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A Journey Into Self-Actualization, William Rubar Jan 2001

A Journey Into Self-Actualization, William Rubar

Theses

The MFA Thesis Exhibition is a presentation of ceramic sculpture. The theme for this body of work is a self-portrait that uses text as an integral part of the composition. The medium is clay, which interacts with the two-dimensional and three-dimensional properties of space. Therefore, it is my goal to establish a union with these dimensional properties. My tablet paintings serve to catalog significant events affecting both our culture and my life, resulting in a self-portrait. These paintings create a dialogue between the emotion of language, passage of time and the properties of space. The preparation of the clay and …

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Francisco Suárez On Imagination, James B. South Jan 2001

Francisco Suárez On Imagination, James B. South

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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0705: Carrie Noble Kline Papers, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2001

0705: Carrie Noble Kline Papers, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection is composed of the twelve interviews conducted by Carrie Kline as part of her Rockefeller Fellowship with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia on “Appalachian Resiliency in Sexual Minorities.” All interviews have been anonymized, but basic information about the individuals has been retained. Interviewees were southern West Virginians who identified as being gay, lesbian, or transgender and spanned in age from their 20s to their 70s. Materials in the collection use terminology that is now considered outdated and terms used have been updated for inclusion in this finding aid.

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New Pastor-- New Plan: Strategic Planning For Health And Growth, Alan Robinson Jan 2001

New Pastor-- New Plan: Strategic Planning For Health And Growth, Alan Robinson

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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The Relationship Of Pastoral Leadership Style And Church Growth In Nazarene Churches, Michael S. Tinnon Jan 2001

The Relationship Of Pastoral Leadership Style And Church Growth In Nazarene Churches, Michael S. Tinnon

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Discipleship Out Of Transition : A Study Of The New Membership Policies And Procedures Of The Free Methodist Church And Its Impact On Discipleship, Barton T. Herndon Jan 2001

Discipleship Out Of Transition : A Study Of The New Membership Policies And Procedures Of The Free Methodist Church And Its Impact On Discipleship, Barton T. Herndon

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Impromptu Creation Of Metal Sculpture, Yu-Ting Shih Jan 2001

Impromptu Creation Of Metal Sculpture, Yu-Ting Shih

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Character Development: A Study During Evening Worship At Sardis Chapel, Theodore Eugene Beam Jan 2001

Character Development: A Study During Evening Worship At Sardis Chapel, Theodore Eugene Beam

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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What The Future Holds: Policy Choices In A Global Marketplace, Maureen A. O'Rourke Jan 2001

What The Future Holds: Policy Choices In A Global Marketplace, Maureen A. O'Rourke

Faculty Scholarship

This essay's title is a misnomer. No one knows "What the Future Holds" in the global marketplace. We can, however, make some educated guesses about the issues that will assume particular importance in the next year or so. Thus, the essay might be more accurately titled, "What May or May Not Be the Important Issues in Internet Commerce in the Next Year or So'"-less catchy, admittedly, but closer to the truth.

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Bankruptcy Law V. Privacy Rights: Which Holds The Trump Card?, Walter W. Miller Jr., Maureen A. O'Rourke Jan 2001

Bankruptcy Law V. Privacy Rights: Which Holds The Trump Card?, Walter W. Miller Jr., Maureen A. O'Rourke

Faculty Scholarship

The Internet's emergence as a retail marketplace has both posed new issues and cast old problems in a new light. As technology, particularly software, has advanced over time, traditional bricks and mortar firms have acquired the capability of tracking and analyzing all sorts of information about their customers, including purchasing patterns and demographic information. For years, firms have been licensing and selling such customer data both in and out of bankruptcy without much fear of legal limitations. In particular, the law has generally not adopted privacy rules that would present a barrier to commerce in personal information.

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Property Rights And Competition On The Internet: In Search Of An Appropriate Analogy, Maureen A. O'Rourke Jan 2001

Property Rights And Competition On The Internet: In Search Of An Appropriate Analogy, Maureen A. O'Rourke

Faculty Scholarship

Reasoning by analogy is a time-honored method of legal development. However, recent litigation exposes the weakness of applying legal principles developed in the "bricks and mortar" world by analogy to cyberspace. Using recent court decisions that discuss who may access a website and by what means, this Article illustrates how results can change depending on the analogy the court adopts. The Article argues that rather than searching for analogies, courts and legislators could more profitably devote their energies to understanding how the Internet differs from physical space, evaluating whether those differences call for new legal rules, and considering the conflicting …

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Making Clinical Trials Safer For Human Subjects, Michael S. Baram Jan 2001

Making Clinical Trials Safer For Human Subjects, Michael S. Baram

Faculty Scholarship

Clinical trials, in which new biotech and other medical products are tested on human subjects, provide much of the data used by the FDA to determine whether the products are suitable for routine use in health care. Thus, the trials are of obvious importance to medical progress and improvement of public health, and to those who have career and financial interests at stake. But clinical trials are also important to the human subjects involved because the products being tested on them may remedy their illnesses, but may also pose risks since the products have usually not been previously tested on …

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Health Care, Technology And Federalism, Kevin Outterson Jan 2001

Health Care, Technology And Federalism, Kevin Outterson

Faculty Scholarship

The regulation of health care has traditionally been the province of the states, most often grounded in the police power. In Colonial times, this division of responsibility was a rational response to the technological level of the eighteenth century, although even in the youth of the Republic some health and safety regulation required national and international action. With the growth of distancecompression technology, the increase in mobility of goods and services, and a significant federal financial role in health care, the grip of the police power on the regulation of health care has been weakened. Discussion of the police power …

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Gp Corporatisation: Lessons Learned From The U.S. Experience, Kevin Outterson Jan 2001

Gp Corporatisation: Lessons Learned From The U.S. Experience, Kevin Outterson

Faculty Scholarship

To benefit from the US experience of corporetissuon. Australia must focus on the clinical advantages rather than the financial windfalls

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Arbitration And The Fisc: Nafta's "Tax Veto", William W. Park Jan 2001

Arbitration And The Fisc: Nafta's "Tax Veto", William W. Park

Faculty Scholarship

Taxes, said Franklin Roosevelt, "are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society." Harsher tongues describe tax as a form of property seizure. Somewhere between these competing characterizations of revenue raising-club dues and forced takings-lies a clue to why the North American Free Trade Agreement ("NAFTA") reserves special treatment for investment disputes implicating fiscal matters. NAFTA gives foreign investors a right to settle investment disputes by arbitration, a process more politically and procedurally neutral than either host state courts or foreign gunboats. Without the option to arbitrate, the specter of unfair expropriation might chill …

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Slouching Toward Managed Care Liability: Reflections On Doctrinal Boundaries, Paradigm Shifts, And Incremental Reform, Wendy K. Mariner Jan 2001

Slouching Toward Managed Care Liability: Reflections On Doctrinal Boundaries, Paradigm Shifts, And Incremental Reform, Wendy K. Mariner

Faculty Scholarship

Following the seemingly endless debate over managed care liability, I cannot suppress thoughts of Yeats’s poem, “The Second Coming.” It is not the wellknown phrase, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,” that comes to mind; although that could describe the feeling of a health-care system unraveling. The poem’s depiction of lost innocence — “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity” — does not allude to the legislature, the industry, the public, or the medical or legal profession. What resonates is the poem’s evocation of humanity’s cyclical history of expectation and disappointment, with ideas as …

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Accounting For Family Change, Katharine B. Silbaugh Jan 2001

Accounting For Family Change, Katharine B. Silbaugh

Faculty Scholarship

The legal focal point of familial obligation in the United States has long been the relationship between paired adults-most centrally marriage. Obligations to children, and rights to their company, were derivative; they were to be met through the framework of the all-important pairing of adults. Over the past several decades, that core source of legal obligation has shifted from the adult relationship between partners to the relationship between parent and child. The shift has occurred at a number of different levels, and it has had a variety of consequences, the majority of which are still shaking out. The legal catalyst …

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Environmental Supply Chain Management Integration Into The Purchase Of Finished Electrical Products, Cavan Kelsey Jan 2001

Environmental Supply Chain Management Integration Into The Purchase Of Finished Electrical Products, Cavan Kelsey

Theses

Representatives from the electronics equipment industry were surveyed and selected companies were interviewed to determine the current level of environmental supply chain integration into the purchase of finished electrical products. Based on the information gathered, a summary of best practices was defined which included insights into effective buyer/supplier relationships and establishing environmental product requirements. As electronic equipment manufacturers change from a vertically integrated marketing structure to one of a horizontal supply chain, there is an increasing need to outsource manufacturing of or to procure finished products made by another supplier and subsequently branded by the buying manufacturer. The manufacturer's environmental …

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Cleaner Production Among Multinational Corporations In Southeast Asia, Nguyen Phan Duy Nguyen Jan 2001

Cleaner Production Among Multinational Corporations In Southeast Asia, Nguyen Phan Duy Nguyen

Theses

Cleaner Production (CP) represents the change from a conventional end-of-pipe treatment attitude to a proactive approach to pollution prevention and increased production efficiency. CP has been successfully implemented in developing countries, including the countries of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN). ASEAN is becoming an economic development center in Asia, attracting a large amount of foreign direct investments from multinational corporations during the last two decades. However, success in economic development has been accompanied by environmental problems. Understanding the level of CP practices among ASEAN's multinational corporations (MNCs) and National Cleaner Production Centers/Cleaner Production (NCPCs/CP) organizations is important to …

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Emigration, Yuhay-Raymond Ng Jan 2001

Emigration, Yuhay-Raymond Ng

Theses

A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3-D computer animated film, "Emigration," about the lives of people of different social classes in a high-rise apartment building in Hong Kong right around the time of the Chinese takeover in 1997. In particular it focuses on a rich family and a poor family who both try to emigrate from Hong Kong.

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Design Of An Advanced On-Street Parking Meter, Yaotsung Tung Jan 2001

Design Of An Advanced On-Street Parking Meter, Yaotsung Tung

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Not provided.

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Campaign Of Sabotage: Big Government's War Against Public Transportation, Michael Lewyn Jan 2001

Campaign Of Sabotage: Big Government's War Against Public Transportation, Michael Lewyn

Scholarly Works

Historically, American politicians have been far more generous to highways than to public transit. The political elite's failure to support public transit is based on the view that despite decades of state and federal support, transit ridership has dwindled. This article criticizes that theory, by explaining that far from promoting public transit, government at all levels has sabotaged transit in a variety of ways: by building highways to suburbs unserved by public transit, by loading down transit systems with unfunded mandates, by using housing, education and tax policy to encourage migration to those suburbs, and by using zoning policy to …

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Thou Shalt Not Put A Stumbling Block Before The Blind": The Americans With Disabilities Act And Public Transit For The Disabled, Michael Lewyn Jan 2001

Thou Shalt Not Put A Stumbling Block Before The Blind": The Americans With Disabilities Act And Public Transit For The Disabled, Michael Lewyn

Scholarly Works

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), ordered local governments to make bus and train systems more accessible to the disabled, and imposed costly requirements upon local public transit systems - but did not give local governments funds with which to satisfy this mandate. By reducing the funds available to transit systems, the ADA has sometimes forced cutbacks in transit service for everyone including, ironically, the disabled to the extent that disabled people were able to use public transit before the ADA's enactment). Thus, the ADA has occasionally (at least in times of budgetary austerity) been counterproductive. The ADA's inadequacy is …

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Section 51 Actions Against Private Racial Profiling, Peter Zablotsky, Sa'id Vakili Jan 2001

Section 51 Actions Against Private Racial Profiling, Peter Zablotsky, Sa'id Vakili

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

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Litigating Ethics Issues In Land Use: 2000 Trends And Decisions, Patricia E. Salkin Jan 2001

Litigating Ethics Issues In Land Use: 2000 Trends And Decisions, Patricia E. Salkin

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

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Identification End Evaluation Of Packaging Design For Internet Kiosk Depending On Feasible On-Site Service Support Level, Nedeljko Medvedec Jan 2001

Identification End Evaluation Of Packaging Design For Internet Kiosk Depending On Feasible On-Site Service Support Level, Nedeljko Medvedec

Theses

The Internet Kiosks are fast emerging telecommunication products that have a main function to enable "public mobility". The estimated market size in 2000 is 2,4 Billion US$ worldwide, with prognoses to grow in next 3 years to the level of 7 Billion US$. One of the features offered to the market is "plug and play" capability, but due to the size and weight of the kiosks, this should be conditionally treated. Some portion of on-site service support at the installation should be considered, the amount of which depends on applied product design and package design solution. Product design and package …

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Regulatory Distortions Of Local Exchange Telecommunications Infrastructure, Gregg Sayre Jan 2001

Regulatory Distortions Of Local Exchange Telecommunications Infrastructure, Gregg Sayre

Theses

This thesis presents a history of United States telecommunications regulation in the 20th Century with a view toward explaining the economic motivations of the involved parties and exploding economic myths such as "natural monopoly" and "cross subsidization" by the application of common sense. The relative success and failure of antitrust and economic regulation are analyzed on a subjective but quantitative scale, with antitrust regulation as the clear winner in terms of the author's standard of "public interest." The thesis examines specific economic incentives resulting directly from economic regulation, in particular, rate-of- return regulation and the FCC's interpretations of the Telecommunications …

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Cyclic Olefin Copolymer: An Alternative Plastic Film For Pharmaceutical Blister Packages, Kurt Trombley Jan 2001

Cyclic Olefin Copolymer: An Alternative Plastic Film For Pharmaceutical Blister Packages, Kurt Trombley

Theses

This thesis paper will provide data to show that cyclic olefin copolymer blister film can be used as a beneficial alternative to polyvinyl chloride film which is more commonly used in the pharmaceutical market today. Polyvinyl chloride continues to be a highly controversial packaging material due to potential environmental concerns. Cyclic olefin copolymer is shown to have properties which result in fewer environmental concerns and also can provide the added benefit of an improved barrier to moisture permeation when compared to polyvinyl chloride film. This paper documents a summary of the data on both sides of the polyvinyl chloride environmental …

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Evaluation Of The Structural Design Of New Liquid Containers, Jadranka Mandic Jan 2001

Evaluation Of The Structural Design Of New Liquid Containers, Jadranka Mandic

Theses

GECOS (Global Eco System) bottle with an additional using quality, represents new idea, which is patented innovation. Basic bottle assignment of GECOS bottle is for storage and transportation of the liquids from food domain, such as water, juices or milk. Additional using quality of GECOS bottles comes from unique construction, as well as their closures. When GECOS bottle is empty it can serve as universal building elements, which are connected by closures as connecting elements into new three-dimensional structures. In such a way, the bottles are easier to be kept, collected or used in a game as didactic and creative …

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Synchronous Communication Tools: Enabler For The Deaf And/Or Hard-Of-Hearing Colleagues, Yael Agriss Jan 2001

Synchronous Communication Tools: Enabler For The Deaf And/Or Hard-Of-Hearing Colleagues, Yael Agriss

Theses

Deaf and/or hard-of-hearing and hearing people communicate frequently. Most people find it enjoyable in some situations and scary in others. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. Communication affects our life. This is a study to investigate the use of synchronous communication tools, in particular focusing on two target groups, the deaf and/or hard-of-hearing and their hearing colleagues. The aim will be to determine people's views on whether synchronous communication tools are now or will be beneficial for them to use as communication. The point of the survey and interview was to ascertain who, if anyone, was actually using …

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