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Process Evaluation Of The Bully Proofing Your School Program, Donna D. Wilkes

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This applied dissertation was designed to evaluate the Bully Proofing Your School curriculum and safe-school initiatives, at the researcher’s school site. School bullying is an international problem that can have negative social, emotional, and academic consequences in the life of a child. The writer developed a logic model, as an analytical framework, for evaluating the bullying prevention curriculum. The objective of the study was to develop a process evaluation, utilizing the model to review staff training, student behavior initiatives, survey results, and security measures.

An analysis of the data included survey results from 2003 in comparison to student survey results …

Relación Entre La Auto-Eficacia En Estudiantes De Bajo Aprovechamiento Académico Y La Percepción Sobre La Efectividad De Las Modalidades De Instrucción En Su Aprendizaje, Esther A. Rubio Negrón

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Esta disertación aplicada, se diseñó para determinar si la autoeficacia, en la materia de los cursos nivelatorios, modera las percepciones de los estudiantes sobre la efectividad de la instrucción en línea, híbrida y tradicional. Guiados por el interés de los estudiantes en las tecnologías y el uso de las redes sociales, la administración de la universidad donde se efectuó el estudio, autoriza la incorporación de una variedad de modalidades instruccionales en los procesos de enseñanza aprendizaje. Estos ofrecimientos pretendían servir a todos los estudiantes universitarios, incluyendo los de primer año que toman cursos nivelatorios.

El estudio se basó en la …

An Evaluation Of Teaching Strategies Using Computer Technology, Anthony Griffin

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The push to integrate technology into teachers’ daily practices has met with many forms of resistance. A common approach to increasing technology integration has been to provide teachers with professional development. This applied dissertation was designed to investigate the impact of a peer-led professional development program on teachers’ ability and confidence to integrate computer technology in daily classroom practices.

The writer prepared and facilitated a peer-led professional development program on the use of computer technology for volunteer English and social studies teachers. The program was presented as a 6-hour training. At the conclusion of the training, the participants evaluated the …

Claysburg Neighborhood Revitalization Plan, M. Mccoy, J. Vick, S. Bourassa, M. Enyeart, C. Norton, S. Scroggins, A. Smith, Lauren Heberle

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This Claysburg Neighborhood Revitalization Plan was developed as a joint effort of the City Solutions Center (CSC) and the Center for Environmental Policy and Management (CEPM) at the University of Louisville in cooperation with and supported by the Jeffersonville Urban Enterprise Association (JUEA). The intention of the project was to create a set of strategies for improving the quality of life in the neighborhood by identifying the existing strengths and weaknesses of Claysburg and generating recommendations to optimize opportunities for improvements to its social, environmental, economic and physical infrastructure. The project’s process aimed to develop a community-based vision, with input, …

Tying And Consumer Harm, Daniel A. Crane

Articles

Brantley raises important issues of law, economics, and policy about tying arrangements. Under current legal principles, Brantley was on solid ground in distinguishing between anticompetitive ties and those that might harm consumer interests without impairing competition. As a matter of economics, the court was also right to reject the claim that the cable programmers forced consumers to pay for programs the customers didn’t want. The hardest question is a policy one - whether antitrust law should ever condemn the exploitation of market power in ways that extract surplus from consumers but do not create or enlarge market power. I shall …

Can You Hear Me Now? Assessing Students' Classroom Communication Preferences Via A Telephone Conference Activity, Sharon G. Heilmann

Faculty Publications

Telephone conference presentation delivery was compared to face-to-face classroom delivery in an undergraduate business course setting to assess whether concern over presenting in front of the class and/or gender impacted presentation mode preference. After completing a classroom exercise, students (n=102) were surveyed and asked to compare delivery methods from two courses, one requiring a telephone conference and the other requiring a face-to-face classroom presentation, in terms of perceived effectiveness, feedback, teamwork, instructor cues, preparation time, and overall comfort. Independent sample t-test results indicated respondents who worried about presenting in front of the class believed the telephone conference format required more …

Symposium On International Taxation And Competitiveness: Introduction And Overview, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Nicola Sartori

Articles

In February, 2012, the Treasury and White House unveiled President Obama's Framework for Business Tax Reform. A major proposal was to abolish the deferral on income earned by foreign subsidiaries of U.S. corporations ("CFCs").

Prompting Self-Monitoring Of Learning In Self-Paced Computer Based Training: The Effect On Self-Regulation And Learning, Christopher J. Coburn

STEMPS Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the effects of prompting students to monitor their use of learning strategies and comprehension while completing self-paced, work-related training in a computer-based learning environment. Study participants included 94 enlisted military volunteers, randomly assigned to one of three groups in the spring of 2012. Changes in strategy use and comprehension were evaluated within and between groups receiving either immediate, delayed or no prompts using multiple methods of measurement, both during and after training. Prompts asked participants to rate their level of agreement to statements regarding their strategy use and comprehension of lesson content. …

Putting Numbers To Feelings: Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement In China’S Courts—Evidence From Zhejiang Province Trademark Infringement Cases 2004–2009, Nathan W. Snyder

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

China is not known for protecting intellectual property rights. Anecdotal evidence of counterfeit products and foreign companies claiming unfair treatment in the country’s courts is ubiquitous. Yet there is a dearth of data on the actual events that take place in Chinese courts. This report analyzes the most extensive published survey of trademark infringement court decisions in China. The survey data is a collection of trademark cases from the Zhejiang province during 2004–2009. It suggests that domestic Chinese support the concept of trademarks and trademark litigation with over 76% of disputes being filed by Mainland plaintiffs. Furthermore, this article finds …

The “Other” Within: Health Care Reform, Class, And The Politics Of Reproduction, Janet L. Dolgin, Katherine R. Dieterich

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The Article explores the nation’s resistance to developing a more equitable system of health care coverage. It does that through reference to the nation’s peculiar class system. Americans contend that anyone can avoid poverty through hard work and responsible choices. Yet, in fact, class mobility is the exception, not the rule. Americans are deeply anxious about safeguarding relative class status, but the signs through which they assess class are murky. In measuring their own socioeconomic status in relation to others, Americans consciously look to a wide set of elusive, shifting status symbols. Less consciously, though with equal, if not greater, …

Evidence Supporting Platform-Switching To Preserve Marginal Bone Levels Not Definitive, Gary L. Stafford

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Data sources

MEDLINE, EMBASE, The Cochrane Oral Health Group's Trials Register, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), UK National Research Register, Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE), ISI Proceedings for relevant conference abstracts. The search strategy used keywords but not subject heading terms. A number of relevant journals were hand searched (seven most recent years) and authors were contacted in the absence of complete data.

Study selection

Randomised controlled trials (RCT) or controlled clinical trials (CCT) reported in English only, that compared platform-switched to platform-matched implants were eligible. A …

Dispersed Ownership: The Theories, The Evidence, And The Enduring Tension Between "Lumpers" And "Splitters", John C. Coffee Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

This article argues that dispersed ownership resulted less from inexorable forces and more from private ordering. Neither legal nor political conditions mandated or prevented the appearance of dispersed ownership. Rather, entrepreneurs, investment bankers, and investors — all seeking to maximize value — sometimes saw reasons why selling control into the public market would maximize value for them. But when and why? That is the article's focus. It argues that law played less of a role than specialized intermediaries — investment banks, securities exchanges, and other agents — who found it to be in their self-interest to foster dispersed ownership and …

Rural–Urban Differences In Dental Service Use Among Children Enrolled In A Private Dental Insurance Plan In Wisconsin: Analysis Of Administrative Data, Pradeep Bhagavatula, Qun Xiang, Aniko Szabo, Fredrick Eichmiller, Raymond A. Kuthy, Christopher Okunseri

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Background

Studies on rural–urban differences in dental care have primarily focused on differences in utilization rates and preventive dental services. Little is known about rural–urban differences in the use of wider range of dental procedures. This study examined patterns of preventive, restorative, endodontic, and extraction procedures provided to children enrolled in Delta Dental of Wisconsin (DDWI).

Methods

We analyzed DDWI enrollment and claims data for children aged 0-18 years from 2002 to 2008. We modified and used a rural and urban classification based on ZIP codes developed by the Wisconsin Area Health Education Center (AHEC). We categorized the ZIP codes …

Ivmf In Focus: 2011-2012 Annual Report, Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

This report overviews the accomplishments of the IVMF during 2011-2012.

Discrepancies Between Abstracts Presented At International Association For Dental Research Annual Sessions From 2004 To 2005 And Full-Text Publication, Soni Prasad, Damian J. Lee, Judy Chia-Chun Yuan, Valentim A. R. Barao, Nodesh Shyamsunder, Cortino Sukotjo

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the discrepancies between abstracts presented at the IADR meeting (2004-2005) and their full-text publication. Material and Methods. Abstracts from the Prosthodontic Section of IADR meeting were obtained. The following information was collected: abstract title, number of authors, study design, statistical analysis, outcome, and funding source. PubMed was used to identify the full-text publication of the abstracts. The discrepancies between the abstract and the full-text publication were examined, categorized as major and minor discrepancies, and quantified. The data were collected and analyzed using descriptive analysis. Frequency and percentage of major …

China And The Future Of International Adjudication, Julian G. Ku

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Traditionally, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has shunned participation in international adjudication, preferring to settle all disputes through direct negotiations. But in the past two decades, this wholly negative approach to international courts and arbitration tribunals has begun to shift. In addition to the PRC's acceptance and active participation in the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization, the PRC has also accepted limited jurisdiction for arbitration under the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Despite this shift, the PRC still follows a policy of …

Climate Change And Cercla Remedies: Adaptation Strategies For Contaminated Sediment Sites, Katrina Fischer Kuh

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The actual and projected manifestations of climate change, including sea level rise, stronger rainstorms, more severe storm events, inland storm surges, and associated flooding, pose a host of adaptation challenges. The effective management of hazardous waste sites under the new environmental conditions occasioned by climate change presents one such adaptation challenge, though this challenge is easily overlooked in the rush to protect highly visible and obviously vulnerable infrastructure and populations such as coastal communities. Many hazardous waste sites have been remediated, or are proposed to be remediated, relying in whole or in part on engineering and institutional controls meant to …

Not Guilty As Charged: The Myth Of Mens Rea For Defendants With Mental Retardation, Elizabeth Nevins-Saunders

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The notion that mens rea is an indicia of culpability runs deep in the American criminal law psyche. For most defendants, a finding that they had the requisite legal intent may be all we need to know to pronounce them morally culpable. This is because most defendants – those of average intelligence – enjoy a level of socialization, rationality, and agency sufficient to be aware of social norms, make a choice to violate them or not, and to control their own impulses in doing so. But for defendants with mental retardation, the state-of-mind element fails to accurately signify a “guilty …

Exemption Portability May Be A Remedy For Decoupling Problem, Mitchell M. Gans, Jonathan G. Blattmachr

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

With the increase of the federal estate tax exemption and the phase out of the state death credit (which most states took as their estate tax) effected by provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 ("2001 Tax Act"), the death tax systems of several states became "decoupled" from the federal estate tax system. That has caused problems for many married persons residing in or owning property in these decoupled states. Under current federal legislation, these problems are scheduled to end at the beginning of next year because all of the estate tax changes made by …

State Post-Conviction Remedies In The Next Fifteen Years: How Synergy Between The State And Federal Governments Can Improve The Criminal Justice System Nationally, Eric M. Freedman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The article discusses state post-conviction remedies and a call for improvements to the U.S. criminal justice system as of April 2012, focusing on a consideration of the time and costs associated with lawsuits filed by prisoners. Several legal cases are addressed, including the U.S. Supreme Court case Cullen v. Pinholster which deals with Section 2254(d)(I) of the nation's Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

The Body Of John Merryman: Abraham Lincoln And Treason In The Civil War: The Trials Of John Merryman And Abraham Lincoln And Treason In The Civil War: The Trials Of John Merryman, Eric M. Freedman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Governments jail people who are perceived as threats. More often than not the governments believe the threats to be genuine and the incarcerations to be legally sound. But governments are sometimes wrong. When a court issues a writ of habeas corpus (also known as the Great Writ of Liberty), it orders jailers to bring a prisoner into court and requires them to persuade a neutral judicial officer of the the Great Writ of Liberty), it orders jailers to bring a prisoner into court and requires them to persuade a neutral judicial officer of the correctness of their legal and factual …

Civil Union Equality, Elizabeth M. Glazer

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

2011 was a good year for marriage equality in the United States. President Obama publicly renounced the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and determined that the Department of Justice would refuse to defend it in court. This determination was made despite the DOJ's “longstanding practice of defending the constitutionality of duly- enacted statutes if reasonable arguments can be made in their defense.” The DOJ concluded that there were no such reasonable arguments, making “[t]his ... the rare case where the proper course is to forgo the defense of this statute.” The President's “manifest ... conclu[sion] that the …

Reasonable Behavior At The Cfpb, Norman I. Silber

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The article focuses on deception in the marketplace and the role of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). It cites the novel "The Jungle," by Upton Sinclair which portrays the truth in mortgage and purchase agreement. It states that CFPB was tasked to improve honesty and the quality of information in the marketplace.

The Problem Of Convicting Innocent Persons: How Often Does It Occur And How Can It Be Prevented?, Leon Friedman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

In order to determine the number of innocent persons convicted and the severity of the problem that exists, it is necessary to examine the statistics. As indicated below, an often-quoted figure representing the number of wrongly persons convicted is about 0.5% of all criminal cases, or 30,000, which is not an insignificant number. Some modest changes in the system, particularly furnishing defendants with more exculpatory evidence at the outset, might make a significant change in that number.

The article focuses on the rate of false conviction of innocent people in the U.S. and highlights the steps to be taken to …

The Unconstitutionality Of Electing State Judges, Monroe H. Freedman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

There is reason to believe that a majority of five justices can be persuaded to hold that the practice of electing judges, and, particularly, of re-electing judges, violates the Due Process Clause of the Constitution.

Deschooling The News Media - Democratizing The Civic Discourse, Akilah N. Folami

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This Article interrogates the traditional role and effect of professionals and professionalism in America's media and civic discourse landscape. It does so by considering Ivan Illich's deschooling theory within the context of broadcast journalism's historic and traditional role in facilitating civic knowledge and engagement during the so-called Golden Era of Journalism. In revisiting "network news" history through the lens of Illich's deschooling theory, this Article highlights broadcast journalism's professionalization of political discourse. Furthermore, it contends that media law reified this professionalization through early interpretations of the bona fide newscast and news interview exemptions to the equal time rule. And finally, …

Demanding Substance Or Form? The Sec's Plain English Handbook As A Basis For Securities Violations, J. Scott Colesanti

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

In 1998, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “ “Commission”) released a style manual titled “The Plain English Handbook.” The culmination of a drive by its Chairman, Arthur Levitt, the Handbook drew upon the rules of grammar, best industry practice, and even the support of billionaire Warren Buffett in calling for a layman's translation of corporate disclosure documents.

To varying degrees, commentators noted the significance of the Handbook. Initial textual studies provided mixed results. The press marveled at its novelty but securities regulation experts were less sanguine, chiding Commission members for naming themselves “language czars of the …

Prosecutors And Peremptories, Alafair S. Burke

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

A quarter of a century after the Court’s decision in Batson v. Kentucky, overwhelming evidence demonstrates that lawyers continue to exercise peremptory challenges in racialized ways. In light of Batson’s failure to alter a stubborn pattern of using peremptory challenges in racialized ways, scholars have repeatedly called for the abolishment of peremptory challenges, changes to the Batson framework, modifications to the rules of professional responsibility, and increased disciplinary enforcement and sanctions against those who discriminate during jury selection. The focus of much of the current Batson scholarship assumes that lawyers will inevitably consider race during jury selection and that the …

The Internationalization Of American Family Law, Barbara Stark

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Even fifty years ago, the United States was a superpower and Americans traveled for pleasure and worked abroad. Then, like now, the United States was a magnet for immigrants seeking freedom, or asylum, or opportunity. Then, like now, human relationships crossed geographical and political boundaries, challenging the limits of family law.

But globalization and the vast migrations of capital and labor that have accompanied it in recent decades have transformed family law in once unimaginable ways. Families have been torn apart and new families have been created. Borders have become more porous, allowing adoptees and mail order brides to join …

Denying Secured Creditors The Right To Credit Bid In Chapter 11 Cases And The Risk Of Undervaluation, Alan N. Resnick

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The Bankruptcy Code has reached a delicate balance between protecting the rights of secured creditors and providing financially troubled companies with flexibility in reorganizing their businesses. One protection that has been available to secured creditors is the right to "credit bid" at any sale of collateral free of liens, which allows the creditor to buy the property by offsetting its claim against the purchase price instead of paying cash. This right is designed to assure that property is not sold free of security interests at a price that is below the collateral's true value. An inadequate sales price deprives the …