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2008-05-30 Pca President's Report, Pennsylvania Counseling Associatio

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

2008-05-30 Pca Newsletter Report, Pennsylvania Counseling Associatio

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

2008-05-30 Pca Member Retention Committee Report, May 23, 2008, Pennsylvania Counseling Associatio

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

2008-05-30 Pca President-Elect Report, Pennsylvania Counseling Associatio

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

2008-05-30 Pca Conference Report, May 2008, Pennsylvania Counseling Associatio

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

2008-05-30 Pca Administrative Coordinator Quarterly Report, Pennsylvania Counseling Associatio

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

2008-05-30 Pca Professional Development Report, May 14, 2008, Pennsylvania Counseling Associatio

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

Culture And Collapse, Pierre Fuller

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

China has shown a “dismayingly cavalier attitude toward the well-being of its people,” a British journalist turned pop historian determined recently in the pages of the New York Times. The Chinese, he explained, long ago handed over science – and by extension earthquake resistant engineering – to “the West,” leaving “themselves to become mired, time and again, in the kind of tragic events that we are witnessing this week.” The thrust of this piece by Simon Winchester (which simultaneously appeared in the International Herald Tribune and evidently stems from his latest books, The Man Who Loved China (2008), on Joseph …

2008-05-30 Pca Paglbtic Quarterly Report, Pennsylvania Counseling Associatio

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

2008-10-30 Pca Past Presidents Committee Report, Pennsylvania Counseling Associatio

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

2008-05-30 Pca Meeting Minutes, May 29, 2008, Pennsylvania Counseling Associatio

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

2008-05-30 Pca Membership Report, Pennsylvania Counseling Associatio

PCA Board of Directors Meetings

No abstract provided.

New Mexico Labor Market Review 05-30-2008, New Mexico Department Of Workforce Solutions

Historic Publications

The New Mexico Labor Market Review is a monthly publication presenting statistical data and analysis on labor market conditions throughout New Mexico. Issues examine statewide and regional trends in employment, unemployment, labor force estimates, industry activity, wages, occupational demand, and related economic conditions, often accompanied by feature articles on topics affecting the state’s economy. This issue covers April 2008.

Program: 2008 Eve Awards With Featured Keynote Speaker Kris Carr

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Program hosted by the Florida Times Union at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Jacksonville, Florida. May 30, 2008.

The Convention On Cluster Munitions Dubrokvnik Action Plan, Ccm

Global CWD Repository

In 2010, at the First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Vientiane Action Plan was adopted by States parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). Developed in consultation with partners with the objective to ensure e ective and timely implementation of the provisions of the treaty following the First Meeting of States Parties, the Vientiane Action Plan set out concrete and measurable steps, actions and targets aimed to be completed within speci c time frames over the next ve-year period and with de ned roles and responsibilities.

“Posing Off:” Performance And Body Language On The Jamaican Stage, Andrea Elizabeth Shaw-Nevins

CAHSS Faculty Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia

My paper will explore reggae dancehall album covers and the seductive yet dismissive ways in which bodies pose for the camera while concurrently seeming to ignore it. What accounts for this intrigue with the camera as well as an apparent repulsion towards it? Within the arena of national beauty politics, how do we account for those Caribbean bodies that are positioned for the global camera?

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 51, May 29, 2008

Central Florida Future

3% tuition increase approved by BOT; Fratting hard for a helping hand; Food sizzles in the student union; Students cheat for peak parking.

Beard, Tara (Fa 283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 283. Paper: "Teenage Cruising and Hanging Out" written by Beard for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

Foster, Jon (Fa 288), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 288. Paper: "[Cruising]" written by Jon Foster for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.

The Measurement Of Psychopathy: Dimensional And Taxometric Approaches, Emily M. Wright

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

This article extends the debate over personality disorders as dimensional or taxonic phenomena to the study of psychopathy and relates this issue to questions surrounding whether behaviors or personality traits best represent psychopathy. Proponents of dimensional measurements of psychopathy consider personality traits to be important constructs of psychopathy, whereas proponents of taxometric measurements consider behaviors to be important characteristics of psychopathy. After a brief introduction to the measurement of psychopathy, taxometric and dimensional measurement techniques are explained, their assumptions addressed, and their strengths and weaknesses discussed. Empirical evidence for each technique is then critiqued, and methodological problems are described. It …

Early Intervention For Children With Autism, Jody M. Classen

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine early intervention programs for children with autism to determine if the program will have a successful outcome. This study involved 34 children from birth to three years of age. Each child participated in an early childhood intervention program in Southern New Jersey. The children were divided into two groups. An independent sample t-test was conducted from the data to find a statistically significant difference within the children. It was not, however, significant in the children of the early intervention program.

Exploiting A Research Underclass In Phase 1 Clinical Trials, Carl Elliott, Roberto Abadie

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

In November 1996, the Wall Street Journal reported that Eli Lilly was paying homeless alcoholics from a local shelter to participate in safety testing of new drugs at its trial site in Indianapolis.1 “These individuals want to help society,” asserted Lilly’s director of clinical pharmacology. The subjects, however, said they took part for easy money and free room and board. Although Lilly reportedly offered the lowest per diem in the business, it managed to attract poor subjects from all over the country.1 The medical director of the local Homeless Initiative Program said Lilly had created a “shadow economy” of paid …

Examining Recreational Activity And Setting Characteristics, Lance Haynie

All Theses

The last 50 years have seen much research, theory development, and building of the concept of restorative environments and their associated effects on people's cognition, attention, and moods. However, much of this research has focused exclusively on setting characteristics and largely ignored the influence of activity on restorative outcomes. Thus, the purpose of this research was to explore the effects of semester-long recreational activity participation by comparing varying degrees of recreational activity and setting characteristics and their influence on mental restoration, general affective state, and perceived stress levels in college students that were enrolled in a range of multi-week physical …

The Creation Of A Multimedia Orientation To The Department Of Library And Information Science, University Of Delhi: A Systems Analysis, M. Madhusudhan, Reetu Verma

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Student orientation programs in university departments play a vital role in communication between the department and its students. This article is an outcome of the study made for designing the multimedia orientation of the Department of Library and Information Science (DLIS), University of Delhi. Multimedia orientation programmes can inform new and visitigin students and external visitors about the department, faculty, teaching methods, research, library facilities and infrastructure provided by the department in an more efficient and interactive way.

The Washington State Patrol, Accountability-Driven Leadership, And The Organizational Factors That Propelled Their Success: An Organizational Analysis, Timothy Carl Winchell

Dissertations and Theses

In January 2002, Washington State Patrol (WSP) Chief Ronal Serpas, Ph.D., implemented his Accountability Driven Leadership (ADL) philosophy throughout the entire statewide public safety agency. The initiative was intended to re-focus personnel on agency strategic goals, objectives, and performance. ADL stressed Computer Statistic (CompStat) management tenants, decentralized decision-making, and efficiency and effectiveness performance measures.

Most CompStat research has been anecdotal in nature, meaning little empirical analysis has scrutinized the implementation of these initiatives in policing. Additionally, the principal researcher could not locate any research that examined these changes in a statewide law enforcement agency. Therefore, this case study contributes to …

Indian Head Fact Sheet, Kentucky Heritage Council

Indian Head Rock Project

Fact sheet published by the Kentucky Heritage Council on the Indian Head Rock in 2008.

A Peek At Bernier's Briefing Notes, Erika Simpson

Political Science Publications

No abstract provided.

Praise For China: A Reader

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

1. “Can we outsource FEMA to the Chinese?” asks one reader at MSNBC’s World Blog, in response to a post on the temporary villages the Chinese government is erecting in the disaster area. Other readers also make Katrina/China earthquake comparisons. The MSNBC World Blog has been providing continuing coverage of the earthquake.

2. One of the side effects of coverage of the earthquake has been an increase in “human interest” stories on quake survivors. For instance, the story of a couple who survived together, trapped under debris, was one of the New York Times’s top e-mailed stories in the days …

Community Vision Is Important To New Residents, Charlotte Narjes, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel

Cornhusker Economics

New residents to the Nebraska Panhandle want to see their communities succeed. To better understand the reasons new residents move to the Panhandle, twelve focus groups were held across the region. The focus groups are part of a University of NebraskaSLincoln research project funded by a 2006 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Research Initiative (USDA-NRI), looking at the characteristics and motivations of new residents in the eleven counties. The research project includes a demographic study, a mail survey to new residents, an iterative three-phase survey process to community development practitioners and a focus group of new …

Letter To The Editor [Herman Lenz] 1, Herman Lenz

Postville Project Documents

A letter to the Postville Herald-Leader stating that the Postville and Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints raids are an indication of the increasing power of the federal government.