Consent orders are issued by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GA EPD). Consent orders require facilities to comply with environmental rules and regulations. The effectiveness of the consent order process has recently been questioned. Several facilities were cited with multiple consent orders, suggesting possible implementation weaknesses, i.e., monitoring and enforcement. There is a need to examine trends among facilities issued multiple consent orders and the content of those consent orders. Such an analysis can help determine the efficacy of the process as a tool of compliance and recommendations to improve it. The present assessment covered a span of fourteen years, 1993-2006. The data analysis reflected the strengths and limitations of this enforcement tool as well as the existing resources and powers of the state agencies.

Aim of the study. To evaluate mental health care institution staff’ and patients’ opinion about application of the doctrine of informed consent. Objectives: 1. To evaluate personal health care specialists’ opinion about application of the doctrine of informed consent in the health care institution. 2. To evaluate patients’ opinion about procedure of the written consent. 3. To compare personal health care specialists’ and patients’ opinion about application of the doctrine of informed consent. Methods. Anonymous survey of 138 personal health care specialists (response rate – 84 percent) and 315 patients (response rate – 90 percent) at Vilnius mental health centre was carried out. SPSS 13.0 version of statistic analysis packet was used to process the data. Diagrams and tables were prepared using Microsoft Excel 2003 program. Results. In evaluation of necessity of given information, 54,1% of personal health care specialists indicated that patient should be fully informed about his health status and diagnosis, 42,2% indicated that such information for mental health patients should be given just partially. 21,7% of patients claimed that information about prognosis and possible results of treatment given by doctors was unclear. In evaluation of procedure of written consent, 31,2% of specialists evaluated it as a manner for the doctor’s insurance and 24,9% – as an instrument for the protection of patient’s rights. Half of patients (49,9%) maintained that procedure of written consent... [to full text]

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: Michele Peterson-Badali.

Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 1989. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-71).

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-164).

Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 1989. / This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #029-0168. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-71).

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Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-71).

This study examines the function of humor as a discourse in discussion of sexual battery. In this study, I examine the ways sexual battery, consent, and victimization are social constructed. Humor is a form of discourse where individuals are allowed to speak more freely about taboo topics, including that of sexual battery. I examine humor within presentations given from a Victim Help Center. Using field notes, slides, videos, and audio-recordings, I analyze instances of humor within the presentations. I analyze the data multimodally, in order to provide a richer, qualitative analysis. In this thesis, I argue that humor observed in the presentations worked to perform power, mask face-threatening acts, enable metaphors, and, essentially authorize accounts of sexual battery. I argue that victim must be performed in a specific way, which is deemed by the university and other state laws on sexual battery, in order to be seriously considered. I believe that this study can contributes to the examination of broader notions of victimization and can work to examine spaces where victim-blaming occur.