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Asian -Americans in the Social Work Profession: Perceptions of Organizational Fairness as a Mediator of Work -Related Outcomes
No full textThis study has investigated a theoretical and observed (or not observed) link between the glass ceiling literature and social justice theory, a link not previously established in the empirical literature. The study answers to the call for theory development and empirical work on race and ethnic differences as they relate to organizational behavior, with special attention to the effects of ethnicity and gender. As part of a growing body of research on ethnicity, this study has broadened our understanding of influences of perceived organizational treatment by providing a theoretical framework grounded in social justice theory. This study also provides guidelines to help managers better understand how to reduce Asian social workers' turnover and make decisions about outcomes and procedures for these employees.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:52:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Case Management and Matched Services for Substance Abusing Mothers With Co -Occurring Problems in Child Welfare: A Study of Service Effectiveness With a Randomized Trial
No full textThe findings indicate that matched services to address mothers' co-occurring problems improved the likelihood of family reunification and substance abuse treatment completion. The significance of matched services in several problem areas was found: matched services in mental health, housing, family counseling, substance abuse treatment, and parenting skills significantly improved the likelihood of family reunification; and matched services in transportation, housing, job training, parenting skills, family counseling, and mental health significantly improved the likelihood of substance abuse treatment completion. Substance abuse treatment completion was positively associated with the likelihood of family reunification: mothers who completed treatment were 4.26 times more likely to achieve family reunification compared to mothers who did not. In addition, the use of recovery coaches significantly improved the likelihood of family reunification, but recovery coaches were not related to the provision of matched services. On the downside, it was found that the current child welfare system is still struggling with low rates of service utilization and treatment completion, and in turn, low rates of family reunification. Implications for social work practice, intervention, and policy are discussed.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:52:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2006Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88611
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The Impact of Hospital Consolidation: An Examination of Consolidating Hospitals and Their Rivals
No full textResults from the multivariate analysis showed that for-profit hospitals had significantly higher costs and prices before consolidation and significantly lower costs and prices after consolidation. However, these post-consolidation price savings were mitigated by market concentration. Therefore, in highly concentrated markets, there was evidence that market power effects dominated efficiency effects. Conversely, rival hospital costs and prices changes in the third study did not vary significantly from match market hospitals.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:47:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2001Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 86965
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"""Der Rosenkavalier"": Genesis, Modelling, and New Aesthetic Paths"
No full textChapter one presents a broad overview of Strauss's creative process. Discussion of relevant scholarship viewed through the lens of Der Rosenkavalier serves as a springboard for chapter two, which documents the extant compositional manuscripts for the opera. Appendix A supplements this chapter by offering an annotated catalogue of the sketches held at the Richard-Strauss-Archiv (Garmisch) and at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich), while Appendix B presents a chronology of the opera's genesis. This sets the stage for the remaining three chapters, which evaluate various passages in the opera from the perspective of Hofmannsthal's evolving drafts of the libretto and Strauss's sketches. The dissertation concludes by assessing some of the ways Der Rosenkavalier points forward to further experimentation in Strauss's later operas.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:54:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2009Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 87097
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Missionary Identities and Identifications: U.S. Presbyterians in Korea, 1884--1934
No full textThis dissertation provides an historically contextualized analysis of the encounter between U.S. Presbyterian missionaries and Koreans. I focus my approach in terms of the specificity of, and the variation within, this encounter, in order to determine its impact on missionary identities and identifications, and to elucidate the processes and negotiations of culture and identity that arise. Using personal writings and the published work of missionaries, I locate missionaries in the structural frameworks, institutions, ideologies, and relationships from which they emerge in the United States and with which they interact in Korea. I uncover and explain the variation in missionary experience in Korea, particularly in their ability to overcome the constraints of their culture, gain cross-cultural understanding, and come to identify with Korea and Koreans. Disaggregating missionary writings by sex, family status and primary work assignment reveals that while much of the variation in missionary identification with Korea were individual in role, structural features of the encounter and the circumstances of missionary service was also important. In order for missionaries to identify with Koreans they had to, first, have opportunities for contact with Koreans. Some categories of missionary service created more opportunities for contact with Koreans than others. Second, identification depended upon the type of experiences missionaries had once contact was established. Clearly some missionaries made an a priori commitment to Korea, but deep identification, that which challenged and sometimes changed missionary identity, was based on friendship and shared goals. Identification, though ideally dependent upon only the missionary, was in practice a two-sided process, and highly dependent upon Korean response. The combined impact of mission policy and variations in the Korean response to Christianity contributed to a situation in which the greatest amount of contact, friendship and identification between Presbyterian missionaries and Koreans was in evangelistic work.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:01:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2000Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 87536
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Integrating Spatial and Temporal Methods Into Surveillance for Shiga Toxin Producing Escherichia Coli (Stec) O157:H7 in Illinois
No full textTemporal and spatial clustering was identified for sporadic cases. Temporal patterns showed an increase in cases from late spring to early fall annually. Areas of decreased risk were found in the southern third of the state and the most urban areas surrounding Chicago. Risk factors associated with these high risk areas included increased number of cattle and cattle density. A decreased risk was associated with decreased number of beef cattle per farm. Using two statistical methods the space-time permutation and the space-time, we were able to identify most outbreaks that were previously identified by the public health department. In addition, these methods identified an outbreak not previously identified which was confirmed by epidemiologic and molecular data. Several other small probable outbreaks were also identified. These methods were found to be specific and did not identify numerous non-outbreaks as clusters.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:04:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2008Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 87677
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Structure and Function Relationships in Cytochrome Bo(3) Oxidase and Cytochrome Bd-I Oxidase From Escherichia Coli
No full textStructure and function relationships in the two terminal oxidases in Escherichia coli have been investigated. Cytochrome bo3 oxidase, a member of the heme/copper superfamily, is found to have a semiquinone intermediate during turnover of quinol. Additionally, after the quinol is consumed and turnover stops, the enzyme is found in a mixture of oxidation states, one of which is the elusive Peroxy species. No free radical species is observed in conjunction with the Peroxy species. Support for a cytochrome bo3 proton pumping mechanism is presented in which a histidine ligand for CuB dissociates upon reduction. The other terminal oxidase, cytochrome bd-I oxidase, is not related to the heme/copper superfamily and was studied through sequence analyses and ligand reactivity. Sequence analysis suggested conserved residues that were then mutated. Reactivity with ligands indicated that the active site of cytochrome bd is highly unusual in that heme d binds ligands but virtually always remains high-spin, five-coordinate.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:28:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 1999Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 86187
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Multiantenna Communications in the Presence of Feedback
No full textMultiantenna technology offers the advantages of increased data transmission rates and reliability for many existing and next-generation wireless systems. It has therefore become an important element in the design of communication schemes for wireless systems. Channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter end is often an essential requirement when one wishes to fully utilize the potential gain promised by multiantenna technology. This requirement has sparked enormous interest in the design of practical transmission schemes (most notably, the design of transmit beamforming) in the presence of a reverse feedback link that conveys partial CSI from the receiver to the transmitter. This work presents a comprehensive study of optimal transmission schemes in the general class of linear space-time codes when there is a partial CSI feedback link in the point-to-point multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. The analysis provides insights into the optimality of the low-complexity transmit beamforming scheme in the presence of partial CSI feedback. The study of benefits of multiantenna technology is then extended to the design of distributed transmission algorithms in wireless sensor/relay networks. In such networks, a general framework is proposed for systematically analyzing the fundamental properties of distributed beamforming algorithms.Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:09:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Previous issue date: 2008Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 82381
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Religious language: Its role in nativizing Caribbean English
No full textEarly studies of New World Englishes, including Caribbean English (CE), were primarily concerned with their genesis. With the emergence in the 1950's of generative linguistics, the focus of language study gradually shifted to more formal, rule-based descriptions. Subsequently, pidginization/creolization became the framework from which CE would be studied.Out of the prevailing pidginization/creolization framework emerged the continuum model which posits for non-native polylectal speakers a gradient slope from least native-like to most native-like. The asaumption is that the goal of polylectal speakers is to achieve near native-like performance. That is, it views nonnative linguistic performance as flawed attempts in the direction of the native model.This study reveals the inadequacies of the pidginization/creolization framework and the strict continuum model that follows from it by taking into account (a) the bidirectionality of speech available to, and employed by, polylectal speakers, (b) the uniqueness of CE as a nonnative variety of English in that its speakers' ancestral languages were systematically eradicated and the dominator's language imposed, and (c) the factors of identity that come into play in the choice of lects. With this approach, I argue that greater descriptive adequacy can be achieved for CE. That is, the features that together constitute nativized CE can be more clearly identified and analyzed.Specifically, the study looks at the role of Religious Language (RL), including that used by Rastafarian speakers of CE, as a differentia of CE, showing how factors of identity force the use of RL as a means of maintaining ancestral (African) linguistic identity. It also shows how the use of RL is correlated to the theme of the discourse, thereby necessitating a reformulated theoretical framework (Thematic Diglossia or Thematic Mixing) through which to analyze CE.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:15:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Design, analysis and reconfiguration of defect-tolerant VLSI and parallel processor arrays
No full textIn this thesis, several design, analysis and reconfiguration problems in defect-tolerant VLSI and parallel processor arrays are studied. The NP-hard memory array reconfiguration problem is formulated as a random graph problem, and a provably average-case polynomial time algorithm is presented, while all previous memory reconfiguration algorithms were given without an average-case time complexity analysis. The implemented algorithm runs faster than existing heuristics when the problem size is large. For reconfigurable pipelines, an analytical estimation of the yield is given, while all previous yield estimations were through experiments. A large area defect-tolerant tree architecture is designed that has 99% harvest rate, while all previous designs have harvest rate that is asymptotically 0%. Finally, a general framework for computing the optimal spare allocation is developed for many VLSI redundant systems.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:19:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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