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A Longitudinal Study Examining The Stability Of Occupational Stressors Identified By Nursing Home Administrators, Gay Lynne Andrucci-Armstrong

Health Services Research Dissertations

As a result of the ever changing and expanding role of the nursing home administrator in conjunction with the stricter legislation governing nursing facilities over the past decade and the graying of America, a study specific to this population was warranted. The purpose of this study is to determine the relative change in the self-reported occupational stressors of nursing home administrators over a five year period (December 1994 to June 1999) secondary to the increased regulatory climate of the nursing home industry.

This study was carried out in three phases and included all practicing nursing home administrators in Virginia. Phase …

The Rhetoric And Reality Of Famine In Early Modern Europe, Karen Russell Adams

History Theses & Dissertations

Famine in early modern Europe was a reoccurring phenomenon that caused stress on individuals and their societies. In most historical accounts of famine, authors have placed emphasis on either the physical aspects of starvation, including studies of famine victims, both live and post mortem, or the disastrous effects of such crises on demographics. On occasion, a researcher has instead probed the accounts of famine left behind by its victims. This essay is an attempt to correlate famine narratives with the biological aspects of starvation.

In order to blend the physical and social aspects of famine, this researcher has investigated three …

Upsetting The Balance Between Adverse Interests: The Impact Of The Supreme Court’S Trilogy On Expert Testimony In Toxic Tort Litigation, Margaret A. Berger

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

Kumho And How We Know, Joseph Sanders

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

The Dialectic Of Faith And Reason In The Essays Of Montaigne, Ann Hartle

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Mycobacterium Avium Subsp. Paratuberculosis In Veterinary Medicine, N. Beth Harris, Raul G. Barletta

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Bacteria of the genus Mycobacterium are gram-positive, acid- fast organisms that include a number of significant human and animal pathogens. Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (basonym M. paratuberculosis) is the etiological agent of a severe gastroenteritis in ruminants, known as Johne’s disease. H. A. Johne and L. Frothingham initially reported the disease in Germany in 1894. However, it was not until 1910 that F. W. Trowt successfully fulfilled Koch’s postulates by growing M. paratuberculosis in the laboratory and reproducing the disease in experimentally infected cattle (46, 148). Johne’s disease is prevalent in domestic animals worldwide and has significant impact on …

Variation In Response To Artificial Selection For Light Sensitivity In Guppies (Poecilia Reticulate), John A. Endler, Alexandra Basolo, Stan Glowacki, Julianne Zerr

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

We performed artificial selection on the visual system in guppies (Poecilia reticulate), using the optomotor reaction threshold as the selection criterion. Two lines were selected for increased sensitivity to blue light, two were selected for increased sensitivity to red light, and two were unselected controls. There was significant response to selection in all four selected lines and significant heritability for sensitivity. An examination of the spectral sensitivity function showed that the form of the response differed between the red and blue lines and among the red lines. Such divergence is likely because there are many different mechanisms allowing …

Brucellosis In Children Of Dhofar Region, Oman, Eisa O. El-Amin, Lionel George, Naryanan K. Kutty, Padam P. Sharma, Rajkunari S. Choithramani, Vandavia P. Jhaveri, Panakanadan Salil, Said M. Bedair

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To study the epidemiological and clinical pattern of brucellosis in children of Dhofar and to ascertain the efficacy of a pre-determined antibiotic regimen to treat the disease. METHODS: The study was hospital based and was carried out prospectively for 3 years. All cases diagnosed to have brucellosis on clinical and serological basis were entered into the study. The epidemiological background and clinical presentations were analyzed and the clinical response to a combination of oral rifampicin and co-trimoxazole was evaluated. RESULTS: Three hundred and seventy five cases of brucellosis were eligible for the study. Ingestion of raw milk and its …

Managing Wolf Conflict With Livestock In The Northwestern United States, Ed Bangs, John A. Shivik

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Wolves (Canis lupus) were once common throughout North America but were deliberately exterminated in the lower 48 United States, except in northeastern Minnesota, primarily because of depredations on livestock. Wolves remained abundant in areas with few livestock such as most of Canada and Alaska. Sixty years after being nearly exterminated, the gray wolf was listed under the United States Endangered Species Act (Act) in 1974. The combination of natural recovery in NW Montana, and reintroduction in central Idaho and the Greater Yellowstone area (NW Wyoming, eastern Idaho, and SW Montana) has resulted in an expanding wolf population (Bangs …

Chemical Repellents And Other Aversive Strategies In Predation Management, J.R. R. Mason, J.A. Shivik, M.W. Fall

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Chemical repellents and other aversive strategies are the core of non-lethal wildlife management. These strategies typically depend on irritation (pain), conditioning, or fear for their effectiveness, and none is universally successful. Thus, conditioned food aversions deter browsing and foraging by deer (virginianus , O. hemionus), but are less useful with predators, because killing, not consumption, is the behavior of interest. Broadly speaking, the utility of non-lethal strategies is affected by number and density of wildlife species, availability of alternative foods, palatability and novelty of treated items, and intensity of pain, sickness, or fear used to establish avoidance. Some …

Catalog 2001-2002, Saint Mary's College Of California

Undergraduate Academic Catalog

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Protecting And Preserving Our National Parks In The Twenty First Century: Are Additional Reforms Needed Above And Beyond The Requirements Of The 1998 National Parks Omnibus Management Act?, Richard J. Ansson Jr., Dalton L. Hooks Jr.

Montana Law Review

Protecting and Preserving Our National Parks in the Twenty First Century

A Cytochrome-B Perspective On Passerina Bunting Relationships, John Klicka, Adam J. Fry, Robert M. Zink, Christopher W. Thompson

Ornithology Program (HRC)

We sequenced the complete mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene (1,143 nucleotides) for representatives of each species in the cardinalid genera Passerina (6 species), Guiraca (1 species), and Cyanocompsa (3 species), and used a variety of phylogenetic methods to address relationships within and among genera. We determined that Passerina, as presently recognized, is paraphyletic. Lazuli Bunting (P. amoena) is sister to the much larger Blue Grosbeak (Guiraca caerulea). Indigo Bunting (P. cyanea) and Lazuli Bunting are not sister taxa as generally thought. In all weighted parsimony trees and for the gamma-corrected HKY tree, Indigo Bunting is …

Storyteller, Matthew S. Hamburg

Digitized Theses and Dissertations (prior to 2008)

A portfolio submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Professional Writing in the Department of English in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Kennesaw State University

A Joseph Smith For The Twenty-First Century, Richard Lyman Bushman

BYU Studies

Since Henry Caswall published The Prophet of the Nineteenth Century in 1843, a year before Joseph Smith's death, nineteen book-length biographies of the Prophet have appeared in print, more than half of them since 1940. They differ wildly in tone and perspective, as might be imagined. Several are still worth considering by serious students of Joseph Smith's life. Among the more notable, I. Woodbridge Riley's The Founder of Mormonism is severely critical but ingenious and original, the first biography to attempt a scientific explanation of Joseph Smith's revelations. Fawn Brodie's No Man Knows My History is a magnificent piece of …

“All Hail To Christmas”: Mormon Pioneer Holiday Celebrations, Richard Ian Kimball

BYU Studies

To Mormon historians and members of the Church generally, Christmas is not a particularly "Mormon" holiday. Though contemporary Latter-day Saints throughout the world embrace a variety of traditions that commemorate the holiday, no major body of distinctively Mormon tradition surrounds the day in December traditionally reserved for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Mormons celebrate the holiday like most other Christians—reading from the nativity account in Luke, exchanging presents, and spending time with family and friends. Santa Claus, decorated trees, and the redemptive story of Ebenezer Scrooge all are staples of the winter holiday for Mormons in the …

Home Production, Christin L. Porter

BYU Studies

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Bioavailability: On The Frontiers Of Science And Law In Cleanup Methodologies For Contamination, Linda A. Malone

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

When Lochner Met Dolan: The Attempted Transformation Of American Land Use Law By Constitutional Interpretation, Ronald H. Rosenberg, Nancy Stroud

Faculty Publications

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Zacchaean Effects And Ethics Of The Spirit, Robert B. Slocum

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Effects and ethics of the Holy Spirit today can be described in terms of the themes of abundance, hope and community in the story of Zacchaeus. The Gospel of Luke (19:1-11) records that Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector, and rich. He was an outcast, and isolated from those around him by the shameful behavior that built up his fortune while keeping others weak and poor and subjugated to the ruling authority. In the world of his day, Zacchaeus would have been scorned and resented for the abuses of power that made him wealthy. For all his riches, Zacchaeus may …

Zacchaean Effects & Ethics Of The Spirit, Robert B. Slocum

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Effects and ethics of the Holy Spirit today can be described in terms of the themes of abundance, hope and community in the story of Zacchaeus. The Gospel of Luke (19:1-11) records that Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector, and rich. He was an outcast, and isolated from those around him by the shameful behavior that built up his fortune while keeping others weak and poor and subjugated to the ruling authority. In the world of his day, Zacchaeus would have been scorned and resented for the abuses of power that made him wealthy. For all his riches, Zacchaeus may …

The Twofold Source Of The Dignity Of Persons, John F. Crosby

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Alasdair Macintyre, Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need The Virtues, Nicholas Meriwether

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Douglas Hedley, Coleridge, Philosophy And Religion: Aids To Reflection And The Mirror Of The Spirit, Ken Casey

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Religion And The First Amendment: Some Causes Of The Recent Confusion, Carl H. Esbeck

Faculty Publications

The United States Supreme Court is surely guilty of making the matter of religion and the First Amendment harder than it ought to be. But it is others who have kept the debate over church/state relations either poisoned with culture-war rhetoric or so shrouded in mystery that seemingly only experts can untangle the juris-prudential snarls. By surrounding this venerable Amendment with a pseudocomplexity concerning the matter of religion these disinformation specialists create confusion, and confusion begets opportunities for further distortion and manipulation. Disagreements over the free exercise of religion and the no-establishment thereof are far simpler to resolve than these …

Saving Desdemona, Ron A. Shapira

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Causality And Responsibility, Glenn Shafer

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Common Sense, Rationality, And The Legal Process, Ronald J. Allen

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Perceived Values Of Diversity, Then And Now, Peter H. Schuck

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Proposed Model Storm Water Ordinance For Kent County Townships And Municipalities, Annis Water Resources Institute

Environmental Guidebooks and Model Ordinances

AN ORDINANCE to provide for the regulation and control of storm water runoff; to provide for storm water permits and the procedures and standards for the issuance thereof; to provide for payment or reimbursement of costs and expenses incurred by the Township/Municipality associated with storm water permits and the consideration thereof; to establish standards and requirements for the protection of floodways and for the control of soil erosion and sedimentation; to adopt other provisions for the establishing, maintaining and protection of drains and drainageways; to provide regulations for the inspection, sampling and monitoring of storm water and other discharges; to …