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Georgia Virtual School: Baseline Data On Revenues And Expenditures, James Kelly Sigman

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

No Child Left Behind legislation continues to be a driving force for school districts, allowing virtual schools to become a tool that supplements the curriculum of local schools by offering everything from remedial courses to advanced placement courses. Over the years, research has begun to show the effectiveness of online learning as compared to traditional classroom instruction, but the issues of funding and cost effectiveness still have questions to be resolved. In 2005, the Georgia legislature passed Senate Bill 33 creating the Georgia Virtual School. The researcher sought to provide decision makers of the Georgia Virtual School baseline data on …

Too High A Price For Some Drugs?: The Fda Burdens Reproductive Choice, Lars Noah

San Diego Law Review

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has imposed increasingly restrictive conditions on access to pharmaceutical products such as isotretinoin (Accutance) and thalidomide that carry a serious risk of birth defects. This Article focuses on the requirement that female patients agree to use two forms of contraception, drawing parallels to suggestions that similar conditions apply to certain persons on welfare or probation, and posing hypothetical variations of the FDA's access restriction. If anyone ever challenged this aspect of the agency's risk management strategy, a court would have to decide whether the policy (1) grew out of state action (complicated by the …

The Demise Of Praire Dog Town, Carolyn Mueller

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Neighborhood Story, Katie Burpo

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Millennial Media: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of The Short Film "Narrow Roads", Auri - Christopher Colin Jones

Masters Theses

As we move into the future of , society has become more involved with the media they consume. Younger generations in the past generations have been effected and have affected media development in various ways. The Millennial generation of today is no exception. This thesis discusses the effects of media on the millennial generation through fantasy theme chains of an original video narrative. Millennial students will watch the narrative and discuss with other Millennials the themes presented and perceived from the video. The results from this study will give a look into how millennial interaction about visual media makes a …

Women's Ordination- A Litmus Test For Antinomianism, Joseph Omolo

Master of Art Theology Thesis

When the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya (ELCK), to which I belong, established a deaconess college at the beginning of this century to train young women for parish work, it was not clear which kind of education they were going to be offered. Many observers, both from within and without, saw this as a signal that the church was moving towards the ordination of women. When the first crop of deaconesses graduated and were deployed into the parishes, a great confusion reigned among the members, both clergy and ordinary Christians, regarding the role of these new workers. To compound the …

Epizootiological Importance Of Glossina Morsitans Submorsitans (Diptera: Glossinidae) (Newstead) In The Ghibe River Valley, Southwest Ethiopia, Merid Negash, Melaku Girma, Emiru Seyoum

All Peer-Reviewed Publications

The epizootiological importance of Glossina morsitans submorsitans in Ghibe River Valley was undertaken from October 2000 to September 2001. The flies were collected using baited monoconical traps. G. m. submorsitans occurred with a mean apparent density of 4.26 ± 0.49 flies/trap/day and the apparent density was characterized by an increase during the wet season and a decrease during the dry season. Among 450 G. m. submorsitans, approximately 5% were found to be infected with trypanosome. Of these infected flies, 76% were female. Nanomonas, Duttonella and Trypanozoon were the three trypanosome subgenera detected and occurred in the proportions of 57.1%, 38.1% …

Toward An Understanding Of Serial Killers Through Their Artwork: Implications For Forensic Art Therapy, Kelly Macionis

EVMS School of Health Professions Theses & Dissertations

This research study explored the formal elements and content of 258 images of artwork created by 47 serial killers to see if common themes or content could be discovered. The images were found on five Internet websites containing serial killer artwork. The 47 serial killer artists were all male and it was assumed they were imprisoned when they created their art. The artwork gathered was viewed on a laptop and analyzed using the methods of content analysis. After categories of content and formal elements in the images were entered into a spreadsheet, frequencies and percentages of each category and subcategory …

Judicial Deference And The Credibility Of Agency Commitments, Jonathan Masur

Vanderbilt Law Review

Consider the following situation: In late 2004, towards the end of President George W. Bush's first term, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration ("NHTSA"), pursuant to its congressionally delegated authority, promulgates a rule that would relax inspection and testing regimes for automobile manufacturers- thereby saving those firms substantial amounts of money-if the manufacturers independently deployed cutting-edge vehicle safety technology. The research and development of this technology will require significant up-front expenditures, and automobile manufacturers must decide whether to invest the funds necessary to bring the technology to market. However, the cost-benefit analysis is not so straightforward. The predicament, as the …

The Political Safeguards Of Executive Privilege, David A. O'Neil

Vanderbilt Law Review

To an unprecedented degree, the nation's welfare now depends on constitutionally sound outcomes to disputes between Congress and the President over executive branch information. Yet we still lack a satisfying theoretical account of the optimal method for achieving those outcomes. In the years since Watergate, courts and scholars have embraced a theory premised on an unexamined faith that the Constitution's structure embeds in the political process the tools and incentives necessary for each branch to vindicate its interests. Judicial interference, this conventional model further assumes, is both unnecessary and unwise; left to their own devices, the political branches will pursue …

Perceptions Of Calf Pool Participants Toward West Virginia Calf Pool Organizations, Carrie M. Stemple

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this study was to determine perceptions of West Virginia calf pool producers with their local organization. This study was a descriptive survey research conducted with West Virginia calf pool producers who participated in a calf pool in 2005 and/or 2006. The majority of participants in the study reported that they were satisfied with the calf pool organizations, and would continue to participate. Over half reported that they planned to increase their production within five years in order to market more calves through the calf pool. The average calf pool producer in West Virginia is over 50 years …

Roles Of Luteal And Allantoic Function In Late Embryonic/Early Fetal Pregnancy Failures In Cattle, Justin D. Rhinehart

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Pregnancy failures during placentation in lactating dairy cows have been associated with low concentrations of peripheral serum progesterone (P 4) and poor development of the chorioallantoic membranes. Experiment I was done to determine if pregnant cows with high or low concentrations of serum P4 differed in luteal production of P4 and/or clearance of injected P4. Luteal tissue was removed from pregnant cows with ≥ 4.0 ng/mL (High) or ≤ 2.5 ng/mL (Low) serum P4 during d 28 to 34 post-insemination. Luteal tissue was assayed for P4 by radioimmunoassay and for expression of mRNA for preproendothelins 1 and 3, endothelin converting …

Effects Of Varying Body Forces On Isothermal And Non Isothermal Liquid Jet Impingement, Deepak Mehra

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Liquid jet impingement is often used to cool heated surfaces encountered in various industrial applications. Such applications include cooling of electronic components and annealing of metals. Liquid jet impingement investigations primarily involve submerged jets and less commonly free liquid jets. Most of the studies done on both submerged jet impingement and free liquid jet impingement are done under terrestrial gravity conditions. There have been few studies on liquid jet impingement under non terrestrial conditions in zero or non zero gravitational force or of electrical body forces. These conditions are expected to result in significantly different flow patterns and heat transfer …

Design Guidelines For The Historic Downtown Of The City Of St. George, Utah, Bronson R. Tatton

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This document proposes historic preservation guidelines for the downtown area of the City of St. George, Utah. It grew from a summer internship with the city where I took inventory of the streetscape in the Historic Downtown and prepared recommendations in the form of a PowerPoint Presentation that was given to the city council. This paper summarizes the summer internship and introduces a more appropriate approach based on reflection of the intern ship. The new approach involves a thorough inventory of the historic character, in depth research of the historic elements that contribute to the historic character, development of design …

Electronic Instrumentation Of Coal Slurry Impoundments For Real-Time Data Collection To Support Automated Monitoring, James A. Altobello

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Following the breakthrough and release of coal slurry from the Martin County Coal Corporation impoundment near Inez, Kentucky on October 11, 2000 the United States Congress requested the National Research Council (NRC) to examine ways to reduce these types of accidents. The NRC completed their study titled "Coal Waste Impoundments" which identified numerous areas of concern and the committee presented recommendations for improving the design, operation, and safety of coal slurry impoundments. This research addresses the National Research Council's findings for introducing state-of-practice electronic instrumentation for monitoring parameters within the embankment and slurry pool area of an impoundment. This research …

Chemical Information Database, James L. John

Masters Theses & Doctoral Dissertations

The Chemical Information Database is an information system that will aid agricultural customers in the selection and ordering of herbicide chemicals for post treatment of weeds and grasses in their growing crops of com and soybeans. The system allows the user to order herbicide chemicals of their choice and have the option to print an invoice and/or email the invoice to the store. The user is also allowed to enter an Herbicide Rate and Additive Worksheet and enter data such as acres, sprayer size, gallons per acre applied, selection of the chemical being used, and the application rate of the …

Bse Information For Consumers, Clell Bagley

All Current Publications

Commonly called mad cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a disease of cattle which causes a degeneration of brain tissue, inability to move or function normally and eventual death

Increasing Social Interaction Skills In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Through Parent Implementation Of The Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-Based (Dir) Program, Yvette Cantu

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

The purposed study examined the changes in positive and negative social interactions based on parent implementation and non-implementation in the Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Based (DIR) program designed for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Nine participants were randomly selected and assigned to a DIR treatment group and a control group. The study was conducted over an eight week period. Overall, the statistical analysis of the implementation of the DIR program at home did not yield a significant change in positive social interaction skills. However, the parent's perspective of their children's social skills, as demonstrated through the parent questionnaire and through …

Power Market Analysis Tool For Congestion Management, Silpa Parnandi

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The privatization and deregulation of electricity markets has increased competition and electricity may be produced and consumed in amounts that would cause the transmission system to operate beyond transfer limits---the system is congested. Hence, congestion management is a fundamental transmission management problem. In this thesis, a power market analysis tool is designed for congestion management. The tool creates an interface between PowerWorld (c), a professional software tool to compute power flows, and MATLAB RTM. The tool helps in analyzing power flow results, batch-processing of large case studies, and providing the user with options to manage congestions. A graphical user interface …

Numerical Investigation Of Wing Morphing Capabilities Applied To A Horten Type Swept Wing Geometry, Ashwin Vishwanathan

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The inspiration for this work has been derived from the work done by Lippisch, the Hortens, Northrop and largely by the flight of birds in nature. Swept-wing tailless aircraft have been in vogue since World War-II and have now taken on a new role in stealth warfare primarily due to their low radar signatures. They also exhibit a highly efficient aerodynamic configuration with low parasitic drag. However, conventional tailless aircraft suffer from a lack of proper control mechanisms and have thus been forced to compromise their efficiency for better control. This work done at WVU aims to introduce a morphing …

Analysis Of The Relationship Between Performance Measures And Sale Price Among Angus Bulls From Two Different Bull Providers, C. Zack Hileman

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The objective of this study was to determine the relationships of sale price to EPD, Angus Dollar Value Indexes, and actual measurements among Angus bulls of two different seedstock bull providers. Data were obtained from Gardiner Angus Ranch, Ashland, Kansas, for years 2000-2006 on 815 Angus bulls and from the Wardensville bull test, Wardensville, West Virginia, for years 2001-2005 on 357 Angus bulls. Expected progeny differences (EPD) for birth weight (BW EPD), weaning weight (WW EPD), yearling weight (YW EPD), maternal milk (MM EPD), yearling height (YH EPD), scrotal circumference (SC EPD), intramuscular fat (IMF EPD), ribeye area (REA EPD), …

Pre-Breeding Food Habits And Condition Of Ruffed Grouse And Effects On Reproduction In The Central And Southern Appalachians, C. Robert Long

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Previous researchers have hypothesized that low ruffed grouse densities in the central and southern Appalachians may be related to nutritional constraints. Working as part of the Appalachian Cooperative Grouse Research Project (ACGRP), I investigated the pre-breeding food habits and body condition of 432 ruffed grouse from 9 states and explored relations between nutrition of breeding females and productivity in the central and southern Appalachians. The pre-breeding diet of ruffed grouse in the Appalachians differed substantially from grouse in more northern regions and was highly variable among and within sites and years. Grouse feeding on hard mast contained 71--79% greater fat …

Indian Warfare, Household Competency, And The Settlement Of The Western Virginia Frontier, 1749 To 1794, John M. Boback

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The thesis of this dissertation is that Indian-related violence and warfare had a profound influence on the duration and nature of the frontier experience of those men and women who settled in the western Virginia backcountry between 1749 and 1794. Recurrent attacks by Shawnees, Delawares, Mingos, and Indians from the Great Lakes region caused such widespread death, destruction, and depopulation that it effectively prolonged the period of austere and difficult living conditions for over forty years. This conclusion contradicts the assertions of some recent scholars who have argued that crude living conditions lasted for only a year or two on …

Molecular Mechanisms Of Chromium(Vi)-Induced Apoptosis And Malignant Transformation, Neelam Azad

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] compounds are redox cycling environmental carcinogens that induce apoptosis as the primary mode of cell death. Apoptosis is abnormally regulated in various disorders including cancer. Therefore, to understand the etiologies of these diseases, it is important to delineate the biochemical and molecular pathways involved in the regulation of apoptosis. The main objective of this study was to characterize the molecular mechanisms involved in Cr(VI)-induced apoptosis and malignant transformation. We found that both death receptor and mitochondrial pathways of apoptosis are involved in Cr(VI)-induced apoptosis, with the latter being more dominant. Consequently, overexpression of the mitochondrial anti-apoptotic protein …

Genetic And Evolutionary Consequences Of Harvest In American Ginseng, Panax Quinquefolius L. (Araliaceae), Emily H. Mooney

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) is a wild-harvested perennial plant of the eastern deciduous forest. Harvest supplies world markets with roots used in Asian medicine, but this practice is fatal to plants. The objective of this research was to investigate the genetic and evolutionary consequences of harvest. As seen in animal species, harvest may alter size selection by preferentially removing large individuals. Chapter 2 describes my study of harvest's effects on size selection. From the simulated harvests, I observed that large-sized plants lose their fitness advantages in harvested populations. Harvest pressure could ultimately lead to population divergence if selected traits …

Epithelial Mechanisms In Airway Responses Induced By Hyperosmolarity, Yi Jing

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

There is airway dilation in normal people but obstruction in asthmatic patients during exercise; this has been thought to be initiated by hyperventilation causing evaporative water loss and hyperosmolarity of the airway surface liquid (ASL). In animal experiments the epithelium can detect osmolarity increases in the ASL and mediate relaxation of airway smooth muscle by releasing epithelium-derived relaxing factor (EpDRF), while in asthmatic patients this local regulatory function could be altered because of damage to epithelium. Challenged by hyperosmolarity, epithelial cells undergo shrinkage, volume-related ion transport, and release regulatory mediators, such as EpDRF. The changes in epithelial ion transport and …

The Murray Ledger And Times, May 1, 2007, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Legitimating Penal Law, Markus D. Dubber

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Distribution, Abundance, And Habitat Associations Of The Long-Billed Curlew In Southwestern North Dakota, Daniel S. Ackerman

Theses and Dissertations

Gathering information on North American bird populations calls for long-term monitoring programs covering extensive geographic region to provide basic information on distribution, habitat use and availability, abundance, and changes in abundance. Information regarding population size, distributions and trends is of critical importance to conservation planners, managers, and biologists concerned with widespread degradation of ecosystems, alteration and loss of habitats, and understanding the effective conservation of a species. In accordance with the recommended monitoring of bird populations, especially species of high conservation concern, I undertook a study of the long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus parvus; hereafter LBCU or curlew). The LBCU were …

Intrapersonal Communication And Well-Being, James Abbott

Theses and Dissertations

This research explored the experience of self-talk (intrapersonal communication) among subjects of varying well-being, considering multiple characteristics of self-talk such as tone, content, timing, and subject awareness. The research questions were: (R1) How is intrapersonal communication used and experienced by those with higher and lower levels of self-assessed well-being? (R2) To what extent are subjects of varying well-being states aware of their intrapersonal communication?

Twenty semi-structured personal interviews were conducted with individuals of varying well-being and other characteristics such as age and occupation. The subjects ranged in age from approximately twenty-one to eighty. The interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and …