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The Role Of Inositol Phosphate Cascade In Visual Excitation Of Invertebrate Microvillar Photoreceptors, Tamara M. Frank, A. Fein

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

The identity of the transmitter(s) involved in visual transduction in invertebrate microvillar photoreceptors remains unresolved. In this study, the role of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP₃) was examined in Limulus ventral photoreceptors by studying the effects on the light response of heparin and neomycin, agents that inhibit the production or action of IP₃. Both heparin and neomycin reduce responses to brief flashes of light and the transient component of responses to steps of light, and also inhibit IP₃-induced calcium release, indicating that IP₃ plays a direct role in invertebrate visual excitation. The effects of BAPTA, …

Center For Computer And Information Sciences Master Of Science In Computer Science Spring 1991, Nova Southeastern University

College of Engineering and Computing Course Catalogs

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Improving Pupils’ Achievement Levels Through Teaching Thinking Skills Across The Curriculum, Joseph A. King

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report documents a project designed to improve pupils' achievement levels through teaching thinking skills across the curriculum at an inner-city, non-public school in New York. The Institution is co-educational and caters to the needs of a predominantly West Indian and South American Community.

An examination of the Otis Lennon School Aptitude Test (OLSAT) and the Stanford Achievement Test (S.A.T) scores (1988) for St. Stephen Lutheran School, Brooklyn (the school) revealed an achievement problem. The investigation diagnosed among other things that achievement problems were not with the weak students. It was the best students who were not performing up to …

Developing And Implementing A Program To Raise Verbal Scholastic Aptitude Scores Of High School Seniors In A Non-Public School., Janne B.H Banks

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Flint River Academy is a private, independent school with enrolled of 410 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12. This major research project describes a program that was designed to raise the Verbs’ Scholastic Aptitude Scores of seniors in high school. Students at Flint River Academy consistently scored below the national mean verbal score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The writer documented this disparity for the 1982-89 school years. Interviews with parents, students, and staff indicated concern about the verbal scores being lower than the national mean verbal score.

Probable causes of the existing problem were: students were not being taught …

Development And Implementation Of A Community-Drawn Community Life-Based Curriculum For Individuals With Mental Retardation And Developmental Disabilities Living In Summit County., Norman W. Czubaj

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report describes a project that resulted in the development and implementation of community life-based curriculum for students in the County of Summit Board of Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities (CSBMR/DD) school program. The Summit curriculum altered the present self contained system of classroom instruction and utilized the community settings as a means to increase the amount of student instruction time in the “real” community environment. The most recent review of the Weaver School programs, by the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities suggests that the curriculum and the districts IEP process by re-designed to promote more and …

Datascan - March 11, 1991, Nova University

DataScan

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The Calendar - March 1991, Nova University

The Calendar

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A Plan To Improve Mathematics Achievement For Students At Central Elementary School, Angela C. Mills

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report describes a plan for implementing appropriate developmental mathematics practices in the primary grades so that assessment of student needs and knowledge correlated with state required assessment procedures. A large percentage of students beginning at the third grade level had been scoring at or below the national norm on the mathematics portion of the California Achievement Test and had consistently made lower report card grades beginning at the third grade level. Observations and documentation indicated a need for developmentally appropriate mathematics instruction during the beginning years of school so that learning in the mathematics areas was not superficial.

Probable …

Community-Based Instruction As A School Program That Will Enable Developmentally-Disabled Persons To Benefit From Instruction., John A. Waldron

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report describes a program designed to improve the educational experiences of developmentally-disabled pupils who attended the Kaplan School in Rockland County, New York, These students demonstrated inconsistency in their ability in the areas of interpersonal relations, listening, self-confidence, responsible behaviors and adaptive behaviors.

Probable causes of the problem were identified as: pupil assignment to a segregated facility, a lack of access to non-handicapped persons and lessons that were partially based on normal infant development stages and phases for pupils who will be expected behave like non-handicapped adults in the post-high school environment. A review of the literature and school …

An Investigation And A Plan To Alleviate Grade Inflation In Multi-Sectioned Science And Mathematics Courses Of Community College, Charles W. O'Neill

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Edison Community College, Fort Myers, Florida, has experienced difficulty in the area of grade, inflation, comparable to other institutions. institutional and academic division policy changes on grading have resulted in changes in grading practices. One purpose of this project was to examine these changes and historic trends in grade inflation with multi-sectioned courses of the Division of Basic Science and Mathematics for academic year 1979-1980 through academic year 1989-1990. The other purpose of this project was to develop a plan to alleviate grade inflation in multi-sectioned courses. Accomplishment of this purpose required a determination of the impact of policy changes …

Development And Validation Of An Instructional Inservice Program For Higher Education Science Consultants Involved In Florida’S Summer Inservice Institute Program, Susan Elizabeth Chattan Dabb

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The State of Florida requires that all sixty-seven counties within the state participate in a Summer Inservice Institute Program (SIIP) that provides content area instruction to elementary and secondary public school teachers. Critical need areas such as mathematics and science take priority in the consideration for funding and programming in all counties. The state requires that the emphasis in these summer training sessions be placed on college-level content instruction. Workshops presented solely on methods are considered not appropriate.

The rationale for funding the required program is that public school personnel, unlike their postsecondary level liberal arts counterparts, lack content-area training …

Strategies For Reducing The Number Of Dropouts In The Ninth And Tenth Grades At Haralson County High School., Janice W. Boatwright

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

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Datascan - February 18, 1991, Nova University

DataScan

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The Development Of Procedures For Adopted Policies In The Governance Manual Of The Camden County Educational Services Commission., Anthony R. Sorce

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This Major Applied Research Project describes a process whereby policies and procedures were developed to correct and eliminate problems which resulted from the deficiency of certain policies in the Governance Manual of the Camden County Educational Services Commission of New Jersey in accordance with federal, state and local regulations.

The present manual was developed in 1982 and was to be updated and/or revised by the Superintendent. However, due to the lack of expertise by the Superintendent and a uninvolved board of directors and instructional staff, procedures were never developed to implement those policies in the Governance Manual. The staff, facilities, …

The Use Of Cooperative Learning Strategies To Improve Achievement And Self Esteem Levels Among A Group Of Middle School Perceptually Impaired Students., John R. Dorney

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report described a program for improving student achievement, as measured by the California Test of Basic Skills, and levels of self-esteem, as measured by the Piers-Harris Children’s Self-Concept Scale, in a middle school in a suburban/rural district of middle to upper middle class population.

Analysis of problem symptoms revealed initial perceptual impairments, low levels of self-esteem relative to intellectual and school factors, and a consistent history of below grade level achievement levels. Contributing factors were also found to exist in familial structure and attendance and behavioral factors. The research project sought to improve student performance in these areas through …

Using Critical Thinking To Improve Achievement: An Inservice And Instructional Program For New Castle Middle School., Janet Lacy

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

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Twenty-First Century Military Education: A Case Study With Analyses And Projections Of Current And Anticipated Programs, Lillian H. Stewart

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Changes in funding and emphases for military education programs are heavily influenced by the national and international politics climate. Restricted funding for Army Continuing Education System (ACES) programs and downsizing for the Army mandate close scrutiny of current and anticipated programs to determine optimum benefits to the Army for dollars spent. The research project employed the case study method to examine five current program area of emphases for trends in cost and participation, and for anticipated future need for each program. Past records of participation and funding were graphed and extrapolated to project trends. Four new or projected initiatives were …

Utilizing Integrative Approaches To Increase Academic Efficiency In Eighth Grade At-Risk Learners., Mattie B.H Gay

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report describes four aspects of a two-year research project to promote an efficacy continuum as a school based paradigm in the face of infusion overload and fragmented instructional delivery system mandates. The targeted group is "at risk" Yellow House eighth grade students for which the project intervenes. The planning and implementation phases of the practicum facilitates renewal, continuity and integration of proposed system goals although the system is in constant upheaval and flux because of the change in two State Chief Officers.

The practicum initiates a school wide metacognitive study- thinking skills program to routinize independent skill development to …

Developing And Implementing A Plan To Improve The Science Achievement Of Students In Kindergarten Through The Fifth Grade At Western Union Elementary School., Jerry T. Cross

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum had four components. The first part involved assessing the current status of the science instruction at all grade levels in Union County. The assessment included investigation of teachers’ methods and procedures for teaching science, and their attitude toward science. The second component involved the continuation of the science lab at the writer’s school. The writer was responsible for assembling science materials from throughout the school, ordering new materials from school funds made available for the lab, preparing a science lab schedule for teachers kindergarten through grade five, and compiling an inventory list of lab materials for each teacher. …

Improving Language Skills At The Harker-Wylie Elementary School Through The Science Content Area., Joseph M. Poedubicky

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report describes a program to improve language skills for the elementary students, grade one through grade six, at the Harker-Wylie Elementary School. Review of students reading placement, based on Ginn Criteria Reference Test scores, indicated that 46 percent of students are reading below grade level. On the language subtest of the 1988 California Achievement Test, 44 percent of the students scored below the 50th normal curve equivalent.

The following factors were identified in this Research Project as possible causal factors: a single instructional methodology used for the teaching of reading, the limited usage of the language arts experience approach …

Final Report: Biological Monitoring Of The John U. Lloyd Beach Renourishment: 1989, Richard E. Dodge, Steven C. Hess, Charles Messing

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

In 1987, Nova University (Contractor) with ERM South (Subcontractor) was awarded a contract to provide biological monitoring services for the John U Lloyd State Recreation Area Beach Renourishment Project. A notice to proceed for the initial biological monitoring (Phase I - Preconstruction) was issued in February, 1989. Phase I preconstruction field monitoring took place in February and March, 1989. Phase II post-construction field work took place in August and Spetember, 1989. Phase III post-construction field monitoring took place in August, 1990. Laboratory work occurred from March, 1989 to January, 1991. Renourishment dredging took place from May 16, 1989 to July …

Wombalano Yerang, New Genus And Species Of Corophioid (Crustacea, Amphipoda) From The Great Barrier Reef, Australia, James Darwin Thomas, J. L. Barnard

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Wombalano is characterized by having a interlocked basket of large spines on the bases of male gnathopod 2; these bases arc curved inward to afford the interlocking capability.

This genus differs from Lemboides Stebbing in the even more shortened inner ramus of uropod 3, in the simple mandibular palp, the fused articles of the flagellum on antenna 2, and the immense basket-shovel formed of spines on articl 2 of male gnathopod 2.

The Calendar - January 1991, Nova University

The Calendar

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The Calendar - February 1991, Nova University

The Calendar

No abstract provided.

Uniform Convergence Of Polynomials Associated With Varying Jacobi Weights, Matthew He, X. Li

Mathematics Faculty Articles

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1991-1992 Nova College James M. Farquhar Center For Undergraduate Studies Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

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Nova College 1991-92 Catalog, Nova University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Photis Trapherus, A New Elephantine Species From The Caribbean Sea (Crustacea: Amphipoda), James Darwin Thomas, J. L. Barnard

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

Photis trapherus differs from its Californian counterpart, P. elephantis, in characters of male pereopod 6: the smallness of the posteroventral tooth on article 2, the longer article 4 with separated posterior keel and no significant posteroventrallobe, the relatively thinner article 2; the lack of distal expansion on article 4 of pereopod 7; the distinct concavity and defining tooth on the palms of gnathopods 1-2.

Nova University Master's Program In Speech-Language Pathology 1991–1992, Nova University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

Preconstruction Report: Biological Monitoring Of The Hollywood-Hallandale Beach Renourishment: 1991, Richard E. Dodge, Walter Goldberg, Steven C. Hess, Charles Messing

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

In 1990, Nova University (Contractor) with Coral Reef Associates and ERM South (Subcontractors) was awarded a contract to provide biological monitoring services for the Hollywood Hallandale Beach Renourishment Project. A notice to proceed for the initial biological monitoring (Preconstruction) was issued in August, 1990. Preconstruction field monitoring took place in October, 1990. Laboratory work was begun at the start of 1991 following the analysis of samples from the previous John U. Lloyd beach renourishment monitoring. Renourishment dredging is tentatively scheduled to take place starting in April or May, 1991. Sediment is scheduled to be removed and subsequently placed on the …