Detecting and combating plagiarism from Web-based sources is a concern for administrators and instructors involved in online distance education. In this paper, we quantify copy-and-paste plagiarism among adult learners in an online geography course offered through Penn State’s World Campus Geographic Information Systems (GIS) certificate program. We also evaluate the effectiveness of an “expect...

As sharing agreements are being ratified by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for various spectrum bands for commercial broadband use, it also opens up an equally challenging problem of enforcing these policies. The efficacy of an enforcement system greatly depends on the accuracy of evidential information and the speed of adjudication. The inherent unguided and unbounded nature of ra...

The study investigated the effects of time spent in prison and quality of life before prison on male, federally sentenced prisoners’ adaptations to imprisonment, controlling for sentence length and prison security level. Data consisted of responses on a self-administered survey completed by 712 prisoners. Findings tended to support the independent effects of the indigenous (deprivation) and imp...

The School Breakfast Program (SBP) is one of the largest nutrition assistance programs serving school-aged children in US. It provides reimbursement to states for operation breakfast schools. Student participation SBP is, however, much lower than National Lunch (NSLP). Because missing could result hunger that then influence children's interpersonal relations and classroom behavior (i.e., discip...

In Rhode Island, out-of-school suspensions were excessively and disproportionately used to penalize low-level infractions. To address this problem, the Island General Assembly passed legislation, effective May 2012, prohibiting for attendance-specific Four years later, additional legislation curb disruption-specific This study examines impact of these suspension reforms on outcomes treatment in...

This research examines a model of school violence and disruption using structural equation modeling. Data are analyzed from the 1995 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey which includes 9,954 completed interviews of students age 12 to 19 in schools across the United States. Students were asked questions about school rules and procedures, knowledge of and personal ex...

Several studies have sought the factors that are related to prison adjustment. However, this construct is poorly explored among female populations and even less so in those with characteristics of psychopathy. Thus, present study aims understand adjustment offenders determine role psychopathy criminal lifestyle predicting it. Both institutional infractions health care utilization were used as i...

the physician role as a base. There might be perceived sexual gain or exploitation involved (about two-thirds of boundary cases have been such). But it might also involve perceived personal or ªnancial exploitation. (In the cases of boundary violations, we carefully use the word perceived because this is so often contended.) The second range of ethical misconduct is self-serving ªnancial gain o...