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American Cultural Constructions Of The Gynecological Experience, Julie L. Provenzano Jan 2006

American Cultural Constructions Of The Gynecological Experience, Julie L. Provenzano

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This thesis research asks why many American women feel uncomfortable going to the gynecologist. In order to investigate this phenomenon, thirty-one women were interviewed regarding their experiences at the gynecologist and their perceptions of their genitals. Using a medical anthropology framework to determine what factors facilitate negative feelings associated with gynecological examinations, the participants' responses were analyzed with regards to cultural influences. It was found that a paradox exists between American cultural constructions of women's genitals and the biomedical structure of a gynecological examination. Since American women are culturally ingrained with a notion of privacy and sexuality regarding their genitals, …

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An Investigation Of Foundational Instructional Principles In International Mathematics Classrooms: An Lsd Analysis Of Tjmss Video Data, Desmond W. Rodney Jan 2006

An Investigation Of Foundational Instructional Principles In International Mathematics Classrooms: An Lsd Analysis Of Tjmss Video Data, Desmond W. Rodney

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The central purpose of this study is to investigate whether cross national classroom video recordings reflect foundational principles of instruction as identified by lSD theorists. Principles of instruction remain true regardless of program or context when implemented by appropriate instructional systems design procedures. These theoretical elements however, require deeper empirical investigation in authentic classroom settings. This study posits that foundational principles are observable in non lSD systematized settings. Further it suggests that they are represented differently in classroom video recordings across countries, based on their performance level on a standardized assessment. The study shows inter alia that, (1) Instructional principles …

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Analysis Of Professional Development In Technology For Elementary School Teachers, Sarah T. Meltzer Jan 2006

Analysis Of Professional Development In Technology For Elementary School Teachers, Sarah T. Meltzer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The identification of effective practices is of significant interest to school administrators, faculty, and staff planning and implementing professional development initiatives in technology. This study identified recommended practices for professional development in technology in elementary schools and determined if current practices reflected those recommendations. Studies by Wenglinsky (1998) for the Educational Testing Service reported the effective use of technology by classroom teachers has a positive impact on student performance. More recent studies frequently indicate teachers are not being trained to use technology effectively; and consequently, limited integration of technology in the classroom is taking place (Catchings, 2000; Howery, 2001; Johnson, …

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Analysis Of Factors Affecting The Sound Generated By Airboats, Aquiles. Perez Jan 2006

Analysis Of Factors Affecting The Sound Generated By Airboats, Aquiles. Perez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study presents an experimental and analytical investigation of the factors that affect the sound generated by airboats as well as the interaction among these factors; an airboat travels on water and wet land by means of an air pusher propeller attached to an internal combustion engine. These analyses show that the engine and propeller RPM are the main contributors of sound. The contribution of the engine is a tonal sound that is reduced by using a muffler. The sound generated by the propeller is a flapping sound clearly identified at high revolutions (over 1800 RPM). Above mid-range speeds, the …

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Between Home And School: Guatemalan Maya Students And Cultural Gender Roles In South Florida, Kristin L. Robbins Jan 2006

Between Home And School: Guatemalan Maya Students And Cultural Gender Roles In South Florida, Kristin L. Robbins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Second-generation Guatemalan Maya children and adolescents who were born in Palm Beach County had to balance two cultures. As children of Guatemalan Maya parents, these youths belonged to Guatemalan Maya households--but many of their other roles in the United States, particularly their roles as students, involved the wider American culture. As such, they endured many of the same acculturation challenges that first generation immigrants do. They often had to choose between fulfilling student roles, family roles, and contrasting cultural beliefs and values, and negotiate shifting cultural, familial, community, and gender dynamics. My primary research interest was to understand how home, …

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Bilingual Education And Biliteracy In The Brazilian Community: An Attitudinal Study, Minouche C. Martins Jan 2006

Bilingual Education And Biliteracy In The Brazilian Community: An Attitudinal Study, Minouche C. Martins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study investigated parents' attitudes and expectations regarding Portuguese-English bilingual education, biliteracy, and language use at home in the Brazilian community in South Florida, specifically in the tri-county area of Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. Sixty-seven Brazilian parents participated in an online/print questionnaire study. The results show that parents strongly support bilingual education and the development of bilingualism. An overwhelming majority of parents strongly encourage the use of Portuguese in the Brazilian homes. However, a discrepancy was found between parents' expectations and actual practices for their children's biliterate development. The majority of parents encourage the development of their children's speaking …

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Census Of Nonhuman Primate Populations Of Comuna El Pital, In South Central Ecuador, Rose M. Hores Jan 2006

Census Of Nonhuman Primate Populations Of Comuna El Pital, In South Central Ecuador, Rose M. Hores

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Ecuador is home to several Neotropical primates. Some areas, and the primate fauna they support, remain little studied, as is El Pital of south-central Ecuador within Machalilla National Park. I conducted a systematic census between May--August, 2005, including some behavioral data. I documented 20 capuchins (Cebus albifrons ssp.) in three groups and 198 mantled howlers (Alouatta palliata) in 15 groups. All were cited between 2-11 kilometers from habitations. Preliminary data suggested that a Cebus monkey, previously undocumented in the area, may inhabit the park. By recording current population numbers of nonhuman primates, future research may disclose if, over time, National …

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Caring For Self For Nursing Leaders: Climbing To The Mountain Peak, Cynthia J. Brown Jan 2006

Caring For Self For Nursing Leaders: Climbing To The Mountain Peak, Cynthia J. Brown

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The nursing leader's challenging position in today's work environment may lead to an experience of stress, over-commitment, and overdoing. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine the meaning of caring for self by registered nurse leaders who had participated in a caring for self project in a community hospital setting. This group of 10 nursing leaders had participated in a caring for self project and had experience in nursing ranging from 18 to 32 years. One year after taking part in the caring for self project the 10 nursing leaders participated in individual taped interviews to explore the …

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Brooch Of Clytemnestra, Kathleen T. Moorhead Jan 2006

Brooch Of Clytemnestra, Kathleen T. Moorhead

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The Brooch of Clytemnestra follows the adventures Margaret O'Brien, age thirteen, encounters when her family returns to the United States after living in Venezuela for ten years. Set in 1963, in the fictional town of Desolasol, located on southeastern coast of Florida, the O'Brien family must cope with cultural, social and religious changes in order to adjust to life in the U.S. The story takes place over the course of one week in story present in Florida, and over the course of one year in story past in Venezuela. The protagonist, Meg, runs afoul of the gods, when she unwittingly …

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Bioactive Terpene Production Associated With Caribbean Gorgonians From The Genera Pseudopterogorgia And Eunicea: Discovery Of A Sustainable Production Method, Nealie C. Newberger Jan 2006

Bioactive Terpene Production Associated With Caribbean Gorgonians From The Genera Pseudopterogorgia And Eunicea: Discovery Of A Sustainable Production Method, Nealie C. Newberger

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Research directed toward renewable, non-destructive sources of bioactive marine derived compounds, is becoming more important everyday. Marine soft corals known as sea whips are a prolific source of such biologically active compounds. One particular organism, Eunicea fusca, possesses diterpene arabinose glycosides with potent antiinflammatory activity that rival the industry standard indomethicin. Fuscocide B is known to inhibit phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)-induced ear edema in murine models, is a minor secondary metabolite and it is therefore difficult to acquire in large quantities. Alternatively, fuscol and eunicol, are known to have similar antiinflammatory activity and are major secondary metabolites which are structurally …

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Class-Based Search System In Unstructured Peer-To-Peer Networks, Juncheng. Huang Jan 2006

Class-Based Search System In Unstructured Peer-To-Peer Networks, Juncheng. Huang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Efficient searching is one of the important design issues in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Among various searching techniques, semantic-based searching has drawn significant attention recently. Gnutella-like efficient searching system (GES) [29] is such a system. GES derives node vector , a semantic summary of all documents on a node based on vector space model (VSM). The node-based topology adaptation algorithm and search protocol are then discussed. However, when there are many categories of documents at each node, the node vector representation may be inaccurate. We extend the idea of GES and present a class-based search system (CSS). It makes use of …

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Combined Effects Of Low Salinity And Dermo On Oysters From The St. Lucie Estuary, Krystal D. Baird Jan 2006

Combined Effects Of Low Salinity And Dermo On Oysters From The St. Lucie Estuary, Krystal D. Baird

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The viability of the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is designated as an ecological performance measure for the management of freshwater inflows to the St. Lucie Estuary, Florida. Thus, oysters derived from the St. Lucie Estuary were tested for their physiological response to stress, measured as altered condition index and RNA/DNA ratios, resulting from changes in salinity and infection by the protozoan parasite Perkinsus marinus, the agent of Dermo, a common oyster disease. Pilot studies consisted of the development of a real-time PCR-based assay for P. marinus infection, procedures to infect oysters with the pathogen by injection method and procedures for …

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Coffee, Tea Or Ammo, William. Cooper Jan 2006

Coffee, Tea Or Ammo, William. Cooper

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Set during the Vietnam War, Coffee, Tea or Ammo chronicles the adventures of Bob Thomas, from his unsuccessful attempts to dodge the draft, through basic training and advanced individual training, to his service in Vietnam with an army artillery battery. On one level the narrative is impelled by Thomas's attempt to resolve the conflict between his agonistic and irenic impulses. However, the novel also relies on satire, precipitated by the bevy of unnerving characters Thomas encounters, such as a predatory homosexual drill sergeant, an oversexed lieutenant who frags another officer, a captain who keeps his identity secret from his troops …

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Contexts And Circumstances Of Filicide-Suicide, Shanna L. Beasley Jan 2006

Contexts And Circumstances Of Filicide-Suicide, Shanna L. Beasley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The contexts and circumstances surrounding filicide-suicide may provide insight into parental psychology. The current studies used two Chicago homicide databases containing incident-level information on homicides committed in Chicago during the years 1965-1994 and 1870-1930. Results provide support for the following hypotheses: (1) genetic parents relative to stepparents are more likely to commit suicide following filicide, (2) filicides of multiple victims are more likely to end in the offender's suicide than are filicides of a single victim, (3) parents are more likely to commit suicide following a filicide of an older child than a younger child, (4) older parents, relative to …

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Correlations Between Maxillary Sinus And Nasal Cavity Volume: An Exploratory Study Into Environmental Influences On The Human Maxillary Sinus, Lauren N. Butaric Jan 2006

Correlations Between Maxillary Sinus And Nasal Cavity Volume: An Exploratory Study Into Environmental Influences On The Human Maxillary Sinus, Lauren N. Butaric

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Previous hypotheses have suggested that maxillary sinus volume (MSV) is dependent on nasal cavity volume (NCV), and while NCV is highly correlated with climate, MSV is a passive by-product. To test these hypotheses 39 dried adult human crania from different climatic regions were examined using CT technology. MSV and NCV were regressed against each other and cranial size-variables using least squares and reduced major axis analysis. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests were also utilized to identify significant differences in MSV and NCV between populations. Results suggest that MSV and NCV are not significantly correlated, and while NCV scales with isometry …

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Controlling Access To Physical Locations, Ana C. Desouza-Doucet Jan 2006

Controlling Access To Physical Locations, Ana C. Desouza-Doucet

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The need to secure and control access to rooms in premises has shifted from allowing some people to enter a room to giving permission to specific persons to access a room and recording who entered the room and the time they spent in it. With such need for higher security in mind, we design an access control system for controlling physical access of people to locations or to specific units in these locations. Our study gives emphasis to the organization of physical locations, including nested rooms, and the approach used to assign permission to people to access such locations. We …

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Cognition And Adherence In Older Adults Undergoing Hemodialysis, Debra J. Hain Jan 2006

Cognition And Adherence In Older Adults Undergoing Hemodialysis, Debra J. Hain

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Background. Adherence to the behavioral change component of the hemodialysis regimen is difficult for many reasons; when individuals fail to adhere, the nurses often become frustrated and individuals may be labeled nonadherent leading to inappropriate interventions. As the number of older adults starting hemodialysis increases, one contributing factor to nonadherence in this population may be cognitive impairment. Objective. The overall purpose of the study was to explore differences in global cognition, in self-report cognition, and in language ability relative to adherence in a sample of older adults undergoing hemodialysis. Methods. This pilot study examined the differences in cognition and adherence …

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Academic Freedom: Disciplinary Lessons From Hogwarts, Emily M. Calhoun Jan 2006

Academic Freedom: Disciplinary Lessons From Hogwarts, Emily M. Calhoun

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The Interests Of "Peoples" In The Cooperative Management Of Sacred Sites, Kristen A. Carpenter Jan 2006

The Interests Of "Peoples" In The Cooperative Management Of Sacred Sites, Kristen A. Carpenter

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This essay contends that there is a structural element of federal law and policy that sets up legal battles over American Indian sacred sites. The Supreme Court has held that whatever rights groups may have at sacred sites, the federal government's rights as owner and sovereign of the public lands ultimately prevails. Federal agencies can, if they choose, accommodate various interests on the public lands, but such decisions are left to fluctuating executive policy and the discretion of land managers. This approach reflects well-established doctrine in public lands law, but leaves various citizens and groups clamoring for the federal government …

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Old Ground And New Directions At Sacred Sites On The Western Landscape, Kristen A. Carpenter Jan 2006

Old Ground And New Directions At Sacred Sites On The Western Landscape, Kristen A. Carpenter

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The federal public lands contain places with both religious and secular value for American people. American Indians, in particular, hold certain natural features to be sacred, and visit them for ceremonies and worship. Simultaneously, non-Indians use the same places for economic, recreation, and many other purposes - and conflicts arise between these groups. In the past twenty years, a body of constitutional jurisprudence has developed to address questions of religious freedoms and public access rights on these lands that are owned and managed by the federal government. This article outlines the relevant First Amendment framework as well as recent statutes …

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Learning From Wal-Mart, Melissa Hart Jan 2006

Learning From Wal-Mart, Melissa Hart

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This article considers the landmark gender discrimination class action, Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, both as a prototype of an emerging litigation strategy and also as a case that is entirely unique. As part of a growing trend of gender discrimination class claims, Dukes has the potential to push the boundaries of the law to confront the pervasive, tenacious stereotypes that continue to limit women's workplace opportunities. The plaintiffs' arguments - both the narrative of discrimination their evidence set out and the legal strategies they chose - are strikingly similar to claims that have been made in many class action …

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A Psychology Of Emotional Legal Decision Making: Revulsion And Saving Face In Legal Theory And Practice, Peter H. Huang, Christopher J. Anderson Jan 2006

A Psychology Of Emotional Legal Decision Making: Revulsion And Saving Face In Legal Theory And Practice, Peter H. Huang, Christopher J. Anderson

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Professor Martha C. Nussbaum is an accomplished scholar in an impressive variety of fields. Drawing on her diverse academic backgrounds, Nussbaum has written extensively about emotions and their importance for law from the perspective of her primary specialty, philosophy. Her book Hiding from Humanity criticizes the roles that two particular emotions, disgust and shame, play in the law. Its central thesis is that, as legal actors, we should be wary of disgust and shame because indulging in those emotions allows us to hide from our humanity - both our humanity in the general sense and also those specific features of …

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The Crime Of Economic Radicalism: Criminal Syndicalism Laws And The Industrial Workers Of The World, 1917-1927, Ahmed A. White Jan 2006

The Crime Of Economic Radicalism: Criminal Syndicalism Laws And The Industrial Workers Of The World, 1917-1927, Ahmed A. White

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"Particular Intentions": The Hillmon Case And The Supreme Court, Marianne Wesson Jan 2006

"Particular Intentions": The Hillmon Case And The Supreme Court, Marianne Wesson

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The case of Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Hillmon is one of the most influential decisions in the law of evidence. Decided by the Supreme Court in 1892, it invented an exception to the hearsay rule for statements encompassing the intentions of the declarant. But this exception seems not to rest on any plausible theory of the categorical reliability of such statements. This article suggests that the case turned instead on the Court's attachment to a particular narrative about the events that gave rise to the case, events that produced a corpse of disputed identity. The author's investigations into newspaper …

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Rethinking The Great Lakes Compact, Mark Squillace Jan 2006

Rethinking The Great Lakes Compact, Mark Squillace

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On December 13, 2005, the Governors and Premiers of the Great Lakes states and provinces signed a Compact and Agreement that commits the parties to a rigorous program to regulate individual water uses, with citizen suits to enforce the requirements. While the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact and companion Agreement are commendable in many respects, this Article argues that people who care about the future of the Great Lakes should urge policymakers to reject the current proposals and rethink the entire approach. The proposed compact is fundamentally flawed and will not achieve the ultimate stated goal of …

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Tax Strategies Are Not Patentable Inventions, Andrew A. Schwartz Jan 2006

Tax Strategies Are Not Patentable Inventions, Andrew A. Schwartz

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The Salmon People, Judge Boldt, And The Rule Of Law, Charles F. Wilkinson Jan 2006

The Salmon People, Judge Boldt, And The Rule Of Law, Charles F. Wilkinson

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Methods To Set Land Salinity Resource Condition Targets For The South West : Case Studies From Australia And New Zealand, Sharon Hu Jan 2006

Methods To Set Land Salinity Resource Condition Targets For The South West : Case Studies From Australia And New Zealand, Sharon Hu

Resource management technical reports

This Resource Management Technical Report provides background to methods to set targets on land salinity in the South West Natural Resource Management (NRM) region of Western Australia. Case studies from Australia and New Zealand have been reviewed to determine what approaches should be used. Resource Condition Targets (RCTs) are required for land salinity, soil condition and remnant vegetation.

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Potential Impacts Of Climate Change On Agricultural Land Use Suitability : Oats, Dennis Van Gool, Luke Vernon Jan 2006

Potential Impacts Of Climate Change On Agricultural Land Use Suitability : Oats, Dennis Van Gool, Luke Vernon

Resource management technical reports

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Designing A Microcontroller Training Platform For Active Distance Learning Engineering And Technology Students, Steve C. Hsiung, James E. Eiland, John R. Hackworth, John Ritz Jan 2006

Designing A Microcontroller Training Platform For Active Distance Learning Engineering And Technology Students, Steve C. Hsiung, James E. Eiland, John R. Hackworth, John Ritz

Engineering Technology Faculty Publications

This is an active distance-learning project that addresses the hands-on microprocessor/ mi-crocontroller-related courses. A research team designed a low-cost training system with supporting instructional materials to assist the teaching of these concepts. Individual laboratory activities are being developed to reinforce student learning and skill development in programming concepts. This basic system format eventually will support an array of engineering and technology courses. This project involves two community colleges, Blue Ridge Community College (BRCC) and Olympic College (OC), and a four-year university, Old Dominion University (ODU), in a collaborative research team to design and develop a specific PIC microcontroller training system …

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