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Posters, Politics And Immigration During The May 1968 Protests In France, Sara Mcnamara Dec 2010

Posters, Politics And Immigration During The May 1968 Protests In France, Sara Mcnamara

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

How were immigrants, immigrant issues and their histories represented through radical poster art created during the 1968 protests and strikes in France? The May 1968 protests remain one of the most significant moments in contemporary French history and it occurred during a time when immigrant populations were rapidly increasing. There is a multitude of research, analysis and reflections on the protests and strikes; yet there is very little mention of the place of immigrants during this event. Art collectives that were created during the protests designed and produced posters that later became a symbol of the strike. By using a …

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University Of Nebraska At Omaha, December Commencement 2 0 1 0, University Of Nebraska At Omaha Dec 2010

University Of Nebraska At Omaha, December Commencement 2 0 1 0, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

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Connecting Religion And Work: Patterns And Influences Of Work-Faith Integration, Monty Lynn, Michael J. Naughton, Steve Vanderveen Dec 2010

Connecting Religion And Work: Patterns And Influences Of Work-Faith Integration, Monty Lynn, Michael J. Naughton, Steve Vanderveen

Management Sciences

Religiosity can significantly impact human behavior yet little is known about how religious belief and practice integrate with work. Using the Faith at Work Scale, we surveyed Christian workers in the United States (n = 374) and found that work-faith integration was positively associated with faith maturity, church attendance, age and denominational strictness, and negatively associated with organizational size. Denominational groups varied in their degree of integration but displayed similar patterns across dimensions of integration.Work-faith integration was manifest most strongly in integration related to the self, and somewhat less so in areas related to others and in transcendent aspects of …

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Ecb Signs Swap Facility Agreement With The Bank Of England, European Central Bank (Ecb) Dec 2010

Ecb Signs Swap Facility Agreement With The Bank Of England, European Central Bank (Ecb)

Documents

Other Relevant Crises: Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009)

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Froeba Letter Re Use Of Mfr 1 To Gary Cohen, Mark Froeba Dec 2010

Froeba Letter Re Use Of Mfr 1 To Gary Cohen, Mark Froeba

Documents

This letter is addressed to Gary Cohen

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M Berger Letter To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Snow Quotes, Mitchell R. Berger Dec 2010

M Berger Letter To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Snow Quotes, Mitchell R. Berger

Documents

No abstract provided.

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Visualization For Verification Driven Learning In Database Studies, Aditya Kallem Dec 2010

Visualization For Verification Driven Learning In Database Studies, Aditya Kallem

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis aims at developing a data visualization tool to enhance database learning based on the Verification Driven Learning (VDL) model. The goal of the VDL model is to present abstract concepts in the contexts of real-world systems to students in the early stages of computer science program. In this project, a personnel/training management system has been turned into a learning platform by adding a number of features for visualization and quizzing. We have implemented various tactics to visualize the data manipulation and data retrieval operations in database, as well as the message contents in data messaging channels. The results …

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Understanding Bullying Participant Roles: Stability Across School Years And Personality And Behavioral Correlates, Ann Crapanzano Dec 2010

Understanding Bullying Participant Roles: Stability Across School Years And Personality And Behavioral Correlates, Ann Crapanzano

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the factorial validity, stability, and social, behavioral and emotional correlates of several different roles that students can play in the context of bullying. Data were collected from students at two time points across two school years, April and May of 2006 (n=284) and again in November and December of 2006 (n=185). A confirmatory factor analysis provided evidence for the validity of 4 participant roles (i.e. bully, reinforcer, assistant, and defender). However, further analysis revealed that there was a strong degree of intercorrelation between the three bully factors (i.e., bully, reinforcer, and assistant). Analyses found that participant roles …

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Software Renovation: An In-House Perspective With Case Studies, Brian Horton Dec 2010

Software Renovation: An In-House Perspective With Case Studies, Brian Horton

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Programs are not only a tool for the simplification or automation of everyday tasks; they also represent a significant time and money investment. A program's life may span years, or even decades, which creates certain risks for the stakeholders involved. To mitigate the risks associated with these legacy systems, software renovation can be undertaken. Software renovation can be described as a series of processes and/or tools used to modernize a legacy system, thereby preserving and maintaining the investment it represents while decreasing the risks associated with it. In this thesis, the focus is on renovation of software created by in-house …

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Barely There Tales: A Phenomenological Study Of Stories Told By Pre-Service Teachers, Cynthia Ybos Dec 2010

Barely There Tales: A Phenomenological Study Of Stories Told By Pre-Service Teachers, Cynthia Ybos

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Teacher stories were once relegated to informal gatherings but more recently this aspect of teacher development is being carefully studied in more formalized settings because it is believed to be an important part of teacher development. New ways are being sought to use various aspects of storytelling to help pre-service teachers develop important teaching skills through reflection on experience, dialogue journals, case studies and autobiography. Despite these efforts at the university level, it is especially difficult for pre-service teachers to integrate and apply theories from their methods courses to actual classroom practice. Less effort has been focused on storytelling processes …

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Albert Baldwin Wood, The Screw Pump, And The Modernization Of New Orleans, Nicole Romagossa Dec 2010

Albert Baldwin Wood, The Screw Pump, And The Modernization Of New Orleans, Nicole Romagossa

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Albert Baldwin Wood and his screw pumps modernized New Orleans by bringing flood-free streets and cleaner water to the city while providing the potential for growth by pumping swamp lands dry. While Wood was never part of the local Progressive movement, his work with the pumps fit with Progressive initiatives for modernization. At first, the screw pumps removed rain water from the streets. Then New Orleans expanded the drainage to include sewerage removal and water purification. The pumps successfully drained thousands of acres of land once considered uninhabitable swamp land. This additional land extended New Orleans city limits but also …

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She Vs. Shadow, Danielle Blasko Dec 2010

She Vs. Shadow, Danielle Blasko

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Where The Dead Remain, Bryan Camp Dec 2010

Where The Dead Remain, Bryan Camp

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Where the Dead Remain is a murder mystery set in a Post-Katrina New Orleans where the gods, magic and monsters of various world mythologies actually exist. The story follows a week in the life of Jude Duboisson, a once magician who is struggling with the loss of his magic and the life he had known in the wake of the storm, as he is pulled out of his torpor and into the affairs of the mighty once again. He is tasked with discovering who murdered Dodge Renaud, the fortune god of New Orleans. What he discovers, though, are some surprising …

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Wider Than A Mile, Natalie Parker-Lawrence Dec 2010

Wider Than A Mile, Natalie Parker-Lawrence

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Finding The Man, Husband, Physician & Father: Creating The Role Of Doc Gibbs In Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Patrick Payne Dec 2010

Finding The Man, Husband, Physician & Father: Creating The Role Of Doc Gibbs In Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Patrick Payne

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis serves as documentation of my efforts to define accurately my creative process as an actor in creating the role of Doc Gibbs in Our Town by Thornton Wilder. This includes research, rehearsal journal, character analysis and evaluation of my performance. Our Town was produced by the University of New Orleans Department of Film, Theatre and Communication Arts in New Orleans, Louisiana. The play was performed in the Robert E. Nims Theatre of the Performing Arts Center at 7:30 pm on the evenings of April 22 through April 24, 2010 and April 29 through May 1, 2010 as well …

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An Underwater Channel Model And Chirp Slope Keying Modulation Scheme Performance, Brice Zoh Dec 2010

An Underwater Channel Model And Chirp Slope Keying Modulation Scheme Performance, Brice Zoh

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Chirp-Slope Keying (CSK) is a new and innovative digital modulation scheme for underwater data transmission. The underwater environment brings up several challenges to the manufacturing and operation of communication systems. This thesis shows through analysis and simulations the effectiveness of Chirp-Slope Keying (CSK) in providing a satisfying performance in underwater communication. The experiment consists of modulating a chirp slope by binary numbers (representing our data). '0' is represented by a linear- down chirp and '1' is represented by a linear-up chirp. The received data is first processed by a correlator receiver. Then, the detection of either binary symbol is obtained …

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In The Middle, Nicole Pugh Dec 2010

In The Middle, Nicole Pugh

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A woman just getting settled in New Orleans with her fiancé is uprooted by Hurricane Katrina. She spends the two months after the hurricane in various parts of Louisiana trying to pick up the pieces of her uprooted reality. Along the way, she encounters ordinary people who act as inspirations and is also reminded of her deceased Chinese grandmother, whom she was care-giver to before she died and whose stories about life in China and the US parallel the woman´s own life during the post-Katrina months of vulnerability and change.

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Resilience Characteristics Of Master's-Level Counseling Students, J. Raul Machuca Dec 2010

Resilience Characteristics Of Master's-Level Counseling Students, J. Raul Machuca

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Resilience characteristics typically have been studied among children and adolescents. A new line of research on resilience is focused on exploring the resilience characteristics of adults exposed to short and long-term adversity. In the present study, 585 master's-level counseling students responded to the Resilience Scale (Wagnild & Young, 1993). The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between counseling students' level of resilience and specific background variables (age, gender, marital status, ethnicity, education, income, employment, living situation, sexual orientation, and country of origin), counselor-education program variables (primary field of study, number of credits taken, academic status, professional affiliations, …

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Perceptions Of The Glass Ceiling Effect In Community Colleges, Cheryl Myers Dec 2010

Perceptions Of The Glass Ceiling Effect In Community Colleges, Cheryl Myers

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the existence of a glass ceiling effect within community colleges by examining faculty, staff and administrator's perceptions of a glass ceiling as it relates to the advancement of women at their institutions. This was done by using a cross-sectional survey administered electronically to faculty, staff and administrators in community colleges in the United States who were members of the American Association of Community Colleges. Four hundred fifty seven participants provided responses for the study. Results of ANOVA of perceptions of facilitators and barriers to advancement revealed there was a significant difference in …

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Sensation Seeking And A Real World Stressor: Endocrine And Physiological Effects, Amber Allison Dec 2010

Sensation Seeking And A Real World Stressor: Endocrine And Physiological Effects, Amber Allison

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

We attempted to identify the psychobiological mechanisms that mediate the process by which the sensation seeking trait culminates in behavior. We used the Sensation Seeking Scales to assess the SS trait in individuals who expressed a desire to skydive. We obtained measures of autonomic (heart rate) and endocrine (salivary cortisol) activity before, during and after skydiving. To distinguish the contribution of novelty, we compared novices (N=29) to experienced jumpers (N=15). All jumpers exhibited HPA-axis activation; novices exhibited a prolonged response and more extreme peak in cortisol compared to experienced jumpers, suggesting that novelty contributes to an intense pattern of stress …

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Assessing The Psychosocial Needs Of Individuals Diagnosed With Cancer, By Age And Sex On Interest In Support Group Attendance, Mary Rodrigue Dec 2010

Assessing The Psychosocial Needs Of Individuals Diagnosed With Cancer, By Age And Sex On Interest In Support Group Attendance, Mary Rodrigue

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

There are several psychosocial factors that can affect an individual diagnosed with cancer (Holland, 2003), and directly addressing these issues with patients is important for their overall care and quality of life (Holland, 1998). The practice of psycho-oncology has been designed to assess these psychosocial issues with patients and their caregivers by means of outlets such as support groups to facilitate a wellness model of care (Myers & Sweeney, 2008). Using the demographics of age and sex, I plan to analyze and identify what psychosocial needs are significant to individuals diagnosed with cancer, and compare the sex and age of …

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Prey Selection By Young Lemon Sharks (Negaprion Brevirostris) At Chandeleur Island Nursery Habitats With A Comparison To Three Other Co-Occurring Shark Species, Christopher Davis Dec 2010

Prey Selection By Young Lemon Sharks (Negaprion Brevirostris) At Chandeleur Island Nursery Habitats With A Comparison To Three Other Co-Occurring Shark Species, Christopher Davis

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Chandeleur Islands (Louisiana) contain nursery habitats for lemon sharks that provide abundant prey and protection from predation. Other local shark species (Atlantic sharpnose, bull, and blacktip sharks) co-occur with lemon sharks in the same region, including the nearby Biloxi Marshes. To better assess how lemon sharks use these nursery habitats, I measured diet and prey availability of young of the year and juvenile lemon sharks from 2009 to 2010. Young lemon sharks at the Chandeleur Islands have a relatively reduced diet breadth in comparison to those from nurseries in Bimini (Bahamas) and the Florida Keys. At the Chandeleur Islands, …

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Street Art: Its Display In Public Space And Issues Within A Municipality, Katherine Gunnell Dec 2010

Street Art: Its Display In Public Space And Issues Within A Municipality, Katherine Gunnell

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Hip Hop graffiti has been marking our urban landscapes for decades. However street art, a much less researched topic, has claimed notoriety in recent years. Much of the existing research groups hip-hop graffiti, gang graffiti and street art together and calls for a uniform response from communities, city officials and law enforcement. While street artists have made their mark in the urban landscapes of the United States as well as internationally, it is important to define the terms "street art"and "graffiti" and where they deviate from one another in order for cities to begin to address these expressions with any …

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Winter Commencement: December 17, 2010, University Of North Dakota Dec 2010

Winter Commencement: December 17, 2010, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Winter Commencement program from December 17, 2010.

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Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For The Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2010, Tennessee. Department Of Treasury. Dec 2010

Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For The Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 2010, Tennessee. Department Of Treasury.

TCRS Financial Reports

No abstract provided.

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Costs Of Treating Depression With Individual Versus Family Therapy, Sareta Dobbs Head Dec 2010

Costs Of Treating Depression With Individual Versus Family Therapy, Sareta Dobbs Head

Theses and Dissertations

Marital discord contributes to the development and continuation of depression and to the recurrence of depressive episodes for those in troubled relationships. Early research suggests that family therapy may reduce the severity and frequency of depressive episodes through modification of family interactional patterns. This would result in a reduction in the cost of treating depression. This study summarizes the literature linking family dynamics with depression. Then,using a sample taken from a large health maintenance organization, data was statistically analyzed to measure the effectiveness of both individual and family therapy as delivered by different types of mental health professionals. Results indicated …

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The Effects Of Using Clinical Support Tools To Prevent Treatment Failure, Tiffany K. Washington Dec 2010

The Effects Of Using Clinical Support Tools To Prevent Treatment Failure, Tiffany K. Washington

Theses and Dissertations

To date, outcome research suggests that providing clinicians with patient progress feedback and problem-solving tools is effective in improving therapeutic outcome for clients who are predicted to have a negative treatment outcome. To expand upon this body of research, the current study examined the efficacy of using these problem-solving tools (Clinical Support Tools; CST) to reduce the risk of treatment failure and enhance positive outcome with 118 clients who were not identified as at -risk for a negative outcome. Results of this study indicated that the intervention failed to lower the rate of becoming an at-risk case or to enhance …

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An Exploration Of The College-Educated Female Incarceration Experience, Tanisca Wilson Dec 2010

An Exploration Of The College-Educated Female Incarceration Experience, Tanisca Wilson

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

There has been a significant increase in the nation's female incarceration rate. During 2006, the number of women in prison increased by approximately 4.5 %. The increase of female prisoners from 2005 to 2006 was larger than the average growth rate of 2.9% from 2000 through 2005. Women ages 35 to 39 made up the largest percentage of female prisoners. At the end of 2006, females made up 7.2% of the prison population under State or Federal jurisdiction, up from 6.7% in 2000. Oklahoma had the highest female incarceration rate in the nation, approximately 129, 000 inmates; followed by Louisiana, …

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Do Prekindergarten Teachers Design Their Classrooms To Enhance Early Literacy?, Joann Lorusso Dec 2010

Do Prekindergarten Teachers Design Their Classrooms To Enhance Early Literacy?, Joann Lorusso

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Young children develop language and early literacy interactions that are the building blocks for future skilled reading. This study was designed to evaluate the early childhood classroom to determine teachers‟ knowledge of early literacy. Based on the Literacy Environment Checklist (LEC) of the Early Literacy and Language Classroom Observation (ELLCO) tool, the classrooms scored 100% proficiency in the Book Area and Book Selection categories. The results indicate the prekindergarten teachers knew how to design their classrooms to enhance early literacy. The classrooms scored 86% proficiency in the Writing Materials category, 73% proficiency in the Writing around the Room category, and …

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"Too Little To Live And Too Much To Die" The Burgenländers' Immigration To The United States During The Interwar Period , Philipp Strobl Dec 2010

"Too Little To Live And Too Much To Die" The Burgenländers' Immigration To The United States During The Interwar Period , Philipp Strobl

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This paper explores the history of a group of immigrants that came to the United States from the small rural Austrian region of the Burgenland between World War One and World War Two. By examining several biographical life stories of contemporaries it wants explain why the emigrants decided to leave their country, how they managed their passage, how they assimilated to their adopted‐home, and how they integrated themselves into the new society.

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