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Exploring Thematic Balance In Personal Narrative As A Marker For Responsiveness, Laura G. Porter

Masters Theses

Research on personal narrative as a template or map that organizes experience and creates a lens for the interpretation of reality has largely relied on structural analysis for its assessments of adequacy. As a synthesis of beliefs and values with actions, thoughts, and feelings, however, the tone and thematic quality of an individual's life story must also shape the narrative compass that guides interactions in the social world. Among these elements, one's theory of reality will exert a significant impact on the overall context within which the specific unfolding of narrative plots occurs. In Western societies in particular, this perspective …

Hot Topic: Requirements Of Fingerprint Law, Rex Barton

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The Fingerprint Law was originally passed in the 1997 legislative session. The original law mandated that local law enforcement agencies (1) Fingerprint every person arrested and forward the fingerprint cards to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), and (2) Maintain at least an 85 percent retention rate. (This means that the TBI should not reject more than 15 percent of the fingerprint cards due to poor quality.)

Unlikely Partnerships, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Two new partnerships have created unlikely and controversial relationships in the online information sector. Dow Jones Interactive is merging with Reuters Business Briefing to form Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive. Northern Light is producing usgovsearch, a federal government information resource, through a partnership with the National Technical Information Service.

Hot Topic: Y2k Preparedness Planning, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

This Hot Topic discusses a law passed by the Tennessee General Assembly that provides a five-year immunity to local governments for any Y2K computer failures, provided that the municipalities have adopted a Y2K preparedness plan. Included is a sample Y2K preparedness plan.

Hot Topic: The 1998/99 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefit Survey, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The MTAS annual salary and fringe benefit survey for 1998/99 is complete and shows salary increases for city employees grew at a rate slower than 1997/98. This report contains a summary of the findings as well as a means to request specific information.

The Database Marketplace 1999: Data Dealers Forging Links, Carol Tenopir, Jeff Barry

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

A year ago, the database marketplace was described as stormy weather, and while this phenomenon won't cease in 1999, it may be getting more predictable. A look at the 1999 database marketplace is presented.

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

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

For those cities that elected to reimburse for travel using the federal reimbursement rates, the federal government decreased the vehicle-cents-per-mile reimbursement rate for 1999 to 31 cents per mile. This decrease became effective on April 1, 1999. Any mileage allowances paid to an employee before April 1, 1999, for mileage expenses incurred prior to April 1, 1999, still qualified for the previous rate of 32.5 cents per mile.

Database Use In Academic Libraries, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Staff from 58 academic librarians responded to survey questions regarding what influences the recommendations they make for use of electronic databases. Quality and usefulness of content was rated as most important, convenience (number of workstations, availability of remote login, and location of workstations) was also important, and familiarity played a role. Availability of full-text often overrides all other factors.

Simultaneous Usage Of Online Databases In Academic And Public Libraries, Carol Tenopir, Danielle M. Green

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Pricing based on the number of simultaneous (concurrent) users is an attractive pricing option for many academic and public libraries. Anticipating the needed number of simultaneous usage ports, however, often requires guesswork. If too few simultaneous users are allowed, patrons may be frustrated; too many and the library is paying for unused access. Usage patterns for academic and public libraries help take the guesswork out of the simultaneous user calculation. Six months of usage data (July-December) from a random sample of approximately 200 academic and public libraries that access online databases from a major database aggregator show similarities and differences …

Ex-Votos Religious And Social Commentaries In Northeast Brazil, Carolyn Lindsey King

Doctoral Dissertations

The religious tradition of offering anatomical votive images out of wood or clay has long been practiced in the impoverished state of Ceara, Brazil and is still a vital tradition at the Sanctuary of St. Francis of Wounds in Caninde. This study documents the ex-voto ritual, examining the carvings as works of art embodying the prayers of the subaltern, subordinated within interlocking hierarchies of class, race, ethnicity, and gender; and discerns what this popular ritual practice encodes about its relationship with the Roman Catholic Church. It also examines, from the perspective of the Northeast's impoverished people, what the offered anatomical …

Cut Mark Classification With Energy Dispersive X-Ray Analysis, Jennifer Cheryl Love

Masters Theses

Cut marks are preserved records of human activity and are used by anthropologists for a variety of purposes including reconstructing past events. Presently, examination of surface modifications with a dissecting or scanning electron microscope is the most common technique for mark classification. Although appropriate for morphologically typical marks, these methods are subjective and non-applicable to atypical marks. In light of these limitations, the author attempted to develop a method that utilized residual material transferred from a weapon to the bone for classification.

Recent advancements in electron microscopy led to the development of the environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) equipped with …

The Development And Application Of A Digitized Image Database For The Estimation Of Age Based On Bone Histology, John Edward Mailen

Masters Theses

In this study, digital image analysis was incorporated into existing regression formulas for age estimation. Previous studies in forensic anthropology have utilized only the manual counting of Basic Structural Units (BSUs) within the bone matrix for age estimation. The integration of an image database with the accepted regression formulas (Kerley 1965 and Kerley and Ubelaker 1978) allows for data to be reexamined without having to be sampled from the original slides. Thus, the data will have a more dynamic nature, where it could be investigated by other researchers from the original readings. In addition, the data can help train future …

Estimating Sex And Weight Of Odocoileus Virginiamus (Whitetail Deer) With Implications To Human Status At Toqua, Christian Deforest Davenport

Masters Theses

Whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus) was one of the prevalent food resources of human beings in both prehistoric and early historic North America (Smith 1975). This paper shall explore deer selection by prehistoric hunters though analysis of deer remains from Toqua (40MR6). Toqua is a multicomponent site spanning from the late Mississippian (AD 1200-1600) through the historic Overhill Cherokee Period (AD1600-1800) in Tennessee (Polhemus 1987: 1246). Previous work done by Bogan (1980), demonstrated a status related distribution not only between species but also within species at this site. This is typified by the presence of axial portions of whitetail …

Diffusion Of Innovations Theory Applied: The Adoption Of Digital On-Demand Technology By Book Publishers And Printers, Jill Cohen Walker

Masters Theses

Desktop publishing rose in popularity during the late 1980s, allowing whole documents—books, journals, reports, etc.—to be created on computers. The printing industry had to develop compatible technology to accommodate the changes in document creation. In response to desktop publishing, digital printing appeared in 1990 with the invention of computer-to-plate technology. In its earliest days, it was limited to specific commercial applications such as check and business-form printing.

An amalgam of several technologies, digital printing has evolved and on-demand printing has matured into a book-printing technology that starts with the creation of a document and ends with the shipping of the …

New Versions Of Old Favorites, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Many electronic database systems popular with libraries have migrated to a Web-based interface. Dow Jones Interactive, DialogWeb, LEXIS-NEXIS, and STN have all recently come out with Web databases or new versions of existing Web products. Brief evaluations of each are presented.

Shaping The Web "As We Want It", Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The 1998 Online World Conference, sponsored by Online, Inc., was marked by president of Alexa Internet Brewster Kahle's speech. Kahle feels that libraries should 1) a collection with selection; 2) easy and open access; 3) organized materials; 4) preservation of the valuable and rare; and 5) aid to patrons. Other highlights of the conference are presented.

Hot Topic: Personnel Issues That Made The News, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

The following Hot Topic summarizes pertinent information, key legislation, and Supreme Court rulings that took place during 1998.

Recapturing The Past Online, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Libraries across the US are seeing an increased amount of automated information coming through to their schools. Some of these systems carry historical information which dates back only to the early seventies and maybe a few services offer articles written in the sixties. A move to update these files to include more valuable information to students as well as teachers are being devised by database producers.

Helping Cities For Half A Century: A History Of The Municipal Technical Advisory Service, 1949-1999, Rob Parkinson

MTAS History

This history of the Municipal Technical Advisory Service looks to examine several aspects of the organization’s first 50 years; more specifically in several areas: the historical context out of which MTAS operated, the bureaucratic or structural changes that have come over 50 years, the people who shaped and breathed life into the organization, and the specific issues and problems MTAS consultants were called on to help Tennessee cities with. These topics fit together to give the reader a larger view of what the Municipal Technical Advisory Service has accomplished since 1949 and what the future holds for the next 50 …

Municipal Technical Advisory Service 50th Anniversary Packet, Rob Parkinson

MTAS History

Includes a year-long series of articles celebrating MTAS's 50th anniversary in 1999.

Tennessee Public Acts 1999: Summaries Of Interest To Municipal Officials, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

Summarizes the year's public acts and provides date they become effective.

Users of this publication are cautioned that much judgment is involved in determining which Public Acts to summarize and how to summarize them. Before taking action or giving advice based upon any Public Act summarized here, one should consult the act itself and not rely on the summary.

Finding Money Iii For Municipal Water, Wastewater, And Solid Waste Projects In Tennessee, Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This document is an overview of various financing programs available to Tennessee's local governments for water, wastewater, solid waste, and other project needs.

Great Smoky Mountains Regional Collection New To Utk, Ken Wise

Other Library Publications and Works

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Whole Lotta Movin’ Goin’ On, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

WHEN I LIVED IN California, the hot, dry days of September and October were always referred to as "earthquake weather." Although the term may not be accurate geologically, shaking and moving was the autumnal activity of some of the major California-based information companies. The parent companies of both Dialog and Information Access Company (IAC) announced in September that they would be moving corporate headquarters out of California (see InfoTech, U 10/15/98, p. 25-26). What will it mean for us, their customers?

Designing Electronic Journals With 30 Years Of Lessons Learned From Print: Economic And Use Patterns Of Scientific Journals., Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Scientists find journals useful, both for their teaching and their research — so useful, in fact, that they are willing to pay for them. If electronic journals prove to be as useful, or more useful, their viability is assured.

The Morphometric Relationship Of Upper Cave 101 And 103 To Modern Homo Sapiens, Deborah Lenz Cornell

Masters Theses

Upper Cave 101 and Upper Cave 103 (UC 101 and UC 103), the much argued over Homo sapiens fossils from Zhoukoudian, China, figure prominently into discussions of modem human origins. Adherents to the Multiregional model see the Zhoukoudian fossils as exhibiting some of the same Asian characteristics that can be seen in modern Asian populations. On the other hand, proponents of the Out-of-Africa model see anything and everything but Asian features, frequently pointing out African characteristics which they claim are retentions of features from the initial exodus of modern humans.

UC 101 and UC 103 were compared to Howells' modern …

The Pack Horse Library Project Of Eastern Kentucky: 1936-1943, Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer

Masters Theses

This study examines the Pack Horse Library Project, partially supported by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), in eastern Kentucky from 1936 to 1943 . The WPA supported the project by providing work relief for local women and a few local men. Communities, individuals, and organizations such as county boards of education, civic clubs, and Kentucky PTAs funded materials, operating expenses, and overhead. For hundreds of isolated mountain communities, schools, and individuals the Pack Horse Library Project provided the first public library service ever experienced.

The Pack Horse Library Project provided library service to an area of Kentucky that was geographically …

Hot Topic: National Guard's Weekend Drills Are Considered Training, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

This Hot Topic discusses the Attorney General's Opinion No. 98-155, which addresses whether National Guard weekend drills are considered training under the law and subject to the military leave provisions of the Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.). According to the Attorney General's opinion, "Weekend training appears to be within the statutory terms of the T.C.A." The term "training" ordinarily would encompass the term "drill." Drill is defined by Webster's dictionary as "the act of training soldiers in the military art ... a kind or method of military exercises." The A.G. cited an Alabama case, Britton vs. Jackson, 414 So.2d 966 (Ala. …

Proving Your Point With Word Searches, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Online search services may be used to trace word usage which in turn may be used to determine the growth of an industry or to help in budgetary planning. Dialog and Lexis-Nexis are effective online services for use in analyzing word usage.

The Impact Of Digital Reference On Librarians And Library Users, Carol Tenopir, Lisa Ennis

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

University reference librarians report a variety of effects, both positive and negative, from the rapid and widespread adoption of electronic media during the last decades. Heightened expectations from students and, to a lesser degree, from faculty are noticed by many librarians. Partly because of media hype about the wonders of the Internet and the ubiquity of the World Wide Web, students expect to be able to answer every question and do every research project online. One major impact of electronic services is the growing need for user instruction. Part of the problem is that there are still many students with …