The purpose of this study was to examine time on tasks and priority setting for Maryland community college continuing education administrators. The Delphi technique was used to compile a list of 75 tasks. A combination of survey research, card sort, face-to-face interviews, and on-site data collection was used to gather the data. Data were collected on the performance or delegation of the tasks and amount of time spent on them. The subjects reported spending the most time (456.44 hours per year) on supervising and providing leadership to all continuing education staff. The least amount of time (1.13 hours per year) was reported on guiding instructors' orders of textbooks. The researcher concluded from the data that most of the subjects did not have to concern themselves with routine tasks as they had sufficient staff to delegate those tasks to. The investigator developed a demographic survey and found the average continuing education administrator in Maryland to be Caucasian, 43 years old, and holding a master's degree. Fifty percent of the sample were female. The variables from the demographic survey were crosstabulated and correlated with time on tasks. A correlation coefficient of .59, t = 2.733, p. < .01, was found between time on tasks and the number of noncredit FTEs produced by the institution. The correlation coefficient for time on tasks and size of college was .62, t = 2.956, p. < .01. The generation of FTEs at the possible expense of quality was an issue of great concern to the Maryland continuing education administrators. Study findings showed that in setting priorities, small- and medium-sized institutions considered the same factors influential, but that large colleges perceived a different set of factors as being significant. / Ed. D.

A twenty-five story, 200,000 square foot mixed-use complex on the edge of Baltimore's downtown office district. A building system reminiscent of the Japanese Metabolists' is developed, but with less of a preoccupation with "high-tech" imagery. This system is manipulated to produce plazas and public spaces at many levels throughout the complex. The complex 's relationship to the 1855 Camden Station is also a major issue. / Master of Architecture

One of the most challenging aspects of architectural practice is the design of residences. Because the solution appropriate for each situation differs with the composition, the cultural and ethnic background, and the living pattern of each family, the design of a home is never lacking in interest; because the family and its home are the basis of our civilization, residential architecture is of lasting significance. While within and about the home the individual comes under its influence, and his physical and emotional health are greatly affected. Physiologically he is affected by temperature, ventilation, humidity, and illumination; psychologically he is affected by crowding, clutter, noise, color, and spatial relationships. By deciding upon one design or another, the designer of homes, whether he is conscious of it or not, influences the future success and happiness of family life in the most intensive manner. Therefore, the architect has at his command a tremendous power of good or evil. Although definite progress in raising the standards of dwelling design has been made since World War II, there is still a great need for exploration in the field of house design, especially with regard to the technical and functional aspects of planning. The purpose of this thesis is to provide an opportunity for such general investigation and to apply the information thus gained to an actual, specific problem, the design of a residence for the author's parents. / Master of Science

The western Piedmont of Pennsylvania is underlain by the Octoraro and Peters Creek Formations, and these formations were juxtaposed during Late Paleozoic dextral strike-slip shearing. North of the shear zone, the Octoraro Formation contains evidence for two metamorphisms and deformations prior to strike-slip shearing, whereas south of the shear zone the Peters Creek Formation contains evidence for only one. The discordance in metamorphic and deformational history across the shear zone suggests the now juxtaposed rocks originated in different parts of the orogen. A minimum of 150 km of orogen parallel dextral offset is proposed for the shear system based on palinspastic reconstruction of the Cambrian-Ordovician shelf edge between northern Maryland and southeastern New York. The Peters Creek Formation consists of three lithofacies: 1) graded metasandstone beds, 2) meta-quartz-pelite, and 3) massive metasandstone lenses within the graded bedded sequences. The occurrence of interlayered greenstone in lithofacies 1) suggests rift related deposition. These rift clastics consist of two submarine turbidite-fan systems defined by thick sequences of interlayered feldspathic metasandstone and schist, separated by a region underlain of quartz-schist. Comparison of the Peters Creek Formation with known Iapetan rift clastics in the central Appalachians of Virginia suggests the Peters Creek deposits are also related to Iapetan rifting. Transpressional structural models have been applied to oblique convergence tectonics, with the coeval development of contractional and transcurrent structures. Late Paleozoic post-Taconian deformation in the north-central Appalachian Piedmont of Pennsylvania and Maryland is characterized by two stages of dextral transpression. Stage one comprises a map-scale ductile conjugate shear zone pair (the Rosemont and Crum Creek shear zones) that developed at amphibolite facies. These conjugate shear zones were later overprinted, during stage two, by greenschist facies dextral shear zones that flank broad upright antiforms. Conjugate shear-pair criteria were applied to these structures to constrain the paleo-principal compressive stress orientations. During stage one σ1 and σ3 were shallowly plunging, with σ2 steeply plunging. During stage two σ1 and σ2 were shallowly plunging, with σ3 steeply plunging. The structural evolution and associated change in stress array suggests unroofing during transpression, consistent with the decrease in metamorphic grade. Post-transpressional deformation produced a pair of conjugate cleavages in the lower Susquehanna River region, and determined orientations of the principal compressive stresses suggest Late Paleozoic extension, possibly related to gravitational collapse. Previously published orthogonal collision and tectonic assembly models for the north-central Appalachian Piedmont are incompatible with the new data. Oblique collision tectonics resulted in complex dextral transpressional deformation and large orogen parallel displacement of crustal blocks. Tectonic models that do not include the transpressional orogen component of the tectonic history should be seriously reconsidered. / Ph. D.

Presented herein is a detailed study of London Town, a tobacco port in Anne Arundel County, Maryland established during the British colonial period in North America. Long defunct, the town has been the subject of archaeological excavations since 1995. This research was undertaken to answer questions regarding the town's history, economic system, and its role in the local economy: what was the nature of the town; who lived in the town; and what were the forces that caused the town to grow and subsequently fail? Answering these questions has revealed a comprehensive portrait of London Town's undocumented past. This research proves that London Town played an important role in the economic development of Maryland and Anne Arundel County. It was one of many towns established in 1683 by the Maryland Assembly in the "Act for the Advancement of Trade." Only a small number of these towns survived beyond the colonial period. Those tobacco towns that have disappeared have been labelled the "lost towns" of Maryland by local historians and archaeologists: few of these towns have been studied in any detail. This study of London Town combines historical and archaeological research to illustrate the impact that outside forces such as war, market pressures, and regional development had on its growth and existence. This work documents the history of London Town and its role in the colonial mercantile system during the eighteenth century and is presented as a case study for future comparison.

In the fall of 1864, Maryland became the first Border State to abolish slavery with the adoption of a new state constitution. In order to best understand the evolution of this event, the purpose of this study was to examine the civil-military relations of Maryland during the Civil War and how these relations affected the institution of slavery in the state. Therefore, the main argument is that the conflict between military and civil authorities in Maryland during the war revealed two points: first, that the federal government maintained a faithful vigilance over the state during the war and second, that the federal government exploited a fading slavery system to not only eliminate any possibility of Maryland entering the Confederacy, but also destroy any degree of Border State neutrality. / by Brian Thomas Dunne. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

When adolescents forgo oral health treatment, factors that hinder them from obtaining these services put them at risk of detrimental consequences in their oral and overall health. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to identify the various barriers that adolescents encounter causing them to defer oral treatment. Through this study, public health officials, school health care providers, the state, and parents could be made aware of these factors and work together to implement programs and supplemental aid to help adolescents become more knowledgeable of the importance of oral care and encourage them to desire and seek treatment. The oral health and behavioral conceptual models provided foundations for the development of the research questions, and they highlighted the selection of risk factors on the deferment process. Twenty adolescents who had oral health treatment/services in the past 12 months participated in the study. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed thematically. The results of this study show that oral health beliefs, as well as personal, behavioral, and environmental factors, shaped adolescents' decision to forgo oral health treatment. Financial barriers, dental fear, and transportation obstructed their capacity to seek care for themselves. The positive social change implications of this study include increasing the proportion of adolescents receiving oral health treatment yearly through the development of targeted interventions (such as school programs) that are designed to increase the adolescents' access to and use of dental care services. Such efforts would support the strategies implemented to achieve Healthy People 2020 objectives.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are conditions that represent significant and ongoing medical costs, including frequent emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, work absences, and disability. This retrospective cross-sectional study, examined the effects of the frequent ED visits due to COPD and CHF on the beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid in Maryland. The goal was to identify the factors that led these patients to visit the ED, the impact of these visits on Medicare utilization and costs across Maryland, and preventative intervention strategies to control this population's costs of care. Secondary data were analyzed from 2010-2012 using the Administrative Claims Data in Chronic Condition Warehouse (CCW). The results for the first research question revealed that an increase in the number of primary care physicians was correlated with a decrease in ED visits; thus, persons living in areas with higher PCPs also had lower ED visits therefore the first null hypothesis was rejected (Ï?2 = 3.85, p=.05) . The results for the second research question revealed that ED visits had no significant relationship with death in a given year; thus, patients may be diverted to less expensive care sites to minimize cost and ED overcrowding, therefore the second null hypothesis was not rejected (Ï?2 = 0, p=.98). In both cases, the confounding variables of gender, age, and race had significant effects upon the relationship. Health Professionals and policy makers may use the findings to develop strategies to increase supply of PCPs, adapt patient centered interventions and modify existing chronic disease care strategies to minimize or prevent lifestyle and environmental factors that affect chronic disease outcomes. Such improvements could contribute to positive social change by eliminating or reducing the overcrowding that occurs in emergency departments in Maryland and other states.

This study investigates the development of large unit command and control in the United States Army prior to the American Civil War. It examines the results of this development in one early campaign of the war. The paper's theme is that the excessive casualties suffered during the early stages of the war were not only a result of the improvements in weapons technology, the size of the armies or the personalities of the individual commanders. Another, and potentially more serious cause was the inability of the Union commanders to command, control, and maneuver these units to achieve campaign objectives.The paper begins by describing how war is organized into three levels: strategy, operations, and tactics; and defining the concepts related to command and control. The influences on the development of the Civil War leadership are next examined. These include: Napoleonic Warfare, the teachings of Jomini, Mahan, and Halleck; the the formal and informal educational experiences of the officers. Next command and control doctrine within the Union Army is examined.The case study used for examining operational command and control during the early period of the Civil War is the Maryland Campaign of 1862 which culminated at the Battle of Antietam in September of that year. Throughout the thesis, the education and performance of the Army of the Potomac's commander, George B. McClellan is examined.The conclusion of the paper is that the United States Army was poorly prepared for the conduct of large unit operations. This poor preparation, and performance, could not be blamed on any single individual, including McClellan. It was the result of complex educational, experiential, and organizational factors which shaped the pre-war Army.Finally, this paper concludes that General McClellan's inability to decisively maneuver the forces at his disposal was a significant factor in the outcome of the engagement at Sharpsburg, Maryland on 17 September, 1862.

abstract: Once considered an abundant species in the eastern United States, local populations of red-shouldered hawks, Buteo lineatus, have declined due to habitat destruction. This destruction has created suitable habitat for red-tailed hawks, Buteo jamaicensis, and therefore increased competition between these two raptor species. Since suitable habitat is the main limiting factor for raptors, a computer model was created to simulate the effect of habitat loss in central Maryland and the impact of increased competition between the more aggressive red-tailed hawk. These simulations showed urban growth contributed to over a 30% increase in red-tailed hawk habitat as red-shouldered hawk habitat decreased 62.5-70.1% without competition and 71.8-76.3% with competition. However there was no significant difference seen between the rate of available habitat decline for current and predicted development growth. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.S. Applied Biological Sciences 2011