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A Health Evangelism Strategy For Reaching Rural Indians With Giffard Memorial Hospital As A Model, Measapogu Wilson

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Like many nations, India offers notable opportunities for church growth in spite of its diverse cultural and language barriers. The challenge is to understand the growing populations. Masses of Indians are suffering from disease, poverty, and ignorance. They desperately need to achieve health and learn how to maintain it. About 80 percent of the Indian population lives below the poverty line and many are ignorant of healthful living. Health evangelism work can break down prejudice as nothing else can. At the same time, India is resistant to the gospel. A recent census shows that there are only 2.43 percent …

Adventist Information Ministry: Historical-Missiological Foundations And An Evaluation Of The Chaplain's Role, Gregory A. Harper

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Purpose

The aim of this dissertation was to: (1) investigate and record historical and missiological foundations of Adventist Information Ministry; (2) survey, analyze, describe, and evaluate perceptions about the AIM chaplain's role and present resulting recommendations; and (3) provide summaries and conclusions for the major topics and methodology revealed in the main body of this report.

Method

Following an investigation of historical documents, a qualitative survey based on Dillman's "Total Design Method" was implemented with six different groups of individuals associated with Adventist Information Ministry. Recorded input from sixty-five telephone interviews was analyzed and described according to pertinent group perceptions …

Developing Bible Lessons To Reach Hindu Youth, Roy Jemison Injety

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

The large number of non-Adventist youth who attend Seventh-day Adventist schools have a limited exposure to biblical teachings and, therefore, are unable to make a decision to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Method

Bible study lessons were developed to provide youth with a more complete understanding of the Bible and lead them to take a decision for Christ. The lessons address issues relating to youth needs and topics that are common to the Hindu and Christian faiths. A survey questionnaire provided information about the needs, moral development, and Bible knowledge of the target group. A variety of teaching …

Creative Bible Teaching For Seventh-Day Adventist Youth Ages 13-18, Michael Kwaku Owusu

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Studies regarding how adolescents learn have found that the traditional approach of teaching as information or knowledge to be passed on with an emphasis on the mastery of content is not very effective. In view of this, many Christian educators and youth ministry specialists recommend a shift from the traditional methods of teaching the Bible to creative ways of teaching with a focus on active student participation in the teaching-learning process, and on meaning of Bible truths.

Method

The method used to complete this project was a review of representative literature dealing with theories and concepts of teaching and …

Equipping Laity For Ministry In Multi-Church Districts In Brazil, Paulo Cesar Nogueira

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Most church districts in Brazil are comprised of many churches and companies. The average load of pastoral care is one pastor for seven congregations. In addition, members have high expectations their pastors and both lack a clear understanding of the role of lay ministry. Thus pastors feel a heavy work load.

Method

A survey of biblical insights, current literature, and other studies on the priesthood of all believers, lay ministry, and effective pastoral work was undertaken. A program designed to enhance pastoral work in multi-church districts in Brazil was developed.

Results

The concept of the priesthood of all believers …

The Courage Of Our Convictions, Sherman J. Clark

Michigan Law Review

This article argues that criminal trial juries perform an important but inadequately appreciated social function. I suggest that jury trials serve as a means through which we as a community take responsibility for - own up to - inherently problematic judgments regarding the blameworthiness or culpability of our fellow citizens. This is distinct from saying that jury trials are a method of making judgments about culpability. They are that; but they are also a means through which we confront our own agency in those judgments. The jury is an institution through which we as individuals take a turn acknowledging and …

Toward A Formative Project Of Securing Freedom And Equality, Linda C. Mcclain

Faculty Scholarship

This Symposium offers an occasion to pursue two important tasks: (1) identifying normative and constitutional foundations for an affimnative governmental responsibility to engage in a "formative project" that would foster persons' capacities for democratic and personal self-government;' and (2) exploring the mix of normative and empirical inquiries necessary to shape the proper goals and parameters of such a project. These tasks are relevant to my larger project of attempting to develop a synthetic, or feminist and liberal, normative account of rights, responsibilities, and governmental promotion of good, self-governing lives.2 That account argues for governmental responsibility to foster the preconditions for …

Trends In The Regulation Of Investment Companies And Investment Advisers, Tamar Frankel

Faculty Scholarship

Statutes, rules and enforcement actions are tea leaves we can read to predict future trends of mutual fund regulation. While statutes and rules are specific, the trends they signify are far more speculative. This Essay engages in such speculation to envision the long-term implications of the recent new N- 1A disclosure form, I the plain English Rule,² and the profile. ³ More generally, the Essay speculates on future trends in Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") enforcement, and predicts a continued and stronger use of informal enforcement by the Commission.

Contesting Government's Financial Interest In Drug Cases, Eric D. Blumenson, Eva Nilsen

Faculty Scholarship

In 1984, the civil asset forfeiture law was amended to allow the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and state law enforcement agencies to retain many of the "drug-related assets" they seize for their own law enforcement purposes. Under this amendment, some local law enforcement agencies have managed to double or triple their appropriated budgets by targeting such assets. As former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh has noted, "it's now possible for a drug dealer to serve time in a forfeiture-financed prison after being arrested by agents driving a forfeiture-provided automobile while working in a forfeiture-funded sting operation." The American people, however, …

Physician Attitudes Toward Clinical Health Psychologists In Medical Settings, Katherine T. Kelly

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The primary healthcare system is noted to be the de facto mental health system in the United States” (Stroshal, 1996). Despite this fact, patients typically do not receive the appropriate behavioral treatment to ameliorate their pain and suffering (Resnick & Rozensky, 1996). The present study attempted to investigate physicians' attitudes toward psychologists in medical settings with regard to whether these attitudes are influenced by (a) levels of medically/psychologically based medical conditions, (b) level of resident training, (c) level of exposure to psychological services, and (d) level of emphasis on psychological training within the medical schools. Thirty-nine female and forty-five male …

Plasticity In Avian Unihemispheric Sleep: An Antipredator Function, Niels Christian Rattenborg

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A largely unexplored area in behavioral ecology is the inherent conflict between sleep and wakefulness. Wakefulness is an adaptive state that allows animals to interact with their environment, yet its efficacy is contingent upon prior sleep, a vulnerable state of reduced responsiveness. Birds and aquatic mammals have essentially side-stepped this problem by simultaneously engaging in both wakefulness and sleep; one cerebral hemisphere sleeps while the other remains awake, a unique state known as unihemispheric sleep. In aquatic mammals, unihemispheric sleep allows sleep and sufacing to breathe to occur concurrently. However, the adaptive function of avian unihemispheric sleep has been unclear. …

The Effects Of Acute Exercise On Cognitions Related To Depression, Julia M. Lash

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Exercise is known to improve mood and reduce depression. However, the mechanism(s) responsible for the antidepressent effects of exercise are not known. Cognitive therapy, one of the most effective psychological treatments of depression, is based on the assumption that changes in a person's negative thoughts will result in a remission of depression. The purpose of this study was to determine if a similar change in cognitions might occur with exercise. Self-report measures of mood (Profile of Mood States and Visual Analog Mood Scale) and depressive cognitions (Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire, Beck Self-Concept Test and Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale) were measured before and …

An Evaluation Of The Current State Of Digital Photography, Charles Dickinson

Theses

The field of digital photography is always changing. Due to the rapid pace of new technologies being developed for this area, it is becoming more commonly used by people in all walks of life, particularly that of the consumer. It is therefore important to critically evaluate the current state of this technology to gain a better understanding of how advanced it has become. This research has evaluated the digital photographic systems from digital camera input to printer output. The metrics used to judge the performance of the camera and printer performance were the modulation transfer functions, or MTFs, of the …

Statistical Analysis Of Lake Ontario Water Levels, Matthew Fetzner

Theses

The regulation of Lake Ontario water level began on April 20, 1960. In recent years, there have been many Lake Ontario residents dissatisfied with the erosion damage to their properties. Many believe that the increase in erosion has been caused by the International St. Lawrence River Board of Control maintaining a water level which is too high. The scope of this thesis was to first identify what the actual change in the lake level has been since regulation began and then to determine how much of this difference could be attributed to regulation and how much should be attributed to …

Transcendence, Neal Yanoff

Theses

Uses bird symbolism to investigate the subject of transcendence.

Effects Of Joint Trials On The Proportion Of Guilty Verdicts Assigned To Defendants, Stacy Lyn Gall

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

When two or more people are alleged to have committed a crime together they are automatically tried together in a joint trial. Defendants can apply to have a joint trial severed into separate trials, but they are rarely granted. However, joint trials might be biasing against defendants in that they might have a greater likelihood of obtaining aguilty verdict than if they had separate trials. A review of the literature indicated that authors have several hypotheses why joint trials might be biasing, though there is no conclusive evidence that this is the case. This study used a mock juror paradigm …

The Tongan Pentecost Of 1834 : A Revival In The Kingdom Of Tonga : A Possible Key For Renewal And Unity For The Tongan Church Today, Manase Koloamatangi Tafea

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of Brethren In Christ Preaching Using Hermeneutical Principles Distilled From An Inductive Interpretive Methodology, Glenn Edward Pfeiffer

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Progressing Towards A Uniform Commercial Code For Electronic Commerce Or Racing Toward Nonuniformity?, Maureen A. O'Rourke

Faculty Scholarship

The Magaziner Report encourages the development of a consistent commercial law environment against which electronic commerce transactions may take place. The author considers the current legal landscape, noting that while many efforts are underway to codify aspects of electronic commerce, these efforts are piecemeal in nature and may lead to the very lack of uniformity against which the Magaziner Report counsels. The author then briefly considers what lessons may be learned from the drafting history of the original U.C.C. as well as proposed Article 2B (now the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) governing transactions in computer information. She argues that …

Chief Justice Holmes On The Science And Art (And Politics) Of Judging, David J. Seipp

Faculty Scholarship

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), twenty-fifth Chief Justice of Massachusetts, needs no introduction to the readers of this journal. Son and namesake of one of America's most popular writers, he was at twenty-four a Civil War hero wounded three times in battle, and at forty a lawyer-scholar whose book of lectures The Common Law would win him international renown. At sixtyone he began three decades as the Great Dissenter on the U.S. Supreme Court, where he exposed the economic theory underpinning the dominant freedom-of-contract ideology. Between 1882 and 1902-between early promise and later fame-he served on the Supreme Judicial Court …

Miller V. Albright: Problems Of Constitutionalization In Family Law, Katharine B. Silbaugh

Faculty Scholarship

From time to time, the Supreme Court chooses to hear a case addressing a family law issue. The family law cases accepted by the Supreme Court almost always present a constitutional challenge because absent a constitutional question, state law governs family law. Because the Supreme Court controls its docket, it is free to select only those cases that, in the view of the Court, pose particularly challenging issues. On most occasions, the Court chooses only those family law cases that present other, unrelated issues of interest to the Court.

Embeddability Of Pseudoline Arrangements And Point Configurations To Eucliean Plane, Javid Huseynov

Theses

The present thesis explores embeddability (realizability) properties of pseudoline arrangements, perhaps, the most important mathematical structures in computational geometry. The underlying theme is the use of combinatorial representation of arrangements vs. usual geometric representation to approach the embeddability problem. The combinatorial representation chosen is that of counterclockwise systems (CCsystems) introduced by D.E. Knuth in 1992. CC systems were defined as sets of ordered triples of points that incorporate and obey counterclockwise relations on points in the plane. If a CC system can arise from actual points in the plane, it is called realizable. Not all CC-systems are realizable in plane, …

Tourists' Satisfaction Levels On Destination Facilites Of Phuket And Thier Potential Interest In Casino Gambling, Narathip Naina

Theses

This study measured international tourists' satisfaction levels on destination facilities of Phuket, Thailand. It also attempted to inquire if there was a potential interest in casino gambling among them as the issue of casino legalization in Thailand has been raised and discussed widely during the past few years. The purpose of the study is to better understand how destination facilities of Phuket performed in the eyes of international tourists and if they are attracted to casino gambling as an added activity they might participate in in the setting of Phuket. . A brief overview of Thailand's tourism industry and current …

Reliability And Validity Of The "Organizational Team Survey" When Used At The Level Of Line-Workers, Satoko Murata

Theses

Not provided.

Cascade: Computer Aided Synchronization Of Code And Documentation, Mark Roth

Theses

Complete, accurate and up-to-date documentation is a critical factor in the development and maintenance of robust software products. Often, however, the documentation and the product diverge over time, leading to inconsistencies that are the source of confusion and faults, which can lead to failure. This thesis addresses the inconsistency problem by describing a standard method for the synchronization of documentation with code. As part of the thesis, existing research in the field of Document Engineering is surveyed and related to the method being developed. One goal of this approach is to create straightforward integration with existing languages, coding styles, and …

Assessing Career Value Of Hospitality Management Curriculum From Program Alumni, James Reid

Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the assessment of hospitality management baccalaureate program alumni from New York Technical College (NYCTC) as being a valuable resource to the Hospitality Management curriculum assessment effort . Through the development of an alumni questionnaire, participants in this study were asked to rate individual courses of their curriculum (both core and elective) by the degree of value each course had been in terms of usefulness to their career development and/or relevance to meeting the demands of their current positions. Although the questionnaire response rate was less than desirable, it is stressed that survey …

Team Learning In A Undergraduate Setting In Croatia, Marvin Deitz

Theses

This study focused on team learning at an undergraduate school environment. The researcher focused on a city in Croatia called Dubrovnik. The school is American College and consists of English speaking students that are composed of mostly Croatian descent. These students are Hospitality and Tourism majors and are eventually going to help the tourism economy after they graduate. This research contrasted student's performance in one individual lesson plan in two different classes. One class is presented the material through the traditional lecture and the other class is presented the material through teams and collaborative learning. The two classes were given …

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Technology And The Future Of Remote Access Networking, Khodr El-Dakrouni

Theses

Not provided.

Review Of The Year Books Of Richard Ii: 1382-1383 By Samuel E. Thorne & George F. Deiser, Eds., David J. Seipp

Faculty Scholarship

Of the making of Year Books there is no end. Three scholarly enterprises - the Rolls Series, Selden Society, and Ames Foundation - have undertaken to provide modern editions and translations of medieval English Year Books, the law French reports of oral pleading and judicial dialogue in lawsuits heard in the Common Bench and other common law courts. The present volume fills a gap in the most recent of these efforts, that of the Ames Foundation of Harvard Law School to print the surviving manuscript Year Books of the reign of Richard 11 (1377-1399). This volume, the sixth year of …

Genetic Algorithm And Tabu Search Approaches To Quantization For Dct-Based Image Compression, Michael Champion

Theses

Today there are several formal and experimental methods for image compression, some of which have grown to be incorporated into the Joint Photographers Experts Group (JPEG) standard. Of course, many compression algorithms are still used only for experimentation mainly due to various performance issues. Lack of speed while compressing or expanding an image, poor compression rate, and poor image quality after expansion are a few of the most popular reasons for skepticism about a particular compression algorithm. This paper discusses current methods used for image compression. It also gives a detailed explanation of the discrete cosine transform (DCT), used by …