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Myspace Is Also Their Space: Ideas For Keeping Children Safe From Sexual Predators On Social-Networking Sites, Susan Hanley Duncan

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Let Us Eat Lettuce (And Spinach): Is The Bioterrorism Preparedness Act Enough Or Is An Independent Food Safety Agency Required?, Robert M. Yoke

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Silence At The Schoolhouse Gate: The Diminishing First Amendment Rights Of Public School Employees, Neal H. Hutchens

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Grounding Cyberspeech: Public Schools' Authority To Discipline Students For Internet Activity, Sarah O. Cronan

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Creative Development: Helping Poor Countries By Building Creative Industries, Mark Schultz, Alec Van Gelder

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Horse Racing Jockeys Riding Under Kentucky's Workers' Compensation Laws, Ian C. B. Davis

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The True Colors Of Trademark Law: Greenlighting A Red Tide Of Anti Competition Blues, Ann Bartow

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Telemarketers Gone Mobile: The Telephone Consumer Protection Act Of 1991 And Unsolicited Commercial Text Messages, J. Wesley Harned

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Intrinsic Motivation Of Students With Disabilities In The General Education Setting: What Teachers Should Know And Be Able To Do, Beverly Stinson Faircloth

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) requires that students with disabilities (SWD) be educated in the least restrictive environment, while the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires that these students meet minimum criteria on statewide testing by 2014. This sequential explanatory mixed methods action research study, situated in Bandura's self-efficacy and Atkinson's drive theories, examined the effects of teacher training and subsequent implementation of strategies on the intrinsic motivation of SWD. Intrinsic motivation was measured using the Children's Academic Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (CAIMI) before and after the training. A repeated measures t-test analyzed the mean difference in the students' …

Does Within-Culture Variation Matter? An Empirical Study Of Computer Usage, Mark Srite, Jason Bennett Thatcher, Edith Galy

International Business and Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications

This article examines within-culture variance in the influence of values on perceptions and use of information technology (IT). Based on cross-cultural research, we suggest that cultural values influence technology acceptance and use. Specifically, we argue that masculinity/femininity and individualism/collectivism directly influence personal innovativeness with IT, computer anxiety, and computer self-efficacy, and have a mediated effect on perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and use of IT. Overall, analysis provides support for the research model. Our results suggest that masculinity/femininity influences computer selfefficacy, computer anxiety, and personal innovativeness with IT. We also offer implications for research and practice.

Beating The Spin-Down Limit On Gravitational Wave Emission From The Crab Pulsar, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, Mario C. Diaz, Roberto Grosso, Kazuhiro Hayama, Soumya Mohanty, Soma Mukherjee, Joseph D. Romano, Robert Stone

Physics & Astronomy Faculty Publications

We present direct upper limits on gravitational wave emission from the Crab pulsar using data from the first 9 months of the fifth science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). These limits are based on two searches. In the first we assume that the gravitational wave emission follows the observed radio timing, giving an upper limit on gravitational wave emission that beats indirect limits inferred from the spin-down and braking index of the pulsar and the energetics of the nebula. In the second we allow for a small mismatch between the gravitational and radio signal frequencies and interpret …

The Law As Bard: Extolling A Culture's Virtues, Exposing Its Vices, And Telling Its Story, Adam J. Macleod

Faculty Articles

Before literacy rates in the English speaking world reached their apex (and long before they dropped into the trough they are now thought to occupy), before we commoners read newspapers (and long before we wrote blogs), before autobiographies crowded book shelves (and long before reality television created celebrities out of rather mean raw material), our cultural forebears appointed a rather singular individual to preserve for their children a record of their values, rituals, institutions, and assumptions: the bard.

The bard told stories. But the bard didn't tell just any stories. The bard told stories drawn from the fabric of which …

The Relationship Between Pornography And Rape Rates: Does The Distribution Of Pornography Increase The Incidence Of Rape?, Jamie Lee Blalock

All ETDs from UAB

This study was conducted to test consumption of pornographic material, specifi-cally Playboy, increases the likelihood of rape at the county level. To do this, a cross-sectional design was used to examine this relationship in 3,133 counties in the United States. Overall, the findings suggest that when households headed by females with child-ren, persons 15 and older who are divorced, percent of the population with a high school education or higher, percent of the population who are unemployed, percent of the popu-lation living in urban areas, percent of the population ages 18 to 24, percent of the popu-lation that are black, …

Conversion Of One-Way Street Pairs To Two-Way Operations In Downtown Birmingham, Jugnu Chemmannur

All ETDs from UAB

In recent years, higher-than-ever gas prices and soaring living expenses are driv-ing people back to city centers in search of reduced travel costs and greater proximity to services. This calls for an immediate need to revive downtown areas to make them attrac-tive and increase their efficiency at accommodating a variety of transportation modes, motorized and non-motorized. To help support this revival, researchers are conducting studies countrywide to understand the effects and relevance of conversion of one-way streets to two-way opera-tions. This paper reports the findings of a study that investigated the feasibility and poten-tial impacts of street conversion options on …

Feed Comparison For Dietary Standardization Of The Sea Urchin Lytechinus Variegatus And Assessment Of Parental Dietary Copper Toxicity By Fertilization And Embryological Tests, Heath W. Garris

All ETDs from UAB

Toxicity tests monitoring the effects of anthropogenic substances on marine systems are considered an important part of environmental management. Sea urchin fertilization and embryological toxicity tests are successful in producing a graded response to toxicants, but standards for controlling the quality of parental urchins have not been developed. In Chapter 1, experimental populations of Lytechinus variegatus were fed either organic romaine lettuce and organic carrots, or a feed formulated for sea urchins for 13 weeks. Growth demographics were assessed and F1 progeny were compared for sensitivity to the toxicants copper sulfate, 1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, and sodium dodecyl sulfate by acute embryonic and …

Ethernet Controller Design For An Embedded System Using Advanced Fpga Technology, Eddie L. Groom

All ETDs from UAB

In this work, an embedded Ethernet controller platform was implemented using reconfigurable hardware technology that incorporates system-level components. The specialized hardware and software work flows necessary to implement an embedded system using highly integrated electronics are not commonly addressed in academic environments. The primary objective of this work was to fill this void by describing and demonstrating the hardware/software co-design processes used to implement the project’s embedded Ethernet controller. Ethernet was selected as the project’s design focus to provide an example of the processes used to integrate common system-level components into an embedded system. To analyze the performance of this …

The Use Of Modeling Tools In The Analysis Of Functional Requirements, Gopi Kamadia

All ETDs from UAB

The thesis offers an Object-Oriented analysis methodology to investigate the functional requirements of software systems with modeling technologies, such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Systems Modeling Language (SysML). The main focus of the analysis is to discover objects and describe them in the problem domain. The thesis also proposes a validation process for the requirements stage of the development life cycle with an Acclaro Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) approach. A software development experiment is carried out with a case study of a threedimensional graphics game. The game is first implemented without following any sound analysis process and then …

A Descriptive Overview Of The Jefferson County Mental Health Court, Crystal Rena Null

All ETDs from UAB

Mental health courts have been established to help meet the treatment needs of the mentally ill offender. If mentally ill offenders commit crimes because of their mental illness, then “by treating [them], society may benefit through reduced recidivism and improvements in social outcomes” (Mears, 2004, 258). This study focuses on the Jefferson County Mental Health Court and its participants. It addresses two main research questions: 1) Who participants in the Jefferson County Mental Health Court; and 2) What factors exist to help predict who successfully completes the Jefferson County Mental Health Court? Unlike the majority of other mental health courts, …

A Rhetoric Of Resolution: The Limits Of Competition, Michael Schandorf

All ETDs from UAB

The idea of competition underlies most all Western cultural practices making conflict inevitable, but understanding the world in terms of constant, perpetual competition limits the development of lasting, adaptive, and constructive solutions to human problems and conflicts. While competition serves the vital functions of quality control and the identification of best practices, the function of “Competition” as a god term betrays a misunderstanding of both the value and process of competition as an instrument, and demonstrates how human conceptualization, mediated by language, can direct the development and acquisition of knowledge into narrow channels and exclude ways of understanding that are …

A Simple Plan, A Simple Faith: Chaplain And Local Congregant Strategies For Sharing Faith In The Prison Context, Jessica P. Shoemaker

All ETDs from UAB

As the prison population in the United States continues to expand, so too has the use of faith-based prison programs as tools for correctional treatment. Using in-depth interviews with thirty current prison chaplains and local religious congregants in Mississippi, I explore the strategies and techniques used by prison ministry workers in their work with inmates. Two overarching themes emerged from the narratives of prison ministry work. The first is that the ministry workers were careful to avoid setting or focusing on numeric goals for religious conversions before interacting with the inmates. They reported that this approach was based on their …

Traffic Responsive Signal Systems To Address Rain-Related Congestion, Suman Reddy Surabhi

All ETDs from UAB

Rainy conditions typically have an impact on the behavior of drivers and in turn can affect traffic flow characteristics in transportation networks. As a result, signal timing plans developed for dry conditions may be unsuitable or sub-optimal during periods of rain, and changes in such plans may be desirable to account for changes in environmental conditions. Current technology in the field of traffic signal control and communications make it possible to change the signal controller settings remotely, a capability that offers opportunities for signal timing adjustments during rain conditions. This study explores the feasibility and benefits of implementing alternative signal-timing …

The Role Of Bhlh Gene Ash1 In The Developing Chick Eye, Weiming Mao

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Neighborhood Residency In The Decision To Evacuate, Naya S. Mcmillan

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Green Collar Jobs, Yvonne Sims Murray

All ETDs from UAB

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Science, Technology, And Portraiture: Justine Cooper's Rapt And Transformers, Amber Henson

All ETDs from UAB

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Falling And General Mobiliyy Viewpoints Of Survivors Of Stroke And Spousal Caregivers: A Mixed Model Design, Carolyn Joyce Pavelka Kelley

All ETDs from UAB

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Regulation Of Tau Functions By Posttranslational Modifications Of Tau And Histone Deacetylase 6, Huiping Ding

All ETDs from UAB

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common neurodegenerative disease, is pathologically characterized by senile plaques composed of amyloid β peptide and neurofibrillary tangles composed of hyperphosphorylated and aberrantly cleaved microtubule-associated protein tau. Numerous studies have demonstrated the critical importance of tau in AD pathogenesis; however, the mechanisms involved in the regulation of tau functions by posttranslational modifications of tau and by other cellular factors need to be further elucidated. The first part of my study focused on how posttranslational modifications of tau, specifically, site-specific phosphorylation and C-terminal cleavage, regulate its physiological function in associating with cytoskeleton, binding to and stabilizing microtubules …

Hospice Use In Alabama: A Cross-Sectional Assessment, Todd M. Jenkins

All ETDs from UAB

The purpose of this investigation was to describe and compare patterns of hospice use in Alabama and to assess barriers to receiving such care as perceived by hospice providers across the state. We used death certificate and other administrative records from the Alabama Center for Health Statistics to ascertain hospice use during the years 2002 to 2005. Crude rates of hospice use were calculated across individual and area-level characteristics. Prevalence ratios were calculated using modified Poisson regression to evaluate the impact of these factors on hospice use. To assess barriers to hospice care, all hospices in Alabama (N = 193) …

High Field Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging In The Awake, Behaving Primate: Cortical Networks Involved In Vergence Eye Movements, Matthew K. Ward

All ETDs from UAB

Animals with eyes positioned towards the front of the head are capable of making saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements to fixate an object at a given distance. These eye movements are conjugate (i.e. both eyes move the same amount in the same direction). To fixate objects at different distances, such animals are also capable of making vergence eye movements in which both eyes move the same amount in opposite directions i.e. disconjugately. While purely conjugate or vergence eye movements rarely occur in daily life, it is useful to study these types of eye movements separately due to the relative …

President's Page, Fannie M. Cox

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.