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Transnational Activist Networks And The Emergence Of Labor Internationalism In The Nafta Countries, Joel Stillerman

Peer Reviewed Articles

Recent accounts of transnational activism have examined a variety of social movement organizations (SMOs) but have paid little attention to labor transnationalism. This article utilizes and adapts this new transnational social movements scholarship to understand contemporary labor activism in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries. Exploring the preexisting networks and intramovement cleavages that helped spawn labor opposition to NAFTA, it focuses on labor activists' complaints under the treaty's labor side accord. I explore how rising political opportunities associated with the treaty and its new institutions created new political arenas, targets for activists, and incentives for cross-border collaboration. The …

Telemedicine Reimbursement: Raising The Iron Triangle To A New Plateau, Kirsten Rabe Smolensky

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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C&I 435.01: Organizing The Classroom Literacy Program, Marian J. Mckenna

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Badm 340.03: Management And Organizational Behavior, Fengru Li

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Badm 340.04: Management And Organizational Behavior, Fengru Li

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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The Relationship Between Afloat Training Group Norfolk Levels Of Effectiveness To Formal Assessment/Inspections As A Predictor Of Atlantic Fleet Shipboard Engineering Readiness, Juan D. Marpuri Jr.

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

This research will determine if the changes made as a result of IDTC initiatives have contributed to the levels of training effectiveness and ultimately the afloat commands ability to demonstrate engineering readiness.

Democratizing Science, Management, And Public Policy In The Missouri River Ecosystem: A Pilot Study Of Agricultural Producers' Amenability To Adaptive And Collaborative Management, Meghan Sittler

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Agricultural stakeholder involvement is central to the National Academy of Sciences' (NAS) National Research Council (NRC)(2002) recommendation for development and implementation of adaptive, ecosystem management principles, as well as the definition of a new management regime for the Missouri River. This document represents a pilot study of fifteen agricultural producers in three counties, Atchison County, Missouri, Fremont County, Iowa, and Otoe County, Nebraska, who were contacted via telephone and completed structured interviews. The interview questions centered upon the producers' relationship to the river, perceptions of the current management of the river, and willingness to support and participate in a proposed …

Hhp 520.01: Educational Research, Richard L. Kiefer-O'Donnell

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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C&I 520.01: Educational Research, Richard L. Kiefer-O'Donnell

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Service Learning On Perceptions Of Self-Efficacy, Monalisa Mccurry Mullins

Thesis, Dissertations, Student Creative Activity, and Scholarship

In recent years, the role of higher education in promoting volunteerism and social responsibility through service learning has become an issue that may radically impact both faculty and student development programs on American college campuses. Despite the significant amount of data regarding the impact of student participation in service learning on students' attitudes toward volunteerism and social responsibility, there is still a tremendous gap in our understanding of how such participation impacts subsequent student perceptions of personal self-efficacy. The purpose of this qualitative case study is to further articulate and clarify the relationship between student involvement in service learning courses …

Trends In Seclusion And Restraint Use : A Naturalistic Study Of Psychiatrically Hospitalized Youths, Abigail Louise Donovan

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

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The Federal No Child Left Behind Act And The Post-Desegregation Civil Rights Agenda, James S. Liebman, Charles F. Sabel

Faculty Scholarship

Despite many deficiencies, the No Child Left Behind Act ("NCLB" or "Act") extends to the federal level and diffuses to the states an innovative system of publicly monitored decentralization of school governance known as the "New Accountability." This Article argues that, given background changes in the understanding of effective classroom teaching, accountability systems of the type imposed by the NCLB can enable willing school districts to build the capacity for school-level reform upon which the ultimate improvement of public schooling depends. It claims further that activists can accelerate the reforms and ensure respect for the requirements of racial and economic …

Reconstructing Professional Roles In Restorative Justice Programs, Susan M. Olsen, Albert W. Dzur

Utah Law Review

We begin with a brief introduction to restorative justice norms and practices, followed by an analytical discussion of the roles court and corrections professionals play in the conventional criminal justice system. Next we turn to a more detailed presentation of the restorative justice critique of the criminal justice system and its implications for professional roles. We then introduce two functioning restorative justice programs, "Passages" in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Reparative Probation in Vermont. Moving back and forth between restorative justice theory and our case analysis, we identify patterns in the emerging roles of what we call by the somewhat …

Marriage In Transition: Evidence On Age, Education, And Assets From Six Developing Countries [Arabic], Agnes R. Quisumbing, Kelly Hallman

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Marriage is an event of great social and economic significance in most societies. Despite the centrality of marriage in an individual’s life history, the literature on marriage patterns pays little attention to men. This paper examines trends in schooling, age, and assets at marriage for both men and women, and spousal differences in these variables in six countries-Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico, the Philippines, and South Africa-using comparable data sets and methodologies.

Initiatives To Engage Private-Practice Physicians In The Mission Of Academic Medical Centers, Douglas C. Appleby

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Today's healthcare market presents many challenges to academic healthcare centers and community-based physicians given the constrained resources and competition for healthcare dollars. Never before has the business sector infiltrated the healthcare market to this extent. Monies previously directed toward graduate medical education from government resources and cost-shifting practices have been abolished, and these changes have jeopardized the founding missions governing academic medical centers. However, community-based private practitioners-both educated and clinically trained at these centers of higher learning, provide an enormous pool of expertise to help rectify many current problems. Collaboration between these private practitioners and the medical centers could create …

Reflections [Complete Issue : Fourth Quarter 2003], Sigma Theta Tau International, Mary Margaret Mooney, Kammie Monarch, Patricia R. Messmer, Jacqueline L. Gonzalez, Sharon M. Weinstein, Ann Marie T. Brooks, Grayce M. Sills, Rita Turley, Lynn Basford, Scott Rhoades, Norman C. Olsen, Gail Wolf, Theresa S. Standing, Frances M. Kramer, Elizabeth Percival, Teresa Ransdell

Sigma Past Publishing - Reflections Magazine

Publishing History: Print issues of Reflections magazine were published from 1975 to 1999 and its successor, Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL) began publication in 2000. RNL migrated to an online format, http://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org, in 2006 and continues today.

RNL is a member benefit of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The historical print issues have been made openly available.

Publishing Frequency: Quarterly until its transition to online. It’s now updated virtually every day.

Format: Print, 1975 - 2005; Online, 2006 - present

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Magnet Hospitals: Powerful Force for Excellence

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Does Whole-School Reform Boost Student Performance? The Case Of New York City, Robert Bifulco, William Duncombe, John Yinger

Center for Policy Research

Thousands of schools around the country have implemented whole-school reform programs to boost student performance. This paper uses quasi-experimental methods to estimate the impact of whole-school reform on students' reading performance in New York City, where various reform programs were adopted in dozens of troubled elementary schools in the mid-1990s. This paper complements studies based on random assignment by examining a broad-based reform effort and explicitly accounting for implementation quality. Two popular reform programs--the School Development and Success for All--do not significantly increase reading scores but might have if they had been fully implemented. The More Effective Schools program does …

Emotional Intelligence Competencies In Physician Leaders: An Exploratory Study, Michael J. Deegan

Student Scholarship

A theory of behavioral competencies associated with emotional intelligence that influence job performance, was tested in physicians who hold leadership positions in their organization. An emotional intelligence competency ( EIC ) survey ( the ECI-2 ) that measured eighteen competencies distributed among four cluster groups ( self awareness, self management, social awareness, relationship management ) was administered to physician leaders and their supervisors, peers and direct reports. The resulting 360 degree assessment permitted a comparison of the physician leaders self assessment scores with one another and those working closely with them. In addition, independent objective and subjective measures of physician …

Regimes, Institutions And Foreign Policy Change, David Baker Huxsoll

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the effects that different political regime types and institutional arrangements have on the amount of foreign policy change occurring a state. Scholars in International Relations studying the democratic peace have identified a relationship between characteristics of democracy and non-democracy and the behavior of states. Scholars in Comparative Politics have noted that certain institutions more easily facilitate policy change. This dissertation synthesizes these perspectives and develops and tests a number of hypotheses relating regime type, institutional arrangement, and party system to the amount of foreign policy change a state undertakes. Employing a pooled, cross-sectional time series design, the …

Chairmen Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff: Monitoring The Evolution Of An Agency Through Rhetorical Snapshots Of Speeches By Generals Omar N. Bradley, Earle G. Wheeler, George S. Brown And Colin L. Powell, John Robert Foster

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

There is a need to examine the long term rhetorical strategies of military spokesmen within a democratic state characterized by civilian hegemony. This study uses Kenneth Burke's discussion of cluster analysis to discover the various recurring themes from Chairman to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This form of analysis enabled the researcher to document periodic variances or shifts in emphasis among the four Chairmen whose speeches will be examined. The investigation involved two speeches representative of each of these four distinct periods of the discourse of Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, one given to a civilian …

If It Ain't Broke, Fix It?: Assessing The Impact Of Klaeren V. Lisle On Illinois Zoning Law, Victor P. Filippini Jr., Barbara A. Adams, Elliot M. Regenstein

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Recommendations For Reform Of The Child Support System In Cook County, Malcolm Rich, Kristina Tunnicliff

Public Interest Law Reporter

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Corporate Governance And Sustainable Peace, Timothy L. Fort, Cindy A. Schipani

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Articles and Commentary in this Symposium are another step in a series of conferences exploring dimensions of business influence on sustainable peace. As is often the case with new intellectual initiatives, each step seems to open new doors of insight and new sets of questions. Other presentations delivered at this conference included discussions of how one could design architectural plans in keeping with company goals, while others focused on the development of compassion, forgiveness, and voice. Still others connected the topic to notions of ethical compliance models, dispute resolution, corporate citizenship, and economic development.

Beyond these notions, of course, …

Research Opportunities In Internal Auditing, Douglas F. Prawitt

Faculty Publications

This chapter discusses staffing and managing the internal audit function (IAF) as a component of organizational governance, and has two main purposes. First, it familiarizes interested practitioners and researchers with current trends and issues in staffing and managing the IAF. Second, it suggests questions and topics for future thinking and research among practitioners and academics. Managing and staffing an IAF is a vast and complex undertaking that remains relatively unexplored by rigorous research. The chapter contains several citations to practitioner information and academic research, but it does not attempt to include a comprehensive literature review of all relevant articles or …

Beliefs About The Appropriate Degree Of Directiveness In The Management Relationship, As Related To Demographic Characteristics, Educational Background, And Organizational Position, Janet L. Pershing

Harold L. Hodgkinson Award for Outstanding Dissertation

Correlations between beliefs about management and age, gender, nationality, level of education, education field, functional area, and hierarchical level were examined. Analyses were conducted at the ecological level and focused on beliefs regarding appropriate degree of directiveness in the managerial relationship. Two thousand staff members of an international intergovernmental organization received an electronically distributed written survey. Factor analysis was used to develop summated rating scales for each independent variables. Differences between subgroup means were then examined using ANOVA or t tests. The strength of the association between the independent variables and a common scale was assessed using eta squared. Directiveness …

Publication List From D’Amour Library’S 1st Annual Faculty Authors' Tea — Faculty Scholarship, 2003, D'Amour Library

Faculty Publications - College of Arts and Sciences

1st Annual Faculty Authors' Tea

School Of Business Faculty Publication List, 2003, D'Amour Library

Faculty Publications - College of Business

Publication list from D’Amour Library’s 1st Annual Faculty Authors' Tea

2003-2004 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

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Law "Of Our Own Style": The Evolution And Challenges Of The North Korean Legal System, Patricia Goedde

Fordham International Law Journal

In this Essay, I first briefly present theoretical contexts that may aid in defining the North Korean legal system. Next, I trace the evolution of the North Korean legal system by examining the North Korean reaction to various legal influences of the Japanese occupation, Soviet tutelage, and traditional Korean practices, and outline the current politico-legal structure. In the final section, I inquire whether the North Korean legal structure can accommodate a different legal system necessitating rule-of-law requirements, as applied to its foreign investment regime and, perhaps some day, nationwide. Although the main purpose of this Essay is to introduce the …

Implementation Of Sap's Campus Management At The University Of Mississippi, Kimberly Nicole Weston

Honors Theses

The objective of this project was to analyze the undergraduate admissions process at the University of Mississippi before and after the implementation of SAP’s student information system known as Campus Management. Areas of focus include the following: l Whether any improvements were achieved in terms of efficiency such as time to process a typical admissions application l Whether any improvements were achieved in terms of customer service l The usability of the web application l Impact on related processes such as account generation l Positive and negative impact to university offices l Potential areas for future work These areas and …