Mission Statement Content And Prevalence Among Local Police Departments And Sheriffs\u27 Offices

This descriptive study uses grounded theory approach to investigate the prevalence and content of mission statements among United States local police departments and sheriffs\u27 offices that employ less than 25 sworn personnel. Mixed method research analysis identified the prevalence of mission statements as well as the content and characteristics of mission statement. Mission statements were analyzed with no a priori assumptions, standards, or coding schema. From this study it was found that 80 (37.21%) of the study\u27s sample law enforcement agencies (N = 215) have mission statements that were located through this study\u27s web search and agency participation. The analysis revealed that the prevalence of mission statements and mission content varied among sample subgroups

A diagnostic oral reading test for grade one

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University, 1947. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Immunity of Volunteer Health Care Providers in Texas: Bartering Legal Rights for Free Medical Care (Comment)

This comment will explore the ramifications of recent Texas legislation affecting the indigent beneficiaries of free health care services and why we elect this particular option of caring for the poor. This comment will delve into the idea of health care as a fundamental human right and how this idea relates to the American definition of poverty. The problem of inadequate access to health care among the poor will be examined, with a discussion of the recent creation of volunteer immunity in Texas and similar legislation in other states. This comment will also evaluate the reliance of the poor on charity. Finally, alternative solutions will be proposed to the problem of indigent access to health care

Training Graduate Student Writing Teachers: Composition History, Theory, and Application

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Gwendolyn L. Gray on May 18, 1994

The evidence and impact of role conflict on copy editors who work at companies that produce newspapers and websites

The newspaper industry has faced colossal shifts over the past several decades because of the Information Age and changing needs of readership. Copy editors have been among the most affected as the newsroom seeks to adapt. These editors have had an increasing number of responsibilities divided among fewer people. This study predicted that copy editors have experienced role conflict, which would manifest itself as job satisfaction and responsibility conflict. A questionnaire was developed in Qualtrics and sent out through the American Copy Editors Society as well as directly to managing editors and copy editors. Analysis found that most copy editors' responsibilities conflict at least part of the time - not only against deadline, but against one another. The number of tasks copy editors have is a predictor for the frequency of responsibility conflict. Social media, website management, and page proofs are three of the tasks copy editors might have that are moderately correlated with the frequency of role conflict. It might be best to have one person focus on those types of tasks, which would allow all of the other editors take on tasks that require longer, in-depth tasks, rather than have all the editors be perpetually distracted. Analysis also found that the alignment of copy editors' values with those of the company were more highly correlated than any other satisfaction variable, including salary, shifts, and co-workers. Therefore, it might be beneficial to work to communicate why and how the company's values developed into its current standards

A large-NcN_c PNJL model with explicit ZNc_{N_c} symmetry

A PNJL model is built, in which the Polyakov-loop potential is explicitly Z$_{N_c}$-symmetric in order to mimic a Yang-Mills theory with gauge group SU($N_c$). The physically expected large-$N_c$ and large-$T$ behaviours of the thermodynamic observables computed from the Polyakov-loop potential are used to constrain its free parameters. The effective potential is eventually U(1)-symmetric when $N_c$ is infinite. Light quark flavours are added by using a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model coupled to the Polyakov loop (the PNJL model), and the different phases of the resulting PNJL model are discussed in 't Hooft's large-$N_c$ limit. Three phases are found, in agreement with previous large-$N_c$ studies. When the temperature $T$ is larger than some deconfinement temperature $T_d$, the system is in a deconfined, chirally symmetric, phase for any quark chemical potential $\mu$. When $T<T_d$ however, the system is in a confined phase in which chiral symmetry is either broken or not. The critical line $T_\chi(\mu)$, signalling the restoration of chiral symmetry, has the same qualitative features than what can be obtained within a standard $N_c=3$ PNJL model.Comment: To appear in Phys Rev

Compliance with a protocol for intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis against neonatal group B streptococcal sepsis in women with clinical risk factors.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of clinical risk factors (CRF) for neonatal sepsis in laboring women and to evaluate clinician compliance with a CRF-based protocol for intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP). METHODS: A retrospective chart audit was undertaken at a district hospital (A) and a tertiary obstetric hospital (B) in Sydney, Australia between 1996 and 1998, to determine compliance with IAP in women with defined CRF. RESULTS: Eighty-five (12%) women at Hospital A and 117 (19%) at Hospital B had one or more CRF. Overall compliance rates with the IAP protocols were 65 and 50% at Hospitals A and B respectively, but varied according to maternal, obstetric and sepsis-related risk factors. We postulate that differences between the hospitals were related to protocol implementation. CONCLUSIONS: Compliance with a CRF-based protocol was lower than previously reported. Improvements in protocol development, implementation and maintenance are required to enhance compliance with IAP based on CRF

Professional Staffing Small Business Strategies for Reducing Voluntary Employee

Some small business owners need help reducing voluntary employee turnover, often putting the business at risk for performance failure. Grounded in Herzberg’s two-factor theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore strategies professional staffing small business owners used to decrease voluntary employee turnover. The participants were five professional staffing small business leaders in the Washington, D.C., area with successful strategies to retain talented employees. Data were collected through semistructured interviews and analyzed using Yin’s five-step process. Three themes emerged: (a) employee recognition, (b) communication, and (c) advancement and training. A key recommendation for small business owners is to improve the relationship between leadership and employees by implementing growth personally and professionally. The implications for positive social change include the potential to decrease voluntary employee turnover and reduce the unemployment rate, enabling positive economic effects on the surrounding community