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Senior Wellness Prescription, Theresa Schnabel James

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The St. Joseph Health Center and St. Joseph Hospital West mission statement commissions the Hospital to be an advocate for, and agent of change in the community health-care system, and to provide a holistic health-care philosophy to the community. The Hospital's goal is to promote the health and well-being of the community by delivering effective institutional services.

Service to the community is at the philosophical core of St. Joseph Health Center and St. Joseph Hospital West. The Hospital will serve by becoming a leading provider of health-care. It will meet the needs of the patients and the community by providing …

A Comparative Analysis Of The Settlement Process In The Securities Industry, Woody D. Johnson

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This thesis will focus on the settlement process in the securities industry and the different methods and frequencies by which securities firms disburse payments to their customers.

Many brokerage firms have realized the value of technological advancements in cash management services and have invested large dollars in their systems capabilities to remain competitive . Other firms do not have the resources to invest in such systems. To stay competitive, many firms are now looking at customer service, focusing on customer payments as a marketing tool.

Historically, securities firms exploited the financial success in their customers' accounts to offset the lack …

Hotel Front Desk Management And The Role Of Information Technologies, Michael A. Jarzewiak

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This thesis will focus on Hotel Front Desk Management and the role of Information Technologies.

Recently, with the advancement of information systems, the hotel industry is changing as necessary. Property Management Systems--known in the hospitality field as PMS--have changed the way hotels operate.

Other technologies discussed are keyless lock systems, and computerized time card systems, along with other high-tech systems.

The major concern of this thesis is to research various Property Management Systems and to see what is the most important criteria hotel executives or operators seek before implementation.

Gestures And Expressions, Allen G. Arpadi

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The Development And Evolution Of A Self-Supporting, In-House Public Relations Program In The Rockwood School District, Jeff Arnett

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When the Rockwood School District implemented site-based management in 19 90, the change dramatically altered the district's overall communications program.

The responsibilities and funds to pay for requested services were given to each of Rockwood' s schools and departments. As a projects, which result, monies were formerly for communications budgeted to the communications department, were shifted to the individual school accounts. Site-based management had seemingly l eft the communications department with a reduced budget and the challenge of recovering the schools' money and maintaining their business.

What has evolved is a more effective program that also attempts to generate revenue …

Meeting The Spiritual Needs Of Older Adults: A Successful Presbyterian Model, Andrea Leihser Scandrett

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This study presents a comprehensive evaluation of the motivations for and benefits of church attendance in the aged population. A survey of the active older members of a particular church was conducted in conjunction with a review of previous research on related subjects. These methods revealed that the primary and secondary motivations for church attendance were to worship and to fellowship, respectively. It was also found that church attendance plays a major role in the adjustment of the aged. However, attendance and participation are sometimes inadvertently discouraged by youth-oriented clergy. Churches can greatly contribute to the satisfaction of both the …

Healthcare Reform Through Redesign, Alanna D. Runge

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This thesis will focus on the study of a complex redesign plan that healthcare organizations can utilize through healthcare reform.

Research has indicated that there are numerous individuals who are uninsured or underinsured. In addition, research has supported the rising costs of healthcare today . Because of these two elements, the federal government has launched a healthcare reform campaign. Therefore, healthcare facilities must be able to reengineer the way they currently conduct business.

There have been several redesign plans developed through research. However, the five common components are the delivery services, financial management and cost containment, marketing development, physician relations, …

The Profile Of A Pedophile: Are Age And Marital Status Of Child Molesters Related To The Choice Of Gender Of The Victim, Bernadine A. Mcnabb

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The characteristics of adults who sexually abuse children are reviewed by accessing current definitions and related research literature. The variable of the age and marital status of the sex offender and the gender of the victim is examined. The subjects of the study were incarcerated inmates in a state prison who have been convicted of sexual assault. Research data was extracted from their files. The hypothesis is that marital status and age of the offender is independent of the gender of the victim. The findings of this study revealed that age of the offender is independent of the selection of …

How To Reduce The Incidence Of Premature Births, And Their Associated Costs, Via A Fivefold Corporate Wellness Program, Carley Brunner Alves

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This thesis will focus on the incidence of premature births and how to reduce the frequency and costs associated with premature delivery. The emphasis is towards the development of a wellness program within a corporation which will accomplish these objectives within its population of female employees.

Research has shown that many of these premature births could be prevented if five major factors were controlled through health education and lifestyle changes. The five risk factors that increase the possibility of delivering prematurely are: lack of exercise prior to pregnancy, alcohol intake, cigarette smoking, increased stress levels, and use of harmful drugs, …

Women In The Workforce: The Voice Of Change, Susan J. Cerny

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This study presents a review of the current literature that pertains to the experiences of women in the male dominated working world. The specific focus of this study is the barriers that prevent women from advancing where men succeed.

When. women enter the workforce they tend to be naïve about the organizational culture that surrounds them. Women bring with them their natural feminine instincts and behaviors, which are not considered as valuable in the corporate world as male instincts and behaviors.

Because they are entering a "man's world," women are unaware of the subtle and underlying rules of the corporate …

The Effect Of Accelerated Aging On Peelable Medical Products Seals, Andrew Cook

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Replacing A Disposable Shipping Container With A Reusable Packaging System For A Supplier Electronic Assembly, Allen Perry

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The following document will explore the topic of source reduction in packaging design. The study will compare a disposable package for an electronic motor assembly with a reusable packaging system for the same part. This project will provide a model for quantifying packaging source reduction when comparing a disposable package design to a reusable one. The results show that significant source reduction can be accomplished if a reusable system is implemented. Source reduction will also achieve significant cost savings if the costs are calculated over several years.

A Study To Determine The Optimum Closure Torque Specification For A Variable Speed Packaging Line, Curtis Brown

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The purpose of this study is to develop a specification for closure torques that can be used on a production line. The specification must assure that torque will remain adequate to effect a leak free seal while resulting in an ultimate removal that can be achieved by the consumer without difficulty. The challenging aspect of this study is the complexity introduced by using two closure colorants, two distinctly different product formulations, and a capping mechanism that operates at a variable speed of up to three hundred bottles per minute. The research and testing involves dimensional evaluation of bottles and closures, …

Color In Computing, Thomas G. Leahy

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Color in the computing environment, once considered a luxury, is becoming more available compared to being just the occasional exception. As the number of users exploring the uses of color through displayed and printed images increases, the problems associated with its use are becoming widely known. What worked in black and white is not easily translated into color. The use of color needs to begin with the basic understanding of what is color, its terminology and its utilization as an enhancement to communications tool. Only after the basic terminology and effective means of communication are understood will color flourish as …

An Occam2 Implementation Of Prolog, Manjula Motwani

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Prolog has been widely recognized as a powerful programming language for artificial intelligence. It was also chosen as a kernel language for the Japanese Fifth Generation Project. The project is a large scale effort to initiate a new generation of computing. Due to the wide range of applications that Prolog has, many methods have been developed for extracting parallelism from standard Prolog in order to achieve faster execution on a multiprocessor. This project designs an execution model for Prolog, which attempts to exploit the parallelism mainly at the argument level through the unification operation. The model consisting of a number …

Suppression Of The Transient Response In Linear Time-Invariant Systems, Timothy P. Landschoot

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Steady-state solutions represent the long-term response of linear systems due to specified input signals. The total response is initially contaminated with transients, which disguise the long-term/operating response of a system. Except for certain ideal cases, even in systems of low dimension, the steady-state solution is typically obtained by simulation of the system until the transient part of the response is sufficiently negligible. This investigation elaborates on a method of determining the initial conditions that spontaneously give rise to steady-state solutions of forced linear differential equations. The method is applicable to stable, as well as non-stable systems, of any order.

Laptop Applications For Retail Newspaper Advertising, Robert I. Nichols Jr.

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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to identify the means of using a laptop application in the creation of target market advertising for daily newspaper independent publications. More specific purposes were: (1) how to provide a sales representative with templates and guidelines to ensure that the primary function, selling, is maintained; (2) to train the sales representative on the hardware and software applications; (3) to analyze the productivity of the production department and the sales representative in relation to the laptop application; (4) to analyze the response to the laptop application by the customers and their involvement in the …

The Dark Side Of Desktop: Detection And Prevention Of Forgery And Counterfeiting In The Age Of Desktop Publishing, Philip Lynn Potts

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This thesis project explores the ways in which new printing and desktop publishing technologies can be used in the forgery and counterfeiting of security documents, and how much protection certain security features provide against the tools of electronic publishing. For the purposes of this project, a security document is defined as any document of value with built-in features meant to discourage counterfeiting and facilitate limited reproduction. Possible countermeasures used to identify and defeat forgeries are also discussed. To accomplish this, a variety of means are used such as color copiers, scanners, conventional photocopiers, and desktop publishing computers and software.

The …

What Did They Have To Say? Employees Perceptions Of Customer Service, Louis J. Gagliano

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Improving customer service through employee information is a process that needs a starting point, which this project has produced. The purpose for the study is to provide employees with the opportunity to offer their ideas and perceptions. This would help a property improve its external customer service.

Through employee focus groups, the Lodge at Woodcliff in Rochester, NY identified service gap factors that exist in the resort. This project initiates the opening of the internal information resource in a local resort, and a research structure that can be utilized in future studies.

A description of the focus group design and …

Meeting Customer Expectations In The Foodservice Industry: A "Mystery Diner" Program, Michele L. Bailey

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The Simulated Bread Board Imaging System: A Study Of Computer Simulation As An Engineering Tool, Gregory R. Conway

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A software system was developed to aid in the translation of customer print quality requirements into formal design specifications during the development of new printers and copiers. The system is designed to allow the user to generate a series of prints with various deviations, or visual artifacts, introduced into them. These artifacts simulate the effects of design considerations on the expected output at the image output terminal. The resulting prints can be used to incorporate customer feedback and requirements early in the development cycle. In so doing, it is expected that the need for hardware prototyping can be reduced …

Nutritional Risk Status Of The Non-Institutionalized Older Adult Population In Monroe County, New York, Susan A. Best

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The purpose of this study was to identify the number of older adults who were at high nutritional risk in Monroe County and to determine what risk factors or nutritional problems are most prevalent. Another goal was to assess the relationship between the demographics and risk factors.

The Nutrition Screening Initiative's (NSI) "Determine Your Nutritional Health" Checklist contains 10 risk factors that have been shown to be associated with nutritional risk. Regular routine nutrition screening is promoted by the NSI and other health professionals to help identify individuals at nutritional risk and to initiate the appropriate intervention. Early intervention may …

Dreams Of Desire And Demise, Ann Mcallister

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America's Hospitality Industry: A Leadership Profile, Jong Young Lee

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The Hospitality industry in America is getting more attention than before, but is still regarded not as important as the manufacturing industry, and so there is a real need to find what kind of individuals are leading America's profitable hospitality industry and their background, education, and so on. Numerous studies have been done about the individuals leading the America's manufacturing industry, however, very little attention has been given to the profile of the leaders in the hospitality industry.

In this analysis of 121 CEOs leading the America's hospitality industry, it analyzes their age, area of birth, education, place of education, …

Design And Implementation Of An Asynchronous Version Of The Mips R3000 Microprocessor, Kevin Johnson

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The purpose of this thesis is to show some of the advantages for the asynchronous implementation of a major synchronous structure. Three people were involved with the design of an asynchronous microprocessor modeled after the MIPS R3000 microprocessor. This microprocessor implemented all of the MIPS reduced instruction set, while eliminating the need for synchronous clocking throughout the chip. Paul Fanelli modeled the asynchronous processor using VHDL (hardware description language). Kevin Johnson created circuit level designs and layouts of the arithmetic logic unit and supporting hardware. Scott Siers created circuit level designs and layouts of the instruction fetch, write back, memory …

Airgun Pellet Performance Using Computational Fluid Dynamics, Kenneth P. Corey

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Very little formal analysis has been done with respect to flow around small scale projectiles. In late 1991, a local manufacturer of airgun pellets and related equipment approached RIT to investigate the flow characteristics of two particular airgun pellet geometries. Initial work was completed with the RIT wind tunnel through the use of scaled up models of the pellets. The conclusions of this work showed many interesting results, even though only the low speed velocity range of the pellets was studied. In order to study the actual operating velocity range of the pellets, the use of a Computational Fluid Dynamics …

Numerical Analysis Of One-Dimensional Waves In Generalized Thermoelasticity, Mark J. Gorman

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Classical thermoelasticity theory is based on Fourier's Law of heat conduction, which, when combined with the other fundamental field equations, leads to coupled hyperbolic-parabolic governing equations. These equations imply that thermal effects are to be felt instantaneously, far away from the external thermomechanieal load. Therefore, this theory admits infinite speeds of propagation of thermoelastic disturbances. This paradox becomes especially evident in problems involving very short time intervals, or high rates. of heat flux. Since infinite wave speeds are physically unrealistic in some situations, and since experiments have shown the existence of wavetype thermoelastic interactions, like in the observation of thermal …

Examining The Creative Process; Electronic Technology In Art And Design, Michael Hahn

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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact that electronic technology has had in reshaping the artists' approach to the creative process. As computers become a vital resource and creative tool for the art community, it is important for the artist, and public alike, to understand the significance of elec tronic technology in facilitating the creative process.

Opening Of The Way Through Dreams--An Inner Journey, Rose Felin Holt

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The author and a female client use dreams as the vehicle in counseling, following theoretical and practical considerations outlined by C.G. Jung. Included are discussions of theory, the function of dreams and dream symbols, selected dreams, and the content of some of the sessions. The author and the client met for one hour per week over a period of three months for a total of twelve sessions. Both recorded their impressions and experiences in journals during this period. The results of the counseling sessions validate Jung's thesis--that work with dreams leads to a cooperative alliance between conscious and unconscious psychic …

Reliability Analysis Of Triple Modular Redundancy System With Spare, Khalid A. Al-Kofahi

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Hardware redundant fault-tolerant systems and the different design approaches are discussed. The reliability analysis of fault-tolerant systems is usually done under permanent fault conditions. With statistical data suggesting that up to 90% of system failures are caused by intermittent faults, the reliability analysis of fault-tolerant systems must concentrate more on this class of faults. In this work, a reconfigurable Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) with spare system that differentiates between permanent and intermittent faults has been built. The reconfiguration process of this system depends on both the current status of its modules and their history. Based on this, a different approach …