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Foster Parent Satisfaction, Lila Marie Martin Jan 2004

Foster Parent Satisfaction, Lila Marie Martin

Theses Digitization Project

The findings of this study offer agencies useful ways to develop social relationships with foster parents and to implement useful and accessible training opportunities. Strengthening what works well frees agencies to promote these areas to recruit new parents and simultaneously maintain quality foster homes.

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The Development Of An Environmental Ethics Undergraduate Curriculum For California, James Rowland Roberts Jan 2004

The Development Of An Environmental Ethics Undergraduate Curriculum For California, James Rowland Roberts

Theses Digitization Project

This study included an environmental ethics syllabi research project, an environmental ethics curriculum development survey of all colleges in California, and the subsequent development of tables to compare the results. The curriculum development survey of California colleges includes a listing of all course descriptions of environmental ethics and related courses.

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What Are The Experiences Of Foster Parents Who Are Raising Special Needs Children In Accessing Services Needed, Loretta Jean Isaacson, Robbie Palmer Thomas Jan 2004

What Are The Experiences Of Foster Parents Who Are Raising Special Needs Children In Accessing Services Needed, Loretta Jean Isaacson, Robbie Palmer Thomas

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the study is to explore the difficulties and experiences that foster parents have in accessing services and what can be done to alleviate some of these obstacles.

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A Comparison Of The Consumer Decision-Making Behavior Of Married And Cohabiting Couples, Karen Prodigalidad Calpo Jan 2004

A Comparison Of The Consumer Decision-Making Behavior Of Married And Cohabiting Couples, Karen Prodigalidad Calpo

Theses Digitization Project

While studies exist that compare the different dynamics between cohabitation and marriage, few studies focus on comparing the consumer decision-making process of both types of unions.

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Causes Of Unease: Horror Rhetoric In Fiction And Film, Benjamin Kane Ethridge Jan 2004

Causes Of Unease: Horror Rhetoric In Fiction And Film, Benjamin Kane Ethridge

Theses Digitization Project

How do artists scare us? Horror filmmakers and novelists alike can accomplish fear, revulsion, and disturbance in their respective audiences. The rhetorical and stylistic strategies employed to evoke these feelings are unique to the genre. Divulging these strategies will be the major focus of this thesis, yet there will also be discussion on the social and cultural background of the Horror genre.

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Teaching Strategies For Foster Care Students With Behavior Problems, Nikki Ann Console Jan 2004

Teaching Strategies For Foster Care Students With Behavior Problems, Nikki Ann Console

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to research behavior problems of children in foster care and to identify teaching strategies and techniques for teachers who have foster children in their classrooms and experience difficulties working with them. The project examines the types of behavior problems displayed by abused children.

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Local Aquatic Environment Exploration And Girl Scouts, Patricia Marie Foy Jan 2004

Local Aquatic Environment Exploration And Girl Scouts, Patricia Marie Foy

Theses Digitization Project

Activities were developed to provide partial completion of water-related Junior badges and Brownie Try-It awards for Girl Scouts. The activities are specific to the Glendora Conservancy Environmental Discovery Center located in the San Gabriel foothills above Glendora, California.

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Training And Preparedness In The Age Of Bioterrorism, Joanne Marie Couperus-Greene Jan 2004

Training And Preparedness In The Age Of Bioterrorism, Joanne Marie Couperus-Greene

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to examine the relationship between observed strengths and problems in two previous bioterrorism exercises and correlate them to strengths and problems observed during the Amerithrax Outbreak in the fall of 2001. The focus of the project was to identify parallels between the Amerithrax Outbreak and the tabletop exercises.

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Minimization Of Currency Risk Exposures By Developing Foreign Currency Trading Strategies For A Multinational United States Company, Korhan Cam Jan 2004

Minimization Of Currency Risk Exposures By Developing Foreign Currency Trading Strategies For A Multinational United States Company, Korhan Cam

Theses Digitization Project

This paper presents a case study of developing foreign currency trading strategies for trading operations for a multi-million dollar company that sells analytical products and services to European countries. The analysis provides a general framework for managing currency risk exposures for U.S. Multinational companies.

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Child Welfare Professionals' Perceptions Of Drug Treatment For Foster Youth: A Needs Assessment, Edward Basil Dehar Jan 2004

Child Welfare Professionals' Perceptions Of Drug Treatment For Foster Youth: A Needs Assessment, Edward Basil Dehar

Theses Digitization Project

This study uses a qualitative research design to examine the skills and knowledge that both CPS (Child Protective Service) workers and Foster Care Professionals have regarding AOD (Alcohol and Other Drug) issues. It includes information on professionals' perceptions of whether or not more education in this area is needed, and the impact that these AOD issues are having upon the child welfare / foster care systems.

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Effects Of Training Paradigms On Performance Of Search Dogs, Lisa Lit Jan 2004

Effects Of Training Paradigms On Performance Of Search Dogs, Lisa Lit

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis studies the performance of search dogs trained to locate the live scent (live only dogs) and compares their performance to that of search dogs trained to locate either live or cadaver scent depending on the verbal cue given by the handler (cross-trained dogs).

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The Art Of Self-Discovery: Integrative Opportunities For Alternative Settings, Mary Elizabeth Harrigan Jan 2004

The Art Of Self-Discovery: Integrative Opportunities For Alternative Settings, Mary Elizabeth Harrigan

Theses Digitization Project

This study examines the literature on identifying alternative methods of coming to a deeper understanding of one's physical, mental, and spiritual self. It provides information on one particular alternative program, and presents lesson ideas and options that demonstrate how an art-based emphasis in elective coursework can allow for the next step in each student's journey of personal growth and development.

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The Impact Of Early Familial Experiences On Emotional Intelligence, Stephanie Lynne Lattimer-List Jan 2004

The Impact Of Early Familial Experiences On Emotional Intelligence, Stephanie Lynne Lattimer-List

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of early familial influences on the development of young adults' emotional intelligence. It was hypothesized that attachment security would be positively and significantly related to emotional intelligence, and conversely, that insecure attachment would be inversely related to emotional intelligence.

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College Of Education: A Guide To Researching The Animal Kingdom On The Internet, Stephen Michael Williams Jan 2004

College Of Education: A Guide To Researching The Animal Kingdom On The Internet, Stephen Michael Williams

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to develop a Web site that would facilitate students' use of the Internet to research topics relating to the study of biology. This Web site serves as a bridge to link classroom topics to real world scientific information and research available on the Internet. Methods of preventing plagiarism and focusing Internet research were incorporated into the overall Web site design.

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What Is Selective Mutism?, Angela Briz-Garcia Jan 2004

What Is Selective Mutism?, Angela Briz-Garcia

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of Selective Mutism, its possible causes, the strong impact it creates in English learner students, and what teachers could do to help the students who suffer from Selective Mutism.

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A Closer Look At The Professional Relationship Of Children's Social Workers And Teachers In Regard To The Education Of Foster Children, Marnae Latrice Potts, Koumay Yang Jan 2004

A Closer Look At The Professional Relationship Of Children's Social Workers And Teachers In Regard To The Education Of Foster Children, Marnae Latrice Potts, Koumay Yang

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to explore the extent of interaction between teachers and foster children's social workers in regard to their education.

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Multimedia As A Tool For Learning: The Design & Development Of A Hyperstudio Project On The Celebration Of Chicano Culture, Kathy Elliott Markos Jan 2004

Multimedia As A Tool For Learning: The Design & Development Of A Hyperstudio Project On The Celebration Of Chicano Culture, Kathy Elliott Markos

Theses Digitization Project

This project was intended to demonstrate how multimedia can be utilized to differentiate instruction in order to meet the diverse needs of all students, and educate teacher credential candidates about cultural awareness and acceptance.

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Summary Of Total Mercury Concentrations In Fillets Of Selected Sport Fishes Collected During 2000–2003 From Lake Natoma, Sacramento County, California, Michael K. Saiki, Darell G. Slotten, Thomas W. May, Shaun M. Ayers, Charles N. Alpers Jan 2004

Summary Of Total Mercury Concentrations In Fillets Of Selected Sport Fishes Collected During 2000–2003 From Lake Natoma, Sacramento County, California, Michael K. Saiki, Darell G. Slotten, Thomas W. May, Shaun M. Ayers, Charles N. Alpers

United States Geological Survey: Publications

This report summarizes results of total mercury measurements in skinless fillets of sport fishes collected during August 2000, September–October 2002, and July 2003 from Lake Natoma, a small (8,760 acre-feet) afterbay for Folsom Dam on the lower American River. The primary objective of the study was to determine if mercury concentrations in fillets approached or exceeded guidelines for human consumption. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) human-health action level for methylmercury in commercially caught fish is 1.0 μg/g (microgram per gram); the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) human-health criterion for methylmercury residue in fish tissue is 0.30 μg/g. Wet weight …

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Thinking About Science And Christian Orthodox Beliefs: A Survey Study Of Preservice Elementary Teachers, William W. Cobern, Cathleen C. Loving Jan 2004

Thinking About Science And Christian Orthodox Beliefs: A Survey Study Of Preservice Elementary Teachers, William W. Cobern, Cathleen C. Loving

Scientific Literacy and Cultural Studies Project

Since its origination with Andrew Dickson White, the Warfare Metaphor has been used to characterize the relationship between science and religion, specifically orthodox Christianity. Though thoroughly discredited by historians of science, the ideological descendants of Thomas Huxley, who spoke of science in quasi-religious terms, have kept the Warfare Metaphor alive. On the other hand, there are substantial numbers of Christians who at least appear to oppose science given their high-profile opposition to the general theory of evolution. The purpose of the research reported in this paper was to examine this specific question: does anti-science sentiment increase with increasing orthodox Christian …

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Probing Proteinase Active Sites Using Oriented Peptide Mixture Libraries – Adam-10, John L. Krstenansky, Jihong Wang, Gregg R. Chenail, Matthew R. Tiffany, Geoffrey M. Kuesters, Barbara C. Natke, John L. Nestor Jr. Jan 2004

Probing Proteinase Active Sites Using Oriented Peptide Mixture Libraries – Adam-10, John L. Krstenansky, Jihong Wang, Gregg R. Chenail, Matthew R. Tiffany, Geoffrey M. Kuesters, Barbara C. Natke, John L. Nestor Jr.

Pharmaceutical Science and Research

Oriented Peptide Mixture Libraries can provide a full matrix of preferred and disfavored amino acids at each subsite of an optimal substrate for a new proteinase. This approach is rapid and convenient, requiring only two mixture libraries to complete the analysis. In this paper we demonstrate an extension of this type of analysis, using a focused library employing unnatural amino acids to probe the depth of the S1 position in the catalytic site of the alpha secretase ADAM-10. This analysis indicates that ADAM- 10 will accept amino acids with substantial length and hydrophobicity (e.g. 2- naphthylalanine), but suggests that the …

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Sex Determination For Federal Purposes: Is Transsexual Immigration Via Marriage Permissible Under The Defense Of Marriage Act?, John A. Fisher Jan 2004

Sex Determination For Federal Purposes: Is Transsexual Immigration Via Marriage Permissible Under The Defense Of Marriage Act?, John A. Fisher

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Part I describes the federal immigration benefits available to spouses of most U.S. citizens and presents the historical and contemporary obstacles that prohibit these benefits from being extended to gays and lesbians. It then addresses DOMA's failure to define "opposite sex," and hence DOMA's failure to indicate whether post-operative transsexuals, or their partners, should be given "spousal status" under current U.S. immigration law. Part II examines traditional and modern notions of sex. It traces state legal approaches to transsexual marriage and ultimately disentangles the formalistic rhetoric that obfuscates the reasoning in those cases. In particular, Part II focuses on a …

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The Priority Of Respect: How Our Common Humanity Can Ground Our Individual Dignity, Richard Stith Jan 2004

The Priority Of Respect: How Our Common Humanity Can Ground Our Individual Dignity, Richard Stith

Law Faculty Publications

In this essay, we notice that the priority of persons, the unbridgeable political gap between persons and mere things, corresponds to a special sort of moral and legal treatment for persons, namely, as irreplaceable individuals. Normative language that conflates the category of person with fungible kinds of being can thus appear to justify destroying and replacing human beings, just as we do with things. Lethal consequences may result, for example, from a common but improper extension of the word “value” to persons. The attitude and act called “respect” brings forth much more adequately than “value” the distinctively individual priority of …

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Bush Project Anthology Volume 1, South Dakota State University Jan 2004

Bush Project Anthology Volume 1, South Dakota State University

Bush Project Anthology

Well over a decade ago, the late Ernest Boyer authored his much heralded work titled Scholarship Reconsidered, and academia quickly began to recognize a variety of meaningful scholarship activities including the scholarship of discovery, integration, application and teaching. Boyer insisted that the scholarship of teaching is a serious and very meaningful form of scholarship associated with what faculty members do to achieve success in the profession of teaching. He also insisted that the scholarship of teaching needs to be transformed from a very private form of scholarship to a much more public form of scholarship. The scholarship of teaching that …

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2004 South Dakota State University Jackrabbit Baseball, South Dakota State University Jan 2004

2004 South Dakota State University Jackrabbit Baseball, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Baseball Media Guides (1998-2015)

2004 Roster
About SDSU
Coach Ekeland
Coach Reynolds
Assistant Coaches
Season Outlook
Player Profiles
2003 Statistics
2003 Scores
School Records
Lettermen
All-NCC Selections
Year-by-Year Scores

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Hamlet Revisited: How Evolution Really Works, William D. Stansfield Jan 2004

Hamlet Revisited: How Evolution Really Works, William D. Stansfield

Biological Sciences

Delves into the artificial programs that are merely metaphors for the processes of organic evolution. Relation of this organic evolution with the phrases in the play "Hamlet" of Shakespeare; Disadvantage of using these metaphors as educational tools; Definition of various kinds of patterns for evolution.

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Physical Forcing Of Phytoplankton Community Structure And Primary Production In Continental Shelf Waters Of The Western Antarctic Peninsula, Barbara B. Prezelin, Eileen E. Hofmann, Mark A. Moline, John M. Klinck Jan 2004

Physical Forcing Of Phytoplankton Community Structure And Primary Production In Continental Shelf Waters Of The Western Antarctic Peninsula, Barbara B. Prezelin, Eileen E. Hofmann, Mark A. Moline, John M. Klinck

Biological Sciences

Analyses of a multidisciplinary data set, collected in continental shelf waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) during austral summer of January 1993, identified a previously unrecognized forcing mechanism that sets up a physical and chemical structure that supports and assures site-specific diatom-dominated communities and enhanced biological production (Prézelin et al., 2000). This forcing is active when the southern boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) flows along the shelf edge, thereby facilitating onshelf bottom intrusions of nutrient-rich Upper Circumpolar Deep Water (UCDW), which then is upwelled or mixed into the upper water column. At times or locations where UCDW …

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Bulimia: Medical Complications, Philip S. Mehler, Cynthia Crews, Kenneth Weiner Jan 2004

Bulimia: Medical Complications, Philip S. Mehler, Cynthia Crews, Kenneth Weiner

Nursing Faculty Publications

Bulimia nervosa is a common eating disorder that predominantly affects young women. There are three main models of purging in bulimia. Resulting medical complications are related to the particular mode and frequency of purging. Commonly, there are oral and gastrointestinal complications along with serious electrolyte and endocrine complications. The majority of the medical complications of bulimia nervosa are treatable if diagnosed in a timely fashion. Some of these patients require inpatient hospitalization, and others can be managed along a continuum of outpatient care. The American Psychiatric Association has comprehensive treatment guidelines for the management of bulimia. Primary care physicians and …

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Visual Activation In Prefrontal Cortex Is Stronger In Monkeys Than In Humans, Katrien Denys, Wim Vanduffel, Denis Fize, Koen Nelissen, Hiromasa Sawamura, Svetlana Georgieva, Rufin Vogels, David Van Essen, Guy A. Orban Jan 2004

Visual Activation In Prefrontal Cortex Is Stronger In Monkeys Than In Humans, Katrien Denys, Wim Vanduffel, Denis Fize, Koen Nelissen, Hiromasa Sawamura, Svetlana Georgieva, Rufin Vogels, David Van Essen, Guy A. Orban

Open Access Publications

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Evaluation Of Several Lightweight Stochastic Context-Free Grammars For Rna Secondary Structure Prediction, Robin D. Dowell, Sean R. Eddy Jan 2004

Evaluation Of Several Lightweight Stochastic Context-Free Grammars For Rna Secondary Structure Prediction, Robin D. Dowell, Sean R. Eddy

Open Access Publications

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A Mutation In A Functional Sp1 Binding Site Of The Telomerase Rna Gene (Hterc) Promoter In A Patient With Paroxysmal Nocturnal Haemoglobinuria, W Nicol Keith, Tom Vulliamy, Jiangqin Zhao, Cem Ar, Can Erzik, Alan Bilsland, Birsen Ulku, Anna Marrone, Philip J. Mason, Monica Bessler, Nedime Serakinci, Inderjeet Dokal Jan 2004

A Mutation In A Functional Sp1 Binding Site Of The Telomerase Rna Gene (Hterc) Promoter In A Patient With Paroxysmal Nocturnal Haemoglobinuria, W Nicol Keith, Tom Vulliamy, Jiangqin Zhao, Cem Ar, Can Erzik, Alan Bilsland, Birsen Ulku, Anna Marrone, Philip J. Mason, Monica Bessler, Nedime Serakinci, Inderjeet Dokal

Open Access Publications

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