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Regarding Women’S Advancement In Public Accounting And Business, Adapted From Research On Women’S Advancement In Accounting: Chronology Of Key Research Findings, Louise E. Single Jan 2012

Regarding Women’S Advancement In Public Accounting And Business, Adapted From Research On Women’S Advancement In Accounting: Chronology Of Key Research Findings, Louise E. Single

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Cpa’S Guide To Investment Advisory Business Models: Have You Crossed The Line When Providing Investment Advice?, Dinsmore & Shohl Jan 2012

Cpa’S Guide To Investment Advisory Business Models: Have You Crossed The Line When Providing Investment Advice?, Dinsmore & Shohl

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


An Investigation Of Mechanics Of Collagen And Fibril In Bone And Interactions In Swelling Clays: A Molecular And Multiscale Modeling Study, Shashindra Man Pradhan Jan 2012

An Investigation Of Mechanics Of Collagen And Fibril In Bone And Interactions In Swelling Clays: A Molecular And Multiscale Modeling Study, Shashindra Man Pradhan

Engineering

A fundamental study of the mechanics at the molecular scale and bridging it to the continuum level through multiscale modeling is the focus of this work. This work investigates how the material properties of nanoscale systems are influenced by the nonbonded interactions and molecular conformations. The molecular model is then bridged with the finite element model to link mechanics at nanoscale with the continuum scale. This work provides an unprecedented insight into how the interactions at the molecular scale influence mechanical properties at higher scales. Two materials are considered for the molecular modeling study: bone and Na-montmorillonite swelling clay. Bone …


Assessing The Preparedness And Mitigation Research On Tornadoes: Clarifying Risk Perceptions And Identifying Contradictions, Pierre Albert Freeman Jan 2012

Assessing The Preparedness And Mitigation Research On Tornadoes: Clarifying Risk Perceptions And Identifying Contradictions, Pierre Albert Freeman

Emergency Management

This paper examines literature from various disciplines contributing to the objective of saving lives and reducing damages from tornadoes. Specific topics include changes in tornado incidence, the genesis of tornadoes, and alterations in geographical distributions of tornadoes. I also review data on damages, casualties and deaths along with associated housing type vulnerability and atypical nocturnal tornado events. Literature associated with predictions including historical data and forecasting is addressed. Further data was presented regarding false alarms, warnings, watches and response behavior. Finally, mitigation issues regarding policy and planning, building practices and sheltering is reviewed. While reviewing the data, several contradictions were …


The Simultaneous Evacuation Of A Midwestern Community's Multiple Healthcare Facilities During A Major Flood Event: A Study In Decision-Making And Implementation, Azad Berwari Jan 2012

The Simultaneous Evacuation Of A Midwestern Community's Multiple Healthcare Facilities During A Major Flood Event: A Study In Decision-Making And Implementation, Azad Berwari

Emergency Management

Natural disasters are a part of the ecological system, so they are beyond human control. To reduce devastating effects, researchers in Emergency Management seek to understand the causes and cycles of natural disasters so that warning systems may be improved and better advice may be given to the general public about protecting themselves and their property. Emergency management is a relatively new discipline, so much research is still needed to understand the complex interaction of human activity and the natural environment. Therefore, this study was designed to explore the impact of the 2009 flood on the healthcare system in Fargo, …


Defining Characteristics And Politicising Victims: A Legal Perspective, Jennifer Schweppe Jan 2012

Defining Characteristics And Politicising Victims: A Legal Perspective, Jennifer Schweppe

Journal of Hate Studies

Legislatures worldwide experience the same problem in drafting or amending hate crimes statutes: How is it possible to discriminate between victim groups, and which groups are worthy of legislative protection? This article explores some of the experiences of legislatures, highlighting the political inconsistencies which go on to shape the legal system. It focusses on the experience of a number of common law jurisdictions, and seeks to establish a normative platform from which hate crimes statutes can be based, drawing on the legislative experiences of the United States. This platform draws on two other areas of law, particularly the criminal defence …


Combating Hate Through Young Adult Literature, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka Jan 2012

Combating Hate Through Young Adult Literature, Rachel Dean-Ruzicka

Journal of Hate Studies

Young adult literature can help readers look beyond tolerance toward a cosmopolitan ethics of difference as a more sophisticated position for combating hatred. In popular discourse, the ideal of tolerance is generally presented uncritically and deployed as the best response to a perceived difference in another. However, the ideal of tolerance presents many problems. Rather than discouraging hatred, tolerance merely asks us not to act upon related feelings. Additionally, tolerance is often deployed not only as an idealized set of behaviors, but also as a moral imperative. Thus tolerance encourages cultural relativism where we are expected to be tolerant of …


Book Reviews: Arthur Goldwag’S The New Hate: A History Of Fear And Loathing On The Populist Right & Thomas R. Pegram’S One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth And Decline Of The Ku Klux Klan In The 1920s, Rebecca Barrett-Fox Jan 2012

Book Reviews: Arthur Goldwag’S The New Hate: A History Of Fear And Loathing On The Populist Right & Thomas R. Pegram’S One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth And Decline Of The Ku Klux Klan In The 1920s, Rebecca Barrett-Fox

Journal of Hate Studies

As reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the number of hate groups in the United States has continually risen since 2000 in response to three factors: the election of the nation’s first African American president, economic turmoil, and undocumented immigration (Potok, 2011). While these structural changes might feel painful for those native-born white Americans who view signs of increasing pluralism as worrisome and who believe that their economic losses are due to the gains of minority groups, they are not new challenges—nor are the hate-filled responses to them new. In both One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and …


Preface To Vol. 10, John Shuford Jan 2012

Preface To Vol. 10, John Shuford

Journal of Hate Studies

I am pleased to offer you Volume 10 of the Journal of Hate Studies (JHS), which is devoted to the theme “Hate and Political Discourse.” This is, in many ways, a special volume, and 2012-2013 is a special year too. We celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Gonzaga University, the Centennial Anniversary of the Gonzaga University School of Law, the 15th Anniversary of the Institute for Hate Studies, and the 10th Anniversary of the JHS. We mark these special occasions with the present volume and a special symposium held in Washington, DC in September 2012 to accompany this volume.


Irrationalism: The Foundation Of Hate Propaganda, Robert Lanning Jan 2012

Irrationalism: The Foundation Of Hate Propaganda, Robert Lanning

Journal of Hate Studies

This article proposes that hate propaganda be examined in terms of its basis in irrationalism as a philosophical orientation. In the first part of the paper, irrationalism is discussed from the perspectives of various 20th century philosophers engaged against the rise of fascism or responding to it. In the second part, selected examples of contemporary propaganda are discussed, demonstrating continuity in the use of irrationalism as a limitation to thought and analysis.


Italian Fascism’S Soviet Enemy And The Propaganda Of Hate, 1941-1943, Marla Stone Jan 2012

Italian Fascism’S Soviet Enemy And The Propaganda Of Hate, 1941-1943, Marla Stone

Journal of Hate Studies

In conjunction with the war against the Soviet Union which began in June 1941, the Italian Fascist regime promulgated a virulent brand of anti-communism and oversaw a campaign of hate-mongering propaganda targeted at its Soviet enemy. This propaganda produced to justify the war highlighted the Manichean struggle against the Soviet Union and the special horrors of the Soviet communist enemy. Using longstanding stereotypes about a Russian lack of civilization, 19th-century ideas about racially expressed biological difference, and more recent tropes about Bolshevik barbarism and immorality, official representations of Fascism’s historic enemy—the communist—put forward a racially degenerate, godless peril from the …


Blood On The Tongue: Reading Abjection In Nationalist Blood Libels From Nazi Germany To Hamas And The British National Party, Damon T. Berry Jan 2012

Blood On The Tongue: Reading Abjection In Nationalist Blood Libels From Nazi Germany To Hamas And The British National Party, Damon T. Berry

Journal of Hate Studies

The blood libel is usually known as the Medieval European legend about Jews killing Christians to consume their blood or otherwise use it in rituals. However, in this paper I explore more recent instances of the blood libel that have emerged in nationalist contexts. What I call the nationalist blood libel is more overtly politicized than its predecessors, as there is a relationship between the accusatory portrayals of groups signified as alien and what Arjun Appadurai in Fear of Small Numbers (2006) called an “anxiety of incompletion” inherent in the modern nation-state as a result of the political discourses of …


Assessing Minority Students' Perceptions And Attrition At A Predominantly White Institution, Bernadette S.N. Tiapo Jan 2012

Assessing Minority Students' Perceptions And Attrition At A Predominantly White Institution, Bernadette S.N. Tiapo

Education

The enrollment, retention, persistence, and overall college experience of minority students are topical issues in colleges and universities, and even more so in predominantly White institutions (PWIs) where minority students encounter difficulties adjusting to the campus environment (Bennett & Okinaka, 1989; Jay & D'Augelli, 1991). This study employed a mixed method that used institutional data to investigate changes in minority students' attrition patterns, as well as the sensitivity to demographic characteristics, at a PWI that has conducted campus climate (CC) studies and progressively implemented survey recommendations (CCSRs). On-line survey data and information from focus group interviews were also used to …


Esops : Savvy Strategy For Tax Management, Succession, And Continuity, Scott D. Miller Jan 2012

Esops : Savvy Strategy For Tax Management, Succession, And Continuity, Scott D. Miller

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

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Sustainability Of Professional Development To Enhance Student Achievement: A Shift In The Professional Development Paradigm, Wendi Marie Mizer Stachler Jan 2012

Sustainability Of Professional Development To Enhance Student Achievement: A Shift In The Professional Development Paradigm, Wendi Marie Mizer Stachler

Education

The purpose of this study was to determine the sustainability of professional development--teacher utilization of the Science-in-CTE pedagogical model and science-enhanced CTE lessons--one year following the Science-in-CTE Pilot Study. This study included 27 teachers (15 experimental CTE and 12 science) who participated in the Pilot Study in 2009-2010. This study was a partial replication of the Math-in-CTE Follow-up Study and data were collected using a mixed methods approach. Quantitative data were obtained from online questionnaires and qualitative data were collected from personal and telephone interviews. Data found that a majority of the CTE and science teachers voluntarily incorporated portions of …


2011 Yellow Book: Independence - Nonaudit Services Documentation Practice Aid, Pak-Aims (American Institute Of Management Sciences) Jan 2012

2011 Yellow Book: Independence - Nonaudit Services Documentation Practice Aid, Pak-Aims (American Institute Of Management Sciences)

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

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White Collar Crime : Core Concepts For Consultants And Expert Witnesses, Debra K. Thompson, Randal A. Wolverton Jan 2012

White Collar Crime : Core Concepts For Consultants And Expert Witnesses, Debra K. Thompson, Randal A. Wolverton

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Cpa’S Guide To Developing And Managing A Pfp Practice, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Personal Financial Planning Division Jan 2012

Cpa’S Guide To Developing And Managing A Pfp Practice, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Personal Financial Planning Division

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


The Effectiveness Of Parental Involvement In Preschool Education Programs On Parent Perceptions Of Their Child’S School Readiness, Judith Ann Konerza Jan 2012

The Effectiveness Of Parental Involvement In Preschool Education Programs On Parent Perceptions Of Their Child’S School Readiness, Judith Ann Konerza

Education

The purpose of this study was to determine if the Gearing Up for Kindergarten program created a significant impact on parent understanding of children's development and aspects of school readiness. Parent perceptions of their child's readiness to make the transition to school were also assessed. The study also measured the Gearing Up for Kindergarten impact on children's scores on selected academic measures. A selected sample of 75 parents were surveyed with pre, post, and post post program assessments using the Practical Parent Assessment of School Readiness survey. The survey used Likert scale measures to assess parent perceptions of readiness in …


On Your Own! : How To Start Your Own Cpa Firm, Brannon Poe Jan 2012

On Your Own! : How To Start Your Own Cpa Firm, Brannon Poe

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Common Fraud : A Guide To Thwarting The Top Ten Schemes, Glenn L. Helms Jan 2012

Common Fraud : A Guide To Thwarting The Top Ten Schemes, Glenn L. Helms

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Cpa’S Guide To Investment Advisory Business Models: Have You Crossed The Line When Providing Investment Advice?, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Personal Financial Planning Section, Dinsmore & Shohl Jan 2012

Cpa’S Guide To Investment Advisory Business Models: Have You Crossed The Line When Providing Investment Advice?, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Personal Financial Planning Section, Dinsmore & Shohl

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Guide To Developing And Managing A Cpa Personal Financial Planning Practice, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Personal Financial Planning Division Jan 2012

Guide To Developing And Managing A Cpa Personal Financial Planning Practice, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Personal Financial Planning Division

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Leading An Accounting Firm : The Pyramid Of Success, Troy Waugh Jan 2012

Leading An Accounting Firm : The Pyramid Of Success, Troy Waugh

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Sid Kess Approach : 60 Years Of Best Practices In Tax, Education, Careers And Life, James Carberry, Sidney Kess Jan 2012

Sid Kess Approach : 60 Years Of Best Practices In Tax, Education, Careers And Life, James Carberry, Sidney Kess

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Unlocking The Mystery Of Health Care Planning For Retirement, Jamers Sullivan Jan 2012

Unlocking The Mystery Of Health Care Planning For Retirement, Jamers Sullivan

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


10 Steps To A Digital Practice In The Cloud : New Levels Of Cpa Firm Workflow Efficiency, John H. Higgins, Bryan L. Smith Jan 2012

10 Steps To A Digital Practice In The Cloud : New Levels Of Cpa Firm Workflow Efficiency, John H. Higgins, Bryan L. Smith

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Applying Ocboa In State And Local Governmental Financial Statements, Michael A. Crawford Jan 2012

Applying Ocboa In State And Local Governmental Financial Statements, Michael A. Crawford

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Quick Reference Guide To Service Organization Control Reports, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Information Technology Executive Committee. Service Organization Control Reporting Task Force Jan 2012

Quick Reference Guide To Service Organization Control Reports, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Information Technology Executive Committee. Service Organization Control Reporting Task Force

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.


Administrative Evaluation Of Online Faculty In Community Colleges, Douglas Duane Darling Jan 2012

Administrative Evaluation Of Online Faculty In Community Colleges, Douglas Duane Darling

Education

Policy and procedure haven’t kept up with institutional practices at community colleges. With over 5.5 million college students taking online courses, 29% of college students are taking an online course. As student numbers taking online courses have increased, so have the number of faculty teaching online. The purpose of this study is to determine if and how community college, online, faculty are administratively evaluated. The Chief Academic Officer (CAO) of the members of the American Association of Community Colleges were surveyed to determine the factors considered relevant for online, asynchronous, administrative evaluation of faculty that are currently being used by …