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Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 29, No. 4, December 2002, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Dec 2002

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 29, No. 4, December 2002, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

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The Design And Evaluation Of Interactivities In A Digital Library, Muniram Budhu, Anita Coleman Nov 2002

The Design And Evaluation Of Interactivities In A Digital Library, Muniram Budhu, Anita Coleman

Faculty Publications

The US National Science Foundation has established a program to create a National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL). One of the subsidiary NSDL libraries under development is the National Civil Engineering Educational Resources Library (NCERL). The first phase of NCERL is the creation and collection of digital resources in three areas of civil engineering—geotechnical (soil), rock, and water engineering (GROW). The concept of interactivities guides the design, development, and evaluation efforts of the GROW digital collection. This article describes the salient features of GROW, defines and discusses interactivities as an emerging, integral part of teaching and …

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Review Of The New Americans: How The Melting Pot Can Work Again, By Michael Barone, Fred Foldvary Nov 2002

Review Of The New Americans: How The Melting Pot Can Work Again, By Michael Barone, Fred Foldvary

Faculty Publications

A review of The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again, by Michael Barone. Regnery Publishing • 2001 • 338 pages • $27.95

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Interactional Digital Libraries: Uses And Users, Anita Coleman Oct 2002

Interactional Digital Libraries: Uses And Users, Anita Coleman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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An Evaluation Of Factors Related To The Disproportionate Representation Of Children Of Color In Santa Clara County’S Child Welfare System: Child And Family Characteristics And Pathways Through The System Phase 2, Alice Hines, Peter Lee, Laurie Drabble, Lonnie Snowden, Kathy Lemon Osterling Oct 2002

An Evaluation Of Factors Related To The Disproportionate Representation Of Children Of Color In Santa Clara County’S Child Welfare System: Child And Family Characteristics And Pathways Through The System Phase 2, Alice Hines, Peter Lee, Laurie Drabble, Lonnie Snowden, Kathy Lemon Osterling

Faculty Publications

While child abuse and neglect appears to affect children of all racial and ethnic origins (US Department of Health and Human Services, 1998; Sedlack & Broadhurst, 1996), an analysis of national, California and Santa Clara County data on the ethnicities of children in out of home placement reveals that, compared to their presence in the general population, there is a disproportionate involvement of children of color in the public child welfare system (CWS). In Santa Clara County, in particular, when compared to the general population, African American, Hispanic/Latino and Native American children are overrepresented in the CWS, while Asian American/Pacific …

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Experiments With Grow, Anita Coleman Oct 2002

Experiments With Grow, Anita Coleman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Using Lower-Division Developmental Education Students As Teaching Assistants, Walter R. Jacobs Oct 2002

Using Lower-Division Developmental Education Students As Teaching Assistants, Walter R. Jacobs

Faculty Publications, Sociology

There has been little research on the experiences of undergraduate teaching assistants, and this small body of information is usually tightly focused on traditional disciplinary concerns like sociology, psychology, and communications. Additionally, undergraduate teaching assistant research tends to focus on upper-division students. This article explores the benefits and drawbacks of using lower-division developmental education students as teaching assistants in developmental social science courses. Included are comments from students enrolled in a course staffed by a sophomore as the teaching assistant. Employing developmental education students as teaching assistants can be beneficial to instructors, students, and the teaching assistants themselves.

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Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 29, No. 3, September/October 2002, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Sep 2002

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 29, No. 3, September/October 2002, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

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The Filipino Question In Asian And Pacific Islander America: Rethinking Regional Origins In Diaspora, Joanne L. Rondilla Aug 2002

The Filipino Question In Asian And Pacific Islander America: Rethinking Regional Origins In Diaspora, Joanne L. Rondilla

Faculty Publications, Sociology

About the book: Pacific Islander Americans constitute one of the United States' least understood ethnic groups. As expected, stereotypes abound: Samoans are good at football; Hawaiians make the best surfers; all Tahitians dance. Although Pacific history, society, and culture have been the subjects of much scholarly research and writing, the lives of Pacific Islanders in the diaspora (particularly in the U.S.) have received far less attention. The contributors to this volume of articles and essays compiled by the Pacific Islander Americans Research Project hope to rectify this oversight. Pacific Diaspora brings together the individual and community histories of Pacific Island …

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Intellectual Access: Introduction To The Organization Of Information, Anita Coleman Aug 2002

Intellectual Access: Introduction To The Organization Of Information, Anita Coleman

Faculty Publications

This is a presentation to the Strong Start program (new MLS students) at the University of Arizona on 19 August 2002. There are 32 slides. Contents: Definitions, Assumptions, Limitations; What are Information Environments? The Roles We Play; Knowledge Organization (KO); The Cataloging/Metadata Process; Metadata â standards, types, initiatives; Q & A; Discussion; Resources. Interestingly, dLIST is mentioned and volunteers solicited!

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Learning And Living Difference That Makes A Difference: Postmodern Theory & Multicultural Education, Walter R. Jacobs Jul 2002

Learning And Living Difference That Makes A Difference: Postmodern Theory & Multicultural Education, Walter R. Jacobs

Faculty Publications, Sociology

The application of postmodern theory to a transformative understanding of multiculturalism can make a difference. Multicentered culture, antiessentialist race consciousness, and political equity—aspects of a transformative multiculturalism put forward in 1996 by Newfield and Gordon—can be juxtaposed with elements of a postmodern theorization of society as a consumer-driven economy saturated with multiple mediated unstable, fragmented, and evolving discourses and cultural interaction. This theoretical construct can be illustrated with research data from college classrooms and specifically an analysis of the television show The X-Files. This analysis shows how a discussion of whiteness creates larger discussion of transformative multiculturalism in which difference …

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Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead For Education In Digital Libraries, Anita Coleman Jul 2002

Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead For Education In Digital Libraries, Anita Coleman

Faculty Publications

This article reviews the state of education in digital libraries and curriculum planning documents from professional associations in two areas: Library and Information Science; and Computing. It examines suggestions for integration and interdisciplinarity in education for digital libraries curricula using definitions of a discipline, interdisciplinarity, and the transdisciplinary structure of a university in order to discover how such integration may be successfully accomplished. A plan to use learning communities and develop an interdisciplinary curriculum for Knowledge Organization is briefly discussed.

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Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 29, No. 2, Summer 2002, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Jul 2002

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 29, No. 2, Summer 2002, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

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Book Review. Nonprofits In Urban America (Richard C. Hula, Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore, Eds.), Peter J. Haas Jun 2002

Book Review. Nonprofits In Urban America (Richard C. Hula, Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore, Eds.), Peter J. Haas

Faculty Publications

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Using The Internet To Envision Neighborhoods With Transit Oriented Development Potential, Mti Report 01-24, Earl G. Bossard Jun 2002

Using The Internet To Envision Neighborhoods With Transit Oriented Development Potential, Mti Report 01-24, Earl G. Bossard

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) at San José State University conducted this study to review the issues and implications involved in Using the Internet to Envision Neighborhoods with Transit-Oriented Development Potential. SUMMARY OF PROBLEM: The Using the Internet to Envision Neighborhoods with Transit-Oriented Development Potential project seeks to provide guidelines and examples to facilitate use of the Internet to envision places with TOD potential, building on the envisioning techniques developed and presented in MTI Report 01-15, Envisioning Neighborhoods with Transit-Oriented Development Potential. RECOMMENDATIONS: These recommendations are made in terms of general style and approach, because the Internet is evolving so …

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The California General Plan Process And Sustainable Transportation Planning, Mti Report 01-18, Richard W. Lee Jun 2002

The California General Plan Process And Sustainable Transportation Planning, Mti Report 01-18, Richard W. Lee

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

This study reviewed the current and potential utility of California’s General Plan process as a tool for promoting more sustainable local transportation systems The study used multiple methods to investigate this issue, including: An extensive literature review on California’s General Plan process, the nature of sustainability and sustainable transportation, and criteria and evaluation methods for plans. Detailed analysis and scoring of policies from 26 exemplary General Plans against criteria designed to measure both transport sustainability and plan quality. In-depth case studies of the General Plan process in seven diverse California communities. Key informant interviews. The results of these several lines …

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Increasing Transit Ridership: Lessons From The Most Successful Transit Systems In The 1990s, Mti Report-01-22, Brian D. Taylor, Peter J. Haas, Brent Boyd, Daniel Baldwin Hess, Hiroyuki Iseki, Allison Yoh Jun 2002

Increasing Transit Ridership: Lessons From The Most Successful Transit Systems In The 1990s, Mti Report-01-22, Brian D. Taylor, Peter J. Haas, Brent Boyd, Daniel Baldwin Hess, Hiroyuki Iseki, Allison Yoh

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

This study systematically examines recent trends in public transit ridership in the U.S. during the 1990s. Specifically, this analysis focuses on agencies that increased ridership during the latter half of the decade. While transit ridership increased steadily by 13 percent nationwide between 1995 and 1999, not all systems experienced ridership growth equally. While some agencies increased ridership dramatically, some did so only minimally, and still others lost riders. What sets these agencies apart from each other? What explains the uneven growth in ridership?

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Developer-Planner Interaction In Transportation And Land Use Sustainability, Mti Report 01-21, Aseem Inam Jun 2002

Developer-Planner Interaction In Transportation And Land Use Sustainability, Mti Report 01-21, Aseem Inam

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

This study argues that significant unmet demand exists for alternatives to conventional auto-oriented development; and further that planning interventions that restrict densities and land use mixing in developed areas are a major reason that this demand remains unmet. In order to explore these hypotheses, this study carried out two principal investigations. The first is a national survey of developers, randomly selected from the database of the Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC, the premiere national organization of land developers. Overall, the survey reveals considerable interest on the part of the private development community in developing in a fashion that is …

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Land Use And Transportation Alternatives: Constraint Or Expansion Of Household Choice, Mti Report 01-19, Jonathan Levine Jun 2002

Land Use And Transportation Alternatives: Constraint Or Expansion Of Household Choice, Mti Report 01-19, Jonathan Levine

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

Transportation and land use research that considers such alternatives as New Urbanist development, jobs-housing balance, transit villages, or “smart growth” most typically tests the capacity of such physical forms to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) or bring about other desired outcomes in the modification of travel behavior. Establishing such causality is broadly seen as a precondition for the urban planning interventions that are presumed to be necessary to bring these forms about. But such a view neglects the extent to which current interventions—notably zoning and transportation regulations—tend to preclude the development of such innovations in areas of high accessibility where …

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Collaboration And Partnership, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu May 2002

Collaboration And Partnership, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

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Content Management And Virtual Reference Services, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu May 2002

Content Management And Virtual Reference Services, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Faculty and Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

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The Travel Behavior And Needs Of The Poor: A Study Of Welfare Recipients In Fresno County, California, Mti Report 01-23, Evelyn Blumenberg, Peter J. Haas May 2002

The Travel Behavior And Needs Of The Poor: A Study Of Welfare Recipients In Fresno County, California, Mti Report 01-23, Evelyn Blumenberg, Peter J. Haas

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

The passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 fundamentally transformed the provision of social assistance in the United States. Gone is Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a program that entitled needy families with children to an array of benefits and public services. In its place is Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), a program that abolishes federal entitlements, provides flexible block grants to the states, mandates tough new work requirements, and imposes a five-year lifetime limit on the receipt of public assistance. Current welfare programs mandate employment for most recipients and offer temporary …

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Envisioning Neighborhoods With Tod Potential (Includes Demonstration Cd), Mti Report 01-15, Earl G. Bossard May 2002

Envisioning Neighborhoods With Tod Potential (Includes Demonstration Cd), Mti Report 01-15, Earl G. Bossard

Mineta Transportation Institute Publications

The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) at San José State University conducted this study to review the issues and implications involved when seeking to Envision Neighborhoods with Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Potential. The Envisioning Neighborhoods with Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Potential project seeks to introduce planners, developers, and urban analysts to information design techniques and digital computer tools that can be used to undertake and study TOD. A basic premise is that effective TOD requires thoughtful planning to be successfully integrated into the metropolitan fabric. The primary focus of this project is intra-regional comparisons, focusing on information pertaining to the relative …

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Enron And The Law Of The Market, Fred Foldvary May 2002

Enron And The Law Of The Market, Fred Foldvary

Faculty Publications

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Newspaper Critic Shapes Chicago Style Of Theater, Scott B. Fosdick Apr 2002

Newspaper Critic Shapes Chicago Style Of Theater, Scott B. Fosdick

Faculty Publications

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Facilitating And Assessing Asynchronous Learning: Concept Mapping, Digital Libraries, And The Lis Learning Showcase, Anita Coleman Mar 2002

Facilitating And Assessing Asynchronous Learning: Concept Mapping, Digital Libraries, And The Lis Learning Showcase, Anita Coleman

Faculty Publications

The characteristics and nature of asynchronous learning, in a graduate level, core course, Knowledge Structures I, are first discussed in the context of digital libraries, the twenty-first century learner, and a professional program of study. Strategies used to facilitate and assess asynchronous learning such as concept mapping and the Learning Showcase are introduced and examples shown.

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How Do Disciplines Grow?, Anita Coleman Mar 2002

How Do Disciplines Grow?, Anita Coleman

Faculty Publications

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Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 29, No. 1, February/March 2002, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies Feb 2002

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 29, No. 1, February/March 2002, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

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Trusting Strangers: Work Relationships In Four High-Tech Communities, Jan English-Lueck, A. Saveri, C. N. Darrah Jan 2002

Trusting Strangers: Work Relationships In Four High-Tech Communities, Jan English-Lueck, A. Saveri, C. N. Darrah

Faculty Publications, Anthropology

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Perceived Internal Depth In Rotating And Translating Objects, M. L. Braunstein, C. W. Sauer, Cary S. Feria, G. J. Andersen Jan 2002

Perceived Internal Depth In Rotating And Translating Objects, M. L. Braunstein, C. W. Sauer, Cary S. Feria, G. J. Andersen

Faculty Publications

Previous research has indicated that observers use differences between velocities and ratios of velocities to judge the depth within a moving object, although depth cannot in general be determined from these quantities. In four experiments we examined the relative effects of velocity difference and velocity ratio on judged depth within a transparent object that was rotating about a vertical axis and translating horizontally, examined the effects of the velocity difference for pure rotations and pure translations, and examined the effect of the velocity difference for objects that varied in simulated internal depth. Both the velocity difference and the velocity ratio …

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