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Effects Of Social Contact On The Production Of English /[Upside Down Lower-Case R]/ And /L/ In Japanese Learners Of English, Adam Mastandrea Jan 2005

Effects Of Social Contact On The Production Of English /[Upside Down Lower-Case R]/ And /L/ In Japanese Learners Of English, Adam Mastandrea

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Mind Of A Sadomasocist:A Theatrical Role Analysis Of Orin Scrivello D.D.S, Mark Catlett Jan 2005

The Mind Of A Sadomasocist:A Theatrical Role Analysis Of Orin Scrivello D.D.S, Mark Catlett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mark Catlett will portray the role of Orin Scrivello D.D.S., as well as various other "cameo" roles, at Seaside Music Theater in Daytona Beach, Florida from January 13- February 13 2005. The role of Orin Scrivello will provide me with several acting challenges as well as multiple subjects and themes to research. The most challenging aspect of creating, developing and embodying the character of Orin will be his sadomasochistic nature and his blatant abuse towards Audrey. Sadomasochism is defined as "the deriving of sexual gratification, from being physically or emotionally abused". It is also defined as "a willingness or tendency …

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Designing For A Japanese High-Context Culture: Culture's Influence On The Technical Writer's Visual Rhetoric, Russell Carpenter Jan 2005

Designing For A Japanese High-Context Culture: Culture's Influence On The Technical Writer's Visual Rhetoric, Russell Carpenter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes the challenges technical writers face when designing documents for high-context cultures, such as the Japanese. When developing documents intended to cross cultural gulfs, technical writers must take into consideration cultural expectations, preferences, and practices in document design and communication. High-context cultures, such as Japan, design documents using drastically different design strategies than those used in the United States. Japanese communication habits are more ambiguous than communication in the United States. Thus, the Japanese often use visuals for their aesthetic appeal, not for their ability to complement the text that surrounds the visual. The ambiguous nature of high-context …

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Only Screen Deep? Evaluating Aesthetics, Usability, And Satisfaction In Informational Websites, Carrie Avery Jan 2005

Only Screen Deep? Evaluating Aesthetics, Usability, And Satisfaction In Informational Websites, Carrie Avery

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the role aesthetics plays in informational websites. In commercial interfaces, aesthetics (the perceived visual appeal and appropriateness of an object) has shown to correlate positively with many aspects of usability and emotional satisfaction. This thesis examines whether aesthetics has similar positive correlations in informational websites. Heuristics or guidelines for evaluating informational websites are developed based on empirical research and practitioner expertise. Categories for heuristic evaluation include usability, credibility, visual clarity, visual richness, and emotional satisfaction. A class of graduate students browsed three academic websites, evaluated them, and critiqued the heuristics. Results indicate that aesthetics does correlate with …

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Negotiating Place: Multiscapes And Negotiation In Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, Kevin Gladding Jan 2005

Negotiating Place: Multiscapes And Negotiation In Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, Kevin Gladding

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In Murakami's Norwegian Wood, romance and coming-of-age confront the growing trend of postmodernity that leads to a discontinuity of life becoming more and more common in post-war Japan. As the narrator struggles through a monotonous daily existence, the text gives the reader access to the narrator's struggle for self- and societal identity. In the end, he finds his means of self-acceptance through escape, and his escape is a product of his attempts at negotiating the multiple settings or "scapes" in which he finds himself. The thesis follows the narrator through his navigation of these scapes and seeks to examine the …

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Adaptive Self-Regulation And Organizational Politics: Investigating The Effects In The Accounting Profession, Sharon Howell Jan 2005

Adaptive Self-Regulation And Organizational Politics: Investigating The Effects In The Accounting Profession, Sharon Howell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate whether or not perceptions of organizational politics mediate the relationships between accountants' personality and interpersonal traits and their perceptions of a superior's leadership ability and performance. An accountant who has a higher degree of confidence in his or her superior's abilities is more likely to be committed to a given project, resulting in a better project outcome. This benefits the client and ultimately society as a whole. This study contributes to the accounting and psychology literatures because extant research views perceptions of leadership ability and performance from the perspective of the individual …

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2005-2006 Graduate Catalog, Morehead State University Jan 2005

2005-2006 Graduate Catalog, Morehead State University

Morehead State Catalog Archive

2005-2006 graduate catalog for Morehead State University.

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When Life Really Is A Stage: A Test Of Objectification Theory Using Dancers And Non-Dancers, Megan Duesterhaus Jan 2005

When Life Really Is A Stage: A Test Of Objectification Theory Using Dancers And Non-Dancers, Megan Duesterhaus

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study tested a model of objectification theory proposed by Fredrickson and Roberts (1997) as it applies to disordered eating in a sample of dancers and non-dancers. The methods in this study are based on a previous test of objectification theory done by Tiggeman and Slater (2001). Two samples of participants were given a survey to measure self-objectification and its anticipated consequences. The first sample included 155 women who participated in either ballet, modern, jazz, or hip-hop dance. The second sample included 199 women enrolled in undergraduate classes at the University of Central Florida during the fall semester of 2004. …

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Financially Distressed Consumers: Their Financial Practices, Financial Well-Being, And Health, Barbara O'Neill, Jing Jian Xiao, Benoit Sorhaindo, E. Thomas Garman Jan 2005

Financially Distressed Consumers: Their Financial Practices, Financial Well-Being, And Health, Barbara O'Neill, Jing Jian Xiao, Benoit Sorhaindo, E. Thomas Garman

Human Development and Family Science Faculty Publications

This study examined relationships among the financial practices, financial well-being, and health of a sample of 3,121 financial distressed consumers who were new clients participating in the debt management program of a large national non-profit credit counseling organization. Respondents who reported having improved health since participating in credit counseling were more likely than others to engage in positive financial behaviors. For six out of ten financial behaviors, respondents who reported improved health were more likely to report that their finances improved. Implications are provided for financial counselors and educators.

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On These Two Commandments Hang All The Law And The Prophets, Frances Howard-Snyder Jan 2005

On These Two Commandments Hang All The Law And The Prophets, Frances Howard-Snyder

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Peter Van Inwagen, Ontology, Identity, And Modality: Essays In Metaphysics, Jonathan L. Kvanvig Jan 2005

Peter Van Inwagen, Ontology, Identity, And Modality: Essays In Metaphysics, Jonathan L. Kvanvig

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

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John Perry, Knowledge, Possibility, And Consciousness, David M. Jehle Jan 2005

John Perry, Knowledge, Possibility, And Consciousness, David M. Jehle

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Private Motive And Perpetual Conditions In Charitable Naming Gifts: When Good Names Go Bad, John K. Eason Jan 2005

Private Motive And Perpetual Conditions In Charitable Naming Gifts: When Good Names Go Bad, John K. Eason

Faculty Articles

This article explores the problems that often result from a charitable naming opportunity contribution. A charitable naming opportunity contribution exists when a donor transfers money or property to a charitable organization upon terms that result in an individual's name being associated in some way with the organization, its institutions, activities, or facilities. Implementing such arrangements can become problematic as circumstances change over time. Matters considered here include the meaning of "charity" as affected by a donor's personal desire to perpetuate a name. This article also highlights the quite varied doctrinal analyses that may apply when deviation from the precise terms …

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Article 9 Of The Constitution Of Japan And Procedural And Substantive Heuristics For Consensus, Mark A. Chinen Jan 2005

Article 9 Of The Constitution Of Japan And Procedural And Substantive Heuristics For Consensus, Mark A. Chinen

Faculty Articles

Japan is considering changes to its constitution, including Article 9, which prohibits it from maintaining a military force. If amendments are made, it would mark the first time the Japanese constitution has been amended since its establishment in 1947. Professor Chinen examines the debates on Article 9 using scholarship on constitutions as providing heuristics for decision-making. Constitutions help overcome the problems of emotion and time-inconsistency. They also enable societies of different deliberative groups to avoid the pitfalls of deliberation by requiring groups to interact with one another and by providing opportunities for compromise through what Cass Sunstein refers to as …

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Note: The Impact Of Medicaid Estate Recovery On Nontraditional Families, Diane Lourdes Dick Jan 2005

Note: The Impact Of Medicaid Estate Recovery On Nontraditional Families, Diane Lourdes Dick

Faculty Articles

This article analyzes the impact of Medicaid estate recovery laws on nontraditional families, and offers policy solutions that protect families from unintended consequences while preserving the fiscal integrity of the Medicaid program.

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Freedom In A Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage And Biopolitics, Dean Spade, Craig Willse Jan 2005

Freedom In A Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage And Biopolitics, Dean Spade, Craig Willse

Faculty Articles

This paper attempts to trace the links between the Lawrence v. Texas decision and campaigns for gay marriage rights in order to envision movements that seek justice for more than just the most racially and economically privileged lesbians and gay men. The authors outline the limits of the agenda represented by Lawrence and propose alternative modes for resisting the coercive regulation of sexuality, gender, and family formations.

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Systems Development Tools And The Relationship To Project Design: Cost And Budget Implications, Gerald V. Post, Albert Kagan Jan 2005

Systems Development Tools And The Relationship To Project Design: Cost And Budget Implications, Gerald V. Post, Albert Kagan

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

An investigation into current system development trends, including a summary of projects, platforms, and tools. The majority of projects get completed on time and within budget, but 14 percent still present problems. The choice of tools appears to be changing to represent the demand for new projects on new platforms—particularly the Internet. CASE tools are used sparingly, and Java is beginning to replace C++ in many projects. Database management systems are critical to almost all projects.

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Spectacle Of Self In Medieval Romance: Pagentry, Performance, And Clothing, Crady Yerger Bobo Jan 2005

Spectacle Of Self In Medieval Romance: Pagentry, Performance, And Clothing, Crady Yerger Bobo

Honors Theses

My thesis focuses on young knights finding their identity. I concentrate on six works, The Story of the Grail, Havelok the Dane, Sir Gareth of Orkeney, Guigemar, Sir Launfal, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and how the various romancers define identity thematically. This occurs in three dififerent ways: with Perceval it is through education, Havelok and Gareth start out as kitchen boys, prove their inherent identity, and are thus self-inventing knights, and for Guigemar, Launfal, and Perceval it is about having their sexuality challenged. I also try in each chapter to give some historical background on the reason …

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The Effects Of Physiological Arousal On Measures Of Upper Extremity Position Sense In Healthy Young Adults, Melissa Angelique Parker Jan 2005

The Effects Of Physiological Arousal On Measures Of Upper Extremity Position Sense In Healthy Young Adults, Melissa Angelique Parker

Honors Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of physiological arousal on the ability to perceive upper extremity position in healthy young adults. Heart rate measurements and blood pressure measurements were taken at pre-established intervals during data collection. Pre-stressor and post-stressor upper extremity trials were also recorded. Twenty participants, 12 females and 8 males, with a mean age of 22.3 (20 33) years comprised the experimental sample. Participants in the experimental sample underwent a combination of the Stroop color-word task and simple math problems to produce a state of arousal and were pre and post tested for upper …

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Disclosing Risks Of New Technologies: Ethical Challenges For Physicians, Patients, And Companies, Dianne Bartels Jan 2005

Disclosing Risks Of New Technologies: Ethical Challenges For Physicians, Patients, And Companies, Dianne Bartels

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Peeling Back The Layers Of Substance Abuse During Pregnancy, Katherine Sikich Jan 2005

Peeling Back The Layers Of Substance Abuse During Pregnancy, Katherine Sikich

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

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Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction In Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A License To Kill?, Siddharth Khanijou Jan 2005

Multifetal Pregnancy Reduction In Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A License To Kill?, Siddharth Khanijou

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

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Corticosterone Response In A Learned Helplessness Model Of Depression, Courtney M. Cartwright Jan 2005

Corticosterone Response In A Learned Helplessness Model Of Depression, Courtney M. Cartwright

Honors Theses

This purpose of this study was to quantify both behavioral and biological markers of stress (i.e. distress vocalizations, plasma corticosterone) in the chick stress-separation paradigm. In this study, chicks were isolated from companions for either 5,10,15,20,40, or 60 minutes and distress vocalizations were recorded. In addition, one group was tested in the presence of social companions for 60 minutes. Blood was collected from half of the subjects immediately following the testing period and was also collected in a no-test group to establish plasma corticosterone basal levels. Isolation produced a significant elevation in distress vocalizations and corticosterone. The pattern of distress …

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A Study Of The Effects Of The 2004 Tsunami On Coral Reefs And Fisheries Of The Indian Ocean, Joseph Lane Campbell Jan 2005

A Study Of The Effects Of The 2004 Tsunami On Coral Reefs And Fisheries Of The Indian Ocean, Joseph Lane Campbell

Honors Theses

This thesis serves as a broad-scale review of the effects of the tsunami on the coral reefs and the fisheries of the affected Indian Ocean region. The main goals were to 1) use my research from a recolonization project completed May 2004 as a basis for predictiverecovery models for the coral reefs, 2) review and summarize the newly available literature of the tsunami effects on coral reefs in the Indian Ocean and 3) predict the future of the Indian Ocean fisheries based on the review of the tsunami effects on human and fishery communities, using selected species as models. It …

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Reforming Medical Malpractice In A Radically Moderate - And Ethical - Fashion, Paul C. Weiler Jan 2005

Reforming Medical Malpractice In A Radically Moderate - And Ethical - Fashion, Paul C. Weiler

DePaul Law Review

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Binding Statutory Early Offers By Defendants, Not Plaintiffs, In Personal Injury Suits, Jeffrey O'Connell, Evan Stephenson Jan 2005

Binding Statutory Early Offers By Defendants, Not Plaintiffs, In Personal Injury Suits, Jeffrey O'Connell, Evan Stephenson

DePaul Law Review

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A Multiattribute Utility Analysis Of Legal System Responses To Medical Injuries, Michael J. Saks, Daniel Strouse, Nicholas Schweitzer Jan 2005

A Multiattribute Utility Analysis Of Legal System Responses To Medical Injuries, Michael J. Saks, Daniel Strouse, Nicholas Schweitzer

DePaul Law Review

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Can You Trust A Doctor You Can't Sue?, Mark A. Hall Jan 2005

Can You Trust A Doctor You Can't Sue?, Mark A. Hall

DePaul Law Review

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Conflicts Between Learning And Accountability In Patient Safety, David D. Woods Jan 2005

Conflicts Between Learning And Accountability In Patient Safety, David D. Woods

DePaul Law Review

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Three Prespectives On Medical Injury: A Commentary, Robert L. Rabin Jan 2005

Three Prespectives On Medical Injury: A Commentary, Robert L. Rabin

DePaul Law Review

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