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Pennsylvania Landlord Remedies: An Update, Ronald G. Backer

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

Who Owns Science, A. Dan Tarlock

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Genetically Modified Organisms: Does The Current Regulatory System Compromise Consumer Health, Heather N. Ellison

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Science, Politics, And Problem Solving: Principles And Practices For The Resolution Of Environmental Disputes In The Midst Of Advancing Technology, Uncertain Or Changing Science, And Volatile Public Perceptions, Peter S. Adler

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Cafos: Issues And Development Of New Waste Treatment Technology, Cm Williams

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Federal Regulation Of Animal And Poultry Production Under The Clean Water Act: Opportunities For Employing Economic Analysis To Improve Societal Results, Theodore A. Feitshans, Kelly Zering

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Searching For A Sense Of Control: The Challenge Presented By Community Conflicts Over Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Nancy A. Welsh, Barbara Gray

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

Creative Destruction And Environmental Law, Bruce Yandle

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

An Overview Of Nutrient Management Requirements In Pennsylvania, Michael Meloy

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

In Search Of Goldilocks: Democracy, Participation, And Government, Philip J. Harter

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

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Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

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A Study Of The Counseling Practices Of Wesleyan Pastors, Kurt A. Stevens

Dissertations

Little is known about the counseling practices of Wesleyan ministers. The primary goal of this study was to provide a detailed description of what pastoral counseling consists of for Wesleyan pastors. The study examined the most common and most troubling counseling issues, the extent to which pastors felt qualified and comfortable providing pastoral counseling, the ability of pastors to counsel parishioners presenting with various issues (e.g., divorce, death, abuse, parenting), the timing of referrals and to whom referred, the number of parishioners currently counseling, the location and time of counseling sessions, and the number of counseling courses taken and perceived …

Behavioral Finance And Investor Governance, Lawrence A. Cunningham

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Marbury Ascendant: The Rehnquist Court And The Power To "Say What The Law Is", Timothy Zick

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Looking Ahead: A Five-Year Plan For The Lynn University Athletic Department, John Mccarthy

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

As Athletic Director Dr. Richard Young retires from Lynn University during the summer of 2002, Lynn University athletics faces the challenge of transition in an ever-evolving National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Sunshine State Conference and University.

During the first 16 years of intercollegiate athletics, Lynn University has amassed an incredible 16 National Championships. During Dr. Young's nine-year tenure at the helm, the athletic program has made the transition from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) to NCAA Division II, has made the transition into the Sunshine State Conference and has begun a Master's Degree program in Sports and Athletic …

Classroom Questioning Strategies As Indicators Of Inquiry Based Science Instruction, Linda Hale Goossen

Dissertations

Inquiry teaching often rests upon the assumption that through the use of questioning and response strategies, teachers can stimulate students to actively construct knowledge. Based on this hypothesis, middle-school science lessons were observed and questioning and response strategies were identified that are related to inquiry-based instruction.

Twenty-four science lessons were observed, videotaped, and ranked by inquiry characteristics other than questioning strategy. The video and audio portions of the recordings were analyzed to determine the student and teacher’s questioning and response strategies in each classroom. These strategies were then compared to teaching style, along a continuum from traditional to inquiry, to …

Factors Predicting Distress At Marital Therapy Onset, Joseph J.H. Horak

Dissertations

Higher levels of distress at marital therapy onset predict poorer treatment outcomes in several studies. This study selected nine variables to determine their ability to predict distress at marital therapy onset. The first two predictor variables, shame (measured by the Internalized Shame Scale; Cook, 2000) and expressive atmosphere in the family of origin (measured by the Family of Origin Expressive Atmosphere Scale; Yelsma, Hovestadt, Anderson, & Nilsson, 2000), were chosen from the literature and studies that considered these variables to be related to marital distress. The remaining seven sociodemographic predictor variables—(1) parental divorce as a child, (2) pregnancy before marriage, …

N Uptake As A Function Of Concentration In Streams, Walter K. Dodds, Amanda J. Lopez, William B. Bowden, Stan Gregory, Nancy B. Grimm, Stephen K. Hamilton, Anne E. Hershey, Eugenia Marti, William H. Mcdowell, Judy L. Meyer, Donna Morrall, Patrick J. Mulholland, Bruce J. Peterson, Jennifer L. Tank, H. Maurice Valett, Jackson R. Webster, Wilfred M. Wollheim

Faculty Publications

Detailed studies of stream N uptake were conducted in a prairie reach and gallery forest reach of Kings Creek on the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Nutrient uptake rates were measured with multiple short-term enrichments of NO3− and NH4+ at constant addition rates in the spring and summer of 1998. NH4+ uptake was also measured with 15N-NH4+ tracer additions and short-term unlabeled NH4+ additions at 12 stream sites across North America. Concurrent addition of a conservative tracer was used to account for dilution in all experiments. NH4+ uptake rate per unit area (Ut) was positively correlated to nutrient concentration across all …

University Reporter - Vol. 06, No. 10 - June 2002, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

The General Public's Knowledge And Perceptions Of The Certified Athletic Trainer's Professional Role And Educational Background, Casey Christy

Theses and Dissertations

This study's purpose was to determine the general public's knowledge, attitudes and behaviors relative to the certified athletic trainer's professional role and educational background.

Two-hundred and seventy-nine people completed an 11-question intercept survey. Results indicate the athletic training professional faces many perception barriers with the general public.

Only 12 percent identified an "athletic trainer" as one of the on-field healthcare providers for injured professional football players. More than half failed to correctly describe what an athletic trainer does. Many responses indicate the public confuses certified athletic trainers with "personal trainers" and other strength and conditioning professionals. Eighty-four percent of the …

Conceptualizing Constitutional Litigation As Anti-Government Expression: A Speech-Centered Theory Of Court Access, Robert L. Tsai

American University Law Review

This Article proposes a speech-based right of court access. First, it finds the traditional due process approach to be analytically incoherent and of limited practical value. Second, it contends that history, constitutional structure, and theory all support conceiving of the right of access as the modern analogue to the right to petition government for redress. Third, the Article explores the ways in which the civil rights plaintiff's lawsuit tracks the behavior of the traditional dissident. Fourth, by way of a case study, the essay argues that recent restrictions - notably, a congressional limitation on the amount of fees counsel for …

Out Of The Black Hole: Reclaiming The Crown Of King Coal, Wendy B. Davis

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Link Between Smoking And Body Weight Among Adolescents, Tracey Barnett

Dissertations

Trends in smoking rates among adolescents indicate that white females generally smoke more than their adolescent counterparts, the only substance in which this occurs. Another trend in which white females far outnumber any other adolescent group is eating disorders. This study was conducted to assess the relationship between cigarette smoking and perception of weight among adolescents. A logistic regression model was constructed to test the relationship using the Adolescent Health Public Dataset. For females, there was a link between cigarette smoking and perception of overweight which was not found among the males. Similarly, white females had a significantly higher rate …

The Impact Of Systematically Varying The Duration Of Breath Samples During Infrared-Based Alcohol Breath Testing, Chris C. Clatterbuck

Dissertations

The present study set out to investigate the reliability and performance of the BAC DataMaster®, an infrared-based alcohol breath testing instrument. The focus of this study was to determine: (a) the impact of varying breath sample duration during testing, (b) if Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) levels produced by the DataMaster® (BAC_DM) are significantly different from BAC levels produced by analysis of whole blood (BAC_WB), and (c) if the relationship between BAC_DM estimates and BAC_WB is influenced by the amount of alcohol an examinee has ingested. Each of 27 participants was randomly assigned to one …

Assessment Of The Discriminative Stimulus Effects Of (±)-3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Mdma, "Ecstasy") And (+Lysergic Add Diethylamide (Lsd) In A Three-Lever Drug Discrimination Procedure, Amy K. Goodwin

Dissertations

(±)3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a common drug of abuse known as "ecstasy." Currently, MDMA is classified into the traditional drug classes as both a "stimulant" and a "hallucinogen" because it is reported to share both subjective and physiological properties of both classes. MDMA is thought to produce its psychoactive effects by acting as both a serotonin and a dopamine agonist. However, the relative importance of the serotonin and dopamine neurotransmitter systems in mediating the stimulus properties of MDMA remains unclear.

The drug discrimination assay is used to classify drugs as "similar" or "dissimilar," as well as to examine underlying neurochemical changes …

Self-Control Training In Young Children, Laura Kay Murray

Dissertations

The incidence of conduct and behavioral disorders is steadily on the rise. Externalizing problems in the preschool years are considerable predictors of problems in later childhood, and even adulthood. There is a growing need for effective prevention programs for young children that can be implemented in school environments. Prevention efforts with young children often focus on self-control training for the reduction of impulsive behaviors. Impulsivity is an early presenting behavior pattern that can lead to a variety of disorders. The present study had two goals: (1) to measure the effects of a package intervention containing cognitive and behavioral treatment techniques …

Differences Among Accredited Athletic Training Education Programs In Preparing Students For The National Certification Examination, Donna M. Ritenour

Dissertations

A retrospective quantitative study that surveyed all of the CAAHEP accredited athletic training education programs was performed. The purpose of this study was twofold: (I) what are the institutional and programmatic characteristics associated with the colleges/universities that sponsor CAAHEP accredited entry level athletic training education programs, and (2) do these differences significantly alter the preparedness of students for the athletic training profession. Athletic Training Education Programs that were developed prior to 1993 were compared to those programs that were developed after 1993 to determine if institutional or programmatic characteristic differences exist among the Colleges/Universities that sponsor CAAHEP accredited entry level …

The Future Of Environmental Law: Adjusting Expectations After Tahoe-Sierra, Robert J. Goldstein

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Environmental Law In The Political Ecosystem - Coping With The Reality Of Politics: Eighth Annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture On Environmental Law, Zygmunt J.B. Plater

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Who Owns The Sky? (2001 Garrison Lecture), Gerald Torres

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.