The Chora of Chersonesos on the Black Sea and Metaponto in Southern Italy, 1997.

Institute of Classical Archaeolog

Classical Landscape - Rural Archaeology At Metaponto

Anthropolog

Male obesity : a qualitative study of clinical attitudes and perspectives

This study was undertaken to explore the clinical attitudes of mental health professionals towards obese men as well as the effects of these attitudes on mental health treatment. In addition this study contributes to the growing body of literature concerning the shifting role of men\u27s body image in the United States and the ways in which this is understood in the mental health field. Interviews were conducted with 12 male and female mental health clinicians in an inpatient and outpatient setting. They were interviewed regarding their perspectives on obesity, gender and obesity, male body image, and assessment and evaluation of obesity in the clinical setting. The findings of the research showed that there are gendered perspectives toward obesity that does affect treatment. Other significant findings were that clinicians were able to conceive of many cultural aspects that generate alternate understandings of obesity. Of further interest was the lack of fluency in discussing male body image. While participants held varied attitudes, these attitudes were strongly informed by cultural bias about obesity and bias about men. Further research is needed to develop a more thorough understanding of clinician attitudes towards men who veer away from the norm in size and shape, and the impact of shifting configurations of the ideal male on male body image

The trace analysis of water for selected metallic elements employing square-wave polarography

Ph.D.Peter E. Sturroc

THE LOST KIDS PROJECT: HOW URBAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THAT ARE OVER-AGED AND UNDER-CREDENTIALED AND HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS DESCRIBE THEIR NEEDS DEFICITS

Every day, 7,000 students drop out of America’s high schools. That adds up to about 1.3 million students who will not graduate with their peers (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011, p. 1). With 1.2 million students dropping out of high school every year, the high school dropout rate is a significant problem with negative consequences for both the students and for society as a whole. While the U.S. Department of Education announced that the nation's high school graduation rate hit an all-time high of 82% in 2013-14 (“U.S. High School Graduation Rate Hits New Record High,” 2015, p. 1), most large urban school districts are struggling to get their graduation rates to 70%. In Philadelphia, the four-year graduation rate is 65% (Socolar, 2015). In Chicago, the graduation rate is 66%, as measured by the five-year graduation rate (Perez, 2015). One of the strategies that Philadelphia and Chicago are using to increase their graduation rates is opening accelerated high schools for students who are over-aged and under-credentialed to earn their high school diplomas. These accelerated high schools are not computer-based half-day programs; instead they rely on longer school days, remediation in literacy and numeracy, and a structured behavior environment to support their students in earning their high school diploma. The researcher will use archived student surveys of accelerated students enrolled in the Camelot Education’s accelerated high schools in Philadelphia and Chicago to uncover, identify and describe factors that impeded students from matriculating through high school and receiving their high school diploma. This study will identify a common profile and description of students in Camelot Education’s accelerated high schools. This study will use descriptive statistics to summarize, identify, describe and quantify what students report contribute to their becoming academically off track and making the decision to leave high school without earning their diploma. The profile and descriptions from this study will equip school leaders to explore innovative school and program designs that meet the needs of students that are over-aged and under-credentialed in large urban cities.Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Department o

Ecology and evolution of the Gastrochaenacea (Mollusca, Bivalvia) with notes on the evolution of the endolithic habitat

The Gastrochaenacea are a compact group of mechanically and chemically boring bivalves that comprise a major but commonly overlooked element of tropical and subtropical endolithic faunas….https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/peabody_museum_natural_history_bulletin/1040/thumbnail.jp

Does flexible grouping increase retention levels to improve test scores more than traditional lecture in the science classroom

The purpose of my research was to analyze the effect flexible grouping had on science retention scores. Education faces so many challenges today. The old way of teaching, traditional lecture is being challenged. For centuries, traditional lecture was the primary way of teaching and most colleges still use this teaching method. In this thesis traditional lecture and flexible grouping are compared. Through the use of pretests and posttests in my traditional and honors chemistry classes, I tested both strategies. Presentation of seven chapters were used for data collection and through the research, several things were discovered. In this study, honor students had more knowledge of subjects going into each subject than my traditional students. Data, collected for a year, showed no statistically significant differences between traditional lecture and flexible grouping. Through the normalized gain, it was discovered that flexible grouping did have a positive influence on student learning. The posttest scores on average were better for flexible grouping than traditional lecture

Upper Kittitas County Consolidation: A Study of the Effects of School District Reorganization in the Cle Elum-Roslyn School District 404 of the State of Washington

This study examines the effects of school reorganization in Upper Kittitas County on school costs, program, and construction. It determines the effect consolidation had on the attitudes of school district patrons, and whether pre-consolidation promises had been kept. This study determines that costs have risen, pupil-teacher ratios have improved, curriculum offerings have expanded, and new school building has occurred. The study finds little change in the attitude of school patrons, and determines some promises were kept, but many were not