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Pharmacy-Level Quality Measures And The Consumer: Preferences And Attitudes, Zainab S. Shahpurwala

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Objectives. To determine the perceptions of consumers toward community pharmacy quality measures and compare their perceptions regarding their pharmacy's overall quality before and after exposure to these measures. To explore the use of evaluative criteria applied by consumers to determine their preference for information related to these measures. Methods. Focus groups were used to refine attributes and levels used in the quantitative phase of the study. An Internet-based survey was administered to a national, online, consumer panel of community pharmacy patrons using maintenance medications. Descriptive statistics, MANOVA and t-tests were used to determine and compare perceptions related to the community …

Best Practices For Disaster Coverage: An Analysis Of How The Herald Newspaper And Wlox-Tv Covered Hurricane Katrina, Nicole R. Sheriff

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A substantial amount of research has been done on Hurricane Katrina and its effects on New Orleans, Louisiana. However, few studies have focused on how the Mississippi Gulf Coast was affected by the hurricane. The purpose of this study is to bring attention to the reporting efforts of WLOX-TV and The Herald newspaper to cover Hurricane Katrina. This case study analyzes the practices WLOX and The Herald used to cover the hurricane and to explore which practices could be implemented in other newsrooms in the future. A total of four interviews were conducted with members from the newsrooms who had …

The Impact Of Pre-K Programs On Student Achievement And Instructional Leadership In Rural Mississippi School Districts, Jeremy Eugene Stinson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In 2011, Mississippi continues to be the only state in the southern region without a single state-funded pre-k program (NIEER, 2007), and all preschool funds in the state are currently allotted to Head Start. Witte and Trowbridge (2004) warned that the combination of pre-k programs could be the reason for highly fragmented systems of state funding, policies, and regulations. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate whether differences exist between preschool groups in three North Mississippi school districts and to determine the degree to which stakeholders in the programs practice instructional leadership. From a quantitative perspective, the …

Pharmacokinetic Evaluation Of A Novel Compound, Sn79, A Putative Sigma-2 Receptor Antagonist, By Intravenous And Oral Administration In Rats, Harsha Vinnakota

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Considering the alarming rates at which substance drug abuse, especially cocaine, is increasing in today's society, there is a lot of impetus on the development of medications that can effectively help alleviate its toxicity and addiction. The affinity of cocaine to sigma receptors (sigma-1 and sigma-2) rendered the hypothesis that blocking sigma receptors could be a possible mechanism to attenuate cocaine-induced toxicity and addiction. In this view, SN79, a synthetic compound with selectivity to both sigma-1 and sigma-2 receptors garnered our attraction for its use as an antagonist. This dissertation encompasses detailed investigation of SN79 from drug discovery and development …

The Strategic Value Driver Model: A Methodology For Examining Value Drivers For A New Pharmaceutical Product In Diabetes, Sumit Verma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Objective. Objective The primary objective of this study was to explore a new methodological framework—Strategic Value Driver Model (SVDM), for examining value drivers for new pharmaceutical inhaled insulin in diabetes. Methods. A cross-sectional, internet-based survey was used to collect a sample of 483 Type 2 diabetic patients via national panel of diabetic patients. The sample had two subgroups—insulin-naïve (52.9%, n=255) and insulin-user (47.1%, n=227) patients. The comparative performance of insulin syringes/vials, insulin pen and inhaled insulin was captured on four product attributes (i.e., safety, convenience, clinical efficacy and cost) after asking the patients to report the importance of these attributes. …

Reforming Tastes: Taste As A Print Aesthetic In American Cookery Writing, Sarah Wurgler Walden

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many eighteenth-century philosophers such as Kant and Hume worked to develop discourses of taste as a means of standardizing cultural behaviors. Using physical taste as a metaphor for aesthetic perception and judgment, these writers could both define and abstract group boundaries. As American writers worked to distinguish their nation from their British forebears, many recognized the utility of taste-based discourse and worked to develop cultural tastes around shared principles of egalitarianism and democracy. Cookbooks and domestic writing soon engaged these discourses, as it was the task of women to cultivate a virtuous citizenry, and—through domestic print culture—to demonstrate the deleterious …

Crashsmith Dope: The Role Of Media In The Development Of Professional Baseball In New York From 1919-1929, Ryan Mcgregor Whittington

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

John McGraw's New York Giants were the premier team of the Deadball Era, which stretched from 1900–1919. Led by McGraw and his ace pitcher, Christy Mathewson, the Giants epitomized the Deadball Era with their strong pitching and hard-nosed style of play. In 1919 however, The New York Times and The Sporting News chronicled a surge in the number of home runs that would continue through the 1920s until the entire sport embraced a new era of baseball. This thesis details the role played by these two newspapers in the rise of the Live Ball Era, the New York Yankees, and …

The Relationship Between Patterns Of Relating And Academic Self-Concept, Ji Woong Yang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between patterns of relating to both parents and academic self-concept. Also, this study examined the differences between academically high-achieving college students and academically at-risk college students in patterns of relating and academic self-concept. One hundred sixty one college students participated in this study. Of the 161 participants, 90 were recruited from an academic support program and 71 were recruited from an honors college. Participants completed a research packet including the Adult Scale of Parental Aattachment (Snow et al., 2007), Self Description Questionnaire III (Marsh, 1992), and the Demographic Questionnaire. Results …

Negotiating The People’S Capital Revisited, Samuel Estreicher

Faculty Articles

This is a revised, updated version of an article that appeared under the same title in 25 J. Lab. Res. 191 (2004). Editor's Note: What follows is the second part of an unofficial transcript of an off-the-record conversation among three of the labor movement's leading strategists. (The first installment appeared under the title Strategy for Labor, 22 J. LAB. RES. 569 (2001), and has been updated as Strategy for Labor Revisited, available at http://www.ssrn.com). This second meeting was also convened by C, or "cooperationist," who had been for more than ten years the president of a local union, part of …

Just The Facts: The Case For Workplace Transparency, Cynthia Estlund

Faculty Articles

In many areas of regulation, mandating disclosure of information about a firm’s products, services, production processes, or governance is said to improve the efficiency and rationality of market decisions, avoid fraud, and advance public regulatory goals, all without intruding significantly upon the autonomy of market actors. Yet the idea of regulating through information disclosure has made barely a cameo appearance in the field of labor and employment law. This Article begins to fill that void. Mandatory disclosure is no panacea; it may be an overused policy tool in many areas. But in the law of work, mandatory disclosure can play …

Heller's Gridlock Economy In Perspective: Why There Is Too Little, Not Too Much Private Property, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

This Article critiques Michael Heller's important contribution in The Gridlock Economy. At no point does this Article take the position that gridlock, or the associated anticommons, is not a serious issue in the design of a legal system. But gridlock is not the major source of social dislocation; nor is private ownership the major source of gridlock. More concretely, this Article examines the other important sources of economic distortion that are unrelated to economic gridlock from private action. These include the use of excessive government subsidies (as with health care); misguided government licenses (as with broadcast licenses); the unwise use …

Branded Versus Generic Competition? A Kind Word For The Branded Drugs, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

Transitions are times of danger in virtually all areas of human life. More accidents are likely to occur when cars go in and out of parking spaces, or when planes take off or land. More medical mishaps are likely to happen in hospitals when there is a change in shifts between nurses. The same pattern holds in the law of pharmaceutical patents, during the transition from a fully proprietary regime to one that allows for as many firms as possible to market a generic version of a once-protected pharmaceutical patent. To pass judgment on these issues, it is often necessary …

Lunch Program, Samuel Estreicher

Faculty Articles

The introduction of the lunch program given by the Honorable Wilma B. Liebman, Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, was preceeded by brief remarks by Professor David L. Gregory.

The Breakdown Of The Social Democratic State: Taking A Fresh Look At Waldron's Dignity, Rights, And Responsibilities, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

The British are of course not unique in their ability to use government power to create and enforce an unsustainable set of entitlements. The same story has played out in Greece, Spain, and Italy; not to mention the United States, where social democratic institutions have not been able to bring their expenditures and revenues in line. As this paper is being written, the United States funds about forty percent of its current expenditures through borrowing, a figure that is not touched by the recent resolution of the debt crisis. The United States has not retained its triple-A credit rating with …

State Courts And Constitutional Socio-Economic Rights: Exploring The Underutilization Thesis, Helen Hershkoff, Stephen Loffredo

Faculty Articles

The article focuses on the state constitutional socio-economic rights in the U.S. under the decisions of state courts. It analyzes the subnational underutilization thesis of state-constitutions related to protection of rights against the government and U.S. judicial enforcement of rights. It informs that the U.S. state courts use common law to develop remedial strategies for enforcement of the rights.

Shady Grove: Duck-Rabbits, Clear Statements, And Federalism, Helen Hershkoff

Faculty Articles

The article discusses the U.S. Supreme Court case Shady Grove Orthopedic Assocs., P.A. v. Allstate Ins. Co. regarding class-wide enforcement of penalty clauses. In this case, plaintiff filed suit in federal court for a recovery amount of damages in an insurance action. It examines how the district court resolved New York's ban on penalty class actions and highlights New York's provision for late settlement of insurance claims in the form of compensatory payment or a penalty.

Home, Home On The Web And Other Fourth Amendment Implications Of Technosocial Change, Katherine J. Strandburg

Faculty Articles

The rapidly changing social role of the Internet and other digital media requires a rethinking of the scope of Fourth Amendment protection. The social role of the Internet and related technologies goes far beyond serving as a new means of communication, analogous to the telephone and postal mail. To preserve Fourth Amendment protections in the face of changing technology, courts must focus not only on the potential for increasing intrusion into time-honored private realms, as the Supreme Court did in Kyllo, but also on the privacy implications of technology-mediated social change that were recognized in Katz. First, courts should recognize …

Patent Fair Use 2.0, Katherine J. Strandburg

Faculty Articles

It is time to update the idea of “patent fair use” to account for the evolution of technology and of inventive paradigms in the years since O’Rourke’s seminal proposal in 2000. A fair-use-type ex post approach to cabining patent exclusivity is even more attractive as a theoretical matter now than it was in 2000. In this article I propose and justify a set of “patent fair use 2.0” factors: 1) Is there a “justifiable” failure to purchase or license? 2) Did the infringer make a substantial improvement over the patentee’s invention and was there some reason for blocking patent failure? …

Libya, “Hostilities,” The Office Of Legal Counsel, And The Process Of Executive Branch Legal Interpretation, Trevor W. Morrison

Faculty Articles

The Obama Administration has faced severe criticism for its conclusion that U.S. involvement in the Libya military campaign does not constitute “hostilities” for purposes of the War Powers Resolution (WPR). Under the WPR, the U.S. military may not remain engaged in “hostilities” for more than sixty days without congressional authorization. The Libya operation appeared to cross that point on May 20, but Congress has not provided authorization. The Administration’s theory, which it has now robustly defended in congressional testimony, is that the operation complies with the WPR because the U.S. military’s involvement has remained below the “hostilities” level since early …

The Return Of The State, José E. Alvarez

Faculty Articles

International lawyers are both indebted to and at war with the state. Although we acknowledge, as we must, that states remain the primary actors in creating, interpreting, and enforcing international rules, we usually make this point in passing-as we try to puncture, evade, eclipse or overtake sovereignty. As Martti Koskenniemi's apology/utopia dialectic demonstrates, much of what we do attempts to reconcile the un-reconcilable.' This is epitomized by our efforts to portray pacta sunt servanda as a bridge between unilateralism and multilateralism. We explain that states do not relinquish, but rather, exercise their sovereignty when they enter into a treaty.

Beyond The Courtroom: The Impact Of Judicial Activism On Socioeconomic Rights In Latin America, César Rodríguez-Garavito

Faculty Articles

Throughout the entire day, Luis Alfonso Hoyos, the director of the agency in charge of attending to the approximately five million internally displaced persons (IDPs) by Colombia’s armed conflict, was on the stand publicly testifying about what the government had done and failed to do for the displaced population. While Hoyos fired off statistics and PowerPoint slides in response to questions posed by the court and the nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in attendance, from inside the courtroom we could hear the shouts of displaced persons in the contiguous Bolívar Plaza protesting the lack of state attention to their cause. The path …

Conflicts Of Interest In Clinical Practice Guidelines, Lisa Cosgrove, Allen F. Shaughnessy

Counseling, School Psychology & Sport Faculty Publication Series

Clinical practice guidelines are used increasingly across medical specialties and settings, making evaluation of their utility and validity a critical public health issue. In this paper, we describe some of the challenges that specialty organizations face as they try to ensure that their guidelines are trustworthy and useful. We examine the practice guidelines for Major Depressive Disorder recently published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), identify five sources of potential bias that may affect the guideline development process and offer suggestions based on our review. For example, even for mild depression, this guideline privileges pharmacotherapy over other interventions, despite questions …

Using Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory To Understand Community Partnerships: An Historical Case Study Of One Urban High School, Jack Leonard

Leadership in Education Faculty Publication Series

While the value of school-community partnerships is unquestioned, we do not understand sufficiently the reasons for success and failure. This mixed-methods case study examines 60 years of partnering at one urban high school using Bronfenbrenner‟s ecological systems theory to better understand the effect on student development as measured by variables such as graduation, attendance and dropout rates, Successful partners achieved “cultural cohesion” by building collaborative relationships that encircled students, while failed partnerships ignored ecological theory. In contrast to conventional reform strategies that focus on curriculum and/or school structure, the author offers a cultural reform strategy that emphasizes relationships.

Mentoring As A Professional Development Tool In Preparing The Next Generation Of Leaders In The North Carolina Community College System, Manuel C. Dudley

Dissertations

The North Carolina community college is approaching 50 years of existence in 2013. It is a community college system that is respected both nationally and internationally. The economic downturn of the United States has created a period of record enrollment in the community college, as individuals seek upgrades in training, work skills, and educational attainment. This period of record enrollment is not without challenges. Budgetary constraints, a consumer demand for easier access to classes through online and distance learning, and an increase in the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the student population has created a proverbial perfect storm. Many …

Data Note: State Intellectual And Developmental Disability Agencies' Service Trends, Jean E. Winsor, Frank A. Smith

Data Note Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

Since Fiscal Year 1988, the Institute for Community Inclusion has administered the National Survey of Day and Employment Programs for People with Developmental Disabilities to state Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Agencies. The work is funded by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities and is designed to describe the nature of day and employment services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Signal Extraction From The Components Of The Philippine National Accounts Statistics Using Arima Model-Based Methodology, Cesar C. Rufino

Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)

The state-of-the-art in signal extraction gradually evolved from the use of mechanical form of moving average filters to the present sophisticated model-based techniques capable of performing automatic modeling and signal extraction involving hundreds or even thousands of time series in one production run. The leading edge of technology is being shared by two ARIMA model-based systems – ARIMA X12 of the US Bureau of Census and the twin programs TRAMO-SEATS developed at the Bank of Spain. These specialized expert systems have been adopted by most statistical agencies of advanced OECD countries and the European community. The Philippines on the other …

Limiting Family Size Through The Sufficient Provision Of Basic Necessities And Social Services: The Case Of Pasay, Eastern Samar, And Agusan Del Sur, John Paolo R. Rivera, Kurt Gerrard T. See

Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)

The socio-economic quandaries of rapid population growth and poverty have always been coupled. It is evident that the poorest households are those who have larger family size. Consequently, these households have to support more people with fewer resources, making the family live a life of inherited poverty. With this, the state has been on the pursuit of looking for solutions such as the Reproductive Heath (RH) Bill to address rapid population growth and eventually poverty. However, the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) condemns the RH Bill because it is contradictory to Catholic principles. For this reason, we will explore other possibilities …

Summary Report: Workshop On International Environmental Governance: Grounding Policy Reform In Rigorous Analysis, Center For Governance And Sustainability At Umass Boston

Center for Governance and Sustainability Publications

From June 27 to 28, 2011, the Federal Office for the Environment of Switzerland, the Global Environmental Governance Project of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and the World Trade Institute at the University of Bern hosted a workshop on International Environmental Governance: Grounding Policy Reform in Rigorous Analysis. The workshop started a dialogue between academics and researchers on one hand and policymakers on the other in order to provide analytical input to the political negotiations on institutional reform in the run-up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012.

The workshop focused …

‘The Mystic Drum’: Critical Commentary On Gabriel Okara’S Love Lyrics, Chukwuma Azuonye

Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series

Structurally, Okara’s love lyric, “The Mystic Drum,” evinces a tripartite ritual pattern of initiation from innocence through intimacy to experience. By comparison to the way of Zen as manifested in the experience of Zen Master, Ch’ing Yuän Wei-hsin, this pattern resolves itself into an emotional and epistemological journey from conventional knowledge (born of innocence) through more intimate knowledge (born of closer apperception of reality) to substantial knowledge (born of experience). The substantial knowledge born of experience empowers the lover to understand that beneath the surface attractiveness of what we know very well (such as the women we love) may lie …

Finding The Right Fit: How Alternative Staffing Affects Worker Outcomes, Françoise Carré, Brandynn Holgate, Helen Levine

Center for Social Policy Publications

This report reviews our findings from two and one-half years of monitoring and evaluating the activities of four alternative staffing organizations (ASOs). ASOs are worker-centered, socialpurpose businesses created by community-based organizations and national nonprofits. These fee-for-service organizations use the model of temporary staffing services to help job seekers who face labor market barriers access work experience and potential employers. They place job seekers in temporary and “temp-to-perm” assignments with customer businesses, charging their customers a wage-based markup fee. This field of practice first emerged in the 1970s and grew rapidly in the 1990s; it now includes over 50 ASOs. Alternative …