Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University / It is the purpose of this survey to discover the answers to three important local educational questions: 1. What are the characteristics and abilities Manchester employers consider most desirable for an employee? 2. What calibre of student is the employer now meeting in Manchester graduates who become job-applicants? 3. What factors may be brought to light which might influence the elementary school?

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / A major role of secondary education for the 1990's and beyond will be to provide computer education. The purpose of this study was to investigate what computer instruction was being offered in the secondary schools of New Hampshire. The study focused on the perceptions of three groups in order to determine what type of computer education, curriculum content, and expected competencies were being required. Procedure: A questionnaire was designed, tested, and used to collect data from 148 business computer teachers, 148 mathematics computer teachers, and 101 data processing managers from the State of New Hampshire. Part I of the questionnaire included general demographic information, while Part II contained ninety-two items organized into forty-four questions uqing a five point Likert Scale. Of the total population (N=397), two hundred fifty-two or 63% returned the questionnaire. Findings: Basic, Pascal and Fortran were the most commonly taught computer languages in the secondary schools, but data processing managers clearly do not regard them as essential. Data Processing Managers and the Mathematics Computer Teachers both agreed that computer literacy instruction was the most important followed by computer applications and computer programming. In contrast the Business Computer Teachers reported computer programming most important followed by computer literacy and computer applications. Additional instruction, as perceived by the three groups, was needed in improving communication skills, developing problem solving techniques, and providing additional software applications. Conclusion: Several conclusions regarding secondary computer education in the State of New Hampshire were drawn. There was total agreement that the top three computer applications taught in schools were used in business. However, the perceptions regarding (1) type of computer education, (2) curriculum content, and (3) expected competencies were significantly different. Recommendations Are: (1) Instructional priorities need to be identified by secondary computer teachers and data processing managers; (2) partnership with New Hampshire businesses needs to be established; and (3) more data should be generated a) by local, state, and national educational agencies, in order to establish adequate foundations and standards for computer education, and b) further research in each of the areas of secondary computer education needs to be considered. / 2031-01-01

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Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / This exploratory study is an attempt (1) to provide information concerning the incidence of • epilepsy in New Hampshire and (2) in the light of this incidence to consider the role of the public health nurse in the care of the epileptic child.

Engulfed by the tumultuous 1960s, seventeen-year-old Katherine Dayes conceals her pregnancy from the conservative seaside community of Samphire, her hometown. The novella traces a year in Katherine's life, from her summer of love through a winter stained by blood and moonlight. Throughout the story, Katherine endures the push and pull of a culture torn between tradition, represented by community leader Margaret Blythe, and modernism, embodied by the free spirit Evelyn Partridge. Inspired by the life of an actual eighteenth-century woman, Samphire explores the complexities of the 1960s feminist movement. Using vivid imagery of natural elements, it examines opposing views of sexuality and cultural criticisms that women have faced throughout history. The character-driven narrative seeks to deconstruct societal views of teen pregnancy, motherhood, women's sexuality, and infanticide by exploring the psyche of a young woman caught between cultural perceptions and her personal reality.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1981. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Bibliography: leaves 95-99. / by Simon Muir Peacock. / M.S.

Of the 372 chicks 35% showed smut. The P1 matings clean male X clean females gave 11.4% smutty progeny, clean male X smutty females gave 30.2% smutty progeny. The smutty male X clean females gave 45.2% while smutty male X smutty females gave 69.4% smutty progeny. Of the chicks that had black heads or necks 76% showed smut as adults, but there was no relationship found between shade or down and smut in adult undercolor. Chicks with black in wings gave 47.6% smutty adults, while only 19% of the non-black were smutty as adults. From the results obtained in this experiment smut depends upon two independent pairs or autosomal genes. At one locus there is "E" gene for the extension or black throughout the feathers, or "e", recessive allele which gives no color. At the other locus is gene "Y", for red color in the under-cola; or its recessive allele "y" which gives no color. Birds of genotypes Y/Y E/E, Y/Y E/e, Y/Y e/e, Y/y E/E, Y/y E/e, Y/y e/e, and y/y e/e give no smut. Those with genotypes y/y E/E and y/y E/e have smut. The amount of smut depends upon whether the gene "E" is in the E/E or E/e condition. Some chickens with genotype Y/y E/E may show smut since the epistatic condition is weakened when gene "Y" is in the heterozygous condition. Theoretically, the most desirable genotype for producers of broilers and processors would be y/y e/e since the under-color would be white. However, this is not the color called for in the Standard. Nevertheless, breeders should select that type of bird that will satisfy his customers. Selecting birds homozygous for "e" would be a breeder's best insurance against having smut. This, however, is not easy to do. Selecting for lighter colors, both surface and undercolor, would be the best way since black helps to make the shade somewhat darker. Lighter colored birds are not as likely to have "E" at all. It was noted in both field observation and actual experiment that those birds that had smut, laid fewer eggs during a seven month period. The P1 smutty females averaged 108.4 eggs; the P1 clean females averaged 130 eggs. The smutty females of the observed flock averaged 109 eggs; the clean females of the observed flock averaged 156 eggs. On the basis of this experiment and the author's field observation it is concluded that: 1. Smut in this strain of New Hampshires is caused by the interaction or two genes, one a recessive allele of "Y", red under-color, and the other a dominant allele "E", the extension ot black throughout the feathers, 2. Although a higher percent of those chicks showing black in the wings have smut as adults, one can't be sure whether smut will show or not. 3. A high percent or those chicks having black on head or neck will have smut as adults (76%). 4. Hens of this strain that have no smut will usually lay more eggs than smutty hens during a given period. 5. It is necessary to check for smut much more often than usually done to accomplish any great improvement. 6. Progeny testing is the best procedure to follow in attempts to control smut. / M.S.

Le libéralisme politique se présente comme un système cosmopolite et universalisable. Pourtant, au cours des dernières décennies, il a souvent été accusé d’imposer arbitrairement une conception morale particulière. Comment expliquer cette apparente contradiction ? Ce travail vise à déterminer si le caractère « libéral » est nécessaire, même s’il n’est pas suffisant, pour qu’une société soit juste ; ou s’il s’agit d’un attribut contingent. Il se demande donc s’il est possible d’universaliser les principes du libéralisme politique. La thèse défendue est que seule une justification via negationis de la liberté peut être universalisable. Pour démontrer cela, nous mettrons en lumière qu’il existe une distinction qualitative entre les justifications négatives, qui font appel à la valeur politique de la liberté en tant qu’instrument de limitation du pouvoir ; et les justifications positives qui font appel à sa valeur morale, en tant que bien humain. De même, nous défendrons deux arguments : a) un principe d’asymétrie du bien et du mal, selon lequel l’évitement du mal détient une priorité épistémique et morale sur la production du bien ; et b) l’idée que le summum malum peut avoir un statut absolu et universel. Comme le soutient Judith Shklar, ce souverain mal est la cruauté. Contrairement au summum bonum, le summum malum est indépendant des éthiques particulières. Le libéralisme doit alors prouver que sa configuration politique permet d’éviter ou de réduire le mal politique pour pouvoir donner un statut normatif et universalisable aux libertés individuelles. C’est la structure argumentative du libéralisme négatif. / Political liberalism aspires to be a cosmopolitan and universal system. Yet, in the last decades, it has often been accused of arbitrarily imposing a particular conception of the good. How can we to explain this apparent contradiction? This study aims to determine if the liberal character is necessary to have a just society, even if it is not sufficient, or if it is a contingent feature. It tries to see if it is possible to universalize the principles of political liberalism. Our thesis is that only a justification of liberty via negationis can be universalized. In order to demonstrate this idea, we will highlight the qualitative distinction between the negative justifications that defend the political value of liberty as a tool to restrain power; and the positive justifications that defend its moral value, as a human good. Furthermore, we will defend two arguments: a) a principle of asymmetry of good and evil, which states that avoiding evil has an epistemic and moral priority over promoting good; and b) the idea that the summum malum can be absolute and universal. As defended by Judith Shklar, cruelty is that sovereign evil. Unlike the summum bonum, summum malum is independent from particular moralities. In order to give a normative and universal status to individual liberties, liberalism shall then prove that its political configuration allows to avoid or reduce political evil. That is the argumentative structure of negative liberalism.

Bien que la collecte de l'information hydrogéologique au Québec en soit encore à ses débuts, des documents contenant une telle information existent déjà et ont été rendus publics par le Ministère de l'Environnement, du Développement Durable et des Parcs. Or, cette information particulière ne semble pas être utilisée par les aménagistes, bien qu'elle leur soit en partie destinée. Le but de la présente étude est donc de comprendre ce qui explique que des aménagistes vont utiliser ou non l'information hydrogéologique dans leurs tâches d'aménagement. Pour ce faire, il a été proposé de réaliser une étude de cas dans un État américain où il semblait déjà exister une quantité appréciable de ce type d'information, et où les aménagistes semblaient de surcroît en user couramment. Cet État est celui du New Hampshire, situé tout près du Québec. Grâce à l'étroite collaboration d'un intervenant du New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, un questionnaire a été élaboré puis envoyé à tous les aménagistes de l'État. Ce dernier a permis de constituer des variables à partir des réponses obtenues, puis de procéder à une analyse statistique visant notamment à mesurer l'influence de ces dernières sur le fait qu'un aménagiste utilise l'information hydrogéologique ou non, ou encore à mesurer leur influence sur la propension d'une municipalité à agir pour protéger son eau souterraine. Des visites de terrain ont par la suite été effectuées afin de compléter l'information recueillie par l'entremise du questionnaire. Les recommandations formulées à la fin de cette étude viennent enfin proposer des solutions concrètes pour faire en sorte que l'information hydrogéologique québécoise soit plus utilisée par nos aménagistes d'ici, toujours en se basant sur l'expérience vécue au New Hampshire en termes de protection de l'eau souterraine.

The post war years have seen a steady flow of inmigration into the rural hinterlands of conurbations, eminating both from the surrounding rural areas and from the urban complexes themselves. By 1981 over one fifth of Britain's population was resident in a rural district, the majority falling within zones close to urban centres. This study, based on one year's participant observation in seven settlements within southern Staffordshire, part of the rural hinterland of the West Midlands Conurbation, and southern Hampshire, adjacent to the Southampton - Portsmouth axis, the South Hampshire Conurbation, assess this process. Using the technique of Cluster Analysis, three broad groupings of settlement are identified: the small agricultural settlement, the urbanised commuter village, and settlements in a process of transition between the two. The development of the case settlements, representatives of these three groupings, is assessed in relation to their historical and geographical context, with emphasis being placed on land tenure and local planning policy. An analysis is undertaken of the "hinterland population", the diverse populations now resident within the rural hinterlands. Nine broad groupings emerge from this population, identifiable with reference to socio-economic characteristics and ways of life, and these are examined in relation to their use, their environments, social networks and patterns of behaviour, and perceptions of their place of residence. These groups are represented in various proportions within each settlement type, in relation to the dominant housing class found there. As a result a variety of community forms are seen to be developing, with a polarisation of settlements along class lines. Running concurrently with this, two theoretical concepts are introduced based on the approach of Symbolic Interactionism. These are the Triadic Relationship, and Place Centredness, which provide a more humanistic framework for the analysis. The inclusion of these concepts enables an assessment to be made of the notions of "rurality" and "truly rural population".