Church and Ministry From Hippolytus tothe Conciliarists: The Ordained Christian Ministry from the Patristic Era to the Late Middle Ages

(Excerpt) From the age of the church fathers through the late middle ages represents nearly three quarters of Christian history. with all that this involves. Nonetheless. I have been asked to survey what I know about the ordained leadership of the Christian church during this long period. Obviously. much must be omitted. I will endeavor at least to touch on matters which interest me and which I hope will interest you

Expulsion in California Public High Schools--Due Process a Decade after Dixon

A study of history, application of reason, and review of past decisions in the field of student discipline

Sudden Death Following Use of Diphtheria Antitoxin.

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An Investigation into the Use of Software Product Metrics for COBOL Systems

This thesis investigated several hypotheses that specific product measures could be used to predict later software lifecycle process or product measures. It collected software product and process measures from four consecutive major releases of a large Cobol legacy system (400K LOC). The types of product measures used were size and specific complexity measures. A statistical software package was used to calculate sample correlation coefficients between the measures. A 95% confidence interval was computed for each sample correlation coefficient that showed a strong or moderate linear correlation. The maintenance process measures provided were manhours used for each program changed or added, and defects detected during each change request. Sample correlation coefficients were derived to see if product measures such as size and complexity could reveal trends that could be used to estimate other software lifecycle measures such as effort or defects. The hypotheses to this research could neither be accepted nor rejected because the process measures collected by the system\u27s owners were recorded at a level too high for sound statistical analysis. Weaknesses are identified in the way these process measures are collected, and suggestions are provided on how process measures can be better identified and recorded

Identifying the Behavior, Attitudes, and Knowledge of Tobacco Use Among Students Enrolled in Orientation Courses in Six Community Colleges in the Tennessee Board of Regents System

The purpose of this study was to examine the behavior, attitudes, and knowledge regarding tobacco use of students enrolled in orientation courses in Tennessee community colleges. The six community colleges selected for the study were members of the Tennessee Board of Regents system that offered mandatory orientation courses. Data were collected by use of the College Tobacco Behavior, Attitude, and Knowledge Survey . A response rate of (72.5%) from 700 students was analyzed. Three research questions guided the study and 17 null hypotheses were formulated and tested at the.05 alpha level of significance. Data were analyzed by using t -tests, crosstabs, analysis of variance, Chi-square, and Pearson\u27s r correlation coefficients. Results of the study revealed that, of those students who ever smoked regularly, differences in age and ethnicity were found and no differences were found between males and females. There was no difference between males and females and when they first started smoking cigarettes regularly; however, differences were found among students of varying ethnicities. There was no relationship between students\u27 age and how many days they smoked; however, differences were found between males and females and ethnicities. There was no relationship regarding students\u27 age and no difference between males and females and how many days they used smokeless tobacco. There were differences between smokers\u27 and nonsmokers\u27 attitudes pertaining to a smokefree campus, a designated smoking area indoors, and that a tobacco awareness program would be beneficial to college students. There was no relationship between knowledge score and age, and no difference between males and females, and smokers and nonsmokers regarding their knowledge score. However, differences in knowledge scores were found among students of different ethnicities

Emotion, community development, and the physical environment: An experimental investigation of measurements

A wide range of research fields have studied how emotions and behavior are affected by the physical environment. This gestalt theorist approach of experimental research as well seeks to measure emotion (using the valence-arousal scale) and micro-scale community development interactions when weighted physical environment factors are adjusted. Community development (CD) interactions at the micro-scale have received but slight attention from scholars in the CD research field and this study aims partially to investigate developing objective measures from social observations. CD interactions from recordings along with self-reported emotion through surveys in four quasi-experimental groups (where the environments were constructed based on peer-reviewed literature to cause emotional reactions) and one control group made up the data collected for this experiment. While the results of this experiment displayed apparent convincing quantitative differences in both CD interactions and emotion when the physical environment was manipulated, the results of a one-way ANOVA indicated no statistical significance to either dependent variable. The conclusions suggest limiting the physical factors of the environment to produce more precise changes as a result of the manipulated quasi environments

Dialing for Foreign Telecommunications Market Access: Is The United States Getting a Busy Signal from Japan?

Japan is one country that appears to be following United States policies. On April 1, 1985, the Japanese Government converted Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT) from a government-run, publicly-held corporation into a private entity. Japan adopted the Electric Telecommunication Business Act in December 1984 to create an environment in which private entities can compete. The full extent to which the Japanese Government intends to open its market to non-Japanese firms remains unclear. This Note will discuss the development of Japanese telecommunications policy and the current United States tele-communications policy with respect to market access. The Note then will analyze the new Japanese legislation generally and issues relating to United States-Japan trade relations specifically. Finally, this Note will comment on United States legislative responses to the trade deficit with Japan and the future of United States-Japan telecommunications trade relations