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The Metamorphosis Of The Defense Industry, Margaret A. Noble

Management Department Faculty Working Papers

The downsizing of the United States defense industry in recent years had a multitude of effects on defense and defense-related manufacturers. Besides the inevitable loss of jobs, these firms essentially had to reinvent themselves in order to compete in the commercial sector more effectively. Moreover, the defense cutbacks also resulted in implications for the U.S. as a whole. These include questionable preparedness for armed conflict, as well as the potential loss of defense-related suppliers that could affect the ability to sustain armed conflict. These and other insights were gleaned from plant-level interviews and tours of several, small defense-related manufacturers.

Connecting To The Feminine And To The Inner Self In Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country Of The Pointed Firs., Misty D. Powers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In Dunnet Landing, Jewett creates a feminine world that is characterized by its depth and its moral and emotional significance. There is a foundation in the real world of human feeling, and while there is much grief and sorrow in this community, there are also possibilities for happiness. The connection to death and loss is what gives much in this feminine world meaning. Grief is only a part of the journey. Out of death and sorrow come strength and a restoration to wholeness. Mrs. Todd has learned this and she passes her knowledge down to the narrator. The narrator’s journey …

Online K-12 Attendance, Grading, And Transcript Processing, Barbara Myers

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

This project discusses the development and use of an online K-12 attendance, grading, and transcript program to be used by East Dakota Educational Cooperative teachers who are located at the main building and at external schools located approximately 100 miles from the main office. The internet-based program has a fully functional database that will store all grade and attendance information about each student attending an East Dakota Educational Cooperative school. The program allows teachers to access only those records for students currently at his or her school anywhere, anytime. Another benefit of the program is the ability of parents to …

Economic Impact Of Brickell Avenue Bridge Openings, Cutr

CUTR Research Reports

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Picking Up The Pieces After Alexander V. Sandoval: Resurrecting A Private Cause Of Action For Disparate Impact, Derek Black

North Carolina Law Review

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Judicial Review In State Supreme Courts: A Comparative Study By Laura Langer, Donald R. Songer

Faculty Publications

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Review Of "Buglers On The Home Front: The Wartime Practice Of The Qiyue School" By Y. Shu, Haili Kong

Chinese Faculty Works

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Just The Facts?: Historians And Novelists Discuss The Relationship Between History And Fiction, Mark C. Carnes

Civil War Book Review

Just the Facts?

Historians and novelists discuss the relationship between history and fiction Very few phrases can make an historian flinch like "artistic license." Likewise, even a writer of the highest ....

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Civil War Book Review

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Predicting A Passing Outcome On The National Council Licensure Examination For Registered Nurses By Associate Degree Graduates, Patricia M. Collins

Dissertations

This ex-post facto study was conducted to determine whether grades in pre-program science courses, pre-program cumulative grade point average (GPA) and grades in selected nursing theory courses predict pass/fail performance on the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) for graduates of an Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) program. A small, rural community college in western Michigan participated in the study. The subjects included 159 graduates, (143 females, 16 males) admitted to the program beginning fall semester 1992 through May 2001. Data was obtained from the college data files. The independent variables were the four pre-program science courses, Anatomy and …

Using Simulation To Evaluate And Improve Performance Of The Contact Center At Bluecross Blueshield Of Tennessee, Charat Siriphongvuttikorn

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is a not-for-profit organization in health care financing with more than 4,300 employees and has a service area covering ninety five counties in Tennessee. The company now has three customer service divisions and the regional division is the biggest customer service division of the company.The objectives of this study are to evaluate the performance of the contact center of the regional division and improve its performance through the simulation while still maintaining the standard service level required by the BlueCross BlueShield Association. The simulation model was built by using Pro Model 2002 to represent the operation …

Vol. 1, No. 01 (December 2002)

Indiana Law Update

No abstract provided.

Ijelè: Welcoming The King Of Modern African Letters To Massachusetts, Chukwuma Azuonye

Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series

A welcome address presented to Professor Chinua Achebe, novelist, poet, essayist, cultural philosopher, social activist, and Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in the Science Auditorium, University of Massachusetts at Boston, at a University Forum marking the Inauguration of JoAnn Gora as the 6th Chancellor, on September 26, 2002.

Law, Media And Political Dissent: The Case Of The Faln, Yanira Reyes

Open Access Dissertations

Inspired on the works of scholars and activists that had denounced state repression of political activists in the United States, this research explores the theoretical proposal about the criminalization of political dissidence. The proposal of the criminalization of political dissidence is analyzed through the study of the case of Puerto Rican pro-independence organization Fuerzas Armadas de Liberaci6n Nacional, F.A.L.N. The subjects of this research were charged with seditious conspiracy and other charges. They claimed the status of prisoners of war and deny the jurisdiction of US courts over them. Affirming their right to fight for the independence of Puerto Rico, …

Does Palazzolo V. Rhode Island's Upholding Of The Transferability Of Takings Claims Require A Rethinking Of Takings Jurisprudence, Tyrone T. Bongard

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Alaskan Caver, Volume 22, No. 4, December 2002, Diane Raab

Alaskan Caver

Contents: Presidents's Corner - Little Ticket and Mud 'n' blood Caves - Pete Smith comments on Kos EIS - Sitka Conservation Comments on Kos EIS - Zina Cave Map - Caves in the News - Glacier Grotto Financial report 2002 - Ropecutter - Glacier Grotto members In good standing

Veil Of Secrecy: Public Executions, Limitations On Reporting Capital Punishment, And The Content-Based Nature Of Private Execution Laws, Nicholas Levi

Federal Communications Law Journal

One issue that is often overlooked in the capital punishment debate is the policy to shield the public from the specifics of the application, administration, and resolution of the death sentence. First, this Note provides a brief historical and analytical account of capital punishment in this country, and ultimately argues that this historical backdrop forces courts to characterize regulations as content-based distinctions on free speech. Second, this Note provides a background of the methods of capital punishment from the time of the country's founding through the early parts of the twentieth century. Furthermore, this Note will address the emergence of …

Children's Dreams, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Prohibition On The Execution Of The Mentally Retarded Criminal Defendant, Lyn Entzeroth

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Summer Season, Richard L. Knight, W. Robert Peeples, Phillip D. Casteel, Richard P. Lewis

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

2002 Tennessee North American Migration Count, Ron Hoff

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Distribution, Co-Occurrence, And Land Cover Association Patterns Of Five Forest-Breeding Neotropical Migrant Birds In Middle Tennessee, J. Russell Butler

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Species Index To Volume 73, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Contents, Tennessee Ornithological Society

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

2002 Spring Field Day Report, Ron Hoff

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Music As Concept And Practice In The Late Middle Ages (Review), Peter Lefferts

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

A review of Music as Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Reinhard Strohm and Bonnie J. Blackburn. The New Oxford History of Music, 2d Edition. Vol. 3, Pt. 1. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). xxxii, 460 p. ISBN 0-198-16205-7. $115. Music examples, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index.

This is a valuable book, in which senior scholars approach topics with which they have been closely associated for many years. While its essays vary in their mix of original material and synthesis--and achieve varied success at the subordination of fact to generalization--they are without a doubt the best …

Jewett On Race, Class, Ethnicity, And Imperialism: A Reply To Her Critics, Josephine Donovan

Colby Quarterly

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Befogged Vision: International Environmental Governance A Decade After Rio, Nicholas A. Robinson

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Disjunctures In Discourse: Emerging Identities After The 2000 Coup In Rakiraki, Fiji, Karen J. Brison

Pacific Studies

This essay examines the way the coup of 2000 crystallized a new ethnic identity among Rakiraki villagers based on opposition to dominant groups within the Fijian ethnic community. The most obvious source of support for the coup was fear and resentment of Indo-Fijians, and it was evident that the coup both drew on and catalyzed such resentments. However, listening to villagers' reactions convinced me that they also supported the coup because they saw it as an attempt by a western Fijian (Speight, whose mother was rumored to be a Ra woman) to overthrow a Bauan-Lauan monopoly on government power, as …

Effects Of Response-Independent Stimulus Delivery And Functional Communication Training, Shannon S. Haag

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Two individuals with developmental delays with a history of problem behavior participated in this study. Its purpose was to examine the efficacy of combining two treatments demonstrated to reduce problem behavior: response-independent stimulus delivery and differential reinforcement of an alternative behavior. This study examined whether the response-independent delivery of an alternative preferred stimulus and differential reinforcement of manding resulted in increases in manding and suppression of problem behavior prior to and during the fading of the schedule of response-independent stimulus delivery. The study also examined the necessity of extinction to obtain suppression of problem behavior. The response-independent delivery of an …