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Thinly Veiled: Institutional Messages In The Language Of Secularism In Public Schools In France And The United States, R. Vance Eaton Jan 2010

Thinly Veiled: Institutional Messages In The Language Of Secularism In Public Schools In France And The United States, R. Vance Eaton

South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business

No abstract provided.


Sensitivity Of Air Pollution-Induced Premature Mortality To Precursor Emissions Under The Influence Of Climate Change, Efthimios Tagaris, Kuo J. Liao, Anthony J. Delucia, Leland Deck, Praveen Amar, Armistead G. Russell Jan 2010

Sensitivity Of Air Pollution-Induced Premature Mortality To Precursor Emissions Under The Influence Of Climate Change, Efthimios Tagaris, Kuo J. Liao, Anthony J. Delucia, Leland Deck, Praveen Amar, Armistead G. Russell

ETSU Faculty Works

The relative contributions of PM2.5 and ozone precursor emissions to air pollution-related premature mortality modulated by climate change are estimated for the U.S. using sensitivities of air pollutants to precursor emissions and health outcomes for 2001 and 2050. Result suggests that states with high emission rates and significant premature mortality increases induced by PM2.5 will substantially benefit in the future from SO2, anthropogenic NOX and NH3 emissions reductions while states with premature mortality increases induced by O3 will benefit mainly from anthropogenic NOX emissions reduction. Much of the increase in premature mortality expected from climate changeinduced pollutant increases can be …


Drug Policy In Context: Rhetoric And Practice In The United States And The United Kingdom, Richard C. Boldt Jan 2010

Drug Policy In Context: Rhetoric And Practice In The United States And The United Kingdom, Richard C. Boldt

South Carolina Law Review

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Find Your Voice : Take A Stand, Jurene Wallery Jan 2010

Find Your Voice : Take A Stand, Jurene Wallery

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Theodore Roosevelt : Principle, Progress, And Pragmatism, Cory England Jan 2010

Theodore Roosevelt : Principle, Progress, And Pragmatism, Cory England

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Perceptions Of Stalking Victims : Gender Of Victim And Level Of Threat, Billea J. M Ahlgrim Jan 2010

Perceptions Of Stalking Victims : Gender Of Victim And Level Of Threat, Billea J. M Ahlgrim

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Infusing Culture Into Practice: Developing And Implementing Evidence-Based Mental Health Services For African American Foster Youth, Harold E. Briggs, Bowen Mcbeath Jan 2010

Infusing Culture Into Practice: Developing And Implementing Evidence-Based Mental Health Services For African American Foster Youth, Harold E. Briggs, Bowen Mcbeath

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

The lack of culturally appropriate health and mental health care has contributed to the large number of African American youth and families involved in the child welfare system. This article reviews the consequences of the insufficient access to culturally sensitive, evidence-supported interventions for African American foster youth. The authors describe a framework for the development of culturally appropriate mental health interventions responsive to the needs of African Americans.


Disclosing 'Political' Oversight Of Agency Decision Making, Nina A. Mendelson Jan 2010

Disclosing 'Political' Oversight Of Agency Decision Making, Nina A. Mendelson

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Scholars and courts have divided views on whether presidential supervision enhances the legitimacy of the administrative state. For some, that the President can supervise administrative agencies is key to seeing agency action as legitimate, because of the President's accountability to the electorate. Others, however, have argued that such supervision may simply taint, rather than legitimate, an agency action. The reality is that presidential supervision of agency rulemaking, at least, appears to be both significant and opaque. This Article presents evidence from multiple presidential administrations suggesting that regulatory review conducted by the White House's Office of Management and Budget is associated …


Increase In America's Health, Decrease In Health Costs : Through A Public-Private Health Working Relationship, Kimberly A. Schulte Jan 2010

Increase In America's Health, Decrease In Health Costs : Through A Public-Private Health Working Relationship, Kimberly A. Schulte

Theses and Dissertations

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Toward Intercultural Competence : Intercultural Training For Japanese Students In The United States, Tomoko Harpster Jan 2010

Toward Intercultural Competence : Intercultural Training For Japanese Students In The United States, Tomoko Harpster

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This thesis project explored how study abroad program administrators can help Japanese students develop intercultural competence through predeparture and ongoing intercultural training so as to improve their capacity to adapt effectively to American cultural norms. The ultimate purpose of this thesis project was to help Japanese students who were studying in the U.S. balance their involvement with their peer group from Japan and build relationships with people in the U.S. in order to fully experience American culture. To provide a context for this study, a review of the literature was conducted regarding the challenges faced by Japanese students while studying …


Summary And Recommendations (Symposium On Designing A Federal Vat, Part I), Reuven S. Avi-Yonah Jan 2010

Summary And Recommendations (Symposium On Designing A Federal Vat, Part I), Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

Articles

For the past thirty-five years, the debate on fundamental tax reform in the United States has centered on whether some type of consumption tax would replace all or part of the federal income tax. In my opinion, this debate has now been decided. Given recent budgetary developments and the impending eligibility of the baby boom generation for Social Security and Medicare, we cannot dispense with the revenue from the corporate and individual income tax. Moreover, we will need huge amounts of additional revenue, and most informed observers believe that the only plausible source for such revenues is a federal value-added …


Heritage Is Not Enough: The Changing Demographics Of The Chinese Language Field In The United States, Scott Mcginnis Jan 2010

Heritage Is Not Enough: The Changing Demographics Of The Chinese Language Field In The United States, Scott Mcginnis

Russian Language Journal

In a series of articles beginning in 1994, Richard Brecht and the late A. Ronald Walton first identified four sectors in the United States as sources for providing national capacity in the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs).


Understanding The Female Conceptualization Of Sexual Addiction And The Role Of Addiction Treatment, Megan Douglass Jan 2010

Understanding The Female Conceptualization Of Sexual Addiction And The Role Of Addiction Treatment, Megan Douglass

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Beginning with the diagnosis of nymphomania in the 19th Century, there has been widespread and continued interest across the mental health and bio-medical realm of what constitutes normality of female sexual behavior, and of the boundary at which sexual desire is deemed to be excessive, and thus abnormal. However, research questions that specifically investigate the subjective female voice and perspective in considerations of so-called hypersexuality or sex addiction remain understudied. This research project proposes to examine the cultural pathways and systemic foundations which have historically in the West problematized female sexuality by investigating women's own perceptions of sexual addiction and …


Muslims In The Media:The New York Times From 2000 - 2008, Autumn Bishop Jan 2010

Muslims In The Media:The New York Times From 2000 - 2008, Autumn Bishop

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Although it is widely recognized that Muslims and Middle Easterners were negatively portrayed in the media after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, few scholars examine the long term media presentations of Islam in the United States. The studies that have explored the relationship of the portrayal of Islam by the media have used short term, limited sampling techniques, which may not properly reflect the popular media as a whole. The current research uses data from the New York Times from 2000-2008 in order to determine whether the popular media was portraying Islam in a disparaging manner. The analysis …


Association Between Serum Γ-Glutamyltransferase And Chronic Kidney Disease Among Us Adults, Srinivas Teppala, Anoop Shankar, Jialiang Li, Tien Yin Wong, Alan Ducatman Jan 2010

Association Between Serum Γ-Glutamyltransferase And Chronic Kidney Disease Among Us Adults, Srinivas Teppala, Anoop Shankar, Jialiang Li, Tien Yin Wong, Alan Ducatman

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

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Benchmarking And Evaluating The Comparative Efficiency Of Urban Paratransit Systems In The United States: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach, Hokey Min, Thomas E. Lambert Jan 2010

Benchmarking And Evaluating The Comparative Efficiency Of Urban Paratransit Systems In The United States: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach, Hokey Min, Thomas E. Lambert

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 encouraged public transit authorities to reassess the way they serve aging populations and physically handicapped individuals requiring door-to-door services. As the demand for paratransit services rose dramatically the last few years due to a growing number of aging baby-boomers and injured Iraq-Afghanistan War veterans, many public transit authorities have been faced with the dilemma of meeting the growing demand while controlling costs in times of ongoing budget crises. To help public transit authorities better cope with such a dilemma, this paper evaluates the comparative operating efficiency of 75 selected paratransit agencies in …


The Full Realization Of Our Rights: The Right To Health In State Constitutions, Cynthia Soohoo, Jordan Goldberg Jan 2010

The Full Realization Of Our Rights: The Right To Health In State Constitutions, Cynthia Soohoo, Jordan Goldberg

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Influence Of Small Class Size, Duration, Intensity, And Heterogeneity On Head Start Fade, Christopher D. Huss Jan 2010

The Influence Of Small Class Size, Duration, Intensity, And Heterogeneity On Head Start Fade, Christopher D. Huss

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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U.S. Virtual School Trial Period And Course Completion Policy Study, Abigail Hawkins, Michael K. Barbour Jan 2010

U.S. Virtual School Trial Period And Course Completion Policy Study, Abigail Hawkins, Michael K. Barbour

Education Faculty Publications

Variation in policies virtual schools use to calculate course completion and retention rates impacts the comparability of these quality metrics. This study surveyed 159 U.S. virtual schools examining the variability in trial period and course completion policies--two policies that affect course completion rates. Of the 86 respondents, almost 70% had trial periods that varied from 1 day to 185 days. Course completion definitions varied from remaining in the course irrespective of the final grade to receiving an A- in the course. Such wide variation renders the completion and retention rate metrics useless. We recommend virtual schools adopt consistent measures for …


Statement Of Gene B. Sperling Counselor To The Secretary, Department Of The Treasury Before The Senate Democratic Policy Committee December 16, 2009, Gene Sperling Dec 2009

Statement Of Gene B. Sperling Counselor To The Secretary, Department Of The Treasury Before The Senate Democratic Policy Committee December 16, 2009, Gene Sperling

Documents

No abstract provided.


The U.S. Government Role As Shareholder In Aig, Citigroup, Chrysler, And General Motors And Preliminary Views On Its Investment Management Activities, United States Government Accountability Office, United States: Government Accountability Office (Gao) Dec 2009

The U.S. Government Role As Shareholder In Aig, Citigroup, Chrysler, And General Motors And Preliminary Views On Its Investment Management Activities, United States Government Accountability Office, United States: Government Accountability Office (Gao)

Documents

No abstract provided.


Minutes Of The Federal Open Market Committee Dec. 15 -16, 2009, Brian Madigan, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors: Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc) Dec 2009

Minutes Of The Federal Open Market Committee Dec. 15 -16, 2009, Brian Madigan, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors: Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc)

Documents

No abstract provided.


Secretary Of Treasury Timothy F. Geithner Written Testimony, Timothy F. Geithner, United States: Department Of The Treasury Dec 2009

Secretary Of Treasury Timothy F. Geithner Written Testimony, Timothy F. Geithner, United States: Department Of The Treasury

Documents

No abstract provided.


Secretary Of The Treasury Timothy F. Geithner Written Testimony Before The Congressional Oversight Panel, Timothy F. Geithner Dec 2009

Secretary Of The Treasury Timothy F. Geithner Written Testimony Before The Congressional Oversight Panel, Timothy F. Geithner

Documents

No abstract provided.


Taking Stock: What Has The Troubled Asset Relief Program Achieved?, United States: Congress: Congressional Oversight Panel (Cop) Dec 2009

Taking Stock: What Has The Troubled Asset Relief Program Achieved?, United States: Congress: Congressional Oversight Panel (Cop)

Documents

No abstract provided.


Regulation A: Extensions Of Credit By Federal Reserve Banks, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors Dec 2009

Regulation A: Extensions Of Credit By Federal Reserve Banks, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors

Documents

Regulation A: Extensions of Credit by Federal Reserve Banks (12 C.F.R. Part 201). Federal Register 74, no. 235 (December).


Financial Audit: Office Of Financial Stability (Troubled Asset Relief Program) Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Statements, United States Government Accountability Office Dec 2009

Financial Audit: Office Of Financial Stability (Troubled Asset Relief Program) Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Statements, United States Government Accountability Office

Documents

No abstract provided.


The Financial Crisis, Systemic Risk, And The Future Of Insurance Regulation, Scott E. Harrington Dec 2009

The Financial Crisis, Systemic Risk, And The Future Of Insurance Regulation, Scott E. Harrington

Documents

No abstract provided.


Valuing The Treasury's Capital Assistance Program, Paul Glasserman, Zhenyu Wang Dec 2009

Valuing The Treasury's Capital Assistance Program, Paul Glasserman, Zhenyu Wang

Documents

No abstract provided.


Don't Be Undersold!, Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp, Nirmalya Kumar Dec 2009

Don't Be Undersold!, Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp, Nirmalya Kumar

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

"Aldi" is a word that strikes fear in the hearts of brand managers across Europe. A chain of low-budget retail stores with sales of $73.5 billion in 2008, Aldi invented what is commonly referred to as the hard-discount store, a format that is destroying between a quarter and a half trillion dollars in brand sales annually.Brand executives at major consumer packaged goods companies have mostly been caught off guard by this success, The authors' research identified four key misconceptions that explain why: (1) Hard discounters can succeed only in Europe; (2) they attract only the poor; (3) they offer inferior …