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A Phenomenological Study: Mid-Career Changer Transitions Through Levels Of Expertise, Merrie Lynne Schroeder

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand how two midlife adult men experienced different levels of expertise as they transitioned between non-teaching and teaching professions. Of further interest were the unique qualities that these mid career changers brought to secondary education and their recommendations for improving preparation, induction, and retention of midlife career changers in teaching; The study examined the transition experiences through three dimensions: (1) the levels of creativity in the context of environments; (2) the physical, social, and emotional development of the individuals; and (3) the theoretical framework of expertise. Semistructured interviews were conducted, and analyses …

Rage In The City Of Angels: The Historical Development Of The Skinhead Subculture In Los Angeles, Pete George Simi

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study examines the historical development of the racist skinhead subculture in Los Angeles. The skinhead subculture is a highly diverse network of gangs that has experienced significant changes over the last twenty-five years. I use an in-depth case study approach that relies upon extensive observation of and interviews with current and former skinheads to explain how and why L.A. skinhead gangs have changed over time. I argue that the Los Angeles skinhead subculture has moved through three phases of organizational emphasis which I characterize respectively as social, political, and economic oriented gangs. My aim is to analyze how skinheads …

Perceptions Of Quality: The Gap Model Meets Gatekeeping, Karen Renee Roybal

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The main purpose of this study was to test an adaptation of the Service Quality Gap Model developed by Parasuraman, Zeithaml, and Berry in an atypical service industry---the media---in order to determine whether gaps exist between consumer perceptions of news quality and news directors' perceptions of news quality. Interviews were conducted with Las Vegas local television news directors. In addition, surveys were distributed to local news consumers. A case study approach of local Las Vegas Valley television stations was used to test whether gatekeeping plays a part in the news selection/decision process of what constitutes as "quality news.";The study consists …

Negotiation And Autonomy In A Fast Food Restaurant, Eric Orion Silva

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study is an attempt to apply the negotiated order perspective to the analysis of the lived experience of workers in two franchised fast food restaurants. Drawing primarily on the work of Anselm Strauss (1978) and D. H. J. Morgan (1975), I have examined data taken from auto-ethnographic and overt observation. I found that workers in different negotiation contexts would use implicit and explicit negotiation to achieve internal and external goals. Worker's negotiation strategies depended on the actor's individual proclivities and their interpretation of the negotiation context. Issues subject to negotiation included wages, the schedule, the amount of effort expended, …

Power And Political Process: The Case Of The Ivanpah Airport, Amy Gayle Walker

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines power and political processes involved in the decision to construct a second commercial airport for Las Vegas, NV and the southern Nevada region. Using interview data and document analysis I argue that the organizational capacity of the state and its relative autonomy enabled state actors to dominate the airport's development process by defining the need and setting the agenda for the project. Additionally, state officials acquired the land for the project by circumventing established mechanisms for public participation and involvement. The findings support a state-centered approach to understanding who wields power and how in political processes. Ultimately, …

The Sex Pistols: Punk Rock As Protest Rhetoric, Cari Elaine Byers

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines the punk music of the Sex Pistols as protest rhetoric. Seven of the songs on the album Never Mind the Bollocks Heres the Sex Pistols are analyzed for their content. The analysis utilizes the theory of symbolic convergence and its coinciding fantasy theme analysis along with ego-function of protest rhetoric. Through the analysis it is found that punk rock is in fact protest rhetoric as defined and explained by the theory of ego-function. The guides of this theory explain the emergence of punk music and the resulting culture. Symbolic convergence theory and fantasy theme analysis examines the …

Domestic Violence Counseling Techniques: Indicators Of A Change In The Philosophy Of The Movement Against Domestic Violence, Loretta A Klem

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The movement against domestic violence began as a grassroots effort to eliminate and to prevent the abuse of women. In the beginning, workers in the movement placed great emphasis on societal causes and solutions to the problem and great strides have been taken toward this end. However, over the last twenty years, the movement has placed greater and greater emphasis on individual counseling techniques based on a humanistic approach of individual accountability and responsibility, resulting in the placement of blame for the abuse on the victim; In group counseling sessions there is very little discussion of societal conditions, and no …

Delirium In The Hospitalized Elderly: Clinical Indicators Found In Medical Records, Diane M Elmore

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Delirium, which can be reversible and preventable, is one of the most significant complications affecting the hospitalized elderly today. The purpose of this descriptive retrospective chart review was to determine if medical records contain sufficient evidence to identify elderly patients who were at risk for developing delirium within 72 hours of hospital admission, and if accepted, evidence-based criteria were used to document the acute confusion. The chart's of 100 patients, at least 65 years of age, admitted to a rural hospital were reviewed retrospectively. The review indicated that there was sufficient evidence, based solely on the descriptors and clinical information, …

Female Victims Of Domestic Violence And Their Negotiation For Safety, Lisa Rose Kopinski

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

With the majority of studies focusing on the reasons why victims discontinue legal action against their abusers, I believe these women are once again being blamed for the continued abuse. It is my thesis that victims of domestic violence enter formal action against their abusers with specific goals in mind particular to each woman's life situation. These goals may be very different than the legal outcomes prominent amongst our nation's courtrooms. I will attempt to illustrate those goals victims routinely seek as well as the obstacles they encounter when attempting to free themselves from violence. This research will become a …

Ronald Reagan's 1983 "Evil Empire" Speech: A Rhetorical Analysis, Kirsten Ann Westenskow Clark

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan addressed the National Association of Evangelicals, delivering what is now referred to as his "Evil Empire" speech. Hoping to reestablish his commitment to conservative values and encourage the audience to oppose a nuclear freeze, Reagan condemned the Soviet Union as the "focus of evil" in the modern world and urged the audience to resist the aggressive impulses of an evil empire. Although it initially received widespread criticism, Reagan's speech has since been credited as a salient factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union and has been heralded as one of the most important addresses …

Farfalla: A Poetry Thesis, Vanessa Leigh Huff

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Farfalla is a book of poetry of the lineage of poets who believe that poetry is not in poems. It is itself alive, and ruptures from poems. All poetry is political, as it is inevitably a product of the time and place in which it was written. It is affected by politics and effects its change, as Shelley has written: "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.";Thus striving toward "legislator" this work in progress is seeking to be in continuous motion out of the confinements of poems to a place where purposes are real and methods are issues of …

Compliance With Title Ix Of The Education Amendments : How Do North Dakota Public Schools Measure Up?, Carol Ann Reed

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Dynamic Simulation Model Of Beach Sand Replenishment: A Case Study Of Santa Barbara, California, David Turbow, Steve Norwick, Sajjad Ahmad

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Faculty Research

Sediment deprivation from dam installments contributes to beach erosion yet the underlying physical and economic factors linking them together have traditionally been isolated during regional planning. In order to gain a better understanding of the behavior of a managed beach system, a dynamic simulation model was developed incorporating physical and monetary factors influencing the amount of available beach sand. The Santa Barbara littoral cell was chosen as a case study to evaluate the feasibility of beach preservation goals under scenarios in which annual sand replenishment funding, sand prices, or sediment recovery from behind dams were limiting factors to available beach …

Using Religious Discourse To Construct Reality: President George W Bush And Osama Bin Laden, Lisa Menegatos

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines and compares the religious discourse used by President George W. Bush in his September 20, 2001, address to a join session of Congress and by Osama bin Laden in his taped statement that aired on Al Jazeera television on October 7, 2001. As leaders of societies who both believe they are God's chosen people with a mission, both men relied on the religions of their respective nations to create a reality whereby one was good and the other evil. To illustrate how Bush and bin Laden achieve this, I apply the social construction of reality theory as …

Correlates Of Deviant Behaviour : An Etiological Study, Siok Gim Chan

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study aims to ascertain whether social and personal resources are related to deviant behaviour of adolescents. The social resources investigated are those available to them in their home, peer-group and school, and are measured in terms of parental support, peer-group support and school experiences. The personal resources studied are concepts of self, coping behaviour and moral development. Comparing delinquent subjects to controls will ascertain the resources that helped adolescents abstain from deviant behaviour. Survey method is used for data collection. The questionnaire is administrated to 63 male delinquent subjects in an approved school. The questionnaire is posted to 16 …

At-Risk Students' Perceptions Of Their School Experiences, Glen A. Johnson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Conflict And Communicatively Rational Public Discourse: Exploring An Approach To Social Assessment To Facilitate Collaboration, Robert S. Potts

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Contracting With Limited Commitment: Evidence From Employment-Based Health Insurance Contracts, Keith J. Crocker, John R. Moran

Center for Policy Research

When an individual's health status is observable, but evolving over time, the key to maintaining a successful health insurance arrangement is to have the healthier members of the group cross-subsidize those who experience adverse health outcomes. We argue that impediments to worker mobility may serve to mitigate the attrition of healthy individuals from employer-sponsored insurance pools, thereby creating a de facto commitment mechanism that allows for more complete insurance of health risks than would be possible in the absence of such frictions. Using data on health insurance contracts obtained from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, we find that the …

When Do Rewards Have Enhancement Effects? An Availability Valence Approach, Brian C. Tietje

Marketing

It is commonly argued that although rewards induce behaviors, they undermine attitudes and motivation for subsequent action. This perspective has been applied in a consumer setting to suggest that sales promotions such as coupons will undermine consumer brand evaluations and brand loyalty. Instead of focusing on the undermining effects of promotional rewards, this research applies the availability valence hypothesis (Tybout, Sternthal, & Calder, 1983) to predict and explain when rewards will enhance recipient response. Two experiments demonstrate that an immediate reward from a product-related source enhances product evaluations by making favorable information more accessible than unfavorable information. Promotions enhance the …

"We See Through A Glass Darkly" : Augustine's Historical Thought And The Vision Of God, Barnaby Hughes

History

No abstract provided.

Yale Rosenberg: The Scholar And The Teacher Of Jewish Law, Sherman L. Cohn

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In the early 1980s, when he was a young professor at the University of Houston Law Center, the author had the occasion to meet Yale Rosenberg. It was clear from their discussion that Professor Rosenberg had a strong interest in Jewish law as well as a strong knowledge base. They discussed teaching such a course at the University of Houston Law Center. Professor Rosenberg was doubtful about teaching a course in Jewish law at a secular law school, particularly one in Texas. But that conversation began a series of conversations where Yale explored in some depth the course that we …

Practicing "In The Interests Of Justice" In The Twenty-First Century: Pursuing Peace As Justice, Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In these comments I suggest that in our current world, both international and domestic, practicing "in the interests of justice" includes-indeed, should give great priority to-the "peace-seeking" and "problem solving" aspects of lawyering. I continue to see this as counter-cultural to the more common practices of lawyers who are argumentative, persuasive and articulate debaters, who believe fervently and vigorously that seeking justice, on behalf of a client or cause, means advocating for and "winning" a legal claim. To the contrary, seeking peace for parties (and, indeed, nation-states) in conflict, searching for consensus solutions to seemingly intractable public policy and legal …

The Ninth Tshl Legislative Report Resolutions And Priorities, Texas Silver Haired Legislature Foundation

Texas Silver-Haired Legislature

Resolutions and priorities from the ninth Texas Silver-Haired Legislature legislative report, 2002.

High -Risk Sexual Behavior And Condom Use Among Textile Workers In Tamil Nadu, India, Sushena Reza-Paul

All ETDs from UAB

Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a rapidly growing problem in India, with a 2002 estimate of over four million infected persons. The magnitude of the epidemic varies widely among the different Indian states but is predominantly from heterosexual transmission nationwide. In Tamil Nadu, the infection rates among the general population are now above 1%. Most prevention and control activities are restricted to mass information, education, and communication and targeted programs for the highest risk groups. With an increasingly generalized HIV epidemic, the need to respond to the HIV risk faced by lower risk populations assumes more importance. …

Immigration Offenses Involving Unlawful Entry: Is Federal Practice Comparable Across Districts?, Linda Drazga Maxfield, Keri B. Burchfield

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

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I'Ve Been In The Storm Too Long: Religiosity And Distress In High-Poverty Neighborhoods., Godfrey Fuji Noe

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Physicians' Perceptions Of Medical Errors., Nir Menachemi

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

A Social Space Approach To The Health Lifestyles Of Persons After Spinal Cord Injury., Louise R. Thibodaux

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness Of Communication By Women Inmates In Florida With The Outside World, George A. Manning

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of women inmates in maintaining communication with the outside world. Specifically, the investigator sought to determine how certain independent variables affect particular dependent variables. The independent variables used in the study were, (1) race/ethnicity, (2) remaining time to serve in prison, (3) age, (4) number of children, if any, the inmate has, and (5) education. The dependent variables used in the study were, (1) number of people on the outside world, (2) volume of correspondence, (3) number of visitations, and (4) volume of telephone calls.

A statistical design was employed …

Identity As A Weapon In The Moral Politics Of Work And Poverty, Frank W. Munger

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.