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Organizing Geographic Information: The Creation Of The National Spatial Data Infrastructure, Bradley Wade Bishop Jan 2007

Organizing Geographic Information: The Creation Of The National Spatial Data Infrastructure, Bradley Wade Bishop

Bradley Wade Bishop

Prior to government regulations issued in OMB Circular A-16 in 1990, the organization and dissemination of geospatial data collected by the United State’s governments were unregulated and informal. Circular A-16 called for the creation of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and charged the FGDC with creating and implementing metadata standards for geospatial data. The importance of geospatial interoperability and metadata standardization between agencies was amplified in 1994 with EO 12906. EO 12906 called for the creation of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is the coordination of the creation, collection, dissemination, and storage of …

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Oromummaa, Asafa Jalata Jan 2007

Oromummaa, Asafa Jalata

Asafa Jalata

This book is a collection of my nineteen selected speeches that I delivered to different Oromo and other communities, organizations, and scholarly conferences in North America between 2000 and 2007. Since these speeches were delivered at different times to different audiences, the reader observes some similar central patterns in some of the chapters. In order to maintain the originality of the speeches, I have decided not to change them. From outset I declare that I am an integral part of the process I am exploring and critiquing in this book as a member of the educated Oromo group who have …

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Review Of Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters And Social Imagination By Julie Cruikshank, Paul K. Gellert Jan 2007

Review Of Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters And Social Imagination By Julie Cruikshank, Paul K. Gellert

Paul K. Gellert

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Resilient Parenting: Overcoming Poor Parental Bonding, W. Travis, Terri Combs-Orme Jan 2007

Resilient Parenting: Overcoming Poor Parental Bonding, W. Travis, Terri Combs-Orme

Terri Combs-Orme

This study identified groups of mothers with varying patterns of adaptive functioning and bonds with their own parents. These patterns were related to mothers' parenting of their own children to understand how some mothers avoid repeating the cycle of poor parenting. Data from 210 new mothers were analyzed before hospital discharge about bonding with their caregivers during childhood and six to 12 months later about adaptive functioning, life circumstances, and parenting. Latent cluster analysis identified four distinct groups of mothers with regard to parental bonds and adaptive functioning: positive-adaptive mothers (good bonding and good adaptive functioning), positive-maladaptive mothers (good bonding …

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New Mothers’ Psychological Experience And Behavioral Interactions With Their Infants In The First 12 Months, Timothy Page, Terri Combs-Orme, Daphne S. Cain Jan 2007

New Mothers’ Psychological Experience And Behavioral Interactions With Their Infants In The First 12 Months, Timothy Page, Terri Combs-Orme, Daphne S. Cain

Terri Combs-Orme

We examined the psychological dimensions of parents’ perceptions of their infant children and their own abilities as parents at two observation points in a racially and socio-economically diverse sample of 174 mothers. Parenting perceptions and life circumstances were hypothesized to predict interactive behavior observed in the home. Baseline assessments were conducted in hospital, within 36 hr of delivery. Follow-up assessments were conducted in their homes when the children were 6 to 12 months old. Of five major psychological constructs studied, only parents’ perceptions of children, represented particularly by empathic responsiveness and absence of role-reversal, predicted the quality of behavioral interactions …

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Uses Of Figures And Tables From Scholarly Journal Articles In Teaching And Research, Carol Tenopir, Robert J. Sandusky, Margaret M. Casado Jan 2007

Uses Of Figures And Tables From Scholarly Journal Articles In Teaching And Research, Carol Tenopir, Robert J. Sandusky, Margaret M. Casado

Carol Tenopir

No abstract provided.

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Collaboration: Critical Success Factors For Student Learning, Ken Haycock Jan 2007

Collaboration: Critical Success Factors For Student Learning, Ken Haycock

Ken Haycock

Several studies identify collaboration between classroom teachers and teacher-librarians as a key factor that affects student achievement. Studies in teacher-librarianship have established procedures and processes for effective collaboration. This study examines collaboration from a broader theoretical and research perspective, beginning with 20 factors that specifically influence successful collaborations. These are clustered in six areas: factors related to the environment, to membership characteristics, to process and structure, to communication, to purpose, and to resources. Research from teacher-librarianship is then applied to substantiate and reinforce the factors and provide context for successful collaboration and thus effect on students' learning in schools. Reprinted …

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S.O.S. For Information Literacy Project {Interviewed By Author In: Dopke-Wilson, M. (2007, Spring/Summer). Librarian Challenge: Reaching College Freshmen. Educators' Spotlight Digest, 2(2).}, Michael Pasqualoni Jan 2007

S.O.S. For Information Literacy Project {Interviewed By Author In: Dopke-Wilson, M. (2007, Spring/Summer). Librarian Challenge: Reaching College Freshmen. Educators' Spotlight Digest, 2(2).}, Michael Pasqualoni

Michael Pasqualoni

No abstract provided.

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Understanding Virtuality: Contributions From Goffman’S "Frame Analysis", Joann Brooks Jan 2007

Understanding Virtuality: Contributions From Goffman’S "Frame Analysis", Joann Brooks

JoAnn M. Brooks

Virtual interactions are normally assumed to be separate and distinct from the “real world,” yet they are also situated within material reality. In this paper I propose that a situated approach to understanding virtuality can be developed through drawing from Goffman’s Frame Analysis (1974/1986). I explain how Goffman’s terminology and concepts afford a way of integrating the study of virtual interaction with the study of social interaction more generally. His frame analysis approach offers constructs useful for distinguishing virtual worlds from each other and from real worlds in a way that is consonant with perspectives on human-computer interaction. His language …

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Accounts Of Violence From Arabs And Israelis On Abc-Tv’S Panel Discussion From Jerusalem, Richard Buttny, Donald G. Ellis Jan 2007

Accounts Of Violence From Arabs And Israelis On Abc-Tv’S Panel Discussion From Jerusalem, Richard Buttny, Donald G. Ellis

Richard Buttny

No abstract provided.

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Drawing On The Words Of Others At Public Hearings: Zoning, Wal-Mart, And The Threat To The Aquifer, Richard Buttny, Jodi R. Cohen Jan 2007

Drawing On The Words Of Others At Public Hearings: Zoning, Wal-Mart, And The Threat To The Aquifer, Richard Buttny, Jodi R. Cohen

Richard Buttny

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Merge Everything It Makes Sense To Merge: The History And Philosophy Of The Merged Reference Collection At The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library In San Jose, California, Paul Kauppila, Sandra E. Belanger, Lisa Rosenblum Jan 2007

Merge Everything It Makes Sense To Merge: The History And Philosophy Of The Merged Reference Collection At The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library In San Jose, California, Paul Kauppila, Sandra E. Belanger, Lisa Rosenblum

Paul Kauppila

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in San Jose, California is a unique dual-use library serving the students of San Jose State University and the community of San Jose, California. The reference collections of the two libraries are merged and interfiled to promote ease of access for both populations served. Economies of scale were realized through collaborative collection development activities for major reference purchases between the two institutions. This article describes the planning and creation of the King Library's merged reference collection and reviews the literature of collaborative collection development and merged or interfiled collections.

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Learning 2.0 At Sjsu And Sjpl, Susan L. Kendall Jan 2007

Learning 2.0 At Sjsu And Sjpl, Susan L. Kendall

Susan L. Kendall

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Remembering And Forgetting The War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, And Sino-Japanese Relations, 1950-2006, Yinan He Jan 2007

Remembering And Forgetting The War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, And Sino-Japanese Relations, 1950-2006, Yinan He

Yinan He

Ruling elites often make pernicious national myths for instrumental purposes, creating divergent historical memories of the same events in different countries. But they tend to exploit international history disputes only when they feel insecure domestically. Societal reactions to elite mythmaking, reflected in radicalized public opinion, can reinforce history disputes. During the 1950s–1970s, China avoided history disputes with Japan to focus on geostrategic interests. Only from the early 1980s did domestic political incentives motivate Beijing to attack Japanese historical memory and promote assertive nationalism through patriotic history propaganda, which radicalized Chinese popular views about Japan. Media highlighting of Japan’s historical revisionism …

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Reference And Research Desk Study, Beth W. Lang, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Jan 2007

Reference And Research Desk Study, Beth W. Lang, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

Beth W. Lang

No abstract provided.

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Governance Without Politics: Civil Society, Development And The Postcolonial State, Paula Chakravartty Jan 2007

Governance Without Politics: Civil Society, Development And The Postcolonial State, Paula Chakravartty

Paula Chakravartty

In the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the G8 Summits and the World Bank, civil society organizations are often held up as the only legitimate institutional actors capable of representing and managing distributional inequities of a highly fractured information society. This paper locates the current role of civil society organizations in a longer history within the academic and policy fields of ‘development’ communications. While issues of access are clearly more central for Third World nations, this paper examines the social terrain behind the institutions of policy-making in the postcolonial contexts, specifically addressing debates between …

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An Instrumental Investigation Of Scottish Gaelic Preaspiration, Ian D. Clayton Jan 2007

An Instrumental Investigation Of Scottish Gaelic Preaspiration, Ian D. Clayton

Ian D. Clayton

No abstract provided.

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Peer Mentors And Writing Center Tutors: What Our Collaborations Taught Us About Serving The Sjsu Freshmen Students, Peggy Cabrera, Robert Bruce, Francis E. Howard Jan 2007

Peer Mentors And Writing Center Tutors: What Our Collaborations Taught Us About Serving The Sjsu Freshmen Students, Peggy Cabrera, Robert Bruce, Francis E. Howard

Francis E. Howard

The Library Outpost, a satellite office of the campus’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, seeks ways to reach out to First Year students who are new to writing research papers. One of our goals is to meet the First Year students on their own turf. Since the Peer Mentors and Writing Center tutors have peer relationships with the First year students, we want to learn how we can collaborate with them to provide services to the First year students. We surveyed the Peer Mentors and Writing Center Tutors to assess their perceptions of their own research skills, and their …

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The Security Rule, Stephen M. Jerbic, Stephen S. Wu Jan 2007

The Security Rule, Stephen M. Jerbic, Stephen S. Wu

Stephen M. Jerbic

No abstract provided.

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