Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

2009

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 34861 - 34890 of 35190

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Trilling R'S, Shannon. O'Brien Jan 2009

Trilling R'S, Shannon. O'Brien

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Immigration has become a hot button issue across the United States. Television newsmen dedicate hours of time to excoriate the "illegal invasion." I viewed the immigration debate as something not directly concerning me. I am a legal citizen of Hispanic descent. My mother is a naturalized citizen from Mexico. However, as the government conducted raids looking for illegal immigrants, my mother became more aware of her place as a Mexican woman living in the Midwest. She wondered whether people would assume she was illegal because of her accent and appearance. Our discussions prompted me to think about of my place …

Go to article

Understanding In Healthcare Professional Involvement In Patient Internet Use, Neil. Morton Jan 2009

Understanding In Healthcare Professional Involvement In Patient Internet Use, Neil. Morton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Use of the Internet can increase patients' understanding about their medical conditions and offers opportunities to strengthen the patient-physician relationship, increase patient satisfaction, and improve health outcomes. However, physicians vary widely in the extent to which they accept patient online medical information seeking and make it part of the patient-physician relationship. This paper explores factors impacting the extent to which physicians advocate (encourage, speak in favor, or are supportive of) patient internet use. Specifically, using social cognitive theory as a theoretical base, this study develops a model of the determinants of physician advocation of patient use of the internet for …

Go to article

Understanding Narcissism And Self-Esteem In Children, Rachel. Evans Jan 2009

Understanding Narcissism And Self-Esteem In Children, Rachel. Evans

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study examined the empirical relationship between narcissism and self-esteem in an attempt to evaluate competing conceptualizations of narcissism. Participants were 236 children (mean age 11.3 years) in the fourth through eighth grades. Counter to earlier conceptions, which characterized narcissism as very high self-esteem, narcissism and self-esteem were slightly negatively correlated. Also, narcissism predicted several adjustment variables, including aggression. None of these relationships was mediated by self-esteem. Lastly, self-esteem moderated the relationship between narcissism and aggression in boys. Taken together, these lines of evidence point to a new conceptualization of narcissism, modeled after self-discrepancy theory, in which narcissism is conceptualized …

Go to article

Using Emotion-Inducing Film Clips To Measure Emotional Coordination, Maureen Jane Leong-Kee Jan 2009

Using Emotion-Inducing Film Clips To Measure Emotional Coordination, Maureen Jane Leong-Kee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Synchronization research reveals that those who are able to coordinate behavior in time are more likely to feel positively towards one another. Unlike previous research that has taken a linear approach, I examine the dynamical nature of individuals' emotional coordination by investigating the overlap in their moment-to-moment emotional responses to positive and negative events in the form of film clips. By using the mouse program, I develop a new relationship paradigm and find that this measure is able to capture the nuances of emotional responses, and, more importantly, it is able to distinguish between relationship partners versus pairs of strangers. …

Go to article

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (Vegf), Bcl-2, And Bax Expression In Fibropapilloma Tumor Tissue And Skin Tissue Of Sea Turtles, Angela. Bancalari-Schmidlapp Jan 2009

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (Vegf), Bcl-2, And Bax Expression In Fibropapilloma Tumor Tissue And Skin Tissue Of Sea Turtles, Angela. Bancalari-Schmidlapp

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In sea turtles, the study of the etiology and development of fibropapillomatosis is not fully understood. Sea turtle fibropapillomatosis is a disease characterized by the proliferation of skin fibropapillomas and occasional internal fibromas. In this study, sea turtle fibropapilloma tumor and healthy tissue samples were used to look at VEGF, BCL-2 and Bax expression. Cancer tumors have a well established pattern of protein expression that involves overexpression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), responsible for the growth of new blood vessels, and a high BCL-2 to Bax ratio that leads to uncontrolled cell proliferation. Real time PCR was used to …

Go to article

Vibration, Buckling And Impact Of Carbon Nanotubes, Demetris. Pentaras Jan 2009

Vibration, Buckling And Impact Of Carbon Nanotubes, Demetris. Pentaras

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Natural frequencies of the double and triple-walled carbon nanotubes are determined exactly and approximately for both types. Approximate solutions are found by using Bubnov-Galerkin and Petrov-Galerkin methods. For the first time explicit expressions are obtained for the natural frequencies of double and triple-walled carbon nanotubes for different combinations of boundary conditions. Comparison of the results with recent studies shows that the above methods constitute quick and effective alternative techniques to exact solution for studying the vibration properties of carbon nanotubes. The natural frequencies of the clamped-clamped double-walled carbon nanotubes are obtained; exact solution is provided and compared with the solution …

Go to article

Virtual Science Instructional Strategies, Tammy J. Gillette Jan 2009

Virtual Science Instructional Strategies, Tammy J. Gillette

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of this proposed research study was to identify actual teaching practices/instructional strategies for online science courses. The identification of these teaching practices/instructional strategies could be used to compile a set of teaching practices/instructional strategies for virtual high school and online academy science instructors. This study could assist online science instructors by determining which teaching practices/instructional strategies were preferred for the online teaching environment. The literature reviewed the role of online and face-to-face instructional strategies, then discussed and elaborated on the science instructional strategies used by teachers, specifically at the secondary level. The current literature did not reflect an …

Go to article

War Within Houses, Hillary. Boles Jan 2009

War Within Houses, Hillary. Boles

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This work of creative nonfiction is meant to explore the effects of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder in American war veterans and their families. As a work of blended literary journalism and memoir, the author interviewed afflicted veterans from World War II to the current Iraq and Afghanistan wars, included scholarly research, and reflected on how her father's dealings with the disorder have affected her family.

Go to article

We Are What We Eat, Marlena Kay Dates Jan 2009

We Are What We Eat, Marlena Kay Dates

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In the modern United States, capitalism is the predominant cultural value that structures the food system. The current American relationship to food is strained, at best, as two-thirds of Americans experience overweight and obesity and are at risk for a number of serious health complications. An understanding of the historic and political-economic aspects of the American food system is necessary to address the effects of our modern food habits on our ideas of our selves. This thesis analyzes the types of foods Americans eat, why they make the food choices that they do, how they feel about their eating habits …

Go to article

What Keeps Nurses In Nursing, Dorothy J. Dunn Jan 2009

What Keeps Nurses In Nursing, Dorothy J. Dunn

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of this study was to explore what keeps nurses in nursing by examining the impact of the relational experiences between the nurse and her or his patient in the context of the nursing situation. Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology grounded the study and was the method used to interpret the registered nurse participants' meaning of their everydayness. The nurses' first hand perspectives elicited implications for nursing practice. This qualitative research study examined what keeps nurses in nursing. The eight registered nurse participants provided rich descriptive data from which four relational themes emerged: Practicing from Inner Core Beliefs, Understanding the Other …

Go to article

Wool And Water, Kira. Frederick Jan 2009

Wool And Water, Kira. Frederick

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Wool and Water is a creative work of 36 poems. This collection examines the relationship between the silent and vocal, between the pastoral and urban. By reconfiguring and retelling the fairy tales and nursery rhymes, this collection seeks to challenge the status quo through trickster-like diction. Themes that are prevalent include: alienation, nourishment, anonymity, and the female body. From the concrete to the lyric, Wool and Water relies upon the process of questioning patriarchal guises. These poems intersect in order to rectify the past and make amends with the present. The female voices that drive these poems are multi-generational.

Go to article

You're Too Late!", Colleen. Supanich Jan 2009

You're Too Late!", Colleen. Supanich

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

In this thesis I explore the circumstances in which pregnant Guatemalan Mayan women in South Florida communities found themselves. A local non-profit organization, the Guatemalan Maya Center (GMC), offered assistance to pregnant Mayan women to secure biomedical prenatal care, yet many continued to underutilize these services. The decision to utilize this form of care largely depended on whether a woman received care from a traditional midwife in the community. Women receiving care from a midwife generally did not seek biomedical care until late in their pregnancies. Women unable to locate a midwife often incorporated biomedical care once they suspected pregnancy. …

Go to article

Value-Based Mandated Health Benefits, Amy B. Monahan Jan 2009

Value-Based Mandated Health Benefits, Amy B. Monahan

University of Colorado Law Review

Mandated health benefit laws figure prominently in health reform debates. These laws, which are primarily enacted by the states, require health insurers to cover specific medical treatment, services, or supplies such as mental health treatment, mammograms, or diabetes testing supplies. Critics argue that mandated health benefit laws increase health insurance costs, decrease consumer choice, and often are the product of rent-seeking, rather than sound public policy. This Article seeks to further the discussion of mandated health benefit laws by systemically identifying permissible rationales for such laws. The justifications identified include addressing (1) market failure that leads to nonavailability of coverage, …

Go to article

The Solitary Attempt: International Trade Law And The Insulation Of Domestic Greenhouse Gas Trading Schemes From Foreign Emissions Credit Markets, Elias Leake Quinn Jan 2009

The Solitary Attempt: International Trade Law And The Insulation Of Domestic Greenhouse Gas Trading Schemes From Foreign Emissions Credit Markets, Elias Leake Quinn

University of Colorado Law Review

This Comment examines the influence of international trade agreements on the implementation of a hypothetical, domestically- scaled cap-and-trade scheme to facilitate greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the United States. Several areas of intersection are examined, including the contemplation of the credits as commodities for trade and the construction of measures designed to offset any competitive disadvantage such a system might put on domestic companies. The Comment concludes that a domestically-scaled cap-and-trade scheme, while an important step in mitigating global climate change, is vulnerable to challenges under existing international trade agreements. Such challenges, if successful, may in turn drive the convergence …

Go to article

A Neglected Option: The Contributions Of State Responsibility For Genocide To Transitional Justice, Saira Mohamed Jan 2009

A Neglected Option: The Contributions Of State Responsibility For Genocide To Transitional Justice, Saira Mohamed

University of Colorado Law Review

Despite the pervasive involvement of government bureaucracies in perpetrating genocide and other atrocities, the international community's efforts to assist societies emerging from these horrors have relied primarily on establishing the guilt of individuals in criminal tribunals, rather than addressing the wrongs committed by governments through other means. The International Court of Justice diverged from this approach to transitional justice when it decided in 2007 that states themselves can be held civilly responsible for committing genocide. Characterizing the decision as reviving the concept of collective guilt in contravention of accepted principles of transitional justice, some warned that holding states responsible for …

Go to article

Aliens In The Garden, Jared A. Goldstein Jan 2009

Aliens In The Garden, Jared A. Goldstein

University of Colorado Law Review

This Article examines environmental rhetoric and argues that a nationalist conception of nature has long distorted environmental policies. Environmental discourse frequently seeks to explain the natural world by reference to the world of nations, a phenomenon that can be characterizeda s the "nationalizationo f nature." A contemporary example of the nationalization of nature is the rhetoric of "Invasive species," which depicts harmful foreign plants and animals in ways that bear an uncanny resemblance to the demonization of foreigners by opponents of immigration. A typical newspaper article about invasive species, bearing the headline "Eeeeek! The eels are coming!," warned about an …

Go to article

Adapting To Post-Oil Futures: Community Action, The Urban Sustainability Retrofit, And The Writings Of James Howard Kunstler, Brian Muller Jan 2009

Adapting To Post-Oil Futures: Community Action, The Urban Sustainability Retrofit, And The Writings Of James Howard Kunstler, Brian Muller

University of Colorado Law Review

James Howard Kunstler has written prolifically about the problems of sustainability and livability in the modern American city. This Essay discusses Kunstler's view of adaptation and compares it to the various efforts underway in cities across the United States to address problems of climate change and resource depletion, which I generally term the urban "sustainability retrofit." Kunstler describes an adaptive path that is brutal, driven by resource scarcity, social collapse, and environmental disaster. Although Kunstler presents an extreme view, this Essay argues that his books are important because they demand that readers reflect about the conditions under which sustainable and …

Go to article

African American And Hispanic Male Perceptions Of Effective And Ineffective Retention Strategies, And The Implications For Undergraduate Persistence In A For-Profit Commuter University, Carole. Comarcho Jan 2009

African American And Hispanic Male Perceptions Of Effective And Ineffective Retention Strategies, And The Implications For Undergraduate Persistence In A For-Profit Commuter University, Carole. Comarcho

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of this study was to examine the expectations of African American and Hispanic males in a for-profit university (TTU). This study specifically explored student perception of the retention efforts of faculty, staff, policies, procedures and services within the institutional environment. It further examined how these experiences promoted or impeded the African American or Hispanic male's persistence to graduation. The higher education institution is identified as TTU throughout this study. It is a commuter university established in the early 1900s. A qualitative case study approach was used and two campus sites were selected. Data collection included interviews of 19 …

Go to article

Amorous Doctor, Elsa. Cantor Jan 2009

Amorous Doctor, Elsa. Cantor

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The anonymous French seventeenth-century play le Docteur Amoureux (1691) was written for theThéâtre Italien, the Italian troupe acting in Paris. It incorporated the techniques of both Old French farce and the commedia dell'arte into mainstream comic modes, in the manner of Moliáere but with some amusing twists. Le Docteur Amoureux remains a significant part of the French comic canon and the historical corpus of drama, yet it has never been translated into English. With prefatory commentary on the text and the period, the genres of stage performance, and the challenges involved in translating historical texts, this first translation of le …

Go to article

Adaptive Power Control In 802.11 Networks, Serkan. Dural Jan 2009

Adaptive Power Control In 802.11 Networks, Serkan. Dural

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

IEEE 802.11 networks successfully satisfy high data demands and are cheaper compared to cellular networks. Modern mobile computers and phones are equipped with 802.11 and are VoIP capable. Current network designs do not dynamically accommodate changes in the usage. We propose a dynamic power control algorithm that provides greater capacity within a limited geographic region. Most other power algorithms necessitate changes in 802.11 requiring hardware changes. Proposed algorithm only requires firmware updates to enable dynamic control of APs transmit power. We use earlier studies to determine the limit of the number of users to optimize power. By lowering transmit power …

Go to article

Acoustic Far Field Of A Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow Calculated From Rans Simulations Of The Flow, Jean-Baptiste. Blanc Jan 2009

Acoustic Far Field Of A Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow Calculated From Rans Simulations Of The Flow, Jean-Baptiste. Blanc

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Boundary layers are regions where turbulence develops easily. In the case where the flow occurs on a surface showing a certain degree of roughness, turbulence eddies will interact with the roughness elements and will produce an acoustic field. This thesis aims at predicting this type of noise with the help of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation of a wall jet using the Reynolds Average Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. A frequency spectrum is reconstructed using a representation of the turbulence with uncorrelated sheets of vorticity. Both aerodynamic and acoustic results are compared to experimental measurements of the flow. The CFD simulation …

Go to article

Adolescent Conflict With Parents And Friends, Gwen R. Pursell Jan 2009

Adolescent Conflict With Parents And Friends, Gwen R. Pursell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study examined associations between conflict affect, resolution, and relationship impact in adolescent conflicts with mothers and friends. Participants included 231 adolescents who were on average 14 years of age. Over three consecutive days, participants completed a diary study in which they reported and described conflicts with mothers and friends. Path analyses were used to examine direct and indirect associations from negative affect and resolution to relationship impact contrasting disagreements with mothers and disagreements with friends. Moderator analyses examined whether patterns of association differed by gender or conflict topic. Findings revealed that lower levels of negative affect and higher levels …

Go to article

Assessment Of Anatomical Structures And Hemodynamic Function Of Ctni[193his] Transgenic Mice With Micro-Echocardiography, Nariman. Gobara Jan 2009

Assessment Of Anatomical Structures And Hemodynamic Function Of Ctni[193his] Transgenic Mice With Micro-Echocardiography, Nariman. Gobara

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Transgenic mice were generated to express a restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) human cardiac troponin I (cTnI) R192H mutation in the heart. My study's objective was to assess cardiac function during the development of diastolic dysfunction and to gain insight into the pathophysiological impact of the RCM cTnI mutation. Cardiac function was monitored in cTnI193His mice and wild-type littermates for a period of 12 months. It progressed gradually from abnormal relaxation to diastolic dysfunction characterized with micro- echocardiography by a reversed E/A ratio, increased deceleration time, and prolonged isovolumetric relaxation time. The negative impact of cTnI193His on cardiac function was further demonstrated …

Go to article

Attitudinal Study Of Older Adult African Americans' Interaction With Computers, Nigel Leon Lovell-Martin Jan 2009

Attitudinal Study Of Older Adult African Americans' Interaction With Computers, Nigel Leon Lovell-Martin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

It was estimated that 35 million people age 65 or older lived in the United States in 2000. Of that number 2.8 million were Black/African American. The U.S. Census Bureau's (2000) population projections show that there will be 70 million older adults age 65 or older by 2030 and African Americans are expected to comprise over 12% of that population. In 1993 older adults had made less elective use of computers than younger adults, accounting for 24.2% of those age 55 to 64 and 4.9% of adults over age 65. By 2003 adults over age 65 recorded a 20.1% increase …

Go to article

Automated Nursing Knowledge Classification Using Indexing, Sucharita Vijay Chinchanikar Jan 2009

Automated Nursing Knowledge Classification Using Indexing, Sucharita Vijay Chinchanikar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Promoting healthcare and wellbeing requires the dedication of a multi-tiered health service delivery system, which is comprised of specialists, medical doctors and nurses. A holistic view to a patient care perspective involves emotional, mental and physical healthcare needs, in which caring is understood as the essence of nursing. Properly and efficiently capturing and managing nursing knowledge is essential to advocating health promotion and illness prevention. This thesis proposes a document-indexing framework for automating classification of nursing knowledge based on nursing theory and practice model. The documents defining the numerous categories in nursing care model are structured with the help of …

Go to article

"Stop-It Anti-Fidgeting Device, Scott A. Barnard Jan 2009

"Stop-It Anti-Fidgeting Device, Scott A. Barnard

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Fidgeting and otherwise constant movements in individuals can be beneficial in those who suffer from Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or Generalized Anxiety Disorder as well as others. However this constant movement can also be a distraction to others as well as protrude an air of no self confidence. It is the drawbacks from these actions that we wish to address. By developing an intelligent system that can detect these motions and alert the user, it will allow the wearer of the device to self correct. It is in this self control that one may exhibit more confidence or simply reduce the …

Go to article

Assessment Of The Effect Of Adult Education On Sustainable Development In Jamaica, Pauline. Mclean Jan 2009

Assessment Of The Effect Of Adult Education On Sustainable Development In Jamaica, Pauline. Mclean

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

An assessment of the knowledge and the behaviors associated with sustainable development was conducted to determine the effect of adult education on sustainable development in Jamaica. The discourse for leadership commitment and governance, as well as continuous learning has its tenets in the discovery that the programs do not significantly address sustainable development (SD). While knowledge was significantly addressed, the programs failed to motivate useful action. The study has provided an explanation of the barriers, costs, and limits to sustainability so that program planners can devise transfer of learning strategies that foster adaptation and mitigation. The investigation involved 35 adult …

Go to article

Bleeding Roots, Tinea. Williams Jan 2009

Bleeding Roots, Tinea. Williams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Scholars of the literary depictions of lynching have given the majority of their attention to the emasculation of the black male, but the representation of the black female lynch victim has been overlooked. My thesis examines the deaths of black women that had the same effect as lynching practices used against men. This specific literary form of lynching will concentrate on two plays: Mary P. Burrill's They That Sit in Darkness (1919) and Marita Bonner's Exit: An Illusion (1929) and two novels by Toni Morrison, Beloved and Sula. Considering the contours of these black female deaths we can expand the …

Go to article

Blast/Explosion Resistant Analysis Of Composite Steel Girder Bridge System, Fang. Zhou Jan 2009

Blast/Explosion Resistant Analysis Of Composite Steel Girder Bridge System, Fang. Zhou

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The design of bridge structures to resist explosive loads has become more of a concern to the engineering community. This thesis proposes a method to evaluate the effects of conventional blast loads on a two span continuous composite steel girder bridge system. The bridge design is based on AASHTO LRFD method. Resistance capacities of bridge deck and composite steel girder are calculated according to AASHTO specifications. Equivalent blast pressures on the bridge components are obtained. Response and performance of concrete deck, steel girders, and supporting piers are evaluated under typical blast loads. The blast induced force in the bridge components …

Go to article

Can I Call You Brother?, Elizabeth Andrea Norberg Jan 2009

Can I Call You Brother?, Elizabeth Andrea Norberg

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The following manuscript is a novel intended to explore the confusing nature of butch lesbian gender identity and the unique bonds of friendship butch women often share with one another. Lesbian culture, today, sometimes puts pressure on the term butch and pushes butch women to choose between transgender, femme and androgynous. The lead character in this novel, Sarah, struggles to come to terms with her own sexual identity amidst all this pressure to conform. She watches her friends and searches for a model of what butch is and is not but she continues to feel emotionally and physically cut off …

Go to article

First Prev Next Last