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Perceptions Of Body Image: A Study Of College Women In Sororities And Not In Sororities, Amy L. Piekarski Jan 2011

Perceptions Of Body Image: A Study Of College Women In Sororities And Not In Sororities, Amy L. Piekarski

Masters Theses

College students, especially women, experience several extreme changes during their undergraduate years. These changes occur in areas of physical development, mental capacity, personality expression, and interpersonal relationship development. With these women leaving home and trying to find their place and fit in at their new institution, they seek out various groups of people and organizations to join. One group or organization that many college women engage in is sorority membership. To date, minimal research has been conducted to investigate whether membership in a sorority has a negative or positive effect on their self images. The purpose of the present study …

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The Impact Of Remedial Coursework On Transfer Student Success, Cathy Lee Feely Jan 2011

The Impact Of Remedial Coursework On Transfer Student Success, Cathy Lee Feely

Masters Theses

This study focuses on the academic achievement and retention of community college transfer students. The research looks at how non-transferrable coursework effects transfer students' academic success based on grade point average. Gender, ethnicity, and type of community college attended are factors all considered in the study. The sample of students being studied are all undergraduate students a Midwestern four year comprehensive university that transferred from an Illinois community college. The research indicates that students who have completed non-transferrable courses at the community college have greater academic success based on grade point average at the university than those without non-transferrable courses. …

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Moving Through Autonomy Toward Interdependence: The Relationship Between Chickering And Reisser's Third Vector And Stephen Covey's Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People, Christopher M. Pahl Jan 2011

Moving Through Autonomy Toward Interdependence: The Relationship Between Chickering And Reisser's Third Vector And Stephen Covey's Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People, Christopher M. Pahl

Masters Theses

This study assessed college student levels of autonomy as measured by The Iowa Developing Autonomy Inventory (Hood & Jackson, 1986), and their perception of their mastery of the seven habits of highly effective people as measured by the Covey Seven Habits Self Profile (Covey, ND) . The Iowa inventory consists of six subscales consisting of 15 items each; mobility, time management, money management, interdependence, emotional independence - Peers and emotional independence - Parents. The Seven Habits profile consists of nine three-item categories; emotional bank account, life balance, be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think …

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Evaluation Of College Counseling Websites Regarding Suicide Prevention/Depression Referral Services, Heather L. Zike Jan 2011

Evaluation Of College Counseling Websites Regarding Suicide Prevention/Depression Referral Services, Heather L. Zike

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to (1) determine if the 12 public colleges and universities within the state of Illinois contained information on their counseling websites in regards to topics of depression and suicide (2) examine if the websites contained self-evaluations for depression (3) determine if the website contains external links that are highly regarded informative links for depression and suicide among college students, (4) information for faculty/ staff to make referrals, and (5) information for family and loved ones to make referrals.

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The Obama Education Files: Is There Hope To Stop The Neoliberal Agenda In Education?, Paul R. Carr, Brad Porfilio Jan 2011

The Obama Education Files: Is There Hope To Stop The Neoliberal Agenda In Education?, Paul R. Carr, Brad Porfilio

Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education

The contributors to this special issue of The Journal of Inquiry and Action provide insight into why the Obama administration’s educational policies manifest the dominance of neoliberal ideology over most elements of social life. The articles presented herein build on the work originally presented in The Phenomenon of Obama and the agenda for Education: Can hope audaciously trump neoliberalism? (Carr & Porfilio, 2011).

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Explaining Obama: The Continuation Of Free Market Politics In Education And The Economy, David Hursh Jan 2011

Explaining Obama: The Continuation Of Free Market Politics In Education And The Economy, David Hursh

Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education

The contributors to this special issue of The Journal of Inquiry and Action provide insight into why the Obama administration’s educational policies manifest the dominance of neoliberal ideology over most elements of social life. The articles presented herein build on the work originally presented in The Phenomenon of Obama and the agenda for Education: Can hope audaciously trump neoliberalism? (Carr & Porfilio, 2011).

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Orwellian Educational Change Under Obama: Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, And Accountability Failures, Paul Thomas Jan 2011

Orwellian Educational Change Under Obama: Crisis Discourse, Utopian Expectations, And Accountability Failures, Paul Thomas

Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education

The contributors to this special issue of The Journal of Inquiry and Action provide insight into why the Obama administration’s educational policies manifest the dominance of neoliberal ideology over most elements of social life. The articles presented herein build on the work originally presented in The Phenomenon of Obama and the agenda for Education: Can hope audaciously trump neoliberalism? (Carr & Porfilio, 2011).

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Motivations And Deterrents For Entering The Teaching Field In A Rural State, Dale Peitrzak, Jeri Engelking, Kristine M. Reed Ph.D., Susan Gapp, Sherrie Bosse Jan 2011

Motivations And Deterrents For Entering The Teaching Field In A Rural State, Dale Peitrzak, Jeri Engelking, Kristine M. Reed Ph.D., Susan Gapp, Sherrie Bosse

Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education

This article reports findings from a study of the motivations of college students to choose or not choose a career as a K-12 teacher. Five hundred-seventeen college students majoring in education and non-education programs enrolled in undergraduate courses were surveyed as to their motivations for choosing/not choosing a career in K-12. If they chose teaching as a career, they were also asked what might motivate others to enter the teaching profession or if they chose a non-teaching career, they were asked what things that if changed might increase their interest in becoming a teacher. Those choosing teaching as a career …

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Eighth Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (Poster), William & Mary Law School, Tsinghua University Jan 2011

Eighth Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (Poster), William & Mary Law School, Tsinghua University

2011 Property Conference

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Β3-Adrenergic Agonists Mimic Eustress Response And Reduce Leptin-Mediated Proliferation In A Gbm Cell Line , Johnathan Lawrence, Nicholas J. Cook, Richard A. Rovin, Robert J. Winn Jan 2011

Β3-Adrenergic Agonists Mimic Eustress Response And Reduce Leptin-Mediated Proliferation In A Gbm Cell Line , Johnathan Lawrence, Nicholas J. Cook, Richard A. Rovin, Robert J. Winn

Journal Articles

A great deal of mental stress, depression, and anxiety often overwhelm cancer patients; those diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) are no exception. Different types of stress invariably impact what has been termed “the brain-adipocyte BDNF/leptin axis” (Dr. Cao and colleagues of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at The Ohio State University). For example, eustress (good stress) and distress (bad stress) both lead to increased sympathetic activity and adrenal gland stimulation, yet eustress reduces leptin levels and attenuates tumor growth while distress increases leptin levels and augments tumor growth. Complicating matters in GBM is that leptin and its receptor are expressed at …

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Glioblastoma Derived Exosomes Contribute To Tumor Immune Evasion , Keith Z. Sabin, Danny Lebert, Vanessa Thibado, Richard A. Rovin, Johnathan Lawrence, Robert J. Winn Jan 2011

Glioblastoma Derived Exosomes Contribute To Tumor Immune Evasion , Keith Z. Sabin, Danny Lebert, Vanessa Thibado, Richard A. Rovin, Johnathan Lawrence, Robert J. Winn

Journal Articles

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most frequent and lethal primary brain tumor in adults. Despite intense biomedical research, the median survival after diagnosis is 15 months. One factor contributing to this poor prognosis is the immune protection afforded by the tumor microenvironment. Tumors have a diverse repertoire of immune-evasive techniques. One method of evasion not well explored is the release of tumor-derived exosomes. Exosomes are tiny membrane-bound vesicles of endocytic origin that contain viable mRNA and functional proteins that can affect the physiology of recipient cells. Exosome release has been reported for numerous cancer types, including GBM. Exosomes from colon …

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Implications Of Bias In Conservation Research And Investment For Freshwater Species , William Darwall, R Holland, K Smith, D Allen, E Brooks, V Katarya, C Pollock, Y Shi, Viola Clausnitzer, Neil Cumberlidge, A Cuttelod, K D. Dijkstra, M Diop, N Garcia, M Seddon, P Skelton, J Snoeks, D Tweddle, Jc Vie Jan 2011

Implications Of Bias In Conservation Research And Investment For Freshwater Species , William Darwall, R Holland, K Smith, D Allen, E Brooks, V Katarya, C Pollock, Y Shi, Viola Clausnitzer, Neil Cumberlidge, A Cuttelod, K D. Dijkstra, M Diop, N Garcia, M Seddon, P Skelton, J Snoeks, D Tweddle, Jc Vie

Journal Articles

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Course Schedule Spring 2011, William & Mary Law School Jan 2011

Course Schedule Spring 2011, William & Mary Law School

Course Information

No abstract provided.

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Image Editing Style-Based Authorship Authentication, Chengcui Zhang, Wei-Bang Chen, Liping Zhou Jan 2011

Image Editing Style-Based Authorship Authentication, Chengcui Zhang, Wei-Bang Chen, Liping Zhou

College of Arts & Sciences Professional Work

This paper aims to provide an authorship identification framework that can provide added clues to online auction user profiling systems, the primary purpose of which is early detection and prevention of fraudulent behaviors such as account taken-over. This framework authenticates the authorship of product listing pictures in terms of their image editing styles, and it achieves this goal in three steps: (1) editing style distinction: using a Hough transform based edge clustering algorithm to differentiate between image editing styles created by the same seller, (2) editing style summarization: analyzing and encoding each distinctive image editing style into a template based …

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Not Wythe Standing: The News (Vol. 2, Issue 4) Jan 2011

Not Wythe Standing: The News (Vol. 2, Issue 4)

Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...)

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Reading, Writing, And Interrogating: Providing Miranda Warnings To Students In Schoolhouse Interrogations, Stephanie Gaylord Forbes Jan 2011

Reading, Writing, And Interrogating: Providing Miranda Warnings To Students In Schoolhouse Interrogations, Stephanie Gaylord Forbes

Student Award Winning Papers

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Rethinking Oil Spill Compensation Schemes: The Causation Inquiry, Amy D. Paul Jan 2011

Rethinking Oil Spill Compensation Schemes: The Causation Inquiry, Amy D. Paul

Student Award Winning Papers

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Analyses Of Fruit Flies That Do Not Express Selenoproteins Or Express The Mouse Selenoprotein, Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase B1, Reveal A Role Of Selenoproteins In Stress Resistance, Valentina A. Shchedrina, Hadise Kabil, Gerd Vorbruggen, Byung Cheon Lee, Anton A. Turanov, Mitsuko Hirosawa- Takamori, Hwa- Young Kim, Lawrence G. Harshman, Dolph L. Hatfield, Vadim N. Gladyshev Jan 2011

Analyses Of Fruit Flies That Do Not Express Selenoproteins Or Express The Mouse Selenoprotein, Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase B1, Reveal A Role Of Selenoproteins In Stress Resistance, Valentina A. Shchedrina, Hadise Kabil, Gerd Vorbruggen, Byung Cheon Lee, Anton A. Turanov, Mitsuko Hirosawa- Takamori, Hwa- Young Kim, Lawrence G. Harshman, Dolph L. Hatfield, Vadim N. Gladyshev

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Selenoproteins are essential in vertebrates because of their crucial role in cellular redox homeostasis, but some invertebrates that lack selenoproteins have recently been identified. Genetic disruption of selenoprotein biosynthesis had no effect on lifespan and oxidative stress resistance of Drosophila melanogaster. In the current study, fruit flies with knock-out of the selenocysteine-specific elongation factor were metabolically labeled with 75Se; they did not incorporate selenium into proteins and had the same lifespan on a chemically defined diet with or without selenium supplementation. These flies were, however, more susceptible to starvation than controls, and this effect could be ascribed to the …

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Ruti Teitel Responds To Shana Tabak, Ruti G. Teitel Jan 2011

Ruti Teitel Responds To Shana Tabak, Ruti G. Teitel

Other Publications

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Ilr Masthead Volume 34 Jan 2011

Ilr Masthead Volume 34

ILR Past Mastheads

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A Class Of Gaussian Processes With Fractional Spectral Measures, Daniel Alpay, Palle Jorgensen, David Levanony Jan 2011

A Class Of Gaussian Processes With Fractional Spectral Measures, Daniel Alpay, Palle Jorgensen, David Levanony

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

We study a family of stationary increment Gaussian processes, indexed by time. These processes are determined by certain measures σ (generalized spectral measures), and our focus here is on the case when the measure σ is a singular measure. We characterize the processes arising from when σ is in one of the classes of affine self-similar measures. Our analysis makes use of Kondratiev-white noise spaces. With the use of a priori estimates and the Wick calculus, we extend and sharpen (see Theorem 7.1) earlier computations of Ito stochastic integration developed for the special case of stationary increment processes having absolutely …

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A Quantitative Study Of The Relationship Between Faith Formation Opportunities And The Religiosity Of Lay Educators In Catholic Secondary Schools, Douglas R. Evans Jan 2011

A Quantitative Study Of The Relationship Between Faith Formation Opportunities And The Religiosity Of Lay Educators In Catholic Secondary Schools, Douglas R. Evans

Doctoral Dissertations

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Ethical Dilemmas : Pressures On Leaders To Walk The Talk, Marion C. Moreno Jan 2011

Ethical Dilemmas : Pressures On Leaders To Walk The Talk, Marion C. Moreno

Doctoral Dissertations

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Quaternionic Hermitian Spinor Systems And Compatibility Conditions, Alberto Damiano, David Eelbode, Irene Sabadini Jan 2011

Quaternionic Hermitian Spinor Systems And Compatibility Conditions, Alberto Damiano, David Eelbode, Irene Sabadini

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

In this paper we show that the systems introduced in [12] and [22] are equivalent, both giving the notion of quaternionic Hermitian monogenic functions. This makes it possible to prove that the free resolution associated to the system is linear in any dimension, and that the first cohomology module is nontrivial, thus generalizing the results in [22]. Furthermore, exploiting the decomposition of the spinor space into sp(m)-irreducibles, we find a certain number of "algebraic" compatibility conditions for the system, suggesting that the usual spinor reduction is not applicable.

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The Constructionist Analytics Of Interpretive Practice, James A. Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium Jan 2011

The Constructionist Analytics Of Interpretive Practice, James A. Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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Doing Re-Entry: Accounts Of Post-Prison Release In Finland And The United States, Richard S. Jones, Ikponwosa O. Ekunwe Jan 2011

Doing Re-Entry: Accounts Of Post-Prison Release In Finland And The United States, Richard S. Jones, Ikponwosa O. Ekunwe

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

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Asbestos Cancers, Kongkiat Kulkantrakorn Jan 2011

Asbestos Cancers, Kongkiat Kulkantrakorn

Asian Medical Journal and Alternative Medicine

No abstract provided.

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Letters To The Editor, Saroj Vanapruks Jan 2011

Letters To The Editor, Saroj Vanapruks

Asian Medical Journal and Alternative Medicine

No abstract provided.

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Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty And Repurchase: Some Evidence From Apparel Consumers, Tamilla Curtis, Russell Abratt, Paul Dion, Dawna L. Rhoades Jan 2011

Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty And Repurchase: Some Evidence From Apparel Consumers, Tamilla Curtis, Russell Abratt, Paul Dion, Dawna L. Rhoades

Management, Marketing and Operations - Daytona Beach

While customer satisfaction, loyalty and repurchase intent are some of the most researched areas in marketing and consumer behavior, there is little certainty on the direction and strength of these relationships. After completing a literature review, this study develops a model of loyalty dimensions, satisfaction and repurchase intent. A sample of 499 respondents who had purchased jeans was interviewed in the Southeastern United States. Results were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. The results of nine hypothesized relationships are discussed. A significant positive relationship exists between commitment and repurchase/repurchase intent. Some surprising findings also emerged as the model was modified. It …

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The Granite, 2011, University Of New Hampshire Jan 2011

The Granite, 2011, University Of New Hampshire

The Granite – Yearbook

The yearbook of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 1909-1922, the University of New Hampshire, 1923-

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