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Encouraging Depth Rather Than Surface Processing About Cultural Differences Through Critical Incidents And Role Plays, Richard Brislin

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

Intercultural interactions will increase in the future given international business ventures, immigration patterns, recognition of minority group rights in various countries, and other social changes. People can prepare themselves by participating in formal educational and training programs that deal with understanding cultural differences and with communication across cultural boundaries. One approach to education and training is to analyze critical incidents that depict people in intercultural encounters that involve a misunderstanding or a difficulty. In addition to identifying exact reasons for the difficulties, people can also learn about research-based concepts that assist in understanding many other intercultural interactions they are likely …

Social Skills Training For Aggressive Children In School Counseling: Implications Of Current Understanding Of Subtypes Of Aggressive Children, Jina S. Yoon, Rochelle M. Broder

Michigan Journal of Counseling: Research, Theory and Practice

Social skills intervention (SSI) is one of the most popular choices for many school counselors when working with children who exhibit a wide range of behavior problems. However, a review of research findings indicates that social skills training has limited treatment efficacy in improving the social competence of children with behavior problems. Heterogeneous characteristics of these children may offer one explanation for the limited success of social skills training. This article reviews empirical research findings on the two forms of aggression (reactive aggression and proactive aggression) and proposes more individually tailored SSI as a way to improve its efficacy. Implications …

Counseling And Naturopathy: Exploring Collaboration Between Counseling And An Alternative Medical Model, Cheryl M. Milde, Diane Dempsey Marr

Michigan Journal of Counseling: Research, Theory and Practice

Given a higher incidence of many common chronic conditions, the management of “difficult to heal” clients has given counseling a greater role within medical circles. Since many of these chronic conditions may be a result of environmental exposure to pathogens, the role of alternative or natural healing approaches has become increasingly popular. This paper provides a brief overview of the naturopathic medical model, and examines counselors’ collaboration with an alternative medical model with regard to professional counselor practice, training, and ethics.

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Fall 2002), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Fall 2002 Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• Opening Remarks
• PCOM Updates
• Alumnus Marks 100th Birthday
• Cover Story: College Moves Forward with Strategic Plan
• Aging and the Immune Response
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• My Turn
• 2003 Annual Fund
• PCOM Events

Contested Suburbs: Space And Its Representation In Moral Panics, Stacey L. Simmons

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Over the last thirty years there has been modest investigation into the phenomenon of moral panic. Several high profile moral panics have been investigated by social scientists but with relatively little new theoretical developments. This research hypothesizes that there are two different forms of moral panic that have not been discerned by other researchers. I call these: metapanics and localized panics. In addition, in the last two decades a handful of well-respected theorists have drawn attention to the fact that social research is dominated by an historical perspective. Edward Soja. and Henri Lefebvre have been at the fore, but even …

Black Single Fathers: Choosing To Parent Full-Time, Roberta L. Coles

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

This ethnographic study uses the narratives of African American, single, full-time fathers to explore the motivations precipitating their choice to parent. While the fathers had in common a number of demographic characteristics, such as full employment, residence, and support systems, which factored into their timing of and ability to take full custody, none of these are salient in their own narratives expressing why they wanted to be full-time fathers. Instead, their main motives centered on fulfilling a sense of duty and responsibility, reworking the effects of having had weak or absent fathers themselves, wanting to provide a role model for …

Nebraska Initiative For Aerospace Research And Industrial Development (Niarid): Final Report, Brent D. Bowen, Uno Aviation Institute

Faculty Books and Monographs

UNOAI Report 02-1

The Nebraska Initiative for Aerospace Research and Industrial Development (NIARID) was designed to accelerate the state’s efforts to expand its capacity, national competitiveness, and infrastructure in aerospace research and industry. The systemic goal of the NIARID was to strengthen Nebraska’s long-term ability to develop new, and strengthen current, aerospace research activities that increase the state’s national research competitiveness, foster sustainable growth in aerospace-related industry and the state’s economic development; complement the mission and activities of the Nebraska Space Grant Consortium (NSGC); and advance the goals of NASA and its enterprises. Funding from NIARID accelerated the establishment of …

Impacts And Effects Of Service-Learning On High School Students, Bryan Richard Rossi

Thesis, Dissertations, Student Creative Activity, and Scholarship

In the ten years this researcher has spent preparing to complete the requirements for a Ph.D. in Education Policy and Administration, he has come to see some of the transformations society and education have gone through. This has been fascinating to examine in parallel the educational transformations and human development of work and research in various schools. On the one hand, there have been the developments of the "macro-education" world through the Department of Children, Families and Learning, the state legislature, the news media, and the role of the university in education policy. On the other hand, there have been …

Students In Service To America. A Guidebook For Engaging America's Students In A Lifelong Habit Of Service, Corporation For National And Community Service, Us. Department Of Education, Points Of Light Foundation, Usa Freedom Corps, Volunteer Center National Network

Guides

For young people, service to others can develop important habits and skills that help them become an asset to their neighborhoods. This guide was created to help adults teachers, parents, after-school providers, and members of community-based organizations to find and create opportunities for young people to answer President George W. Bush's call for all U.S. people to dedicate at least two years of their lives in service to their communities, their country, or the world. The guide contains nine sections: (1) "Letter from the President of the United States of America"; (2) "Letter from Supporting Organizations"; (3) "Table of Contents"; …

Fdtd Analysis Of Printed Circuit Boards Containing Wideband Lorentzian Dielectric Dispersive Media, Marina Koledintseva, David Pommerenke, James L. Drewniak

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A Lorentzian model as the general case of a frequency-dependent behavior of a dispersive dielectric material is considered in this paper. Recursive convolution algorithms for the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique for two cases of a Lorentzian medium, narrowband and wideband, depending on the ratio of a resonance line half-width at -3 dB and the resonance frequency of the material, are detailed. It is shown that a wideband Lorentzian model of a dielectric FR-4 used in printed circuit boards is more flexible and gives good agreement with experimental curves, and may be preferable as compared to a Debye model.

August 2002 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Teachers' Perceptions Of School Safety, Safety-Based Changes, And Their Resultant Impact On School Climate: A Case Study, Laura L. Finley

Dissertations

In the last decade, several high-profile shootings in suburban school districts have drawn attention to the issue of school-based violence. Consequently, schools all over have responded in many ways. The literature reveals that many suburban and rural schools have adopted the same measures as have urban districts, despite the fact that their discipline and violence problems are qualitatively different. These responses have generally been punitive and technological in nature, rather than curricular or structural reforms. This has included institution of metal detectors, more restrictive student dress codes, zero tolerance laws and others. Some, though, have suggested that these responses may …

Family Structure And Attachment And Their Role In Reducing Delinquency In The African American Family, Kiesha Warren

Dissertations

The study uses data from the over sampling of African American youth (4,808) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to explore the relationship between family structure, attachment and their role in reducing delinquency. Using theelement of attachment from Hirschi’s (1969) social control theory, this study examines the historical development of the various family structures and the role attachment plays in reducing delinquency in those family structures. The study uses structural equation modeling to test this hypothesis. This study shows that when attachment is present regardless of the family structure delinquency will be reduced.

A New Type Of Particle Detector For Nuclear Scattering Experiments, Philip Ugorowski

Dissertations

A new detector was needed for counting recoil protons resulting from proton-proton (pp) elastic scattering during pion production experiments by the Polarized Internal Target Experiments (PINTEX) group at Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF). The previous silicon detectors were only usable forincoming protons up to 9 MeV, and a stopping power of at least 40 MeV was needed. In addition, the detector had to operate in nanotorr vacuum, and near strong varying magnetic fields, ruling out standard organic plastic scintillators and photomultiplier tubes. We needed to find the most suitable inorganic scintillator and another method of detecting the photons produced when …

Modification Of All-Hexadedral Finite Element Meshes By Dual Sheet Insertion And Extraction, Michael J. Borden

Theses and Dissertations

The development of algorithms that effectively modify all-hexahedral finite element mesh is currently an active area of research. Mesh modification can be used to improve mesh quality reduce the time required to mesh a model, and improve the finite element analysis results. However, general modification of all-hexahedral meshes has proven difficult because of the global effects of local modifications. This thesis explains the global constraints on modifying all-hexahedral meshes and then presents three mesh modification techniques that make it possible to do local modifications while accounting for the global effects. These techniques are sheet insertion, sheet extraction, and mesh cutting. …

2002 Crime And Justice Survey Results For Tennessee, Tennessee. Bureau Of Investigation.

Specialized Reports

No abstract provided.

Substance Abuse Treatment: Substance Abuse Counselors' Belief Systems And How These Beliefs Impact Treatment, Ann Crabb

Dissertations

The treatment of substance abuse is an anomaly within the mental health field. Historically, the treatment of addicted people has relied more on the personal experiences of those who have recovered than empirical findings (Shaffer, 1987). The founding of Alcoholics Anonymous sparked the creation of a belief system regarding substance abuse and recovery that, despite contradictory research findings, remains strong today (McElrath, 1997). This study was conducted to explore the belief systems of both recovering and nonrecovering substance abuse counselors today to determine what their beliefs are, how these beliefs were formed, and whether their belief system has changed over …

Ideology Or Insanity? Media Presentation Of Ted Kaczynski And Tim Mcveigh, Matthew P. Sheptoski

Dissertations

This dissertation explores mainstream media presentation of two convicted murderers: Theodore J. Kaczynski, otherwise known as "The Unabomber," and Timothy J. McVeigh, found guilty of the 1995 destruction of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. More specifically, I analyze The New York Times's and Time's presentation of these two actors in order to assess whether their acts were attributed to political and ideological motivation or psychological abnormality and mental illness. Quantitative and qualitative findings indicate that Kaczynski's crimes were more likely to be attributed to psychological abnormality and mental illness, while McVeigh's crimes were more likely to be …

Exploiting Truly Fast Hardware In Data Mining, Roger D. Chamberlain, Ron K. Cytron, Mark A. Franklin, Ronald S. Indeck

All Computer Science and Engineering Research

In many data mining applications, the size of the database is not only extremely large, it is also growing rapidly. Even for relatively simple searches, the time required to move the data off magnetic media, cross the system bus into main memory, copy into processor cache, and then execute code to perform a search is prohibitive. We are proposing that a significant portion of the data mining task (i.e., the portion that examines the bulk of the raw data) be implemented in fast hardware, close to the magnetic media on which it is stored. Furthermore, this hardware can be replicated …

General Index

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Case For Implementing An Electronic Document Managament System (Edms), Scott D. Seiler

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

We live in a world where documentation and record keeping are considered not only necessary but also essential. This documentation produces and unprecedented amount of paperwork. Keeping track of this volume of paper is a task of monumental proportions. Faced with this task, I sought to sell the idea of an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) to the senior staff of the governmental agency that employs me. Participation in the Creative Critical Thinking Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has afforded me the opportunity to formulate an implementation scheme to accomplish this. Included in my synthesis project are the …

Lawyers' Value In Mergers And Acquisitions Under The New World Of Multidisciplinary Practices, Yunling Wu

LLM Theses and Essays

Lawyers are facing strong competition from accounting firms in mergers and acquisitions. Finance and accounting globalization and multidisciplinary practice makes accounting firms more competent, challenging lawyers’ value. However, lawyers create enormous value in mergers and acquisitions, such as structuring the form of transactions, managing due diligence investigation, reducing the costs of acquiring and verifying information, ensuring corporations follow the relevant regulations preventing legal liabilities, and preventing antitrust issues or invoking antitrust challenge. Teamwork will facilitate mergers and acquisitions transactions. Restricted multidisciplinary practice will not affect lawyers’ and accountants’ ethics and independence. Legal education should be improved to help lawyers become …

Vol 47 #1, Lisa Mecklenberg Jackson

MPLA Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Commentary: Part V, Leslie C. Green

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Judging Kosovo: The Legal Process, The Law Of Armed Conflict, And The Commander In Chief, James E. Baker

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

International Humanitarian Law After Kosovo: Is Lex Lata Sufficient?, Ove Bring

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

On Wings Of Hope, Volume 7, No. 2, August-October 2002, Phadp, Sebastian Muccilli, Darrell Grayson, T.R. Duncan, Y. Joyce Thompson, Carey Grayson, Jeff Rieber, Gary Hart Ii, Christi Johnson, Jeff Rieber, Kenneth Loggins, Mary Neville, "G. Bear", Marcus Presley, Esther Brown

On Wings of Hope

August–October 2002 edition. Includes A Christian Perspective, whose authors are listed elsewhere in this archive.

Looking Into The Way The Vietnamese Media Discussed The September Terrorist Attacks In America, Houng Tn. Nguyen

Student Work

This study examines the way the Vietnamese mainstream and unpublished media used the Vietnam War experiences to discuss the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in America. Examination of 30 issues of The People newspaper showed that the mainstream media did not directly use the Vietnam War experiences to discuss the September terrorist attacks. Few articles directly mentioned or referred to the Vietnam War experiences. Examination of 80 threads of discussion from two Vietnamese websites showed that the Vietnamese unpublished media used the Vietnam War experiences more directly to discuss the September attacks. Three specific ways were recognized: (1) to compare …

Richmond Music Journal (2002-08)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.

Optimal Design Of A 2.4 Ghz Cmos Low Noise Amplifier, Sharmila Sridharan

Theses

In most RF receivers, the Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) is normally the first component, whose performance is very critical. For the LNA architecture that uses source degeneration inductors and cascode topology, the performance depends largely on the performance of the inductors. All the parasitics associated with the inductors should be thoroughly analyzed and taken into consideration while designing the LNA. The work presented in this thesis can be broadly classified as follows: optimization of the LNA design with respect to all the parasitics associated with the on-chip spiral inductors, modeling high performance inductors, which are embedded in the silicon substrate …