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Party Favors For Sports: Strong Usoc, Spectacular World Cup, Rick Burton, Norm O'Relly Dec 2009

Party Favors For Sports: Strong Usoc, Spectacular World Cup, Rick Burton, Norm O'Relly

Sport Management - All Scholarship

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The Energy-Water Nexus: Why Should We Care?, Alexey Voinov, Hal Cardwell Dec 2009

The Energy-Water Nexus: Why Should We Care?, Alexey Voinov, Hal Cardwell

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

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Middle Schools Principals' Attitudes About Inclusion, Gloria Denise Lindsey Dec 2009

Middle Schools Principals' Attitudes About Inclusion, Gloria Denise Lindsey

Student Theses and Dissertations

Important legislation has demanded the education of students with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. Administrators, principals and educators in the local schools are impacted tremendously by this decision. The necessity to provide an appropriate education for special needs children while successfully implementing inclusion is a priority of all stakeholders. The need to ensure compliance with federal and state laws while providing a quality education to all children with disabilities is a primary concern. This concern has given impetus for this research study. This study examined the attitudes of 189 middle school principals in the state of Tennessee toward inclusion. …

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Statutory Instrument (S.I.) No. 546/2009 - National Asset Management Agency (Determination Of Long-Term Economic Value Of Property And Bank Assets) Regulations 2009, Brian Lenihan, Ireland: Department Of Finance/An Roinn Airgeadais Dec 2009

Statutory Instrument (S.I.) No. 546/2009 - National Asset Management Agency (Determination Of Long-Term Economic Value Of Property And Bank Assets) Regulations 2009, Brian Lenihan, Ireland: Department Of Finance/An Roinn Airgeadais

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S.I. No. 547/2009 - National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 (Establishment Day) Order 2009, Ireland: Ministry Of Finance, Brian Lenihan Dec 2009

S.I. No. 547/2009 - National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 (Establishment Day) Order 2009, Ireland: Ministry Of Finance, Brian Lenihan

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The Impact Of Preschool Education On The Missouri Assessment Program Scores Of Missouri, Alicia Carlinda Shaw Dec 2009

The Impact Of Preschool Education On The Missouri Assessment Program Scores Of Missouri, Alicia Carlinda Shaw

Student Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this quantitative study was to do a comparative analysis of Missouri Assessment Program Test (MAP) performance of third grade students in Missouri Bootheel schools. The analysis was designed to answer the following research question: Is there a significant difference in MAP scores of third-grade students who attended publicly funded preschool programs and those who did not attend publicly funded preschool programs? A total of 239 scores were analyzed to determine if a significant difference existed between the two groups. Data were placed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences program. The mean standard scores for Communication …

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The Relationship Between Post Reach Exit Exam (E2) Failure Remediation And Nclex-Rn Success Of Graduates Of Baccalaureate Nursing Programs, Patricia Gale Allen Dec 2009

The Relationship Between Post Reach Exit Exam (E2) Failure Remediation And Nclex-Rn Success Of Graduates Of Baccalaureate Nursing Programs, Patricia Gale Allen

Student Theses and Dissertations

An ex post facto study was conducted to determine whether any relationship exists between remediation post Reach Exit Exam (E2) failure and NCLEX-RN success of graduates of baccalaureate nursing programs. Data was gathered from responses to the seventh annual validity study (V7S) offered to deans and directors of nursing programs by the Director of Research for Elsevier, Incorporated. Data focused on test groups which received administration of the E2 between September 1, 2006 and August 31, 2007. Responses from 28 baccalaureate nursing programs were included in the study. After considering each program offering of either version one, version two or …

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One Size Fits All: The Interplay Of Kanga, Makawa Swahili Poetry, And Taarab In The Communication Of Zanzibari Women, Rose K. Ong'oa-Morara Dec 2009

One Size Fits All: The Interplay Of Kanga, Makawa Swahili Poetry, And Taarab In The Communication Of Zanzibari Women, Rose K. Ong'oa-Morara

Student Theses and Dissertations

The strategic location of the Swahili people along the East African coast has placed them in the way of several newcomers, both local and foreign, who have come to the coast for various economic and political purposes. For this reason the Swahili have had to make adjustments to accommodate the newcomers, often having to redefine their Swahili identity. They have used various tools in this redefinition process including music, dance, and clothing. This dissertation explores the use of a clothing item known as kanga in this process. Kanga is a rectangular multicolored cotton cloth with printed messages along its lower …

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The Executive Pay Drama: From Comedy To Tragedy, David J. Cherrington Dec 2009

The Executive Pay Drama: From Comedy To Tragedy, David J. Cherrington

Faculty Publications

Over the past century, an interesting play has been performed in the United States called Executive Pay, Starring Your Local CEO. The play opened as a comedy, with executive bonuses and stock options rising at ridiculous rates compared to the pay of factory workers, teachers, and engineers. The performance didn’t get a lot of laughs, but people would smile and shake their heads as if the surprise of ever-escalating pay was an amusing disclosure. During economic downturns there were fewer smiles, and some outspoken critics were remarkably blunt in labeling executive pay practices as “enormous,” “immoral,” and “outrageous.” The title …

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Thermal And Mechanical Multistate Folding Of Rnase H, Thomas A. Knotts, Terry J. Schmitt, Jonathan E. Clark Dec 2009

Thermal And Mechanical Multistate Folding Of Rnase H, Thomas A. Knotts, Terry J. Schmitt, Jonathan E. Clark

Faculty Publications

Two different classes of experimental techniques exist by which protein folding mechanisms are ascertained. The first class, of which circular dichroism is an example, probes thermally-induced folding. The second class, which includes atomic force microscopy and optical tweezers, measures mechanically-induced folding. In this article, we investigate if proteins fold/unfold via the same mechanisms both thermally and mechanically. We do so using Ribonuclease H, a protein that has been shown to fold through a three-state mechanism using both types of experimental techniques. A detailed, molecular-level description of the states involved in thermal and mechanical folding shows that mechanisms for both types …

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 20, 2009, Barry Strassler Dec 2009

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 20, 2009, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2009

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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, December 20, 2009, Barry Strassler Dec 2009

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, December 20, 2009, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2009

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Finance & Facilities Fy10 Budget Rescission, Office Of The President Dec 2009

Finance & Facilities Fy10 Budget Rescission, Office Of The President

President Schmidly's Administration

The Recent Past As most of you know by now, confirmation hearings were held last Monday in Santa Fe for Governor Richardsons three nominees for UNM's Board of Regents. The confirmation process was carried out according to the Constitution of the State of New Mexico and resulted in all three of these individuals — Gene Gallegos, Jamie Koch, and Cate Wisdom — being confirmed by the Senate. As part of the process, several faculty, students, and staff participated in the hearings. There was a lot of passionate discussion, both pro and con, and I want to commend and thank everyone …

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Ecotourism As An Alternative To Fishing In Yucatan, Mexico, Abigail E. Bennett Dec 2009

Ecotourism As An Alternative To Fishing In Yucatan, Mexico, Abigail E. Bennett

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

Small-scale fisheries account for a vast majority of fisheries globally. Their overexploitation threatens coastal environments, including the people living there, throughout the world (Basurto, 2008). Finding productive alternatives to unsustainable levels of fishing is a necessary part of curbing this probl em. Ecotourism has offered such an alternative to coastal communities, and there are already some successful examples of community-managed ecotourism groups in Mexico. Beyond providing a source of income for community members, these programs also facilitate environmental education, thus fostering local community involvement in conservation goals. This study focuses on ecotourism programs that have been started in three towns …

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Campus Weekly Crime Report For The Week Ending December 20, 2009, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. University Police Services. Dec 2009

Campus Weekly Crime Report For The Week Ending December 20, 2009, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. University Police Services.

Crime Reports, Alerts, and Information

The weekly crime report for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's campus for the week ending December 20, 2009.

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Catholic Student Protest And Campus Change At Loyola University In New Orleans, 1964-1971, Robert Lorenz Dec 2009

Catholic Student Protest And Campus Change At Loyola University In New Orleans, 1964-1971, Robert Lorenz

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This study analyzes the development of the student protest movement at Loyola University New Orleans from1964 to 1971. It focuses on student protests against racial discrimination and the Vietnam War, student agitation for greater freedom on campus, and battles that Loyola's faculty had with the university administration. This study argues that Loyola's student protesters were acting as Catholics against situations they believed were immoral and unjust. In this sense, they were ahead of the Jesuit clergy at Loyola, who took action only after student protest on those issues. Indeed, student protest filled a void of moral leadership that the Jesuit …

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"Let Heaven Kiss Earth!": The Function Of Humanism And Animism In Shakespeare's Richard Ii And Henry Iv, Parts I And Ii, Kathrin Kottemann Dec 2009

"Let Heaven Kiss Earth!": The Function Of Humanism And Animism In Shakespeare's Richard Ii And Henry Iv, Parts I And Ii, Kathrin Kottemann

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

As Shakespeare composed the three history plays discussed here, English culture faced a shift in its dominant belief system from an animistic perspective that valued nature and superstition to a humanistic perspective based on reason and personal relationships. In Richard II, Shakespeare creates characters that fall on either side of this divide, and he shows humanism triumph over animism when Henry deposes Richard. In 1 Henry IV, Shakespeare shows that this binary is not so easily reconciled, and Hal (the future Henry V) creates a dual nature that subsumes the tenets of both animism and humanism. After the death of …

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A Qualitative Study Of The Personal Reactions And Experiences Of Adolescent Students Who Have Been Retained, Jessica Fournier Dec 2009

A Qualitative Study Of The Personal Reactions And Experiences Of Adolescent Students Who Have Been Retained, Jessica Fournier

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Grade retention is an educational practice that requires students to repeat the grade level they have just completed (Jimerson, 2001). In the United States, an estimated 15% to 19% of students are retained each year (Holmes, 2006). Previous research on grade retention is comprised of quantitative studies describing students who have been retained as having higher suspension rates, coming from a low socio-economic status, and having an increased chance of dropping out of school (Christle, Jolivette, & Nelson, 2007; Janosz, et al., 1997; Jimerson & Ferguson, 2007; Jimerson et al., 2002; Suh & Suh 2007). While these studies provide a …

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The Influence Of Conflicting Role Obligations On Nontraditional Student Baccalaureate Degree Attainment, Rosaria Guastella Dec 2009

The Influence Of Conflicting Role Obligations On Nontraditional Student Baccalaureate Degree Attainment, Rosaria Guastella

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research study was to investigate the phenomenon of the conflicting roles, such as parent, spouse, employee, caregiver, and community member/volunteer, associated with the lives of nontraditional college students and to reveal how these conflicting role obligations influence these students' persistence toward the attainment of an undergraduate degree. This study provides a brief history of adult education in the United States as well as the study context, a continuing studies division of a privately endowed research institution located in the southern United States. The participants in this study were nontraditional students who were also recent graduates of …

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Teachers' Perceptions Of The Implementation Of Reading First, Raenell Houston Dec 2009

Teachers' Perceptions Of The Implementation Of Reading First, Raenell Houston

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand teachers' experiences related to the implementation of Reading First in the classroom and more specifically, how Reading First has impacted curriculum, instruction, assessment, student achievement, and professional development. The participants for this study were five certified, kindergarten and first grade public school teachers. In depth interviews were conducted with each participant regarding her experiences with the implementation of Reading First. Once collected, the data was then analyzed according to a method advanced by Moustakas (1994) and reported. Findings and recommendations included, but were not limited to the following: 1. There are …

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The Rise And Fall Of The Louisiana Muskrat, 1890-1960: An Environmental And Social History, Jared Boscareno Dec 2009

The Rise And Fall Of The Louisiana Muskrat, 1890-1960: An Environmental And Social History, Jared Boscareno

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

As the nineteenth century drew to a close, people living in coastal Louisiana noticed that local rodents called muskrats were rapidly increasing and quickly becoming pests by digging up crops and into levees. Property owners soon demanded their elimination, but to the ire of many, Louisiana officials chose to develop a market for muskrat fur and protect its supply through management laws. The state sought the cooperation of trappers in order to maintain global demand, but when nutria were released alongside the muskrat, the ecological balance of the marsh was permanently altered. Muskrats shrank back into obscurity, and trappers struggled …

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A "Spanish Element" In The New South: The Hispanic Press And Community In Nineteenth Century New Orleans , Rafael Delgadillo Dec 2009

A "Spanish Element" In The New South: The Hispanic Press And Community In Nineteenth Century New Orleans , Rafael Delgadillo

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Although New Orleans culture has been a popular subject for historians due to its ethnic diversity and multiculturalism, certain groups have been ignored in the city's vast historiography. Such is the case of Hispanics, who have been present for most of the city's history. This study recovers a portion of that lost Hispanic history through analysis of Spanish-language newspapers published in New Orleans throughout the nineteenth century. One of these newspapers, El Moro de Paz, was published with the goal of encouraging the advancement of trade relationships between Louisiana and Latin America. A study of El Moro de Paz and …

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Medieval Feminine Humanism And Geoffrey Chaucer's Presentation Of The Anti-Cecilia, Meghan Flewellyn Dec 2009

Medieval Feminine Humanism And Geoffrey Chaucer's Presentation Of The Anti-Cecilia, Meghan Flewellyn

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Perhaps due to its seemingly straightforward religious nature, the Second Nun's Cecelia Legend in The Canterbury Tales is often dismissed by scholars and readers alike. However, through analyzing Chaucer's earlier analogues, it becomes apparent that Chaucer has left out key pieces of the Life of Saint Cecelia. These omissions can be explained as attempts to illustrate the humanistic beliefs of both St. Augustine and Christine de Pizan. Further, the etymology of key words which appear in the "Second Nun's Prologue and Tale" help to reinforce the satire which Chaucer creates. Chaucer has deleted the humanism from the Saint Cecelia Legend …

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A Bruised Sky Falling, Holly Dotson Dec 2009

A Bruised Sky Falling, Holly Dotson

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The following thesis is a memoir in essays. The narrative is a reflection of memory as a chaotic system. Each essay stands alone as a single memory but also is part of the larger story of the writer's life. The fragmentation of the story lends itself to what Roland Barthes called a readerly text. That is, a reader may enter the text at any point and read the chapters in an order, and by doing this, the reader creates his/her own version of the author's life. The overall narrative arch is one of self-discovery and self-destruction.

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Melting Dreams, William Scott Whited Dec 2009

Melting Dreams, William Scott Whited

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Spirituality As A Validating Factor And Intrinsic Motivator To Persistence: A Study Of Nontraditional Female Students In Community/Technical Colleges, Camille Laperouse Jarrell Dec 2009

Spirituality As A Validating Factor And Intrinsic Motivator To Persistence: A Study Of Nontraditional Female Students In Community/Technical Colleges, Camille Laperouse Jarrell

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

While traditional theories are useful in the study of persistence in some nontraditional students, many nontraditional female students are at high risk of not successfully persisting towards their educational goals. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of spirituality, as a validating factor and an intrinsic motivator to persist, in nontraditional female students in community and technical colleges. A hermeneutic phenomenology research design was used with the "lived experiences" of these women articulated through their own voices. Although the study did not have a rigid set of fixed procedures, van Manens (1990) suggested activities for …

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An Ontology-Based Approach To Automatic Generation Of Gui For Data Entry, Fangfang Liu Dec 2009

An Ontology-Based Approach To Automatic Generation Of Gui For Data Entry, Fangfang Liu

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reports an ontology-based approach to automatic generation of highly tailored GUI components that can make customized data requests for the end users. Using this GUI generator, without knowing any programming skill a domain expert can browse the data schema through the ontology file of his/her own field, choose attribute fields according to business's needs, and make a highly customized GUI for end users' data requests input. The interface for the domain expert is a tree view structure that shows not only the domain taxonomy categories but also the relationships between classes. By clicking the checkbox associated with each …

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Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, And Creoles Of Color In Nineteenth-Century New Orleans, Melissa Daggett Dec 2009

Henry Louis Rey, Spiritualism, And Creoles Of Color In Nineteenth-Century New Orleans, Melissa Daggett

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a biography of Henry Louis Rey (1831-1894), a member of one of New Orleans' most prominent Creole of Color families. During the Civil War, Rey was a captain in both the Confederate and Union Native Guards. In postbellum years, he served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representative and in appointed city offices. Rey became heavily involved with spiritualism in the 1850s and established séance circles in New Orleans during the early 1870s. The voluminous transcripts of these séance circles have survived into the twenty-first century; however, scholarly use of these sources has been limited …

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Lei Feng: China's Evolving Cultural Icon, 1960s To The Present, Clement A. Dugue Iii Dec 2009

Lei Feng: China's Evolving Cultural Icon, 1960s To The Present, Clement A. Dugue Iii

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In 1962, very few people within the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) had ever heard of Lei Feng, a young soldier who died in a tragic accident while driving a truck for the People's Liberation Army. The following year, his name was known throughout China as one of the finest young soldiers that the country had ever produced. In years to come, his diary was put in the hands of everyone from school children to soldiers to serve as a model for the ideal Chinese citizen. Furthermore, as Chinese culture evolved, so did the Lei Feng image, changing from citizen-soldier …

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What We Thought We Knew Poems, 2007-2009, Katherine Durham Oldmixon Dec 2009

What We Thought We Knew Poems, 2007-2009, Katherine Durham Oldmixon

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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