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A Center For Holistic Health, Beth Doane

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

One of the leading causes of death in the United States is also one of the most preventable: stress-related illnesses contribute to millions of fatalities every year. Facilitating better health outcomes requires overhauling how we think about health within our culture and how we approach healthcare, emphasizing prevention over treatment. My research investigates how Eastern cultures have embraced this view for centuries, utilizing alternative practices that reduce stress and promote longevity.

I propose developing a non-profit health center, The Center for Holistic Health, founded on preventative care and alternative medicines. Clients will receive autonomy over their health by learning how …

Dins La Nostra Memòria, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

L'àmbit espacial de la cultura catalana configura un paisatge fluid i dinàmic, un espai simbòlic d'emoció, percepció i subjectivitat. De la mateixa manera, Barcelona ha sorgit i ressorgit al llarg d'aquest segle i del passat com un espai transcultural fluid de migracions. En una ciutat en què en l'actualitat almenys el 12% de la població prové de fora de les fronteres espanyoles, tot faria pensar que els dramaturgs catalans se senten ara especialmente inclinats a considerar l’espai del pluralisme cultural que és per a'ells «casa seva». Tanmateix, al teatre el procés d'autoreconeixement i el desig d'autoconscienciació es complex. Referintse al …

Kidney Simulation In 3 Dimensional Environment "Digikid" / Dennis Foong Yew Han, Yew Han Dennis Foong

Student Works (2000-2009)

DigiKid is a standalone system that promises quick and efficient way to gain knowledge on kidney anatomy. The entire learning experience is integrated with interactive 3D elements. DigiKid is available will cater the hunger for any individuals especially the non-biology students.The objectives of DigiKid are to create an interactive learning process in virtual reality environment. The user interface design is target at non- expert computer users to widen the scope of users. Rapid Application Development model is used to develop DigiKid . The tools involved in the development of DigiKid arc els MAX, Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Adobe Premiere Pro, Macromedia …

Pbl Facilitator / Nurul Sufiani Ahmad, Ahmad Nurul Sufiani

Student Works (2000-2009)

The traditional learning method, lecture-based learning that's still dominating learning method not only Malaysia, but almost everywhere in the world, can no longer ensure student's career stability in real world after education despite high academic achievement. In lecture-based learning or LBL, students usually tend to memorize information that the teachers feed to them for examination purpose without really understanding the meaning of the facts. This scenario won't guarantee students' readiness to face real problems in real world, a they won't be able to apply their knowledge in a more real-life context. Problem-based learning (PBL) however encourages students to learn how …

Virtual Reality Training In Laparoscopic Surgery / Kee Ming Yit, Ming Yit Kee

Student Works (2000-2009)

The second millennium has brought with it a new era of modern surgery. The creation of video surgery is as revolutionary to this century as the development of anesthesia and sterile technique was to the last one. With ten years of solid experience behind them, surgeons can now confidently approach almost every part of the human body with cameras and video monitors. Today more than 90% of all gallbladder surgery is performed laparoscopically, leaving patients with only four tiny marks and minimal discomfort. These dramatic patient benefits make laparoscopic gallbladder surgery the procedure of choice among both surgeons and patients. …

Providing Education And Support For Rural Palliative Care Nurses In Western Australia: An Intervention Study, Ruth Mcconigley

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Rural palliative care nurses (RPCNs) in Western Australia (WA) are a small population, who have embraced the specialist palliative care role since the first palliative care service in rural WA began in 1990. However, there are some challenges involved with being a specialist nurse in a generalist health care setting. fu particular, there is a suggestion in the literature that RPCNs may be professionally isolated, may be prone to burnout, and may therefore experience decreased job satisfaction and may consider leaving the palliative care field.

A Symbolist Melodrama: The Confluence Of Poem And Music In Debussy's "La Flute De Pan"., Laurel Astrid Ewell

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Composed by Debussy in 1913, as incidental music for Psyche , a dramatic poem by French symbolist poet and playwright Gabriel Mourey, the work for solo flute known today as Syrinx, has since become a standard of the solo flute repertoire. Anders Ljungar-Chapelon, editor of a new edition based on a recently recovered period manuscript, has challenged traditional conceptions of the work's compositional context. Debussy's original title for Syrinx was La Flute de Pan and appeared as a musical component of a melodrame within the play, just prior to the death of Pan. The recovery of a probable primary source …

Scenic Design For Steve Martin's "Picasso At The Lapin Agile"., Tuesdee Long

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This document is a record of the process involved in creating the scenery for West Virginia University’s 2004 production of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, by Steve Martin. The project was assigned to serve as partial fulfillment of the requirements of a Master of Fine Arts in Design and Theatre Technology, and this document completes the requirements for that degree. This thesis explains the progress of the design from its research and conceptualization to its realization and the resulting theatrical production on the stage. It includes a synopsis, criticism and history of the original production, and a self-evaluation of the …

Sub-State Nationalism And International Law, Margaret Moore

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article explores the relationship between international law, defined broadly as the principles, norms, and rules governing the international order and the aspirations for collective self-government by minority national communities. It argues that there will be increasing challenges to the current international legal rules by minority nationalists, and that it is important to develop a principled response to this challenge. It also argues that the current system privileges state actors to a great extent, and that any attempt to channel self-determination claims in a more benign, non-secessionist direction needs to address the statecentric biases of the current rules.

Wright State University Libraries Access Newsletter Winter 2004, Wright State University Libraries

Access Newsletter

A six page newsletter created by Wright State University Libraries that addresses the current affairs of the Libraries.

Football's Intellectual Side: The Nfl Versus Super Bowl Parties And The Story Of The Fifty-Five Inch Television, 4 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 125 (2004), Michael M. Fenwick

UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law

The increasing popularity of the National Football League’s Super Bowl Championship has spawned an increasing number of private parties, some that employ projection-screen televisions measuring up to twenty feet diagonally. Only days before the 2004 Super Bowl, the NFL sent cease-and-desist letters to a number of business proprietors claiming display of the broadcast on televisions larger than fifty-five inches diagonally violated the NFL’s rights under 17 U.S.C. § 110(5). This Comment will show that because 17 U.S.C. § 110(5) was written to protect authors within the music industry, its application to broadcast television fails because of television’s fundamentally different business …

Exthpress: Lesley University Expressive Therapy Newsletter, Winter 2004, Lesley College

Expressive Therapy Newsletters

Lesley Expressive Therapy Newsletter was first published in Fall 1996 as The Untitled News. From Fall 1997, it was called Expressions. In 2001, it became Expressive Therapy News, and by Spring 2003, it was renamed Exth Press.

The Ferreus Musike Project, David Donar

School of Art Graduate Exhibitions, Portfolios, and Theses

No abstract provided.

Inside Unlv, Gian Galassi, Jennifer Vaughan, Carol C. Harter, Richard Flaherty, Rebecca Mills

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Sociological Theories Of Career Choice: A Study Of Workers In The Special Events Industry, Kathleen Beard Nelson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to develop a greater understanding of occupational/career choice of workers in the special events industry and explore which social science theory(ies) might best explain the entry of those in this particular occupation. In this study, the following dominant factor about workers in the special events industry emerged: occupation as a reflection of self.

Ben Jonson's "Volpone": A Critical Variorum Edition, Michael Wayne Stamps

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Ben Jonson's Volpone: A Critical Variorum provides modern scholars with a comprehensive bibliographic reference work devoted to Jonson's early seventeenth-century dramatic comedy and its four hundred years of critical commentary. By joining together Jonson's Volpone and the work's full complement of editorial information and critical material, this Variorum edition illuminates the play's entire history of critical reception and literary interpretation within a format that allows readers and researchers to follow the evolving lines of influence peculiar to the work's critical tradition and to locate new areas of investigation. Based upon an authoritative copy of the 1607 quarto, the Variorum reprints …

Ideology And Interaction In Internet Action Video Games, Marshall David Smith

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis is an analysis of how the play mechanics of the Return to Castle Wolfenstein videogame influence player cooperation and competition during play as well as an analysis of player chat as indication of cooperation and competition. While the premise of the game is competition the play mechanics of the game were found to induce intricate and extensive cooperation among players. In this study, player communication was primarily focused on achieving game goals, however there was also communication for cooperative efforts. The play mechanics of the game significantly influences the experience of players. Further research must be conducted to …

The Other Side Of The Curtain: The Power And The Potential Of Performance In Public Spaces, Nancy Dieckmann Matheny

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This research study develops a greater understanding of alternative opportunities for performance majors extending beyond traditional theatre venues. The emphasis of this study is the use and application of environmental entertainment. The study examines and synthesizes the skill set, as defined by known executives and decision makers in the entertainment industry who are regularly utilizing the services of environmental entertainers. The resultant data reveals qualities required to successfully gain entrance to and maintain a career as an environmental entertainer.

A Model Of Presidential Power Adjustment During Wartime: "How Curious George Went To Washington And Has Been Detained Ever Since", Joseph Szewczyk

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The President's power is in a state of constant flux. During times of war, the President is allowed an expanse of power normally not available during times of peace. After the war ends or becomes too unpopular, the President relinquishes the power gained. This effect, labeled in the thesis as "Expansion and Constriction", has occurred in the major war eras of the past and is predictable. It is the focus of this thesis to show the existence of the pattern and to use the pattern to discuss the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and …

Tropi Can Can: Race And Performance In '50s Las Vegas, Malcolm Womack

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

In 1955 the Jim Crow resort town of Las Vegas opened its first interracial hotel/casino, the Moulin Rouge, and staged its first all-black production show, the Tropi Can Can revue. On the Cafe Rouge stage were the wild antics Stump & Stumpy, bringing a sad reminder of the past; the romantic music of the Platters, bringing a hopeful note for the future; and the very non-traditional showgirls, bringing a host of audience expectations about the immediate present; This paper attempts to deconstruct and analyze that show and the theatrical elements of the resort, the differing experiences of white and black …

From The Shtetl To The Screen: The Development Of Yiddish Theatre In Performance, Adam Stuart Littman

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This submission comprises a survey of Jewish drama as expressed through Yiddish Theatre in performance. It explores the origins, early trends, and significant works of Yiddish drama. The reader will gain an understanding of the ways in which the Jewish religion guided the emergence of Yiddish Theatre, the heights of achievement in the form, the decline of Yiddish Theatre, and some of the influences such development has had on the theatre world today.

Fray Juan Bautista Sancho: Tracing The Origins Of California's First Composer And The Early Mission Style; Part 2, Craig H. Russell

Music

No abstract provided.

Exponent Vol. 37, No. 16, 2004-01-29, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

2004

No abstract provided.

Exponent Vol. 35, No. 22, 2004-03-10, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

2004

No abstract provided.

Jones V. Jones : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

No abstract provided.

"Forc'd Into An Interest" High Church Politics And Feminine Agency In The Works Of Mary Astell, William Kolbrener

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.

Picturing Aesops Re-Visions Of Aesop's Fables From L'Estrange To Richardson, Anja Muller

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.

The Devil In Tom Jones, Betty Rizzo

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.

Negotiating The Interregnum The Political Works Of Davenant And Tatham, Chad Thomas

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.

King Lear And "The Taste Of The Age," 1681-1838, Jack Lynch

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

No abstract provided.