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The Recapitalisation Of Financial Institutions In The Current Financial Crisis: Limitation Of Aid To The Minimum Necessary And Safeguards Against Undue Distortions Of Competition, European Union: European Commission

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International Labor Migration And Factors Affecting Repatriation From Developed To Developing Countries: A Case Of Guyana's Brain Drain, Tilokie Depoo

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

Guyana has lost most of the human resources it has cultivated and educated, which includes the cream of its young labor force. In a 2005 study, the World Bank singled out Guyana as the "worst example" of outward migration in the region. This study is necessary because given this significant outward migration Guyana have not enjoyed a return flow as similar countries in the Caribbean. There currently exists no empirical work that examined factors that would predict return migration for Guyana.

This study used a quantitative, non-experimental, correlation (explanatory) and causal-comparative (exploratory) cross-sectional survey research design is the first study …

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 2008-12-05, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 2001-2011

This edition of the Wooster Voice was published on December 5 of 2008 and it is eight pages long. Students worry about their families in Mumbai as Muslim militant attacks occur. Campus Grounds and Dining are now sending food to be composted at an off campus location. Wooster's Moot Court team successfully moves on to the national Moot Court competition in California. Christmas decorations are all over the local business downtown. A student studying abroad in Florence writes about holiday traditions there. The athletic updates for the past week are highlighted on pages seven and eight.

A Hybrid Marine Protection System As A Model For The Marine Conservation Efforts Of The United States, Jessica D'Ardenne

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

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The Ability Of Children With Language Impairment To Understand Emotion Conveyed By Prosody In A Narrative Passage, Chelsea Celeste Voorhees

Theses and Dissertations

Several recent studies indicate that children with Language Impairment (LI) have difficulty recognizing and inferring meaning from emotional prosody. The present study is a replication investigating the ability of children with LI to recognize emotion conveyed by prosody in an orally presented narrative passage. Twenty-two children with LI and twenty-two age matched peers ranging from age 7;0 to 10;11 (M= 9.11, SD= 2.54) were selected to participate. Participants listened to recordings of a seven sentence passage read by actors to express happiness, anger, sadness, and fear. The children's task was to identify which emotion the speaker portrayed. Scores obtained from …

Modeling Capture Zones To Determine Potential Threats To The Public Water Supply Wells, Jordan Wollak

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

The Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority uses groundwater wells to provide drinking water to the residents of the Albuquerque metropolitan area. Proper management is needed to ensure that the residents have safe drinking water. This study focuses on a particular water distribution trunk of the Albuquerque Water System. Ridgecrest Trunk wells provide approximately 20 percent of the water for Albuquerque, New Mexico. However, throughout the area there are numerous sites that have known releases of hazardous materials that have contaminated soil and groundwater. Mapping sites that have known soil or groundwater contamination is useful to determine the proximity of …

Join Asking The Big Questions Book Club Discussion, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Join in the next discussion of the book club, Asking the Big Questions, hosted by the Briggs Library and the Office of Sustainability at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Asking the Big Questions meets next from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, in the UMM Rodney A. Briggs Library McGinnis Room.

Do Higher Levels Of 4-H Leadership Affect Emotional Intelligence, Kalico Karr Leech, Chris Boleman, Cindy Akers, Barry Boyd

Journal of Youth Development

The ex post facto, exploratory study sought to determine whether higher levels of 4-H leadership had an effect on level of emotional intelligence. Using the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i), the Texas 4-H Council (n = 32) answered questions related to five domains of emotional intelligence. The results for the five domains are as follows: “General Mood” = 104, “Intrapersonal” = 101, “Interpersonal” = 100, “Stress Management” = 100, “Adaptability” = 94 (Scale: effective emotional functioning = 100). The overall EQ-I score was in the average range indicating that individuals in the group are functioning and healthy. Extension professionals should …

Performance Analysis Of A Light Weight Packet Scanner, Paras Gandhi

Theses and Dissertations

The growth of networks around the world has also given rise to threats like viruses and Trojans. This rise in threats has resulted in counter measures for these threats. These counter measures are in the form of applications called firewalls or IDS. The incorporation of these applications in the network results in some delay in communications. The aim of the experiment in this thesis is to measure the delay introduced by such a firewall in the best case and compare it with the communication done on a network without such an application. These experiments are done using a special miniature …

Asian American Social Workers: Exploring Relationships Among Factors Influencing Career Choices, Soon Min Lee

Theses and Dissertations

Asian Americans are one of the fastest growing minority groups in the United States. One of the stereotypes associated with Asians is that they are more likely to choose careers in science, medicine, and engineering rather than social science, inclusive of social work, mass communication, or humanities (Leong & Serafica, 1995; Tang et al., 1999). This occupational stereotyping of Asians is not just a myth in that descriptive studies have shown that only a few Asians choose social work as a career (Lennon, 2005; NASW, 2006). Few studies exist on Asian Americans who do not choose Asian stereotypical career choices, …

Value Conflicts In Psychotherapy: Psychology Graduates' Perspectives, Shannon Vincent Wilde

Theses and Dissertations

Although psychotherapy has been viewed historically as value-neutral, developments over the last half-century have led to the generally accepted position that values are inescapable in therapy. However, many questions remain as to how values should be managed in psychotherapy in order to protect client autonomy. These issues are of particular concern to training programs, which bear the responsibility of instructing new psychologists in ethical values management and of helping trainees manage personal values when those values are in conflict with those of their clients or with the values of the field in general. One aspect that has not previously been …

Faculty Newsnotes 2008 No. 407, Office Of The Provost

Faculty Newsnotes (1972-2010)

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Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College Of Science, December 5, 2008, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Name Change: Information Systems Emphasis from Software Development Emphasis

The Department of Computer Science at Utah State University (USU) requests a name change of the BS emphasis in Information Systems to an emphasis in Software Development, effective Fall Semester 2009.

Using Geoscience Education Graduate Students To Help Faculty Transform Teaching Practice, Teagan L. Tomlin

Theses and Dissertations

Universities make claims about student learning that graduates don't often achieve and are under pressure to show improvement in teaching and learning in their undergraduate programs. This has been the constant focus of university-level professional development programs, but most teachers are still not using the most effective teaching methods. Individual departments need to find ways to help their instructors overcome three main challenges associated with adopting more effective student-centered teaching methods. No matter what strategy is adopted, instructors need considerable support to 1) change their beliefs about what constitutes effective teaching and learning, 2) learn to effectively implement new strategies, …

Wireless Intelligent Structural Health Monitoring System, Belle Ashwin

Theses and Dissertations

Metal structures are susceptible to various types of damages, including corrosion, stress damage, pillowing deformation, cracks etc. These kinds of damages in the metal structures occur mainly due to operational conditions and exposure to the environment. Our research involves a portable integrated wireless sensor system with video camera and ultrasound capabilities which is being developed to investigate corrosion damage on real structures in real time. This system uses images of the metal surfaces, which are captured from an integrated wireless sensor and then quantified and analyzed using computational intelligence. The quantification of the obtained images is done with specialized component …

An Exploration Of The Effects Of Long-Term Intimate Partner Violence: Listening To Older Women, Suzanne Lowe

Theses and Dissertations

Abstract AN EXPLORATION OF THE EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: LISTENING TO OLDER WOMEN By Suzanne Faries Lowe, Ph.D. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2008 Chairman of Committee Laura J. Moriarty, Ph.D. Professor of Criminal Justice Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs There has been a great deal of research during the past four decades on the topic of domestic violence. Very little research has been conducted, however, on the effects of long-term intimate partner violence on older women. The …

Energy Efficient Embedded System Design For Medical Care System Using Wireless Sensor Network, Qi Li

Theses and Dissertations

Recent surveys on medical service systems show that the cost of patient monitoring has grown significantly. The widespread use of portable digital medical device makes it possible to provide a more comprehensive tracking of patient conditions. However, the development of a full scale, distributed health monitoring system is much delayed due to the lack of efficient wireless communication in a large distributed network. This becomes a challenging research topic which is to find a way to provide accurate and real time patient information to medical experts in a fast, efficient and cost effective fashion. This paper proposes a novel solution …

The Bg News December 5, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 5, 2008. Volume 99-Issue 67.

Monarch Cheers, Integration Whimpers, And A Loyalty Conflict: Kansas City Call's Coverage Of The Black Yankees, 1937-1955, Eric M. Eames

Theses and Dissertations

Already regarded as one of the top teams in Negro League baseball, the Kansas City Monarchs became known as a powerhouse unit in the 1930s and 40s. They rolled into towns with lights, amazing athletes, and competitive play. They won championship after championship during these years as Kansas City baseball fans strongly supported them. As they became an integral part of the city, the Monarchs' success, open-seating policy, and jazzy home openers fostered a large following of mixed-race fans. The local black newspaper, the Kansas City Call, held them up on a pedestal, while sportswriters for the mainstream Kansas City …

Assets And Needs Assessment Of Senior Residents In The West Bloomington Neighborhood, Case Bell, Melissa Busher, Amy Deal, Ted Fischer, Christine Holmes, Joseph Lauchlan, Shane Peterson, Janelle Jones, Eric Porter, Brad Pribe, Viktor Shrader

Community Project Design and Management Reports - Sociology

The experience and process of aging has become a prominent topic of discussion nationwide and Central Illinois is no exception, due to the rapid growth within the senior population in the area. The 60 and over population of Illinois is projected to grow by 87% during the next 30 years (The Maturing of Illinois). An initiative has been developed to evaluate how prepared local communities are for older adults by conducting needs assessments, which can also serve as vital tools for those who plan and provide human services in communities. Often community leaders will form policies and allocate limited resources …

Recursive Dispersion Relations In One-Dimensional Periodic Elastic Media, Ani P. Velo, George A. Gazonas, Erwin Bruder, Nancy Rodriguez

Mathematics: Faculty Scholarship

A frequency bandgap is a range of wave frequencies that are prohibited from passing through a medium. The dispersion relation, which links the frequency to the wave number, enables us to illustrate the bandgaps. In [E. H. Lee, “A survey of variational methods for elastic wave propagation analysis in composites with periodic structures,” in Dynamics of Composite Materials, E. H. Lee, ed., ASME, New York, 1972, pp. 122–138] and [E. H. Lee and W. H. Yang, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 25 (1973), pp. 492–499] the dispersion relation was studied theoretically for the one-dimensional periodic structure made of two materials …

December 5, 2008, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Chimes: December 5, 2008, Calvin College

Chimes

William Spoelhof dies at 98 by Lerae Kroon and Emma Slager

Timmer to house upperclassmen by Hannah Kett

Cabinet takes shape by Bruce Van Baren

Departments pinched by Griffin Jackson

Students march for worker rights by Emma Slager

Dining goes tray-free? by Jasmine Wilson

Art exhibit takes flight: Visual Arts Guild creates 1,000 paper cranes by Ryan Alons

'Stories of Alaska' promises to entertain by Ryan Alons

CRC stands strong in face of religious war by Samuel McConnell

Knights stave off Beltline rival by Bruce Van Baren

Responding To Crises: A Test Of The Situational Crisis Communication Theory, Courtney Wright

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Crisis management includes efforts designed to prevent and to detect potential crises, and to learn from crisis experiences. The SCCT posits that certain crisis responses (matched) produce better outcomes for organizations than others (unmatched), depending on the situation. In addition, the results from this study attempt to support the situational crisis communication theory in aiding crisis managers in protecting their organizations against crises.

Gsu View, 2008-12-04, Office Of Public Affairs

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News December 4, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2008

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Spartan Daily, December 4, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 50

Vol.36 N.25 December 4th 2008, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

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Environmental Protection For The New Northwest Passage, Matthew L. Hoppe

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

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Commonwealth Times 2008-12-04

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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