Impact of Early Attachment Security on Academic Achievement Motivation in Young Adults

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between mother-child and father-child parenting quality on later academic achievement motivation in young adults. It is expected that attachment security will be positively and significantly related to intrinsic academic achievement motivation (and result in higher intrinsic than extrinsic motivation scores), and negatively and significantly related to motivation. Data were collected from two hundred male and female participants from California State University San Bernardino, aged 18- 28. Participants completed the Parental Attachment Questionnaire (PAQ; Kenny, 1987) which assesses maternal and paternal attachment security, the Hazen, Shaver, and Bradshaw (1988) assessment of perceptions of mother’s and father’s early caregiving style, and the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS-C 28; Vallerand et al., 1992) to assess student motivation

Bacterial recovery from automated cataract surgical equipment

Internal tubing involved in the venting and vacuum mechanism of CooperVision's models 8000-V, 7500, and 6500 units were cultured. Several species of bacteria were found including Staphylococcus epidermidis. The clinical implications of this are discussed as well as a solution to the possibility of intraoperative bacterial contamination from the reported source

Empirical Evaluation of the Risk and Cost Effects of Geographic Diversification in Central Illinois Grain Farms

168 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994.The risk and cost effects of geographic diversification in central Illinois were deterministically simulated in representative grain farms, using tract-level yield data to estimate the relationship between correlation of yield and distance between tracts. The results indicate that the costs involved in transporting machines and equipment from tract to tract, far outweigh the derived risk (variance) reduction benefits. Survey results also showed that farmers appear to be aware of this unfavorable tradeoff. The results of the simulation also indicate that while geographic diversification may not be an attractive risk management strategy for the individual farmer, it holds promise for large institutional investors who do not have to deal with transporting machines and equipment between tracts.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD

Development of an integer linear programming transport optimization model of a septage management system

In developing countries, most households and commercial establishments rely on septic tanks as means of collecting wastewater. It is imperative to maintain these septic tanks to allow them to function (i.e., treatment efficiency) as designed, through a septage management program. Septage management refers to the regular removal of septage from septic tanks, proper treatment of the collected septage, and disposal of by-products, mainly treated effluent and biosolids, as prescribed by law. The Vacuum Truck Unit (VTU) is a major component to this system – means of transporting septage/wastewater to the treatment facility. VTU procurement – from tendering to delivery – can be done in a very short period (i.e., in less than a year), unlike the Septage Treatment Plant (SpTP), which would generally have to be designed and constructed at/or close to ultimate capacity. Truck procurement can therefore be done in several tranches during the planning period, depending on the need at the time. For a given septage volume, there are multiple combinations of different truck capacities that can be utilized. In determining the optimal truck mix and procurement schedule, corresponding life-cycle-costs should be considered to come up with the most cost-efficient option. Through this Practicum Project, an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) Transport (i.e., VTU) optimization model of a Septage Management System was developed resulting to maximizing utilization of the desludging trucks while minimizing capital expenditure and operating cost throughout a specified planning period

Optical Magnetism in Nanophotonics and Optical Matter

Understanding light-matter interactions in the near-field regime is crucial towards making advances in optical matter and nanophotonics. However, the approach for much of the previous work in these topics is based on analyzing the electric field component of light and the properties of matter that closely relate to the electric field. Since the relative magnetic permeability of most materials is negligible at optical frequencies, the magnetic field component of light-matter interactions was often foregone as a complementary value. Recently, new nanophotonic structures and optical matter building blocks have been fabricated with non-negligible effective magnetic properties. Thus, it is the goal of this thesis to investigate new phenomena and applications in optical matter and nanophotonics based on magnetic light-matter interactions. In this thesis, it is observed that optically magnetic nanoparticles experience the novel Transverse Scattering Force, due to the photonic Hall effect, causing them to undergo trapping behavior that is far from analogous to electric field-based optical trapping. Using the same optically magnetic particles to form the building blocks of nanophotonic structures on conducting substrates, as well as to couple to electronic molecular transitions, it is discovered that the interaction between the electric and magnetic dipole modes and images gives rise to novel scattering behavior and that non-metallic optically magnetic nanostructures can induce a small Purcell effect. The applications for this study on magnetic light-matter interactions in optical matter and nanophotonics include mesoscopic quantum physics, nano-scale machines, and electromagnetic cloaking

Training Autonomy for the Future Managers in the Professionally- Oriented Communicative Competence Formation Process in English Reading

У статті розглядаються питання, що стосуються моделі формування англомовної професійно орієнтованої компетентності в читанні майбутніх менеджерів шляхом навчальної автономії. Виокремлено принципи побудови моделі формування читацької компетентності: циклічності, системності, професійної спрямованості та поетапності навчання. Обґрунтовано етапи формування англомовної професійно орієнтованої компетентності в читанні. Визначено засоби формування іншомовної компетентності в читанні та способи контролю рівня її сформованості.The article deals with some questions concerning the model of the formation professionally oriented competence in the English reading for the future managers and with the problem of the development of strategic skills of ESP reading. There has been grounded the necessity of students' mastering the above-mentioned competence. The term "professionally oriented competence in English reading for the future managers" has been defined. This model falls into the following groups: planning, inferring, hypothesis testing, revising hypotheses. The author gives a full description of the modelling. The reading skills are suggested to be developed with the help of corresponding electronical exercises and tasks. It has been proved that pre¬reading exercises aim to form strategic skills of planning, reading exercises and tasks enable to use reading strategies of inferring and compression while post-reading tasks help to develop strategies of evaluating and correcting. The research results can be used for further studies of the problem. The principles of constructing the model in English reading competence: cyclicality, systematicity, professionally orientation and stepwise learning are singled out. The stages of formation professionally oriented competence in English reading are substantiated. The means of forming foreign language competence in reading and ways of controlling its level of formation are determined. The linguistic characteristics of English financial and economic texts and psychological mechanisms of their vocabulary learning have been determined. The linguodidactic model of developing English lexical competence of the future financiers in the process of reading professionally oriented texts has been elaborated and the corresponding system of exercises has been modelled. The criteria, evaluative indicators and levels of developing English reading competence of the future managers in the process of reading professionally oriented texts have been defined

Tutorial in ECE mathematics (ECEMATH)

ECE Mathematics (ECEMATH) is an undergraduate course taken up by ECE students of De La Salle University. The course introduces the students to the different types of signals and functions and the various processes they undergo as they pass through a linear time-invariant system. Moreover, ECEMATH discusses the Fourier transform, a mathematical tool used in the analysis of signals in the frequency domain. In education, computers are becoming increasingly useful tools for audiovisual instruction. They are capable of presenting text, numbers, graphics, images, and sound. The group utilized this capability by designing a tutorial in ECEMATH. This instructional software offers students self-help with interactive learning. It discusses the major topics studied in the course and presents the lectures through animated solutions to problems