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Thank You, United States, Sebastien Charles Apr 2006

Thank You, United States, Sebastien Charles

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This poem is written to outline the many frustrations that a teenager growing up in Haiti can encounter. The poem talks about how it is forbidden for many kids to go into relationships at a young age. However, it is much deeper than that. This poem symbolizes all the restrictions that teenagers in Haiti are revolting against.

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Opportunity Costs Of The Iraq War, Stephanie Quinones, Jahmila Williams, Fatima Nassriyeh, Quratulain Hayat Apr 2006

Opportunity Costs Of The Iraq War, Stephanie Quinones, Jahmila Williams, Fatima Nassriyeh, Quratulain Hayat

Undergraduate Student Symposium

Five years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States remains engaged in the conflict with terrorism and its counterparts. The monetary spending on the conflict in Iraq continues to climb. The US administration has instituted a planned budget that will allocate “$ 442 billion for national defense, which is a defined area of the budget that includes the Department of Defense, nuclear weapons (part of Department of Energy), and a few other military –related areas in other agencies” (National Priorities Project 2). The opportunity costs of the war cannot be ignored. While no one can and has not …

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Organic Farming: Food Production For The Future, Nick Rocco, Hayley Oligane, Elizabeth Bond Apr 2006

Organic Farming: Food Production For The Future, Nick Rocco, Hayley Oligane, Elizabeth Bond

Undergraduate Student Symposium

This research explores the long-term ecological and economical benefits of organic farming, as opposed to conventional farming, in the United States. Both farming methods have distinctive agricultural techniques that are under investigation to better comprehend their effects on the industry, consumer, and environment. Both systems have the potential to be productive only in specific geographic regions. Distinguishing which system should be used will increase prosperity and limit environmental harm. The primary goal of this project is to prove that the United States needs to adopt organic farming alongside conventional systems by providing government subsidies in order to enhance the efficiency …

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The Current Volume 16 : Issue 25, Nova Southeastern University Apr 2006

The Current Volume 16 : Issue 25, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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Competency-Based Early Clinical Education Experiences For Physical Therapy Students., Carolyn L. Sherer, David M. Morris, Cecilia Graham, Laura W. White Apr 2006

Competency-Based Early Clinical Education Experiences For Physical Therapy Students., Carolyn L. Sherer, David M. Morris, Cecilia Graham, Laura W. White

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: This paper describes the development, implementation, and outcomes of two courses for entry-level, master’s degree earning physical therapist students. The courses were designed to address perceived barriers to early clinical education experiences, and to proactively provide appropriate structure for the imminent transition to a clinical doctoral degree curriculum. Methods: The courses were conducted one full-day/week during the first and third terms of the curriculum. A variety of clinical sites were utilized. Students passed competencies for skills appropriate for physical therapy aides prior to the onset of the clinical education course. During clinical assignments they performed those duties, and also …

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Testing The Effectiveness Of Pollution Control Measures At The South Dade Landfill: The Reduction Of Un-Ionized Ammonia In Landfill Leachate, Matt Mitchell Apr 2006

Testing The Effectiveness Of Pollution Control Measures At The South Dade Landfill: The Reduction Of Un-Ionized Ammonia In Landfill Leachate, Matt Mitchell

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the pollution control measures in place at the South Dade Landfill, located in Miami, Florida. Pollution control measures in place at the landfill include the lining and capping of landfill cells, a landfill wetland retention basin and a groundwater remediation interceptor trench (GWRIT). This study was performed over a ten (10) month span beginning in October, 2002 and ending in July, 2003. This study dealt specifically with the effectiveness of the GWRIT and landfill wetlands in reducing the amount of un-ionized ammonia (NH3) in the landfill …

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Spring 2006 Farquhar Forum, Farquhar College Of Arts And Sciences Apr 2006

Spring 2006 Farquhar Forum, Farquhar College Of Arts And Sciences

The Farquhar Forum College Magazine

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Spring 2006, Nsu Oceanographic Center Apr 2006

Spring 2006, Nsu Oceanographic Center

Currents

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Com Outlook Spring 2006, College Of Osteopathic Medicine Apr 2006

Com Outlook Spring 2006, College Of Osteopathic Medicine

COM Outlook

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A Descriptive Study Of Athletic Training Students Perception Of Effective Mentoring Roles., William A. Pitney, Grey Ethlers, Stacy Walker Apr 2006

A Descriptive Study Of Athletic Training Students Perception Of Effective Mentoring Roles., William A. Pitney, Grey Ethlers, Stacy Walker

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Context: Mentoring relationships are commonly thought to promote the learning of a professional role. Mentors can perform a variety of roles and possess many different personal characteristics, but there is limited literature related to athletic training students’ perceptions of effective mentoring roles and characteristics. Objective: To explore who athletic training students identify as a mentor and describe the students’ perceptions of the mentoring role and personal characteristics. Design: An online survey was used to collect students’ perceptions. Setting: The study was initiated from a large mid-western university and included a national sample of athletic training students with published e-mail addresses. …

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Law, Humanities And Equipoise In The Ethics Education Of Physician Assistants, Frederick Adolf Paola Apr 2006

Law, Humanities And Equipoise In The Ethics Education Of Physician Assistants, Frederick Adolf Paola

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

The humanities have been defined as a group of academic subjects united by a commitment to studying aspects of the human condition and a qualitative approach that generally prevents a single paradigm from coming to define any discipline. In the medical humanities context, the most quickly growing area is the field of literature and medicine. The use of literature in bioethics education plays a number of well-recognized educational roles. Herein, we argue that the law is relatively overemphasized in bioethics education and that one heretofore ignored yet important role of the humanities is to serve as a counterbalance to the …

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Developing An Ethics Curriculum Using Learner-Centered Pedagogy, Alice Fornari Apr 2006

Developing An Ethics Curriculum Using Learner-Centered Pedagogy, Alice Fornari

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Objective: Ethics education is an essential component of educational preparation for health care professionals. Learner-centered pedagogy can assist in the development of curricula that actively engage and challenge learners appropriately. This article describes a method for developing a case-based ethics curriculum that highlights the 5 areas of dietetics practice. Methods: A critical incident reporting technique was adapted to solicit real ethical dilemmas facing nutrition professionals in their daily practices. Educators ranked the reported dilemmas for importance in a nutrition curriculum, discussed appropriate use in selected courses, and linked the dilemmas to the American Dietetic Association’s Code of Ethics. A representative …

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Amaurosis Fugax- A Clinical Review, Michael Bacigalupi Apr 2006

Amaurosis Fugax- A Clinical Review, Michael Bacigalupi

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Amaurosis fugax is a transient visual disturbance that is typically caused by a circulatory, ocular, or neurological underlying condition. Patients with amaurosis fugax are at risk for stroke, myocardial infarction, vision loss and other serious consequences. A thorough case history, careful clinical and ocular examination and appropriate systemic testing will lead to the best possible outcome for these at-risk patients.

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Incorporating Patient Concerns Into Discharge Plans: Evaluation Of A Patient-Generated Checklist, Karen A. Grimmer, Lauren R. Dryden, Runthip Puntumetakul, Alexander F. Young, Michelle Guerin, Yamini Deenadayalan, John R. Moss Apr 2006

Incorporating Patient Concerns Into Discharge Plans: Evaluation Of A Patient-Generated Checklist, Karen A. Grimmer, Lauren R. Dryden, Runthip Puntumetakul, Alexander F. Young, Michelle Guerin, Yamini Deenadayalan, John R. Moss

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Background: This paper reports on the effectiveness of a checklist that assists patients to transition safely and sustainably from hospital to home. Methods: Medical wards in three tertiary public hospitals in metropolitan Adelaide provided subjects during 2004. Eligible patients were English-literate and aged at least 60 years, provided written informed consent and had an unplanned hospital admission for a new medical condition. Data was excluded post-hoc if subjects had another hospital readmission for the same condition within seven days of discharge. The study had a quasi-experimental study design in which each hospital acted as its own control. In each hospital, …

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Bioterrorism: Cases When Public Health Agencies Should Have Sweeping Powers, Judith Watkins Apr 2006

Bioterrorism: Cases When Public Health Agencies Should Have Sweeping Powers, Judith Watkins

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

The dispersal of anthrax spores in October 2001 showed Americans that they are vulnerable to bioterrorism. The ineffective response to bioterrorism demonstrates that public health agencies do not have plans or training exercises in place to deal with this emerging threat. Although the CDC asked that the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA or Model Act) be drafted to prepare the states for these emerging risks, critics like George Annas assert that the acts are “blatantly unconstitutional” (MSEHPA,2005,p.1). In this paper, I intend to explore the conflict between individual rights and sweeping powers of public health agencies as described …

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The Current Volume 16 : Issue 24, Nova Southeastern University Mar 2006

The Current Volume 16 : Issue 24, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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The Current Volume 16 : Issue 23, Nova Southeastern University Mar 2006

The Current Volume 16 : Issue 23, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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The Current Volume 16 : Issue 22, Nova Southeastern University Mar 2006

The Current Volume 16 : Issue 22, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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Using Instant Messaging For Collaborative Learning: A Case Study , Susana M. Sotillo Mar 2006

Using Instant Messaging For Collaborative Learning: A Case Study , Susana M. Sotillo

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

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Southeast Florida Coral Reef Evaluation And Monitoring Project 2005 Year 3 Final Report, Jennifer Wheaton, Carl Beaver, Walter Jaap, Michael Callahan, Selena Kupfner, Shannon Wade, David S. Gilliam, B. D. Ettinger, Daniel P. Fahy, Shaun M. Gill, Lindsey Habakuk Klink, Jamie A. Monty, M. A. Philips, Lauren F. Shuman, Nicole R. Stephens, Brian K. Walker, Joanna C. Walczak, Richard E. Dodge, Tim Mcintosh, Steven Blair, Kenneth Banks, Louis E. Fisher, David Stout, Joe Ligas, Janet Phipps Mar 2006

Southeast Florida Coral Reef Evaluation And Monitoring Project 2005 Year 3 Final Report, Jennifer Wheaton, Carl Beaver, Walter Jaap, Michael Callahan, Selena Kupfner, Shannon Wade, David S. Gilliam, B. D. Ettinger, Daniel P. Fahy, Shaun M. Gill, Lindsey Habakuk Klink, Jamie A. Monty, M. A. Philips, Lauren F. Shuman, Nicole R. Stephens, Brian K. Walker, Joanna C. Walczak, Richard E. Dodge, Tim Mcintosh, Steven Blair, Kenneth Banks, Louis E. Fisher, David Stout, Joe Ligas, Janet Phipps

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

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A Fish Habitat Classification Model For The Upper And Middle Sections Of The Bay Of Quinte, Lake Ontario, C. K. Minns, Andrea Bernard, C. N. Bakelaar, M. Ewaschuk Mar 2006

A Fish Habitat Classification Model For The Upper And Middle Sections Of The Bay Of Quinte, Lake Ontario, C. K. Minns, Andrea Bernard, C. N. Bakelaar, M. Ewaschuk

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

A fish habitat classification model was developed and applied to the upper and middle sections of the Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario. Available habitat inventories were assembled in a GIS database, bringing bathymetric, shoreline, substrate, and vegetation data together in a series of layers. The classification model was developed in four steps. In the first step, the Defensible Methods (DM) model developed by Minns et al. (2000) was used to estimate suitability values in all habitat patches for a set of nine fish groups each with three life stages. The fish groups were formed from the assemblage of fish species …

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Nsu Athletics Newsletter - Compliance - March - April 2006, Nova Southeastern University Mar 2006

Nsu Athletics Newsletter - Compliance - March - April 2006, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Athletics Newsletter: Compliance

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Medical Education Digest, Vol. 8 No. 2 (March/April 2006), Nova Southeastern University Mar 2006

Medical Education Digest, Vol. 8 No. 2 (March/April 2006), Nova Southeastern University

Medical Education Digest

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A Necessary Evil: The Experiences Of Managers Implementing Downsizing Programmes, Ernesto Noronha, Premilla D'Cruz Mar 2006

A Necessary Evil: The Experiences Of Managers Implementing Downsizing Programmes, Ernesto Noronha, Premilla D'Cruz

The Qualitative Report

This paper presents the findings of a phenomenological study, which describes the experiences of human resource (HR) managers implementing a downsizing programme in a steel manufacturing organisation in India. Data were collected through conversational interviews. Following van Manens sententious analytic approach, the core theme of a necessary evil, emerged, which indicates that while participants were pained by their task of having to terminate workers and deprive them of their livelihood, they believed that they had no choice in the matter if they had to ensure the competitive position of the organisation and their own survival as employees. The findings of …

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Low Self-Esteem Of Psychotherapy Patients: A Qualitative Inquiry, Jacob D. Van Zyl, Elsje M. Cronjé, Catharine Payze Mar 2006

Low Self-Esteem Of Psychotherapy Patients: A Qualitative Inquiry, Jacob D. Van Zyl, Elsje M. Cronjé, Catharine Payze

The Qualitative Report

In this article the story of 11 male psychotherapeutic patients with low self- esteem is told within the context of the research process. The literature suggests that the concept of “self-esteem” has a significant influence on the way an individual experiences his/her world. Therefore, the meaning that the psychotherapeutic patients associated with negative and positive labels, as it relates to self-esteem, was examined using grounded theory. The main storyline is conceptualized as follows; negative suggestion from the patient’s past leads to low self-esteem which is, within his emotional problematics and by means of a negative thinking scheme, unhealthily handled. Therapy …

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Community Research Mythology, Barabara Walden Mar 2006

Community Research Mythology, Barabara Walden

The Qualitative Report

This article is dedicated to an in-depth discussion of the theme “community” and the implications the multiple meanings of community hold for the field of qualitative research. This theme surfaced from Waldern’s 2003 study entitled Resistance to Research in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, which dealt with participant resistance to joining research efforts, and deserves the attention of all social researchers. In this article, the politics of the rese arch process are discussed to evaluate and suggest improvements for reflexive methods of inquiry. Determining that the idea of “community research ” is a myth, this work is concerned about making qualitative methods …

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Comparison Of Methods And Interdisciplinary Possibilities. The Case Of Literature Reviews In Social Work And In Nursing Sciences, Yves Couturier, Christian Dumas-Laverdière Mar 2006

Comparison Of Methods And Interdisciplinary Possibilities. The Case Of Literature Reviews In Social Work And In Nursing Sciences, Yves Couturier, Christian Dumas-Laverdière

The Qualitative Report

The reflections on interdisciplinarity cover several dimensions. One, among them, concerns the nature of what occurs between two disciplines. Does inter-disciplinarity relate to an intention, to a metatheory, to the object, or to a method? It is this ultimate space that we propose to study, supported by Resweber’s (2000) proposition, putting the study of the homology of forms forward as a promising way to better understand the interdisciplinarity. Therefore, we have modelled the literature review methods for social work and nursing in order to clarify what expresses, on the plan of the method, either some form homologies or else some …

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Phenomenological Research And Adolescent Female Sexuality: Discoveries And Applications, Gabrielle Morrissey, Joy Higgs Mar 2006

Phenomenological Research And Adolescent Female Sexuality: Discoveries And Applications, Gabrielle Morrissey, Joy Higgs

The Qualitative Report

This paper presents research in female first sexual intercourse in Australia. Previous research in adolescent sexual behavior, particularly issues around first sexual intercourse behavior , has mainly utilized quantitative methodology. Our research adopted a qualitative approach to provide unique insight in to adolescent sexual behavior, attitudes, and development. We used phenomenology to investigate adolescent female sexual experiences. The findings ca n inform national and international sexuality education.

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The Current Volume 16: Issue 21, Nova Southeastern University Feb 2006

The Current Volume 16: Issue 21, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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The Current Volume 16 : Issue 20, Nova Southeastern University Feb 2006

The Current Volume 16 : Issue 20, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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