' knowledge of available tufted manufactured carpets in today's market. Analyses were performed to determine relationships of education, age, source of income, frequency of purchasing carpet, and occupation with the respondents' knowledge of carpet. / Data were collected in a survey of middle to upper class neighborhoods in Athens, Georgia. A sample of 200 subjects was drawn. / A closed response personal interview questionnaire was used to investigate the problem. The questionnaire was devised to determine the respondents' knowledge of factors that affect: (a) wearing qualities, (b) comfort functions, and (c) appearance and retention qualities which may be considered prior to purchasing carpet. Also, the questionnaire was designed to elicit demographic information. / Duncan's test illustrated that there was no significant difference between consumers' knowledge of factors that affect wearing qualities and appearance and retention qualities. There was a significant difference, however, between consumers' knowledge of factors that affect: (a) wearing qualities and comfort functions, and (b) appearance and retention qualities and comfort functions. / Multiple Regression Analysis results indicated no significant relationship exists between consumers' knowledge of carpets and education, age, source of income, occupation, and frequency of purchasing carpet. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-02, Section: B, page: 0533. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-09, Section: B, page: 3404. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-09, Section: B, page: 3404. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.

This study documented the characteristics of the dress of the Julio-Claudian emperors, comparing literary and sculptural works contemporary and subsequent to the period. Sculpture of the Augustan period reflected a combination of Etruscan and Greek qualities, and were often loose copies of earlier Greek works that idealized the figure. Later Julio-Claudian sculpture was more realistic in figures but continued some artistic license or misunderstanding of garment characteristics. / Major garments worn by the emperors included the tunic and toga, the cuirass, and the paludamentum. Accessories included a finger ring and a fibula; a laurel wreath worn during religious or ceremonial events; a leg covering; and a type of sandal or the cothurni. / Roman emperors were most often described in one of four roles: mythological character, military general, state official, or triumphant general. Julio-Claudian emperors were shown in both literature and sculpture as military general and state official with both media consistent in depiction of dress, suggesting sculpture as a reliable indicator of their dress. Both sources show the military general as wearing the cuirass with the pteryges and lappets, a paludamentum and cothurni, or boots, and the state official as appearing in a tunic and a toga. However, there is much more sculptural than literary portrayal of Julio-Claudian emperors as mythological character, suggesting that emperors were symbolically honored as gods in statues rather than often actually dressing in that role. Sculptors showed that role wearing a white or colored paludamentum draped around the lower half of the body. Literature describes the emperor as triumphant general as wearing a white or colored tunic and toga, each ornamented with elaborate embroidery, but there are no extant full-length sculptures of Julio-Claudian emperiors in that role to make sculpture a reliable source. Thus the reliability of sculpture as a source to study Julio-Claudian imperial dress depends on the role being depicted. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-07, Section: B, page: 2126. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 19-03, page: 0245. / Thesis (M.S.)--The Florida State University, 1980.

The present study was designed to explore via laboratory analogue, the effects of two selected aspects of social environmental context--task goal structure and nature of children's relationship--on children's social comparison behavior. Specifically the effects of cooperation/competition and friendship on children's production of social comparison statements were studied. / Fifty-five pairs of preschoolers, first graders and third graders were filmed as they participated in a series of three 10-minute drawing tasks. Video records of these pairs of friends or nonfriends interacting were transcribed. Social comparison statements were identified and coded for content and function. / Task goal structure was found to impinge upon the frequency of children's social comparison statements with children producing proportionately more social comparison statements while competing than when cooperating or merely drawing side by side. Lack of friendship or age effects were attributed to the "forced comparability" of the task situation and the tendency of children 8 and younger to indiscriminately select comparison partners. / Finally, it was indicated by examination of social comparison content and function that the "bit of data" children most frequently compared was performance and that the reason underlying most social comparisons was to establish similarity. Several content and function trends by task condition, friendship status, and age level were found that warrant attention in future investigations. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-12, Section: B, page: 5258. / Major Professor: Murray Krantz. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-06, Section: B, page: 2626. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1978.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-06, Section: B, page: 2625. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-06, Section: B, page: 2626. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 32-11, Section: B, page: 6500. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1971.