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Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 31, December 12, 2011, Grand Valley State University Dec 2011

Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 31, December 12, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.


Grand Valley Forum, Volume 036, Number 16, December 12, 2011, Grand Valley State University Dec 2011

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 036, Number 16, December 12, 2011, Grand Valley State University

2011-2012, Volume 36

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.


Preserving Euskera In A Globalized World: Determining The Long-Term Efficacy Of Multilingual Schools In The Basque Country, Spain, Olivia Destrades Mendoza Dec 2011

Preserving Euskera In A Globalized World: Determining The Long-Term Efficacy Of Multilingual Schools In The Basque Country, Spain, Olivia Destrades Mendoza

Masters Theses

The Basque Country, Spain is a linguistically unique region where the minority indigenous language, Euskera, competes alongside the dominant state language, Castilian, and a lingua franca, English, for prestige and status. Following a history of cultural and linguistic repression and marginalization, the Basque community has, in the past 30 years, begun to reintroduce Euskera into new, multilingual school systems in order to teach, preserve and maintain their heritage language, while simultaneously acquiring English as an important language for global communication. This multimethod, qualitative study takes data from 36 survey respondents and five interview participants from the Basque Country, and triangulates …


Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 30, December 8, 2011, Grand Valley State University Dec 2011

Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 30, December 8, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.


Chronic Hindlimb Ischemia Impairs Functional Vasodilation And Vascular Reactivity In Mouse Feed Arteries, Trevor R. Cardinal, Kyle R. Struthers, Thomas J. Kesler, Matthew D. Yocum, David T. Kurjiaka, James B. Hoying Dec 2011

Chronic Hindlimb Ischemia Impairs Functional Vasodilation And Vascular Reactivity In Mouse Feed Arteries, Trevor R. Cardinal, Kyle R. Struthers, Thomas J. Kesler, Matthew D. Yocum, David T. Kurjiaka, James B. Hoying

Peer Reviewed Articles

Vasodilation of lower leg arterioles is impaired in animal models of chronic peripheral ischemia. In addition to arterioles, feed arteries are a critical component of the vascular resistance network, accounting for as much as 50% of the pressure drop across the arterial circulation. Despite the critical importance of feed arteries in blood flow control, the impact of ischemia on feed artery vascular reactivity is unknown. At 14 days following unilateral resection of the femoral–saphenous artery–vein pair, functional vasodilation of the profunda femoris artery was severely impaired, 11 ± 9 versus 152 ± 22%. Although endothelial and smooth muscle-dependent vasodilation were …


Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 29, December 5, 2011, Grand Valley State University Dec 2011

Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 29, December 5, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.


Grand Valley Forum, Volume 036, Number 15, December 5, 2011, Grand Valley State University Dec 2011

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 036, Number 15, December 5, 2011, Grand Valley State University

2011-2012, Volume 36

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.


Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model In Context, Geert Hofstede Dec 2011

Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model In Context, Geert Hofstede

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

This article describes briefly the Hofstede model of six dimensions of national cultures: Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, Individualism/Collectivism, Masculinity/Femininity, Long/Short Term Orientation, and Indulgence/Restraint. It shows the conceptual and research efforts that preceded it and led up to it, and once it had become a paradigm for comparing cultures, research efforts that followed and built on it. The article stresses that dimensions depend on the level of aggregation; it describes the six entirely different dimensions found in the Hofstede et al. (2010) research into organizational cultures. It warns against confusion with value differences at the individual level. It concludes …


Beyond Lean: Simulation In Practice, Charles R. Standridge Ph.D. Dec 2011

Beyond Lean: Simulation In Practice, Charles R. Standridge Ph.D.

Open Textbooks

Lean thinking, as well as associated processes and tools, have involved into a ubiquitous perspective for improving systems particularly in the manufacturing arena. With application experience has come an understanding of the boundaries of lean capabilities and the benefits of getting beyond these boundaries to further improve performance. Discrete event simulation is recognized as one beyond-the-boundaries of lean technique. Thus, the fundamental goal of this text is to show how discrete event simulation can be used in addition to lean thinking to achieve greater benefits in system improvement than with lean alone. Realizing this goal requires learning the problems that …


Teaching In Educational Leadership Using Web 2.0 Applications: Perspectives On What Works, E. J. Shinsky, Hans A. Stevens Dec 2011

Teaching In Educational Leadership Using Web 2.0 Applications: Perspectives On What Works, E. J. Shinsky, Hans A. Stevens

Peer Reviewed Articles

To prepare 21st Century school leaders, educational leadership professors need to learn and teach the utilization of increasingly sophisticated technologies in their courses. The co-authors, a professor and an educational specialist degree candidate, describe how the use of advanced technologies — such as Wikis, Google Docs, Wimba Classroom, and Discussion Board — have served as a catalyst for learning among educational leadership students. Details regarding how technology has been used in one course are described, demonstrating how various apps and software applications can easily be applied in other courses.


Preserving Euskera In A Globalized World: Determining The Long-Term Efficacy Of Multilingual Schools In The Basque Country, Spain (Thesis), Olivia Destrades Mendoza Dec 2011

Preserving Euskera In A Globalized World: Determining The Long-Term Efficacy Of Multilingual Schools In The Basque Country, Spain (Thesis), Olivia Destrades Mendoza

Honorable Mentions

The Basque Country, Spain is a linguistically unique region where the minority indigenous language, Euskera, competes alongside the dominant state language, Castilian, and a lingua franca, English, for prestige and status. Following a history of cultural and linguistic repression and marginalization, the Basque community has, in the past 30 years, begun to reintroduce Euskera into new, multilingual school systems in order to teach, preserve and maintain their heritage language, while simultaneously acquiring English as an important language for global communication. This multimethod, qualitative study takes data from 36 survey respondents and five interview participants from the Basque Country, and triangulates …


Sprouty2 Deficiency In Mice Leads To The Development Of Achalasia, Benjamin Lee Staal Dec 2011

Sprouty2 Deficiency In Mice Leads To The Development Of Achalasia, Benjamin Lee Staal

Masters Theses

Sprouty 2 (Spry2), one of the four mammalian Spry family members, is a negative feedback regulator of many receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) signaling including Met. It fine-tunes RTKs signaling through multiple levels of regulations starting from RTK itself to several downstream molecules that are crucial for signal transduction. To understand what role Spry2 might play during developmental processes, we created a Spry2 conventional knockout mouse in which Spry2 expression is replaced by enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) reporter. Spry2 appears to be expressed in mouse embryo and in many adult tissues, and Spry2- deficient mice have smaller body size and …


Assessment Of Acculturation: Issues And Overview Of Measures, Ozgur Celenk, Fons J.R. Van De Vijver Dec 2011

Assessment Of Acculturation: Issues And Overview Of Measures, Ozgur Celenk, Fons J.R. Van De Vijver

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

Publicly available acculturation measures are systematically reviewed based on three criteria: scale descriptors (name of the scale, authors, year, target group, age group, subscales, and number of items), psychometric properties (reliabilities) and conceptual and theoretical structure (acculturation conditions, acculturation orientations, acculturation outcomes, acculturation attitudes, acculturation behaviors, conceptual model and life domains). Majority of the reviewed acculturation measures are short, single-scale instruments that are directed to specific target groups. Additionally, they mainly assess behavioral acculturation outcomes than acculturation conditions and orientations. Regarding the psychometric properties; most measures have an adequate internal consistency; yet cross-cultural validity of the instruments have not been …


Cultural Psychology Of African Americans, James M. Jones, Santiba Campbell Dec 2011

Cultural Psychology Of African Americans, James M. Jones, Santiba Campbell

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

The cultural psychology of African Americans involves the evolution of African patterns of thought, feeling and behavior and their utilization as adaptive mechanisms in a context of racism and oppression. Assumptions about cultural psychology as the intersection of psyche and culture, and African American psychology as the multidimensional response to dehumanization and psychic conflict are discussed. Time, Rhythm, Improvisation, Orality, and Spirituality (TRIOS) are proposed as psycho-cultural mechanisms of adaptation, innovation, and psychological control for African Americans. Sources of variability among African Americans (both psychological and societal) are a basis for black subcultures within Black Culture. TRIOS is offered as …


Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 28, December 1, 2011, Grand Valley State University Dec 2011

Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 28, December 1, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.


Exploring The Usefulness Of Plastinates In Teaching Anatomy, Ann Kendzicky Dec 2011

Exploring The Usefulness Of Plastinates In Teaching Anatomy, Ann Kendzicky

Honors Projects

No abstract provided.


Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 27, November 28, 2011, Grand Valley State University Nov 2011

Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 27, November 28, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.


Grand Valley Forum, Volume 036, Number 14, November 28, 2011, Grand Valley State University Nov 2011

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 036, Number 14, November 28, 2011, Grand Valley State University

2011-2012, Volume 36

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.


Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 26, November 21, 2011, Grand Valley State University Nov 2011

Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 26, November 21, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.


Grand Valley Forum, Volume 036, Number 13, November 21, 2011, Grand Valley State University Nov 2011

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 036, Number 13, November 21, 2011, Grand Valley State University

2011-2012, Volume 36

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.


Introduction Of Jim And Donna Brooks, Delivered For The 2011 Dutch American Leadership Award On November 17, 2011, Arend D. Lubbers Nov 2011

Introduction Of Jim And Donna Brooks, Delivered For The 2011 Dutch American Leadership Award On November 17, 2011, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Introduction of Jim and Donna Brooks, delivered for the 2011 Dutch American Leadership Award on November 17, 2011 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.


Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 25, November 17, 2011, Grand Valley State University Nov 2011

Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 25, November 17, 2011, Grand Valley State University

Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present. The Lanthorn, Vol. 46 No. 24 is missing.


Remarks For Everyone Wins Campaign Press Conference, Delivered On November 16, 2011, Arend D. Lubbers Nov 2011

Remarks For Everyone Wins Campaign Press Conference, Delivered On November 16, 2011, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Remarks for Everyone Wins Campaign Press Conference, delivered on November 16, 2011 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.


West Michigan Sports Commission Luncheon Address, Delivered On November 16, 2011, Arend D. Lubbers Nov 2011

West Michigan Sports Commission Luncheon Address, Delivered On November 16, 2011, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

West Michigan Sports Commission Luncheon Address, delivered on November 16, 2011 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.


Grand Valley Forum, Volume 036, Number 12, November 14, 2011, Grand Valley State University Nov 2011

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 036, Number 12, November 14, 2011, Grand Valley State University

2011-2012, Volume 36

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.


Notes On Contributors Nov 2011

Notes On Contributors

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

No abstract provided.


Back Matter Nov 2011

Back Matter

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

No abstract provided.


Sylvester And Arturo, Joshua Hackler Nov 2011

Sylvester And Arturo, Joshua Hackler

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

No abstract provided.


Chicago, Rane Martin Nov 2011

Chicago, Rane Martin

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

No abstract provided.


Every Rose, Claire Helakoski Nov 2011

Every Rose, Claire Helakoski

Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing

No abstract provided.