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Remembrance And Worship In Israel-A Study Of Gerhard Von Rad's Theology Of Worship In The Old Testament, Brian Whittle

Master of Sacred Theology Seminar Papers

In this study we will attempt to establish a basis upon which these issues can properly be answered. The primary focus will be upon worship in the Old Testament, though to limit any study of worship to the time and writings before God incarnated Himself would be to answer inadequately any applicable question regarding worship in the modem context. Therefore, this study will also look to see how the analysis of worship in the Old Testament context is manifested in the New Testament. When the proper correlation is made, then one is ready to address the questions and concerns regarding …

Luther And "Social Ethics", Terrance Adamson

Master of Sacred Theology Seminar Papers

For Luther, it appears, that there is a distinction between an office of authority and the office holder. The office holder is the same as any other Christian with the same divine command to "love" in and through his call. Instruction and Christian admonition to the individual regarding faith and Christian duty does not, in itself, violate the distinction between Law and Gospel.

How To Be An Effective Lobbyist: A Handbook, Yolette Cabrini Ross

Theses and Dissertations

The primary purpose of this research project was to develop a handbook for novice lobbyists that will acquaint them with the art of lobbying as it applies to the state of New Jersey. The handbook examines the professional relationship that exists between legislators and lobbyists. An analysis of the behavior and practices of lobbyists as they interact with legislators was conducted along with the interacting roles the two professions play in the legislative process. A review of several sources of information such as political science literature, political journals, practitioner essays and several newspaper sources were conducted to supplement the research. …

Nonprofit Welfare-To-Work Programs: A Study Of The Programmatic Factors Related To Success For Single Tanf Women In Readiness Programs, Kathy Guidi

Master's Theses

This research project was a qualitative study with data collected primarily through interviews with three constituencies of welfare-to-work job readiness programs: TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) clients, nonprofit agency staff, and Department of Human Services (DHS) CalWORKs Department employment specialists. Specifically, six TANF clients, six nonprofit agency staff, and two DHS CalWORKs Department employment specialists were interviewed by the researcher. The study was conducted to determine which programmatic factors were related to success for single T ANF women participating in nonprofit organizations' work readiness programs in San Francisco. Program factors were divided into four areas: program model/structure, program curriculum, …

Faculty And Student Perceptions Of Effective Clinical Teachers, Patricia Frontczak

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to identify ADN faculty and ADN student perceptions of the most effective clinical teaching characteristics (ECTC). An exploratory, descriptive design was implemented. ADN faculty and ADN students were surveyed using the Clinical Teacher Characteristics Instrument (CTCI). The CTCI consists of 20 characteristics of clinical teachers that are ranked on a five point Likert-type scale according to importance. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Significant differences in perceptions of the most ECTC between the two groups were identified by a Mann Whitney U procedure. A t-test was performed to identify differences of perceptions …

The Selected Language Styles Of African Americans In An Urban Environment, Danielle R. England

McCabe Thesis Collection

The overall scope of this research is to define and explain the different styles of African American English. What are they and how do they affect the American society? The means by which many African Americans communicate is different from what American deems as standard American English (SAE). To this date, the voice of Black America has been categorizes as Black Dialect, African American Vernacular English, and Black English. Only until recently has the Black voice been regarded as Ebonics. Where did these language styles originate and why do we continue to speak it? Of course, there is nothing wrong …

European Integration And The Expansion Of The European Union: Identity Formation In Europe, Aaron P. Boesenecker

Honors Theses

The states of Europe and the European Union are facing one of the greatest challenges since the founding of the European Community in the 1950s. The collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War have served to strengthen the position of the European Union as a guarantor of democracy, peace, and fundamental human rights in Europe. However, crises such as the Balkan conflicts of recent years have also exposed inherent weaknesses in the Union's ability to respond to the changing international environment. As the Amsterdam Treaty entered into effect on 1 May 1999, the EU marked a …

The Process Of Market Research In International Business, Shannon Downey Kidd

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Shelterwood-Cut Oak Forestry Practices On Breeding Bird Success, Patrick Lee Collins

Theses & Honors Papers

Populations of breeding birds were studied on two shelterwood-cut oak stands in Buckingham County, Virginia. These two tracts, Harris East and Harris West, were cut in 1996 and a Breeding Bird Census has been conducted on these tracts since 1997. This study is part of an ongoing effort to collect pre-bum data, and document the diversity of avian species utilizing this habitat. The changes in avian species present on the Harris East and Harris West plots is important to know so that the effects of shelterwood-cut forestry practices can be understood better. The data collected showed that, by changing the …

Breeding Bird Census On Four Shelterwood-Cut Stands In Buckingham County, Virginia, Sally Ann Statham

Theses & Honors Papers

The Breeding Bird Census (BBC) technique was used to study breeding bird populations on two paired shelter wood-cut oak stands in Buckingham County, Virginia. The four plots are part of a study to determine oak regeneration following controlled burns in the Virginia piedmont. There is an interest in determining how shelter wood-cut plots affect the breeding birds of Virginia. A total of twenty-seven bird species established and defended territories among the four plots. Ten bird species defended territories on all four plots. All of these species were birds characteristic of forest habitats.

Maytag Laundry Appliances And The Feature, Advantage, Benefit Selling Method, Angela Marie Caruso

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Nursing Students And Intrinsic Spirituality, Christine Anderson Madsen

Master's Projects

This paper describes some theoretical perspectives of spirituality, the concepts of spiritual care and spiritual needs, and barriers to providing spiritual care as described in the literature. The two most frequently described barriers are lack of comfort with the topic and lack of education. Because there is so little written about the discussion of spirituality in schools of nursing, a descriptive study using nursing students on the central coast of California was conducted. The Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale (SIBS) was used to measure intrinsic spirituality. This study looked for relationships between the scores on this scale, and the students' …

The Women Of Middle Fork, Pamela J. W. Shingler

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Pamela J.W. Shingler on December 9, 1999.

Lithic Utilization Strategies At The Hoover Site, 16ta5, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, Josetta A. Leboeuf

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Lithic artifacts are frequently abundant at many prehistoric sites in the Lower Mississippi Valley and adjacent areas of the Northern Gulf Coast despite limited resources. These assemblages are beginning to receive the attention required to make meaningful interpretation which in turn can be used as comparable data sets. An understanding of the behavior associated with the full range of the reduction process was sought during the study of the lithic materials from the Hoover site (16TA5) near Ponchatoula. Louisiana. This was achieved through observations on raw material procurement. reduction sequences. tool use. maintenance and discard. and how these tools relate …

A Study On The Relationship Between Eggshell Color, Egg Specific Gravity, And The Cuticle Of The Eggs Of Broiler Breeds, Byron Anthony Connor

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Victorian Concepts Of The Ideal Man As Evidenced Through His Relationships With Animals: "If She Don't Carry You, You May Shoot Her" Or "Remember Gyp When You Get Home", Mary Ann Peebles Soles

Theses & Honors Papers

In Victorian fiction, the relationships between male characters and the animals with which they come in contact with are interesting. The way Victorian male characters are shown to treat animals revels something about the nature of the men themselves. Therefore, it is important to examine the concept of masculinity at the time. The gender stereotypes that prevailed in Victorian England had a tremendous impact on the portrayal of men and women in the novels written at that time. Male writers, the dominant sex, chose to preserve ideals already present. Female writers did the opposite. The Victorian novelists examined were influenced …

Victorian Concepts Of The Ideal Man As Evidenced Through His Relationships With Animals: "If She Don't Carry You, You May Shoot Her" Or "Remember Gyp When You Get Home", Mary Ann Pebbles Soles

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

School Bullying And Group Processes Survey, Margaret Linn

Theses and Dissertations

The focus of this thesis is to determine the extent of bullying behavior in a southern New Jersey school as measured by an adapted version of the Olweus Bully Questionnaire. Four hundred seventy-two fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade middle school students were surveyed regarding bullying behavior in their school. The obtained percentages indicate an increase in the trends found by previous research.

Recently, there has been a shift in bullying research from a dyadic focus on the characteristics of the Bully and the Victim to the recognition of bullying as a whole group process, with the majority of children …

A Study On The Relationship Between Eggshell Color And Eggshell Quality In Commercial Broiler Breeders, Lawrence Hatten Iii

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Adam Smith's Analysis Of The Modern Welfare State, Amy Elizabeth Smith

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

An Unheard Voice: Spirituality In Health Care, Benjamin Hardy Crenshaw

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Tempo Variances On Listener's Preference, Stephen D. Boyd

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Humanities at Morehead State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Communications by Stephen D. Boyd on December 3, 1999.

An Exploration Of Women's Mentoring : Graduate Students' Perspective, Karen Annette Griffin

Doctoral Dissertations

There is evidence that graduate students are in a unique position to benefit from both career and psychOsocial mentoring. A great deal is known about career mentoring functions in graduate school, but less is known about the psychosocial functions and particularly about the psychosocial influences of mentoring within female mentoring pairs, a population which studies suggest may be different from any other mentoring combination. The purpose of this study was to explore the mentoring experiences of women graduate students in mentoring relationships with women professors. The study focused on the potential impact of this mentoring relationship on the psychosocial development …

Impleme[N]Tation Of The Marketing Concept : An Organizational Learning Perspective, John Robert Graves

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation develops a model of implementation of the marketing concept using an organizational learning perspective. This perspective suggests that implementation of the marketing requirement implies that organizations adopt a set of shared beliefs and engage in market information processing activities that reflect the marketing concept. A set of eight hypotheses were developed to explore the relationship between marketing concept belief and market information processing activities. Data were collected from staff at Anglophone, acute-care hospitals in Canada. Forty-six hospitals were included in the final sample with an average of 14 members of each hospital providing data. Data were collected on …

Uncertainty : The Ethical Basis For The Economic Theories Of Frank H. Knight And John M. Keynes, William Burl Greer

Doctoral Dissertations

John Maynard Keynes built his General Theory upon the assumption of an entrepreneurial economy in which money matters, because of the existence of uncertainty. Frank Hyneman Knight recognized the existence of uncertainty when he distinguished it from risk, incorporating each into his articulation of the classical economic model. In so doing, Keynes and Knight are as much philosophers as economists.

The study examines the ethical dimension of uncertainty within the economic theories of Knight and Keynes. Intellectual and theological influences upon their respective theories of probability and uncertainty are considered. The role of uncertainty in defining the purpose and method …

Analysis Of Mixtures Containing Isomeric Hydrocarbons Using Process Mass Spectrometry, Martin L. Haddix

Doctoral Dissertations

The feasibility of process mass spectrometry (PrMS) as a method for the rapid analysis of a piperylene stream is assessed beginning with a focus on resolving binary mixtures of isomeric hydrocarbons. This application was suggested by an industrial member of the University of Tennessee's Measurement and Control Engineering Center (MCEC). The piperylene stream consists mostly of cis- and trans-l,3-pentadiene (totaling over 55% of the stream) along with cyclopentene (~20%) and 2-methyl-2-butene (~10%), plus others at lower levels: cyclopentane, cis- and trans-2-pentene, n-pentane. isopentane, and 2,2-dimethylbutane. This particularly challenging PrMS application involved the need for resolution of hydrocarbon isomers which …

A Certain Essence Of The Sun: Byron Herbert Reece And The Southern Poetry Tradition, Alan Jackson

Doctoral Dissertations

This study of Byron Herbert Reece (1917-1958) seeks to provide a broad look at his life, his work, his reputation,and his contributions to poetry. The record of his life is largely contained in a biography. The Mountain Singer, byRaymond Cook and in several published remembrances. These Remembrances often conform to a common assumption, promoted by Atlanta newspapers and others, that Reece was a mountain man poet. The accuracy of that image is challenged in this book and shown to be more an attempt to simplify Reese's Character than to explore his complex nature or examine his unique poetic vision. Little …

Holistic Obstetrical Problem Evaluation (Hope) : Testing A Midwifery Theory To Predict Maternal And Perinatal Health Outcomes, Darlene Elizabeth Jesse

Doctoral Dissertations

The primary purpose of this study was to test the Holistic Obstetrical ProblemEvaluation (HOPE) theory, derived from Watson's Theory of Care (1979), by examining the relationship of socio-demographic factors, biophysical, psychosocial, spiritual and perceptual components to birth weight, gestational age, APGAR score and unplanned cesarean birth. A prospective correlational research design was used. A convenience sample of 120 pregnant women, between ages 14-44 and 16-28 weeks gestation from three prenatal sites was interviewed using; (1) Socio-demographic factors; (2) thePrenatal Psychosocial Profile tPPPl: (3) the Abuse Assessment Screen (AASV (4) theSpiritual Perspectives Scale (SPS); and (5) perception of pregnancy questions.Biophysical data …

A Generic Spc Framework For The Characterization Of Batch Profiles, Nitin Kaistha

Doctoral Dissertations

This work develops a generic Statistical Process Control (SPC) framework for characterizing the systematic variability seen in a historical database of batch profiles in terms of meaningful scale parameters and studying the correlation with the final product quality. The complete framework, in contrast to existing methods, is geared towards giving meaningful results that can be easily connected to the actual process.The variability in the profiles is partitioned into two parts - consistent and inconsistent. The consistent variability is characterized using scale parameters. The Consistent variability is further partitioned as along the time and measurement axes leading to time and magnitude …

Resource Use And Foraging Activity Of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats, Tadarida Brasiliensis Mexicana (Molossidae), Ya-Fu Lee

Doctoral Dissertations

Foraging patterns and the food habits of insectivorous bats may evolve in response to a variety of intrinsic (e.g., energetic demands, nutrient requirements, and morphological or physiological constraints in acquiring and consuming food) and extrinsic factors (e.g., the distribution and abundance of insect prey, and interactions with other organisms). This study investigates the foraging behavior and ecology of Mexican free-tailed bats, Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana (Saussure, 1860) (Molossidae) residing in large colonies, with emphases on their dietary breadth and variation, their foraging activity, and their resource use patterns.

Food habits and dietary variation of insectivorous Mexican free-tailed bats were investigated at …