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Investor Protection Within The Securities Industry / Bhuvaneswari Krishnamurthy, Krishnamurthy Bhuvaneswari

Pre-2000 Student Works

Laws are nonnally enacted with reference to social objectives. The rules and regulations that govern the Securities lndustry have been enacted with a view to providing Investor Protection. The objective of this work is to examine the body of laws that affect an individual investor in making his investment decisions. This work is centered around the provisions contained in the Malaysian Companies Act 1965, the Securities Industry Act 1983, and the Securities Commission Act 1993 and their impact on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Regulation of the Securities Industry in Malaysia only spans the last three decades and hence reference …

Distribution Of Ddt And Lindane In A Model Mudlat Ecosystem / Shanmugam Suberamaniam, Suberamaniam Shanmugam

Pre-2000 Student Works

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Cost Measurement, Roger A. Lohmann, Nancy Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This article, which originally appeared in the 1997 Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Social Work is an overview and introduction to cost concepts as they are used in social work and human services. A few important ideas and concepts that have come into the picture since the original publication have been added to this version.

Managed Care: The Questionable Triumph Of Financial Management, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Managed Care is a generic term for a broad and constantly changing mix of health insurance, assistance and payment programs which seek to retain quality and access while controlling the cost of physical and mental health services. The introduction of managed care fundamentally transforms the traditional “agency” relationships on which modern social work was built. Little research on its impact on social services is currently available. The managed care model, with its distinctive external patterns of accountability, raises serious questions about the continuing viability of the “social agency” model of practice to which social work has been committed for most …

High-Frequency Internal Waves In The Upper Eastern Equatorial Pacific, Andrew P. Mack

Open Access Dissertations

From towed thermistor chain data collected near 140-132°W on the equator during April 1987 a diurnally cycling high-frequency internal wave field was observed. Observations from 10-s-averaged data include zonal wavelengths of 150-250 m and vertical structures of wave displacement.

From high-passed 20-Hz data the turbulence dissipation rate, c, is estimated within the internal wave cycle. To understand wave dynamics both the linear, diagnostic Taylor-Goldstein equation and a nonlinear, prognostic numerical model are solved for conditions representative of the upper eastern equatorial Pacific during the period of interest. Unstable Taylor-Goldstein solutions scaled by observed wave displacement amplitudes agreed relatively well with …

Evaluation Of Simulation Extracted Metals-Acid Volatile Sulfide (Sem-Avs) In Lacustrine Sediment (Lake Champlain), Estuarine Sediment (Narragansett Bay) And Under Laboratory Conditions, Elizabeth M. Lacey

Open Access Dissertations

In the process of development of sediment quality criteria, trace metal bioavailability is an essential consideration because different sediments can exhibit differing degrees of toxicity for the same concentration of contaminant. Various sediment phases are responsible for binding trace metals and rendering them non-bioavailable. In 1990, it was shown that acid volatile sulfide (AVS) is responsible for binding certain divalent metals on a molar basis. By measuring AVS and the simultaneously extracted metals (SEM), potential trace metal bioavailability may be determined. In this research, sediments from Lake Champlain and Narragansett Bay were analyzed by a variety of methods to determine …

The Freedom Of The Christian For Culture, Timothy Lull

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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It is somewhat surprising for Timothy Lull to be invited to address a liturgical conference of any sort. I was talking to several of my colleagues at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary this week about what I would be saying, and one of them said, "Ah! Is Lull among the liturgists?" He seemed surprised These colleagues wondered if you knew, for example, that I describe myself as a recovering evangelical catholic, or if you would know that I have the reputation in my congregation as being "the great complainer" about matters like the length of service, the fact that we …

On Baptism And The Spirit: The Ethical Significance Of The Marks Of The Church, Vigen Guroian

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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As the church rounds the close of its second millennium, Christians must recapture the ecclesial and sacramental character of Christian ethics. They must see clearly once more that their ethics belongs to the mystery of the incarnation and the redemptive mission of the church. They must see afresh that their ethics issues directly from their adoption through baptism as sons and daughters of God.

Indicated Silences In American Novels, Catherine Adamowicz

Open Access Dissertations

Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define the silence as the opposite and inferior condition of speech, reproducing and reinforcing the man/woman hierarchical binary.

This study, defining silence as the complement of speech, analyzes the significant of silences indicated by words and/or punctuation. Its purpose is to illustrate that the author's uses of silence reflect her subject position during a particular historical moment, that trends in uses evolve gradually, and that their direction can be predicted. The principle novels and authors used as examples are At Fault and The Awakening by Kate Chopin, …

A Quantitative And Qualitative Assessment Of Adolescent Hiv-Risk Predictors, Michelle A. Lang

Open Access Dissertations

HIV-risk was assessed, and staged by the Transtheoretical Model, among 239 adolescents, ages 13-19 (mean age 15), with a 163-item self-administered questionnaire, supplemented with qualitative data from 28 focus groups. Thirteen psychometrically reliable scales were isolated and validated with 457 youth pooled from previous samples: factual, transmission, and perceived AIDS knowledge, misconceptions, perceived susceptibility, self-efficacy, homophobia, substance use and abuse, communication assertiveness, condom use assertiveness, and risk histories for self and partner(s). AIDS risk was defined by frequency of unprotected occasions and number of intercourse partners. Sexual activity was indicated by 54 percent of the sample. Young men reported significantly …

Training Caregivers To Intervene In The Exploratory Play Of Young Children With Developmental Delays, Susan L. Curley

Open Access Dissertations

Play, particularly exploratory play, can be viewed as the arena in which a series of interactions between a child and the environment occur. However, children with developmental delays appear to be less able to fully engage in exploratory play and utilize the environmental information that such play provides (Krakow & Kopp, 1983). There is also preliminary evidence that caregivers can be trained to use behaviors that facilitate exploratory play when engaged with their children (Belsky, Goode, & Most, 1981). The purpose of the present study was to explore the potential of training caregivers to facilitate the exploratory play of developmentally …

Cynics, Spaces, And Subjects: Toward A Tactical Ethics Of Rhetoric, Kristen Francis Kennedy

Open Access Dissertations

Cynics, Spaces, and Subjects: Toward a Tactical Ethics of Rhetoric explores the problem of ethics within the postmodern, a moment, as well as a theoretical posture, that leaves questions of transformative subjectivity and agency to be answered by an ethical "anything goes." In response to the often destabilizing tendencies of postmodern ethical theory, my dissertation is a rhetorical response to claims that there are no foundations for ethical thought and action. I argue that rhetorical theory is well-suited for this task because of its emphasis on action and discourse. At the same time, however, I borrow some of the insights …

Functionality And Durability Prediction Of The Thin Shell Edge Welded Metal Bellows, Hai-Ping Ma

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Observation Of Long First-Mode Baroclinic Rossby Waves In The North Atlantic And Their Connection With Wind Forcing, Paulo Simionatto Polito

Open Access Dissertations

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Institutional Analyses Of Tourism Development In Phang Nga, Thailand, Wiwat Lee

Open Access Dissertations

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Investigations Of Conductive Polymer Coatings For Corrosion Protection Of Aluminum Alloys, Robert James Racicot

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Dynamics And Optimal Harvesting Of Multispecies Fisheries In Fluctuating Environments, Paul David Spencer

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

"The Freiris Of Berwik": A Critical Edition, Edward-David E. Ruiz

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An In Vivo Evaluation Of The Lhrh Agonist Deslorelin For Therapeutic Application, Lori Ann Hayes Underhill

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Fatigue Crack Growth Bridging Mechanisms In Titanium Metal-Matrix Composites, Mohd Nasir Tamin

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Economic Analysis Of Sustainable Development On The Indonesian Coastal Resources, Gellwynn D. H. Yusuf

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Fiber-Optic Sensors For Acoustic Studies And Biological Applications, Chonghua Zhou

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Fay Weldon: A Contemporary Critical Voice, Victoria Pickett Kirby

Open Access Dissertations

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Three Essays On Asian Capital Markets, Piman Limpaphayom

Open Access Dissertations

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Orientation And Stacking Of Parts Based On Internal Features, Anil Mankame

Open Access Dissertations

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Chemical Variability In Coastal And Mixed Layer Waters, Andrea Magnuson

Open Access Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Characterization Of Heat-And Osmotic-Shock Proteins In Atlantic Salmon (Salmo Salar) Tissues, Todd Russell Smith

Open Access Dissertations

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Abortion As Commerce: The Impact Of "United States V. Lopez" On The Freedom Of Access To Clinic Entrances Act Of 1994, Benjamin W. Roberson

Vanderbilt Law Review

American politics in the 1990s is preoccupied with the movement of power from a centralized federal authority to state and local governments. There is some measure of consensus that the federal government can no longer provide solutions to all of America's problems., The resulting retreat from the twentieth century federal monolith has interesting implications for constitutional law. The federal government's power expanded largely under the authority of the Commerce Clause. Although the traditional broad interpretation of Congress's commerce power bears little resemblance to the actual text of the Constitution, courts have accepted the notion that Congress may regulate any activity …

On Two Eras Of African Archaeology: Colonial And National, Clea Koff

Nebraska Anthropologist

This paper examines the role of archaeology in the political agendas of both colonial and post-colonial African governments. Both forms of government have utilized selective interpretations of the archaeological record to further their political goals. The marriage between archaeologists and colonial administrations is examined in light of the temporal coincidence between the international rise of professional archaeology in the 18908 and the zenith of colonial occupation in sub-Saharan Africa. The concurrent nature of these two phenomena resulted in employment within colonial administrations for the majority of professional archaeologists. The archaeology of the post-independenoe era reflects a shift in paradigm, as …

Looted Archaeological Sites: Are They Worthy Of Scientific Investigation?, Michelle J. Lundeen

Nebraska Anthropologist

Since the late 1800s, looting of prehistoric and historic Bles has been recognized as a serious threat to archaeological resources throughout the world (Knoll 1991}. Looting destroys both recorded and unrecorded sites in the United states (Ahlstrom 1992, Honeycutt et al. 1985, stuart 1989). With such a great amount of looting taking place, this research paper asks a basic question: Why do archaeologists not investigate looted archaeological sites as they do nonlooted sites and features? This question will be answered by reviewing the literature about looting including the archaeological reaction to looting. Two looted features, potted privies, will be discussed …