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Social Structure And Social Learning In Delinquency: A Test Of Akers’ Social Structure-Social Learning Model, Stephen W. Verrill

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Social learning theory (Akers, 1973, 1977, 1985, 1998; Burgess & Akers, 1966) is an established general theory of criminal, deviant, and conforming behavior that finds substantial empirical support (e.g., Akers, Krohn, Lanza-Kaduce & Radosevich, 1979; Akers, La Greca, Cochran & Sellers, 1989; Alarid, Burton & Cullen, 2000; Krohn, Skinner, Massey & Akers, 1985). Although the theory provides insight into the processes that influence criminal behavior, the theory does not speak to the environments that produce such behavior--the domain of structural theories.

Akers (1998) has suggested that social learning theory accounts for differences in crime rates through its mediation of structural …

Task Force To Study Salary Inequities, Clara Krug

Faculty Senate: Index

No abstract provided.

Cognitive Dissonance In Early Colonial Pictorial Manuscripts From Central Mexico, Lorena Diane Mihok

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the relationship between the imagery and glosses displayed on folios from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, the Codex Magliabechiano, and the Codex Ixtlilxochitl through the application of Leon Festingers concept of cognitive dissonance in order to introduce an alternative approach to the study of codices as points of culture contact. The work analyzes the ways in which this psychological condition manifested itself in post-contact codex production as a result of sixteenth century political and social circumstances.

Festinger (1957:14) identifies the existence of cultural mores as a source of potential dissonance between culturally specific consonant elements. According to …

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, November 14, 2005, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting agenda from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, November 14, 2005, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Hispanic Physicians' Tobacco Intervention Practices: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study, Francisco G. Soto Mas, Richard L. Papenfuss, Holly E. Jacobson, Chiehwen E. Hsu, William M. Kane

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background U.S. Hispanic physicians constitute a considerable professional collective, and they may be most suited to attend to the health education needs of the growing U.S. Hispanic population. These educational needs include tobacco use prevention and smoking cessation. However, there is a lack of information on Hispanic physicians' tobacco intervention practices, their level of awareness and use of cessation protocols, and the type of programs that would best address their tobacco training needs. The purpose of this study was to assess the tobacco intervention practices and training needs of Hispanic physicians.

Methods Data was collected through a validated survey instrument …

The Bg News November 14, 2005, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 14, 2005. Volume 96-Issue 58.

Estimating A Treatment Effect With Repeated Measurements Accounting For Varying Effectiveness Duration, Ying Qing Chen, Jingrong Yang, Su-Chun Cheng

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

To assess treatment efficacy in clinical trials, certain clinical outcomes are repeatedly measured for same subject over time. They can be regarded as function of time. The difference in their mean functions between the treatment arms usually characterises a treatment effect. Due to the potential existence of subject-specific treatment effectiveness lag and saturation times, erosion of treatment effect in the difference may occur during the observation period of time. Instead of using ad hoc parametric or purely nonparametric time-varying coefficients in statistical modeling, we first propose to model the treatment effectiveness durations, which are the varying time intervals between the …

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, November 13, 2005, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2005

No abstract provided.

Implementation Of Operational Framework In The Nlp (Based On Mof And Itil Standards), James Kapp

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

An operational framework, as proposed by the Microsoft Operational Framework (MOF) and the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides a process model for controlling and managing Information Technology (IT) operations. With a strict focus on IT operations, it provides the processes and terminology to coordinate and integrate the functional elements of an IT department. The Systems Engineering and Applications Development (SEAD) practicum is composed of four main groups; Data Access, Network, Integrated Services and Development. This professional project will propose the beginning framework for overall operation and integration of the SEAD Practicum with an emphasis on service support and documentation. …

Ensemble Concerts: University Band; Symphonic Band; Symphonic Winds; November 13, 2005, Stephen K. Steele, Daniel A. Belongia, Joe Van Riper, Jim Walker

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
Sunday Afternoon
November 13, 2005
3:00 p.m.

Samantha Coleman

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

November 12, 2005 (Pages 6217-6306), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 35 (2005)

No abstract provided.

Inhibition Of Cellular Respiration By Doxorubicin, Zhimin Tao, Henry G. Withers, Harvey S. Penefsky, Jerry Goodisman, Abdul Kader Souid

Chemistry - All Scholarship

Doxorubicin executes apoptosis, a process known to produce leakage of cytochrome c and opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition pores. To define the loss of mitochondrial function by apoptosis, we monitored cellular respiration during continuous exposure to doxorubicin. A phosphorescence analyzer capable of stable measurements over at least 5 h was used to measure [O(2)]. In solutions containing glucose and cells, [O(2)] declined linearly with time, showing that the kinetics of oxygen consumption was zero order. Complete inhibition of oxygen consumption by cyanide indicated that oxidations occurred in the respiratory chain. A decline in the rate of respiration was evident …

An Exploratory Study On The Impact Of Applied Ancestry On At-Risk Youth In A Wilderness Therapy Program Setting, Elisa M. Rancie

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the Applied Ancestry program meets its objectives of assisting at-risk youth with regard to character development. The sample consisted of 40 youth (12-17 yrs) enrolled in the Anasazi Foundation Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare program. These teens were randomly assigned to either the control (n = 22) or treatment (n = 18) group. To measure the impact of Applied Ancestry on character development the VIA Signature Strengths Survey, developed by the VIA Institute, was used. A pre-post test comparison found no difference between the two groups, however the overall negative changes in survey …

Need And Know-How: The Perfect Partnership In Creating Tools For Distance Students, Stephanie Wiegand, Dan Lawrence

University Libraries Publications

Impossible Mission: In two hours educate twenty doctoral students - distance students that will not be seen on campus again - on everything they need to know about the library and the technological skills needed to access all the resources they will require.

The Response: A partnership formed between need (the subject librarian) and know-how (the instruction librarian) to create a tool that can be used to

1. create a sense of library and librarian for a distance learner, and
2. inform the student of the ways and means of connecting to the resources and people and, ultimately, the information and resources …

Ora Lee (Snowden) Holmes

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

University Chamber Orchestra, Chapman University Chamber Orchestra, Ashley Faatoalia, Rachel Hendrickson

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

Solomon Jones, Sr.

African American Funeral Programs

Solomon_Jones_Sr.pdf - Funeral program for Solomon Jones

Deacon Elbert Jack "Pop" Williams

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Mr. Carl Dean Mikell

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Recent Developments In The Law Of The "Taking Issue", John C. Keene

ExpressO

No abstract provided.

Detection Avoidance, Chris William Sanchirico

ExpressO

In practice, the problem of law enforcement is half a matter of what the government does to catch violators and half a matter of what violators do to avoid getting caught. In the theory of law enforcement, however, although the state’s efforts at "detection" play a decisive role, offenders’ efforts at "detection avoidance" are largely ignored. Always problematic, this imbalance has become critical in recent years as episodes of corporate misconduct spur new interest in punishing process crimes like obstruction of justice and perjury. This article adds detection avoidance to the existing theoretical frame with an eye toward informing the …

Restorative Justice, Slavery And The American Soul, A Policy-Oriented Approach To The Question Of Slavery Reparations By The United States, Michael F. Blevins

ExpressO

This LL.M. Intercultural Human Rights thesis (May, 2005), awarded the best student paper prize for 2005 by the Institute of Policy Sciences at Yale University (in October, 2005), after analysing past and curent issues regarding the culture wars controversy of "reparations", proposes a specific process for establishing Truth and Reconciliation regarding the legacy of slavery in the United States. The proposal recommends commissions in each Federal judicial district under the supervision of a U.S. Slavery Justice and Reconciliation Commission (USSJRC), calling for "America's 21st Century Contract with Africa and African-Americans".

Faculty Senate Minutes - November 11, 2005, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Chief Chudwin Joins Panel Discussion On Disaster Response, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Earthquakes. Floods. If disaster strikes, would we be ready?

To help answer the questions raised by the preparation and response to recent natural disasters, Jeff Chudwin, Chief of Police of the Olympia Fields Police Department, will join the panel of presenters at the public forum at Governors State University on Wednesday, November 16 from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

The Docket (November 11, 2005), William & Mary Law School

The Docket

No abstract provided.

Modeling Differentiated Treatment Effects For Multiple Outcomes Data, Hongfei Guo, Karen Bandeen-Roche

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

Multiple outcomes data are commonly used to characterize treatment effects in medical research, for instance, multiple symptoms to characterize potential remission of a psychiatric disorder. Often either a global, i.e. symptom-invariant, treatment effect is evaluated. Such a treatment effect may over generalize the effect across the outcomes. On the other hand individual treatment effects, varying across all outcomes, are complicated to interpret, and their estimation may lose precision relative to a global summary. An effective compromise to summarize the treatment effect may be through patterns of the treatment effects, i.e. "differentiated effects." In this paper we propose a two-category model …

The Echo: November 11, 2005, Taylor University

2005-2006 (Volume 93)

Honeywell hosts TU musicians – Bomb scares target Fort Wayne campus – Opportunities abound – World Vision’s Steve Haas to speak out on AIDS – Fire sparks queries – TCA takes center stage – Meth, kids do not mix – Clegg plans ARKA tours – Hurricane hits hearts – Hotdog apology – Letters to the Editor – Civility in the stands – Taylor’s new covenant – Hidden Pictures! – Student reflects on heart’s condition – Log off online hate – Letters to the Editor – ‘Jarhead’ misses target – History in b&w – Depeche Mode makes comeback with ‘Angel’ – …

The Setonian, November 11, 2005, Seton Hall University

2005

No abstract provided.