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Newborn, Dorothea Cudaback, Patricia Tanner Nelson

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

6 Months, E. J. Kersting, Betty Lou Barsley-Marra, Cindy Darden, Dorothea Cudaback

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

36 Months, Dorothea Cudaback

All Archived Publications

No abstract provided.

A Profile Of Consumer Bankruptcy Petitioners, Jean Lown, Barbara Rowe

All Archived Publications

Utah ranks first in the nation in the number of consumer bankruptcies per household. This study describes 2,567 Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cases filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Utah in 1997. Median debt level was $31,981 for Chapter 7 and $41,626 for Chapter 13 cases. While Utah boasts a high proportion of Chapter 13 repayment plans, only 10.8% of these cases were successfully completed. Debtors tended to be young, single earners, with short job tenure. Evidence also pointed to Utah’s low per capita income and large families as other contributors to bankruptcy.

The Leadership Assumptions Of American Statesmen During The Federal Convention And Ratification Debates 1787-1789, Darin L. Gerdes

Faculty Dissertations

This study sought to ascertain and analyze the leadership assumptions of American Statesmen during the Constitutional Convention and ratification debates. The researcher examined the primary source public debates from 1787-1789. This study identified the Statesmen’s view of leadership, which emerged from their writings and debates. Their assumptions were classified into assumptions on the nature of man, the nature of power, the nature of the people, the nature of government, and the nature of society. The Statesmen’s views were then compared and contrasted to contemporary leadership literature.

Members In Internal Audit, January 2003, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Sensory Stimulation On Behavior In Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Cecilia Gibson

Theses & Honors Papers

Autism is a disability that falls into the continuum of Pervasive Developmental Disorders that most significantly affects a person’s ability to communicate with others. The cause of autism is unknown although hundreds of thousands of individuals are affected by it every year. This thesis examines the effects of sensory stimulation reduction in the classroom on the attentiveness of students with autism.

Peaks Island, Portland, Me., Neighborhood-Based Plan (2003)., Peaks Island Neighborhood Association

General Reports

Peaks Island Vision 2020 survey report, 2003.

This report was the culmination of a year-long community planning process during which islanders expressed their concerns about and visions for the future of island. Topics of concern include natural resource management and protection, transportation, managing development and taxation, demographics, and housing.

Test Targets 3.1: A Collaborative Effort Exploring The Use Of Scientific Methods For Color Imaging And Process Control., Robert Chung, Edline Chun, Fred Hsu, Hemachand Kolli, Jon Lesser, Lingjun Kong, Ryan Testa, Seunga Kang Ha, Somika Shetty, Vikaas Gupta

Books

In general, test targets represent known values from an object or in a digital file, e.g., color patches, digital dots, lines with known dimensions, etc. The Macbeth ColorChecker is an analog target with 24 physical color patches. When captured by an input device and reproduced by an imaging system, we can compare tone and color relationships between the source target and its reproduction. On the other hand, the IT8.7/3 target is a digital file consisting of hundreds of patches with known CMYK digital values. When printed along side a signature, we can assess print quality quantitatively with the use of …

Group Therapy For Bereaved Parents : Sudden Death Of A Child Or Adolescent, Jessica L. Heidecker

Graduate Research Papers

This article reviews parental bereavement through sudden loss of a child by · homicidal, suicidal, or accidental death. It advocates for the Dual Process Model of grieving, and explores group therapy treatment for bereaved parents. This paper contends that parental loss of a child is more intense and traumatic than any other type of loss. Evidence is also provided to state that traumatic grievers benefit from group therapy as opposed to other types of grievers. Meaning reconstruction is established as a key element in the grief process. Overall, the article allows counselors to understand the complications involved in working with …

A Preferred Vision For Administering Secondary Schools, Christopher Cruise

Graduate Research Papers

There are many different characteristics that contribute to being an effective administrator. I believe an administrator must have a vision for his/her school. He or she must strive to constantly improve the educational experience for students by building a strong cultural community within the school that makes every student feel welcome. An administrator must work well with many different types of people within the school and community and must be willing to serve on many different committees to open lines of communication with all of the student body.

An administrator needs to surround himself with good people who share his …

Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches To Anger Management For Children And Adolescents, Amy L. Zirkelbach

Graduate Research Papers

This paper examines the need to address anger problems among children and adolescents given the implications of uncontrolled anger on relationships, education, possible involvement with the law, and physical and mental well-being. Aggression and its relationship to anger will also be discussed as well as the need to develop early intervention practices aimed at anger-related problems. A cognitive-behavioral approach will be presented as an alternative to many of the prevailing psychological approaches dominating individual and group interventions targeting angry and aggressive youth. A description of the key components of cognitive-behavioral anger management programs will be described, including arousal management, cognitive …

Students' Perception Index Of The Mugc School Psychology Practicum : A Correlation Of Course Work With Practicum Experiences, C. Lee Chandler Iii

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The perceived consistency between the course work and practicum of the Marshall University Graduate College school psychology program was investigated. The magnitude of consistency was determined by a Spearman correlation coefficient comparing students’ subjective rankings of the relative importance of various school psychologist activities as emphasized in the program’s course work with the relative importance of those same activities as relevant to the practicum setting. The findings suggest a significant degree of correlation at the (.05) significance level between what is emphasized in the program’s coursework and what is relevant to practicum experience.

Social Disorganization Theory And Crime In West Virginia, Billy Crum

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The purpose of this study is to test the social disorganization theory by determining how a community’s ability to maintain social control effects crime rate, especially in areas of West Virginia that are experiencing rapid social change. Do lack of social controls and rapid social change effect crime rates in rural areas, and if so, what kinds of crimes are likely to be effected? This study is going to attempt to answer this puzzling question. This study uses poverty rate, unemployment rate, and high school dropout rate as the independent variables, and crime rate as the dependent variable.

Arrupe Center Mission Statement 2003, The Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Center For Community-Based Learning

Arrupe Mission Statements

No abstract provided.

2003-04 Bulletin Of Information - Undergraduate, Seattle University

Bulletin of Information

No abstract provided.

Student Handbook, 2003-2004, George Fox University Archives

Student Handbooks

Student Handbook of George Fox University.

George Fox University Graduate Catalog, 2001-2003, George Fox University Archives

Catalogs

Graduate Catalog of George Fox University. 75 pages, color.

George Fox University Catalog, 2003, George Fox University Archives

Catalogs

Catalog of George Fox University. 94 pages, color.

2003 Media Guide, George Fox University Archives

Softball

2003 Women's Softball Media Guide, George Fox College.

Modernist Space: Willa Cather’S Environmental Imagination In Context, Guy J. Reynolds

Department of English: Faculty Publications

One of the things that Cather’s writing teaches us is that space, especially “natural” space, is always mediated, always shaped. Cather’s own framing of nature was informed by some very specific, historically particular ideas. The modernity of Cather’s environmental imagination is illustrated by a comparison between her fictionalization of American spaces and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural formation of space. An “environmental imagination” is at once an imagination of the environment and an imagination formed or created by the environment. Cather worked repeatedly toward this doubled state, finding a heightened, mystical state-of-being when we are both formed by and in mastery …

Toward A Symbiosis Of Ecology And Justice: Water And Land Conflicts In Frank Waters, Johns Nichols, And Jimmy Santiago Baca, Thomas Lynch

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The literary form that dominates writing, and thinking, in the American West is what has become known, definitively, as "the Western." The all-too-familiar narrative describes the advance of Anglo-Saxon pioneers into a primitive and untamed West, spreading the forces of civilization in their wake. A countertradition, however, is prevalent in the Southwest. What we might suitably call "the Southwestern" describes the incursion of an aggressive foreign culture into an already settled region. In this narrative, the conflict is not over how to impose culture and tame and settle the land, but how to protect the culture that already exists and …

Virginia Commonwealth University Commencement Program [2003], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Examining Technology Acceptance By School Teachers: A Longitudinal Study, Paul J.H. Hu, Theodore H.K. Clark, Will W.K. Ma

Support & Other Units (THEi)

The role of information technology (IT) in education has significantly increased, but resistance to technology by public school teachers worldwide remains high. This study examined public school teachers’ technology acceptance decision-making by using a research model that is based on key findings from relevant prior research and important characteristics of the targeted user acceptance phenomenon. The model was longitudinally tested using responses from more than 130 teachers attending an intensive 4-week training program on Microsoft PowerPoint, a common but important classroom presentation technology. In addition to identifying key acceptance determinants, we examined plausible changes in acceptance drivers over the course …

Enrollment Data, Office Of Institutional Research And Effectiveness, Mississippi State University

Bulldog Basics

No abstract provided.

Enrollment By Major, Office Of Institutional Research And Effectiveness, Mississippi State University

Bulldog Basics

No abstract provided.

An Ethnographic Study Of Antiwar Protestors, Sherrie Ladegast

McNair Scholars Journal

This is an ethnographic study of the recent antiwar protestors, focusing on the activists’ objectives and motivations for their participation in antiwar rallies and addresses any discernable personality types. The overall purpose is typical of “verstehen” sociology, which seeks to understand the world as the subjects understand it. I collected data through a “snowball” networking sample of thirty-four Western Michigan interviewees and observation, both participation and non-participation. In addition, a combined survey of Altemeyer’s RWA-scale and the Social Dominance Orientation Scale was administered to participants, but will be analyzed in a later study. A qualitative content analysis was conducted and …

Deliberative Discussion In The Classroom: Teaching Communication Through The Lens Of September 11th, Roy V. Wood, Andrea L. Sisk

Iowa Journal of Communication

Students in an introductory communication class explored the communicative roots of 9/11 by engaging in a deliberative discussion process. With the assistance of guest experts the instructors provided the students with background information on 1) the causes of violence and terrorism; 2) the nature of sacrifice and care, 3) the coverage of crisis in journalism, 4) the democratic theory of freedom of speech, and 5) the nature of heroism and leadership. Building on this knowledge base, the instructors taught the students to engage in a process of deliberation: question and problem definition, problem analysis, idea development, and discussion leadership to …

Moldy Bagels And New Toasters: Images Of Emotion In Workplace Relationship, Jayne M. Morgan

Iowa Journal of Communication

A symbolic interactionist perspective is used to explore employee perceptions of everyday emotion in supervisor and coworker relationships. Respondents presented images of emotional behaviors that varied by the positive or negative nature of the experience and the consistency of the emotional episode within the overall relationship. Results indicate that employees keep a power differential intact in their emotion images of supervisors regardless of relationship quality. In contrast, images of coworkers revealed a sense of equality regardless of relationship quality. Accounts of negative emotional episodes that were inconsistent with normally positive supervisor and coworker relationships were also explained in terms of …

Zephyr: The Fourth Issue, Zephyr Faculty Advisor, Matthew Bibeau, Andrew Shuttleworth, Tiffany Cherry, Lisa Curtiss, Angela Dobson, Lindsay Ellis, Jaedra Emery, Stephanie Fournier, Anne Hardy, Judith Haug, Kristen Mcelheny, Paula Scilipoti, Charissa Wong, Kristie Worster

Zephyr

This is the fourth issue of Zephyr, the University of New England's journal of creative expression. Since 2000, Zephyr has published original drawings, paintings, photography, prose, and verse created by current and former members of the University community. Zephyr's Editorial Board is made up exclusively of matriculating students.