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An Illustration Of Mentoring Enactment Theory, Ronald W. Hochstatter

Theses and Dissertations

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Emotional And Psychophysiological Responses To Antismoking Media In College Students, Mark C. Goetz

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Preattention In An Online Advertising Context: A Neuroscience Perspective, Milica Milosavljevic

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Consumers are exposed to thousands of marketing messages every day. In such a cluttered environment, gaining consumers· attention becomes an increasingly important business objective. This study expands the concept of attention from a simple view of attention as se lection of stimuli to a more elaborate two step process consisting of (I) preattention and (2) focal attention. The focus of this research is on preattention, which is determined by physical characteristics of objects in a visual scene. This study also i1Pproves the measurement ofpreattention by surveying the neuroscience literature and using a computational model to measure preattention. This improved measure …

The Epidemiology Of Spina Bifida In Ireland: An Anthropological Approach, Kathryn A. O'Donnell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A sample of 97 human skeletal remains from Ireland were examined to investigate the etiology of spina bifida, a form of neural tube defect. It is unclear whether the disease results from environmental or genetic causes. Collections of human remains from three sites dated to nineteenth century were studied in an attempt to identify the period during which the prehistoric rates of spina bifida rose to modern levels. In these collections, nineteenth century spina bifida rates were higher than either prehistoric or modern rates. Thus, nineteenth century Ireland experienced peak rates of spina bifida. Nutrition in modern day Ireland has …

The Inactive Self: Mental Representation Of Dormant Social Roles, Ryan M. Moyer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

A significant portion of the self is constructed from our actions and the roles to which they correspond. Although many of our social roles are enacted regularly, some may lay dormant, yet still influence one's self-concept. We propose that there are systematic differences in mental representation between these inactive roles and more active roles. Specifically, inactive roles should be more likely to be construed in high-level terms, while active roles should be more likely to be construed in lowlevel terms. Experiment 1 found that for inactive roles, participants displayed an implicit construal preference for the high-level aspects of the role. …

The Impact Of A Museum-Based Science Methods Course On Early Childhood/Elementary Pre-Service Teachers' Self-Efficacy And Ability To Develop Curriculum Using A Constructivist Approach, Chelneca Kegley Templeton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The focus of this study was to discover what impact a museum-based science methods course would have on 14 early childhood/elementary pre-service teachers' selfefficacy and ability to develop curriculum using a constructivist approach. Data were gathered using the STEBI-B, modified by Bleicher (2004). A paired-samples t test indicated there was significant change in the pre-service teachers ' self-efficacy pre-and post-museum course participation. The investigation also analyzed student-created learning centers intended for use in the students' future classrooms. Students created two learning centers, one before interaction with exhibits in the museum and one at the end of the course. At the …

A Resource Guide For Juvenile Law Practitioners, Colene Flynn Robinson

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The Lived Experience Of Male Nurses Who Have Successfully Rehabilitated From Chemical Dependency Through The State Of Florida's Intervention Project For Nurses, Patricia Welch Dittman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This dissertation reviews the multifaceted dimensions of male nurses in recovery from chemical dependency in the State of Florida's Intervention Project for Nurses Rehabilitation Program. These dimensions are not linear and fluctuation of the degree of intensity is individualized to the lived experience of the nurse. The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological research study was to understand the lived experience of male nurses who have successfully completed the rehabilitation phase and to determine themes that influenced their vulnerability to professional impairment. The study identified two overarching themes of person and profession. The major theme of person had three sub-themes of …

Believers In Dixie: A Cultural Geography Of The Kentucky Shakers, Marc A. Rhorer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The Kentucky Shakers were distinct from those of Ohio and the Northeastern United States because they were products of the cultural environment of the Upper South. The variation originated in the country's settlement and migration patterns. People with similar cultural backgrounds tended to concentrate and migrate together. As the western frontier expanded, settlers with more socio-cultural commonalities tended to migrate in similar patterns and maintain a sense of cultural cohesion in the newly opened westward frontier. We can observe the similarities between the Kentucky Shakers of the Pleasant Hill and South Union villages and their Southern neighbors by analyzing cultural …

Attributes That Enable A Virtual High School To Go To Scale, Daryl Diamond

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

As our nation demands system-wide improvement, external providers are challenged to scale up educational reform efforts, to implement them more widely, more deeply, and more rapidly than in the past. Virtual high schools come at a time when public education is being challenged by mandates for new forms of educational choice and supplemental services. Replicating success of educational reforms on a large scale is a vexing issue. Failure to scale them up is accredited to the absence of a practical theory that accounts for the institutional complexities operating on changes of practice. This research developed such a practical theory gleaning …

Brain Computer Interface And Neuroprosthetics, Rodrigo Calderon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

For many years people have consider the possibility that brain activity might provide a new channel for communication between a person's brain and the external world. Brain Computer Interface allows humans to control electronic devices using only their thoughts. The goal of this project is to provide the users with a basic control of a prosthetic arm using the signal acquired by an Electroencephalogram (EEG). The main objective of the research is to demonstrate and provide a system that allows individuals to obtain control of the device with very little training and very few electrodes. The research includes the development …

Building Cosmopolitical Solidarity From The Antigone: A Return To The Chorus, Rebecca L. Mccarthy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

“Building Cosmopolitical Solidarity from the Antigone.” takes an in-depth look at how the Antigone by Sophocles has been used by social movements and social/politically concerned playwrights, theorists and activists as either a tool for discursive and performative resistance, or as a way to reinforce status-quo state rule since at least the Enlightenment to present day. I argue that Sophocles’ characters Creon and Antigone are not ideal images for social movements who seek a cosmopolitical democracy. Rather it is to Sophocles’ Chorus and the Watchman that we must turn when proposing democratic cosmopolitanism. Thus, a new communication approach is proposed: a …

Developing Healthy Kids In Healthy Communities: Eight Evidence-Based Strategies For Preventing High-Risk Behaviour., Gary L. Hopkins, Duane C. Mcbride, Helen H. Marshak, Kiti Freier, John V. Stevens, Wendi Kannenberg, James B. Weaver, Stephanie L. Sargent Weaver, Peter N. Landless, Jonathan Duffy

Faculty Publications

Australian youth engage in behaviour that threatens their health and wellbeing. National surveys report that about a third of young Australians have tried an illicit drug. High rates of substance use and risky sexual behaviour among young Australians suggest that effective prevention efforts based on empirical evidence need to be expanded. Church-associated organisations are an untapped resource that could be used to improve the health and welfare of young people. We describe eight evidence-based elements to consider in designing strategies to prevent high-risk behaviour in young people.

Measurement Of Prompt Photons With Associated Jets In Photoproduction At Hera, S. Chekanov, M. Derrick, S. Magill, S. Miglioranzi, B. Musgrave, D. Nicholass, J. Repond, R. Yoshida, Margarita C. K. Mattingly, N. Pavel, A. G. Yagües Molina, S. Antonelli, P. Antonioli, G. Bari, M. Basile, L. Bellagamba, M. Bindi, D. Boscherini, A. Bruni, G. Bruni, L. Cifarelli, F. Cindolo, A. Contin, M. Corradi, S. De Pasquale, G. Iacobucci, A. Margotti, R. Nania, A. Polini, L. Rinaldi, G. Sartorelli

Faculty Publications

The photoproduction of prompt photons, together with an accompanying jet, has been studied in ep collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 77 pb-1. Cross sections were measured for the transverse energy of the photon and the jet larger than 5 and 6 GeV, respectively. The differential γ+jet cross sections were reconstructed as functions of the transverse energy, pseudorapidity and xγobs, the fraction of the incoming photon momentum taken by the photon-jet system. Predictions based on leading-logarithm parton-shower Monte Carlo models and next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD generally underestimate the …

Aesthetic Judgment And Legal Justification, Guyora Binder

Journal Articles

Although criticized as illegitimate, literary elements are necessary features of legal argument. In a modern liberal state, law motivates compliance by justifying controversial prescriptions as products of an appropriate process for representing the will of society. Yet because law constructs the will of individual and collective actors in representing them, its representations are necessarily figurative rather than mimetic. In evaluating law's representation of society, citizens of the liberal state are also shaping their own ends. Such self-expressive choices, subjective but non-instrumental, entail aesthetic judgment. Thus the literary elements of rhetorical figuration and aesthetic appeal are fundamental, rather than merely ornamental, …

Taking Shareholder Rights Seriously, Julian Velasco

Journal Articles

The great corporate scandals of the recent past and the resulting push for legal reform have revived the role of the shareholder in the corporation as a subject of great debate. Those who favor an expanded role for shareholders in corporate governance tend to focus on developing new legal rights for shareholders, and their critics respond with reasons why such rights are unnecessary and inappropriate. While these issues certainly are worthy of consideration, issues concerning existing shareholder rights are more fundamental. If existing rights are adequate or could be improved, then new rights may not be necessary; but if existing …

The Fourth Amendment Status Of Stored E-Mail: The Law Professors' Brief In Warshak V. United States, Susan Freiwald, Patricia L. Bellia

Journal Articles

This paper contains the law professors' brief in the landmark case of Warshak v. United States, the first federal appellate case to recognize a reasonable expectation of privacy in electronic mail stored with an Internet Service Provider (ISP). While the 6th circuit's opinion was subsequently vacated and reheard en banc, the panel decision will remain extremely significant for its requirement that law enforcement agents must generally acquire a warrant before compelling an ISP to disclose its subscriber's stored e-mails. The law professors' brief, co-authored by Susan Freiwald (University of San Francisco) and Patricia L. Bellia (Notre Dame) and signed by …

Church, State, And The Practice Of Love, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

In his first encyclical letter, Deus caritas est, Pope Benedict XVI describes the Church as a community of love. In this letter, he explores the organized practice love by and through the Church, and the relationship between this practice, on the one hand, and the Church's commitment to the just ordering of the State and society, on the other. God is love, he writes. This paper considers the implications of this fact for the inescapably complicated nexus of church-state relations in our constitutional order.

The specific goal for this paper is to draw from Deus caritas est some insight into …

The Bar Examination, Tony W. Torain, Jo Anne Simon, Melinda Saran, Barbara Hergenroeder

Journal Articles

Transcript of Panel 3: The Bar Examination, from Assisting Law Students with Disabilities in the 21st Century: Brass Tacks, Washington, DC, March 28, 2007.

Normative Gaps In The Criminal Law: A Reasons Theory Of Wrongdoing, Luis E. Chiesa

Journal Articles

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The Creation Of The Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service And Its Role In Canadian Naval Intelligence And Communications, 1939-45, Julie Anne Redstone-Lewis

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This study explores the establishment of the Women’s Royal Naval Canadian Service (WRCNS) on the basis of its British counterpart, and the subsequent restructuring of the service better to suit Canadian needs during the Second World War. This development paralleled and complemented other efforts on the part of the Canadian navy to become more autonomous from British’s Royal Navy. Many Canadians, and the government itself, had profound reservations about the employment of women in military service, but within the navy, as in the other armed forces, these reservations were overcome by much needed skills available among the women who volunteered. …

Saving Disney: Activating Publics Through The Internet, Sarah Bonewits Feldner, Rebecca J. Meisenbach

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

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A Description Of Lobbying As Advocacy Public Relations, Kati Tusinski Berg

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

This study defines lobbying as advocacy public relations. Data were collected from self-administered surveys of 222 registered lobbyists in Oregon. This study provides insight into a specialized group of public relations practitioners.

The Corporatization Of Communication, Eric Chiappinelli, Adam Candeub, Jeffrey Chester, Lawrence Soley

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

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Mothers Of Soldiers In Wartime: A National News Narrative, Karen L. Slattery, Ana C. Garner

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

National news media represent mothers of US combat soldiers in the Iraq War as archetypal good mothers, that is, mothers who continue their maternal work even after their children are deployed. However, not all mothers are depicted as the archetypal patriotic mother, i.e., a good mother who is also stoic and silent about the war and her child's role in it. Mothers of soldiers are portrayed as good mothers who sometimes also voice their attitudes about the war effort. The maternal attitudes ranged from complete support for the war to opposition to the war but support for the soldiers. The …

A Meta-Analysis Of Political Advertising, William L. Benoit, Glenn M. Leshner, Sumana Chattopadhyay

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Political advertising is one of the dominant media for reaching voters. Previous metaanalyses (Allen & Burrell, 2002; Lau, Sigelman, Heldman, & Babbitt, 1999) found little or no net benefit to negative versus positive ads. However, this finding does not reveal whether ads have effects (both or neither could be persuasive). A meta-analysis revealed that political spots increased issue knowledge, influenced perceptions of the candidates’ character, altered attitudes, and affected candidate preference; influenced agenda-setting, and altered vote likelihood (turnout). One moderator variable was detected: The effect size for learning was larger for studies of students than non-students; however, the effect size …

Who Is A Journalist And Why Does It Matter? Disentangling The Legal And Ethical Arguments, Erik Ugland, Jennifer Henderson

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

The contemporary debate about "who is a journalist" is occurring in two distinct domains: law and professional ethics. Although the debate in these domains is focused on separate problems, participants treat the central question as essentially the same. This article suggests that the debates in law and professional ethics have to be resolved independently and that debate within those domains needs to be more nuanced. In law, it must vary depending on whether the context involves constitutional law, statutory law, or the distribution of informal privileges by government officials. In professional ethics, the debate should not be oriented around a …

The U.N. Disability Convention: Historic Process, Strong Prospects And Why The U.S. Should Ratify, Tara J. Melish

Journal Articles

On December 13, 2006, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Convention is historic and path-breaking on several levels, both in protection terms for the world's 650 million persons with disabilities who may now draw upon its provisions in defense of their internationally-protected rights, and in relation to the unprecedented level of civil society input and engagement in the negotiation process. This sustained and constructive engagement has given rise to a dynamic process of dialogue, cooperation, and mutual trust that will fuel monitoring and implementation work, at national and international …

Taxing Citizens In A Global Economy, Michael S. Kirsch

Journal Articles

This Article addresses a fundamental issue underlying the U.S. tax system in the international context: the use of citizenship as a jurisdictional basis for imposing income tax. As a general matter, the United States is the only economically developed country that taxes its citizens abroad on their foreign income.

Despite this broad general assertion of taxing jurisdiction, Congress allows citizens abroad to exclude a limited amount of their income earned from working outside the United States. Influential lobbying groups, including businesses that employ significant numbers of U.S. citizens abroad, argue that this exclusion is necessary in order to keep American …

Addressing The Incoherency Of The Preemption Provision Of The Copyright Act Of 1976, Joseph P. Bauer

Journal Articles

Section 301 of the Copyright Act of 1976 expressly preempts state law actions that are within the "general scope of copyright" and that assert claims that are "equivalent to" the rights conferred by the Act. The Act eliminated the previous system of common law copyright for unpublished works, which had prevailed under the prior 1909 Copyright Act. By federalizing copyright law, the drafters of the statute sought to achieve uniformity and to avoid the potential for state protection of infinite duration.

The legislative history of § 301 stated that this preemption provision was set forth "in the clearest and most …