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Principals’ Perceptions Of Administration – Related Uses Of The Internet: An Exploratory Study, Ekoka Andrew Molindo Dec 1997

Principals’ Perceptions Of Administration – Related Uses Of The Internet: An Exploratory Study, Ekoka Andrew Molindo

Student Work

The use of computers in assisting in administrative tasks has revolutionized the workforce. Today, principals and administrators in many fields rely on accurate, fast, inexpensive and up-to-date information in order to make sound decisions. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of school principals regarding the use of the Internet for administrative purposes. This descriptive study focused on the potential benefits and problems of Internet use perceived by school principals. The research questions focused on seven areas: demographics, attitudes, benefits of the Internet, frequency of use, experience, policies and issues. A total of 292 principals in Nebraska …

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The Times They Were A-Changing' : A Study Of Popular Protest Songs, 1963-1970, Holly Kingsley Miller Dec 1997

The Times They Were A-Changing' : A Study Of Popular Protest Songs, 1963-1970, Holly Kingsley Miller

Student Work

The 1960's were very turbulent times in American society. The Vietnam War created battle lines on the home-front between the young and the old, and patriots and the counter culture. During these years, protest songs were evidence of the discontent of American youth. This thesis explored the message content and message structure of popular Vietnam War related protest songs from 1963 - 1970. A sample of sixteen songs were studied through lyrical analysis, structure and style evaluation and an examination of their musical elements. Lyrical analysis revealed that all the sample songs introduced listeners to perceived problems in the status …

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E-Mail And The Flow Of Information In An Organization: An Investigation Within An Academic Institution, Alicia Caldwell Dec 1997

E-Mail And The Flow Of Information In An Organization: An Investigation Within An Academic Institution, Alicia Caldwell

Student Work

The focus of this thesis is e-mail as a tool for the dissemination of information. Literature on e-mail has suggested that e-mail might influence and change communication patterns such as socialization, interdependence, and attention focus. Specifically, this study examined hierarchical similarities/differences in e-mail transmission and reception and user’s perceptions within an academic institution. Variables studied for their effect include the number of messages sent and received, gender, attention a message is given, message subject matter, message origination, whether participants felt that technology inhibits or enhances communication and whether there were differences between hierarchical levels. Among results were the following. For …

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Pharmaceutical Advertising: A Qualitative Comparison Of The Internet And National Magazines, Broc Bilby Dec 1997

Pharmaceutical Advertising: A Qualitative Comparison Of The Internet And National Magazines, Broc Bilby

Student Work

The Internet offers tremendous potential benefits to consumers in terms of increased convenience, choices and information. Yet, along with such benefits, comes new risks to consumers, including an increased risk from fraud, deception and misinformation (FDA and the Internet Conference, October, 1996).

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Year In Review - 1997, Annis Water Resources Institute Dec 1997

Year In Review - 1997, Annis Water Resources Institute

AWRI Reviews

No abstract provided.

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The Metropolitan Theatre In Grand Forks, North Dakota: The Years Of Decline, 1911-1933, John M. Bell Dec 1997

The Metropolitan Theatre In Grand Forks, North Dakota: The Years Of Decline, 1911-1933, John M. Bell

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Memorial For Bonnie Craig Scheduled, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations Dec 1997

Memorial For Bonnie Craig Scheduled, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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New Communitarian Thought And The Future Of Social Policy, John Mcnutt Dec 1997

New Communitarian Thought And The Future Of Social Policy, John Mcnutt

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Communitarian thought is an emerging force in American social policy in the 1990s. Communitarians see the breakdown of community and morality as the major problem of our society. They conclude that rampant individualism is the cause of this breakdown. Communitarians propose reforms that will limit rampant individualism and restore our communities and institutions. In these proposals are threats to social justice, as well as positive elements that social workers can endorse. This paper reviews and critiques the communitarian position and suggests ways that social workers can use this new force to advance the cause of social justice.

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Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization. Steven Yearley. Dec 1997

Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization. Steven Yearley.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Steven Yearley, Sociology, Environmentalism, Globalization. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. $ 69.95 hardcover, $ 22.95 papercover.

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Lawyer - Winter 1997/1998, Seattle University School Of Law Dec 1997

Lawyer - Winter 1997/1998, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

• A Daughter of Norway Celebrates Independence and Guides Her Group’s Departure
• Research Librarian Kelly Kunsch Tells You Why We Need All Those Books
• San Francisco Attorney is Preeminent Authority on Legal Malpractice
• Remembering Vickie Bunnell: An Exceedingly Good Attorney and Equally Good Person

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Digital Science: Electronic Association And Groupware In Facilitating Third Sector Research, Roger A. Lohmann Dec 1997

Digital Science: Electronic Association And Groupware In Facilitating Third Sector Research, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

In thinking about the application of computers and the internet technology to problems of association, collaboration and civil society we need to get beyond the current state of mimicking existing social processes and discover new ways to extend and enhance those social processes.

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Dr. Steven P. Vitrano, Steven P. Vitrano Dec 1997

Dr. Steven P. Vitrano, Steven P. Vitrano

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

No abstract provided.

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The Worship Of Babel, Jacques B. Doukhan Dec 1997

The Worship Of Babel, Jacques B. Doukhan

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

No abstract provided.

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Closing The Book On Jusen: An Account Of The Bad Loan Crisis And A New Chapter For Securitization In Japan, Howard M. Felson Dec 1997

Closing The Book On Jusen: An Account Of The Bad Loan Crisis And A New Chapter For Securitization In Japan, Howard M. Felson

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Egyptian Cinema, Dalia El Toukhy Dec 1997

The Egyptian Cinema, Dalia El Toukhy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Victims' Right To Truth, Donald W. Shriver Jr. Dec 1997

Victims' Right To Truth, Donald W. Shriver Jr.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

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Wglt Program Guide, December-January, 1997-98, Illinois State University Dec 1997

Wglt Program Guide, December-January, 1997-98, Illinois State University

WGLT Program Guides

This guide details programming for WGLT, a public radio station owned by Illinois State University.

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Alcalá View 1997 14.04, University Of San Diego Publications And Human Resources Offices Dec 1997

Alcalá View 1997 14.04, University Of San Diego Publications And Human Resources Offices

Alcalá View (1985-2006)

Christmas in the Park; Commuter's Corner; University Ministry Events; Benefits Brief; Service with a Smile; Together They've worked 770 years; Committee Proposes Changes to Tuition Policy; New Hires and Promotions; Passages; Classifieds; Psst…Bits and Pieces from the Readers; Process Redesign Projects: New and Old

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Protecting Surface Transportation Systems And Patrons From Terrorist Activities, Research Report 94-04, Brian M. Jenkins Dec 1997

Protecting Surface Transportation Systems And Patrons From Terrorist Activities, Research Report 94-04, Brian M. Jenkins

Mineta Transportation Institute

Contemporary terrorists have made public transportation a new theater of operations. Algerian extremists set off bombs on the subways of Paris in 1995 and 1996; the Irish Republican Army has waged a long running terrorist campaign against Britain’s passenger trains and London’s subways; Palestinian terrorists have carried out suicide bombings on Israel’s buses; and an individualor a group calling itself “Sons of the Gestapo” derailed a passenger train in Arizona in 1995. Islamic extremists planned to set off car bombs in New York’s tunnels and bridges in 1993 and in 1997 they plotted suicide bombings in New York subways. The …

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Toward Dispassionate, Effective Control Of Sexual Offenders , Carol L. Kunz Dec 1997

Toward Dispassionate, Effective Control Of Sexual Offenders , Carol L. Kunz

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Problems And Solutions In Future Coalition Operations, Phillip Kaiser Mr., Jon Kessmeier Mr., Thomas J. Marshall Mr. Dec 1997

Problems And Solutions In Future Coalition Operations, Phillip Kaiser Mr., Jon Kessmeier Mr., Thomas J. Marshall Mr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Each year, the United States Army, Europe (USAREUR) undertakes a conference-study program on a matter of strategic significance, with several objectives. The topic relates to USAREUR’s mission; anticipates future requirements; contributes toward building democratic norms within the militaries of emerging democracies; and serves to inform the USAREUR staff, higher headquarters and other U.S. Government agencies of active measures to improve current practices. Examples of topics in the last several years are Preventive Diplomacy, Planning and Conducting Large Scale Emergency Operations, and Military Support to Democratization in Europe.

In 1996, USAREUR undertook to study “Problems and Solutions in Future Coalition Operations.” …

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The Dit Examiner : The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union, December, 1997, Dit : Students' Union Dec 1997

The Dit Examiner : The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union, December, 1997, Dit : Students' Union

DIT Student Union

The DIT Examiner : the Newspaper of the Dublin Institute of Technology Students' Union.

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Jury Reform: Of Myths And Moral Panics, Peter Duff, Mark Findlay Dec 1997

Jury Reform: Of Myths And Moral Panics, Peter Duff, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

It is now commonplace to assert that the jury performs an important ideological or symbolic role in the criminal justice process. Indeed, it is often argued that this function is more significant than the impact the jury has in practice (see Mungham & Bankowski 1976; Duff & Findlay 1982; Findlay & Duff 1988: 1–7; Darbyshire 1991). Certainly it is true that, in virtually every jurisdiction where the jury exists, only a very small proportion of alleged offenders have their cases heard before a jury. There are two principal reasons for this. First, the vast majority of those charged with criminal …

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Analytic Transfer Function Of The Forward Propagation Of Diffuse Photon Density Waves In Turbid Media With An Embedded Spherical Inhomogeneity, Deborah L. Lasocki Dec 1997

Analytic Transfer Function Of The Forward Propagation Of Diffuse Photon Density Waves In Turbid Media With An Embedded Spherical Inhomogeneity, Deborah L. Lasocki

Theses and Dissertations

Diffusing photons can be used to detect and localize optical inhomogeneities embedded in turbid media such as clouds, fog, paint and human tissue. This thesis shows that a transfer function derived from an analytic solution of the Helmholtz equation can completely characterize in three dimensions the perturbations in the forward propagation phenomena caused by a spherical defect object in a multiple-scattering medium. Two models of the forward propagation behavior of diffuse photon density waves in homogeneous, infinite, turbid media that contains a spherical inhomogeneity are examined. The first model is an exact analytic solution based on a modal expansion in …

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Fpga Processor Implementation For The Forward Kinematics Of The Umdh, Steven M. Parmley Dec 1997

Fpga Processor Implementation For The Forward Kinematics Of The Umdh, Steven M. Parmley

Theses and Dissertations

The focus of this research was on the implementation of a forward kinematic algorithm for the Utah MIT Dexterous Hand (UMDH). Specifically, the algorithm was synthesized from mathematical models onto a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) processor. This approach is different from the classical, general purpose microprocessor design where all robotic controller functions including forward Kinematics are executed serially from a compiled programming language such as C. The compiled code and subsequent real time operating system must be stored on some form of nonvolatile memory, typically magnetic media such as a fixed or hard disk drive, along with other computer …

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Ethical Issues In A Networked Environment, Kristen G. Sallberg Dec 1997

Ethical Issues In A Networked Environment, Kristen G. Sallberg

Theses and Dissertations

The research objective was to provide a preliminary understanding of how USAF computer users perceive the ethical considerations of computer networks and how the USAF is addressing ethical issues of networked environments. A survey was undertaken to explore questions of ethics in the use of information networks. The literature review explored issues of ethics in the private sector and USAF guidance regarding use of official government resources. The sample population consisted of military members stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Ohio. The responses regarding certain attitudes about behaviors and actions in a networked environment were consistent overall. A significant difference …

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Flow And Congestion Control For Internet Streaming Applications, Shanwei Cen, Calton Pu, Jonathan Walpole Dec 1997

Flow And Congestion Control For Internet Streaming Applications, Shanwei Cen, Calton Pu, Jonathan Walpole

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

The emergence of streaming multimedia players provides users with low latency audio and video content over the Internet. Providing high-quality, best-effort, real-time multimedia content requires adaptive delivery schemes that fairly share the available network bandwidth with reliable data protocols such as TCP. This paper proposes a new flow and congestion control scheme, SCP (Streaming Control Protocol) , for real-time streaming of continuous multimedia data across the Internet. The design of SCP arose from several years of experience in building and using adaptive real-time streaming video players. SCP addresses two issues associated with real-time streaming. First, it uses a congestion control …

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Media Use And Performance In Air Force Organizations: Testing The Value Of Media Richness Theory, Lawrence D. Harrison Jr. Dec 1997

Media Use And Performance In Air Force Organizations: Testing The Value Of Media Richness Theory, Lawrence D. Harrison Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

Communication is a critical factor in any organization. The choices Air Force members make when communicating have a direct impact on mission accomplishment. Media Richness Theory (MRT) recognizes that communication needs, and the ability of various media to support them, are influenced by a number of factors involving the message content, situational elements, and its symbolic aspects. The theory predicts employees who use more appropriate communication media face to face conversation, telephone, e-mail, and written correspondence as predicted by the theory, will be more effective performers. The ability of MRT to explain supervisory performance ratings for a group of junior …

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Sinusoidal-Gaussian Beams In Complex Optical Systems, Lee W. Casperson, Dennis G. Hall, Anthony A. Tovar Dec 1997

Sinusoidal-Gaussian Beams In Complex Optical Systems, Lee W. Casperson, Dennis G. Hall, Anthony A. Tovar

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Sinusoidal-Gaussian beam solutions are derived for the propagation of electromagnetic waves in free space and in media having at most quadratic transverse variations of the index of refraction and the gain or loss. The resulting expressions are also valid for propagation through other real and complex lens elements and systems that can be represented in terms of complex beam matrices. The solutions are in the form of sinusoidal functions of complex argument times a conventional Gaussian beam factor. In the limit of large Gaussian beam size, the sine and cosine factors of the beams are dominant and reduce to the …

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Inequities Of The Drug War: Legislative Discrimination On The Cocaine Battlefield, Andrew N. Sacher Dec 1997

Inequities Of The Drug War: Legislative Discrimination On The Cocaine Battlefield, Andrew N. Sacher

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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