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Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 51, March 22, 2004 Mar 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 51, March 22, 2004

Central Florida Future

Bush begins fight in Orlando; Senate elects to hand new banners retain old leader; Patient praises marijuana prescriptions; Students abroad see shifting attitude toward Americans.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 50, March 18, 2004 Mar 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 50, March 18, 2004

Central Florida Future

Recalling the media's shift on civil rights; Rally in Tally: 1000 converge on state capital to support student aid; UCF professor diagnoses foreign-accent syndrome; Just like high school but with fewer virgins.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 49, March 15, 2004 Mar 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 49, March 15, 2004

Central Florida Future

Lyons and Co. score NCAA appearance; Poet compelled by oppression: Marjorie Agosin spins tales of hardship and injustice; Coach O'Leary vows to take a 'sleeping giant'; Spike TV looks to UCF for game show contestants.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 48, March 4, 2004 Mar 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 48, March 4, 2004

Central Florida Future

Spring Break: Time to cram for a student body to bare; Professors like their time off too. Kerry turns to Florida; Hitt: UCF on track to be bigger and better.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 47, March 1, 2004 Mar 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 47, March 1, 2004

Central Florida Future

SGA revisits pricey party bill; O'Leary to speak at SGA Senate on Thursday; Unplug 2004 preaches freedom from tech chains; Burn or Brush? As Spring Break nears tanning takes on urgency; How did you spend your leap-year day?


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 46, February 26, 2004 Feb 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 46, February 26, 2004

Central Florida Future

Peters triumph in SGA runoff; Candidate breaks with Bush on gay marriage; Faculty union files charge against UCF; Atkins' weight at death causes stir among dieters; Dyer: don't expect decision on bar hours for a year.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 45, February 23, 2004 Feb 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 45, February 23, 2004

Central Florida Future

SGA Senate approves $50,000 for another student party; SGA campaign in home stretch; DUI entangles teacher former student; NAACP plans to march; V-Week launches string of events to stop violence against women.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 44, February 19, 2004 Feb 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 44, February 19, 2004

Central Florida Future

Peters Talakala in runoff; Student's death changes police chase policy; Violations abound; Queer Monologues auditions draw people out.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 43, February 16, 2004 Feb 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 43, February 16, 2004

Central Florida Future

Water woe sparks candidate debate; Senate strikes down Patriot Act resolution; Online gambling - don't bet on it; Recount judge defends 2000 election decision; Sign language as foreign language?


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 42, February 12, 2004 Feb 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 42, February 12, 2004

Central Florida Future

As campus cuts continue literary magazine fends for itself; Health Center begins online house calls; UCF nonplussed: Candidates weigh in on classroom grading scale; Candidate forum planned for noon today at Union; Provost turns publisher: Hickey debuts a newsletter to debunk 'myths.'


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 41, February 9, 2004 Feb 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 41, February 9, 2004

Central Florida Future

Tuition increase: SGA candidates tackle rising cost of college; Teacher shortage forces scramble; Pricey mural unveiled at Rosen School campus; Teachers working longer hours to stretch budget; Ephedra faces possible ban in March.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 40, February 5, 2004 Feb 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 40, February 5, 2004

Central Florida Future

Administration OKs student contract; Shuttle struggling to find passengers; Class conflicts: SGA candidates tackle academic offerings; 20 years later UCF still crowning around.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 39, February 2, 2004 Feb 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 39, February 2, 2004

Central Florida Future

Football players rushing to campus; Off and Running: Three slates vie to lead SGA; What does the SGA president do anyway? Writing Center services gradually disappearing.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 38, January 29, 2004 Jan 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 38, January 29, 2004

Central Florida Future

Four years and our - finally; In the School of Communication crowded classes push majors aside; Class in the community; Campus campaigns get rolling: Deadline's today for entering SGA contest.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 37, January 26, 2004 Jan 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 37, January 26, 2004

Central Florida Future

Bush seeks 7.5 percent tuition hike; filibuster delays vote on Patriot Act again; Trustees delay gay discrimination vote; NASA celebrates second landing on Mars.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 36, January 22, 2004 Jan 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 36, January 22, 2004

Central Florida Future

Second rally takes aim at administrators' actions; Board confronts gay discrimination; Violations could revolutionize combat; Faculty discuss forgiving bad grades; housing rates will jump but not too high.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 35, January 20, 2004 Jan 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 35, January 20, 2004

Central Florida Future

One School many mascots: This year will see Knightro turn 10; Highest spring enrollment ever; Patriot Act resolution delayed once again; Kerry wins Iowa caucuses after dramatic week.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 34, January 15, 2004 Jan 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 34, January 15, 2004

Central Florida Future

Homecoming queen surrenders her title; Plus-minus grades still drawing gripes; Progressive Council cleared of charges; School seeking prestigious honor society membership.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 33, January 12, 2004 Jan 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 33, January 12, 2004

Central Florida Future

SGA allows student laptops in election; Greek students look to rebuild; School can't afford to destroy greenhouse; Senator shocks colleagues with a sudden resignation.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 32, January 8, 2004 Jan 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 32, January 8, 2004

Central Florida Future

Orsini defends sports budget; Flu outbreaks widened during December; UCF working to improve air-travel safety.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 31, January 5, 2004 Jan 2004

Central Florida Future, Vol. 36 No. 31, January 5, 2004

Central Florida Future

O'Leary Knighted as coach; Coach's hiring has teachers seething; Ready to serve; SAE fraternity suspended for one year after hazing incident.


Critical Digital Infrastructure Protection: An Investigatoin Into The Intergovernmental Activities Of Information Technology Directors In Florida Counties, Joah Nicole Devenny Jan 2004

Critical Digital Infrastructure Protection: An Investigatoin Into The Intergovernmental Activities Of Information Technology Directors In Florida Counties, Joah Nicole Devenny

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As cyber attacks become more sophisticated, the risk to all networked computer systems increases. Whether public or private, whether federal, state, or local, the threat is equally real. Consequently, local governments must respond accordingly to understand the threats, take measures to protect themselves, and determine how to respond in the event of a system breach. Additionally, since cyber criminals do not respect geographic or administrative boundaries, local leaders must be prepared to instantly interact with other governments, agencies, and departments to suppress an attack. Guided by the theory of intergovernmental management (IGM), this exploratory research investigated how Information Technology (IT) …


Aggression In Lesbian And Bisexual Relationships, Jennifer Rae Parham Jan 2004

Aggression In Lesbian And Bisexual Relationships, Jennifer Rae Parham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For years, researchers, clinicians, and those working with victims/survivors of domestic abuse have overlooked the issue of same-sex partner aggression among lesbians and bisexual women. Through in-depth interviews with 19 women who identify themselves as either lesbian or bisexual, information was documented in this study demonstrating the severity of issues of power and control among some same-sex partners, as well as some if the dynamics that are unique to same-sex abusive relationships. Patterns of abuse within same-sex relationships often mirror those that are so commonly associated with partner aggression among heterosexual couples, and therefore demonstrate not only the need for …


Genre And Persona In Activist Websites, Margaret M.F. Boreman Jan 2004

Genre And Persona In Activist Websites, Margaret M.F. Boreman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Digital texts present significant challenges to technical communicators in terms of genre and persona. Because of the ubiquity of electronic media, we increasingly embrace digital formats over print-based documents. As a result, technical communicators must now devise the means to cue audiences to the purposes of digital documents in any given discourse community. We can only convey meaning to our Internet audiences through the use of appropriate standards and elements recognizable generic forms and rhetorical cues that we designate as conventions in specific digital discourse. Just as we use file and folder office metaphors for information stored on computers, digital …


Techniques For Assessing And Improving Performance In Navigation And Wayfinding Using Mobile Augmented Reality, Brian Goldiez Jan 2004

Techniques For Assessing And Improving Performance In Navigation And Wayfinding Using Mobile Augmented Reality, Brian Goldiez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Augmented reality is a field of technology in which the real world is overlaid with additional information from a computer generated display. Enhancements to augmented reality technology presently support limited mobility which is expected to increase in the future to provide much greater real world functionality. This work reports on a set of experiments that investigate performance in search and rescue navigating tasks using augmented reality. Augmentation consisted of a spatially and temporally registered map of a maze that was overlaid onto a real world maze. Participants were required to traverse the maze, answer spatially oriented questions in the maze, …


Nursing Leadership Characteristics: Effect On Nursing Job Satisfactio, Sandra Swearingen Jan 2004

Nursing Leadership Characteristics: Effect On Nursing Job Satisfactio, Sandra Swearingen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research is to determine the degree to which a positive experience with nursing leadership increases nurse's job satisfaction. The different values and norms of the generational cohorts result in each cohort perceiving leadership characteristics differently. Factors such as length of exposure to leadership, location, shift worked, clinical versus non-clinical positions and the presence or absence of Servant-Leadership, all have the potential to impact nursing satisfaction. Nursing satisfaction, or dissatisfaction impacts retention, further modifying nursing leadership practices. Conflict, Cohort, Servant-Leadership, and Self-Discrepancy theories were utilized to identify the relationships of generations to each other and to the …


Camera System Support For Highway Transportation Using Mobile Devices, Le Minh Jan 2004

Camera System Support For Highway Transportation Using Mobile Devices, Le Minh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

With the very fast growing technology in wireless, advancement in hardware and the dramatically falling cost of mobile computing devices such as PDA, handheld device, People nowadays can have a personal device that fits in their hand but has computing power as a desktop did few years ago. The same device now is able to communicate over a wireless network and view office document at the same time. The combination of size, power and flexibility makes the personal devices increasingly appear in many aspects of life. In this proposal, we focus on a simple yet useful application of mobile devices …


Security Of A Small State: Case Of Kuwait, Shawn Adelwerth Jan 2004

Security Of A Small State: Case Of Kuwait, Shawn Adelwerth

HIM 1990-2015

Kuwait is a small country in terms of size and military might, however, it has an abundance of oil wealth. Kuwaiti rulers have often met their domestic and international security challenges with buying off the problems. This type of policy continued until late 1989, when the tension between Iraq and Kuwait reached a new height. The turning point for Kuwait security was 2 August 1990, when Iraqi military finally invaded Kuwait requested the military power of the United States. This began a new era in the United States-Kuwait relationship. Since Iraqi forces were discharged from this small Gulf State, Kuwait …


Image Quality Analysis Using Glcm, Dhanashree Gadkari Jan 2004

Image Quality Analysis Using Glcm, Dhanashree Gadkari

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Gray level co-occurrence matrix has proven to be a powerful basis for use in texture classification. Various textural parameters calculated from the gray level co-occurrence matrix help understand the details about the overall image content. The aim of this research is to investigate the use of the gray level co-occurrence matrix technique as an absolute image quality metric. The underlying hypothesis is that image quality can be determined by a comparative process in which a sequence of images is compared to each other to determine the point of diminishing returns. An attempt is made to study whether the curve of …


A Comparative Static Analysis For Invasive Species Management Under Risk Neutral Preferences, Pamela Safford Jan 2004

A Comparative Static Analysis For Invasive Species Management Under Risk Neutral Preferences, Pamela Safford

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates the optimal ex-ante mix of self-protection and self-insurance technologies employed to reduce the risk of biological invaders in the presence of exogenous variables within the probability and damage functions. This is accomplished by using a theoretical endogenous risk model that extends previously developed frameworks. This thesis contributes to the previous work in two ways. (1) Employing a general framework with simultaneous decision making over self-protection and self-insurance, this thesis analyzes how each parameter including income, the costs of each activity, an exogenous factor that affects only the probability of an invasion, and a separate exogenous factor that …