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Mérimée's "Carmen," The Short Story, And Image Structure, Allan H. Pasco

Short Story

No abstract provided.

School Entry Policy In Indiana: The Relationship Between School-Entry Age And Academic School Performance, Randall Eugene Garratt

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study looked at ISTEP+ reading and quantitative test scores of 200 randomly selected Indiana elementary third grade male and female children. The selected data were derived from a total of 838 sets of scores of children from ten urban school settings. The purpose of this study was to investigate differences of school-entry age and later academic school performance on the two youngest groups” of male and female children in Indiana who were age eligible to enter kindergarten. In this study test scores from two adjacent age groups of children who were eligible to begin school on June 1 were …

Cultural Awareness Sensitivity Training, William L. Underwood

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In this study, employees of the Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky; the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota; and the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan were surveyed to determine the need for a Cultural Awareness Sensitivity Training program for staff within the United States Bureau of Prisons. In addition, if the need for this program was established, the Cultural Awareness Study was formulated to determine the scope and breadth of the coverage of the program. The respondents were asked to answer 72 questions in the following areas: (1) diversity training; (2) need assessment; (3) staff demographics; (4) inmate …

Sportscaster U, David Marc

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Review Of Communication Disorders In Multicultural Populations, John Stephen Brantley

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

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Sw 300.01: Human Behavior And Social Environment, John C. Spores

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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The Effects Of Depression And Anxiety On Memory Performance, Ali H. Kizilbash, Rodney D. Vanderploeg, Glenn Curtiss

United States Public Health Resources

The effects of depression and anxiety, as assessed by MMPI D and Pt scales, on memory performance was examined in 3999 veterans who completed the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT). Depressive symptoms (without anxiety) had an adverse effect on immediate recall of new information and the total amount (but not rate) of acquisition; however, retrieval and retention were unaffected. On the other hand, high levels of anxiety did not have significant detrimental effects on any aspect of memory functioning assessed including immediate recall, total amount acquired, retention, and retrieval of novel information. However, when depression was compounded by anxiety, there …

Family Preservation In Perspective, Anthony N. Maluccio, Edith Fein

Journal of Family Strengths

This essay traces the family preservation movement to its permanency planning roots; discusses the principles and underlying philosophy of the movement, and suggests the appropriate context for considering further development of child welfare services.

St 620 Emotions, Feelings, And Passion, Lawrence W. Wood

Syllabi

Frank Lake, Clinical Theology (out of print and available in photocopy form) Paul Tillich, Courage to Be

Practitioner Perspectives On End-Of-Life Planning, Katherine M. Krage

Theses and Graduate Projects

It is becoming more common for practitioners to discuss advance directives, thereby affirming each person's right to participate in directing end-of-life care. However, little attention has been paid to models of end-of-life planning. This study, a secondary analysis of research completed in 18 La Crosse area health care organizations, explores the extent to which practitioners engage patients and surrogates in exploring values and goals while educating patients about advance directives. It also explores the communication process, including retrievability of directives. Despite uniform training throughout the community, the extent to which practitioners discuss treatment options with patients, families, and surrogates varies …

Community Capacity Building: How Are Low-Income Families And Communities Of Color Engaged In The Process?, Juanita Judie Cutler

Theses and Graduate Projects

An issue for policy-makers and community organizations across Minnesota is the lack of knowledge about how to engage low-income families and people of color in community decision-making and community capacity building efforts. A culturally diverse research team interviewed forty-nine community leaders who had been identified as change agents, had struggled to become leaders, were perceived as mentors, and/or were viewed as cultural leaders. A major theme of what worked for communities to engage the disenfranchised centered on the development of safe forums for dialogue to create insightful trusting and meaningful relationships and to better understand race, class and culture. A …

Electronic Mail: What Leaders Need To Know, Marsha J. Thiel

Theses and Graduate Projects

Electronic mail (email) was introduced to the business environment in the early 1970's. It was estimated that 130 million workers sent approximately 2.8 billion messages every day in 2000. Today, leaders all across the nation are installing email systems in their organizations. Many leaders understand the benefits but they do not understand the risks of implementing an email system. Some of the issues and risks to an organization may be: lack of "rules" for proper use, personal use on company time, perceptions of privacy, lack of confidentiality, and legal liability to the organization. Leaders may reduce the risk to their …

Washington University Magazine, Winter 2002

Washington University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Client Satisfaction In A Battered Women's Shelter, Sandra Kathleen Womeldorf

Theses and Graduate Projects

The purpose of this study is to survey and evaluate client satisfaction within a shelter for battered women. This descriptive study was a fuuctional learning tool for the agency, the community as well as for the purpose of the research study, Through an anonymous questionnaire developed by the researcher, participants were asked to complete questions on the five selected areas of focus in an effort to obtain the most recent reflections of women residing in a community shelter for abuse and violence. They were: client satisfaction within access to community resources, staff allocation of time, staff respect and benefit to …

Retaining Volunteers, Nancy A. Hudson

Theses and Graduate Projects

This study investigates what initially motivates a volunteer and if this motivation remains constant over time or if it changes. Using a modified Volunteer Functions Inventory, volunteers in a human service organization were questioned to determine their initial motivation and why they either remain active volunteers or no longer volunteer.

Volunteers have always been a component of the American culture. From the Minutemen of the American Revolution to today's volunteer firemen, volunteers are vital to the success of many organizations and programs. Recruiting volunteers can be as easy as "asking them", but once volunteers are recruited and trained, how does …

Sm 603 Institutional Field Supervisors Handbook, Asbury Theological Seminary

Syllabi

Supervised Ministries is an important component of training at Asbury Theological Seminary. Each Master of Divinity student is required to take two courses in this supervised field-based learning experience. Each year approximately 200 men and women representing a wide range of denominational backgrounds are placed as volunteers in over 80 settings. Field settings presently being used include churches, correctional institutions, comprehensive care centers, nursing homes, children’s homes, inner-city social service agencies, acute/general admissions hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and evangelism outreach centers. Opportunities are available from Cincinnati to Lake Cumberland, from Louisville to Appalachia.

Gender In School-To-School Transitions: How Students Choose Career Programs In Technical Colleges In Kenya, Isaac Mattemu Kithyo, Stephen Petrina

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

No abstract provided.

Children's Associational Rights?: Why Less Is More, Emily Buss

Articles

No abstract provided.

Does Literature Work As Social Science? The Case Of George Orwell, Richard A. Epstein

Articles

No abstract provided.

Reconstructing Family: Constructive Trust At Relational Dissolution, Laura Weinrib

Articles

No abstract provided.

From Cynicism To Positive Theory In Public Choice, Saul Levmore

Articles

No abstract provided.

Simlaw 2011, Randal C. Picker

Articles

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The Signaling Model Of Social Norms: Further Thoughts, Eric A. Posner

Articles

No abstract provided.

Locating Discrimination: Interactive Web Sites As Public Accommodations Under Title Ii Of The Civil Rights Act The Scope Of Equal Protection, Tara Thompson

Articles

No abstract provided.

Smoothing The Boundary Between Foreign And Domestic Law: Comments On Professors Dodge, Golove, And Stephan, Richard A. Epstein

Articles

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Introduction To Symposium: Empirical And Experimental Methods In Law, Richard H. Mcadams, Thomas S. Ulen

Articles

No abstract provided.

Market Evidence In Corporate Law, Daniel R. Fischel

Articles

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Ways Of Criticizing Public Choice: The Uses Of Empiricism And Theory In Legal Scholarship, Tom Ginsburg

Articles

Public choice theory has been used to explain a wide range of observable facts. It has also been influential in legal scholarship. In Part I of this article, Tom Ginsburg reviews the main premises behind public choice theory and discusses how these premises have fared when tested empirically. In this section, for example, the author discusses how casual empirical observation of the "free rider" problem suggests that individuals do not always seek to maximize their own self-interest. The author further points out that additional studies, like Ostrom's empirical observations of a Turkish fishery, are necessary in order to explain why …

Institutional Denial About The Dark Side Of Law School, And Fresh Empirical Guidance For Constructively Breaking The Silence, Lawrence S. Krieger

Scholarly Publications

In the day-to-day business of legal education there is remarkably little evidence that we are aware of the unhealthy-unhappy-law-student(lawyer) problem.' The core of this article is a description of recent psychological research on the components of happiness and life satisfaction. This research provides an objective framework for understanding the pervasive problems in legal settings and thus can lead to constructive discussion and intervention. I first review empirical and anecdotal evidence of the dark side of law school, the process of denial among faculty, and failing paradigms at the heart of legal education. I then discuss the helpful recent research, and …

Audit Committee Effectiveness: A Synthesis Of The Empirical Audit Committee Literature, F. Todd Dezoort, Dana R. Hermanson, Deborah S. Archambeault, Scott A. Reed

Accounting Faculty Publications

The empirical audit committee literature is both diverse and expansive, with rapid growth in recent years based on increased concerns about corporate governance and the quality of financial reporting. Our objective in this paper is to synthesize empirical literature on audit committee effectiveness to guide future thinking and research on audit committees. To organize our review, we focus on four components that we believe contribute to audit committee effectiveness (ACE) - audit committee composition, authority, resources, and diligence.