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Bear/People Conflicts In Gatlinburg, Tennessee: An Analysis Of The Social, Political, And Ecological Elements, Kate Mitchell Newton

Masters Theses

Nuisance black bears cause property damage, threaten public safety, and heighten wildlife use conflicts among people across the United States. Wildlife managers have solutions to control nuisance black bear behavior and the accompanying conflicts that occur. The solutions are to require bear-proof garbage disposal, to prohibit intentional feeding, and to educate the public about black bear behavior. However, these solutions are either slow to be adopted or are ignored by local legislative bodies.

In 1999, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, adopted a local ordinance mandating bear-proof garbage containers. This thesis will explain why the city of Gatlinburg adopted the ordinance by documenting the …

Hot Topic: Liability Exposure Of Emts And Paramedics Not Subject To Governmental Tort Liability Limits, Jim Finane

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

In a recent Tennessee Supreme Court case, the court found that local government emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics are excluded from the coverage of the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA).

The Use And Value Of Scholarly Journals, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper summarized results of 13,591 readership survey responses of scientists and reviews of hundreds of other readership studies reported in a recent book: Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers (Tenopir & King, 2000). In particular, survey results reveal amounts and trends of reading and information-seeking patterns, such as how readers identify articles that are read and where they obtain them. The survey results also demonstrate the usefulness and value of scientific scholarly journals. Past results suggest that electronic journals and digital full-text databases will play a major role in the future of scientific scholarly journals …

Technical Bulletins: Tranquilizer Guns And Animal Control: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Pamela Bingham, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The MTAS Police Manual and state statues prohibit the use of a firearm on a stray pet that is not threatening or dangerous.

Online Journals & Developing Nations, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

WE ALL KNOW HOW the escalating price of journal subscriptions takes a bite every year from our libraries' budgets. Still, if you are reading this in a library in the United States, the U.K., or any other developed nation, you may not realize the devastating effect the high costs of journals have on libraries in less developed nations. Barbara Kirsop, secretary of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development and director of Bioline Publications, says when she asked a librarian in a sub-Saharan African nation what journals that library would order this year, the answer was, "None."

Linking To Full Text In Scholarly Journals: Here A Link, There A Link, Everywhere A Link, Jill E. Grogg, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Ovid [http://www.ovid.com] offers another example of internal linking with links between its bibliographic databases and the full text of articles available via Journals)Ovid, Ovid's aggregated fully SGML database of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals. Again, depending on license agreements with Ovid, the searcher seamlessly moves from a link on a bibliographic record to the full text, never leaving the Ovid service.

The Cost And Price Dilemma Of Scholarly Journals, Donald W. King, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper examines the overall cost of the scientific scholarly journal system and find that the relative system costs have not increased since the late 1970s. Why then have journal prices skyrocketed over this same period? We first describe typical scholarly publishing costs, because to understand journal prices one must understand the factors that affect these costs. We then describe some factors that have likely contributed to spiraling price increases and changes in journal subscription demand. Finally we discuss some alternative pricing policies that might help in the future. This paper summarizes results reported in a recent book: Towards Electronic …

Hot Topic: Legislation Affecting Human Resources, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

During the 2000 legislative session, the Tennessee General Assembly passed two public acts that affect the area of human resources. The first, Chapter No. 693, allows cities and counties to conduct background investigations and require fingerprint samples before employment with the organization. The second, Chapter No. 888, amends the waiting period for unemployment compensation.

Hot Topic: 2000 Legislative Changes Of Interest To Local Law Enforcement, Rex Barton

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The 2000 legislative session resulted in numerous changes that affect law enforcement in Tennessee. This publication highlights some of the more important changes.

Trends For The Next Five Years, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Tenopir discusses major trends in the library marketplace in the next five years, including integration and aggregation, and linking indexing and full texts.

Database Use Patterns In Public Libraries., Carol Tenopir, Eleanor Read

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Database usage data from a random sample of ninety-eight public libraries and library systems in the United States and Canada reveal patterns of use. Library users at all sizes of public libraries tend to use research databases most frequently early in the week, at midday, and at times that correspond to the academic calendar (November in this six-month sample.) Peak usage varies with size of library, but a capacity of between one and ten simultaneous users will satisfy 99 percent of demand in every size of library. A questionnaire sent to these libraries revealed many other factors that might influence …

Technical Bulletins: Physical Fitness In Public Safety: Administering Ability And Agility Tests Properly, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Cities should develop a medical and physical fitness testing program to better serve the public safety needs of their citizens and protect the lives of police and fire fighters.

Trekking Through Exhibit Halls, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

IT SEEMS AS IF THE exhibit halls at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the American Library Association (ALA) conferences get bigger every year, and it takes longer for me to get from one end of the hall to the other. Certainly the glitz of new systems, fancy interfaces, and new technologies is more impressive every year, and new Internet companies keep showing up.

Hot Topic: October Deadline On New Inter-Basin Water Transfers Act, Steve Wyatt

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The Tennessee Legislature, at the request of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC), created a new state law entitled the "Inter-basin Water Transfer Act." The act was designed to regulate water volumes withdrawn from one basin and transferred to another basin for consumption and disposal. It only affected new transfers or increases in existing transfers. The rule became effective Oct. 1, 2000.

Computerized Content Analysis: A Comparison Of The Verbal Productions Of High Hypnotizable, Low Hypnotizable And Simulating Subjects, Edeltraud Elter-Nodvin

Doctoral Dissertations

This research was designed to investigate the domain of hypnosis and to explore how the “state” of hypnosis, along with the susceptibility to hypnosis relate to lexical choice in verbal productions as well as to primary/secondary process mentation. The hypothesis that hypnosis facilitates primary process mentation has held a central place in numerous psychoanalytically oriented theories of hypnosis (Gill & Brenman, 1959; Fromm, 1992; Nash, 1991).

College students were screened for level of hypnotic susceptibility employing the following two hypnotic susceptibility scales: The Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS: A; Shor & Orne, 1962) [Appendix D] and …

Marketing Gullah: Identity, Cultural Politics, And Tourism, Melissa D. Hargrove

Masters Theses

This thesis represents an ethnographic study of the current situation of the South Carolina Gullah. Research was conducted during the summer of 1998 and 1999, in the Sea Island communities of Mt. Pleasant and St. Helena Island, to determine the ways in which local grassroots organizations are combating increased tourism, resort and retirement development, and the commoditization of their cultural heritage as a boost to state revenue. The sweetgrass basket weavers of Mt. Pleasant are situated within this struggle as the living legacy to their Gullah ancestry. Their insight is particularly enlightening concerning the current predicament of native Sea Islanders …

Joint Surface Area Proportions And Articular Curvature In Al 288-1: A Functional Interpretation, Adam David Sylvester

Masters Theses

Body size has been recognized by several authors as one of the most important parameters affecting the biology of an organism. It has been argued that body size plays roles in metabolic cost, mobility, thermoregulation, and foraging strategy. For extinct species body masses can only be estimated using fossil remains and extant reference samples. To accurately estimate body mass the reference sample must have the same relationship between body mass and skeletal elements. Establishing a reference sample with similar body proportions as the fossil species is imperative.

The purpose of this study is to investigate forelimb to hindlimb joint surface …

On The Hallowed Hill: An Analysis Of The Historic Cemeteries Within The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Jacqueline Lott

Masters Theses

Though a number of authors have stressed the importance of using cemetery data to study culture change through time, most of the available studies in this regard have been general in nature and completed without statistical analysis. Few studies have concentrated specifically on small, rural cemeteries, and fewer still have concentrated on regions outside of New England. The southern Appalachian Mountains are but one of the many regions that has yet to be studied in-depth. This thesis is an attempt to bridge some of the aforementioned gaps. Historic cemetery data collected in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be …

Hot Topic: 2000-2001 State Revenue Estimates, Dick Phebus

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The Tennessee General Assembly adopted the state budget for fiscal year 2000-2001. Based on this budget, cities can expect to receive the following revenues.

Moving Toward Electronic Journals, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

PRINT STILL PREDOMINATES in journal publishing, but that role may soon fade. Too slowly or too quickly, steadily or in fits and starts (depending on your perspective and patience level), scholarly journals are moving toward reliance on digital forms. This is happening in part because librarians, scholars, and even some publishers are unhappy about the current state of print journals.

Hot Topic: The Legislature Sends Message To Cities With Electronic Mail: You Must Have A Written E-Mail Policy, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

This Hot Topic discusses the requirement for Tennessee cities to adopt a written policy regarding e-mail. On or before July 1, 2000, most Tennessee governments - including cities - that operate or maintain an electronic-mail (e-mail) system must adopt a written policy about monitoring e-mail communications. Included is a sample policy for the use and monitoring of e-mail.

Goal Programming As A Solution Technique, Ken Wise, D. E. Perushek

UT Libraries Faculty: Peer-Reviewed Publications

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A Name (Un)Like Any Other Name, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

WHAT'S IN A NAME? Plenty, judging from the time, thought, and expense that go into picking a new name for an online company. Can you name the new company monikers for Dow Jones Interactive, Reuters Business Briefing, Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive, UMI, Bell & Howell Information and Learning, the Dialog Corporation, and WLN? Don't be discouraged if you can't. Only close observers can keep up with the continual name changes.

The Database Marketplace 2000: Are Online Companies Dinosaurs?, Carol Tenopir, Jeff Barry

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

No player in the fee-based information industry can ignore the Internet, but many see it as an opportunity to expand services to their library customers rather than as a threat. Some companies that started in the CD-ROM business have adapted by offering web versions as well and are seeing much more growth in their web-based services. Gale Group is one that has successfully shifted its emphasis from CD-ROM to web versions. Gale's Beth Dempsey says, "The web has been a boon for Gale.

Hot Topic: Changes In Federal And State Reimbursement Rates For Travel, Dick Phebus

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

For those cities that elected to reimburse for travel using the federal reimbursement rates, the federal government increased the vehicle-cents-per-mile reimbursement rate for 2000 to 32.5 cents per mile. This increase became effective Jan. 1, 2000.

Hot Topic: The 1999/2000 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefit Survey, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The MTAS annual salary and fringe benefit survey for 199912000 is complete and shows salary increases for city employees grew at a rate slower than 1998/1999. This report contains a summary of the findings as well as a means to request specific information.

Family Caregiving Experiences With Alzheimer's Disease: A Collective Case Study, Annabel Lee Agee

Doctoral Dissertations

This collective case study was designed to explore the perspectives of families who are involved in caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease and the cognitive impairment it entails. The collective design (i.e., extension of the study to multiple cases) facilitated understanding and interpretation of these phenomena associated with family caregiving experiences with Alzheimer's disease through not only within-case but also cross-case analyses. Advances in health care and medical technology have resulted in increased life expectancy, which means more people are expected to live longer. Parallel to these predictions for increases in the aging population over the next 50 years, the …

Pigs, Philistines, And The Ancient Animal Economy Of Ekron From The Late Bronze Age To The Iron Age Ii, Justin Samuel Elan Lev-Tov

Doctoral Dissertations

The assemblage of animal bones recovered from the excavation area of Field I at the site of Tel Miqne-Ekron, located in Israel, is the subject of this dissertation. This site has been identified as the ancient city of Ekron, one of the Philistine cities. The faunal remains from Ekron can be divided into three main parts, bones recovered from the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age I, or Iron Age II strata of the site. Research questions relevant to these three time periods were formulated for each corpus of animal bones. The theme which ties these subdivisions together is world systems …

African-American Conservatism: A Longitudinal And Comparative Study, Angela K. Lewis

Doctoral Dissertations

The proposed research addresses the following questions: “Have African-Americans become more conservative over the last 25 years?” While numerous commentators have noted the existence of a Black conservative group, heretofore, none have attempted to document this phenomenon empirically. In fact, the question of whether conservatism has substantial support in the Black community remains unanswered (Welch & Combs, 85; Welch & Foster, 87; Randolph, 95). The purpose of this dissertation is to systematically address the preceding question through the use of the National Black Election Study (1984, 1988, & 1996) and the National Election Study.

Patterns Of Database Use In Academic Libraries., Carol Tenopir, Eleanor Read

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Database usage data from a random sample of academic libraries in the United States and Canada reveal patterns of use in selected types of libraries. Library users tend to use commercial online databases most frequently early in the week, at midday, and at times that correspond to the academic calendar (November in this six-month sample). On average, relatively low numbers of users are simultaneously logged on to research databases at any size of library. A questionnaire sent to these same libraries identified many other factors that might influence database use, including level of instruction, availability of remote log-in, and placement …