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Remembering To Kill A Mockingbird, L Monique Pittman

Faculty Publications

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Concert Recording 2001-04-09, James Greeson, Claudia Burson, Daryl Burrows, Justin Hamby, Charles Whiley, Chris Moore, Scotty Walters, Zack Hodgson, Michael Schmidt, Rob Johnson, Matt Gates, Michael Sturtevant, Mickey Mcfetridge, Michael Allen, Ryan Fourt, Joseph Lindquist, Kari Dunlop, Chap Huskison, Mark Cato, Matt Younkin, Jill Baird, Nathan Mcleod, David Embree, Sara Broome, William Reyes, A. J. Swanson, Brian Hickman, Christopher Wilson, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Jazz Band South, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Jazz Band North

Concert Recordings & Programs

Nutville / Horace Silver -- Dear old Stockholm / Varmeland -- The moon is blue / Gilbert and Fine -- The shout / Petersen and Matteson -- Shiny stockings / Frank Foster -- Groovin' high / Dizzy Gillespie -- I've got you under my skin / Cole Porter -- On green dolphin street / Washington and Karper -- Unit seven / Sam Jones -- Bundle o' funk / Sammy Nestico --- Elvin's mambo / Bob Mintzer

2000 Navajo Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Navajo Area Indian Health Service

Native Health Database Full Text

The Navajo Area Indian Health Service, Health Promotion Program administered a modified version of the New Mexico 2000 Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey in April, 2000. The survey was developed to monitor priority health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of mortality, morbidity, and social problems, among youth and adults in the United States. These behaviors fall into six categories: (1) behvaiors that result in unintentional and intentional injuries, (2) tobacco use, (3) alcohol and other drug use, (4) sexual behaviors that result in HIV infection, other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and unintended pregnancies, (5) dietary behaviors, and …

Development Of A Process For Evaluating Locomotive Engineer Classroom Training At Amtrak, John A. Ward

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Amtrak did not have a written process for evaluating its locomotive engineer classroom-training programs. The purpose of this study was to develop a process based on relevant literature, evaluation models of other railroads, and feedback from formative and summative committees. There was one research question: What is an appropriate evaluation process to develop for the Amtrak locomotive engineer classroom-training programs?

The study followed eight procedures, including reviewing appropriate literature, drafting an evaluation process, obtaining feedback from formative and summative committees, and submitting the evaluation process to Amtrak. The evaluation process developed by the study resulted in two documents: policy and …

Development Of A Diagnostic Assessment System To Improve The Motn Ation Of Admitted Students To Matriculate Into The Nursing Program At D’Youville College, Melanie S. Macneil

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Enrollment in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program at D'Youville College is below expectations. Although the decline in application rate reflects a national and international trend, the matriculation rate needs to improve. Without adequate numbers of matriculated nursing students at D 'Youville, the nursing program faces closure.

The purpose of this project was to develop a diagnostic assessment system to improve the motivation of admitted students to matriculate into the nursing program at D'Youville College. The research questions concerned information in the literature about motivation to matriculate by students in nursing programs, the specific content and design for …

Reducing Disciplinary Referrals And Academic Failure Rate Of Seventh- And Eighth-Grade Students, Melad Smith Jr.

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum addressed the excessive disciplinary referrals and the academic failure rate of 7th- and 8th-grade students of Charlton County High School in Folkston, Georgia. The data collected during the 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 school years served as the basis of this practicum. During the 1998-1999 school year, the 7th and 8th grades accounted for 46. 9% of all high school referrals, and an alarming 23. 5% of total students in 7th and 8th grade failed academic courses in social studies, math, science, and English. During the 1999-2000 school year, a preliminary investigation was implemented to curtail the academic and discipline …

Enhancing School Climate To Improve Teacher And Student Morale: An Ethnographic Study, Mark Register

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Through an ethnographic process, the researcher sought an enhanced school climate that would result in improved morale among teachers and students at Sacred Heart School. The opportunity provided was to take the school beyond the level of solid and move it toward the status of being regarded as a major private educational institution.

Data were obtained for this project through surveys and personal interviews of faculty members, parents, students, and alumni in the attempt to describe past and current school climate and culture accurately. School archives were researched to gain further information concerning the philosophical foundation on which this institution …

Improving Teacher Intern Self-Evaluation Through The Use Of Preservice Experience, Pamela Sanders

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum involved an analysis of the relationship between preservice experience and the self-evaluation of teaching ability of 1st-year teacher interns in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The preservice experience was part of the Teachers For Chicago (TFC) program. The practicum took place at an elementary and a high school in the CPS that implemented the program between July 2000 and June 2001.

As part of the practicum, a survey was developed by the researcher and the program's independent evaluator. The 110 selected teacher interns in the practicum were a heterogeneously mixed group of aspiring educators with common beginning teaching …

Development Of A Teacher Pre-Service Education Program Emphasizing The Needs Of The Public Schools For The 21 St Century, Sandra K. Vance

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Numerous issues will be important regarding education in the years ahead. Few issues, however, will be as important as the need to improve secondary education to prepare students to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. This project was ( a) to create a secondary school curriculum that would effectively address the needs of students in 2010 and (b) to develop a preservice teacher education program, an induction program and a staff development program based on the curriculum identified in the research to better assist teachers in preparing secondary school students to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

This …

“The University Works Because We Do”: The Status Of Graduate Teaching And Research Assistants For The Purpose Of Collective Bargaining, Grant M. Hayden

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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Making A Federal Case Out Of It: Section 1981 And At-Will Employment, Joanna L. Grossman

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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Sovereignty On Our Terms, Jenia I. Turner

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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Genocide In International Law, Jenia I. Turner

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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Justice In Africa: Rwanda's Genocide, Its Courts, And The Un Criminal Tribunal, Jenia I. Turner

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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Comparison Of Reading Levels Of Students In A Computer Assisted Instructional Reading Program To Students In A Traditional Reading Program, Raquel Chin

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The problem for this study was no available data documenting the impact of the computer assisted instruction (CAI) program on the reading levels of students in Pines Middle School's eighth grade reading program. Previous studies have suggested that students in CAI reading programs do increase their reading levels.

The research question for this study was "Will students participating in the computer assisted instruction reading program achieve significantly higher reading levels, as determined by the STAR assessment, than students instructed in the traditional reading program?" The quasi-experimental research methodology was applied because the investigator compared treatment effects in a setting that …

A Conservative Defense Of Romer V. Evans, Dale Carpenter

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

In his argument for an alternative conservative response to Romer v. Evans, the author outlines the majority and dissenting opinions in Evans to identify what he takes to be the decision's import. Next, he outlines some of the main themes of conservative political and legal thought, concentrating especially on Edmund Burke. He then argues the common conception of Burke as an intransigent defender of the status quo and of present traditions and practices is a misreading of him. Finally, he discusses the conservative underpinnings for Evans in light of this intellectual history, with an emphasis on the profoundly conservative instincts …

Regulation By Bootstrap: Contingent Management Of Hazardous Wastes Under The Resource Conservation And Recovery Act, Jeffrey M. Gaba

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

In the last few years, EPA has increasingly employed the questionable technique of “contingent management” to regulate wastes under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in order to limit the costs and avoid the stigma of hazardous waste classification. Through the technique of contingent management, EPA has exempted materials from classification as hazardous waste on the condition that the materials are managed in the particular manner specified in the regulation. The ultimate bootstrap, contingent management allows EPA to regulate non-hazardous wastes over which it has no statutory jurisdiction. Perhaps more troubling, contingent management allows EPA to avoid the …

South Camden And Environmental Justice: Substance, Procedure, And Politics, Jeffrey M. Gaba

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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Preferred Leadership Of Ncaa Division I And Ii Intercollegiate Student-Athletes, Joel W. Beam

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the differences of student-athletes' preferred leadership behavior for their coaches based on gender, competition level, task dependence, and task variability. Four hundred and eight male and female student-athletes from four NCAA Division I and six Division II universities expressed their preferences using the Revised Leadership Scale for Sport (RLSS) (Zhang, Jensen, & Mann, 1997). The preference version of the RLSS included six behavior dimensions, autocratic, democratic, positive feedback, situational consideration, social support, and training and instruction behaviors.

A split-plot ANOVA was performed on the individual preference scores grouped by gender, competition level, …

Confession, Coercion, Procedural Error And The Juror, Kimberly Anne Jenkins Coffman

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The current research examined whether mock jurors make differential assessments of guilt of defendants based on inclusion or exclusion of confession evidence and type of coercion to determine if jurors' behavioral reactions to confession evidence could be predicted. Hypotheses addressed effects of various factors on jurors' decisions of verdicts regarding defendants' guilt or innocence and their certainty of these verdicts: inclusion of confession evidence, type of coercion used in obtaining confessions, admissible or inadmissible presentation of confession evidence, and influence of potential predictor variables. Predictor variables assessed included participants' Belief in a Just World, Spheres of Control, New Authoritarianism, and …

The Rejection Of The Manege Tradition In Early Modern England: "Equestrian Elegance At Odds With English Sporting Tradition", Elizabeth Pope Simmons

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Renaissance creativity and obsession with classical traditions spawned a new form of horsemanship called the manege in sixteenth-century Europe. This study deals with England's rejection of the courtly horsemanship despite the dismal state of the nation's equestrian affairs. Tudor and Stuart monarchs utilized royal influence to attempt change - from legislative refmms to the horses - but no specific monarchical effort proved immediately effective. The significance of royal influence is seen in the continued importation of quality stock and in royal support for equestrian-related sports. Both enriched equine bloodlines and promoted the development of sporting tradition in England. While, with …

Applying E-Commerce Techniques To Public School Software, Michael Lapke

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Applying e-commerce technology to public school software is a process that involves an extensive and thorough analysis. There are typically three groups of users who would use such a system: teachers, administrators and parents. Teachers need a system that nearly duplicates the software that they are currently using to enter, store, and calculate their grades, while school administrators and parents need to student and teacher's information. This is where the use of e-commerce technology comes in very nicely.

The analysis performed for this project involved extensive interviews with the expert user set and a walk-through of the current system. The …

A Study Of Influences And Life Choices: African American Males From An Urban Pre-Trial Detention Center And The Navy, Patrick O'Neal Arnwine

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study was designed to explore the influences, experiences, and disparate life choices of eight African American males from the Jacksonville's Pre-trial Detention Center and the U.S. Navy. The focus of this project was on the choices made by the participants and possible reasons for those choices. Specifically, the research question for this study is "How do some African American males from Jacksonville's Pre-trial Detention Center and the Navy describe their life experiences and the influences of these experiences on their choices?''

The framework for this project was a cross-case and cross-site study. The sites were the Jacksonville Pre-trial Detention …

A Framework For Performance And Value Assessment Of E-Business Systems In Corporate Travel Distribution, A.M. Chircu, Robert J. Kauffman

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This chapter proposes and illustrates a framework that the authors call the value life cycle for e-commerce systems. Based on recent research results that relate to technology investments in the corporate travel industry and related theoretical and empirical perspectives, the authors lay out the corporate travel e-commerce system solutions value life cycle. The perspective involves estimating the maximum value that that an organization can obtain by implementing an e-commerce system in a specific industry and competitive environment. It also considers multiple factors that act as value contingencies for the implementation process. These create barriers to value accrual and to …

Social Logic As Business Logic: Guanxi, Trustworthiness And The Embeddedness Of Chinese Business Practices, Wai Keung Chung, Gary Hamilton

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This chapter explores the nature of Chinese business practices by looking at their social foundations. We argue that the use of an inter-subjective logic based on the norms of social relationships provides an institutional foundation for economic transactions in Chinese business settings. The logic of social relationships-or what we call guanxi logic-is embedded in daily practices of the Chinese business community. Rather than making economic decisions less "economic", relational rules embedded in guanxi places interpersonal business transactions within a prescriptive framework, thereby increasing the calculability of economic outcomes. Guanxi logic is, therefore, a socially meaningful way to enhance economic rationality. …

Probabilistic Principles In Unsupervised Learning Of Visual Structure: Human Data And A Model, Shimon Edelman, Benjamin P. Hiles, Hwajin Yang, Nathan Intrator

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

To find out how the representations of structured visual objects depend on the co-occurrence statistics of their constituents, we exposed subjects to a set of composite images with tight control exerted over (1) the conditional probabilities of the constituent fragments, and (2) the value of Barlow's criterion of "suspicious coincidence" (the ratio of joint probability to the product of marginals). We then compared the part verification response times for various probe/target combinations before and after the exposure. For composite probes, the speedup was much larger for targets that contained pairs of fragments perfectly predictive of each other, compared to those …

Dynamics Of Pancake Vortices In A Finite Stack Of Superconducting Copper Oxide Layers, Mariam Mustafa Ahmad Al Marzoqi

Theses

The high temperature superconductors are very promising materials in a wide range of applications, starting from the electricity power supply. They play a lifesaving function through imaging systems. Even major internet and communication advances depend on these materials.

Superconductivity in these materials occurs particularly in the copper-oxide planes. However, since these materials are type-II superconductors, magnetic fields can penetrate these materials in quantized amounts of flux called vortices without destroying completely superconductivity, but producing some resistance, due to vortex motion. In order to overcome the resistance problem, vortices must be pinned to prevent their motion and hence eliminate the resistance. …

Concert Recording 2001-11-14a, James Greeson, Claudia Burson, Justin Hamby, Chris Vaught, Jared Phillips, Jake Edington, Ky Dorsey, Chris Moore, Matt Younkin, Michael Allen, Keith Baxter, Rudy Villines, Kevin Hume, James Paynter, Matt Milburn, Fernando Rodriguez, Ben Elkins, Scotty Walters, Paul Wolf, Matthew Bridges, Zack Hodgson, Michael Sturtevant, Anthony Lofton, Jill Baird, Matt Gates, Danny Reeves, Kari Dunlop, Ryan Fourt, Joseph Lindquist, Rob Johnson

Concert Recordings & Programs

Groove knot... / Matt Harris -- Sure foot / Les Hooper -- Miss Fine / Oliver Nelson -- Splanky / Neal Hefti -- Day by daay -- Work song / Nat Adderley -- Impressions / John Coltrane -- Cabeza de carne / Matt Harris

Voronoi Cells, Fractal Dimensions And Fibre Composites, J. Summerscales, F. J. Guild, N. R.L. Pearce, P. M. Russell

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

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Mentors Or Friends: Confucius And Aristotle On Equality And Ethical Development In Friendship, Sor-Hoon Tan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In Thinking from the Han, David Hall and Roger Ames compare Plato's - and Confucius's views of friendship in relation to the question of transcendence and arrive at the sad conclusion that Socrates and Confucius could not be friends. "Socratic irony would not allow the inequality Confucius requires as a means of self-betterment. Confucius would not permit he and Socrates to hold all things in common." Along the way, they articulate an understanding of Confucius’ view of friendship as "a one-directional relationship in which one extends oneself by association with one who has attained a higher level of realization." Hall …