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Unlv Symphony Orchestra Concert Singers Chamber Chorale, Taras Krysa, David Weiller, Lillian Roberts, Stephanie Weiss, William Mccullough, Nathan Arsdale

Orchestra

Program listing performers and works performed.

Diffusion Of Energy Efficient Technology In Commercial Buildings: An Analysis Of The Commercial Building Partnerships Program, Chrissi Argyro Antonopoulos

Dissertations and Theses

This study presents findings from survey and interview data investigating replication of green building measures by Commercial Building Partnership (CBP) partners that worked directly with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL partnered directly with 12 organizations on new and retrofit construction projects, which represented approximately 28 percent of the entire U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CBP program. Through a feedback survey mechanism, along with personal interviews, quantitative and qualitative data were gathered relating to replication efforts by each organization. These data were analyzed to provide insight into two primary research areas: 1) CBP partners' replication efforts of green building …

Ideal Dating And Sexual Partners For Low-Income Heterosexual African American Adolescents, Darnell Nathaniel Motley

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Dating and sexual relationships among adolescents have been identified as both normative and beneficial. However, the research examining the dating and sexual relationships of African American adolescents has been narrow in scope, focusing primarily on risks of intimate partner violence, pregnancy, and STI/HIV transmission. This myopic focus has left a gap in the literature as it relates to the normative aspects of dating and sexual relationships for these youth.

The present study sought to better understand the dating and sexual partner preferences of 51 African American adolescents (male = 32, female = 19) recruited from Chicago and San Francisco. The …

2013-11-26 Minutes Of The Executive Committee Of The Academic Senate, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate. Executive Committee

ECAS Minutes

Approved minutes of a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

Longitudinal Relations Between Dating Violence Victimization And Perpetration And Substance Use: The Moderating Role Of Gender And School Norms For Dating Violence, Katherine Taylor

Theses and Dissertations

Adolescent dating violence is commonly experienced by adolescents and is associated with a variety of negative outcomes. Stress and coping and social learning theories suggest that dating violence victimization may predict increased substance use and dating violence perpetration. However, few studies have assessed these relations over time, and existing studies have not assessed physical and psychological dating violence victimization separately nor focused on early adolescent populations. The current study addressed these gaps by examining longitudinal relations between physical and psychological dating violence victimization and substance use and physical and psychological dating violence perpetration among early adolescents. The extent to which …

Assessment Of Parents Educational Needs And The Availability Of Resources For Feeding Children With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities, Laurel A. Welborne

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this research was to assess educational needs of parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabiliies (IDD) and define the availability of resources for children with IDD who experience feeding disorders in Shelby County. Participants were primary caregivers of a child beween three and 18 years with IDD who experience a feeding disorder. A questionnaire of quantitative and qualitative responses was distributed to members of the Special Education Parent Teacher Alliance of Shelby County and Support and Training for Exceptional Parents in Tennessee. The questionnaire reached 665 potential participants. Eight participants responded to the survey, The majority …

Proactive, Not Reactive: Evolving Elm Management In The Nation's Capital, Jessica R. Sanders, James W. Woodworth Jr., Joseph E. Duszak

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Washington D.C. is home to many historic elm corridors managed in close partnership between numerous urban forestry stakeholders. In recent years, the city's elms have been used as part of streetscape revitalization initiatives due to their quick-growing nature. The use of a popular Ulmus americana cultivar, Princeton, has brought about notable challenges in urban tree management. From the nursery to the tree box and even ten years later, these elms have required consistent attention in order to adequately train the form to achieve a sustainable canopy while minimizing structural defects. Two such plantings are explored, both with hand-selected trees from …

Getting To Excellence: What Every Educator Should Know About Consequences Of Beliefs, Attitudes, And Paradigms For The Reconstruction Of An Academically Unacceptable Middle School, James A. Johnson, Jay Cummings, Margaret Stroud, Gatsy Moye' -Lavergne, Wilbert J. Andrews Jr.

The Bridge: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Legal & Social Policy

In this chapter a discussion of a salient dimension of the external environment in which today’s educators find themselves practicing – the policy context - is presented. Critical elements of this discussion include a truncated history of the encroachment on local control of the schools and the ensuing standardized-tests-based accountability and standardized testing movement. We also pay some attention to growing efforts to push back against these movements. We conclude this chapter with perspectives of a set of scholarly informants on quality, equity, and adequacy. Our effort in this chapter is to trace the political distance traveled from education defined …

Urban Education Reform- Case Study: North Forest Independent School District, Jay K. Aiyer, Michael O. Adams, Subria Lapps

The Bridge: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Legal & Social Policy

Education reformers and advocates have conducted extensive studies and produced significant research around various models of school turnaround and reform. As a case study for policy in relation to models for school district turnaround, we will explore Houston’s North Forest Independent School District (NFISD). The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, as a study of policy we will retroactively explore the key factors that led to the proposed closure of NFISD. Second, using existing strategies of school turnaround, we will explore potential models of reform that may be applied to NFISD. Third, we will discuss biases and recommendations concerning …

Education Reform And The Political Safeguards Of Federalism, Elizabeth J. Sharma

The Bridge: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Legal & Social Policy

The passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2001 sparked widespread controversy over the federal government’s proper role in public education. Opponents criticized the legislation as an unprecedented federal intrusion on state and local governments’ policymaking authority. Whereas previous incarnations of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) required local schools and districts to comply with detailed rules about how to spend categorical funds, federal moneys were never before made contingent on a rigorous testing and accountability regime. By requiring annual testing and tying federal funding to student outcomes, the new legislation signaled a shift in the …

From Colonization To R.E.S.P.E.C.T.: How Federal Education Policy Fails Children And Educators Of Color, Rachelle Lanette Ard, Christopher B. Knaus

The Bridge: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Legal & Social Policy

In this paper, we argue that national education policy has maintained educational inequality through continually avoiding the very causes of inequality. While a steady stream of re-formulated educational policy mantras lead educators to continually shift curriculum and assessment tools, these efforts ignore the unexamined racism that shapes schooling in the U.S. This paper frames federal policy efforts as designed to continue to benefit White educators (and educators of color aligned to White interests), while justifying educational inequality, measured loosely by false notions of academic achievement. These policy efforts promote economic inequality, promote racialized ideals of what an educator and educational …

Washington Update: News From Our Nation's Capital, Bridget Behling, Meryl Eschen Mills, Jessica Smith, Rebecca Wolf

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

In The News, Georgiana Avramidis, David Hyungho Kim, Vashti Mercado, Eduardo Pezo, Emily K. Strunk

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

A New Catch 22 For Managed Care: Erisa's Failure To Preempt Any Willing Provider And Vicarious Liability Laws Creates A Serious Problem For Managed Care, Kathryn Leaman

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

Health Care Litigation: Overcoming Language Barriers To Reduce Liability, Vashti Mercado

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

Prescription Drug Importation And Reimportation, David M. Ermer

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

Federal Efforts To Impose Uniformity On State Health Information Privacy Laws, Joy L. Pritts

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

Federal Efforts To Impose Uniformity In Health Care Regulations: Peer Review, Edward J. Krill

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

Promoting Racial Equity In Health Care: Access And Quality Initiatives At The State Level, Daniel O'Brien

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

Legal And Policy Environment For State-Based Biomedical Research, Jack Schwartz

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

State Initiatives On Health Care Access: Preserving The Fraying Safety Net, Richard A. Millstein, Sarah M. Steverman

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

Where The Action Is: Innovative State Health Care Initiatives, John Sarbanes

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

Letter From The Editors, Georgiana Avramidis, Gabrielle A. Mulnick, Emily K. Strunk, Jennifer Cadena, Meryl Eschen Mills

Health Law and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.

"Something Rich And Strange": Reburial In New York City, Anne-Marie Cantwell

Northeast Historical Archaeology

This article describes and discusses three recent cases in New York City in which anthropologists were involved in the identification, sanctification, and reburial of human remains. These examples show how living peoples may reach back into the past and join with the dead to form a desired "imagined community." Also discussed are the roles of anthropologists in these transformations of the dead into symbols of a desired body politic. Anthropologists who once focused on interpreting past social constructions are increasingly finding themselves playing crucial roles in the creation of modern ones.

Representations Of The Local Past: Gilded Age And Bureaucratic Accounts Of The Minisink, 1889 To The Present, Wendy Harris

Northeast Historical Archaeology

The process whereby local pasts are made meaningful varies through time and among different communities. While historians, philosophers, and anthropologists have long been intrigued by the problem of historical practice, their discussions remain speculative. This paper examines the specific social conditions of production of a single local past. During the late 19th-century, the members of the Minisink Valley Historical Society in Port Jervis, New York, engaged in the imaginative construction of a place they named "the Minisink"- an early frontier region encompassing portions of the Upper Delaware River Valley. The Society's account is examined and compared to accounts produced a …

The Archaeology Of 19th-Century Health And Hygiene At The Sullivan Street Site, New York City, Jean E. Howson

Northeast Historical Archaeology

The households represented by archaeological remains at the Sullivan Street site in Greenwich Village are used to explore issues related to health care in 19th-century New York City. Backyard features and domestic artifact assemblages are discussed in the context of institutional development and specific changes in medical practice. Consumer choices are seen as responses to differential access to sanitation, medical care, and information. Social class had a significant effect on both the infrastructure and material culture of health and hygiene for these households.

Introduction, Nan A. Rothschild, Diana Di Zerega Wall

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Introduction to the volume dedicated to Bert Salwen.

Gsu View, 2013-11-25, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

11-25-2013 Swosu & Area Residents Called On For Blood Donations, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2013

The Oklahoma Blood Institute will be on the Weatherford campus of Southwestern Oklahoma State University on Monday and Tuesday, December 2-3, for a blood drive sponsored by the SWOSU Guard Officer Leadership Development (GOLD) program.

Emu Today, November 25, 2013, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.