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Clandestine Partnerships?: The Link Between Human Trafficking And Organized Crime In Metropolitan Atlanta, Tara M. Tripp

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Since the enactment of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, which directly criminalized human trafficking, research on human trafficking has significantly increased. While recent studies have analyzed trafficking legislation, characteristics of offenders and victims, and types of human trafficking rings, little data has been collected on human trafficking ties to organized crime. Therefore, this research explores human trafficking and its relationship to organized crime through an analysis of public court records. Specifically, the study includes the 20 federal human trafficking cases in metropolitan Atlanta indicted between 2000 and 2012. It was found that 80% of the 20 human trafficking …

An Insight Into The Wrongly Convicted: Going Beyond The Perceptions And Beliefs Of The Causes, Chermaine Cribb

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

This study examined the number of wrongful convictions that were exonerated from January 1, 2004 to September 1, 2012. Four hundred forty seven exoneration cases were examined to obtain the factors that contributed to wrongful convictions, the most common offenses related to wrongful convictions, the evidence that led to a new trial, and the outcome of the exoneration based on dismissal of charges, acquittal, or pardons. Interviews were conducted to obtain exoneration case representation criteria, challenges faced in handling exonerations, and the factors found that contributed to wrongful conviction cases worked on. This study revealed that the most common offenses …

Relationship Of A Healthy Work Environment To Retention Of Direct Care Nurses In A Hospital Setting, Ashlee P. Thomas

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Purpose: The anticipated nursing shortage supports the need for researchers to identify contributing factors that impact supply of direct care nurses. This study evaluated which elements of a healthy work environment were predictors of retention of direct care nurses in a hospital setting.

Design: A non-experimental descriptive predictive design was used.

Methods: Data were collected from a convenience sample of direct care nurses in an acute hospital in the southeastern United States using the Healthy Work Environment (HWE) instrument and the Anticipated Turnover Scale (ATS) in October and November 2012. Using multiple regression elements of the HWE …

How Caring Attitudes And Patient-Family Centered Care Beliefs Of Critical Care Registered Nurses Influence Family Members’ Perceptions Of Patient-Family Centered Care, Jennifer Shamloo

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Purpose: To examine the relationships between caring attitudes and PFCC beliefs of critical care nurses and family members’ perceptions of PFCC.

Design: A descriptive, cross-sectional research design was used.

Methods: One hundred and six critical care registered nurses and 76 critical care family members were recruited from a healthcare organization located in the southeastern United States. Data collection occurred from October 2012 to November 2012.

Results: Nurses reported a high level of caring efficacy and moderately high beliefs about PFCC principles. Family members reported a moderate level of PFCC needs being met. No statistically significant relationships …

The Effects Of Work Schedule Flexibility On Job Satisfaction Of Telephone Advice Nurses, Angela D. O'Neal

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of work environment on job satisfaction of telephone advice nurses and describe any relationships that might exist among specific RN characteristics and overall job satisfaction.

Design: An exploratory, descriptive correlation design was selected to answer the research questions with the conceptual framework based on Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory.

Methods: A convenience sample from77 telephone nurses at two call centers of a large metropolitan health care system in southeastern United States was utilized. Data collection took place in October 2012 using the McCloskey/Mueller Satisfaction Scale and specific demographic …

Two Essays On The Degree Of Globalization Of A Firm: Measurement, Antecedents, And Consequences, Victor B. Marshall

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

In this research I address the question: how global should a firm be? Answering this question requires addressing several related questions. First, what is a global firm, and how does one measure how global a firm is? Second, which firm capabilities are antecedents to firm globalization? And finally, what is the relationship between firm globalization and performance?

I begin by examining Rugman’s (2003, 2005) and Asmussen’s (2009) measures for the globalization of a firm and develop a new, simplified, enhanced measure, the Degree of Globalization (DOG). DOG is an easy to interpret continuous ratio variable that is mathematically and empirically …

The Influence Of Auxiliary Ligands On The Photophysical Characteristics Of A Series Of Ruthenium (Ii) Polypyridyl Complexes, Luke O'Neill, Laura Perdisatt, Christine O'Connor

Articles

A series of ruthenium polypyridyl complexes were studied using UV/Vis absorption and luminescence spectroscopy as well as luminescence lifetime determination by time correlated single photon counting (TCSPC). The complexes were characterised with regard to the variation in the electronic band-gap as a result of the sequential variation of the auxiliary ligand 2,2’-bipyridine (bpy), 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) and 2,2’-biquinoline (biq) ligands while the main ligand remained constant for three different main ligand types. Luminescence yields were calculated and correlated with structural and electronic variation. It was found that both the absorption and emission characteristics could be tailored through the systematic variation of …

Salary Inversion In Business Schools: Does A Rising Tide Lift All Boats?, Tom Arnold, Raymond P.H. Fishe, Adam Schwartz

Finance Faculty Publications

The paper analyzes AACSB salary survey information from 1979 to 2008. The question addressed in this analysis is whether salary inversion is widespread across the three business disciplines of accounting, economics, and finance. We find limited evidence of mean level inversions, which is concentrated in recent years. Stochastic dominance methods confirm these results. We also develop a measure of salary dominance based on comparing the distribution of reported salaries. This statistic shows a significant trend towards salary inversion in finance and accounting.

Reseñas

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Cine Mexicano Y Su Representación Periférica: La Representación De Las Luchas Armadas Contemporáneas, Guillermo Martínez Sotelo

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El cine mexicano ha sido históricamente ligado al centro cultural del país, la Ciudad de México; y la cinematografía que se produce en la periferia regularmente toma una forma crítica en contra del sistema. El objetivo del análisis de estas dos películas es dar a conocer a más profundidad una vertiente del cine mexicano que hace crítica a dicho sistema establecido, sin necesidad de estar dentro del centro de poder. En este ensayo se analiza la temática y la construcción visual que hacen dos películas mexicanas y que cuya temática se desarrolla enfocada en los conflictos armados que se han …

El Sujeto De La Lengua Sujeto A La Lengua: Reflexiones Sobre La Dramaturgia Performativa Contemporánea, Stephan Baumgärtel, Miguel Ángel Zamorano, Karen Basaure

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Partiendo de un breve análisis de la performatividad escénica contemporánea, este artículo investiga procedimientos formales de una escritura teatral que muestra rasgos más performativos que representacionales. Para tal fin, analiza aspectos performativos de la dramaturgia de Valére Novarina, Rainald Goetz e Heiner Müller. Enfoca la materialidad de la lengua y el uso desviante de estructuras lingü.sticas habituales como tácticas que predominan en una estética de escritura teatral que presenta a la propia lengua como el personaje principal. A partir del reconocimiento de la ausencia del sujeto-constituyente, muestra por qué la dramaturgia performativa puede calificarse de posmoderna y posdramática y argumenta …

Reflexiones Entorno Al Patrimonio Cinematográfico En España Y Su Protección, Gloria Camarero Gómez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El objetivo de este texto es presentar y evaluar las políticas realizadas en el marco normativo nacional e internacional, que han articulado el concepto de patrimonio cinematográfico susceptible de protección y su excepcionalidad. Igualmente, se insiste en las actuaciones concretas llevadas a cabo recientemente en España dentro del rescate, restauración y divulgación del mismo, así como en el futuro de tales intervenciones.

O Silêncio Do Subalterno Em Menino De Engenho E Bangüê, Olimpia E. Rosenthal

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El presente artículo analiza la forma en que la voz del subalterno es silenciada en las novelas Menino de Engenho y Bangüê, ambas del escritor brasileño José Lins do Rego. Basándome en las teorías de Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak y Michel Foucault, examino las asimetrías entre poder y conocimiento que se evidencian en estos textos. Argumento que el tipo discurso que se construye en ambas novelas ejemplifica un patrón común de la literatura brasileña de comienzos del siglo XX, por medio del cual la representación de judíos, mujeres y afrobrasileños buscaba propagar ideologías de la clase dominante masculina de la …

Don Quijote En El Cine: ¿Un Sueño Imposible?, Rafael De España

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

De las muchas adaptaciones cinematográficas y televisivas de la novela de Cervantes nos vamos a centrar en aquellas que recogen la interpretación "trágica" del personaje, al que presentan como una figura crística que quiere llevar a un mundo dominado por la maldad y el egoísmo un mensaje de amor y justicia. Pese a su origen esencialmente eslavo (ruso), este "Quijote trágico" ha tenido una extraordinaria aceptación en el cine internacional y ha contribuido a darle una imagen popular que en gran medida desvirtúa el concepto original cervantino.

Estudio Formal E Intertextual De Buried, Modelo De Eficiencia Narrativa Y Eficacia Constructiva, Valeriano Piñeiro Naval, Raquel Crespo Vila

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El objetivo de este artículo radica en poner de manifiesto el carácter novedoso y la originalidad de los planteamientos narrativo y constructivo de Buried, cinta atípica no solo en la cinematografía española sino también internacional. Por tanto, y de forma muy concisa, nuestro propósito consiste en resaltar los aspectos que hacen de este filme una de las mayores y más agradables sorpresas del cine español de las últimas décadas.

Motivos Y Estrategias Del Futurismo, José Alberto Conderana Cerrillo

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Estudio crítico de la visión del mundo generada por el Futurismo en los ámbitos de las artes plásticas y la arquitectura, con especial atención al triunfo de la orientación “necromorfa”, auspiciada por el culto de la modernidad, la guerra y el clima político radicalizado.

Sfa Gardens Newsletter, Fall 2012, Sfa Gardens, Stephen F. Austin State University

SFA Gardens Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Genetic Characterization Of North American Populations Of The Wheat Curl Mite And Dry Bulb Mite, Gary L. Hein, Roy French, Benjawan Siriwetwiwat, James W. Amrine

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

The wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella Keifer, transmits at least three harmful viruses, wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV), high plains virus (HPV), and Triticum mosaic virus (TriMV) to wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) throughout the Great Plains. This virus complex is considered to be the most serious disease of winter wheat in the western Great Plains. One component of managing this disease has been developing mite resistance in wheat; however, identification of mite biotypes has complicated deployment and stability of resistance. This biotypic variability in mites and differential virus transmission by different mite populations underscores the need to better understand …

Challenging Hidden Assumptions: Colonial Ideologies As Determinants Of Aboriginal Mental Health, Sarah E. Nelson

Geography and Geology Faculty Publications

This report outlines how colonial practices such as the residential school system and government banning of ceremonies inflicted a “soul wound,” or intergenerational trauma caused by the experience of violence, oppression, and grief, on Aboriginal peoples.

Whose Invention Is It Anyway? Employee Invention-Assignment Agreements And Their Limits, Parker A. Howell

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

Pre-invention assignment provisions have become important and commonplace facets of employment agreements, supplanting common law rules for invention ownership. Yet statutes in seven states—including California, Washington, and Minnesota—restrict invention assignment. These statutes make agreements unenforceable when a worker invents on his or her own time without use of employer resources and the invention does not relate to the employer’s business or the employee’s work. Employers should be ready to argue why a given invention is not excluded from assignment by statute, although judicial decisions suggest many disputed inventions nonetheless belong to the employer. Statutory arguments notwithstanding, employee-inventors may challenge the …

Social Media Policies For Character And Fitness Evaluations, Jessica Belle

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

In 2009, Florida became the first U.S. jurisdiction to articulate a Character and Fitness Evaluation (CFE) policy of examining the social media accounts of bar applicants who had demonstrated a history of questionable conduct such as substance abuse or seeking to violently overthrow the U.S. government. This policy may allow access to otherwise legally inaccessible data, which creates a risk of the bar unlawfully considering information protected by applicants’ constitutional rights. Over the past 60 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has split on whether bar organizations may constitutionally deny bar admission to applicants who refuse to answer certain questions on …

Cabinet Minutes 10-1-2012, Executive Cabinet

NCSA Minutes

No abstract provided.

Mcnair Messenger- Fall 2012, Mcnair Staff

McNair Messenger

McNair Scholars Program

Ndp News- Fall 2012, Ndp Staff

Nontraditional Degree Program Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Benefits And Barriers In Mining The Healthcare Industry Data, John Wang, Bin Zhou, Ruiliang Yan

Faculty Publications

The authors’ paper addresses the applications of data mining within the healthcare industry. Healthcare data are seen as one of the more rewarding and most difficult of all data to analyze. Proper data mining techniques provide the methodology and technology to transform the voluminous amounts of data into useful information for decision making. Data mining can be utilized to help find cures for existing diseases, uncovering patterns for genetic diseases and the causes of new diseases across the globe. By implementing data mining techniques the industry is finally gaining control over the inadequacy of readily available records. Data mining has …

Anticipatory Governance Practical Upgrades: Equipping The Executive Branch To Cope With Increasing Speed And Complexity Of Major Challenges, Leon S. Fuerth, Evan M.H. Faber

Books and Book Chapters

The report suggests: (a) four concrete initiatives and eighteen specific proposals for organizing foresight as an input into the policy process; (b) eight initiatives and thirty-eight specific proposals for improving the capacity of existing systems to mesh their activities for coherent effect (i.e., networked governance); and (c)five specific, sequential initiatives to detect and respond to error and unintended consequences in mid-stream, before calamities occur (i.e., feedback).

Public-Private Cooperation In The Department Of Defense: A Framework For Analysis And Recommendations For Action, Linton Wells Ii, Samuel Bendett

Defense Horizons

In 2010, a National Defense University (NDU) research project called TIDES1 (Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support) was invited to partner with a company to produce a tradeshow about humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions and related capabilities. Despite senior-level Department of Defense (DOD) guidance to pursue public-private partnerships, DOD attorneys told TIDES managers to reject the agreement. Differing legal interpretations of the word partner generated concern that the proposed partnership could create an impermissible perception of government endorsement of a private company. Even though it would have advanced the government’s mission and promoted efficiency, a variety of obstacles …

Quantitative Analysis Of Methangenic Community In Anaerobic Digesters And Its Response To Freeze Drying And Exposure To Oxygen, Keerthi Cherukuri

Master's Theses (2009 -)

Methanogens are integral to carbon cycling, catalyzing the production of methane and carbon dioxide, both potent greenhouse gases. Methane is produced in a wide variety of highly reduced anaerobic environments, as well as by degradation of organic compounds in industrial and municipal wastewater. This process is carried out by the concerted activity of an interdependent microbial community, composed of Bacteria and Archaea, the later including methanogens which complete the final step and produce methane and carbon dioxide. Methanogenesis is often the rate limiting step and is sensitive to processing imbalances. Therefore, an understanding of the microbial community structure and dynamics …

Panorama October 2012, Southern Adventist University

Panorama Parent Newsletter

This issue of the Panorama parent newsletter announces the new Parent Portal, contains a profile on Kari Schultz, and highlights Studio 4109 Live.

Cover Image, Corinne Thiessen Hepher

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Cover with image for Reconstruction, Volume 12, Number 4.