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No. 21 An Order Clarifying Executive Order Numbers 9 And 10 Relative To The Transfer Of Administrative Staff From The Department Of Mental Health And Developmental Retardation To The Department Of Finance And Administration, Don Sundquist

Executive Orders

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No. 23 An Order Transferring The Tenncare Program And Its Related Functions And Administrative Support From The Department Of Health To The Department Of Finance And Administration, Don Sundquist

Executive Orders

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No. 24 An Order Establishing The Tennessee Strategically Targeted Areas Of Redevelopment ("Tn S.T.A.R.") Community Redevelopment Committee, Don Sundquist

Executive Orders

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Youth At Risk Workshop Offered For Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Will Odom

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The University of Mississippi Office of Summer School will conduct a "Youth-At-Risk Workshop" July 11-16 on the Oxford campus.

Campus Receives $1.8 Million For Research, Education Projects In May, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi professors received $1.8 million for research, service and education projects in May.

Tv Violence And Kids: Solutions Begin At Home, Says Ole Miss Professor, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Juvenile crime is down. So are teen pregnancy and teen smoking. In fact, a recent government report suggests that life is improving for America's children in almost every statistical measure of health, education and family resources.

Um Offers Workshop Addressing The Oppositional, Defiant Child, Will Odom

University of Mississippi News

Oppositional and Defiant Child" Sept. 29 at the Grand Casino Convention Center in Tunica.

State's Universities, Colleges Join In Nsf-Funded Project To Triple Number Of Ph.D.S Awarded To Minorities, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- African Americans make up about 35 percent of Mississippi's college students. Yet less than 3 percent of the doctoral degrees granted in the sciences, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) are earned by the state's African Americans.

Ole Miss Professors Receive $8.4 Million For Research, Education Projects In Two Months, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi professors received more than $8.4 million for research, service and education projects in August and September. The September total was $4,050,670, while August's tally came to $4,371,212.

Moderation, Preplanning Help Hold Down Holiday Weight Gain, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- It seems that in the last few months, prognosticators have been working themselves into a frenzy trying to predict what will happen on Jan. 1, 2000. Will Y2K cause disaster, leaving us without the basics of food, water, electricity and even more importantly, cable television?

Um's Holland Joins Julia Child, Betty Friedan At Event Honoring Smith College's Top 30 Alumnae, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Dr. Marjorie Holland of The University of Mississippi was among 30 Smith College alumnae honored at a recent convocation at the college's Northampton, Mass., campus.

Sub-Lethal Effects Of Hypoxia/Hypercapnia On Callinectes Sapidus In The York River Estuary, Virginia, Sandra R. Hypes

Theses and Dissertations

This research examined effects of hypoxic environments on blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus in an estuarine environment. Hypoxic conditions were treated as a multiple stressor involving low dissolved oxygen (D.O.), increased carbon dioxide (hypercapnia), and low pH concurrently. The objectives were to: 1) identify hypoxiahypercapnia by monitoring D.O. and pH as an indicator of hypercapnia in shallow regions of the York River, 2) measure blue crab abundance, and 3) describe blue crab responses to hypoxiahypercapnia via field work at Taskinas Creek and lab measurements of respiration. Ambient D.O. and pH were positively correlated in the Taskinas Creek and York River sites …

Ole Miss Researcher Tracks Endocrine Disruption In State's Fish Population, Lp White

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Many widely used synthetic and natural chemicals collecting in Mississippi's water and soil may be affecting wildlife's ability to reproduce, according to a University of Mississippi scientist studying these chemicals.

National, International Experts To Answer Public's Questions About Herbals In June 19 Symposium, Debbie Rossell

University of Mississippi News

Herbal Product Market to Reach $5 Billion by 2000

Psychological Clinic Meets Educational Needs, Serves Clients, Deidra Walters

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- What began as a way to provide practical training for doctoral psychology students at The University of Mississippi has turned into an asset for north Mississippi.

Budding Doctors, Lawyers, Take Note: Investment In Future Begins Early, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

... An Ole Miss Back-to-School Topical Tips

Nsf Math, Science Literacy Reform Targets K-12 Children In Three States, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

... UM Project Activated in 15 Mississippi School Districts

Students Pitch In To Cure Aids, Cancer In Ole Miss Biomedical Internship Project, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

...Of 60 students in program, all have gone on to attend college

Health Creation Is The Wave Of Future, Top Pharmaceutical Exec Says In Um Speech, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

...Robert Ingram delivers State of the Industry Address at Ole Miss

Recognize Symptoms Of Depression, Avoid The ‘Blues' This Holiday Season, Emily Boling

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Christmas carols, trimmed trees, fireworks and family reunions are often associated with the holiday season. However, the season that is supposed to bring glad tidings of great joy can bring sadness and stress -- sometimes leading not only to a case of the holiday blues but also to depression.

Art Meets Science In Ole Miss Project To Protect Delta Residents From Pesticides, Rick Hynum

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- It took a team of scientists to pinpoint problems with pesticide misuse in the Mississippi Delta. Now it's up to an artist to get a message of safe living to the people.

Sarah Isom Center, Baptist Hospital Plan Women's Awareness Week March 16-23, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

Hospital-North Mississippi (BMH-NM) are teaming up to sponsor the 10th annual Women's Awareness Week March 16-23.

Population Dynamics Of The Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon Obesulus) On Ellen Brook Reserve, Craig Pentland

Theses : Honours

The small, enclosed section of Ellen Brook Reserve provided the unique opportunity to observe a population of southern-brown bandicoots (lsoodon obesulus) in the absence of exotic predators. The reserves small-enclosed size enabled it possible to trap the whole area (excluding the ephemeral swamps) and so emigration and immigration could be excluded. This enabled good population size estimates, and inferences on the loss of individuals due to mortality could be more strongly argued for. An understanding of the population structure, dynamics, size and density, and body condition of I. obesulus in Ellen Brook Reserve, will provide important information, for …

Culture As Commodity: The Home As Spectacle In Popular Culture, Jillian E. Benn

Theses : Honours

This study proposes to examine representations of the home in the media. The media play a significant role in the culture of Australians, who are obsessed with the suburban home and its cultural and social meanings. The place of the home within popular thought and culture and the subsequent ideologies and meanings associated with the home are questioned in this dissertation. The major theme to emerge is that the contemporary suburban home is a spectacle. This project interprets, evaluates and contributes to current theories and debates surrounding the concept of suburbia. It is an original contribution to the perception of …

Suck My Dick: G.I. Jane, Demi Moore And The Action Heroine, Matthew Mckeown

Theses : Honours

The content of my thesis sits at the tail end of about three decades of feminist criticism that has examined women's place in film texts. During which, theoretical work has been done studying the types of roles given to women, how they are constructed visually and narratively across different genres. This thesis then sets out to examine the action genre and the room it makes for the central female protagonist. How does this genre, largely ignored by critics and academics and inherently masculine and dominated by males, allow for a central female heroine? What room is there for any femininity, …

Parliament Or Protest? : The Parliamentary Impact Of The Greens (Wa) In The Legislative Council : May 1993 To May 1999, Stewart Murdo Jackson

Theses : Honours

From their beginnings as a protest party in the early 1970s to their election to the federal parliaments of countries around the world, the Greens have largely been seen us the political wing of a direct action movement. As a political organisation, however, Greens are now making a transition away from an exclusive focus on direct action to mainstream parliamentary activity. The key benchmark in assessing the success or otherwise of the Greens remains the environment, and their capacity to effect changes to the benefit of the environment. This thesis, then, addresses the central question in the evolution of the …

Lost Opportunity?: An Evaluation Of The Senate's Report On Disaster Management, Julian Anthony Yates

Theses : Honours

The inability of the Australian federal governments to dominate the Senate has enhanced the Senate’s ability to review and make recommendations on public policy issues. In 1994, the Senate Standing Committee on Industry, Science, Technology, Transport, Communications and Infrastructure reviewed and made recommendations on Australia’s emergency management arrangements. Australian emergency management has developed in a complex environment where it has been heavily influenced by incremental development from its civil defence origins in the Second World War and by factors including international developments, federalism and the hazards impacting on Australia. The Senate Committee’s review was a unique opportunity for a high …

Moral Dilemmas And Cases Of Conscience : Trollope's Morality In The Warden And The Last Chronicle Of Barset, Hannah Louise Rogers

Theses : Honours

This thesis offers an exploration of Trollope's morality in The Warden and The Last Chronicle of Barset. Existing critical work which explores Trollope's morality often argues either for or against Trollope's moral relativism. This thesis argues, instead, that Trollope's morality unifies aspects of both theoretical perspectives. It reconciles the polarisation of Trollope's moral absolutism and moral relativism, taking the middle-ground. In doing so, it makes evident the contradictions and extremes in existing Trollopian criticism.

The thesis places Trollopian morality within the historical and socio-cultural context of Victorianism. It focuses on the Victorian consciousness of change, securing a definition …

Bicultural Involvement And Psychological Well-Being In Second Generation Chinese Migrants In Australia, Denise A. Kensit

Theses : Honours

The present study, a replication of Szapocnik, Kurtines and Fernandez's (1980) study, measured the relationship between bicultural involvement and psychological wellbeing for second generation (i.e. born in Australia) Chinese migrants in Perth, Western Australia. Ninety volunteers participated in the study. They were all Australian citizens, over l 8 years of age, and spoke English. Two studies were conducted. Firstly, four volunteers participated in semi-structured interviews to provide a context to data yielded from the quantitative study. Secondly, eighty-six second generation migrants (i.e. born in Australia) completed a questionnaire that included the Bicultural Involvement Questionnaire (B1Q) and the General Health Questionnaire, …

Transforming The Mediasphere : Sweden, A Case Study Of Conflicting Discourses In Socialist And Capitalist Broadcasting Values, Kent Ingemar Svensson

Theses : Honours

Sweden has undergone major changes in its mediasphere during the last twelve years, during which two oppositional forces have been particularly at work, capitalist and socialist. Goth those forces have influenced the direction in which the national mediasphere is transforming. The challenges of these political discourses, and responses from the parties involved regarding the role of the media in society, has been increasingly visible since the late 1950s, when the public service monopoly was first called into question. The Swedish socialist government has promoted and protected its non - commercial public service monopoly, through which they could mould national identity …