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Civic Environmentalism: A Model For Everglades Restoration And A Sustainable South Florida, Teresa U. Jabour

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The Everglades restoration is now the centerpiece for environmental policymaking in South Florida. The 1991 settlement of the Everglades lawsuit marked a new era of environmental politics known as civic environmentalism. Concepts of civic environmentalism are used in this study to determine if policies developed since the 1991 lawsuit settlement support a successful Everglades restoration and a sustainable South Florida, a vital connection that ensures the socio-economic health of the built environment as well as the environmental health of South Florida's unique ecosystems. Indicators reveal that legislation supports a democratic process, but a nonformal model of civic environmentalism demonstrates that …

Comparison Of Demographics, Motivation, And Learning Strategies Of College Students Taking Traditional Campus-Based Courses And Internet-Based Distance Learning Courses, Deborah L. Maupin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of this study was to examine some the differences between students in traditional face-to-face courses and those in distance learning courses. Differences in teaming strategies, motivation, and demographics were examined. The study used an online version of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) to assess the motivation and learning strategies used by college students. The instrument was administered to 111 students at a 4-year, public university in the southeast region of the United States during the Spring of 2003. The subjects included 64 students enrolled in the traditional campus-based version of Applied Educational Technology and 47 students …

Effect Of Music As A Nursing Intervention To Reduce Anxiety In Coronary Bypass And Valve Replacement Surgery Patients, Elizabeth J. Twiss

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The study investigated the effects of music to reduce anxiety and decrease intubation times in coronary artery bypass graft and valve replacement surgical patients in an acute care hospital. Anxiety can contribute to everything from heightened emotional stress, increased pain, blood pressure changes as well as lethal cardiac dysrhythmia and reduction in peripheral and renal perfusion. Research has shown, music as a therapeutic modality, relieves anxiety and pain in patients before and after surgery. What patients hear during surgery can be a rich source of anxiety. Wearing earphones during surgery will eliminate this source of anxiety. Music is reported to …

Effects Of Disability Labels On Special Education And General Education Teachers' Referrals For Gifted Programs, Margarita Bianco-Cornish

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study investigated the effect of the disability labels learning disabilities (LD) and emotional handicaps (EH) on general education and special education teachers' willingness to refer students to gifted programs. Referral differences between general education and special education teachers were also examined. Two hundred forty-seven teachers (195 general education teachers and 52 special education teachers) from one south Florida school district participated in this study. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (no label, LD, EH) and asked to read a vignette describing a gifted student. All vignettes were identical except for one statement added to the LD …

Effect Of Steel Reinforcement Type And Surface Condition On Corrosion Initiation In Mortar, Yirong. Huang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study employed half-cell potential (Eoc), polarization resistance (PR) and galvanic current tests to explore effects of surface condition and steel reinforcement type on corrosion initiation in mortar. A low impurity steel plate and #10 grade 60 rebar were used. Four surface conditions (as-received, atmospherically rusted, #240 SiC paper polished, and #500 SiC paper polished) were employed. Cyclic wet and dry exposure of specimens in 15% NaCl solution was conducted. Half-cell potential measurements showed that the corrosion probability of specimens with as-received and pre-rusted surfaces was lower than that of specimens with a polished surface. However, the PR and galvanic …

Filling In The Blank Spots On Powell's And Stegner's Maps: The Role Of Modern Indian Tribes In Western Watersheds, Charles Wilkinson

Publications

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The Tower Clock 2003, Tower Clock

Tower Clock Yearbooks

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The Culture That Time Forgot: Nineteenth-Century Mezzogiorno Society And The Stories Of Giovanni Verga, George Guida

Publications and Research

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High Frequency Pure Tone Audiometry And High Frequency Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions: A Correlational Analysis, Kimberly J. Lavoie

Dissertations and Theses

Previous studies show that pure tone thresholds are strongly correlated with distortion product otoacoustic emission amplitudes when evaluating the frequency range from 1 to 8 kHz (Avan & Bonfils, 1993). Little is known about correlations between these two measures at higher frequencies from 9-16 kHz. This study compared pure tone thresholds and distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) in this high frequency range for 29 normal hearing subjects ages 18-30. Pure tone thresholds were obtained at 250-16 kHz and distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) 2,211-17,675 were measured in the same ears. DPOAE amplitudes were measured using a constant F1/F2 ratio of …

A Moving Violation? Hypercriminalized Spaces And Fortuitous Presence In Drug Free School Zones, L. Buckner Inniss

Publications

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First Impression, Lasting One, Marissa Moran

Publications and Research

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A Shot In The Dark Near Tragedy Follows Snollygoster Parade, Meredith Jones-Gray

Faculty Publications

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Small Town Trash: A Model Comprehensive Solid Waste Ordinance For Rural Areas Of The United States, Kim Diana Connolly

Journal Articles

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Elucidating The Elephant: Interdisciplinary Law School Classes, Kim Diana Connolly

Journal Articles

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Cultural Change And "Catholic Lawyers", Stephen F. Smith

Journal Articles

If there is anything that America definitely does not need, it would seem, it is more lawyers. Over the last thirty years or so, the number of lawyers practicing in the United States has almost tripled to current levels of roughly 900,000 practicing attorneys. To this number, our nation's law schools add another 35,000 attorneys annually. In spite of this, the purpose of this special inaugural law review issue is to commemorate the founding of a new school, the Ave Maria School of Law. It is an honor for me to be able to share in the joy and pride …

Coercion, Contract And Free Labor In The Nineteenth Century (A Response To Gunther Peck), Robert J. Steinfeld

Journal Articles

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Printed Circuit Board Emi Source Mechanisms, Todd H. Hubing

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This tutorial paper reviews the basic mechanisms by which signal voltages and currents on a printed circuit board produce unintentional radiated emissions.

The Prostitution Of Lying In Wait, H. Mitchell Caldwell

University of Miami Law Review

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Could Shakespeare Think Like A Lawyer? How Inheritance Law Issues In Hamlet May Shed Light On The Authorship Question, Thomas Regnier

University of Miami Law Review

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Sex, Lies, And Polygraph Machines: The Portrait Of Mr. Cassamassima, James M. Shaw

University of Miami Law Review

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Legal Separation: The Relationship Between Law School And The Central University In The Late Nineteenth Century, Mark Bartholomew

Journal Articles

Using Yale Law School as an example, this Article describes the interaction between university-affiliated law schools and the larger university during a crucial period in the development of legal education: the last third of the nineteenth century. At the same time, the Article contrasts Yale with other law schools of the day to show what made Yale unique and how Yale’s nineteenth-century idiosyncrasies would come to shape legal education at other schools in the twentieth century. Part I examines the university administration’s attitude toward the law school and how it typified law school-university relations in the late nineteenth century. Part …

The Fundamentals Of Forest Certification, Errol E. Meidinger, Christopher Elliott, Gerhard Oesten

Contributions to Books

Published in Social and Political Dimensions of Forest Certification, Errol Meidinger, Christopher Elliott & Gerhard Oesten, eds.

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between High-Frequency Hearing Loss And Exposure To Loud Sounds Among Female College Students, Tania Langhan Lafournaise

Theses and Dissertations

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A Crisis Of Caring: A Catholic Critique Of American Welfare Reform, Vincent D. Rougeau

Journal Articles

The current deterioration of the American economy is bringing new attention to the problem of poverty in the United States. After falling over the last few years, the number of Americans living in poverty has begun to rise once again. Notwithstanding the achievements of recent "welfare reforms," the American poor continue to be numerous by any measure.

Unfortunately, decades of affluence have exacerbated American tendencies to view liberal concepts such as freedom, autonomy, tolerance, and choice in ways that accentuate personal autonomy over community integration. These liberal values have been increasingly unhinged from strong countervailing principles like duty and responsibility, …

Pope John Paul Ii And The Dignity Of The Human Being, John J. Coughlin

Journal Articles

Since his election in 1978 as the Successor to the Apostle Peter, His Holiness Pope John Paul II has remained one of the principal protagonists on the global stage for the dignity and value of every human being. Although the popular press and media sometimes have been slow to recognize this message, an online search of the Holy Father's copious encyclicals, addresses, and homilies reveals that he has advocated human dignity literally hundreds of times during the course of his twenty-five year pontificate. In fact, long before his election as Pope, Karol Wojtyla was developing his understanding of the dignity …

The Influences Of Morningness-Eveningness And Time Of Day On Executive Functions, Carol L. Bennett

Theses and Dissertations

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Presentation At The American Library Association Annual Conference, Jackie Shane

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

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Cognitive Biases In Anxious And Angry Individuals, Chad M. Lystad

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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The International Telecommunications Sector : A Financial Investigation Of Post Privatisation Performance, Nasser Mubarak Shafi Al-Shafi

Plymouth Business School Theses

The focus of this thesis is an investigation of the post-privatisation performance of the international telecoms sector. Firstly, the general hypothesis (1) of this thesis has been pursued, which states that the privatised telecoms companies perform differently from their non-privatised (private) counterparts. Several tests were applied; namely, ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis. The principal finding was that there was no significant difference in performance. Secondly, the next hypothesis (2) states that the financial performance of each company is positively related to that of the other two selected companies. For this purpose, multiple regression tests were performed to investigate any inter-relationships …

An Empirical Study Of Malaysian Firms' Capital Structure, Sharifah Raihan Syed Mohd Zain

Plymouth Business School Theses

It is sometimes purported that one of the factors affecting a firm's value is its capital structure. The event of the 1997 Asian financial crisis was expected to affect the firms' gearing level as the firms' earnings deteriorated and the capital market collapsed. The main objective of this research is to examine empirically the determinants of the capital structure of Malaysian firms. The main additional aim is to study the capital structure pattern following the 1997 financial crisis. Empirical tests were conducted on two different data sets: the first data set is the published data extracted from Datastream and consists …