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Producing “The Diary Of Anne Frank” In The 21St Century, Nancy Camina Dec 2005

Producing “The Diary Of Anne Frank” In The 21St Century, Nancy Camina

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This thesis is a Creative Study involving the directing of The Diary of Anne Frank . Three basic areas are addressed: Preplanning, Production and Evaluation. The Preplanning chapter entails discovering every aspect of the play through an external an internal analysis of the script. The external analysis examines various historical events that preceded and are concurrent to the action of the play. The internal analysis looks at various elements within the play that may be unfamiliar to both the actors and the audience. The production chapter details every phase involved in producing the play. The last chapter, Evaluation, uses both …

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Simulating Discriminatory Profiling, Oscar Neal Dec 2005

Simulating Discriminatory Profiling, Oscar Neal

Masters Theses

There is a concern that racial profiling is being used to invoke searches and stops in spite of its violation of the fourth amendment. Simulation methods are used to study the correlation test of stops, searches and citations with race, age, and gender. The design uses sensitivity analysis of inputs to determine their relationship to outputs statistics of a police department's citations and stops. Experimental results are than used to verify and predict departmental bias. A simulation program written in Visual Basic is used as a tool to explore simulation techniques. A formulation of simulation uses in studying discriminatory profiling …

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Judicial Opinion On The Criminality Of Sports Violence In The United States, Mathew P. Barry, Richard L. Fox, Clark Jones Dec 2005

Judicial Opinion On The Criminality Of Sports Violence In The United States, Mathew P. Barry, Richard L. Fox, Clark Jones

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

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More 'Filthy Words' But No 'Free Passes' For The 'Cost Of Doing Business': New Legislation Is The Best Regulation For Broadcast Indecency, Jennifer L. Marino Dec 2005

More 'Filthy Words' But No 'Free Passes' For The 'Cost Of Doing Business': New Legislation Is The Best Regulation For Broadcast Indecency, Jennifer L. Marino

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

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Who Should Profit? The Balancing Act Between A Celebrity's Right To Publicity And The Public's Right Of Freedom Of Expression In A Capitalist Society, Amanda Lloyd Dec 2005

Who Should Profit? The Balancing Act Between A Celebrity's Right To Publicity And The Public's Right Of Freedom Of Expression In A Capitalist Society, Amanda Lloyd

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

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Attacking The Ncaa's Anti-Transfer Rules As Covenants Not To Compete, Ray Yasser, Clay Fees Dec 2005

Attacking The Ncaa's Anti-Transfer Rules As Covenants Not To Compete, Ray Yasser, Clay Fees

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

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You Don't Like It...Change The (Expletive Deleted) Channel!: An Analysis Of The Constitutional Issues That Plague Fcc Enforcement Actions And A Proposal For Deregulation In Favor Of Direct Consumer Control, Ian J. Antonoff Dec 2005

You Don't Like It...Change The (Expletive Deleted) Channel!: An Analysis Of The Constitutional Issues That Plague Fcc Enforcement Actions And A Proposal For Deregulation In Favor Of Direct Consumer Control, Ian J. Antonoff

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

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Getting Due Process Into The Game: A Look At The Ncaa's Failure To Provide Member Institutions With Due Process And The Effect On Student-Athletes, Katherine Elizabeth Maskevich Dec 2005

Getting Due Process Into The Game: A Look At The Ncaa's Failure To Provide Member Institutions With Due Process And The Effect On Student-Athletes, Katherine Elizabeth Maskevich

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

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27 | Shoham (North): Late Chalcolithic Burial Caves In The Lod Valley, Israel, Edwin C.M. Van Den Brink, Ram Gophna Dec 2005

27 | Shoham (North): Late Chalcolithic Burial Caves In The Lod Valley, Israel, Edwin C.M. Van Den Brink, Ram Gophna

IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority

The IAA salvage excavations at Shoham in the Lod Valley revealed four interconnected karstic caves that were used for burial as well as domestic purposes during the Chalcolithic period and the Early Bronze Age I and Intermediate Bronze Age. They are part of an entire system of cemeteries located within the karstic caves in the limestone foothills of the region. The finds include rich assemblages of burial goods, particularly the ceramic ossuaries of the Chalcolithic period. The finds enable a better understanding of Chalcolithic mortuary behavior in the region, and the relationship between the settlements and the cemeteries––the living and …

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Effect Of Hormone Replacement Therapy On Hemostatic Variables In Post-Menopausal Women, Hana M. Al-Farra, Sahar K. Al-Fahoum, Mohammed A. Tabbaa Dec 2005

Effect Of Hormone Replacement Therapy On Hemostatic Variables In Post-Menopausal Women, Hana M. Al-Farra, Sahar K. Al-Fahoum, Mohammed A. Tabbaa

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been increasingly promoted over the last 40 years to improve quality of life, and to reduce the risks of osteoporotic fractures and coronary heart disease (CHD). Recent randomized controlled clinical trials reported that HRT usage is associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and venous thrombosis. We conducted this study to evaluate the mean levels of some hemostatic parameters among groups that differ in estrogen levels and age. METHODS: We studied 150 healthy women in an observational comparative study, divided into 3 groups. Forty women were post-menopausal using HRT for a …

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Chlamydia Pneumoniae Seropositivity And Risk Of Developing Coronary Heart Disease In Western Saudi Arabia, Aiman M. Momenah, Mohammed T. Tayeb Dec 2005

Chlamydia Pneumoniae Seropositivity And Risk Of Developing Coronary Heart Disease In Western Saudi Arabia, Aiman M. Momenah, Mohammed T. Tayeb

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the seroprevalence of IgG and IgA antibodies against Chlamydia pneumoniae (C. pneumoniae) among a sample of the Saudi population, and to evaluate whether there is a relationship between seropositivity to chronic infection with C. pneumoniae and the manifestation of symptomatic coronary heart disease (CHD). METHODS: We collected 273 sera samples from CHD patients and 273 sera samples from healthy matched controls from the Western region of Saudi Arabia during the period from November 2004 to May 2005. We tested anti-chlamydial IgG and IgA antibodies using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay technique. RESULTS: We found 239 (87.5%) patients and 213 …

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Fraud On The Market: Short Sellers' Reliance On Market Price Integrity, Douglas A. Smith Dec 2005

Fraud On The Market: Short Sellers' Reliance On Market Price Integrity, Douglas A. Smith

William & Mary Law Review

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Recounting The Odds Of An Even Derangement, Arthur T. Benjamin, Curtis T. Bennett, Florence Newberger Dec 2005

Recounting The Odds Of An Even Derangement, Arthur T. Benjamin, Curtis T. Bennett, Florence Newberger

Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science Faculty Works

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Blind Spots: The Effects Of Information And Stakes On Fairness Bias And Dispersion, James Konow Dec 2005

Blind Spots: The Effects Of Information And Stakes On Fairness Bias And Dispersion, James Konow

Economics Faculty Works

Mounting empirical research provides evidence of fairness bias and its economic and social effects, where fairness bias refers here to a deviation of claims from unbiased justice due to a personal stake. A far less appreciated issue is dispersion of fairness views and claims, which is also important for its effects on disagreements, empirical analysis, and philosophical theories. This study undertakes a systematic analysis of the effects on fairness bias and dispersion of two variables: stakes and information. Most philosophical and social science analyses related to justice and bias associate heightened bias with increased information and, conversely, impartiality with the …

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Banging On The Backdoor Draft: The Constitutional Validity Of Stop-Loss In The Military, Evan M. Wooten Dec 2005

Banging On The Backdoor Draft: The Constitutional Validity Of Stop-Loss In The Military, Evan M. Wooten

William & Mary Law Review

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The Supreme Court And Foreign Sources Of Law: Two Hundred Years Of Practice And The Juvenile Death Penalty Decision, Steven Calabresi, Stephanie Dotson Zimdahl Dec 2005

The Supreme Court And Foreign Sources Of Law: Two Hundred Years Of Practice And The Juvenile Death Penalty Decision, Steven Calabresi, Stephanie Dotson Zimdahl

William & Mary Law Review

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Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome, Robert J. Shprintzen, Anne Marie Higgins, Kevin M. Antshel, Wanda Fremont, Nancy Roizen, Wendy R. Kates Dec 2005

Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome, Robert J. Shprintzen, Anne Marie Higgins, Kevin M. Antshel, Wanda Fremont, Nancy Roizen, Wendy R. Kates

Communication Disorders Faculty Publications

Purpose of review: Velo-cardio-facial syndrome has emerged from obscurity to become one of the most researched disorders this past decade. It is one of the most common genetic syndromes in humans, the most common contiguous gene syndrome in humans, the most common syndrome of cleft palate, and the most common syndrome of conotruncal heart malformations. Velo-cardio-facial syndrome has an expansive phenotype, a factor reflected in the wide range of studies that cover both clinical features and molecular genetics. In this review, we cover multiple areas of research during the past year, including psychiatric disorders, neuroimaging, and the delineation of clinical …

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Family Health Portrait, Joseph A. Woelfel Dec 2005

Family Health Portrait, Joseph A. Woelfel

School of Pharmacy Faculty Articles

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Check It Out, Vol. Ii, No. 4, November 2005, Deb Ebster Dec 2005

Check It Out, Vol. Ii, No. 4, November 2005, Deb Ebster

Libraries' Newsletters

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Robust And Efficient Localization Techniques For Cellular And Wireless Sensor Networks, Haseebulla M. Khan Dec 2005

Robust And Efficient Localization Techniques For Cellular And Wireless Sensor Networks, Haseebulla M. Khan

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Localization in wireless networks refers to a collection of tasks that, collectively, determines the location of a mobile user, striving to hide the effects of mobility from the user and/or application. Localization has become an important issue and has drawn considerable attention, as many applications including E-911, cargo tracking, locating patients, location-sensitive billing, etc., require knowledge of the location of user/objects. It was realized, quite a while back, that extending emergency 911-like services (E-911) to continually growing mobile population is one of the extremely important localization applications. The bulk of the proposed solutions to emergency location management in wireless environments …

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A Multipurpose Evaluation Strategy For Master Gardener Training Programs, Emelie Swackhamer, Nancy Ellen Kiernan Dec 2005

A Multipurpose Evaluation Strategy For Master Gardener Training Programs, Emelie Swackhamer, Nancy Ellen Kiernan

Journal of Extension

A multipurpose evaluation, developed to measure impact of master gardener training in Pennsylvania, quantitatively measured both learning and increase in confidence, applying data from before and after the training. The authors demonstrate how the same data can be summarized in different ways to better achieve program improvement or demonstrate accountability. The evaluation compiled feedback from a 16-county area, including a majority of trainees in the state. This uniform evaluation strategy eliminated duplication of effort by county educators, provided a high quality tool for the state, and serves as a model for evaluating multi-topic programs taught by many instructors.

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Cooperation Between Secondary Agricultural Educators And Extension Agents, Kristina Grage Ricketts, Nick T. Place Dec 2005

Cooperation Between Secondary Agricultural Educators And Extension Agents, Kristina Grage Ricketts, Nick T. Place

Journal of Extension

The study reported here explored cooperation between agriculture teachers and Extension agents and characterized the environment surrounding interdisciplinary cooperation. A researcher-developed questionnaire was used to explore individual perceptions regarding cooperation, behavioral intentions, and individual experiences with cooperation. Means and standard deviations were compared between disciplines. Results indicated that agriculture teachers and Extension agents seemed to have very similar ideas concerning personal perceptions, motivations, and experiences regarding cooperation. Recommendations include joint preparation for teachers and agents, pre-service and in-service incorporation of different facets of cooperation, and assembling an integrated discussion group where future interdisciplinary associations could be discussed.

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Training Methods And Needs Related To Volunteer Management Competencies Of Extension 4-H Youth Development Agents, Brenda S. Seevers, Jacqueline S. Baca, Dawn Van Leeuwen Dec 2005

Training Methods And Needs Related To Volunteer Management Competencies Of Extension 4-H Youth Development Agents, Brenda S. Seevers, Jacqueline S. Baca, Dawn Van Leeuwen

Journal of Extension

The purpose of the descriptive study reported here was to describe professional and personal training experiences related to volunteer management and development. A mail questionnaire was sent to a random sample of 4-H Youth Development Agents nationally. 4-H Youth Development agents reported low-levels of participation in volunteer management professional development activities during a 24-month period. However, when asked to identify specific areas of training needed, a long and varied list was generated. Primary needs identified were in the areas of recruitment and motivation, conflict management and liability issues, evaluation, and time management.

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What Motivates Volunteers To Serve In A Youth Literacy Program?, Ryan Schmiesing, Jeff Soder, Susan Russell Dec 2005

What Motivates Volunteers To Serve In A Youth Literacy Program?, Ryan Schmiesing, Jeff Soder, Susan Russell

Journal of Extension

This article examines volunteers' motivation to commit to a successful, yet intensive, youth literacy program. Volunteers in a one-on-one youth literacy mentoring program were motivated by the values function of volunteerism; that is, they volunteered in order to exercise their altruistic values. This is a departure from much of the literature on volunteer motivation, which finds affiliation to be volunteers' primary motivation for volunteering. The article offers suggestions on recruitment methods that promote the value function of volunteerism and will be most successful in attracting individuals willing to make sustained commitments to youth.

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Drinking Water Issues In The Pacific Northwest, Robert L. Mahler, Robert Simmons, Fred Sorensen Dec 2005

Drinking Water Issues In The Pacific Northwest, Robert L. Mahler, Robert Simmons, Fred Sorensen

Journal of Extension

This article contains drinking water information from a region-wide survey designed to collect base line data about water issues in the Pacific Northwest. The major findings were: (1) over 90% of survey respondents feel that their home drinking water is safe for consumption, (2) minerals were the most often cited pollutants in drinking water supplies, (3) approximately 25% of residents have installed filters on their sink faucets to improve water quality, and (4) over 25% of residents use bottled water for drinking purposes. These survey results will be used to develop relevant drinking water educational programs for citizens of the …

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Intensity Weighted Ranking: A Methodology For Understanding What Clients Tell Us, Natalie Carroll, Stephen Lovejoy Dec 2005

Intensity Weighted Ranking: A Methodology For Understanding What Clients Tell Us, Natalie Carroll, Stephen Lovejoy

Journal of Extension

Although rank ordering of issues for needs assessment provides some information, this method does not capture the intensity of respondents concerns. This article presents a method of going beyond rank ordering to study both the intensity of response and uncover priorities for more than a few aggregated issues. Results from a survey of attendees of the Indiana State fair are utilized to illustrate the methodology.

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Polling Your Audience With Wireless Technology, Cole Gustafson, Laurence Crane Dec 2005

Polling Your Audience With Wireless Technology, Cole Gustafson, Laurence Crane

Journal of Extension

New audience response systems have number of unique qualities that are particularly well suited to Extension, especially economic and policy workshops. They preserve anonymity, can be used in a manner that is more comfortable for participants, and enable discussion of sensitive personal and policy information. This article provides an overview of the technology, discusses unique applications for Extension, and reviews its use in a recent farm business planning workshop. The technology enabled tailoring of the workshop to participants' interests and facilitated discussion of minority views.

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Social Preferences In Small‐Scale Societies, Alexander J. Field Dec 2005

Social Preferences In Small‐Scale Societies, Alexander J. Field

Economics

This volume reports on a cross‐cultural investigation of social preferences in 15 small‐scale, non‐Western societies. Participants from all 15 groups played the ultimatum game with members of their own culture; subjects from a subset also played dictator and voluntary contribution to public goods games. The bulk of the book (Chapters 4 through 14) consists of reports by the field workers (mostly anthropologists). Each chapter includes ethnographic information, a description of how members of the group make their living, details on the experimental protocols and results, and some discussion. Although none of the results are consistent with the predictions of the …

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Note From The Editor Dec 2005

Note From The Editor

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Alaska Health Care Decisions Act, Analyzed, Kenneth C. Kirk Dec 2005

The Alaska Health Care Decisions Act, Analyzed, Kenneth C. Kirk

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.

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