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A Study Of The Factors Related To The Successful Merger Of Information Technology Departments Within Local Government, Angela Patton

Student Work

This study focuses on the merger process of Information Technology (IT) departments within local government. The research that exists indicates that local government mergers, in general, have a high rate of failure. In addition, the political, managerial, cultural, and behavioral aspects that impact these mergers are ignored. The importance of computers to the departments/agencies housed within local government has made the IT departments a critical part of the local government structure. This study looks at the problems faced by the merging IT departments within local government in order to gain a better understanding of this process and to increase the …

Editor’S Reflections: Peacemaking Among Helping Parties, Honggang Yang

Peace and Conflict Studies

Excerpt

I would like to take this opportunity to initiate a dialogue over some issues of conflict management among ourselves as third parties or helping professionals. The challenges of managing interpersonal conflicts or performing internal peacemaking are as real and relevant as the challenges of our professional undertaking in handling “outside” disputes. While recognizing there are no ready formulae to address these challenges, I invite you to join in the open-minded dialogues to examine expectations and premises often assumed among helping professionals in the fields.

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 79, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Hsc E-News., Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook University.

HSC E-News

No abstract provided.

The Graduate, V. 01, N. 01, Gso News, Stony Brook University.

The Graduate

v. : ill.; 32 cm (original analog pub.),News and Blues. | News and Views. | The GSO News and Blues. | The Graduate Times.

Blackworld, V. 43b, I. 02 (V. 43, I. 02), Stony Brook University

Blackworld

v. : ill. ; 38-43 cm (original analog pub.),Black world, v.43b;i.2

The Prospect Of Multi-Level Voting In Post-Peace Accord Northern Ireland, Roger Mac Ginty

Peace and Conflict Studies

This article reviews the possibility of multi-level voting in Northern Ireland in the wake of the 1998 peace accord. Post-peace accord elections can act as powerful indicators of the fate of a peace. Using Reif and Schmitt’s framework of second-order elections, it finds some evidence of varying electoral behaviour according to the electoral arena. The article also uses original data from a major opinion survey to assess public attitudes towards the suite of governing institutions with powers in or over a devolved Northern Ireland. The evidence of multi-level voting is limited and does not extend to electors abandoning ethnic voting …

Ua11/1 Echo, November, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

A born digital magazine once delivered over the internet was a continuation of the Echo publication.

Review Of Rowing Upstream: Snapshots Of Pioneers Of The Information Age In Africa By Lisbeth A. Levey & Stacey Young, Tim Strawn

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.

Practicing Cpa, Vol. 27 No. 9, November 2003, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Members In Government, November 2003, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Flight Physician - November, 2003, Civil Aviation Medical Association

Browse all Civil Aviation Medical Association Newsletters

A twenty-four page newsletter of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. The newsletter provided news about civil aviation medicine and information related to the organization.

The Effects Of Teaching Self-Determination To Students With Emotional Disabilities, Beth E. Ackerman

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This presentation explores how self-determination can and should be taught to students with disabilities. Results on pre and post assessments using the Knowledge of Self-Determination Scale for students with emotional disabilities are also discussed.

Straddling The Electronic And Paper Realms—E-Filing: Part Ii, K.K. Duvivier

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

In August 2003, Colorado took another huge stride toward the electornic age by announcing that it would become the first state to allow free online filing of civil cases for qualifying low-income people. The last "Scrivener" column addressed how the courts' shift to electronic formats may alter the way lawyers and judges read and write legal documents. This column addresses some of the practical aspects of preparing documents that some readers will view on paper and others will view only in electronic format.

Volume 10, Number 2 (Fall 2003), Peace And Conflict Studies

Peace and Conflict Studies

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Artistic Processes In Peace-Building In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Craig Zelizer

Peace and Conflict Studies

Throughout the world, community arts-based processes have become an essential component of peacebuilding work in societies experiencing severe conflicts. Both during a conflict and in post-conflict peacebuilding efforts, community based arts processes can be an especially effective tool to bring together identity groups through sharing common cultural experiences, raising awareness about past suffering, and engaging communities in creative projects. In this research project, the author spent fourteen months in Bosnia-Herzegovina researching the use of community arts-based peacebuilding efforts both during the war and in the post-conflict stage. This paper provides an overview of the research and offers several conclusions on …

Back Matter, Peace And Conflict Studies

Peace and Conflict Studies

No abstract provided.

Fall 2003, Graduate School Of Humanities & Social Sciences

CAHSS Graduate SGA Dialogues

No abstract provided.

Resources, Coalition For Education In The Outdoors

Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education

This section contains a listing of teaching resources of all types for those who work in the outdoor education field at the time of publication. Some items highlighted include: "The Chiji Pocket Processor" and "Storytelling Treasury: Live from the 20th National Storytelling Festival".

For And Against Marriage: A Revision., Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds, Volume 2, Issue 2, Wku Provost

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the WKU Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs to highlight the activities of faculty, staff and alumni.

When Does Human Life Begin?: The Final Answer, C. Ward Kischer

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Remember The Past… Live The Future! Alumni Recognition Luncheon, Texas A&M University-Commerce

Browse All Subject Files

A color program for an Alumni Recognition Luncheon held during Homecoming week at Texas A&M University-Commerce. It includes biographical information for award winners Gary Don Finney, Alton L. Biggs, and James Ragland.

Effects Of Environmental Measures On Intelligence In Young Children: Growth Curve Modeling Of Longitudinal Data, K. A. Espy, Victoria J. Molfese, L. Dilalla

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory: Faculty Publications

Examined the effects of different environmental measures on individual intellectual growth patterns in 105 young children participating in a longitudinal study. Intelligence (Stanford-Binet, 4th edition) was measured at ages 3 through 6 yrs, and child's environment was assessed at age 3 years using SES data and scores on the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory. Growth curve analyses revealed that HOME scores exerted a constant influence on the expected composite, verbal, and nonverbal intellectual skills at each age. Only SES influenced the rate of growth, specifically nonverbal intellectual skills. The magnitudes of these effects were moderate, but …

Understanding And Confronting Species Uncertainty In Biology And Conservation, Jody Hey, Robin Waples, Michael L. Arnold, Roger K. Butlin, Richard G. Harrison

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Recent essays on the species problem have emphasized the commonality that many species concepts have with basic evolutionary theory. Although true, such consensus fails to address the nature of the ambiguity that is associated with species-related research. We argue that biologists who endure the species problem can benefit from a synthesis in which individual taxonomic species are used as hypotheses of evolutionary entities. We discuss two sources of species uncertainty: one that is a semantic confusion, and a second that is caused by the inherent uncertainty of evolutionary entities. The former can be dispelled with careful communication, whereas the latter …

Semantic E-Workflow Composition, Jorge Cardoso, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Systems and infrastructures are currently being developed to support Web services. The main idea is to encapsulate an organization's functionality within an appropriate interface and advertise it as Web services. While in some cases Web services may be utilized in an isolated form, it is normal to expect Web services to be integrated as part of workflow processes. The composition of workflow processes that model e-service applications differs from the design of traditional workflows, in terms of the number of tasks (Web services) available to the composition process, in their heterogeneity, and in their autonomy. Therefore, two problems need to …

Screw Dislocation Interacting With Twin Interfacial Edge Cracks Between Two Bonded Dissimilar Piezoelectric Strips, Xiangfa Wu, Yuris A. Dzenis, Tian-You Fan

Department of Engineering Mechanics: Faculty Publications

This paper is concerned with the electroelastic potentials and the fracture parameters of a twin-edge-cracked piezoelectric bimaterial strip with a screw dislocation. By means of conformal mapping technique and the known dislocation solution, the antiplane displacement and inplane electric potentials are obtained in closed-form. The intensity factors and the energy release rate are extracted explicitly. In some limiting cases, the present solutions cover those in the literature.

Its News November 2003, Information & Technology Services

RIT Digital Archives

Email Replacement Project||Exchange Information on ITS Web Site||Staff Council Recognition Award||Email Spam||Macintosh Users: Entourage Available for Exchange Support||RIT's Online Learning Department||Desktop Visits by the Exchange Migration Team||Outlook Web Access Available||Tom's Tidbits||Recovering Deleted Mail with Exchange

Societal Stability And Political Reform : Chinese Politics In The 1990s, Yiu Chung Wong

CAPS Working Paper Series

On 28 September 1995, Jiang Zemin delivered one of the most important speeches in his tenure as the General Secretary of the CCP in the Fifth Plenum of 14th CCP Congress, which is entitled “To Handle Correctly Certain Relationships in the Process of Socialist Modernization Construction”. On the top of the agenda was the relationships between reform, development and stability. To him, reform, in particular economic reform, must be pursued; development is the enhancing of national strength and stability is the pre-condition of development. Indeed, it is the equilibrium of these three sets of relationships that the CCP leadership strove …

The Epidemiology Of U.S. Immunization Law: A National Study For The National Immunizations Program, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention: Medicaid Coverage Of Immunizations For Non-Institutionalized Adults, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Alexandra M. Stewart, Marisa A. Cox, Alexis Lee

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

As a health policy matter, coverage of immunizations and their administration for all ages at levels recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has grown in importance for several reasons: 1) the growing attention to both manmade and naturally occurring public health threats; 2) recognition of the value of immunization to society; and 3) the relatively high cost of at least certain immunization services in relation to personal income. No population stands to benefit more from immunization coverage than low income persons.

Studies suggest that adult immunization status is particularly low, and that financial barriers play a role, …