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Implementation Failure Of Truancy Statutes In The Fourth Judicial Circuit Of Florida: A Case Study In Street-Level Bureaucracy, Carrie Lynn Tullos

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This research utilizes the case study method to examine the effectiveness of truancy statutes recently implemented in Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit prior to the 1999-2000 school year. The statutes were implemented state wide, but this study concentrates on the Fourth Judicial Circuit. The Fourth Judicial Circuit in Northeast Florida consists of Duval, Clay, and Nassau Counties. The legislation examined requires individual schools to conduct an initial truancy intervention when a student has accumulated 5 unexcused absences in a calendar month or 10 unexcused absences in any 90-day period.

An exploratory case study was conducted that consisted of interviews with school …

The Gatekeeping Role In Civil Litigation And The Abdication Of Legal Values In Favor Of Scientific Values, Neil B. Cohen

Faculty Scholarship

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Occupational Therapy Program For The Homeless Population In Grand Forks, Jaime Plamann, Jelissa Holt

Occupational Therapy Capstones

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Seeds And Their Sociocultural Nexus, Hugh Lacey

Philosophy Faculty Works

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Catalonia, Stephen P. Bensch

History Faculty Works

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Commencement Program 2003, Whitworth University

Commencement Programs

Undergraduate Commencement exercises of Whitworth College in May 2003.

Multiple Solutions For An Inhomogeneous Semilinear Elliptic Equation In Rn, Yinbin Deng, Yi Li, Xuejin Zhao

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

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Diamond B-Y Ranches V. Tooele County And John Does I-V : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Supreme Court

Utah Supreme Court Briefs (2000–2020)

BRIEF OF PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT DIAMOND B-Y RANCHES

Appeal from the final Order of the Third Judicial District Court of Utah County, State of Utah The Honorable Randall N. Skanchy, District Court Judge

Interpolation Techniques For Overset Grids, Paul S. Sherman, Nathan B. Edgar

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The use of finite difference schemes in computational aeroacoustics requires the use of structured grids incomputational space. Complex geometries in the physical space can be modeled using multiple overlapping grids that are transformed into computational space. In this work, finite difference schemes are used that necessitate the addition of psuedo- or ghost-points in the overlap region of the grids for closure of the difference stencil. The functional values at these ghost points must be approximated from the values at the original grid points. This paper investigates interpolation techniques for these overset grids. An n th order interpolation scheme using Lagrange …

Identifying Minimum G Aberration Designs For Hadamard Matrices Of Order 28, Steffany Belcher-Novosad, Debra Ingram

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Publication Policies And Suggestions For Authors, Academy Editors

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Stabilization Of Polyvinyl Chloride By Some Conducting Polymers, Amit Shah, Brian C. Berry, Ali U. Shaikh

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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87th Annual Meeting, 2003. Program, Academy Editors

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Winter And Spring Water Quality Of The Big Creek Watershed, Craighead County, Arkansas: Nutrients, Habitat, And Macroinvertebrates, Alan D. Christian, Jennifer L. Bouldin, Nate A. Bickford, Samuel B. Mccord, Aboubakar Sako, Jerry L. Farris, Lynn Kanieski, Ashley Mcbride

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The objective of this study was to assess the water quality of the Big Creek watershed during the winter and spring of 2002 by analyzing water physical, chemical variables, aquatic macro-invertebrates, and habitat. The Big Creek watershed, arising on Crowley's Ridge in northeast Arkansas, is a small deltaic watershed and is an area of intense cultivation. Four stations, Big Creek Upper (BCU), Mud Creek (MC),Lost Creek (LC), and Big Creek Lower (BCL) were established for this study from Big Creek, Mud Creek and Lost Creek. Water samples were collected on a weekly basis for 10 weeks from January 2002 through …

Journal Of The Arkansas Academy Of Science - Volume 57 2003, Academy Editors

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Antiforce Wave Profile For Quasi-Neutral Region, Mostafa Hemmati, Pashupati Adhikari, Jeremy Eckart, Marcus Ilbara

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

This article will present a fluid dynamical theory for breakdown waves in which the direction of electric field force on electrons is in the opposite direction of wave propagation. We will refer to such waves as antiforce waves. The set of equations describing the model will include the equation of particle mass balance, equation of conservation of momentum, and equation of conservation of energy, coupled with Poisson's equation. This model treats the potential wave front as an electron shock wave propagating forward mainly due to the electron impact ionization. The shock front is succeeded by a thin dynamical transition region …

Genetic Relationships Of Some Common Arkansas Freshwater Sunfishes (Centrarchidae: Lepomis) Inferred From Restriction Endonuclease Analysis Of Mitochondrial Dna, Ronald L. Johnson, K. Ashlei Williams

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Geographic isolation and habitat specialization has aided in the evolution and maintenance of genetic integrity of the lepomid sunfishes (Lepomis: Centrarchidae) of North America. Our goal was to measure genetic distances between four of the eleven extant sunfish species by using mitochondrial DNA analysis. Mitochondrial DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were examined in bluegill (L. macrochirus), redear sunfish (L. microlophus), longear sunfish (L. megalotis), and green sunfish (L. cyanellus) using 15 restriction endonucleases. The largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) was used as an outgroup. The phylogeny inferred from Dollo parsimony cladistic analysis largely concurred with published results from allozyme analyses …

Crystal Structure Of Boc-Trp(Cho)-Dphe-Ile-Dphe-Leu-Och3, C48h59n6o10, Vijayaraghavan Rangachari, J. Makker, P. Kumar, S. Dey, Tej P. Singh

Faculty Publications

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2003-2004 Course Catalog, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Course Catalogs, 1895-2024

An annual catalog of courses and course descriptions offered at the University of Montana.

Entrainment Of Electrical Activation By Spatio-Temporal Distributed Pacing During Ventricular Fibrillation, Yiping Gu

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Spatio-temporal variation in action intervals during ventricular fibrillation (VF) suggestthat the excitable gap may also be distributed spatio-temporally. The observation leadus to hypothesize that distributed pacing can be used to modify and entrain electricalactivation during VF. We tested this hypothesis using simulated VF and animal studies.

We simulated VF in a 400 by 400 cell matrix. Simulation results showed that activationpattern could be entrained using spatially distributed stimulation. Up to a certain limit,increasing stimulus strength and density led to improved entrainment. Best entrainmentwas obtained by pacing at a cycle length similar to the intrinsic cycle length.

In order to verify …

Educational Aspirations: The Role Of Social Support And Self-Assessment, Bryan D. Rookey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Bringing Cultural Practice Into Law: Ritual And Social Norms Jurisprudence, Andrew J. Cappel

Santa Clara Law Review

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Access To Quality Teaching: An Analysis Of Inequality In California's Public Schools, Linda Darling-Hammond

Santa Clara Law Review

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Goldwasser, The Telecom Act, And Reflections On Antitrust Remedies, Philip J. Weiser

Publications

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Implementing Courseware Management: Off-The-Shelf Purchase Or In-House Development?, Joseph Luca, Arshad Omari

Research outputs pre 2011

In the past decade there has been a proliferation of courseware management systems being developed and promoted as a means of simplifying the creation and management of instructional websites. Implementing these systems can be resource intensive and require large budgets to cover aspects such as infrastructure, integration into legacy databases, training, maintenance and on-going support. With these costs in mind, deciding to implement such a system should be carefully considered. Are there other options? With the proliferation of many freeware applications, and powerful online databases, the ability to develop customised in-house solutions is now becoming more attractive and viable. This …

Teaching Metacognitive Regulation Of Reading Comprehension In An On-Line Environment, Mark Mcmahon, Ron Oliver

Research outputs pre 2011

This paper examines how to teach Cognitive Self-Regulation. Approaches to enhancing Metacognition are discussed and a model for metacognitive regulation is presented. A strategy of reciprocal teaching is advocated for the development of metacognitive regulation of Reading Comprehension. An on-line annotation tool is proposed with a rationale for how learning supports, resources, and activities may be included.

Algorithmic Composition In Contrasting Music Styles, Tristan Mcauley, Philip Hingston

Research outputs pre 2011

The aim of this research was to automate the composition of convincingly “real” music in specific musical genres. By “real” music we mean music which is not obviously “machine generated”, is recognizable as being of the selected genre, is perceived as aesthetically pleasing, and is usable in a commercial context. To achieve this goal, various computational techniques were used, including genetic algorithms and finite state automata. The process involves an original, top down approach and a bottom up approach based on previous studies. Student musicians have objectively assessed the resulting compositions.

Honeyd - A Os Fingerprinting Artifice, Craig Valli

Research outputs pre 2011

The research looks at the efficiency of the honeyd honeypot system to reliably deceive intruders. Honeypots are being used as frontline network intelligence and forensic analysis tools. A honeypots ability to reliably deceive intruders is a key factor in gathering reliable and forensically sound data. Honeyd's primary deceptive mechanism is the use of the NMAP fingerprint database to provide bogus OS fingerprints to would be intruders. Tests conducted by the author on honeyd's ability to provide bogus fingerprints sees 78% of 704 signatures invalidated under heavy probing. However, the tests left 152 viable signatures for producing hardened honeypot designs.

Australian Hackers And Ethics, Matthew Warren, William Hutchinson

Research outputs pre 2011

The aim of the paper is to look at the way hackers act and ways in which society can protect itself. The paper will show the current views and attitudes of hackers in an Australian context. The paper will also include a case study to show how a hacking incident can develop and how technology can be used to protect against hacking.

Security Management Education Online, Peter J. Hosie, Clifton L. Smith, Joseph Luca

Research outputs pre 2011

This paper describes the philosophy and pedagogy informing the design and development of Security Science online units. The Physical Security unit is used to illustrate the development of the online learning strategies and interactive activities. Learning materials developed for this course have unique attributes as they were specifically designed to provide simulations and interactivity in the learning process. Field scenarios have been developed for the activities to make the learning experiences as realistic as possible. Simulations and graphics provide these experiences, together with security site images for actual security barriers, systems and technologies. Features of units in the course include …