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Impact Of A Conflict Resolution/Peer Mediation Program On Middle School Students, Robert W. Carrillo

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This applied dissertation was designed to provide current information and research regarding a yearlong conflict resolution peer mediation program offered as a separate course in a middle school. Discipline and safety are major concerns due to the recent incidents of violence, aggression, bullying and even suicides infiltrating our schools. The need for peaceful methods of resolving conflict has become a necessity in order to keep our children safe. This study looked at the coercive nature that schools use to maintain discipline and how students can empower themselves by learning how to resolve conflicts peacefully and without the need of adult …

An Ethnographic Case Study Of Elementary Principal Leadership Strategies And The No Child Left Behind Act, Cassandra J. Poole

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Leadership is regarded as the key to comprehensive school improvement efforts and the principal is expected to lead the charge/change. Book knowledge is good, but the difference between effective and less effective principals is not what they know but what they actually do. What do principals do to meet AYP? Young (2004) pointed out that some principals recognize they can gain the edge and survive by learning from other effective practitioners. NCLB and AYP demand change to meet the mandates that will bring about improvement in student achievement. NCLB has changed the educational landscape. Numerous articles and literature exists on …

Effects Of A Counselor-Led Intervention On Student Attendance, Mary Harris Watlington

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This applied dissertation investigated the impact of a counselor-led intervention on student attendance. The intervention used in this study applied the guidance-curriculum component from the Gysbers and Henderson (2006) comprehensive guidance and counseling model, which was designed to help students develop and learn the academic, personal, and social skills needed to be successful in kindergarten through Grade 12 and postsecondary education. The 9-week counselor-led intervention was intense and incorporated small-group and large-group sessions, along with individual counseling sessions, which required participants to interact with peers and work in teams.

To evaluate the impact of the counselor-led intervention program, a quasi-experimental …

Pleading As Information-Forcing, Alexander Reinert

Articles

Academics, judges, and practitioners have devoted much attention to the potential impact of the federal pleading standards announced in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009), and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007). Many have criticized Iqbal and Twombly on procedural, substantive, and policy grounds. And although most everyone agrees that the cases mark a break with past liberal pleading rules and have changed pleading practice, there is little agreement about precisely how the cases have affected ultimate outcomes. Indeed, there is much confusion about what exactly the new rules require of a pleader.

In this Article, …

Just Like You: A Series Of Educational Guided Imagery Prep And Activity Books, Nicole Dziamba

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This paper and handbook were written and produced to teach child life specialists how to develop a one-person child life program in a hospital setting.

Public-Private Approaches To Mass Tort Victim Compensation: Some Thoughts On The Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Myriam E. Gilles

Articles

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The New York Domestic Workers' Bill Of Rights: Justice At The Door, Talle D. Gilmore

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Part I of this comment will begin with an overview of the intersection between domestic work and involuntary domestic servitude to show how the lack of protection for domestic workers can lead to exploitation and domestic servitude. Part II will compare the claims of domestic workers, employers, and civil society in terms of the costs and benefits of enacting protective domestic worker legislation. Part III will set out the legal distinction between domestic workers and domestic servitude by providing an overview of the federal and New York State sources of labor protections and how they have historically excluded domestic workers. …

Sacred Heart University Fact Sheet - 2012, Sacred Heart University

News, Magazines and Reports

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Post-Adoption Services For Children With Special Needs In North Dakota, Miranda Confer

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Sexual Orientation-Based Hate Crimes : Examining The Importance Of Mortality Salience And Egalitarian Norms, Danielle L. Beyer

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Fractured Literature, 21st-Century Consciousness, And Postmodern Exhaustion In The Novel, Joshua Brorby

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Genocide In Rwanda : Recurrence Risk Model Using Two Early Warning Models, Clarinda Rae Solberg

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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French Women As Agents Of Imperialism, Brooke Biederstedt

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Effects Of Light And Dark Situations On Driving, Darren Radke

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Effects Of Ysce And Yscl On Yops Secretion In The Type Iii Secretion System Of Yersinia Pestis, Michael Harsche

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Does A Ketogenic Diet Infer Neuroprotection In A Rat Model Of Neurotrauma, Ryan Lange

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Effect Of Low Dose Cadmium Treatment On Neurogenesis In Zebrafish, Danio Rerio, Emerlee Andersen

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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The Effects Of Level Of Violence And Defendant's Diagnosis Of Schizophrenia On Potential Jurors' Perceptions Of A Crime, Sarah A.M Scholler

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Youth Mentoring Program : Guiding New American Students To Success, Beatrice Jane Hill

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Community-Engaged Student Research: Online Resources, Real World Impact, Catherine Bates, Kenneth Burns

Staff Articles and Research Papers

This paper offers case studies from two Irish Higher Education Institutions on the benefits and challenges of using on-line databases and application processes to recruit students to community-engaged research projects. We briefly introduce the principles of Community-Based Research (CBR), showing how this pedagogy allows students to collaborate with underserved community partners and not-for-profit organisations on real-life research projects, preparing them for the workplace, and enhancing their college experience. Staff in University College Cork (UCC) and Technological University City (DIT) use digital resources to offer students the opportunity to browse live research topics, suggested to us by communities, on our websites, …

Tennessee Farm Bureau News - January 2012, Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

Tennessee Farm Bureau News

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Racial Inclusion, Exclusion And Segregation In Constitutional Law, Michelle Adams

Articles

In Part I of the Article, I examine early cases in which the Court described segregation as a form of resource "lock-up." In several cases leading up to Brown, the Court detailed how racial segregation allows a more dominant group to hoard substantial societal resources. In these early cases, the Court's focus was on segregation as a mechanism for excluding individuals from valuable benefits on the basis of race; it did not speak explicitly to the harms associated with racial classification schemes. In this Part of the Article, I also return to Brown v. Board of Education and explore the …

System Of Systems Perspective On Risk: Towards A Unified Concept, C. Ariel Pinto, Michael K. Mcshane, Ipek Bozkurt

Finance Faculty Publications

Many systems and projects that concern systems engineers, engineering managers, and business managers today can be defined as system of systems (SoS), which are described as ambiguous, uncertain and dynamic, among others. In addition to the traditional view on risk identification, analysis and management, the concept of risk should be considered with respect to these systems of systems. The purpose of this paper is to analyse both fundamental concepts and recent publications in system of systems, business and engineering management, as well as risk analysis, modelling, and management for the purpose of better describing the concept of risk with respect …

Multi-Contrast Photoacoustic Microscopy, Junjie Yao

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Photoacoustic microscopy is a hybrid imaging modality with high spatial resolution, moderate imaging depth, excellent imaging contrast and functional imaging capability. Taking full advantage of this powerful weapon, we have investigated different anatomical, functional, flow dynamic and metabolic parameter measurements using photoacoustic microscopy. Specifically, Evans-blue dye was used to enhance photoacoustic microscopy of capillaries; label-free transverse and axial blood flow was measured based on bandwidth broadening and time shift of the photoacoustic signals; metabolic rate of oxygen was quantified in vivo from all the five parameters measured by photoacoustic microcopy; whole cross-sectional imaging of small intestine was achieved on a …

Effects Of Hypoxia Exposure On Hepatic Cytochrome P450 1a (Cyp1a) Expression In Atlantic Croaker: Molecular Mechanisms Of Cyp1a Down-Regulation, Md. Saydur Rahman, Peter Thomas

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

Hypoxia-inducible factor-α (HIF-α) and cytochrome P450 1A (CYP1A) are biomarkers of environmental exposure to hypoxia and organic xenobiotic chemicals that act through the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, respectively. Many aquatic environments heavily contaminated with organic chemicals, such as harbors, are also hypoxic. Recently, we and other scientists reported HIF-α genes are upregulated by hypoxia exposure in aquatic organisms, but the molecular mechanisms of hypoxia regulation of CYP1A expression have not been investigated in teleost fishes. As a first step in understanding the molecular mechanisms of hypoxia modulation of CYP1A expression in fish, we characterized CYP1A cDNA from croaker liver. Hypoxia exposure …

Obstacles To Bariatric Surgery Provision In Adolescents In England & Scotland, Kristel Carrington

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Obesity is an epidemic of global proportions and contributes significantly to the burden of chronic disease and disability. Bariatric surgery is the only effective treatment for morbid obesity. Patients not only lose weight but see vast improvement in obesity related comorbidities. Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. England, Scotland and the US have some of the highest rates of childhood obesity, with increasing rates of obesity related comborbidities seen in this population. In adolescents, bariatric surgery has been shown to be safe and effective. England and Scotland have significantly lower rates …

The Rate Of Placenta Accreta And Previous Exposure To Uterine Surgery, Anne Colleen Cooper

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Placenta accreta is a disorder of abnormal placentation that causes significant maternal morbidity and mortality, and whose incidence is rising in the United States. Accreta is thought to be linked closely to endometrial disruption introduced by exposure to uterine surgery; its connection to cesarean delivery is well-established, however, there is a poorer understanding of the contribution made by other forms of uterine surgery, and by relatively subjective indications for which women with placenta accreta may have initially received a cesarean delivery. The aims of the study were to quantify the rate of placenta accreta at YNHH, the rate of exposure …

Family Child Care Providers As Health Educators & Advocates: Perspectives Of Parents, Health Care Providers And Community Service Providers, Lauren Kathleen Graber

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Family child care providers, who are trusted by parents and disproportionately serve families in poverty, may be in an ideal position to provide health education for vulnerable families. Prior research found that family child care providers perceive that they act as health educators and advisors for families. The perception of this role by others who are also invested in a family's health remains unclear. We hypothesized that parents receive health information from a myriad of sources but that their relationship to their children's family child care providers elevates the importance, relevance, and desire to adhere to the health information parents …

Online Communities Driving Guideline Adoption In National Health Care Initiatives: An Examination Of The Door-To-Balloon Alliance Online Community, Alexander Nazem

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Research suggests that health care organizations struggle to implement evidence-based guidelines. In the wake of this observation, national quality improvement initiatives have increasingly sponsored online communities (OCs) in which organizations and professionals can seek guidance from their peers on the many challenges that accompany the shifts in practice caused by guideline adoption.

In this paper, I examine the effect of participation in an OC on hospitals' implementation of evidence-based guidelines. I hypothesize that hospitals whose staff utilize OCs are more successful at achieving guideline implementation, leading ultimately to greater clinical outcome improvement. This hypothesis was tested using data from the …

Actigraphy Sleep Patterns: Relationships To Body Mass Index And Physical Activity In Minority Children, Kathryn Wynne

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Previous research suggests that short sleep duration and later bedtimes are associated with higher body mass index (BMI) and lower physical activity levels in children. We sought to determine if objective measurements of sleep duration and timing were correlated with BMI percentile and/or physical activity measures in low-income, minority children. Data were collected from 104 8- to 10-year-old children (58% female; 88.5% Latino or African-American; 51.9% overweight or obese) who were instructed to wear an accelerometer at their waists for 1 week. Data were manually analyzed to determine average sleep-onset (i.e. bedtime), sleep-offset (i.e. wake time), sleep duration, and minutes …