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- ItemOpen AccessCanadian families with HIV/AIDS: quality of life experiences in public schools(1998) Rickwood Roberts, Jillian Jennifer; Cairns, Kathleen V.
- ItemOpen AccessApplication of systems analysis to educational planning: the location of elementary schools in a rural school division(1969) Taylor, William Harold; Dushenski, William
- ItemOpen AccessBottom fauna studies in relation to the biology of certain fishes of the Bow River(1966) Kussat, Rick Herman; Arai, Hisao P.
- ItemOpen AccessPersonality, attitude and attentional variables: a factor analysis(1968) Ogston, Donald G.; Christensen, C. M.
- ItemOpen AccessAnalysis and behaviour of prestressed concrete deep beams(1969) Hassan, Faisal Mohammed; Dilger, Walter H.An extensive survey of literature on the elastic and ultimate strength analysis of deep beams is presented together with test results on reinforced concrete deep beams. The absence of information on the analysis and behaviour of prestressed concrete deep beams led to the undertaking of the present research which was carried out theoretically using the finite element method and experimentally by testing ten moderately deep beams. The parameters studied were the bond property of the prestressing steel, the degree of prestressing and span to depth ratio. Test results are compared with theory and various design recommendations are suggested.
- ItemOpen AccessSome aspects of torsion in reinforced concrete beams(1969) Woodhead, Hubert Roger; McMullen, Arthur E.
- ItemOpen AccessNoise in field-effect transistors(1968) Haslett, James William; Trofimenkoff, Frederick N.
- ItemOpen AccessRuskin's literary reputation, 1843 to 1860: a study of the critical reception of Modern Painters(1969) Seiler, Robert Morris; Peattie, Roger W.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Chinook and its geographic significance in Southern Alberta(1965) Marsh, John Stuart; Ashwell, Ian Y.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Drummond, Hector and Peyto glaciers: their wastage and deposits(1966) Brunger, Alan George; Nelson, James Gordon
- ItemOpen AccessCattle compact: the ranch community in Southern Alberta, 1881-1896(1969) Breen, David Henry; Gagan, David P.
- ItemOpen AccessError correcting codes for asymmetric paths(1963) Fenyvesi, C. Marguerite; Peck, J. E. L.
- ItemOpen AccessTrying(1968) Szabados, Bela; Vendler, Zeno
- ItemOpen AccessStructure of a Forbush decrease(1967) Mercer, James Bryan; Wilson, Brian G.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Role of cognitive expectancy in vicarious conditoning(1967) Ogston, Karen M.; Davidson, Park O.
- ItemOpen AccessRole of the nucleus posterior thalamic in vision(1967) Peters, Michael Hans; Cooper, Roderick M.
- ItemOpen AccessSemantic dicrimination of verbal signs, pictographs, and pictographic components(1978) Caron, John; Dewar, Robert E.A series of four experiments applied the semantic differential technique to the measurement of the meaning of various public information pictographs. In Experiment 1, the methodological approach was validated and it was demonstrated that a meaningful semantic space could be derived for pictographic signs. Discriminant analysis was applied to statistically distinguish the stimuli from one another. The accuracy of classifying subjects' responses was considerably above chance. In Experiment 2, the number of stimuli was increased to include a set of verbal translations ( printed signs) and two sets of pictographic components which were derived from the set of pictographs. The set of scales used in Experiment 1 was refined and reduced to a smaller number in Experiment 2. This set of scales produced a semantic space similar to that found in Experiment 1. Responses to pictographs, verbal messages, and most pictographic components were correctly classified with above chance accuracy. More importantly, it was shown that Classification analysis between sets of stimuli allowed an evaluation of the degree to which pictographic stimuli were perceived as sharing common meaning with their intended verbal translations ( e.g., responses to pictographs could be predicted from the responses to their verbal equivalents and vice versa) and the meaning which individual components of the pictographs carried. The third experiment confirmed these results with independent groups of subjects responding to different sets of stimuli. Experiment 3 also allowed potential artifactual effects, such as response bias ( e.g., preferences for left versus right side of the scale) , and stimulus sequencing to be ruled out as influences on the results. Finally, Experiment 4 used the same procedure as Experiment 3 and, provided a general confirmation of the results using a new set of stimuli. The semantic differential technique was demonstrated to be a valid method for the determination of the degree to which pictographic signs succeed in transmitting an intended message. The advantage of this approach and the possible applications of this technique, as well as the need for further research, are discussed.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Development of a graduate students' centre(1975) Gephart, Robert P.; Zwerman, William L.
- ItemOpen AccessImpression communication: the effect of five variables on accuracy(1970) Perry, Raymond Paul; Boyd, J. Edwin
- ItemOpen AccessAn experimental examination of empression communication as an interpersonal behavioral pattern(1971) Perry, Raymond Paul; Boyd, J. Edwin