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Item Service Order Handling(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 1995) Choi, Young BaeCurrent service order handling systems in telecommunications industry have problems such as user-unfriendliness, long service waiting time, uneasy customization of services, limited capability of in-house services, and inefficient human resources allocation. Consequently, the current solutions for the ordering process cannot be used to meet the business needs of service providers. To solve this problem, a generic service order handling model is suggested. Based on the TINA-C information modeling and computation modeling concepts, service order handling information object types and interfaces were defined. The three ordering interfaces studied in this model are: service negotiation, service ordering and order tracking for the main service provider and subcontracted service provider. To support the transfer of ordering information, the Store-and-Forward Paradigm is proposed. This Store-and-Forward paradigm is based on the use of e-mail (e.g., X.400) to transport non-realtime information.Item Alternatively certified and traditionally certified secondary school mathematics teachers' student success on the Missouri Assessment Program(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-14) Wall, Jennifer Joanne; Barger, RitaSince the 1980s, alternative certification programs, with the goals of improving the quality and quantity of teachers, have been preparing teachers through streamlined coursework tailored to the individual teachers' needs. Meanwhile, to improve teacher quality, traditional teacher education programs have been increasing standards required for traditional certification. These competing views on how to improve teacher quality have led to debates on the effectiveness of alternative certification programs and the teachers they certify. This study aimed to gain insight into the effectiveness of alternatively certified secondary mathematics teachers from two alternative certification programs offered at two universities. Alternatively certified secondary mathematics teachers from these programs were recruited to participate, and when possible traditionally certified secondary mathematics teachers in the same schools as participating alternatively certified teachers were also involved in the study. Data were collected on the participating teachers' students' 2008 state achievement mathematics test scores. Using analysis of variance and analysis of covariance tests, the data revealed that, on average, students of the alternatively certified teachers outperformed the students of traditionally certified teachers. Factors that had a significant impact on students' 2008 test scores were students' previous score on the test, students' minority status, and teachers' certification route. While these factors were all significant, students' previous scores accounted for the largest portion of the variance in 2008 scores, and teachers' certification route accounted for the smallest portion. Teachers' number of years of experience was not found to have an impact on students test scores, nor was there a significant interaction between teachers' certification route and students' gender.Item A study of orchestral audition repertoire for violin(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-26) Brandolino, Lawrence Anthony; Shatzkin, Merton, 1929-Very few colleges have a career-intensive program of orchestral audition preparation in their applied violin curriculum. This dissertation attempts to satisfy the need for a curriculum of audition repertoire study in the applied lesson. To reach this goal, the author surveyed 373 excerpts from the violin audition repertoire lists of eighteen professional orchestras to determine their most common excerpts. The focus of this document is on performance problems encountered in these excerpts with recommended solutions, such as bowings, fingerings, and metronomic markings added. Each marked excerpt is shown in a full score context in order to demonstrate how it relates to the other instruments melodically, harmonically, rhythmically, and texturally. Problems and recommended solutions to non-traditional techniques such as glissando, col legno, and pizzicato are also examined. The dissertation concludes with interviews of concertmasters and other orchestral musicians discussing their views on audition preparation and the audition process. Research methods consisted of: (1) selecting and writing to forty-five professional orchestras from a list of 856 American orchestras for the excerpt survey; (2) examining through personal performance, consulting numerous editions, and analyzing several recordings of the twenty-six most-often-used excerpts for bowings, fingerings, metronomic markings, and problems such as spiccato, shifting, and irregular bowing patterns; (3) consulting books and periodical articles about auditions; and (4) conducting interviews regarding the audition process with current and former concertmasters of the Baltimore Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Philharmonia of Kansas City, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Saint Louis Symphony.Item The relationship of multicultural awareness and belief of rape myths with intellectual empathy and empathic emotion for victims of acquaintance and stranger rape among undergraduate women and men(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-26) Hiatt, Tawny A.; Duan, ChangmingThe purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate the contribution of observer sex, type of rape, multicultural awareness and belief in rape myths to intellectual empathy and empathic emotions of male and female college students toward acquaintance or stranger rape victims. This study also sought to explore if there were interactions between and among these variables which would predict additional variance in intellectual empathy and empathic emotion. The results of the study showed that observers' who read the stranger rape scenario held significantly more intellectual empathy for rape victims than observers who read the acquaintance rape scenario. Participants who endorsed lower levels of belief in rape myths also held more intellectual empathy for rape victims than participants who endorsed higher levels of belief in rape myths. The study did not find support for the hypothesis that type of rape scenario, sex, belief in rape myths, and multicultural awareness contributed to empathic emotion for rape victims. Interactions of the study variables did not predict additional variance in intellectual empathy nor emphatic emotion for victims of rape.