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Anatomy Of A Case Manager, Barbara J. Quick

Theses

Case management is "a collaborative process which assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, monitors and evaluates options and services to meet an individual's health needs through communication and available resources to promote quality, cost-effective outcomes" (Case Management Society of America). In order to perform case management, case managers require not only appropriate clinical skills, but also specific personality traits.

This thesis will include data on the personality traits of case managers who are satisfied with their jobs. The personality traits to be measured and analyzed were determined following extensive evaluation of literature and previous research regarding personality traits.

The specific personality traits …

Competitive Intelligence, Victoria Ann Stamps

Theses

The focus of this project is competitive intelligence. According to Larry Kahaner in Competitive Intelligence, "Competitive intelligence is a systematic program for gathering and analyzing information about your competitors' activities and general business trends to further your own company's goals."

Facing an information overload, business people are beginning to realize that information must be analyzed to produce actionable intelligence. Actionable intelligence has an impact on the bottom line. This new field is growing at an astonishing rate as business people realize that analyzing this information is vital to success.

The purpose of this study is to investigate why business people …

Longwood College Catalog 1997-1998, Longwood University

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Who Minimum Wage Increases Bite: An Analysis Using Monthly Data From The Sipp And Cps, Richard V. Burkhauser, Kenneth A. Couch, David C. Wittenburg

Center for Policy Research

In this paper we use an estimating equation from the research of leading proponents of the view that minimum wage increases do not cause employment losses. Rather than using annual data from the May Current Population Survey (CPS), we test this hypothesis using monthly data from both the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the CPS. We find the traditional result that neoclassical theory would predict: minimum wage increases create employment losses that are concentrated among less valued workers. Minimum wage increases have an insignificant effect on the employment of prime age workers (aged 25 to 61), but …

Written Feedback In The Basic Course: What Instructors Provide And What Students Deem Helpful, Karla Kay Jensen, Elizabeth R. Lamoureux

Basic Communication Course Annual

Although the issue of speech evaluation has been a mainstay in our discipline, an updated discussion of written feedback merits our attention. To revisit this topic, this two-part content analysis first reveals the type of written feedback instructors offer students in basic public speaking classes.

Building on these findings, the second part focuses on student perceptions of the helpfulness of the written feedback. The findings are collectively discussed and their implications for written evaluations of students' oral performances are considered. Any instructor who has labored over written critiques, wondering whether students actually read and/or use the comments can value from …

Culture Shock In The Basic Communication Course: A Case Study Of Malaysian Students, Eunkyong Lee Yook

Basic Communication Course Annual

Malaysian students compose a large student group coming to the U.S. for higher education. Despite these numbers, however, there has been little attention given to their culture shock in the classroom. The present study investigates the concerns of Malaysian students in the basic communication course. Through interviews with Malaysian students, this study concludes that Malaysian students perceive having three major problems in presenting speeches in basic communication courses.

The first problem is the language barrier. Another is that certain nonverbal behaviors such as gesturing and talking in a loud tone are seen as disrespectful in their culture. Third, they have …

The Em-Powter-Ing Of America: Using Info-Mercials To Teach Persuasion And Popular Discourse In The Basic Communication Course, Daniel W. Heaton

Basic Communication Course Annual

This article describes how a critique of Susan Powter's "Stop the Insanity!" info-mercial provides educators with an effective, class-tested, and fun assignment to be included in the persuasion section of a basic communication course. This assignment provides students with an excellent example of a message from popular discourse that follows Monroe's Motivated Sequence. It also facilitates discussion of several key issues related to persuasion in general. Additionally, because this activity uses a popular discourse text, students enhance their critical thinking skills and become more critical consumers of messages they receive through popular discourse.

A Commentary: The Basic Communication Course, General Education And Assessment, Lawrence W. Hugenberg, Barbara S. Moyer

Basic Communication Course Annual

The importance of developing student communication skills in a general education program is a focal point of each college and university accrediting agency in the United States. However, course directors and faculty frequently find themselves at the center of a controversy when trying to include a basic communication course in skill development in a general education program. This article develops a case for the inclusion of a basic communication course in a general education program.

Punitive Damages In American Maritime Law, David W. Robertson

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Summary Judgment In Rhode Island: Is It Time To Wrap The Mantra In Celotex?, Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.

Roger Williams University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Coping With Partiality: Justice, The Rule Of Law, And The Role Of Lawyers, Randy E. Barnett

Roger Williams University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Internet-Based Agents: Applications And Infrastructure, Munindar P. Singh, Michael N. Huhns

Faculty Publications

Software agents are mitigating the complexity of modern information systems—technically by providing a locus for managing information subsets, and psychologically by providing an abstraction for human interaction with them.

Conversational Agents, Michael N. Huhns, Munindar P. Singh

Faculty Publications

When you build or buy an agent for the Web, you want it to perform as well as possible. Increasingly, this means your agent should take advantage not only of the Web's information resources, but also of all the other agents that might be operating there.

Agents Are Everywhere!, Michael N. Huhns, Munindar P. Singh

Faculty Publications

A decade ago this claim would have evoked images from the Cold War—and probably gotten this column classified! Today, it describes one of the hottest technical areas on the Internet.

Human Dignity, Privacy, And Personality In German And American Constitutional Law, Edward J. Eberle

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Teaching Legal Writing As Women's.Work: Life On The Fringes Of The Academy, Pamela Edwards

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The article examines the marginalization of legal writing teachers in law schools, particularly focusing on the gendered dynamics that relegate this role predominantly to women. It argues that legal writing is undervalued, with these instructors facing lower status, pay, and job security compared to other faculty. This marginalization perpetuates gender disparities in the legal academy.

Continuing The Reformation: Essays On Modern Religious Thought [Review] / B.A. Gerrish., Kenneth A. Strand

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Pilot Study Of The Efficacy Of Computer Aided Instruction As A Supplemental Teaching Instrument For Dialysis Patients, Joyce J. Daugherty

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This pilot study examined the feasibility of computer aided instruction (CAI) as supplemental interactive nutrition education for patients requiring chronic dialysis. The CAI prototype was developed using Gagne's Model of Instructional Design and the Theory of Planned Behavior. Forty-two patients were enlisted from a chronic dialysis clinic and assigned randomly to either treatment or comparison group. All subjects completed pre- and post-test questionnaires regarding their phosphorus-rich food consumption habits. Each group received the usual phosphorus control education adjunct to the monthly lab review. The experimental group also received supplemental education by CAI. Serum phosphorus lab results were assessed for change …

Hi-O-Hi 1997, Oberlin College

Hi-O-Hi Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Learning Our Limits: The Decline Of Textualism In Statutory Cases, Lawrence Solan

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Democracy, Distrust And The Public Trust: Process-Based Constitutional Theory, The Public Trust Doctrine And The Search For A Substantive Environmental Value, William D. Araiza

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Continuing Classroom Conversation Beyond The Well-Placed "Whys?", Bailey Kuklin, Jeffery J. Stemple

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Ajustement Des Valeurs D'Exposition Admissibles Pour Des Horaires De Travail Non Conventionnels, Jules Brodeur, Adolf Vyskocil, Robert Tardif, Guy Perrault, Daniel Drolet, Ginette Truchon, François Lemay

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Le présent projet a été réalisé en réponse à la demande que le vice-président à la programmation et à l'expertise-conseil de la CSST a adressée à l'IRSST: produire une étude sur l'ajustement des valeurs d'exposition admissibles lors d'horaires de travail non conventionnels dans le but de supporter les travaux du comité paritaire 3. 33. 1 sur la révision de l'Annexe A du règlement sur la qualité du milieu de travail (Annexe 1). Au préalable, le comité paritaire avait établi que le principe de base de l'ajustement des valeurs d'exposition admissibles pour …

Effets De L'Horaire Rotatif De 12 Heures Sur La Santé Et La Sécurité Des Opérateurs D'Une Raffinerie De Produits Pétroliers. Phase 1 : Enquête, Diagnostic, Pistes De Réflexion Pour Des Aménagements : Résumé, Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Yvon Quéinnec, Denise Granger, Raymond Baril, Serge Guertin, Paul Massicotte

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Le présent document est la synthèse du rapport détaillé de recherche Effets de l'horaire rotatif de 12 heures sur la santé et la sécurité des opérateurs d'une raffinerie de produits pétroliers. Phase 1 : enquête, diagnostic, pistes de réflexion pour des aménagements

Objectifs : À la demande de la direction et du syndicat d'une raffinerie de pétrole, qui s'interrogeaient sur la nécessité d'apporter des modifications à l'horaire de travail, l'équipe de recherche pluridisciplinaire a réalisé un premier bilan de l'impact de l'horaire rotatif de 12 heures, implanté depuis 20 ans dans …

Why Teams? : Assessing The Incorporation And Development Of Teams At J.P. Morgan's Delaware Private Client Group-Operations, Christine M. Wang

Honors Theses

J.P. Morgan Services, Inc. implemented teams into its Private Client Group-Operations (PCG-Ops) located in Wilmington, Delaware during the summer of 1996, in an initiative the company called Realignment. The goal of my senior project is to explore the use of teams in corporate settings. By assessing how consistent the Private Client Group's Realignment initiative is with the current team development, organizational change, and organizational development literature. In this project four main concepts will be examined:

l . The reasons why JP Morgan changed from a traditional hierarchical structure to one that is team based.

2. The results of the six …

On Cue Newsflash! Vol. 9 No. 1 January / February 1997, Marianne Flanagan

On Cue

No abstract provided.

The Liability Of Psychotherapists For Breach Of Confidentiality, Ellen W. Grabois

Journal of Law and Health

This paper will try to reconstruct the legal and ethical underpinnings of the confidential relationship of psychotherapist and patient, and will also touch upon the psychotherapist-patient testimonial privilege and its exceptions. It will then describe the liability of psychotherapists for breach of confidentiality based on contract and tort. It will conclude with some evaluation of this type of cause of action, and its future usefulness in the law..

Tis Better To Give Than To Receive: Charitable Donations Of Medical Malpractice Punitive Damages, Nicholas M. Miller

Journal of Law and Health

The purpose of this Note is not to answer the question of how excessive medical malpractice and punitive damage awards are. Many highly respected scholars on different sides of the issue have spent large portions of their careers trying to resolve that issue without finding a common ground. This author does not boldly claim to provide an answer in this limited forum. This Note does, however, address a possible source of public frustration with the state of medical malpractice and punitive damages: the lack of a principled basis for the awards that juries give to the victims. The perception among …

Environmental Justice, Neopreservationism, And Sustainable Spirituality, Mark I. Wallace

Religion Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Grief Of God: Images Of The Suffering Jesus In Late Medieval England, Ellen M. Ross

Religion Faculty Works

Graphic portrayals of the suffering Jesus Christ pervade late medieval English art, literature, drama, and theology. These images have been interpreted as signs of a new emphasis on the humanity of Jesus. To others they indicate a fascination with a terrifying God of vengeance and a morbid obsession with death. In The Grief of God, however, Ellen Ross offers a different understanding of the purpose of this imagery and its meaning to the people of the time. Analyzing a wide range of textual and pictorial evidence, the author finds that the bleeding flesh of the wounded Savior manifests divine presence; …