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H. Wayne Huizenga College Of Business And Entrepreneurship Graduate Student Catalog 2005-2006, Nova Southeastern University

Huizenga Postgraduate Course Catalogs

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College Of Optometry Student Handbook 2005-2006, Nova Southeastern University

Health Professions Divisions Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions

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On The Utility Of Stochastic Models Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Rebecca Boehm

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive and irreversible lung disease characterized by reduced lung function, abnormal inflammatory response, dyspnea, increased sputum production, and costly and debilitating exacerbations. Common treatments for COPD include smoking cessation therapy, short- and long-acting bronchodilators, inhaled corticosteroids, pulmonary rehabilitation, and home oxygen therapy. However, a recent meta-analysis demonstrated that inhaled corticosteroids fail to slow the decline in FEV1, the primary clinical marker of COPD progression. In addition, some evidence exists to suggest that long-term inhaled corticosteroid use may increase bone density loss, leading to osteoporosis. Given that the bone health effects of inhaled corticosteroid …

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General Catalog 2005-2006, Utah State University

University Catalogs

Contains course descriptions, University college calendar, and college administration

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A Terrible Purity: International Law, Morality, Religion, Exclusion, Tawia Ansah

Cornell International Law Journal

Explores the separations, constructions, & barriers between law & religion from both a secular & religious perspective. Maintaining boundaries between law & religion often results in the construction of the repudiated religious Other. Creation of a public/private divide is based on an exclusion that functions like what psychoanalysts call abjection. However, the abject (religion) is a latent source of creativity that remains outside the domain of the law but weakens it as the primary site of authority. Removing religion from the sidelines of public juridical dialogue reduces the constraining power of discourse & widens the states discretion. The failure of …

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Tyranny On Trial: Personality And Courtroom Conduct Of Defendants Slobodan Milosevic And Saddam Hussein, Jerrold M. Post, Lara K. Panis

Cornell International Law Journal

In this essay in the Symposium on Milosevic & Hussein on Trial, the author explores the impacts of personality & courtroom conduct in trial outcome to argue that the likenesses between the two defendants will result in Saddam's projection of grand defiance. Biographical narratives of the two leaders trace the psychological development of each personality through childhood to their political careers characterized by defiant resistance & compensatory grandiosity that may be the source of the similarities of behaviors in the courtroom. Asserting that Saddam is following the Milosevic model of courtroom behavior by derailment of the proceeding, exploitation of the …

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Errors And Missteps: Key Lessons The Iraqi Special Tribunal Can Learn From The Icty, Ictr, And Scsl, Michael P. Scharf, Ahran Kang

Cornell International Law Journal

In this article in the Symposium on Milosevic & Hussein on Trial, the author argues that the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) can learn much from the successes & missteps of previous international criminal tribunals. Key lessons from the International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), & the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) are comparatively discussed with statutes of the IST regarding issues of credibility, building prosecutorial strategy, challenges to legitimacy, limitations to the right of self representation, television presence, the role of observers, the Quoque defense, protection of court witnesses, judicial …

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The Motivational Account Of The Genius Effect: Examining Self-Esteem Protection Using Self-Zoo Variables, Christine Marie Abraham

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Deciphering Walter Daniel's Use Of Scripture: Aelred Of Rievaulx As Exemplar Of Monastic Sanctity, Chad Edward Turner

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Family Chaos And Coping: Contributions To Peer Interaction, Christina Michelle Urbanowicz

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Emotional And Attitudinal Responses To Remote Versus Co-Located Usability Testing, Michael J. Goliber

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Current usability testing is often conducted via face-to-face interactions. This method can be costly, both in terms of timelines and budget. However, remote usability testing has been shown to be a viable alternative, in that performance scores have been shown to be quite similar to face-to-face methods. Although performance appears similar, remote usability testing may present challenges that threaten the validity and reliability of usability testing results. Rather than focusing on the performance of users in remote versus co-located conditions, the proposed study investigates the emotional and attitudinal responses of users engaged in software usability tests. The purpose of this …

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Collaboration Between Universities And Public Schools For Improved Student Achievement: A Report On The Progress Of A Developing Partnership, Paul T. Hackett, James E. Witte, Maria Martinez Witte, Iris Saltiel, Mike Johnson, Kathy Hesler

Perspectives In Learning

This article reports the progress of one project aimed at bringing together professionals from post-secondary and K-12 environments. The project is being implemented at Richards Middle (RMS) in Columbus, Georgia and involves a collaborative partnership between several universities and RMS, resulting in a school-based evaluation initiative with direct implications for strengthening leadership, training, and instructional practices in schools. Faculty researchers from three universities from two states, Troy University, Columbus State University, and Auburn University are working collaboratively with faculty and staff of Richards Middle School on an inquiry with a three-fold purpose. The primary goal is to evaluate the effectiveness …

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Child And Adolescent Depression And Suicide: The Role Of The School Counselor In Assessment And Treatment, Naomi M. Hitchcock, Leigh Lovelette

Perspectives In Learning

Suicide is the third leading cause of adolescent death in the United States. This alarming statistic has been widely studied and debated for years. It has become a consensus that because adolescents spend more than a third of their time in school, suicide intervention strategies must be put into place school-wide. There has also been “heightened awareness of the need for effective crisis intervention in public schools” (Allen et al., 2002, p. 96) nationwide. Kennedy (1999) feels that teaching students about violence and prevention is just as important as teaching them to read and write. More of the responsibility for …

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The German Parental-Leave System As A Model For California: Creating A Race To The Top Within A Federal System, Dirk Larsen

UC Law SF International Law Review

When the U.S. Congress was drafting the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, it looked to Germany as an example of a country with generous family-leave policies as well as a strong economy. Due to opposition from the business sector and reluctance to regulate family life, the resulting legislation was much weaker than its German counterpart. Since that time, Germany's social order proved less self-sustaining than previously thought. The author compares the relative merits, successes, and failures of Germany's and California's parental-leave policies and suggests that California could stand to benefit by adopting modified aspects of the German model …

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Development Of A Knowledge Management Model In Large-Scale International Space Science Projects, Jose Luis Nunez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Large-scale international science projects (LISPs) are those projects where two or more countries formally agree to cooperate toward the achievement of a scientific, research and development, or engineering goal. In general, only projects exceeding $1 billion U.S. are considered LISPs, so sheer size commands attention, and because they are so costly and visible, failure can lead to significant scientific, financial and political consequences. This researched focused on how 7 different critical success factors impacted the level of technical interface knowledge shared among international partners involved in a large-scale international space science project (LISSP) the International Space Station (ISS), which …

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Designing A Document Delivery System For Ucf S Interlibrary Loan Department, Abha Y. Trivedi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Interlibrary Loan entails obtaining copies of library materials not found in the library's collection on behalf of the library's patrons (borrowing), as well as providing copies of library materials requested by other libraries (lending). The dynamic nature of today's library environment is well illustrated by the rapid changes occurring in the role of interlibrary loan. The vision statement of the University of Central Florida Library is: The library performs a central role of adding value to information for the academic community by creatively improving and providing information resources and services. The library strives to create an environment that encourages the …

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Creating A Family-Centered Plan: Family Negotiation In Child Welfare, Margaret Severson, Kim Burns

Journal of Family Strengths

In this article, the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings for child welfare negotiations, assessment strategies useful in preparing for such negotiations, and practice implications for child protective service workers involved in the process are explored. Particular emphasis is given to the benefits of employing negotiation techniques in child welfare matters. The opportunities to use negotiation strategies are numerous in the child welfare arena. They range from formal mediation of an adoption plan, to family group conferencing of a placement issue, to negotiating a visitation and access plan with a parent. Common to all of these situations is the recognition that families …

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Preserving Family: Themes From A Qualitative Study Of Kin Caregivers, Don Cohon, Lisa Hines, Bruce A. Cooper, Wendy Packman, Elizabeth Siggins

Journal of Family Strengths

This article presents themes from a qualitative study of 58 African American female kinship caregivers in San Francisco. Core concepts that emerged describe various paths along which children move into kin homes, and caregivers' mixed emotional reactions to becoming surrogate parents. Women also discussed multiple family roles they assumed after taking in children. Responses highlight three primary reasons for becoming caregivers that center on providing for and protecting these children—particularly from the perceived threat of the public foster care system—and ultimately preserving the family unit. Paradoxically, caregivers' reasons mirror the stated goals of the public foster care system, which they …

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Family Preservation: Perceptions Of Effectiveness, Frank G. Kauffman

Journal of Family Strengths

This qualitative study examines the attributes or perceptions of service providers and overseers as to the effectiveness of intensive family preservation services provided by a social services agency in Tucson, Arizona. The services provided are patterned after the Homebuilders' model developed in 1974 in Tacoma, Washington. Data collection was generated from interviews and focus groups with the in-home service providers, the program supervisor, and investigators and case managers with Child Protective Services (CPS). Although placement prevention rates (PPR) are the dependent variable in most studies on this form of intervention, this study seeks to understand those characteristics of the model …

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Family Reunification Among Two Groups Of Runaway Adolescents Utilizing Emergency Shelters, Sanna J. Thompson, Liliane Cambraia Windsor, Kim Zittel-Palamara

Journal of Family Strengths

Limited research has addressed reunification of runaway youths with their families following an emergency shelter stay; however, recent studies have shown that those who reunify with their families following a shelter stay have more positive outcomes than those relocated to other residences. This study evaluated differences between two samples of runaway youth utilizing youth emergency shelters in New York (n = 155) and Texas (n = 195) and identified factors associated with reunification among these two groups of adolescents. Less than half (43.7%) of the youths were reunited with their families. Among New York runaway youths, those who had lived …

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Heart And Soul: A New Rhythm For Clinical Externships, Leslie Larkin Cooney

St. Thomas Law Review

The message of Therapeutic Jurisprudence is simple - focus on emotional life and psychological well-being and practice law as a healing profession - but the application of Therapeutic Jurisprudence to clinical teaching can have far ranging results. "Lawyers trained to be professionals have not been trained in how to respond to the anxiety, hurt feelings, and other emotions ... ," Law students arriving today in our clinical education settings require extra attention to the development of interpersonal skills for a variety of reasons. This article explores the concepts and development of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and outlines the benefits derived from incorporating …

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Practicing (And Teaching) Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Importing Social Work Principles And Techniques Into Clinical Legal Education, Susan L. Brooks

St. Thomas Law Review

Practicing Therapeutic Jurisprudence ("TJ") requires proponents to advance a particular normative framework. As a clinical social worker turned lawyer, who is now also a clinical law teacher, I believe strongly that the field of social work provides a useful framework for legal education and practice. As I will demonstrate through examples from my teaching and my students' practice experiences, the role of the clinical law teacher is uniquely and well suited to apply social work values, principles, concepts, and techniques. By importing these core social work elements into the clinical legal education, faculty can truly teach future lawyers to practice …

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Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Preventative Law In The Thomas M. Cooley Sixty Plus, Inc., Elder Law Clinic, Cindy E. Faulkner

St. Thomas Law Review

Gertrude Smith phones the SixtyPlus, Inc., Elderlaw Clinic ("Clinic") to schedule an appointment. She informs the receptionist that she wants to come to the Clinic so she can "get a trust." Ms. Smith is scheduled for an intake appointment to meet with two student legal interns ("interns"). Ms. Smith arrives for her appointment, is introduced to the interns, and agrees to be interviewed. The senior intern (a student in her second term at the Clinic) begins the interview by asking Ms. Smith what brought her to the Clinic. Ms. Smith reiterates that she "wants a trust because it is the …

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From Violence And Victimization To Voice And Validation: Incorporating Therapeutic Jurisprudence In A Children's Law Clinic, Carolyn S. Salisbury

St. Thomas Law Review

This article discusses our Clinic's Voice Project and examines the application of Therapeutic Jurisprudence principles to the group of foster children who created the Trapped mural: girls who are victims of abuse and who are committed to psychiatric facilities. In their self-expression, an overwhelming number of the girls focused on their experiences of being sexually abused and feeling re-victimized within the psychiatric and legal systems. Unfortunately, "[u]nlike most victims of other sexualized violence, the victims of child sexual abuse have had little or no voice, creating a literal as well as figurative absence of narrative about the harm." In this …

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Making The Case: Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Problem-Solving Practices Positively Impact Clients, Justice Systems And Communities They Serve, Cait Clarke, James Neuhard

St. Thomas Law Review

What is becoming known as Therapeutic Jurisprudence or client-centered representation is new to most line-lawyers or leaders of traditional public defense programs. However, many of these practices have been incorporated into the daily practices within defender offices for decades. Strategies that secure better bonds or sentences lead many public defense programs to seek early entry into the jails and to verify client information. Efforts to learn about "beds" for their clients that were unknown to swamped probation programs have lead offices and individual defenders to actively participate and create alternative treatment programs. Overworked offices hire less expensive sentencing specialists or …

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Therapeutic Jurisprudence And The Law School Asylum Clinic, Ingrid Loreen

St. Thomas Law Review

This paper will explore how law school clinics in general, and asylum clinics in particular, can prepare students for healthier, more satisfied careers in the law by introducing them to one of the comprehensive law movements which has gained popularity in the last decades. By understanding the effects of trauma on their clients and by explicitly addressing issues of empathy, emotional intelligence, and cross-cultural communication, law school clinics, which already complement the traditional legal curriculum in significant ways, will improve and enrich the experience for both the client and the law student.

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An Empirically-Supported Rational Basis For Prohibiting Adoption, Foster Parenting, And Contested Child Custody By Any Person Residing In A Household That Includes A Homosexually-Behaving Member, George A. Rekers

St. Thomas Law Review

Representative empirical evidence and common sense reasoning are reviewed below which necessitate the logical conclusion that households with one or more homosexually-behaving adults or adolescents should be prohibited from adoption and from foster parenting, and were found to be less capable of providing the best family structure in cases of contested child custody. Hundreds of additional scientific studies also support these three reasons for this rational basis, but space limitations necessitate the presentation of only a number of representative sources of supporting evidence here.

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The Inner Lives Of Children In Lesbigay Adoption: Narratives And Other Concerns, Lynn D. Wardle

St. Thomas Law Review

This article attempts to review some of the serious, non-stereotyped concerns that underlie some of the objections of thoughtful legal commentators to adoption of children by gay and lesbian couples or partners. These objections fall into four categories of significant concern: (1) the best interests of children, (2) the integrity of the legal institution of adoption, (3) inappropriate judicial behavior, including manifestation of bias and animus, and the exercise of (legislative) policy-making prerogatives, and (4) the failure to explore, much less carefully consider, alternative solutions (and the hasty abandonment of processes of careful, incremental change to embrace a radical, but …

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Family Norms In Adoption Law: Safeguarding The Best Interests Of The Adopted Child, Camille S. Williams

St. Thomas Law Review

Because a number of negative circumstances or outcomes correlate with non-conjugal couple household structures and alternative sexualities, 6 lowering the high standard for adoptive parents that has been the hallmark of best adoption practices in the U.S. may not be the best option for addressing the needs of children whose biological parents cannot care for them.

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Adult Sexual Desire And The Best Interest Of The Child, Richard G. Wilkins, Trent Christensen, Eric Selden

St. Thomas Law Review

In Lofton v. Secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit sustained Florida's legislative decision to restrict adoption to heterosexual married couples or unmarried individuals not engaged in homosexual conduct. The court rejected claims by prospective homosexual parents that Florida had impermissibly intruded upon their familial privacy rights, unconstitutionally burdened their right to private sexual intimacy, and - by treating homosexual applicants for adoption differently than heterosexual applicants - transgressed the commands of the Equal Protection Clause. The court properly rejected these contentions. All of the plaintiffs' claims ultimately …

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H. Wayne Huizenga College Of Business And Entrepreneurship Graduate Student Catalog 2005-2006, Nova Southeastern University

Huizenga Postgraduate Course Catalogs

College Of Optometry Student Handbook 2005-2006, Nova Southeastern University

Health Professions Divisions Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions

On The Utility Of Stochastic Models Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Rebecca Boehm

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

General Catalog 2005-2006, Utah State University

University Catalogs

A Terrible Purity: International Law, Morality, Religion, Exclusion, Tawia Ansah

Cornell International Law Journal

Tyranny On Trial: Personality And Courtroom Conduct Of Defendants Slobodan Milosevic And Saddam Hussein, Jerrold M. Post, Lara K. Panis

Cornell International Law Journal

Errors And Missteps: Key Lessons The Iraqi Special Tribunal Can Learn From The Icty, Ictr, And Scsl, Michael P. Scharf, Ahran Kang

Cornell International Law Journal

The Motivational Account Of The Genius Effect: Examining Self-Esteem Protection Using Self-Zoo Variables, Christine Marie Abraham

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Deciphering Walter Daniel's Use Of Scripture: Aelred Of Rievaulx As Exemplar Of Monastic Sanctity, Chad Edward Turner

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Family Chaos And Coping: Contributions To Peer Interaction, Christina Michelle Urbanowicz

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Emotional And Attitudinal Responses To Remote Versus Co-Located Usability Testing, Michael J. Goliber

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Collaboration Between Universities And Public Schools For Improved Student Achievement: A Report On The Progress Of A Developing Partnership, Paul T. Hackett, James E. Witte, Maria Martinez Witte, Iris Saltiel, Mike Johnson, Kathy Hesler

Perspectives In Learning

Child And Adolescent Depression And Suicide: The Role Of The School Counselor In Assessment And Treatment, Naomi M. Hitchcock, Leigh Lovelette

Perspectives In Learning

The German Parental-Leave System As A Model For California: Creating A Race To The Top Within A Federal System, Dirk Larsen

UC Law SF International Law Review

Development Of A Knowledge Management Model In Large-Scale International Space Science Projects, Jose Luis Nunez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Designing A Document Delivery System For Ucf S Interlibrary Loan Department, Abha Y. Trivedi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Creating A Family-Centered Plan: Family Negotiation In Child Welfare, Margaret Severson, Kim Burns

Journal of Family Strengths

Preserving Family: Themes From A Qualitative Study Of Kin Caregivers, Don Cohon, Lisa Hines, Bruce A. Cooper, Wendy Packman, Elizabeth Siggins

Journal of Family Strengths

Family Preservation: Perceptions Of Effectiveness, Frank G. Kauffman

Journal of Family Strengths

Family Reunification Among Two Groups Of Runaway Adolescents Utilizing Emergency Shelters, Sanna J. Thompson, Liliane Cambraia Windsor, Kim Zittel-Palamara

Journal of Family Strengths

Heart And Soul: A New Rhythm For Clinical Externships, Leslie Larkin Cooney

St. Thomas Law Review

Practicing (And Teaching) Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Importing Social Work Principles And Techniques Into Clinical Legal Education, Susan L. Brooks

St. Thomas Law Review

Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Preventative Law In The Thomas M. Cooley Sixty Plus, Inc., Elder Law Clinic, Cindy E. Faulkner

St. Thomas Law Review

From Violence And Victimization To Voice And Validation: Incorporating Therapeutic Jurisprudence In A Children's Law Clinic, Carolyn S. Salisbury

St. Thomas Law Review

Making The Case: Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Problem-Solving Practices Positively Impact Clients, Justice Systems And Communities They Serve, Cait Clarke, James Neuhard

St. Thomas Law Review

Therapeutic Jurisprudence And The Law School Asylum Clinic, Ingrid Loreen

St. Thomas Law Review

An Empirically-Supported Rational Basis For Prohibiting Adoption, Foster Parenting, And Contested Child Custody By Any Person Residing In A Household That Includes A Homosexually-Behaving Member, George A. Rekers

St. Thomas Law Review

The Inner Lives Of Children In Lesbigay Adoption: Narratives And Other Concerns, Lynn D. Wardle

St. Thomas Law Review

Family Norms In Adoption Law: Safeguarding The Best Interests Of The Adopted Child, Camille S. Williams

St. Thomas Law Review

Adult Sexual Desire And The Best Interest Of The Child, Richard G. Wilkins, Trent Christensen, Eric Selden

St. Thomas Law Review