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Development Of A Decision Support System For Selection Of Trenchless Technologies To Minimize Impact Of Utility Construction On Roadways, Dulcy M. Abraham, Hyeon-Shik Baik, Sanjiv B. Gokhale Jan 2007

Development Of A Decision Support System For Selection Of Trenchless Technologies To Minimize Impact Of Utility Construction On Roadways, Dulcy M. Abraham, Hyeon-Shik Baik, Sanjiv B. Gokhale

JTRP Technical Reports

The need to replace deteriorating underground utility infrastructure and to expand utility services, increases the need for utility conduits to intersect roadways. Open-trench method is currently the most widely used method for installation of underground pipelines and conduits of all sizes. However, open-cut construction has several shortcomings, chief amongst which are: health and safety concerns of workers, surface disturbance, disruption to vehicular/pedestrian traffic and reduction of pavement life. Today, other cost-effective alternatives exist to traditional open-trench construction. These methods are categorized as "Trenchless Technologies" as they require minimum trenching (excavation). While the benefits of trenchless technology are quite apparent when …

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Late Holocene Uplift Of The Chihshang Segment Of The Longitudinal Valley Fault At Fuli, Eastern Taiwan, Brian Thomas Gray Jan 2007

Late Holocene Uplift Of The Chihshang Segment Of The Longitudinal Valley Fault At Fuli, Eastern Taiwan, Brian Thomas Gray

All Master's Theses

Uplifted Holocene strath terraces of the Bieh River drainage, eastern Taiwan, were analyzed in order to determine millennial-scale uplift and horizontal shortening rates of the Longitudinal Valley fault. Detrital charcoal fragments collected from three terraces within the Bieh River drainage yield ages between 1395 and 555 cal. yr B.P, suggesting an average uplift rate of 11.3 ± 3.6 mm yr-1 for the last 1400 cal. yr B.P. The average horizontal shortening rate of 19.7 ± 9.5 mm yr-1 was within error of present-day conventional geodetic measurements, but near the lower limit of the geodetic measurements. This suggests that …

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Functional Neuroimaging Information: A Case For Neuro Exceptionalism, Stacey A. Tovino Jan 2007

Functional Neuroimaging Information: A Case For Neuro Exceptionalism, Stacey A. Tovino

Faculty Articles

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has built on a number of technologies, including electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, positron emission tomography, and single-photon emission computed tomography, to become one of the decade's most powerful tools for mapping sensory, motor, and cognitive function. Scientists also are using fMRI to study the neural correlates of a range of conditions, characteristics, and social behaviors, including schizophrenia, addiction, racial evaluation, deception, cooperation, and sexual preferences. Now poised to move outside the research context, functional neuroimaging raises a number of confidentiality, privacy, and identity issues. In this Article, I examine whether special, or heightened, confidentiality, privacy, and informed …

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Year 12 Curriculum Content And Achievement Standards, Gabrielle Matters, Geoff N. Masters Jan 2007

Year 12 Curriculum Content And Achievement Standards, Gabrielle Matters, Geoff N. Masters

Assessment and Reporting

This study provides the first Australia-wide picture of what is expected of students taking five subjects—English (including Literature), Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Australian History—in the final years of secondary school. The study addresses three broad questions: What is currently taught in these five subjects across Australia? This question is addressed through an analysis of the content of senior school curricula in the five subjects in all Australian states and territories. The study documents similarities and differences in approaches and in the content (subject matter and skills/understandings) emphasised in state and territory curriculum documents. What is the 'essential' content (subject matter …

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Research On The Progressive Achievement Tests And Academic Achievement In Schools, Gerard Fogarty Jan 2007

Research On The Progressive Achievement Tests And Academic Achievement In Schools, Gerard Fogarty

Assessment and Reporting

This report presents three studies examining research conducted in Queensland on Progressive Achievement Tests (PAT) published by Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). In study 1 ‘Predictive Validity of the Progressive Achievement Tests for Boys’, a battery of tests was used to assess vocabulary, comprehension, and numeracy skill levels of students commencing study at a regional high school. The tests were used as a screening tool to identify students who might benefit from additional instruction and also to select high achieving students for participation in extension work, maths competitions, and the like. Test results were later correlated with performance in …

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Vincentiana Vol. 51, No. 3 [Full Issue] Jan 2007

Vincentiana Vol. 51, No. 3 [Full Issue]

Vincentiana

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The Stones And The Bones: Contemporary Issues In Cultural Property, Christopher Michael Blocker Jan 2007

The Stones And The Bones: Contemporary Issues In Cultural Property, Christopher Michael Blocker

Honors Theses

Cultural property has recently become an important issue in the international community. Major museums across the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum, have been involved in litigation or settled out of court with foreign governments who claim objects in their museums' collections were looted or stolen from native soil. The topic of repatriation occupies one aspect of the thesis. Another section is concern with the philosophical framework within which people may think about cultural property and its implications, as well as about vital issues in ownership. The major part of the thesis …

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An Investigation Of Communications Laws And The Mississippi Business Manager, Melissa Ann King Jan 2007

An Investigation Of Communications Laws And The Mississippi Business Manager, Melissa Ann King

Honors Theses

This study sought to determine if Mississippi business managers were versed in maintaining a legal workplace with their knowledge of 15 major United States laws relating specifically to the area of business communication. It also sought to gather relevant information based upon personal views related to two critical communications laws; the Civil Rights Act of 1964- Title VII Equal Employment Opportunity and the Age Discrimination Act of 1967. The study went on to determine if the 15 laws were actually being used in the workplace by Mississippi business managers. After proper approval by the University of Mississippi Office of Research …

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Growth And Immunocomptence In Parasitized Domestic Turkeys( Meleagris Gallapavo): Is There A Trade-Off?, Virginia Austin Harrison Jan 2007

Growth And Immunocomptence In Parasitized Domestic Turkeys( Meleagris Gallapavo): Is There A Trade-Off?, Virginia Austin Harrison

Honors Theses

Parasitic infection can prove to be detrimental to the condition, reproductive fitness, and survival of the host organism. During infection, an organism experiences trade-offs between functions such as growth, reproduction, and immunological activity as a result of limited resources. When challenged by infection, wild turkeys, adapted for survival, should fight the infection rather than invest in growth. Because domestic turkeys have been artificially selected to grow rapidly, I hypothesized that they would invest in growth rather than immunocompetence. To test this hypothesis, I infected domestic turkeys with coccidia and measured components of growth and immunocompetence. Turkeys were infected with the …

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Across The Racial Divide: Women Writing Women In Select Post-Civil Rights Fiction, Marty Marie Hitt Jan 2007

Across The Racial Divide: Women Writing Women In Select Post-Civil Rights Fiction, Marty Marie Hitt

Honors Theses

In this paper we present the mathematical methods necessary to utilize the Rivest. Shamir, and Adleman (RSA) cryptosystem. Beginning witn the Divi sion Theorem and an introduction to modular arithmetic we then delve brieflv into group theory, leading up to our presentation of LaGrange’s Theorem. Next we prove Fermat’s Little Theorem, Wilson's Theorem, and Euler's Theorem. arriving at a definition and explanation of the RSA method. We conclude this paper with a short discussion of prime generating techniques, focusing our attention on Pocklington’s prime determination method.

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The Limits Of Laïcité: Islam And The Headscarf Issue In France, Lindsay Blaire Beeman Jan 2007

The Limits Of Laïcité: Islam And The Headscarf Issue In France, Lindsay Blaire Beeman

Honors Theses

Laicite is the term given to France’s complex policy of separation between church and state. Developing out of a long and tumultuous religious history, laicite set out to resolve the problems that the French state had with religion by eliminating its presence in the public sphere. At its inception, the policy did not have clearly stated objectives. As a result, it was not equally applied and many problems ensued. The most recent debacle involving the application of laicite was Vaffaire dii foulard, or headscarf affair. Citing the principle of laicite, numerous teachers and principals in French schools required Muslim students …

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Elusive Peace: A Comparative Analysis Of Civil Wars And Conflict Resolution In El Salvador And Colombia, Jessica Bryant Jan 2007

Elusive Peace: A Comparative Analysis Of Civil Wars And Conflict Resolution In El Salvador And Colombia, Jessica Bryant

Honors Theses

This study compares the historical contexts of the rise of civil wars and their modem trajectories in Colombia and El Salvador. Through an analysis of the successful negotiation of peace in the Salvadoran case via a United Nations peacekeeping mission, it makes conclusions about the relevancy of such an operation for obtaining peace in Colombia. After a brief discussion of the United Nations evolving peacekeeping mandate and recent literature about this type of peace negotiation, this thesis examines each country’s history and its war’s termination (in the case of El Salvador) and transformation (in the case of Colombia). Recent literature …

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An Initial Evaluation Of Select Social Welfare Programs Instated By Hugo Chavez, Maria Catarina Gutierrez Jan 2007

An Initial Evaluation Of Select Social Welfare Programs Instated By Hugo Chavez, Maria Catarina Gutierrez

Honors Theses

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Stopping The Flood Of Denglish: The Difficult Dilemma Faced By German Language Organizations In Modern-Day Germany, Julianne Kay Lofton Jan 2007

Stopping The Flood Of Denglish: The Difficult Dilemma Faced By German Language Organizations In Modern-Day Germany, Julianne Kay Lofton

Honors Theses

In this study I examined the reactions of official and independent German language organizations to the influx of Denglish, which is a hybrid mix of German and English, and Anglicisms. The independent language organizations tend to be more open in opposing these linguistic influences, and often want strict language protection laws like those in France and Poland. I hypothesized that Germany’s Nazi past has led to a general lack of patriotism and nationalism in Germany, which has affected their language policy and allowed Germany to be overrun by Denglish and Anglicized words and phrases. Germany is experiencing a renewal of …

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Environment, Behavior, And Internal Consciousness: A Study Of Space And Time In Dostoevsky, Laura Claire Bagwell Jan 2007

Environment, Behavior, And Internal Consciousness: A Study Of Space And Time In Dostoevsky, Laura Claire Bagwell

Honors Theses

Individual and public space creates the reality of daily existence for a human being. The ideological perspectives a person maintains are direct products of individual space experience because the larger societal context of a region constructs the norms for behavior and belief Dostoevsky writes concentration narratives that focus on the urban and rural space surrounding a protagonist, and contrasts between these two settings to illustrate the impact of environment on the human psyche. This study examines the use of external conditions to describe literary characters and the ideologies and behaviors they maintain. In researching space and time in the literature …

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Willingness To Pay Versus Welfare, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2007

Willingness To Pay Versus Welfare, Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Economists often analyze questions of law and policy by reference to the criterion of private willingness to pay (WTP), with the belief that people's WTP for a good is an accurate proxy for the welfare that they would obtain from that good. For two reasons, the proxy is crude. The first problem is that people may not pay for all of the benefits they receive, and in such cases, use of WTP may lead in unfortunate directions, even or especially if welfare is our lodestar. Inefficient results may nonetheless increase welfare. The second and more fundamental problem is that people …

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Shoreline Erosion In Deep Creek Lake, Maryland: Patterns, Trends And Economic Implications., Catalin Demian Jan 2007

Shoreline Erosion In Deep Creek Lake, Maryland: Patterns, Trends And Economic Implications., Catalin Demian

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Deep Creek Lake, Maryland was constructed in the 1930s as a reservoir for a hydro-electric project, but it also has been used for recreational purposes. Property ownership is attractive, but lakefront properties in particular are exposed to shoreline erosion. A particular issue is the State of Maryland’s ownership of the shoreline and the buffer strip. While most of shoreline erosion occurs technically on state-owned land, not the lakeshore private property, erosion’s most visible effects are property improvements damage or gradual decrease in the distance between the lake and the property improvement. In order to understand the magnitude of the problem, …

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Climate Change And Animals, Cass R. Sunstein, Wayne Hsiung Jan 2007

Climate Change And Animals, Cass R. Sunstein, Wayne Hsiung

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Climate change is already having adverse effects on animal life, and those effects are likely to prove devastating in the future. Nonetheless, the relevant harms to animals have yet to become a serious part of the analysis of climate change policy. Even if animals and species are valued solely by reference to human preferences, inclusion of their welfare dramatically increases the argument for aggressive responses to climate change. We estimate that, even under conservative assumptions about valuation, losses to nonhuman life might run into the hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Whatever the precise figure, the general conclusion is clear: …

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Completely Theorized Agreements In Constitutional Law, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2007

Completely Theorized Agreements In Constitutional Law, Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

How is constitutionalism possible, when people disagree on so many questions about what is good and what is right? This essay, written for a special issue of Social Research on Difficult Decisions, explores the role of two kinds of incompletely theorized agreements amidst sharp disagreements about the largest issues in social life. The first consist of agreements on abstract formulations (freedom of speech, equality under the law); these agreements are crucial to constitution-making as a social practice. The second consist of agreements on particular doctrines and practices; these agreements are crucial to life and law under existing constitutions. Incompletely theorized …

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Cost-Benefit Analysis Without Analyzing Costs Or Benefits: Reasonable Accommodation, Balancing, And Stigmatic Harms, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2007

Cost-Benefit Analysis Without Analyzing Costs Or Benefits: Reasonable Accommodation, Balancing, And Stigmatic Harms, Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Is an accommodation "reasonable," under the Americans with Disabilities Act, if and only if the benefits are roughly proportional to the costs? How should benefits and costs be assessed? Should courts asks about how much disabled employees are willing to pay to obtain the accommodation, or instead how much they would have to be paid not to have the accommodation? How should stigmatic or expressive harms be valued? This essay, written for a symposium on the work of Judge Richard A. Posner, engages these questions in a discussion of an important opinion in which Judge Posner denied accommodations involving the …

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Design And Analysis Of Ultra Wide Band Cmos Lna, Janmejay Adhyaru Jan 2007

Design And Analysis Of Ultra Wide Band Cmos Lna, Janmejay Adhyaru

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Life Stress, Adjustment, And Religious Support In African Americans., Jemour Maddux Jan 2007

Life Stress, Adjustment, And Religious Support In African Americans., Jemour Maddux

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The paper sought to extend the work on religious coping in African Americans by exploring the religious moderators of the relationship between stress and adjustment between cultures. Specifically, the goal of the present investigation was to identify whether the buffering effects of religious moderators (i.e., religious coping and religious support) on the relationship between stress and adjustment varied by race. Many studies on African Americans supports that social and individualistic coping styles are respectively predictors of positive and negative adjustment. Results partially supported that religious support in African Americans was a better predictor of adjustment than religious coping. Overall, this …

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Domain Specific Identity Commitment And Alcohol Use And Problems., Alison Glanville Jan 2007

Domain Specific Identity Commitment And Alcohol Use And Problems., Alison Glanville

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Identity formation is an important developmental task of the college days.Previous research has demonstrated that identity commitment,as defined by James Marcia,is related to decreased substance use and problems.That is,individuals who are identity achieved or foreclosed use substances less frequently and experience fewer substance-related problems than do individuals who are classified in the statues of identity diffused or moratorium.However,Marcia discussed identity as developing in two domains,the occupational and the ideological(religious beliefs and political ideology).To date,no studies have examined in which domain commitment is associated witha decrease in substance use and problems.Using a sample of 283 college students,the present study sought to …

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Moderating Role Of Self-Monitoring In The Presentation Of Self Through Display Of Possessions., Piotr.T Burchard Jan 2007

Moderating Role Of Self-Monitoring In The Presentation Of Self Through Display Of Possessions., Piotr.T Burchard

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The literature concerning the nature and presentation of the self is briefly reviewed, and the role of self-monitoring as a moderator in the presentation of self through display of possessions is discussed. It is hypothesized that high self-monitors differ from low self-monitors in the extent to which their private and public living spaces reveal their personality.Photographs of living rooms and bedrooms of 40 homeowners of different living status were collected to serve as stimuli and measure of the homeowner's personality and self-monitoring were taken.The photographs were presented to unacquainted observers who rated the homeowner's personality on the same scale.The correlations …

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Convicted Drunk Drivers Placed In Two Community-Based Programs: A Look At Program Outcomes, Kerisha L. Alexander Jan 2007

Convicted Drunk Drivers Placed In Two Community-Based Programs: A Look At Program Outcomes, Kerisha L. Alexander

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In Vigo County, Indiana, convicted drunk drivers are placed in varied community-based correctional programs. Two such programs are electronically monitored home detention and day reporting centers. Specifically, adult offenders convicted of drunk driving and sentenced to either program for an additional condition of their probation were the target of this study. The objective was two-fold. First, offenders who were placed in either program between February 1, 2002, and January 31, 2003, were compared in terms of exit status from the programs. Second, post-program recidivism was examined only for those offenders who successfully exited the program. Individual, case and program characteristics …

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Differences Among Non -Handicapped Students, Students With Mathematics Learning Disabilities, And Students With Mild Mental Retardation, In Elementary School In The Cognitive Components For The Addition Operation, Fawzi A. Al-Doukhi Jan 2007

Differences Among Non -Handicapped Students, Students With Mathematics Learning Disabilities, And Students With Mild Mental Retardation, In Elementary School In The Cognitive Components For The Addition Operation, Fawzi A. Al-Doukhi

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study is aimed at specifying the cognitive components for addition operations (encoding, speed of executing the operation, operation selection, and strategy choice) to determine if they are responsible for the difficulties that students with learning disabilities and mild mental retardation face in the elementary school in solving simple addition problems. The researcher selected 240 male and female pupils as a random sample from third and fifth grades from the state schools in the State of Kuwait. The sample was selected based on the characteristics of gender, type of handicap, and grade. The study employed two measurements. First, the addition …

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Life Stress, Adjustment, And Religious Support In African Americans, Jemour A. Maddux Jan 2007

Life Stress, Adjustment, And Religious Support In African Americans, Jemour A. Maddux

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The paper sought to extend the work of Johnson, Kristeller, and Sheets' (2004) study by exploring the religious moderators of the relationship between stress and adjustment between cultures. Specifically, the goal of the present investigation was to identify whether the buffering effects of religious moderators (i.e., religious coping and religious support) on the relationship between stress and adjustment varied by race, as suggested by a wealth of studies on African Americans that support social and individualistic coping styles are key predictors of positive and negative outcomes, respectively. As predicted, religious support in African Americans was a better predictor of adjustment …

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Survey On Use Of Continuous Performance Tests In Clinical Practice, Olivia Lee Leverich Jan 2007

Survey On Use Of Continuous Performance Tests In Clinical Practice, Olivia Lee Leverich

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The current study explored both the prevalence of CPT use and the process of use across disciplines. Two hundred fifty-five clinicians completed a brief web-based survey that was created expressly for use in this study, addressing CPT usage patterns and demographic information. It was hypothesized that there would be differences in the levels of reported use of CPTs related to discipline (clinical vs. counseling vs. school); that less than half of clinicians surveyed would report use of a CPT for any purpose; that clinicians who are more familiar with the literature on CPTs would be less likely to report regular …

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The Professional Development Experiences Of African American Women: The Ace Fellows Program, Waltrina E. Defrantz-Dufor Jan 2007

The Professional Development Experiences Of African American Women: The Ace Fellows Program, Waltrina E. Defrantz-Dufor

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study focused on the experiences of five African American women senior administrators employed at five predominantly White institutions in the Midwest and the Northeast. There are few African American women in senior and chief executive administrative positions. These African American women were chosen as research subjects because they completed the American Council onEducation (ACE) Fellows Program and currently serve as senior and chief executive administrators of higherEducation institutions. The goals of this study were to explore how mentoring and leadership development, specifically the ACE Fellows program, impacted the careers of the African American women. Additionally, this study examined if, …

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Understanding The Development Of The Experienced Sexual Offender Therapist, Jenna Harmeyer Jan 2007

Understanding The Development Of The Experienced Sexual Offender Therapist, Jenna Harmeyer

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Using Krumboltz's Career Development Decision Making theory and grounded theory approach, Sexual Offender Therapists were interviewed to discover the various factors that influenced their career choices. Semi-structured interview questions were posed to 12 participants, 11 of which were usable. The participants were recruited via the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) listserv, and were interviewed at the annual ATSA conference. Seven themes emerged from the narrative data including: Work with Victims; Preparedness of Training Program; On the Job Training; The Difficulties of Working with Other Professionals; People's Reaction to Your Work; Professional Isolation; and Public Policy Frustrations. Additionally, …

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