The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between the levels of support from family and non-family members to the academic performance of urban black disadvantaged college students. The research was designed to answer the question of whether students who expected and received high family and/or non-family support would do better academically than those who expected high support but received low support. The conceptual framework on which the study was based was of "the family as a social system," as formulated by Biddle and Thomas. Data were collected from 44 students at a four-year urban commuter college located in New York City. These students were first-semester freshmen. Some were in an educational opportunity program which limited its eligibility criteria to persons with high school averages below 80 and family incomes at or below the poverty level. The other portion of the sample group met all of the criteria listed, but was not in the educational opportunity program. The students were administered a survey form at two times during the Spring 1980 semester. The instruments were designed by the researcher to elicit their perception of expectations of support and actual receiving of support from family and/or non-family members in the emotional, social, financial and informational categories. These categories continuously came up during counseling sessions with students. A Kruskal-Wallis One-Way Analysis of Variance was performed to determine if there was a significant relationship between the degree of supportiveness from family and non-family members and the academic achievement of urban black disadvantaged college students. The results of the tests did not support the research hypothesis. However, there was definite relationship between support expected and support received. The major implication of the study is that there may be other more important factors which have an influence on urban disadvantaged students' academic performance. The implication for social workers in higher education is that as counselors they must be concerned with students and the promotion of policies that have overall social policy implications which will allow the higher education arenas to meet the range of students' needs with understanding and sensitivity.

Effective October 1, 1978, New Jersey mandated independent review of all out-of-home placements supervised and approved for payment by the Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS). The law authorized each county's Superior Court Assignment Judges to appoint five-member Child Placement Review Boards who must make recommendations to the judge within 45 days of the child's entry into care; all cases must be reviewed at least annually. Semi-structured telephone interviews with members of 36 Boards and 26 persons from DYFS some two years after review was implemented indicated that the Boards varied greatly in the degree to which they exercised their authority. Boards which assumed an independent role were more likely to (1) require DYFS workers to give testimony on all cases; (2) meet weekly; (3) review at least 12 cases at each meeting; (4) have contact with their judge; and (5) reschedule cases before the next mandated annual review. This latter practice, commonly known as "re-review" or "relist", probably did more to demonstrate the Boards' independent role than formal disagreements with DYFS. Formal disagreements were relatively infrequent, presumably because most children were in the only care arrangement possible. Re-review, on the other hand, recognized the impracticability of immediate return home or adoption but held DYFS accountable for taking timely action to ensure permanence for children. The study described the various ways local DYFS offices prepared for review and local Board-DYFS relationships. The impact of review was considered by eliciting respondents' assessments of review. All 36 Board respondents and all but four DYFS respondents felt that DYFS gave more careful attention to case planning because they knew they would have to report to an outside body. Fourteen Board respondents and 24 DYFS liaisons identified at least one disadvantage. The study concludes with an endorsement for independent review and offers recommendations for strengthening it. The study recommends that further research be undertaken to more rigorously study the effects of review.

杜敏玲. / "2009年6月". / "2009 nian 6 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [78]-82). / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Du Minling. / 摘要 --- p.i / 鳴謝 --- p.ii / 目錄 --- p.iii / 序言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 核心家庭的歷史發展 --- p.4 / Chapter 1. --- 家庭形態的發展 --- p.4 / Chapter 2. --- 核心家庭是理想家庭的唯一典範 --- p.9 / Chapter 3. --- 小結 --- p.14 / Chapter 第二章 --- 家庭論述與規訓 --- p.15 / Chapter 1. --- 家庭論述規範下的非核心家庭 ´ؤ 以《家庭暴力條例》修訂爲案例 --- p.15 / Chapter 2. --- 家庭論述的規範 --- p.19 / Chapter 3. --- 家庭作爲家庭價値 --- p.22 / Chapter 第三章 --- 唯一抑或多元 ´ؤ 基督教信仰下的家庭 --- p.25 / Chapter 1. --- 家庭制度與家庭關係 --- p.25 / Chapter 2. --- 父權支配與獨身社群 --- p.28 / Chapter 3. --- ´ؤ夫一妻的保障與一生一世的壓迫 --- p.29 / Chapter 4. --- 婚姻關係與獨身恩賜 --- p.30 / Chapter 5. --- 男女分工抑或彼此配搭 --- p.31 / Chapter 6. --- 父權中心與女性主義 --- p.32 / Chapter 7. --- 小結 --- p.33 / 結語 ´ؤ 由排他至共融 --- p.34 / 附錄一 婚外情論述 --- p.35 / 參考書目 --- p.78

Thesis (M.A.)--Sonoma State University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-117).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / Title from title screen (viewed Feb. 20, 2007). Includes bibliographical references. Online version of the print original.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-96).

Today, mass customization has emerged as a manufacturing paradigm for a number of enterprises to efficiently and effectively satisfy customers requirements for product variety. The competitive nature of todays market makes it necessary for designers to have a methodology for designing customized products in such a dynamic environment. The Product Platform Constructal Theory Method (PPCTM), developed by Dr. Gabriel Hernandez, provides designers a methodical approach for synthesizing multiple modes of managing variety in the development of product platforms for customized products. The use of the PPCTM results in a hierarchical organization of the modes of managing customization, as well as the specification of their range of application across the product platform. The focus in this thesis is to augment the PPCTM in order to develop an effective product platform design method that alleviates three of its major limitations: inability to deal with uncertain distributions of demand, changing design parameters and changing extents of marketplaces. The infusion of concepts of robustness helps to address the first two limitations making the product platforms unaffected by large variations in demand and design parameters. The compromise Decision Support Problem is proposed to address the third limitation of changing extents of marketplaces by making tradeoffs between objectives of the initial market extent and future probable extensions. The result of this work is an augmented PPCTM that facilitates the synthesis of multiple modes for managing product variety in the presence of a dynamic environment. The augmented method is used to design a line of customizable pressure vessels and hand exercisers.

Thesis (M. Div.)--Emmanuel School of Religion, 2007. / Vita. Description based on microfiche version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-83).

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2002. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 36 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-31).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Murdoch University, 2010. / Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts and Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-271)