Cinema’s Scarlet Letters: the MPAA Rating System and Film Education in the Christian University

Christian film educators face challenges in instruction when a film’s Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating falls outside their institution’s acceptable range. The origin of the system and the meaning of each rating are explained. Policies of comparable evangelical institutions regarding student film viewing are detailed. The resultant difficulties in film education are examined. Arguments for and against inclusion of R-rated films in the curriculum are considered. Recommendations are made for future courses

A Review of the Major School Counseling Policy Studies in the United States: 2000-2014

Jay Carey and Ian Martin conducted a review of the major policy studies concerning school counseling in the United States. The authors located 37 documents disseminated between 2000 and 2014 that were either intentionally written with a focus on policy implications or were frequently used to attempt to influence policy decision-making. Their review is organized by types of policy studies: Literature Reviews, Survey Research, Statewide Evaluations of School Counseling Programs, State Evaluations of School Counseling Practice, Existing Database Investigations of School Counseling, Research Identifying Elements of Exemplary Practice, Studies of Evaluation Capacity and Practices in School Counseling

What are the Implications of Possible Selves Research for School Counseling Practice?

Jay Carey and Ian Martin provide a summary and critical analysis of Possible Selves Theory and its relation to academic achievement. Possible Selves Theory includes a focus on what the student\u27s self-concept is in the future and how this affects motivation in school. In addition, the authors offer insight into interventions using Possible Selves Theory and implications for future practice

Alien Registration- Carey, Martin D. (Brownville, Piscataquis County)

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A study of conformational features of distamycin-DNA and netropsin-DNA complexes by Raman spectroscopy

Ph.D.Donald C. O'She

The Progressive Development and Post-failure Behaviour of Deep-seated Landslide Complexes

The concept of progressive shear surface development remains to be fully understood. This study aims to investigate the mechanisms of progressive shear surface development to failure, and the subsequent post-failure behaviour, of deep-seated landslide complexes. Field samples, collected from the Ventnor deep-seated landslide complex, Isle of Wight have been tested in a series of bespoke triaxial and back pressured shear box tests, in which field failure conditions are simulated by elevating pore water pressures under a constant deviator stress. These laboratory simulations have been calibrated with a detailed analysis of ground movement, groundwater and antecedent rainfall relationships from real-time site monitoring records from the site. A model to explain the progressive failure of landslides in cohesive materials is proposed. The model demonstrates that pre-failure movement in landslides occurs during the progressive shear surface development through the development of micro-cracks within the slope. This process is active during periods when porewater pressures are sufficiently elevated in the slope. These micro-cracks eventually lengthen and coalesce as stresses concentrate at micro-crack tips, leading to the development of a singular shear surface which is observed as tertiary creep. The study confirms that the onset of ‘Saito linearity’ in 1/v – t space is associated with this tertiary creep phase. This mechanism can occur through time dependent creep at constant stresses from below the peak strength envelope. The results have been validated against real-world landslide monitoring data to provide a new understanding of the shear surface mechanisms operating within the Ventnor landslide. The results contribute new knowledge regarding the mechanisms of shear surface development and provide an improved understanding of these mechanisms by developing one of the first high quality data sets that combines laboratory and field data. Finally, the study provides a new method to inform future landslide behaviour predictions for deep-seated slope failures

Proper Motions of Young Stellar Outflows in the Mid-Infrared with Spitzer. II. HH 377/Cep E

We have used multiple mid-infrared observations at 4.5 micron obtained with the Infrared Array Camera, of the compact (~1.4 arcmin) young stellar bipolar outflow Cep E to measure the proper motion of its brightest condensations. The images span a period of ~6 yr and have been reprocessed to achieve a higher angular resolution (~0.8 arcsec) than their normal beam (2 arcsec). We found that for a distance of 730 pc, the tangential velocities of the North and South outflow lobes are 62+/-29 and 94+/-6 km/s respectively, and moving away from the central source roughly along the major axis of the flow. A simple 3D hydrodynamical simulation of the H2 gas in a precessing outflow supports this idea. Observations and model confirm that the molecular Hydrogen gas, traced by the pure rotational transitions, moves at highly supersonic velocities without being dissociated. This suggests either a very efficient mechanism to reform H2 molecules along these shocks or the presence of some other mechanism (e.g. strong magnetic field) that shields the H2 gas.Comment: Accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics (Special Issue article

The MIPSGAL View of Supernova Remnants in the Galactic Plane

We report the detection of Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) in the mid-infrared (at 24 and 70 μm), in the coordinate ranges 10° < l < 65° and 285° < l < 350°, |b| < 1°, using MIPS aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope. We search for infrared counterparts to SNRs in Green's catalog and identify 39 out of 121, i.e., a detection rate of about 32%. Such a relatively low detection fraction is mainly due to confusion with nearby foreground/background sources and diffuse emission. The SNRs in our sample show a linear trend in [F_8/F_(24)] versus [F_(70)/F_(24)]. We compare their infrared fluxes with their corresponding radio flux at 1.4 GHz and find that most remnants have a ratio of 70 μm to 1.4 GHz which is similar to those found in previous studies of SNRs (with the exception of a few that have ratios closer to those of H II regions). Furthermore, we retrieve a slope close to unity when correlating infrared (24 and 70 μm) with 1.4 GHz emission. Our survey is more successful in detecting remnants with bright X-ray emission, which we find is well correlated with the 24 μm morphology. Moreover, by comparing the power emitted in the X-ray, infrared, and radio, we conclude that the energy released in the infrared is comparable to the cooling in the X-ray range

Development of a Logic Model to Guide Evaluations of the ASCA National Model for School Counseling Programs

A logic model was developed based on an analysis of the 2012 American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model in order to provide direction for program evaluation initiatives. The logic model identified three outcomes (increased student achievement/gap reduction, increased school counseling program resources, and systemic change and school improvement), seven outputs (student change, parent involvement, teacher competence, school policies and processes, competence of the school counselors, improvements in the school counseling program, and administrator support), six major clusters of activities (direct services, indirect services, school counselor personnel evaluation, program management processes, program evaluation processes and program advocacy) and two inputs (foundational elements and program resources). The identification of these logic model components and linkages among these components was used to identify a number of necessary and important evaluation studies of the ASCA National Model

Generalized Geologic Map for Land-Use Planning: Anderson County, Kentucky

This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site-to-site basis. At any site, it is important to understand the characteristics of both the soils and the underlying rock