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Turning Patients Into Profit: Nonprofit Hospital Conversions Spur Legislation, Vincenzo Stampone

Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Performance Indices For Multivariate Ice Hockey Statistics, William (Bill) H. Williams, David A. Williams

Publications and Research

A Review of the Use of Performance Indices in Ice Hockey

Four Commentaries: How We Can Better Protect Children From Abuse And Neglect, Leroy H. Pelton

Social Work Faculty Research

The fundamental structure of the public child welfare system is that of a coercive apparatus wrapped in a helping orientation. Agencies ostensibly having the mission to help are mandated to ask whether parents can be blamed for their child welfare problems, and these agencies have the power to remove children from their homes. Thus, the public child welfare agency has a dual-role structure: On one hand, the agency attempts to engage in prevention and support, and to promote family preservation; on the other hand, it also has the task of investigating complaints against parents and removing children from them. This …

The Effects Of A Five-Day Therapeutic Horseback Riding Program On The Standing And/Or Sitting Balance Of Children Ages 8-18 With A Wide Variety Of Disabling Diagnoses As Measured By The Functional Reach Test And The Modified Functional Reach Test, Richard A. Chaperon, Pamela A. Staszewski, Heather L. Vavrina

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect that a five-day horseback riding program had on the standing and/or sitting balance of children ages eight to eighteen afflicted with a variety of disabling diagnoses. The stated hypothesis is that after participating in a five-day session of therapeutic riding, subjects will show significant improvement in standing and/or sitting balance as measured by the Functional Reach Test (FRT) and the Modified Functional Reach Test (MFRT). The 15 subjects tested using FRT and the 17 subjects tested using the MFRT were all participants of the Cheff Center riding program. Subjects were …

Unlv College Of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter, Steve Mccafferty, John Filler, Nancy P. Gallavan, Le Ann Putney, Kyle Higgins, Porter Troutman, Stanley Zehm, Cyndi Giorgis, Jack Starr, Sheila Gregory, Joyce Nelson-Leaf

College of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter

The workshop sponsored by the College of Education Multicultural & Diversity Committee on Friday January 16, 1998 was attended by approximately 40 faculty members and students from the College of Education. Dr. Gary Howard from the REACH Center (Respecting Ethnic And Cultural Heritage) located in Seattle, Washington provided an excellent three-hour workshop that asked attendees to ponder various dimensions of multicultural and global education. Dr. Howard provided information designed to facilitate the development of positive leadership skills for the implementation of cultural awareness and valuing diversity strategies in the classes in which the attendees teach---whether that be at a university …

Unlv College Of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter, Steve Mccafferty, John Filler, Le Ann Putney, Kyle Higgins, Porter Troutman, Stanley Zehm, Cyndi Giorgis, Jack Starr, Sheila Gregory, Joyce Nelson-Leaf

College of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter

As educators and future educators, we will be working with students from diverse groups and all walks of life. Many of us enter this field entrenched in our own culture with no real understanding of how others' life experiences have influenced their values and beliefs. The multicultural courses in the College of Education force us to examine how we came to adopt our values and from where our beliefs originated. No other course in the graduate curriculum forces us to challenge the myths and stereotypes of American society as profoundly as these courses.

Unlv College Of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter, Steve Mccafferty, John Filler, Nancy P. Gallavan, Le Ann Putney, Nancy Sileo, Kyle Higgins, Porter Troutman, Stanley Zehm, Cyndi Giorgis, Aimee Govett, Jack Starr, Bill Pankratius, Sheila Gregory, Susan Rumann, Joyce Nelson-Leaf

College of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter

Join us on November 12, 13, and 14, 1998 at the Orleans Hotel and Casino for the 1^st Annual Multicultural Conference & Luncheon sponsored by NvNAME (the Nevada chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education.) The 1998 Multicultural Education conference will feature keynote addresses by: Mr. Herbert R. Stevens, Director of the San Carlos Apache Tribal Cultural Center; Dr. G. Pritchy Smith, Professor from the University of North Florida; Dr. Rudolfo Chavez Chavez, Professor from New Mexico State University; Mr. Charles E. Pace, Scholar with the Chataqua Public Humanities, Dr. Sam Chan, Professor from the California School of …

Unlv College Of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter, Steve Mccafferty, John Filler, Nancy P. Gallavan, Le Ann Putney, Nancy Sileo, Kyle Higgins, Porter Troutman, Stanley Zehm, Cyndi Giorgis, Aimee Govett, Jack Starr, Bill Pankratius, Sheila Gregory, Susan Rumann, Joyce Nelson-Leaf

College of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter

The Diversity Committee, in collaboration with Dean Teresa Jordan, sponsored a roundtable discussion with Dr. Rudolfo Chavez Chavez in November. Dr. Chavez is a professor in the area of Multicultural Education at New Mexico State University located in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is a nationally and internationally known expert in the areas of multicultural education, social justice, and working with "at-risk" populations.

A Study Of Transconductance Degradation In Hemt Using A Self-Consistent Boltzmann-Poisson-Schrodinger Solver, Rahim Khoie

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Research

A self-consistent Boltzmann-Poisson-Schrödinger Solver is used to study the transconductance degradation in high electron mobility transistor (HEMT), which has extensively been reported by both experimental [1]-[8] and computational [9]-[ 13] researchers. As the gate voltage of a HEMT device is increased, its transconductance increases until it reaches a peak value, beyond which, the transconductance is degraded rather sharply with further increase in applied gate bias. We previously reported a two-subband self-consistent Boltzmann-Poisson- Schrödinger Solver for HEMT. [14] We further incorporated an additional self-consistency by calculating field-dependent, energy-dependent intersubband and intrasubband scattering rates due to ionized impurities and polar optical phonons.[15] …

The Becca Bill Would Not Have Saved Becca: Washington State's Treatment Of Young Female Offenders, Tiffany Zwicker Eggers

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

Empowerment For The Pursuit Of Happiness: Parents With Disabilities And The Americans With Disabilities Act, Dave Shade

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

Library Tech Notes, The Unlv Libraries Technology Committee

Library TechNotes

A newsletter containing a variety of sections including:

Camille's Comments

HTML From the Ground Up: Your First Web Page

Did You Know?

Kay's Wonderous Web Sites

Technology Booklist

Book Review

Library Tech Notes, The Unlv Libraries Technology Committee

Library TechNotes

A newsletter containing a variety of sections including:

Camille's Comments

Tuma's Wondrous Web Sites

HTML From the Ground Up

Book Review

Technology Booklist

Implementation Of Least Restrictive Environment (Lre) In Nevada Rural Schools According To The Rachel H Standard, Laurie Magee Flanders

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Public Law 94-142, the Education of All Handicapped Children Act (1975); Public Law 101-476, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (1990); and Public Law 105-17, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 require that all disabled students be placed in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) in their educational settings; In 1994 the Ninth Circuit Court established the Rachel H. Standard, which provides a guide for school districts in determining the Least Restrictive Environment for their disabled students. All school districts within the authority of the Ninth Circuit must comply with the standard set forth in Sacramento City Unified …

Prevailing Student Disciplinary Issues In The California State University System, Joel Steven Kostman

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevailing student disciplinary issues regarding student conduct in the California State University System.

Formative Evaluation: An Instrument To Measure The Effects Of Using The Universal Format, Dale B Warby

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

An instrument to measure the effects of using the Universal Format for translating research to practice was developed. Measures of teachers, responses concerning the benefits, knowledge of research practices (informed status), and beliefs toward research-based knowledge were formatively evaluated. Five developmental phases were employed to identify, develop, and field-test a questionnaire and a training module with teachers enrolled in university coursework; A quasi-experimental design was utilized including an experimental and a control group. Subjects in the experimental group received training in using the Universal Format and translated research articles. Subjects in the control group translated research articles, but received no …

An Analysis Of The Causes And Consequences Of Urban Sprawl On The Las Vegas Valley, Robert R Schmidt

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Sprawl, as an urban form, has been vociferously attacked by some social scientists as an inefficient and ineffective form urban form which contributes (if not directly causes) to a variety of social ills, it has been embraced by other social scientists as a positive force in today's urban form. This paper examines the two major theoretical approaches to the causes and consequences of sprawl by conducting a case study of the impact of sprawl on the Las Vegas community. validity of the major arguments for and against sprawl will be evaluated in the context of the empirical evidence available today. …

Molecular Analysis Of Microbial Diversity Within Yucca Mountain, Yingchun Wu

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Yucca Mountain is the proposed site for a high-level nuclear waste repository. As part of the site characterization project, an estimation of microbial diversity was conducted. In this study, the 16S ribosomal DNA sequences of culturable isolates were determined and used for tentatively identification of bacterial strains. The results of identification by 16S rDNA sequence data were also compared to MIDI analysis, an independent phenotypic approach for bacterial identification; It is accepted that culturable strains only represent a small portion of microbial community in the environment. In order to eliminate bias associated with cultivation, total DNA was extracted from rock …

A Study Of The Participation Of Marginally Academic Students In Extracurricular Activities And The Relation To School Persistence, Annette Jean Conners-Harris

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore whether participation in extracurricular activities kept marginally academic students in school. This study differed from most dropout studies and extracurricular activities studies in that it focused on the idea that there may be a connection between these two issues and highlighted participation in activities as being critical to students remaining in school. Sub problems such as the number of activities participated in, the average number of hours per week devoted to participation, the type of membership status (leader or member), and the social character of the activity (team effort or an individual …

Critical Incidents In The Gaming Industry: Perceptions Of Guests And Employees, Lesley Jeanne Johnson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

During the service encounter or "moment of truth" the customer judges the quality of the service organization. Not all guest-employee service encounters, however, are equally important. For every organization there are probably particular. service encounters that are critical to customer satisfaction. Before they can initiate efforts to service their customers, service firms must first identify and manage critical service encounters. Using the environment of the gaming industry, this exploratory research investigated the concept of identifying and evaluating critical service encounters from the perspectives of both guests and customer-contact employees and measured the level of congruence/incongruence between the two parties involved …

Motives And Characteristics Of Gift-Giving At The University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Judy M Belanger

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Public institutions of higher learning need to increase reliance on private financial support for a portion of their revenue stream due to decreases in public financial support and increases in institutional needs. To help meet university demands for private funding, fundraising bodies, such as university foundations, need to target their limited resources in directions that will yield the greatest financial results. One way to do this is to identify individuals who are more likely to provide monetary gifts to the university and target fundraising efforts toward them; The purpose of this study was to build a predictive model that was …

The Relationship Of Teacher Cognitive Style And Teacher Job Satisfaction, Moderated By Administrator Management Style, Holly Shella Jaacks

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Success as a school administrator strongly depends upon the complex interplay of teacher cognitive style, teacher satisfaction on the job, and the effectiveness of the principal's administrative management style. Nonetheless, the supervision of teachers within their cognitive style has had little research or attention given to it. According to the literature, administrative management style greatly influences teachers perceptions of satisfaction on the job. A wide variety of variables, directly impacted by administrative management style, influence a teachers degree of job satisfaction; This study surveyed teacher's cognitive style, as determined by Witkin's Field Dependence, Field Independence model utilizing the Group Embedded …

Family And Service Coordinator Agreements In The Development And Implementation Of The Individualized Family Service Plan (Ifsp), Byoung-In Lee

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Part C of Public Law 105-17 (originally Part H of Public Laws 99-457, 101-476, and 102-119), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1997, strengthened incentives to states to provide services for infants and toddlers, from birth to age three, who have disabilities or are at-risk for developmental delays. The law and its regulations require that the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) is a written plan for services to be developed and implemented for the child and family. Inclusion of family members as full participants in the design and implementation of services is emphasized; This study was designed to …

Learning To Teach Literacy: A Beginning Kindergarten Teacher's Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Marla H Mallette

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study focused on the learning to teach process of a beginning kindergarten teacher in the area of literacy through the investigation of her pedagogical content knowledge. Shulman (1986) described pedagogical content knowledge as "the ways of representing and formulating the subject that make it comprehensible to others" (p. 9). The purpose of the study was to explore how this teacher transformed her knowledge of literacy into pedagogy for the diverse students she taught. The participant in this study, Nancy Green, was a white female, aged, 43 with two children. Data were collected using multiple data sources including interviews, observations, …

The Influence Of An Intermediate Intervention Model On Two Teachers' Literacy Practices, Margaret Michelle Smith

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The focus of this study was to explore the changes in literacy practice that occurred as two intermediate teachers attempted to implement an intervention model within their literacy instruction. There were two participants in this study, Mrs. Bailey, a fourth-grade teacher in her twelfth year of teaching, and Mrs. Cook, a third-grade teacher in her twenty-eighth year of teaching. Multiple data sources including interviews, observations, descriptive self-report items, reflective journal entries, lesson plans, and exit slips and evaluation forms were collected. The constant comparative method (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) was used for analyzing data. This inductive analysis allowed for initial …

Critical Multiculturalism In The Classroom: From Theory To Practice, Denise Michelle Dalaimo

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Since Paulo Freire's (1970) revolutionary work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, "radical" (critical/feminist/multicultural) educators have endeavored to change the face of education by altering traditional power relations and by including the work and experiences of previously under- or unrepresented groups. Research to date in the field of radical pedagogy has been largely focused on and performed in the small and intimate classroom. Many of the approaches and techniques proposed by radical educators---though effective in smaller classes---are difficult to implement in the larger, more impersonal classroom which is becoming more and more prevalent in contemporary higher education. This research has been largely …

Neighborhood Councils: A Family-Driven Approach To Community Change, Merlinda Raquel Gallegos

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Following times of social upheavals, especially when social tensions exist in ethnically diverse and lower class neighborhoods, the U.S. government has provided increased aid to the poor, and new community-based initiatives have emerged. This dissertation focuses on Nevada's neighborhood-based, community-driven, collaborative approach to providing services in low-income areas: Family Resource Centers. The purpose of this exploratory study is to develop strategies which will increase community participation in Nevada's Family Resource Centers' neighborhood councils; After two years of participant observation and the use of focus groups in four neighborhood councils, seven dimensions emerged concerning strategies to increase voluntary participation in neighborhood …

Lds Seminary Participation In The Las Vegas, Nevada Area For The Class Of 1998, Norman William Gardner

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (L.D.S. Church) attaches great importance to the religious education of its youth. The L.D.S. Church conducts a daily religious education program, called seminary, to church members ages 14 to 18; A young person's completion of four years of seminary has long been viewed as an indicator of future church activity. While seminary attendance is not compulsory, great emphasis is placed in the L.D.S. Church on the importance of participation by potential students in the program; The discontinuation of seminary enrollment by students is of great concern to the administrators of the program, …

Experimental Investigation Of Shear Deformation In Laboratory Prepared Layered Soil Specimens, Nicholas William Hudyma

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the shear deformation mechanisms and structures of laboratory prepared layered soil specimens. Soil specimens made of alternating layers of sand and clay were produced in the laboratory with different layering schemes and layering geometries. Layering schemes are groups of specimens with similar layering geometries. Layering geometries refers to the number of layers of sand and clay, thicknesses of the layers and the layer positions within the specimen. The specimens were sheared perpendicular to layering using a specially designed deformation apparatus and their deformation mechanisms and deformation structures were identified and …

Fraction Instruction For Students With Disabilities: Comparing Two Teaching Sequences, Frances Mary Butler

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study investigated the effects of teaching middle-school students with mild to moderate disabilities equivalent fraction concepts and procedures using the concrete-representational-abstract (CRA) instructional sequence or the representational-abstract (RA) instructional sequence. Twenty-six students formed the CRA group, and twenty-four students formed the RA group, while sixty-five eighth-grade students without disabilities served as a contrast group. The two treatment groups received carefully sequenced instruction over ten lessons. The only difference between the two treatment groups was that the CRA group used concrete manipulative devices for the first three lessons while the RA group used representational drawings. The eighth-grade contrast group received …