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Communicating Effectively Across The Cultural Barrier : A Cross-Cultural Study Of The Sydney And Atlanta Hotel Industries, Danielle Lacey Jan 2005

Communicating Effectively Across The Cultural Barrier : A Cross-Cultural Study Of The Sydney And Atlanta Hotel Industries, Danielle Lacey

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This study aimed to look at the importance of cultural awareness across the hospitality industry as a whole and the industry's response to this issue. The research set out three hypotheses based on one main research question. The research question postulated was: What guest services are Sydney and Atlanta hoteliers providing to meet the needs of guests from different cultural backgrounds? The research was carried out using a descriptive qualitative research design, additionally a cross-sectional time frame was used. The research was conducted within the hotel population in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, and in Sydney, New South Wales. …

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Living Beyond The Unanticipated Sudden Death Of A Partner : A Phenomenological Study, Martin L. Rodger Jan 2005

Living Beyond The Unanticipated Sudden Death Of A Partner : A Phenomenological Study, Martin L. Rodger

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This research project used a Husserlian phenomenologlcal approach to explore grief and Its Impact upon men and women who have experienced the sudden and unanticipated death of his or her partner. The use of Husserllan phenomenologlcal research Into thanatologlcal study Is a valuable method of exposing the experiences of bereaved people In a vibrant and deep manner. Husserlian phenomenology allowed the surviving partner to reveal every aspect of his or her everyday life and experlencas. It Included what grief meant to them, how It was manifested In their everyday lives and how their partner's death had Impacted upon his or …

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Responding To Localised Prostate Cancer : Lifeworld Reconstruction During The First Post-Diagnostic Year, David P. Wall Jan 2005

Responding To Localised Prostate Cancer : Lifeworld Reconstruction During The First Post-Diagnostic Year, David P. Wall

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis investigated the experiences of men diagnosed with localised prostate cancer, as they reconstructed their lifeworlds during the first post-diagnostic year. With the exception of health related quality of life, a review of the psychosocial research literature revealed few studies that, explored the psychosocial experience of men diagnosed with localised prostate cancer. Furthermore, the review uncovered no studies that explored the process of Iifeworld reconstruction, and only three studies that considered the role of masculinity in the responses of men to the prostate cancer experience. Such a limited understanding, about the nature and process of lifeworld reconstruction, potentially compromises …

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In Search Of Possibilities : Informal Responding To Domestic Violence, Marilyn Palmer Jan 2005

In Search Of Possibilities : Informal Responding To Domestic Violence, Marilyn Palmer

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis is based on a feminist ethnography. designed to explore how we as members of informal networks (family, social,,student/work and neighbourhood networks) can respond usefully where there is domestic violence. Here, domestic violence refers to violence against women by their intimate partners and I have filtered the various discourses which seek to explain domestic violence through the lens of a feminist ecological model. The inquiry process has been informed by a postmodem feminism. Non-foundationalist ideas about knowledge have influenced the gathering, interpretatation and representation of the research data. The ideas which emanate from the stady have been informed by …

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Survivability Through Pre-Configured Protection In Optical Mesh Networks, Quoc V. Phung Jan 2005

Survivability Through Pre-Configured Protection In Optical Mesh Networks, Quoc V. Phung

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Network survivability is a very important issue, especially in optical networks that carry huge amount of traffic. Network failures which may be caused by human errors, malfunctional systems and natural disaster (eg. Earthquakes and lightening storms), have occurred quite frequently and sometimes with unpredictable consequences. Survivability is defined as the ability of the network to maintain the continuity of service against failures of network components. Pre-configuration and dynamic restoration are two schemes for network survivability. For each scheme, survivability algorithms can be applied at either Optical Channel sublayer (Och) known as link-based. Or, Optical Multiplex Section sublayer (OMS) known as …

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The Impact Of Events In The Immediate Aftermath Of Suicide On Family Members' Bereavement Experiences, Kelly J. Botha Jan 2005

The Impact Of Events In The Immediate Aftermath Of Suicide On Family Members' Bereavement Experiences, Kelly J. Botha

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Suicide remains a leading cause of death in Australia. Consequently, a considerable proportion of the population is, or will be, bereaved due to suicide. These individuals are referred to as survivors of suicide. Literature suggests bereavement is a significant risk factor for adverse health outcomes. The question of whether or not bereavement after suicide, as opposed to other modes of death, renders individuals more susceptible to enduring and complicated grief reactions remains unclear. Numerous key variables have been found to influence the nature, intensity and duration of the grief process. Variables that are likely to be associated with poor bereavement …

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A Study Of Intercultural Discourse Between Mainland Chinese Speakers Of English And Anglo-Australians, Leng Hui Jan 2005

A Study Of Intercultural Discourse Between Mainland Chinese Speakers Of English And Anglo-Australians, Leng Hui

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Intercultural communication between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians is receiving ever-increasing attention in many fields. These fields include intercultural communication. English language teaching, education and business. This study approached the intercultural communication between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians from a cognitive perspective by applying the theoretical framework of cultural linguistics. The intercultural discourse produced by mainland Chinese speakers of English in the context of them interacting with Anglo-Australians was analysed. The analysis was made by employing key concepts such as schemas, cultural schemas, discourse scenarios and discourse indexicals. A body of 39 audio-taped conversations between mainland …

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Analysis Of Job-Training Effects On Korean Women, Myoung-Jae Lee, S. J. Lee Jan 2005

Analysis Of Job-Training Effects On Korean Women, Myoung-Jae Lee, S. J. Lee

Research Collection School Of Economics

We analyse job-training effects on Korean women for the period January 1999 to March 2000, using a large data set of size about 52,000. We employ a number of estimation techniques: Weibull MLE and accelerated failure time approach, which are both parametric; Cox partial likelihood estimator, which is semiparametric; and two pair-matching estimators, which are in essence nonparametric. All of these methods gave the common conclusion that job training for Korean women increased their unemployment duration. The trainings were not cost-effective in the sense that they took too much time 'locking in' the trainees during the training span, compared with …

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Future Job Prospects In Singapore, Hian Teck Hoon Jan 2005

Future Job Prospects In Singapore, Hian Teck Hoon

Research Collection School Of Economics

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The Relationship Between Corporate Social Performance And Financial Asset Characteristics, Ingebjørg Kristoffersen Jan 2005

The Relationship Between Corporate Social Performance And Financial Asset Characteristics, Ingebjørg Kristoffersen

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis explores the theoretical and empirical evidence for a relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and financial characteristics. An empirical analysis is performed to examine the Australian evidence for such a relationship, from a financial asset perspective. CSP data provided by Corporate Monitor Pty. Ltd. are used in the analysis. Specifically, available measures of environmental, social and governance performance of 237 Australian companies are compared with selected financial asset characteristics, including firm size, book-to-market value, financial performance and risk, covering the period between July 1997 and August 2003. Evidence of relationships is sought using bivariate correlations, group comparisons and …

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Children And Healthy Eating: A Global, Policy And School Curriculum Perspective, Erica Logan Jan 2005

Children And Healthy Eating: A Global, Policy And School Curriculum Perspective, Erica Logan

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Healthy eating is a topic most people would consider they have an understanding of, yet it is an area which is not often addressed from a critical perspective. Healthy eating is freely discussed in society. It is a dominant discourse used commercially and frequently appears in educational 'texts', however the discourses surrounding healthy eating for children are not well analysed and are most often controlled by the media and often not challenged. A critical perspective to children's eating is adopted for this portfolio and multiple perspectives bought to bare regarding the globalisation of food cultures, and governance and policy influences …

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The Role Of The Artist At The Beginning Of The Twenty-First Century: An Exploration Of Dialectical Processes In Art And Science With Particular Reference To Biologically Based Art, Judith D. Roche Jan 2005

The Role Of The Artist At The Beginning Of The Twenty-First Century: An Exploration Of Dialectical Processes In Art And Science With Particular Reference To Biologically Based Art, Judith D. Roche

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis examines the role of the artist at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the interaction between art and science in an exploration of the dialectical processes that may occur in that interaction. Researchers have recently developed techniques in stem cell technology and genetic modification that offer remarkable potential and bring possible advantages and disadvantages for scientists and the wider community. In response to these new technologies, scientists and artists have developed collaborative projects and, in some instances, artists have moved from the studio to the science laboratory to create work called sci-art, bio-art, or moistmedia. …

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Outcome Of Home Mechanical Ventilation, N Salahuddin, K Haider, Sj Husain, S Siddiqui, Fazal Hameed Khan, R. Manasia Jan 2005

Outcome Of Home Mechanical Ventilation, N Salahuddin, K Haider, Sj Husain, S Siddiqui, Fazal Hameed Khan, R. Manasia

Department of Anaesthesia

OBJECTIVE: To determine the outcome of patients discharged home on portable ventilator.
DESIGN: Descriptive study.
PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi from January 2000 to December 2004.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: All ventilator-dependent patients discharged home were contacted. Survivors were administered the EQ-5D Quality-of-Life instrument. SPSS version 13 was used to analyze data.
RESULTS: Eleven patients were discharged home on invasive ventilation. Mean age was 49 years (range 10-98 years). Cause of ventilatory failure were cervical spine trauma in 36%, primary neurological disease in 27%, critical illness neuropathy and respiratory failure in 18% …

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Drug Related Critical Incidents, F A. Khan, M Q. Hoda Jan 2005

Drug Related Critical Incidents, F A. Khan, M Q. Hoda

Department of Anaesthesia

Drug related incidents are a common form of reported medical errors. This paper reviews the critical incidents related to drug errors reported from the main operating theatre suite in a teaching hospital in a developing country from January 1997 to December 2002. Each report was evaluated individually by two reviewers using a structured process. During this period, 44 874 anaesthetics were administered; 768 critical incidents were reported, 165 (21%) of which were related to drug errors. Underdosage, side-effect/drug reaction and syringe swap were the most common. A total of 76% were classified as preventable; 56% due to human error and …

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Uniform Accountancy Act, Standards For Regulation Including Substantial Equivalency, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa), National Association Of State Boards Of Accountancy Jan 2005

Uniform Accountancy Act, Standards For Regulation Including Substantial Equivalency, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa), National Association Of State Boards Of Accountancy

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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Asb Meeting Minutes, 2005, February 1-3;Auditing Standards Board Approved Highlights, 2005, February 1-3, Meeting, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jan 2005

Asb Meeting Minutes, 2005, February 1-3;Auditing Standards Board Approved Highlights, 2005, February 1-3, Meeting, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

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Asb Meeting Minutes, 2005, October 11-13;Auditing Standards Board Highlights, 2005, October 11-13, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jan 2005

Asb Meeting Minutes, 2005, October 11-13;Auditing Standards Board Highlights, 2005, October 11-13, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

No abstract provided.

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Management Override Of Internal Controls : The Achilles' Heel Of Fraud Prevention : The Audit Committee And Oversight Of Financial Reporting, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Antifraud Programs And Controls Task Force Jan 2005

Management Override Of Internal Controls : The Achilles' Heel Of Fraud Prevention : The Audit Committee And Oversight Of Financial Reporting, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Antifraud Programs And Controls Task Force

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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Communication Skills In Girls With Rett Syndrome: Perceptions Of Parents, Teachers And Speech-Language Pathologists, Theresa E. Bartolotta Jan 2005

Communication Skills In Girls With Rett Syndrome: Perceptions Of Parents, Teachers And Speech-Language Pathologists, Theresa E. Bartolotta

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Advertising To New Parents -- An Examination Of The Ways Select Children's Product Manufacturers Attract New Parents As Potential Customers, John L. Mccullough Jr. Jan 2005

Advertising To New Parents -- An Examination Of The Ways Select Children's Product Manufacturers Attract New Parents As Potential Customers, John L. Mccullough Jr.

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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The Interactive Question Protocol: Examining The Relationship Between Feedback, Cognitive Development And Student Achievement, G. Simon Richmond Jan 2005

The Interactive Question Protocol: Examining The Relationship Between Feedback, Cognitive Development And Student Achievement, G. Simon Richmond

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

Feedback is an essential component of effective learning. The advent of the internet as a delivery mode for distance education has expanded the access many people have to higher learning. Despite many advantages that online courses provide for distance learning students, they often lack real time feedback. A software intervention called the Interactive Question Protocol was designed for this study to provide automated, real time feedback. That treatment was then contrasted against changes in student achievement, satisfaction and participation. Learners can be categorized by Perry's scheme of mental maturity according to how they understand and interpret the knowledge they acquire. …

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Teacher Learning: Documentation, Collaboration, And Reflection, William A. Parnell Jan 2005

Teacher Learning: Documentation, Collaboration, And Reflection, William A. Parnell

Dissertations and Theses

Inspired by the Municipal preprimary schools of Reggio Emilia, Italy, two art studio teachers and a researcher have explored experiences and meaning in the atelier. When studio teachers document children's thinking through digital photographs. transcribed audio tapes, quotations of a child's verbal thoughts, and copies of their work, an indescribable moment in teacher thinking interweaves with the child's learning, As teachers capture children's representations, investigate, interpret, and share their ideas with colleagues and community-an underlying question emerges. What are studio teachers' experiences o/teaching-learning in the atelier as they utilize documentation, collaboration, and reflection as a way to inform their practices? …

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A Study Of Job Satisfaction Among High School Principals In Pennsylvania, Robert Lombardo Jan 2005

A Study Of Job Satisfaction Among High School Principals In Pennsylvania, Robert Lombardo

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The purpose of this study was to determine the overall job satisfaction of high school principals in Pennsylvania. The Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire long form was the instrument used for this study. The study used a proportional random sampling to survey the four hundred and twenty six high school principals in Pennsylvania. The study surveyed two hundred and twenty five male high school principals and eighty female high school principals. The study determined the level of intrinsic and extrinsic satisfaction and determined the relationship of selected factors of gender; age; ethnicity; levels of education; salary level; years of experience; number …

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Mandated Healthcare Will It Work?, Anna Vira Jan 2005

Mandated Healthcare Will It Work?, Anna Vira

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Protecting The Communication Structure In Sensor Networks, S. Olariu, Q. Xu, M. Eltoweissy, A. Wadaa Jan 2005

Protecting The Communication Structure In Sensor Networks, S. Olariu, Q. Xu, M. Eltoweissy, A. Wadaa

Computer Science Faculty Publications

In the near future wireless sensor networks will be employed in a wide variety of applications establishing ubiquitous networks that will pervade society. The inherent vulnerability of these massively deployed networks to a multitude of threats, including physical tampering with nodes exacerbates concerns about privacy and security. For example, denial of service attacks (DoS) that compromise or disrupt communications or target nodes serving key roles in the network, e.g. sink nodes, can easily undermine the functionality as well as the performance delivered by the network. Particularly vulnerable are the components of the communications or operation infrastructure. Although, by construction, most …

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Law And Development As Democratic Practice, Thomas F. Mcinerney Jan 2005

Law And Development As Democratic Practice, Thomas F. Mcinerney

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The importance of law and institutions to development is now widely recognized. Significant amounts of development assistance now target legal and institutional reform. These efforts have generally viewed legal and institutional reform as technical matters. Designing laws and institutions appropriate to local circumstances has been seen as primarily requiring the application of competent expertise. Yet practitioners in this field may gain a different perspective. Reforms that on paper seem wise may not get implemented, and those that are implemented may not achieve their intended aims. In this Article, the Author contends that one reason for this outcome is the failure …

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Rethinking Life Online: The Interactional Self As A Theory For Internet-Mediated Communication, Marcelo Vieta Jan 2005

Rethinking Life Online: The Interactional Self As A Theory For Internet-Mediated Communication, Marcelo Vieta

Iowa Journal of Communication

Informed by the philosophies of Martin Heidegger, George Herbert Mead, and Alfred Schutz, this paper presents an emerging concept called the interactional self to illustrate how there are no clear phenomenological distinctions between the so-called "virtual world" and the dichotomously positioned "real world" in Internet-mediated communication settings. Ultimately, the paper shows how the philosophies of human experience can help the communication researcher better conceptualize the tight intermingling of the online with the offline, users' phenomenologically-rooted use-contexts, performative practices, and intersubjective life-world experiences in Internet-mediated sociability.

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Frankfurtschool.Com: The Application Of The Frankfurt Schools' Critical Scholarship To The Internet, Magdalena Wojcieszak Jan 2005

Frankfurtschool.Com: The Application Of The Frankfurt Schools' Critical Scholarship To The Internet, Magdalena Wojcieszak

Iowa Journal of Communication

This paper applies the Frankfurt School theorists' conceptualization of the culture industry to the internet. First, it describes the culture industry and then it positions the debate surrounding the social impact of the internet in the framework provided by the Frankfurt scholars. This paper argues that the characteristics of the culture industry, such as rationality of production, concentration of power, and homogeneity of products and messages, do not apply to the structural features of the internet. Decentralization, end-to-end reciprocal communication, digital content, and a "commons" facilitate dissent, heterogeneity and liberalization. But increasing online commercialization and centralized control undermine the internet's …

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Iowa Journal Of Communication, Volume 37, Number 1, Spring 2005 [Download Entire Issue] Jan 2005

Iowa Journal Of Communication, Volume 37, Number 1, Spring 2005 [Download Entire Issue]

Iowa Journal of Communication

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Restoring Image In Party Schools, Rod Pritchard Jan 2005

Restoring Image In Party Schools, Rod Pritchard

Iowa Journal of Communication

College ranking guides have gained prominence and popularity in recent years as consumer-driven parents seek to find the best educational institutions for their children. While The Princeton Review's The Best Colleges publication has emerged as a popular college guide, at least one designation in the annual college guidebook, "Party Schools" (Franek et al., 2004, p. 43), creates a negative image for the colleges and universities listed. In an effort to protect the reputation of these institutions, research indicates that image restoration management techniques are widely implemented. The use of the defensive image restoration strategies is the most common, but the …

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