A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Education in the fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2012. / This study examined the experiences of young school-going mothers with regard to how their teachers, classmates/peers and the community view them. A qualitative research design was deemed on appropriate approach for this study. The sample comprised of 10 young school- going mothers from 5 high schools in Leribe district of Lesotho. Interviews were used to collect data individually and in focus groups. Data were analyzed qualitatively using the process of content analysis. Information emanating from the interviewers were transcribed and coded into themes pertaining to the school-going mothers’ experiences in high schools. The findings suggest that the young mothers were not supported by some of their teachers; they were rejected by their peers and classmates and, labeled by the community they live in. Sample comprised 10 young mothers from 5 high schools in Leribe district of Lesotho. On the basis of the findings, both curative and preventative strategies were recommended for dealing with young school going mothers.

the problem was to take a group of poems from a work entitled The Dark Land, by Kathleen Tankersley Young, and set them to music in such a manner as to produce a unified, artistic, whole, A string quartet was chosen as an accompanying group because of a desire to produce a work comparable in scope and seriousness of content to a piece of chamber music.

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Measuring the participation of young children is important in informing their health and well being and designing rehabilitation services. To our knowledge, there are no participation measures that have been developed or adapted to the Singapore context. The Young Children’s Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM) was developed in North America and its content may not be relevant to the Singapore context. Three studies were conducted to culturally adapt and validate the YC-PEM with children with and without developmental needs in Singapore. These studies involved (1) adapting the YC-PEM culturally based on interviews with 10 service providers and 10 parents, (2) evaluating the psychometric properties of the adapted YC-PEM with 151 children with and without developmental needs in Singapore and, (3) examining the validity and utility of the YC-PEM to describe and compare the participation patterns between children with and without developmental needs in their childcare/preschool and community environments. The outcome of this dissertation is a culturally relevant and validated YC-PEM (Singapore) for young children with and without developmental needs, aged 0 to 7 years old. The YC-PEM (Singapore) could be used by service providers to provide participation-focused intervention and researchers to implement population-based research to improve the participation of young children in Singapore. New knowledge has been developed through the cultural adaption process of the YC-PEM. Firstly, it is important to adapt instruments culturally before they are used in a new culture, even when language translation is not required. Secondly, cognitive interviews were found to be useful in the cultural adaption process. Thirdly, participation and perceived environmental support differences were found between children with and without developmental needs in Singapore as well as children between Singapore and America. Cultural influences such as the society’s political agenda and parental beliefs were hypothesized to have potential influence on the participation of young children. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (page 29). / An attempt was made at reconstructing the now decommissioned World War II era destroyer USS Cassin Young using blueprints on file at the Hart Nautical Museum . After the electronic model was constructed, an attempt was made to run an FEA analysis to determine stress levels in the ship's hull. The ship was made using the various Solidworks tools available including surfacing and extrusion tools while using the available blueprints for recreation accuracy. The FEA was not completed due to problems encountered in the meshing and analysis of the complex geometry of the ship hull. / by Malik Miller. / S.B.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-130).