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Safety Among Dragons: East Asia And Maritime Security, Phil Decaro

Transportation Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Advanced Structured Query Language Instruction For Engineers Of The Office Of Information Technology At Brigham Young University, Vincent Brian Rackliffe

Theses and Dissertations

This report describes the purpose, design, development and analysis of SQLTips, an online instructional delivery framework and set of instructional modules relating to advanced features and performance tuning of Oracle's Structured Query Language (SQL). SQLTips was developed using Wiki, server-side software that allows users to edit web pages with almost any browser. The report includes a literature review of existing SQL instructional materials and a review of instructional theory. The report also includes a description of the formative evaluation process and results. These results show that SQLTips is easy and enjoyable to use. Based on a scale of 1 to …

Regulation By Adaptive Management--Is It Possible?, J.B. Ruhl

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Today's voluminous literature on adaptive management traces its roots to Professor C.S. Holling's seminal work, Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management. Although almost thirty years have passed since he and his colleagues first described the adaptive management methodology, no work on the topic has improved on their core theory. Its essence is an iterative, incremental decisionmaking process built around a continuous process of monitoring the effects of decisions and adjusting decisions accordingly. It is in other words, far more suited to the needs of future regulatory challenges than is prescriptive regulation. My focus, however, is not on what adaptive management should …

Professional Role Complexities And Job Satisfaction Of Collegiate Certified Athletic Trainers, Kirk Brumels

Dissertations

This study examined whether professional role complexities existed for certified athletic trainers (ATCs) employed at the collegiate level, and if so, what impact these role complexities had upon job satisfaction and intent to leave a current position or the profession. The amount and sources of role complexities were examined for collegiate ATCs who were employed in clinical, faculty, or joint appointment positions.

Potential for professional role complexities exist in any situation where multiple role obligations are present in the workplace. Professional role complexities for health care employees often manifest into tension, dissatisfaction, lack of energy or ambition, and decreased attention …

Automotive Service Technology Intersectional Skills Proficiency Assessment, David L. Macquarrie

Dissertations

This dissertation focused on the creation and validation of a criterion referenced credentialing assessment of automotive service technicians' intersectional skills (ASTIS) proficiency. These intersectional skills are prerequisite and common to multiple job level tasks that an automotive service technician (AST) performs on the job. An assessment of the ASTIS was created to aid automotive technician employers in the evaluation of hiring prospective technician employees and is not duplicated by current certifications (e.g. ASE) as they do not uniquely assess these skills.

This dissertation focused on the ASTIS skills and the information an employer can obtain pertaining to a prospective employee's …

White-Collar Plea Bargaining And Sentencing After Booker, Stephanos Bibas

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Worlds Of Joseph Smith Gallery Display, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

A display of books, manuscripts, photographs, and artifacts was assembled to accompany “The Worlds of Joseph Smith” conference at the Library of Congress. Twelve items in this display came from collections in the Library of Congress; three from the Library-Archives of the Community of Christ in Independence, Missouri; two from the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; and thirteen from the LDS Church History Library, Archives, and Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City.

Archeological Trends And Book Of Mormon Origins, John E. Clark

BYU Studies

Had circumstances permitted a marked grave for the slain prophet, a fitting headstone could have read, “By Joseph Smith, Junior, Author and Proprietor.” Such an epitaph, taken from the title page of the Book of Mormon, captures the enduring bond between the man and the book, and also the controversy which coalesced around both with the book’s publication and the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830. In the ensuing and continuing “war of words” (Joseph Smith–History 1:10) and prejudice, redemption may hang on the single preposition “by.” What hand did Joseph have in producing …

Constitutionality Of Testing High School Male Athletes For Steroids Under Vernonia School District V. Acton And Board Of Education V. Earls, Thomas Proctor

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Protecting Student Speech Rights While Increasing School Safety: School Jurisdiction And The Search For Warning Signs In A Post-Columbine/Red Lake Environment, Richard Salgado

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Return Of The Ring: Welfare Reform’S Marriage Cure As The Revival Of Post-Bellum Control, Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Faculty Scholarship

In 1996, the United States Congress began its imposition of a marital solution to poverty when it enacted the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act ("PRWORA"). Nearly ten years later, Congress has strengthened its commitment to marriage as a cure for welfare dependency with proposals such as the Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2005. If passed, this bill would provide 1.5 billion dollars for pro-marriage programs and require each state to explain how its welfare program will encourage marriage for single mothers who receive public aid. With these proposals, Congress has continued to construct poverty as …

Deca2005, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From December 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.

December 2005 Commencement Program, Bowling Green State University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Divine Eternity And The General Theory Of Relativity, William Lane Craig

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Why (Almost All) Cosmologists Are Atheists, Sean Carroll

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

God And Physical Cosmology, Metropolitan Filaret Of Minsk And Slutsk

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Prior Probabilities In The Argument From Fine Tuning, Richard Swinburne

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Cosmological Contingency And Theistic Explanation, Philip Quinn

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

The Six Days Of Creation: Some Disregarded Dimensions, Vladimir Shokhin

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

The Many-Worlds Hypothesis As An Explanation Of Cosmic Fine Tuning: An Alternative To Design?, Robin Collins

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Cosmology Of The Cappadocian Fathers: A Contribution To Dialogue Between Science And Theology Today, Fr. Vladimir Shmaliy

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Anthropic Explanation In Cosmology, Ernan Mcmullin

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Chaotic Desynchronization Of Multistrain Diseases, Ira Schwartz, Leah Shaw, Derek Cummings, Lora Billings, Marie Mccrary, Donald Burke

Department of Mathematics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Multistrain diseases are diseases that consist of several strains, or serotypes. The serotypes may interact by antibody-dependent enhancement rADE, in which infection with a single serotype is asymptomatic, but infection with a second serotype leads to serious illness accompanied by greater infectivity. It has been observed from serotype data of dengue hemorrhagic fever that outbreaks of the four serotypes occur asynchronously. Both autonomous and seasonally driven outbreaks were studied in a model containing ADE. For sufficiently small ADE, the number of infectives of each serotype synchronizes, with outbreaks occurring in phase. When the ADE increases past a threshold, the system …

A Note On The Orientation Of Symmetric Rigid Bodies Sedimenting In A Power-Law Fluid, Ashuwin Vaidya

Department of Mathematics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

We study the terminal orientation of symmetric bodies translating in a quiescent liquid modeled by the power-law fluid. We are able to show by invoking the symmetries of the sedimenting body and the Stokes flow field that at small Reynolds numbers, the competition of inertial and shear-thinning (or shear-thickening) contributions to the torque does not cause the tilt angle that is observed in experiments performed on viscoelastic liquids with shear-thinning properties.

Crumbs, Dogs, And Border - Crossings: A Postcolonial - Feminist Rereading Of The Syrophoenician Woman Story, Jane E. Hicks

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"Recent scholarship in New Testament studies affords new insight into the character of the Syrophoenician woman in the Gospel of Mark, where she argues with a reluctant Jesus, urging, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” New insights build from materialist approaches to scripture, and taken together, the figure of the Syrophoenician woman as set in her likely social-historical context is suggestive for moral agency today. The passage as a whole has been interpreted in various ways. Some traditionalist Christian readings have found a moral about …

Satellite Distribution In Meteorological Forecasts For Air Navigation, Ruwantissa Abeyratne

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

The Ballistic Missile Defense System And Its Effects On The Outer Space Environment, Steven A. Mirmina

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

International Cooperation For Sustainable Space Development, Chukeat Noichim

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

Satellite Earth Observation As "Systematic Observation" In Multilateral Environmental Treaties, Masami Onoda

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.

Preparing Written Briefs For International Law Competitions: A Primer, Stephen E. Doyle

Journal of Space Law

No abstract provided.