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Aboriginal Housing Assessment, Lisa Hardess, Rodney C. Mcdonald, Darren Thomas

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Potential Alternative Revenue Sources For Municipal Infrastructure Maintenance – A Case Study: County Of Peterborough Transportation Infrastructure, Chris Bradley

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines whether the funding system for local infrastructure is adequate to ensure a sustainable, well-maintained transportation network and if there is a single, more effective means of funding local infrastructure maintenance based on a case study of the County of Peterborough. The findings reveal that the current funding system for local infrastructure maintenance is inadequate to ensure a sustainable, well-maintained transportation network and alternative revenue sources include the federal GST, the provincial PST, the gas tax, income tax, subsidies and transfers, infrastructure maintenance funding programs, and user fees.

Community Accountability In Ontario’S Healthcare Sector: A Case Study Of Six Hospitals, Catherine Cuylle

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines how community accountability is exercised by the governing boards of hospitals based on case studies of six hospitals in Ontario – London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation (HHS), The Ottawa Hospital (TOH), University Health Network (UHN), Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre (S&W), and Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH). The findings reveal that hospital boards face a number of issues and tensions that stem from directing their accountability efforts towards the organization, the government, and the community in which they serve.

Intergovernmental Relations: An Analysis To Test The Effectiveness Of The Position Of An Intergovernmental Relations Officer At The Local Level, Michael Di Lullo

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines whether an intergovernmental relations officer is an effective position for local government based on surveys administered to chief administrators in 33 mid-sized Ontario municipalities. The findings reveal that having the position in local government is advantageous and effective for a municipality because it can generate greater opportunities with regards to revenue sourcing from the provincial and federal government.

Business Process Re-Engineering (Bpr): A Tool For Improved Customer Service In Municipalities, Lee Doyle

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines the appropriateness of business process re-engineering (BPR) in the improvement of customer service in local government. A content analysis of documents, a survey administered to municipal managers in 26 municipalities in Ontario, and a case study analysis of BPR implementation in four municipalities were conducted. The findings reveal that there is no clearly defined process or format for conducting BPR in Ontario municipalities.

An Investigation Of Integrating Change Through Participatory Processes In Police Service Business Planning, Tobi Hermann

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines the extent to which Ontario police business planning processes include effective citizen engagement and participation. A content analysis of public consultation data in the London Police Services was conducted and compared to municipal police department documentation in Windsor, Waterloo, and Sudbury. The findings reveal that police services in Ontario have embraced participatory mechanisms to engage the citizenry in an effort to renew democratic principles, increase perceptions of accountability, and legitimize the decisions made in the policy process.

The Role Of Religious Congregations In Providing Programs And Social Services In The Local Community: A Case Study Of London, Ontario, William Jaques

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines the extent to which religious congregations contribute to the provision of programs and social services within their respective communities based on a survey of 30 religious congregations in London, Ontario. The findings reveal that religious congregations are working diligently to provide programs and services to residents in their communities and the programs and services that they offer contribute to the overall health and well-being of these areas

The Establishment Performance Measures And Indicators For Social Housing In Ontario – The Background And The Process: What Are The Challenges?, Kathyrn Zarfas

MPA Major Research Papers

This paper examines the barriers that stakeholders must address with respect to effective public sector performance measurement within the context of social housing in Ontario based on a case study of the Service Managers Expert Panel. The findings reveal that the challenges associated with establishing an effective performance management program include program history, peer support, and having the necessary knowledge and desire to make the program work.

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 46 Number 1, Summer 2004, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

8 - A PUZZLING PROFESSOR By Adam Breen. Byron Walden, an assistant professor of mathematics at SCU, draws on his knowledge of numerical analysis to create crossword puzzles for The New York Times.

10 - THE LAUNCHING PAD By Larry Sokoloff J.D. '92. Top government agencies, other universities, and companies are relying on the University's Robotics Systems Lab-and its students-to build and monitor satellites.

16 - A NOVEL TEAM By Kristin Lenore '04. The University's publishing partnership with Heyday Books aims to help preserve California's cultural legacy.

Review Of Goldberger's War: The Life And Work Of A Public Health Crusader By Alan M. Kraut; Hill & Wang, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The story of the scourge of pellagra, a fatal niacin deficiency characterized by a severe skin rash, diarrhea, and dementia, has faded into obscurity in this country. With a mortality rate of upwards of 30 percent, it plagued the southern United States as late as the 1940s, claiming the lives of hundreds or thousands of impoverished Southerners every year. Joseph Goldberger's family, Hungarian Jews, emigrated to New York City in 1883 when he was nine years old. He became a scientist working in the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. An occasional victim of the pathogens he studied, Goldberger …

Discovery Of Web Services In A Federated Registry Environment, Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

The potential of a large scale growth of private and semi-private registries is creating the need for an infrastructure which can support discovery and publication over a group of autonomous registries. Recent versions of UDDI have made changes to accommodate interactions between distributed registries. In this paper, we discuss METEOR-S Web service Discovery Infrastructure, which provides an ontology-based infrastructure to access a group of registries that are divided based on business domains and grouped into federations. We also discuss how Web service discovery is carried out within a federation.

Internet Resources - The Electoral College, Political Parties, And Elections: Sites To Help You Through The Voting Process, Beth Jane Toren

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

Most political party sites have two main themes, information and action. They provide information about the party platform, history, and news, and they offer opportunities to get involved in the action by volunteering, contributing, joining, and telling friends. This article contains annotations to selected free sites and Internet resources that provide information about the electoral college, political parties, and the 2004 federal elections.

The Rise Of Low-Skill Immigration In The South, George J. Borjas

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

The 1990s witnessed a significant geographic redistribution of immigration away from the traditional immigrant-receiving states, mainly California, and towards other parts of the country, mainly the Southern states that have not historically been immigrant-receiving states. This paper documents the impact of this change in immigrant settlement patterns on the skill endowment of the workforce in Southern states. The empirical analysis indicates that the recent change in immigrant settlement patterns led to the rise of a sizable foreign-born low-skill workforce in the South, particularly outside Florida and Texas. This workforce developed both as a result of increased settlement of many newly …

An Empirical Investigation Of A Model Of Environmentally Concerned Consumer Behavior And Its Determinants: The Moderating Role Of Market Mavenship And Product Involvement, Kishwar A. Joonas

Doctoral Dissertations

Extant literature offers incomplete explanations of environmentally concerned consumer behavior (ECCB), based on subsets of determinants. In this study, I have presented an integrated model of ECCB, and examined the main effects of three key psychological determinants (environmentally concerned beliefs and attitudes, personal norm, and perceived consumer effectiveness) and two key socio-cultural determinants (injunctive norm and collectivist orientation), on four dimensions of ECCB, namely purchase behavior, search for information, conserving behavior, and supporting intent. The study also examined the interactional effects of market mavenship and involvement on these direct linkages.

I conducted a national online survey among members of environmental …

Conglomeration, New Media, And The Cultural Production Of The "War On Terror", James Castonguay

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Comments on the role of the mass media in promoting the war on terrorism launched by United States President George W. Bush in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Eagerness of the U.S. film industry to participate the war on terrorism; Support of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on intelligence-related television programs and film projects; Role of the Internet in disseminating information regarding the war on terrorism.

In Focus: The Media And The New Cold War, Dennis Broe, Louise Spence

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Introduces several essays that explores the role of mass media on the transformation of the U.S. foreign policy after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Alliance of the media with globalization and permanent war; Invasion of the concept of endless war on media culture.

The Quest For Housing, Leslie Moore

Theses and Graduate Projects

What are the factors that affect the ability of a person with serious and persistent mental illness to maintain stable housing? People with serious and persistent mental illness face many challenges to find and/or maintain stable housing. Interviews were conducted with 12 individuals with serious and persistent mental illness. Structured individual interviews concentrated on each participant's ability to find housing, how the participant found current and past housing (past two years), if he or she was assisted in the process, and identified any difficulties encountered while seeking housing. A second aspect of the study focused on the challenges each individual …

(No Date) Pca Letter To Pca Members, Pennsylvania Counseling Association

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

The American College Novel: An Annotated Bibliography, Priscilla Finley

Library Faculty Research

Kramer's revision of his 1981 bibliography (CH, Dec'81) of novels set at American colleges adds 209 citations with annotations for novels published 1981-2002 and condenses annotations for novels carried over from the first edition for a total of 648.

Annual Report, 2004, Edward Tawyea

Annual Reports & Administrative Documents

No abstract provided.

Wpa News 73 (2004), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (Summer 2004), number 73

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Living And Serving In Rural Nebraska, John C. Allen, Rebecca J. Vogt, Randolph L. Cantrell

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

Published by the Center for Applied Rural Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Copyright © 2003 by J. Allen, R. Vogt, S. Cordes, and R. Cantrell. Many rural communities are experiencing population decline. However, rural residents have continued to show a strong attachment to their communities. How do rural Nebraskans feel about their community? Are they satisfied with the services provided? Have they served their community or county by holding a public office? Why or why not?

This report details 2,915 responses to the 2004 Nebraska Rural Poll, the ninth annual effort to understand rural Nebraskans’ perceptions. Respondents were asked a series …

“If You Hit Me Again, I’Ll Hit You Back”: Conflict Management Strategies Of Individuals Experiencing Aggression During Conflicts, Loreen N. Olson, Dawn O. Braithwaite

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

In interpersonal relationships characterized by aggression, the negotiation of conflict is especially significant. The present study examined the conflict management strategies used by 31 individuals who had experienced verbal and/or physical aggression during conflicts with their partners. Sillars’ (1986) conflict tactics coding system was used as a framework to analyze 960 pages of transcribed data. The results of this deductive content analysis indicated that the participants reported using primarily Distributive conflict strategies. Analytic induction was also used to interpret nonverbal forms of conflict management, revealing three common tactics: crying, nonverbal avoidance, and aggression. Implications for using these conflict strategies in …

2004 July, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for July of 2004.

2004 Summer - Friendly Correspondence Letter, Courtright Memorial Library

Friends of the Library

No abstract provided.

Connections: Library News For Library Staff Vol. 1, Issue 5, University Of Texas At Arlington Library

Connections: Library News for Library Staff

The purpose of Connections was to build community within UTA Library staff by reminding people of upcoming events and dates, introducing new staff members, celebrating a department's achievements, and writing about other items of interest.

Hudson Valley Catholic Deaf Center, July 2004

Hudson Valley Catholic Deaf Center

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Poughkeepsie,NY

Hudson Valley Catholic Deaf Center Finding Aid

Prospectus, July 1, 2004, Jon Volkman, Chris Cunningham, Larry V. Gilbert

Prospectus 2004

No abstract provided.

Southeastern Law Librarian Summer 2004, Seaall

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Pritchard Shipyard Kaolin Pipe Analysis, Geoffrey R. Hughes

Publications

This report analyzes fragments of Kaolin tobacco pipes recovered at the Pritchard Shipyard archaeological site (38CH1049) in an attempt to assess the site’s stratigraphic integrity. Kaolin tobacco pipes, as a class of archaeological material has the potential to address this question because of their temporal attribute: the direct relationship between bore diameter to manufacturing period. As a result, tobacco pipes offer insight into the following questions: 1) When was the site’s earliest possible occupation? 2) On average, what were the most intensive occupational periods? 3) What was the site’s maximum possible occupational range? 4) To what extent is the site’s …