A History Of Reidville Private High Schools: Reidville, South Carolina

It was the purpose of this study to examine all possible material concerning the Reidville Private High Schools, from their beginning in 1857, through their forty-seven year history, to reveal the facts in connection with the type of schools, to learn how and why they were started, supported, and expired, to consider the contributions of the schools to society, and to furnish the groundwork for a study of the public schools that followed the private schools. It is hoped that this study will eliminate some of the old opinions and unreliable traditions that prevail

The exposing stitch : personal fears of childbearing

My art work has evolved with a special interest in exploring gender roles. I want to push social boundaries with dynamic interactions between objects, images and viewers. “The Exposing Stitch: Personal Fears of Childbearing” is an inquiry into my apprehension about pregnancy. My investigation of this subject is manifested through the craft of functional garment making and embroidery. I create aprons, which are generally used to protect and conceal the body, and use them to expose each of my unspoken fears related to reproduction. Muslin has become a metaphor for my own skin and embroidery, a cathartic experience. I have used the monotonous process of stitching as a way to discharge the emotional tensions caused by my fears. I correlate the time spent laboring through this process to the gestation period of pregnancy. It is my intention not only to analyze myself through “The Exposing Stitch: Personal Fears of Childbearing” but to encourage the viewer to investigate his or her unspoken fears

The different use of an urban and rural habitat by wintering and resident song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) : a case study from western North Carolina

Differences in environments have the potential to affect the behaviors of animals within these areas. In comparison to rural environments, urban environments provide a warmer microhabitat, different predation risk levels, more anthropogenic food opportunities, and artificial light sources. Non-migratory song birds within urban environments have been shown to have a higher local survival rate, earlier gonad development, and better mating success. For this research, weekly point count surveys were conducted at an urban and a rural site in western North Carolina from October 2009 to April 2010 to count and identify banded and non-banded individuals in order to determine if a difference existed between the proportions of migrating individuals. Each site contained a partial migratory population of song sparrows (Melospiza melodia), that have already been shown to differ in their average levels of aggression and boldness. Results showed that significantly more males remained as yearlong residents in the urban population than in the rural population (p = 0.024), while all females from each population migrated over the winter. Nearly ten times as many migrating song sparrows on average were observed on the rural site than on the urban site during the survey months of November 2009 to January 2010 than within the urban site (p < 0.001). These results, in conjunction with the higher abundance of summer territories in the urban site, may mean that song sparrows have different criteria for evaluating what is considered a good summer territory versus a good wintering area. The higher number of yearlong resident males at the urban site may be due to these individuals occupying their summer territory areas so that these prime sites are not taken by other males during the course of the migration period

The Effects Of Social Status On Blame Judgments

Blame judgments are social acts that people use to regulate the behavior of others. Blame judgments are unique in that they are almost always directed at an agent. Because of this social aspect, blame judgments may be subject to certain social constraints such as hierarchy and status. The current study suggests that social status will affect judgments of blame. Additionally, the current study suggests that mental state inferences of intentionality, knowledge, and preventability may explain social statuses affect on judgments of blame. Data show that individuals high in social status (e.g. CEO) receive the highest amounts of blame for bringing about a negative event compared to individuals low in social status (e.g. Staff Member). Data also show that individuals high in social status were viewed as acting more intentionally, having more knowledge, and having a greater ability to prevent harm compared to individuals with low social status. The current study suggests that, going forward, moral psychological research ought to broaden its view of the path to blame to include not only factors originating from the event (e.g., amount of harm caused), or from the perceiver (e.g., attitudes and prejudices), but also the social situation in which blame judgments are rendered

Fludarabine as a cost-effective adjuvant to enhance engraftment of human normal and malignant hematopoiesis in immunodeficient mice

There is still an unmet need for xenotransplantation models that efficiently recapitulate normal and malignant human hematopoiesis. Indeed, there are a number of strategies to generate humanized mice and specific protocols, including techniques to optimize the cytokine environment of recipient mice and drug alternatives or complementary to the standard conditioning regimens, that can be significantly modulated. Unfortunately, the high costs related to the use of sophisticated mouse models may limit the application of these models to studies that require an extensive experimental design. Here, using an affordable and convenient method, we demonstrate that the administration of fludarabine (FludaraTM) promotes the extensive and rapid engraftment of human normal hematopoiesis in immunodeficient mice. Quantification of human CD45+ cells in bone marrow revealed approximately a 102-fold increase in mice conditioned with irradiation plus fludarabine. Engrafted cells in the bone marrow included hematopoietic stem cells, as well as myeloid and lymphoid cells. Moreover, this model proved to be sufficient for robust reconstitution of malignant myeloid hematopoiesis, permitting primary acute myeloid leukemia cells to engraft as early as 8 weeks after the transplant. Overall, these results present a novel and affordable model for engraftment of human normal and malignant hematopoiesis in immunodeficient mice

Bryophytes as indicators of water level and salinity change along the northeast Cape Fear River

The focus of this study was to identify and describe bryophyte-environment relationships in wetland swamp forests of the Northeast Cape Fear River, southeastern North Carolina. A total of 44 genera consisting of 39 moss species and 21 liverwort species were identified. There was one new liverwort recorded not previously described from North Carolina, Cololejeunea setiloba. The diversity of bryophytes in the swamps of the Northeast Cape Fear River was higher than expected observations. Bryophyte densities and species richness were compared to flood depth relative to the swamp surface, salinity, and elevation of the swamp surface for three sites each with six substations within a transect from riverbank to upland edge. There was a general trend of an increase in bryophyte density and species richness as flood depth and salinity decreased from river to upland. Principal component analysis used 13 environmental variables, ranging from transect distance upriver, substation distance from river’s edge to base of upland, hydrology, elevation, duration of flooding, and salinity. These environmental variables accounted for much of the variation in the abundance of bryophyte species. A principal component biplot showed clustering between species of bryophytes with correlation between certain species and their tolerance for specific stress-related environmental variables. The majority of the bryophytes sampled were not common in the study system and have narrow habitat specificity. Although bryophytes may form a major part of several vegetation types and ecosystems, in this study, relatively few bryophyte species were ecologically abundant or dominant. Isopterygium tenerum is one occurring commonly and over a wide range of habitats. Fontinalis sullivantii, a facultative aquatic bryophyte, in the Northeast Cape Fear River can clearly tolerate low salinity water. It occurs along exposed roots and bases of trees, such as bald cypress. It is submerged at rising and high tide and partially exposed at low tide therefore exposing it to varying salinity as well as desiccation. High salinity, in the range between 5 and 15 ppt, significantly reduced photosynthetic efficiency of the moss species, Fontinalis sullivantii, on the short time scale, followed by some recovery. Desiccation after approximately 3 hours also reduced photosynthetic efficiency. However, observed physical changes in the disappearance of Fontinalis sullivantii due to a major drought suggests a strong relationship between increasing salinity and disappearance of this species. Long term implications of the current study are that bryophyte data will be used to assess future impacts due to current dredging projects in the Cape Fear River estuary

The idea of man and art

. . .let's drop the word Truth, which might lead one to believe that the despotism of certain ideas is legitimate. Instead of Truths, let's say Ideas. And let us call Idea any perceived relationship; if you wish to speak metaphorically, it is the refraction in a man's mind of an effective relationship. The number of Ideas is infinite like the number of relationships, or almost.

A developmental study of the role of category information in word identification

The studies reported here were generated out of the hypothesis that category information about a word is initially activated prior to identification of the word. Three experiments investigated the role of category information in word identification by 3rd graders, 6th graders, and adults using a serial two-choice classification paradigm. Semantic properties of lists of words and target search instructions were varied to assess the facilitation of the categorical homogeneity of the nontarget words on target word identification. Experiments 1 and 2 required subjects to identify words as exemplars or not of a predefined category as soon as possible. The target words were in lists of categorically homogeneous and categorically heterogeneous nontarget words. Nontarget categories were different from target categories

The impact of charter schools on rural traditional public-schools and their communities

Much of the research surrounding charter schools has focused on examining the achievement of students in charter schools and exploring the impact of charter schools specifically in urban areas. More charter schools have opened in recent years in rural areas, however, there is limited research surrounding the impact of these charter schools in rural areas. This study was designed to better understand how rural traditional public-schools have been impacted by the increased presence of, and competition from, charter schools in their communities, and to examine how those rural traditional public-schools have responded to this increased competition. In addition, I studied how the rural communities surrounding these traditional public-schools have been impacted the presence of charter schools in their community. In this qualitative case study, I researched the impacts of charter schools on rural traditional public-schools, the responses of rural traditional public-schools and the impact on their communities. I conducted semi-structured interviews with principals in a school feeder pattern in a rural school district in central North Carolina that has seen an increased number of charter school options arrive in their community. I also conduced semi-structured interviews with small-business owners who were tied into both the rural public-schools and the community through their small businesses, and conducted focus groups with parents from all four schools that operate in the community in which this study was located. I found that rural traditional public-schools have seen numerous impacts from the increased number of charter schools in their communities, and schools and school leaders are increasingly aware of these impacts and are working to mitigate them through increased programs and new practices within their buildings, including through the use of marketing practices and increased offerings for students and parents within their school community. I also found that rural communities are being divided as a result of the increased options for school choice, as parents who see themselves as loyal to their rural traditional public-schools feel betrayed or abandoned by parents who elect to enroll their children in charter schools, and as a result, tensions and divisions have emerged in the community

The influence of Teach For America on Algebra I student achievement

This non-experimental study examined the influence of an initiative that High Risk School District (pseudonym) implemented to offset the effect of low student academic performance in low performing-schools. The study attempted to answer the following research question: Does having a Teach For America (TFA) teacher have an influence on a student's Algebra I EOC score, independent of gender and race? Teach For America teachers were assigned to the district's most disenfranchised schools. Previous studies have revealed mixed results on TFA teachers' impact on student achievement. The researcher compared student performance on the Algebra I North Carolina End of Course test in High Risk Schools between TFA and non-TFA classrooms. To analyze the data, the responses were measured using the composite Algebra I EOC scores, and the explanatory variables of student gender (male or female), race (African-American, Hispanic and White) and teacher type (TFA or non-TFA) employing a hierarchical modeling procedure. After considering the nesting nature of students within different schools, the researcher used hierarchical linear modeling and found that students taught by TFA out-performed students taught by non-TFA students t (1956)= 3.23, p=.002. Students taught by TFA teachers for all subgroups White, Black and Hispanic out performed students taught by non-TFA teachers (all ps<.01). The results of this study demonstrate that TFA teachers assigned to Algebra I classes have a significant influence on increasing student achievement. The researcher discusses the limitations of these findings. Other studies have shown that TFA teachers, in comparison to regularly certified teachers, have a negative influence on achievement