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‘Dahomey!, Dahomey!’: the reception of Dahomean art in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

‘Dahomey!, Dahomey!’: the reception of Dahomean art in France in the late 19th and early 20th centurie

Behind the Scenes: Directors’ Perspectives of Designing and Implementing New Online Degree Programs

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Behind the Scenes: Directors’ Perspectives of Designing and Implementing New Online Degree Programs

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Department of Defense: SBIR/STTR Grants and Other Contracts

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants are a government funding program offered by eleven federal departments and awarded to small businesses looking to develop and bring a product to market. The Department of Defense (DoD) and its twelve agencies award more than half of all SBIR/STTR grants; they solicit proposals for designated projects biannually. Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs) are another source of funding that can widen the scope of possible proposals but is not limited to small businesses. BAAs can be awarded to small and large businesses as well as academic institutions and nonprofits. Small business grants are vital in many research startups, and have shown themselves to be helpful to both the DoD (which may often purchase the technology) and the American workforce

Online Ethical Decision-Making by Business and Education Students in Faith-Based and Non-Faith Based Higher Education Institutions

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Online Ethical Decision-Making by Business and Education Students in Faith-Based and Non-Faith Based Higher Education Institutions

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Master of Science

thesisThe current study assessed the Superhero Social Skills program as an evidencebased practice for teaching social skills to elementary children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in a clinical out-patient setting. The program consists of many research validated components, including peer mediation, video-modeling, and social stories. There were 4 participants with ASD and 4 "peer buddies," all between the ages of 5 and 10. Intervention sessions took place at an outpatient clinical setting over 8 weeks. One lesson was taught per week and incorporated components from the program's typical two lesson per week format. After each session, analog free play observations were conducted and coded by the researcher and another graduate student to achieve interrater reliability. Parents reported the number of spontaneous uses of skills at home to measure generalization. Effect size and percentage of nonoverlapping data points were calculated to determine changes in social engagement and generalization. There were also pre- and postmeasures of social behaviors completed by parents and consumer satisfaction measures completed after the intervention by parents and children. The results of this study indicate increased levels of social initiations, social responses, and social engagement during free play observations. For most participants, there was also an increase in generalized use of the skills. Parents and children reported high levels of satisfaction with the program. Overall, results suggest that the "superhero social skills" program is effective for children with ASD