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Review Of The Examination Processes For Membership And Fellowship Of The Australian College Of Veterinary Scientists, Gabrielle Matters Jan 2008

Review Of The Examination Processes For Membership And Fellowship Of The Australian College Of Veterinary Scientists, Gabrielle Matters

Monitoring Learning

This paper deals with examinations administered by the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists (ACVSc) (herein referred to as ‘the College’) to veterinarians at two levels – membership and fellowship. Membership examinations are set at a level that denotes an above-average level of expertise of the candidate in a particular field, signifying advisory status but no specialist status. Fellowship examinations are set at a very high standard and are intended to signify specialist status. The system of examinations administered by the College involves two components –written and oral/practical. Candidates, for both memberships and fellowships, sit the written examination in early June …

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Developing Tests And Questionnaires For A National Assessment Of Educational Achievement, Prue Anderson, George Morgan Jan 2008

Developing Tests And Questionnaires For A National Assessment Of Educational Achievement, Prue Anderson, George Morgan

Assessment and Reporting

This book addresses the design of two types of data collection instruments: student achievement tests and background questionnaires. Part 1 covers the development of an assessment framework and a test blueprint, item writing, pretesting, and final test layout. Part 2 delineates comparable stages and activities in the construction of background questionnaires, which are used to gather information from students, teachers, head teachers, or parents on variables that might help explain differences in student performance on the achievement test. Part 3 describes how to design a manual for test administration to help ensure that all students take the test under standardised …

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Wikis: Revising Our Theories On Writing, Authority And Expert, David Kangas Jan 2008

Wikis: Revising Our Theories On Writing, Authority And Expert, David Kangas

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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Eu Law, International Law, And Economic Sanctions Against Terrorism: The Judiciary In Distress?, Takis Tridimas, Jose A. Gutierrez-Fons Jan 2008

Eu Law, International Law, And Economic Sanctions Against Terrorism: The Judiciary In Distress?, Takis Tridimas, Jose A. Gutierrez-Fons

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article seeks to examine the relationship between European Union (“EU”) law, international law, and the protection of fundamental rights in light of recent case law of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) and the Court of First Instance (“CFI”) relating to economic sanctions against individuals. It first looks at the judgment in Kadi. After a short presentation of the factual and legal background, it explores the question of whether the EU has competence to adopt smart sanctions. It then examines whether the EU is bound by resolutions of the UNSC, whether the ECJ has jurisdiction to review Community measures …

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New Frontiers In The Relationship Between National And European Courts, George A. Bermann Jan 2008

New Frontiers In The Relationship Between National And European Courts, George A. Bermann

Fordham International Law Journal

The central question pervading this discussion is simply stated: whether and to what extent the European Court of Justice (“Court of Justice” or “Court”) (and the European institutions more generally) can count on the courts of the Member States to perform their judicial tasks in ways that are faithful to the ground rules of European Union (“EU”) law, be those rules substantive or procedural in character. Looking back over the past five decades, I am struck by the succession of different forms this question of national court “fidelity” to Community law, for lack of a better term, has taken. (The …

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Vincentiana Vol. 52, No. 4 [Full Issue] Jan 2008

Vincentiana Vol. 52, No. 4 [Full Issue]

Vincentiana

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Vincentiana Vol. 52, No. 5 [Full Issue] Jan 2008

Vincentiana Vol. 52, No. 5 [Full Issue]

Vincentiana

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Catalogues Of Houses And Personnel (Read-Me) Jan 2008

Catalogues Of Houses And Personnel (Read-Me)

Personnel Catalogues

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'No Right To Judge': Feminism And The Judiciary In Third Republic France, Sara L. Kimble Jan 2008

'No Right To Judge': Feminism And The Judiciary In Third Republic France, Sara L. Kimble

School of Continuing and Professional Studies Faculty and Staff Works

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Shorebank Corporation: A Model Of Community Development Through Commerce, Joshua Dudley Kipp Jan 2008

Shorebank Corporation: A Model Of Community Development Through Commerce, Joshua Dudley Kipp

Honors Theses

Since the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, banks and other financial institutions have become more proactive about engaging in community development initiatives. One bank holding company, Shorebank Corporation, has taken this commitment to a new level by basing the whole of its practices around the promotion of community development. By filtering through prior research of the corporation and discussions with two founding members who have served as CEO and President of the corporation, it has been shown that a commercially profitable business may be created while using a business model centered around community development. This paper looks …

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A Designer’S Portfolio, Hallie Landon Marshall Jan 2008

A Designer’S Portfolio, Hallie Landon Marshall

Honors Theses

The professional graphic design portfolio is a window into the graphic designer’s soul: reflecting both the personal style of the artist and the artist’s ability to adapt their skill and creativity to the needs of a particular project. The designer’s portfolio is also his introduction to the interview and career processes. This portfolio was created to reflect the designer’s lifelong interest in publications and to become the first step in a graphic design career. The project included development of the design pieces; printing and mounting the portfolio; and creating a digital portfolio by designing a website in Adobe Flash. The …

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An Analysis Of Networking Between Top Executives Of Companies Suspected Of Backdating Stock Options, Rebecca Kin-Ming Lo Jan 2008

An Analysis Of Networking Between Top Executives Of Companies Suspected Of Backdating Stock Options, Rebecca Kin-Ming Lo

Honors Theses

"More than 100 companies are under investigation for options backdating... If options backdating problems are found at more companies, Congress may be driven to act. ” - Brian Cleaiy (Cleary 2007). The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how the practice of backdating employee stock options has become so widely used. The first hypothesis for this research is that networking between executives and board members of corporations has caused the idea of backdating employee stock options to spread. The second hypothesis is that particular auditing firms are more likely than others to audit corporations accused of backdating employee stock …

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Graphic Design Work For The Band Riverleft, Benjamin William Deneka Jan 2008

Graphic Design Work For The Band Riverleft, Benjamin William Deneka

Honors Theses

The purpose of my thesis was to create merchandising and promotional artwork for the Oxford, Mississippi-based band RiverLeft and their album “Stranger Things.” I used the design software Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop to create album artwork, posters, and other illustrations to be implemented onto promotional materials. By tying all of the artwork together around a central theme, I created an identity for the band’s marketing and advertisement around the south and beyond. 1

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Pink Wave Or Red Threat? Bolivia's And Venezuela's Hydrocarbons Policies In Perspective, Patrick Hunter Dogan Jan 2008

Pink Wave Or Red Threat? Bolivia's And Venezuela's Hydrocarbons Policies In Perspective, Patrick Hunter Dogan

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

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Finding Space For Autonomy: Chiapas, The Ezln, And The Dynamics Of The Indigenous Communities, Thomas Joseph Koger Jan 2008

Finding Space For Autonomy: Chiapas, The Ezln, And The Dynamics Of The Indigenous Communities, Thomas Joseph Koger

Honors Theses

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An Evaluation Of 529 Savings And Prepaid Tuition Plans, Joshua Charles Rorie Jan 2008

An Evaluation Of 529 Savings And Prepaid Tuition Plans, Joshua Charles Rorie

Honors Theses

The pui*pose of this thesis was to evaluate the two types of Internal Revenue Code (IRC) 529 college savings plans; the savings plan and the prepaid tuition plan. The investment returns of the college savings plans and, indirectly, prepaid tuition plans were compared to the current tuition inflation environment to determine which method provided the investor the most favorable return. In addition, the circumstances surrounding prepaid plans that have recently closed to new enrollment were used to evaluate the condition of the prepaid alternative. A sample of state college savings plans returns were examined along with four currently suspended prepaid …

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An Investigation Of Short Sellers' Behavior Around Short Interest Announcement Dates, Wei Wei Jan 2008

An Investigation Of Short Sellers' Behavior Around Short Interest Announcement Dates, Wei Wei

Honors Theses

In this thesis, we examine the traders shorting behavior before and after the short interest settlement day. We investigate whether short sellers influence short interest by excessively opening new positions before short interest data collection. We find no evidence suggesting the existence of short sellers’ short interest influencing activities. However, in the course of examining the differences among daily short levels, we demonstrate the danger and consequences of ignoring the panel structure of the data. Plus, we find results that are inconsistent with our understanding of the short interest collection process. Thus, we also give detailed discussions on panel data …

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Theology On The Road To Damascus, Ben Quash Jan 2008

Theology On The Road To Damascus, Ben Quash

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

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Cantus Firmus: Wisdom, Reason And Loves Congruence, Paul Janz Jan 2008

Cantus Firmus: Wisdom, Reason And Loves Congruence, Paul Janz

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

No abstract provided.

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The Catholicity Of David Ford, Chad Pecknold Jan 2008

The Catholicity Of David Ford, Chad Pecknold

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

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How To Create—Or Destroy—Wealth In Real Property, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2008

How To Create—Or Destroy—Wealth In Real Property, Richard A. Epstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

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The Human And Economic Dimensions Of Altruism: The Case Of Organ Transplantation, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2008

The Human And Economic Dimensions Of Altruism: The Case Of Organ Transplantation, Richard A. Epstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

This paper analyzes three issues critical to understanding the chronic shortage in organs. Section 2 develops a simple economic model of altruism that helps explain how markets with altruistic participants operate in ways similar to ordinary economic markets, but produce an equilibrium position in which more organs are transferred at lower cash prices. Section 3 examines and rejects the various arguments used to undermine the neoclassical arguments in the first section. Section 4 looks at ways to expand the supply of organs: directed donations within families and among friends, solicited organs via matchingdonors.com, donor-recipient pairs, and LifeSharers.

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Adolescent Risk-Taking And Social Meaning: A Commentary, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2008

Adolescent Risk-Taking And Social Meaning: A Commentary, Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Why do adolescents take risks? What is the appropriate response to adolescent risk-taking? This Commentary for a special issue of Developmental Review, discussing a set of papers in that issue, explores these questions with attention to changes in the adolescent brain, to dual-processing theory, to social influences, and to fuzzy-trace theory. It contends that adolescent risk-taking is often driven by the social meaning of risk and caution, and that social meaning operates as a tax on or a subsidy to behavior. Changes in social meaning present a serious collective action problem, but also a valuable opportunity for both law and …

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Conspiracy Theories, Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule Jan 2008

Conspiracy Theories, Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Many millions of people hold conspiracy theories; they believe that powerful people have worked together in order to withhold the truth about some important practice or some terrible event. A recent example is the belief, widespread in some parts of the world, that the attacks of 9/11 were carried out not by Al Qaeda, but by Israel or the United States. Those who subscribe to conspiracy theories may create serious risks, including risks of violence, and the existence of such theories raises significant challenges for policy and law. The first challenge is to understand the mechanisms by which conspiracy theories …

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Disability, Advocacy And Coping : An Autoethnography On Non-Visible Disability, Dana L. Morella Jan 2008

Disability, Advocacy And Coping : An Autoethnography On Non-Visible Disability, Dana L. Morella

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Intelligent Query For Real Estate Search, Mandeep Jandir Jan 2008

Intelligent Query For Real Estate Search, Mandeep Jandir

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Dispersal And Population Structure Of Neotrypaea Californiensis, Kenji Kozuka Jan 2008

Dispersal And Population Structure Of Neotrypaea Californiensis, Kenji Kozuka

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Perception Of Sexual Orientation As A Function Of Amount And Type Of Stereotype, Cecil F., Jr Abrams Jan 2008

Perception Of Sexual Orientation As A Function Of Amount And Type Of Stereotype, Cecil F., Jr Abrams

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Internal Waves Over The Continental Shelf In South Monterey Bay, FrançOis Cazenave Jan 2008

Internal Waves Over The Continental Shelf In South Monterey Bay, FrançOis Cazenave

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Electrochemistry Of Pyrenyl Iron Terpyridines On Glassy Carbon, Gold, And Cnt, Hsiao-Chu Lin Jan 2008

Electrochemistry Of Pyrenyl Iron Terpyridines On Glassy Carbon, Gold, And Cnt, Hsiao-Chu Lin

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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