The present study was an attempt to differentiate between emotionally handicapped, learning disabled, and regular education children based on their responses to the Neuropsychological Symptom Inventory-Child Version, the Personality Inventory for Youths, and their parents' responses to the Personality Inventory for Children.Factor analysis of the NSI-Child Version revealed four unique factors, of which two were able to differentiate the regular and special education groups. No observable differences were noted between the two special education groups on the basis of their raw factor scores. Similarly, no differences were observed between the two special education groups on the basis of their responses to the PIY. Salient differences were observed on the PIC with the emotionally handicapped children reported to have pervasive emotional and behavioral problems in comparison to the mild cognitive/academic and behavioral difficulties of the learning disabled children.Results are discussed as they relate to previous research and future directions for study. / Department of Educational Psychology

The present study examined the psychometric properties, including factor structure, reliability, and validity of the Ksiazak Adult Giftedness Scale, a measure of characteristics of adult giftedness. Principal components analysis, as well as analyses of correlations between scores on the Ksiazak Adult Giftedness Scale and other measures, were performed to answer three research questions: 1) Can a reliable measure of characteristics of adult giftedness be developed? 2) Can a valid measure of characteristics of adult giftedness be developed? and 3) What is the factor structure of a measure of characteristics of adult giftedness? Results indicated that the Ksiazak Adult Giftedness Scale has adequate reliability and validity and appears to have a unifactorial structure. Theoretical, research, and practice implications are discussed in relation to the findings. Methodological limitations to the study and directions for future research are also offered. / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

Entrepreneurial opportunities are found in literature to be discovered,recognized, and created by entrepreneurs. This thesis aims to explore andexplain the influences upon entrepreneurs in terms of knowledge, and knowledgesources, in the opportunity identification stage. However, even though it isfound in literature that knowledge is a main influencer in the first stage ofthe entrepreneurial process, the approaches to explain the influences onentrepreneurs for entrepreneurial opportunities are not consistent, whichcreates confusion about the sources of knowledge that influence entrepreneurs,in combination with the type of knowledge. In order to further explore andexplain the area, research is done, and cases are formed by interviewingentrepreneurs from eleven companies. The results from the interviews are thencompared, and related back to the literature findings. In the analysis it isfound that sources such as work-experience, education, hobbies, and role modelshelp entrepreneurs to gain knowledge in the industry where he or she havestarted a venture from an opportunity. These sources of knowledge havecontributed to market pull knowledge, and it is also found that there is arelationship between prior knowledge and alertness, which has to do with theability to find useful knowledge.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate, through narrative analysis, the arrival stories of Latino/a immigrants into the Canadian school system, and to examine how their migration experience influences their identification process. The data to be analysed was collected during interviews conducted for the Proyecto Latin@ project; a research that looks into the perspectives of Latino/a youth towards school desertion and their experiences as Latino/a students in Canada. Interviews analysed included students with recent arrival dates into Canada ( < 3 years at the time of interviews). Their narratives displayed a shift in ideology as students internalized the dominant discourse and present a conundrum for students struggling in school. This analysis attempts to add to the growing body of knowledge on the specific difficulties faced by the Latino/a youth upon their arrival into Canada, as well as how their identities develop and shift during this process.

The purpose of this study is to investigate, through narrative analysis, the arrival stories of Latino/a immigrants into the Canadian school system, and to examine how their migration experience influences their identification process. The data to be analysed was collected during interviews conducted for the Proyecto Latin@ project; a research that looks into the perspectives of Latino/a youth towards school desertion and their experiences as Latino/a students in Canada. Interviews analysed included students with recent arrival dates into Canada ( < 3 years at the time of interviews). Their narratives displayed a shift in ideology as students internalized the dominant discourse and present a conundrum for students struggling in school. This analysis attempts to add to the growing body of knowledge on the specific difficulties faced by the Latino/a youth upon their arrival into Canada, as well as how their identities develop and shift during this process.

Title page, table of contents and preface only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University of Adelaide Library. / Forensic odontology has been defined as the application of dental science to the administration of the law and the furtherance of justice. It involves the correct handling, examination and presentation of dental evidence in both civil and criminal matters. Its principal role is in the personal identification of the living and the dead that may be the victims of criminal activity, mass disasters or accidental events. It is also concerned with the determination of age of persons and the investigation of tooth marks on skin and any other substance which may have forensic significance. The importance of dental evidence as a means of identification has been recognised for many years. Modern forensic odontology dates back to the tragic fire in the Bazaar de la Charite in Paris on 4th May 1897, resulting in 126 deaths. The problem of identification of the victims was addressed by M. Albert Hans, the Paraguayan Consul, who proposed calling for the assistance of the dentists who had treated the deceased. Subsequently, Dr Oscar Amoedo, a Cuban dentist living in Paris, using the experiences of these dentists, published a thesis entitled 'L'Art Dentaire en Medecine Legale' which soon became recognised as the standard textbook on forensic odontology I first became aware of the potential for identification by means of dental evidence when I was a child. One evening in October, 1939, my dentist father was called out by the police to attend at the city morgue to view the body of a patient who had been decapitated by a train at a suburban level crossing. He was asked whether he could recognise gold inlays he had placed in the victim's mouth and thereby identify him. He was not required to make a formal written report but merely a nod of the head was sufficient at that time. My particular interest in forensic odontology, however, was inspired in 1961 when I attended a lecture arranged jointly by the Dental Board of South Australia and the Law society, presented by visiting Professor Gosta Gustafson, Professor of Oral Pathology at the Dental School, University of Lund, Malmo, Sweden, on the subject "Dental Aspects of Forensic Medicine". I was fascinated by his graphic accounts of the cases he had undertaken, particularly those during the second world war when, as Sweden had maintained its neutrality, his expertise in identification had been utilised by both warring sides. I was intrigued by his description of the method he used when called by the German High Command to determine the number of persons who had been present at the time of the explosion of a bomb in the bunker on the occasion of the unsuccessful attempt by a group of high ranking German generals to assassinate Adolph Hitler towards the end of World War II. He gathered all the victims' teeth scattered about the walls inside the bunker, made ground transverse sections of each tooth, compared each section microscopically War II. He gathered all the victims' teeth scattered about the walls inside the bunker, made ground transverse sections of each tooth, compared each section microscopically and matched those which demonstrated the same pattern of enamel development. In 1967, Inspector Ted Calder and Senior Sergeant Barry Cocks, on behalf of the South Australia Police Department, addressed a regular monthly meeting of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Dental Association, and appealed for a group of volunteer dentists to be formed to assist in emergencies requiring dental expertise, particularly in situations involving the identification of victims of major disasters. I was present at that meeting and submitted my name as a volunteer. When some six months had elapsed without hearing anything further about this group, I phoned the secretary of the Dental Association who informed me that since only one member had volunteered, nothing more had been done about the proposal. I then phoned Sergeant Cocks and he invited me to join him next day for lunch at the staff cafeteria at Police Headquarters. Sergeant Cocks urged me to join the South Australian Branch of the Forensic Science Society which was being organised under the chairmanship of Mr Andrew Wells, then Crown Prosecutor and later a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia. This I did and subsequently became a member of its steering committee. When it became known that I was available as a volunteer to assist in cases requiring expertise in forensic odontology, I soon began receiving requests from the police to assist in cases requiring dental identification. The post mortem material from these cases was usually brought by police officers in person to my surgery, often in buckets carried through the waiting room. I would also receive calls from Dr Manock asking me to call at his office to collect skulls for identification. I would work on these cases at night in my home. In South Australia, services in forensic pathology were originally provided by pathologists from the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS) located on the campus of the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Forensic autopsies were carried out in the City Morgue situated in the grounds of the West Terrace Cemetery until December, 1978, when its function was transferred to the new Forensic Science Centre in Divett Place, which included a modern mortuary on the ground floor. The Coroner and his courtroom were situated on the first floor of the same building which was named The Forensic Science Centre. In 1968, Dr Colin Manock, a specialist forensic pathologist from England was appointed to the IMVS, and he was joined by Dr Ross James in 1973. Subsequently both were transferred to State Services at the Forensic Science Centre. In 1973, the Criminal Law and Penal Methods Reform Committee was established by the Government of South Australia under the chairmanship of the Hon Justice Roma Mitchell. She immediately invited submissions on, inter alia, forensic science. Acting on a suggestion by Sergeant Cocks, I prepared a submission on forensic odontology, proposing that a dedicated forensic odontology laboratory be established in the Dental School of the University of Adelaide. This would provide a specialised service to the Coroner and the Commissioner of Police. It would also provide facilities and an environment conducive to education and research in this field. When the Mitchell report was published, it included my submission word for word Since many of the cases that presented required attendance in courts of law, and as I had not received any special training or formal qualifications in forensic odontology, in order to satisfy the requirements of the courts for qualifying as an expert witness, I felt the need for further education in this subject. At that time, however, forensic odontology was not widely recognised in Australia. It had not developed as a special branch of dentistry and there were no courses offered in this field here. My membership in the Forensic Science Society included a subscription to the Journal of the Forensic Science Society, and I also was able to obtain copies of The Scandinavian Society of Forensic Odontology Newsletters. From these sources I learned that forensic odontology was well advanced in Japan, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Britain. I was advised to apply for a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship which would enable me to undertake a study tour of relevant institutions in these countries. This I did, and I was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1976. (see special report: Brown Kenneth A. 1976. The status of forensic odontology in Europe and Japan.) I continued to provide this service in an honorary ad hoc capacity from 1967. This situation was most unsatisfactory because it raised legal issues concerning the security of material evidence taken by myself to work on in my home, and it was most unfair to my family. When this situation came to the knowledge of the State Government at the end of 1979, funds were made available to establish a dedicated forensic odontology service within the Dental School in the University of Adelaide in accordance with the Mitchell Report. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1523307 / Thesis (D.D.Sc.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Dentistry, 2010

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2004. / Adviser: Lisa M. Shin. Submitted to the Dept. of Psychology. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-135). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drexel University, 2007. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 220-231).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2008. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 145 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-145).