The southeastern United States and southeastern Australia are both intraplate regions. They are characterized topographically and geologically by low relief, Paleozoic mountain belts that parallel continental margins formed by rifting. Interestingly, there are also remarkable similarities in the seismicity of the two areas. To characterize the temporal aspects of seismicity, the recurrence relationship, log N (number of earthquakes per year) versus I_o (maximum intensity), for southeastern Australia was determined to be: log N = 3.28 - 0.61 I_o; III ≤ I_o ≤ VII Comparison with a similar relationship for the southeastern United States, log N = 3.01 - 0.59 I_o; V ≤ I_o ≤ VIII. (Bollinger, G. A., 1973) indicates that both the level of seismic activity and the distribution of earthquakes by size are comparable in the two regions. Additionally, strain release studies for the two regions, while subject to considerable uncertainty, do support that similarity. Note that the intensity X, 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake was not included in either the recurrence or strain studies. Comparison of the spatial patterns of earthquake epicenters in both regions reveals only weak correlations of the seismicity with topography or with regional geology. There is, however, no apparent correlation with major igneous outcrops or with most major through-going faults. Both regions have seismic zones that are transverse or parallel to the regional geologic trends or tectonic fabrics. The parallel zones are usually associated spatially with severely-faulted regions, suggesting a possible causal relationship. For southeastern Australia, such zones exhibit northeast-trending normal faults of Jurassic age while for the southeastern United States, there are northeast-trending Pennsylvanian-Permian thrust faults. However, no such fault concentrations are found in the transverse seismic zones. Thus, the severely-faulted Source region hypothesis does apply uniformly. Indeed, it may be that, in portions of both of these widely separated geographic regions, the seismic activity is associated with deep crustal features that have no obvious surface expression. / Master of Science

The implications of a computerized grain trading system on the Southeast poultry firms was studied. The purposes of this study were to describe the current grain trading system, identify sources of inefficiency in the system, and infer the possible changes in efficiency due to a computerized grain trading system. A telephone survey was used to gather the information from the grain buyers. The trading practices used by the buyers were identified. The poultry firm's amount of storage, the quantity, quality, oriqin, transportation mode of the purchased qrain, and information about the selling firm was gathered. From the trade information, the pricing and technical ineff iencies plus the level of competition in the market were identified. The primary economic implications to Southeastern poultry firms if a computerized grain trading system were in place were the level of competition would increase, technical efficiency could increase from a decrease in costs of labor and information search, pricing efficiency could increase due to more structured market information, and the middle level margins could decrease and create an overall more efficient market. / M.S.

The main purpose of this study was to assess the impact of housing actors’ housing knowledge and involvement, perceptions of community Situations influencing housing, support for housing programs, and demographic characteristics on their receptiveness to housing policy initiatives. Perceptions of housing policy initiatives relative to funding for housing assistance and support for land use controls also were examined. The study analyzed data from the Southern Regional Research Project, S-194, "Barriers and Incentives to Affordable Housing." Responses from 786 housing actors living and/or working in 28 communities in seven southern states were analyzed. A conceptual model was proposed to test the hypothesized relationships. Relationships were examined by multiple regression. Two hypotheses were tested as dictated by the conceptual model. One hypothesis stated that housing actors’ receptiveness to housing policy initiatives relative to funding for housing assistance was not a function of housing knowledge, perceptions, support and personal demographic characteristics. The first regression equation explained 45% of the variability in housing actors’ receptiveness to funding for housing assistance. The four variables, housing discrimination towards groups with special needs, support of loans and grants for housing and community development, rental assistance, and homeowner assistance, entered the equation. The second hypothesis stated that housing actors’ receptiveness to housing policy initiatives relative to support for land use controls was not a function of housing knowledge, perceptions, support and personal demographic characteristics. The second regression equation explained only 14% of the variability in housing actors’ receptiveness to support for land use controls. Housing discrimination towards groups with special needs, demand for manufactured housing, support of loans and grants for homeowner assistance, and rental assistance were the contributing variables in the second model. Based on these analyses, the results suggest that the models tested should be revised. / Ph. D.

The objective of this research was to analyze the workers’ compensation insurance system for the logging industry in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Insurance rate components were fairly consistent among the nine states investigated. Approximately 72 percent of the workers’ compensation insurance rate is composed of loss components and components utilized to update and predict future losses of the year (time period) that the manual rate is in effect. The higher manual rates for the production based 2705 classification can be explained, in part, due to the different premium basis, i.e., production versus payroll. Upset factors based on 1) historical wage and productivity information and 2) a logging contractor survey, indicated that statewide upset factors were too low to equate production based payroll to actual payroll. Low upset factors provide a direct disincentive for contractors to move to an actual payroll basis. Experience modification, premium discounts and retrospective rating are used to customize premium to firm specific characteristics. The credibility test of the experience modification parameters indicated that a greater weight to firm specific characteristics is warranted for harvesting operations. The majority of logging injuries in North Carolina and Virginia occurred during felling and topping activities. An increase in lacerations as an injury type and topping as an occupation type in the coastal plain region may indicate that feller bunching and gate delimbing reduced neither the number or type of injuries. The high number of inexpensive losses contributes substantially to the logging industry’s poor safety image. A number of recommendations for improving the workers’ compensation system are presented. Recommendations which focused on system changes included eliminating numerical exemptions, establishing a $500 deductible clause, creating a mandatory retrospective rating plan for assigned risk policies, and designing greater credit and debit modifications based on firm characteristics. It was also suggested that a regional accident reporting system, funded from surcharged assigned risk policies, be established to provide actuarial data for rate hearings and loss control programs. Other recommendations included eliminating the 2705 "pulpwood only" classification, increasing and indexing the state’s upset factors, and determining the amount of premium slippage that occurs. / Ph. D.

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Scholars of southern Jewish history maintain that ante-bellum southerners displayed genuine philo-Semitism towards their Jewish neighbors. Historians attribute this to the southern Jews "effort to assimilate into southern society and to the presence of other, more preferred, targets of the southerners" animus, namely blacks and Catholics. This analysis, however, is not sufficiently broad to explain the South's Protestant-Jewish dynamic. It neither appraises the relationship from the perspective of the Protestants, nor accounts for the intellectual inconsistencies such a conclusion presents regarding both Protestants and southerners, generally. This thesis identifies and responds to these shortcomings by examining southern philo-Semitism through the eyes of the Protestants and thesis argues that pro-Judaic rhetoric of southern evangelical clergy inundated southerners with favorable references and images of the biblical Jews, causing southerners to develop a high degree of reverence and respect for Jews, whom they saw as their spiritual kinfolk. / by Scott H. Lebowitz. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

The purpose of this study is to examine the work life balance negotiations of three distinct culture groups employed by South Korean conglomerates located within the southeastern United States. These three cultural groups are: Korean nationals, Korean Americans, and non-Korean Americans. It is proposed that each culture will negotiate work life balances in their own manner based upon their specific inherent cultural understandings. This study is a cross-cultural examination through thirty-two open-ended interviews of employees working for large multinational Korean companies with facilities in the southern United States. Korean nationals, Korean Americans, and Americans implement different work-life balance negotiation tactics in the workplace based upon each one’s cultural association. While all three cultural groups experience difficulty in obtaining a work-life balance working for a Korean company, the Korean Americans seem to suffer the most.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Mississippi State University. Department of History. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

by Stephen Eugene Parr. / Typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 445-456).

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