STATE GENERAL REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES IN FLORIDA

Public Economics,

Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

The Power of Remains: America’s Bone Rooms Impact on the Making and Unmaking of Scientific Racism Museums throughout North American and Europe today contain a surprising number of human bones. U.S. museums house an estimated 500,000 Native American remains with another 116,000 sets of bone...

Comparison of non-pharmacologic pain interventions for NICU infants

Infants in the NICU unfortunately have to endure repeated procedures that cause pain. Over time, these painful experiences can compound into larger issues. Infants receiving repeated procedures with uncontrolled pain can develop neurological issues in the future. Because infants have no way of verbally expressing the pain that they experience, their pain can often be overlooked. Premature infants have underdeveloped kidneys and livers leaving them at risk for adverse outcomes to some pharmacological interventions, especially opioids if not given at the correct dose. This highlights the importance of non-pharmacologic interventions to reduce pain. This proposed project would help to determine the best interventions to help decrease the pain that NICU infants experience. The purpose of this project is to compare different non-pharmacological pain interventions and evaluate their effectiveness in treating acute pain in premature NICU infants born between 28 and 40 weeks. Evaluation of the differences in pain experienced by infants during a heel lance while using sucrose, kangaroo care, non-nutritive sucking, facilitated tucking, breastfeeding, and a combination of some of these interventions will be conducted. While there is research literature indicating that these interventions are effective, there is a lack of research accurately comparing the effectiveness of each intervention. An initial control PIPP-R score will be collected with no pain intervention used during the first heel lance. Each time a subsequent heel lance is needed, a different intervention or combination of interventions will be used. A PIPP-R score will be taken during each intervention. These scores will be averaged by intervention and compared with each other intervention. This will indicate a general most effective pain management technique to ideally control acute pain in all NICU infants

Internal Controls in Small City Government

The flexible design multiple case study was performed to broaden the understanding of the possible rationale for city government officials\u27 failing to implement effective internal controls related to the global business problem of occupational fraud. The leadership of an organization should assume a stewardship attitude to reduce fraud risk by designing, implementing, monitoring internal controls, and testing their effectiveness. Asset misappropriation from occupational fraud results in the loss of assets and potential business failure. The research questions explored the internal control procedures implemented to prevent and detect property theft. Additionally, the research questions addressed the strategies implemented to establish segregation of duties and testing of internal controls for effectiveness. The stewardship theory was utilized to understand the leader\u27s responsibility to protect the assets. The fraud triangle theory was applied to evaluate if internal controls were designed to monitor each of the three components. Interviews of 25 participants involved with small city governments in the central United States were conducted, and coinciding city documents were reviewed. The researcher identified five themes as the result of coding the data collected. The findings included how the leadership failed to design internal controls to monitor the pressure and rationalization components of the fraud triangle theory, or test internal controls for effectiveness. The researcher also discovered the leaders’ have a stewardship attitude to protect the assets from misappropriation. The study was conducted to improve business practices based on Biblical precepts of exhibiting exceptional stewardship over God-given authority

Love, marriage, and desire in the era of the new woman

Recently, a number of critical studies have focused on the ways in which New Woman fiction reconfigured nineteenth-century concepts of woman and modernity. The fictional New Woman was a complex and intriguing character, one who defined herself in opposition to the image of the traditional domestic heroine. However, to be a woman and to reject normative womanly behavior was to assert an identity whose nature and value were ambiguous at best, and which had no defined space within traditional social structures. In consequence, the fictional New Woman, despite her claims of independence and isolation, could not escape narratives of marriage and romance. Whether she chose to participate in them or to renounce them, authors continually attempted to work out the ways in which the woman of the future would function within the social structures that commonly defined the course of woman\u27s life in the present. Specifically, in this dissertation, I will examine how nineteenth-century authors imagined the New Woman in relation to her romantic and sexual desires, and juxtapose this with the fictional New Woman\u27s frequent inability to participate in marriage, the social structure that traditionally regulated and circumscribed women\u27s desires. Although many authors wrote about New Women characters falling in love, these authors often were unable to imagine these same New Women characters in domestic spaces, playing traditional roles of wife and mother. Additionally, despite the occasional narrative of romantic and sexual fantasy, a majority of fin-de-siecle authors chose not to promote a society that allowed women to participate in sexual relationships outside of marriage. Thus, I would argue that the romance plots in New Woman novels generally conclude in one of two ways. Authors either show New Women changing and losing their ideas and ideals in response to their desire to participate in romantic relationships (and consequently in the domestic sphere), or else they show New Women who cannot change, destroyed by or destroying men as a result of being bound within the social and legal constraints of marriage. A number of modem-day critics dedicate chapters to the New Woman and marriage or to the different ways New Woman fiction approaches issues of love and/or sexuality; however, no writer has done an in-depth analysis of the ways in which issues of love, marriage, and desire are investigated and reconfigured in works about characters who are New Women. My study will illuminate the multifaceted concerns faced by the fin-de-siecle author struggling to write about women who promoted non-traditional ideas about the ways in which marriage could constrain, change, or destroy women