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Predatory Impacts Of Crayfish On Apple Snails (Pomacea Paludosa And P. Maculata), Andrew Davidson Jan 2016

Predatory Impacts Of Crayfish On Apple Snails (Pomacea Paludosa And P. Maculata), Andrew Davidson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Theory predicts that when prey can reach a size refuge from predation, prey vulnerability to predation is a function of hatchling size, growth rate, and the handling limitations of its predator, which collectively influence the amount of time prey spend vulnerable. I examined the mechanistic role of prey size for the predator-prey interaction between predatory crayfish (Procambarus fallax) and apple snail prey (Pomacea paludosa and P. maculata) and found that crayfish feeding rates decreased with snail size, such that smaller hatchling P. maculata were more than twenty times more vulnerable than hatchling P. paludosa. Experimental manipulations of productivity increased apple …

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Professional Public Administration: A Synthesis Of An Inchoate Concept, Joseph Christian Heilman Jan 2016

Professional Public Administration: A Synthesis Of An Inchoate Concept, Joseph Christian Heilman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The term profession is found throughout the scholarly literature; despite frequent use of the term, there exists little or no means of providing a common conception of the term. Consequently, calls for increasing professionalization of public administration appear to be premature. Therefore, this dissertation utilizes inductive research to generate theory, which synthesizes the inchoate concept of the professional public administrator. The motivation to pursue this line of inquiry stems from a personal need to weigh in on the perennial debate about what skills, knowledge, and information should be communicated to future generations of public administration thinkers and practitioners. To that …

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Rapid Analysis Of Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites: Testing An Alternative Method For Analyzing Stress Markers In Chimpanzees, Benni Litman Jan 2016

Rapid Analysis Of Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolites: Testing An Alternative Method For Analyzing Stress Markers In Chimpanzees, Benni Litman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study explores the application of two methods of spectroscopy; Near Infrared spectroscopy (NIR) and Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTIR) as alternative approaches for measuring glucocorticoid metabolites in chimpanzee feces. The goals of this study were twofold: The first was to determine if cortisol can be identified within the NIR and/or FTIR spectra of chimpanzee fecal hormone extract in ethanol solution. The second objective was to determine the capability of NIR and FTIR to predict FGM concentrations obtained using standard laboratory methods. Fecal glucocorticoid concentrations measured by Enzyme Immunoassay were used as the reference data of partial least square (PLS) regression …

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Reassessing Consensus: Alejandro O’Reilly’S 1765 Visita And Puerto Rican History, Sean Thomas Mallen Jan 2016

Reassessing Consensus: Alejandro O’Reilly’S 1765 Visita And Puerto Rican History, Sean Thomas Mallen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

King Charles III of Spain implemented a series of Enlightenment reforms throughout his domain following the 1763 defeat of the Seven Years War Among the royal officials sent to enact these reforms in the Caribbean, the Crown dispatched Field Marshal Alejandro O’Reilly to the colony of Puerto Rico Historians have attributed to his 1765 inspection, or visita, and subsequent report, or memoria, the foundations for a turning point in the island’s history Despite the historical consensus that has lauded O’Reilly’s recommendations, this inspector-general does not merit the credit that historians consistently have given him Agrarian and economic patterns such as …

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Re-Gendering Stories Of Success: John Wooden And Pat Summitt’S Post Gender Leadership Narrative, Cody Evan Cohen Jan 2016

Re-Gendering Stories Of Success: John Wooden And Pat Summitt’S Post Gender Leadership Narrative, Cody Evan Cohen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This thesis enters a journey of inquiry to investigate how self-help leadership manuals are subject to patriarchal influences. Specifically, I analyze two self-help leadership biographies in this thesis, Wooden On Leadership by John Wooden and Steve Jamison and Reach For The Summit: The Definite Dozen System For Succeeding At Whatever You Do by Pat Summitt with Sally Jenkins. Both leadership manuals implicate cultural conceptions of gender. Wooden’s text exemplifies ways in which traditional masculine gender roles can infiltrate leadership manuals and Summitt’s text portrays masculine and feminine gender negotiations as a prerequisite for success. This project also contains a survey …

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Seeds Of Brightness: Poetic Memory In James Joyce’S Ulysses, Laura Quinlan Dejong Jan 2016

Seeds Of Brightness: Poetic Memory In James Joyce’S Ulysses, Laura Quinlan Dejong

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This dissertation examines the process of “poetic memory” in James Joyce’s Ulysses, a term chosen by Italian philologist Gian Biagio Conte to describe allusive processes in the poetry of classical texts, specifically the epic. Conte examines and classifies the epic codes and norms residing within and constituting the classical epic genre. These change with each successive epic according to the author’s culture. The allusive process enables an author’s dialogue with his or her predecessors, which has implications for the establishment of textual authority. By applying Conte’s system of epic codes and norms toward a reading of Ulysses, it is possible …

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Silence, Expression, Manifestation: Developing Female Desire And Gender Balance In Early Modern Italian, English, And Spanish Drama, Mitchel Baccinelli Jan 2016

Silence, Expression, Manifestation: Developing Female Desire And Gender Balance In Early Modern Italian, English, And Spanish Drama, Mitchel Baccinelli

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Renaissance and Baroque drama offers a view into gender dynamics of the time. What is seen is a development in the allowed expression and manifestation of desire by females, beginning from a point of near silence, and arriving at points of verbal statement and even physical violence. Specifically, in La Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, there appears a chronological progression, whereby using desire and its expression as a metric in conjunction with modern concepts of gender and sexuality to measure a shift in relation to what is and is …

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Sparse Coding And Compressed Sensing: Locally Competitive Algorithms And Random Projections, William E. Hahn Jan 2016

Sparse Coding And Compressed Sensing: Locally Competitive Algorithms And Random Projections, William E. Hahn

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

For an 8-bit grayscale image patch of size n x n, the number of distinguishable signals is 256(n2). Natural images (e.g.,photographs of a natural scene) comprise a very small subset of these possible signals. Traditional image and video processing relies on band-limited or low-pass signal models. In contrast, we will explore the observation that most signals of interest are sparse, i.e. in a particular basis most of the expansion coefficients will be zero. Recent developments in sparse modeling and L1 optimization have allowed for extraordinary applications such as the single pixel camera, as well as computer vision systems that can …

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Teacher Expertise In Motion: A Theory Of The Synergistic Gears That Shape And Sustain Teacher Expertise, Christine N. Rodriguez Jan 2016

Teacher Expertise In Motion: A Theory Of The Synergistic Gears That Shape And Sustain Teacher Expertise, Christine N. Rodriguez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study explored the factors expert teachers reported as influences in the development and sustainment of their expertise as well as those that challenge it. Through one-on-one interviews with 15 expert teachers, the generated data were scrutinized using a grounded theory approach. The analysis protocol followed a multi-step process of three stages – exploration, amalgamation, and conceptualization. In each of those stages, the data were examined using a cyclical and recursive process of investigation-interpretationintegration- illustration. By the completion of the conceptualization stage, a theory was developed to describe the interdependence of the four influential factors that shape and sustain teacher …

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Testing Momentum Enhancement Of Ribbon Fin Based Propulsion Using A Robotic Model With An Adjustable Body, Ian L. English Jan 2016

Testing Momentum Enhancement Of Ribbon Fin Based Propulsion Using A Robotic Model With An Adjustable Body, Ian L. English

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

A robotic ribbon fin with twelve independent fin rays, elastic fin membrane, and a body of adjustable height was developed for this thesis specifically to test the 1990 theory put forth by Lighthill and Blake that a multiplicative propulsive enhancement exists for Gymnotiform and Balisiform swimmers based on the ratio of body and fin heights. Until now, the theory has not been experimentally tested. Proof of such a momentum enhancement could have a profound effect on unmanned underwater vehicle design and shed light on the evolutionary advantage to body-fin ratios found in nature, shown as optimal for momentum enhancement in …

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Task Specialization In The Public Administration Profession: A Job Analysis Of Public Procurement Practitioners, Joshua M. Steinfeld Jan 2016

Task Specialization In The Public Administration Profession: A Job Analysis Of Public Procurement Practitioners, Joshua M. Steinfeld

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This dissertation examines task specialization in the public administration profession through studying the job tasks that a public procurement practitioner performs, manages, and both performs and manages. The purpose of this dissertation was to establish a baseline to benchmark what these practitioners actually do on their jobs. Factor analysis was used to study a data set of 2,549 respondents that were administered a survey by the Universal Public Procurement Certification Council (UPPCC) in 2012. The research question to be answered involved addressing what job tasks public procurement practitioners perform, manage, and both perform and manage. Hypotheses were examined that predicted …

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The American Police Paramilitary Unit: An Analysis Of Swat As An Aggressive Policing Strategy, Brian P. Mello Jan 2016

The American Police Paramilitary Unit: An Analysis Of Swat As An Aggressive Policing Strategy, Brian P. Mello

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This research study examines the American paramilitary units know as Special Weapons and Tactics. Throughout this thesis, the fundamental and foundational research on police paramilitary units is presented and discussed. Additionally, this paper focuses on trends of militarization in American policing. Mainly, these trends are identified by the tremendous rise and normalization of American paramilitary police units since the internal societal wars of the 1970s. In this study, research is presented on Special Weapons and Tactics team deployments in the state of Maryland. Four years of data are analyzed focusing on proactive search warrant crime deployments from 2010 through 2013. …

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The Expression And Analysis Of A Lysine-Rich Wound-Response Protein In Tomato Plants., Noah Kaplan Jan 2016

The Expression And Analysis Of A Lysine-Rich Wound-Response Protein In Tomato Plants., Noah Kaplan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Understanding the genetic regulation of the response to wounding and wound healing in fruiting plants is imperative to maintaining agricultural sustainability, preserving the quality of food supplies, and ensuring the economic viability of agriculture. Many genes are known to be induced by wounding, providing both structural repair and defense. The KED gene in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) has been shown to be induced by wounding. We have identified its homologue gene in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) that we named SlKED. We have analyzed gene expression pattern of SlKED through tomato growth and development and in response to wounding as well as hormonal …

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The Legitimacy Of Cookbooks As Rhetoric Of Southern Culture, Cynthia Carrico-Rausch Jan 2016

The Legitimacy Of Cookbooks As Rhetoric Of Southern Culture, Cynthia Carrico-Rausch

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Community cookbooks operate through a rhetoric of place as ways of thinking about belonging and influencing communal identities. They reveal much about a community, including the sharing of memories and tradition, geographical identification, and representation of socio-cultural hierarchies and habits. For that reason, this paper advances the claim that the discourse and visuality in community cookbooks, specifically the cookbooks 200 Years of Charleston Cooking, Charleston Receipts, and Charleston Receipts Repeats published during the height of a renaissance in Southern literature, influenced the identity of “Southerness” which, taken in conjunction with place, space, and time has resulted in a unification of …

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The Effects Of Case Conceptualization Training Over Time And Its Relationship To Practitioner Attitudes Towards Evidence-Based Practice, George Stoupas Jan 2016

The Effects Of Case Conceptualization Training Over Time And Its Relationship To Practitioner Attitudes Towards Evidence-Based Practice, George Stoupas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The purpose of this quantitative, quasi-experimental study was to examine the effects of a standardized case conceptualization training workshop on 104 psychotherapy practitioners recruited from the community. A secondary purpose was to examine the relationship between participants’ attitudes about evidence-based practice and the effects of the training. Participants attended two 3-hour training workshops, which taught the integrative case conceptualization model developed by Sperry (2010b). Pre- and postintervention case conceptualization skills were assessed using the Case Conceptualization Evaluation Form (CCEF) 2.0, an updated version of the instrument used in previous studies. Additionally, participants’ views about case conceptualization were assessed before and …

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The Relationship Between The Self-Efficacy Of Monolingual And Bilingual Undergraduate College Students And Their Academic Achievement In Science And Math., Rina Pomerantz Jan 2016

The Relationship Between The Self-Efficacy Of Monolingual And Bilingual Undergraduate College Students And Their Academic Achievement In Science And Math., Rina Pomerantz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Almost twenty-one percent of the United States population spoke a language other than English in 2011. Furthermore, there has been a dramatic increase in the enrollment of students of Hispanic and other ethnic backgrounds in U.S. post-secondary institutions between 1976 and 2013 (from 4% to 16%) (National Center for Education Statistics NCES, 2016). Until now, no systematic research has focused on the differential effects of selfefficacy on academic achievement in monolingual and bilingual undergraduate college students. The present study aimed to investigate this relationship, as well as contribute additional insight on whether the academic self-efficacy of monolingual and bilingual undergraduate …

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The Occurrence Of Vibrio Vulnificus, V. Parahaemolyticus And V. Cholerae In The Indian River Lagoon, Florida, With Implications For Human Health, Gabrielle M. Barbarite Jan 2016

The Occurrence Of Vibrio Vulnificus, V. Parahaemolyticus And V. Cholerae In The Indian River Lagoon, Florida, With Implications For Human Health, Gabrielle M. Barbarite

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Vibrio bacteria are emerging pathogens responsible for 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths in the United States each year. Infections are directly linked to the marine environment and are acquired by consuming contaminated seafood or exposing wounds during aquatic activities. Florida has the highest national incidence of vibriosis, with 20% of its cases reported from the Indian River Lagoon region, a popular recreation destination. This study utilized a combination of cultivation and molecular techniques to investigate the local distribution of V. vulnificus, V. parahaemolyticus and V. cholerae in this local waterway. The targeted species were found in an array of samples …

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Thermodynamic Origins Of Selectivity In The Interactions Of N- Timp Variants And Metalloproteinases Catalytic Domains, Haiyin Zou Jan 2016

Thermodynamic Origins Of Selectivity In The Interactions Of N- Timp Variants And Metalloproteinases Catalytic Domains, Haiyin Zou

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) constitute the major class of enzymes capable of degrading all protein components of extracellular matrix (ECM) and have important roles in normal physiologic processes of maintaining tissue integrity and remodeling. However, excess MMP activities are associated with many diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, cardiomyopathy, and macular degeneration. The activity of MMPs is regulated by their endogenous protein inhibitors, the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) which are avid broad-spectrum inhibitors of numerous human matrixins (MMPs and ADAMs). Uncontrolled matrix degradation occurs when the balance between TIMPs and MMPs is disrupted, resulting in serious diseases such as cancer, …

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Trauma And Telling: Examining The Intergenerational Transmission Of Trauma Through Silence, Jennifer Murray Jan 2016

Trauma And Telling: Examining The Intergenerational Transmission Of Trauma Through Silence, Jennifer Murray

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

In recent decades there has been a great deal of scholarly and scientific work examining both the impact and the transmission of trauma. The focus of this thesis is the transmission of the trauma of genocide and large-scale historical traumas, specifically that seen in the Holocaust and the missionization of the California Indians in the 18th century. Through the analysis of the autobiographical narratives composed by three generations of Holocaust survivors, as well as one composed by a later generation descendant of the California Mission Indians, I argue that silence is not only a manifestation of trauma but also a …

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Through The North Door: The Invocation Of Invitational Rhetoric In Wiccan Rituals, Kayleigh Howald Jan 2016

Through The North Door: The Invocation Of Invitational Rhetoric In Wiccan Rituals, Kayleigh Howald

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Wiccan witchcraft, a contemporary religion, frequently suffers from misunderstandings; the worst of which, arguably, being that it thrives in a postfeminist society. Although it remains unclear why witches, despite their specific traditions, would not immediately embrace feminism, this study claims that whether practitioners agree or disagree, they are performing feminism. In this study, I argue that Wiccan rhetoric (both discursive and non-discursive) functions epistemically to encourage feminist values. The thesis analyzes three typical forms of Wiccan rhetoric using Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin’s approach of invitational rhetoric and the values of equality, immanent value, and self-determination.

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The Very Useful Notion: A Rhetorical History Of The Idea Of Human-Made Climate Change, 1950-2000, Gary Brooten Jan 2016

The Very Useful Notion: A Rhetorical History Of The Idea Of Human-Made Climate Change, 1950-2000, Gary Brooten

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This dissertation tests an original hybrid methodology to explore the rapid spread of the idea of human-made climate change that began in the 1950s after the idea had lain dormant for half a century. It describes the 1950s rhetorical events that triggered the idea’s diffusion, then traces how its rhetorical uses gradually gave root to the end-of-thecentury political impasse over how to respond to the societal implications of the idea. The research methodology rests on the simple logic that an idea can only spread by being used in human discourses. It combines traditions of rhetorical historiography with a philosophical view …

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Understanding The Cultural Changes Of Family Creation, Size And Unity Through The Analysis Of The Changing Behaviors And Meanings Of Their Symbols, Ida Everest-Aranguren Jan 2016

Understanding The Cultural Changes Of Family Creation, Size And Unity Through The Analysis Of The Changing Behaviors And Meanings Of Their Symbols, Ida Everest-Aranguren

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study seeks to explore longitudinally the changing behaviors and meanings of the symbols bound to family creation, size and unity in order to understand why and how they changed. The research method fuses historical facts collected from historical literature, the data from the participant’s interviews, and the ethnology of the American family made by David Schneider (1980), using symbolic anthropology as the guiding theoretical framework. The imposed gender differentiation, religious precepts, the shifting economic models, economic recessions, World War I and World War II, intellectual and technological developments, and the ideologies accompanying these events caused changes of human behavior …

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Verb Memory And Text Comprehension, Lamiya Khan Jan 2016

Verb Memory And Text Comprehension, Lamiya Khan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Kersten, Earles, and Berger (2015) reported a distinction between two kinds of motion representations. Extrinsic motions involve the path of a person or object, with respect to an external frame of reference. Intrinsic motions involve the manner in which the various parts of a person or object move. They found that intrinsic motions are encoded and remembered with the corresponding actor performing the motions in a unitized memory representation. Extrinsic motions are encoded as separate memory representations, making them more difficult to accurately associate with the correct actor. In the proposed experiment, I will examine the generality of this distinction …

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Creating A Religious Divide: Journeys Through Hell In British And American Science Fiction, Advitiya Sachdev Jan 2016

Creating A Religious Divide: Journeys Through Hell In British And American Science Fiction, Advitiya Sachdev

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Science fiction, like any other genre, is sub-divided into categories. Yet scholars in the field have long debated the existence of multiple, regional sf genres. The most critiqued of these classifications is between sf produced in Britain, and America. Though Britain remains the birthplace of sf, American author have undoubtedly left a mark on the genre. Scholars mark this difference in the writing styles and themes of authors in these regions. To examine this difference, I analyze two authors that have worked on a common theme: religion and in particular, the concept of hell. Evaluating the arguments put forth by …

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Coral-Algal Symbioses In Mesophotic Montastraea Cavernosa In The Gulf Of Mexico, Jennifer Polinski Jan 2016

Coral-Algal Symbioses In Mesophotic Montastraea Cavernosa In The Gulf Of Mexico, Jennifer Polinski

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Mesophotic reefs represent biodiverse ecosystems that may act as a refuge for depth-generalist coral species threatened in shallow habitats. Despite the importance of coral-algal symbioses, few studies focus on mesophotic zooxanthellae assemblages and their influence on connectivity. This study compared zooxanthellae in Montastraea cavernosa at shallow and mesophotic depths at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary and McGrail Bank. Mesophotic corals contained more zooxanthellae and more chlorophyll a and c2 per unit area coral. Increased zooxanthellae within mesophotic corals may represent an adaptive strategy to optimize light capture in low-light environments. Genetic profiles for zooxanthellae assemblages from shallow and mesophotic …

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Culturally Tailoring A Substance Use Intervention Among Southeastern Urban American Indian And Alaska Native Youth, Rose M. Wimbish-Cirilo Jan 2016

Culturally Tailoring A Substance Use Intervention Among Southeastern Urban American Indian And Alaska Native Youth, Rose M. Wimbish-Cirilo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

In the United States, post European-colonial influence and exposure to substances such as alcohol historically mark the beginning of substance use exposure and involvement among all American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. Research findings indicate there are strong interrelationships between the origin and prevalence of substance use and U.S.-European colonization, historical trauma, forced assimilation, cultural losses, and relocation among urban AI/AN people (Burt, 1986; Clinton, Chadwick, & Bahr, 1975; Yuan et al., 2010). In an historical sense, the unsuccessful attempts of relocating AI/AN people to urban areas place the future generations of urban AI/AN youth at risk for substance …

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Do “Superstar” Ceos Impair Auditors’ Independence And Professional Skepticism?, Oscar Harvin Jan 2016

Do “Superstar” Ceos Impair Auditors’ Independence And Professional Skepticism?, Oscar Harvin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The study examines the potential threat to an auditor’s independence in fact which may result from the extraordinarily favorable personal reputation (superstar status) of an audit client’s CEO This potential threat to an auditors’ independence is the result of a halo effect bias which can distort an individual’s judgment and behavior Accounting firms use a business risk audit approach which involves conducting a strategic risk assessment which assesses the overall threats to the business model of an audit client Prior research has demonstrated that the strategic risk assessment can bias the judgment of auditors pertaining to financial account level risk …

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Distribution And Diversity Of Benthic Foraminifera Within The Nearshore Ridge Complex Off Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida., Caitlin Hanley Jan 2016

Distribution And Diversity Of Benthic Foraminifera Within The Nearshore Ridge Complex Off Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida., Caitlin Hanley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Benthic foraminifera are exceptional organisms with distinctive features that allow for interpretation of both past and present environmental conditions. Some benthic foraminifera are widely distributed while some are restricted to specific environments due to their way of life. Foraminiferal assemblages south of Biscayne Bay and north of Cape Canaveral have previously been investigated; however, a gap exists in data covering a transitional zone along the Florida coast between the tropical waters of the western Atlantic and the cooler coastal waters along the North American coast. The purpose of this study was to collect baseline data on the benthic foraminifera of …

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Early Childhood Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge Of Children’Scognitive Development And Developmentally Appropriatepedagogical Practices: Understanding The Role Of Clinicalexperiences, Courtney Beers Jan 2016

Early Childhood Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge Of Children’Scognitive Development And Developmentally Appropriatepedagogical Practices: Understanding The Role Of Clinicalexperiences, Courtney Beers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The quality of early caregiving and educational environments has a significant effect on children’s later cognitive outcomes. Early childhood teachers are an important determining factor in the quality of these environments. Due to inconsistencies in practice across the early childhood field, there is a call for better prepared teachers. Teacher preparation itself is criticized for its lack of innovative and effective practices. While research finds that more effective teacher preparation programs are those that are steeped in clinical practice, these types of experiences are inconsistent and fragmented in the early childhood field. Part of the issue is the lack of …

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A Federal Certificate Of Rehabilitation Program: Providing Federal Ex-Offenders More Opportunity For Successful Reentry, Lisa A. Rich Jan 2016

A Federal Certificate Of Rehabilitation Program: Providing Federal Ex-Offenders More Opportunity For Successful Reentry, Lisa A. Rich

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The purpose of this Article is to propose a new federal certificate of rehabilitation program. The creation of such a program not only would help the thousands of federal offenders released back into their communities every year overcome employment barriers but would also serve as a model for states to use in addressing the need of their own burgeoning population of former offenders. In order to understand the magnitude of the problem, it is essential to understand the pool of offenders affected by their criminal history, the intent of the federal agencies to assist this disadvantaged group, and the barriers …

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