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Cidr: A Small Service Firm Within A Research University, Jody D. Nyquist

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Basic Assumptions Underlying CIDR's Instructional Development Program

Must Help Faculty

Goals of the Center For Instructional Development and Research

CIDR as a Small Service Firm

Meeting the Needs of Clients

Creating the Service Encounter -- CIDR Staff and Instructors

Establishing High Visibility

Monitoring Client Satisfaction

CIDR's Instructional Improvement Model

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Part Ii: Conceptualizations

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Part of the process of learning involves the making of models to guide action. A good model explains what has happened, communicates what is happening, and predicts what will happen. It serves as a schema for thinking about the world and how we interact with it. This can be freeing because a useful model points to new directions which are logical outgrowths of the current situation, but it can also be restricting if we come to believe that the model represents "truth" in capital letters and neon lights.

Teaching The Introductory-Level Course: A Special Challenge, Delivee L. Wright

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Subject Matter in Introductory Courses

Beginning Students

Environment of the Academic Community

Conclusion

References

Using Qualitative Methods To Generate Data For Instructional Development, Donald H. Wulff, Jody D. Nyquist

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Defining Qualitative Methods

Generating Useful Data

Classroom Complexity

Context

Participant Perspectives

Specific Case

Applying Qualitative Methods to a Typical Case

A Case Study

Summary

References

Notes

Copyright And The First Amendment: Nurturing The Seeds For Harvest: Harper & Row, Publishers V. Nation Enterprises, 105 S. Ct. 2218 (1985), Greg A. Perry

Nebraska Law Review

In Harper & Row, Publishers v. The Nation Enterprises, the Supreme Court was presented questions concerning the interplay of copyright and the first amendment—whether the first amendment requires that the scope of copyright protection for a nonfiction work be narrowed, and whether the first amendment should prevail over copyright in a fair use case in which the copyrighted material is politically significant. This article focuses upon the potential tensions that exist between copyright and the first amendment, and the arguments for a "public interest" or first amendment exception to the proprietary rights of a copyright holder. In particular, this …

Rural Social Organization In A Semiarid African Country The Case Of Botswana, Louise Formann

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Environmental determinism has long been discredited in explaining the social organization of pastoral and agro-pastoral peoples. I Today the effect of climate on social organization is recognized as mediated by social, economic, and political factors. 2 Thus, social organization in Botswana reflects the influence of a wide variety of factors, among them Christian missionaries, interethnic warfare, past and continuing aggression of South Africa, introduction of the iron plow, British colonialism, Boer traders, discovery of minerals (most recently diamonds), international donor aid, and so on. Over the past century there have been substantial changes in a number of important trends: life …

State V. Groves: The Disorderly Conduct Of Overbreadth Analysis In Nebraska, Matthew P. Millea

Nebraska Law Review

This article demonstrates that rather than misapplying overbreadth analysis, the court in State v. Groves did not apply it at all. It suggests that courts should require that legislatures articulate the goals they seek when they regulate speech based on its content combined with the time, place, and manner in which the speech is delivered. Finally, the article argues that few, if any, disorderly conduct laws are necessary or desirable, and that these statutes are not constitutional either in intent or application.

I. Introduction

II. State v. Groves ... A. Facts ... B. Holding

III. Background of Overbreadth Analysis

IV. …

4-H 210 4-H Tractor Operation And Safety Manual, Robert D. Grisso

Nebraska 4-H Clubs: Historical Materials and Publications

Extension Service 4-H 210: 4-H Tractor Operation and Safety Manual; Learning how to be safe, the instrument panel, controls for your tractor, daily maintenance and safety check, starting and stopping your tractor, tractor safety on the farm, tractor safety on the highway, hitches power take off and hydraulic controls and, program manuals.

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 7 (1986), Sally Jeter Garoutte, Bets Ramsey, Jessica F. Nicoll, Nora Pickens, Tandy Hersh, Joe Cunningham, Dorothy Cozart, Cuesta Benberry, Wilene Smith, Erma H. Kirkpatrick, Susan L. Davis

Uncoverings Journal

Foreword by Sally Jeter Garoutte

Roses Real and Imaginary: Nineteenth Century Botanical Quilts of the Mid-South by Bets Ramsey

Signature Quilts and The Quaker Community, 1840-1860 by Jessica F. Nicoll

Scrap Quilts of New Mexico by Nora Pickens

1842 Primitive Hall Pieced Quilt Top: The Art of Transforming Printed Fabric Designs through Geometry by Tandy Hersh

Fourteen Quilts Begun by One Woman and Finished by Another by Joe Cunningham

An Early Nineteenth Century Quiltmaker and Her Quilts by Dorothy Cozart

Quilt Cottage Industries: A Chronicle byCuesta Benberry

Quilt Blocks - or - Quilt Patterns by Wilene Smith

Uncle Eli's Quilting …

Effective Ideation In Written Text: A Functional Approach To Clarity And Exigence, Barbara Couture

Department of English: Faculty Publications

As scholars and writers, we no doubt have more than once uttered 'I tried to write that piece today, but I didn't have any good ideas.' And oddly enough that lament often follows tireless sessions when we have generated lots and lots of ideas on paper, but none we regard as 'good.' Though the problem of distinguishing a 'good' idea in writing has plagued generations of writers and many more readers, scholars have not yet produced a FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION of the written communication of a valued idea.

In my view, a functional description of effective ideation in written text should …

Bridging Epistemologies And Methodologies: Research In Written Language Function, Barbara Couture

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This book is about written language functions and about written language research. The essays here are united in their investigation of language as social action-an approach to textual study that crosses traditional boundaries of discipline and method to uncover what written language is, how it works, how it affects readers, and what it demands of authors.

The functional approaches to written text presented here are most closely related to the work of scholars from the so-called London School of Linguistics as reinterpreted in the systemic linguistics of Michael Halliday and his followers. The London School challenged investigations of language in …

Ec86-1548 Common Insect Pests Of Trees In The Great Plains, Mary Ellen Dix, Judith E. Pasek, Mark O. Harrell, Frederick P. Baxendale

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This publication was developed by entomologists on the Pest Management Task Force of the Great Plains Agricultural Council Forestry Committee to provide the public and professionals with information needed to identify and manage common insect pests of trees in the Great Plains. It is designed for those with no formal training in entomology and is not intended to summarize everything known about a particular insect.

Ec86-220 1985-1986 Dairy Report

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Circular Extension 86-220: This circular is about the milk production, breeding, and management. It also explains the economic planning for the dairying production.

4-H 200 4-H Teen Organization

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Service 4-H 200: 4-H Teen Organization: Purpose, Youth Development, How to get Started, structure of teen organization, blueprint for action, program focus, personal development, and leadership rating sheet.

Illustrated Guide To Integrated Pest Management In Rice In Tropical Asia, W. H. Reissig, Elvis A. Heinrichs, J. A. Litsinger, K. Moody, L. Fieldler, T. W. Mew, A. T. Barrion

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

In the past, farmers in tropical Asia grew traditional rice cultivars and either relied primarily on cultural, mechanical, and physical methods of pest control or practiced no pest control. Pesticide application was limited because the yield potential of traditional varieties was too low to justify additional investments. Although pests destroyed part of each crop, severe outbreaks or epidemics were rare.

The widespread introduction of high-yielding rice cultivars in Asia in the last two decades and the associated changes in production practices have improved conditions for insects, diseases, weeds, and rodents. The higher yield potential of the new rices also made …

A Bibliography Of Maize Weevils, Sitophilus Zeamais Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), James E. Throne

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

This bibliography is a listing of publications about maize weevils, with citations grouped by subject matter.

Protecting The Real Estate Consumer: Traditional Theories Of Liability Revisited, And A Look At Nebraska's Proposed Real Estate Consumers Protection Act, Rose Mcconnell

Nebraska Law Review

This article reviews the role the real estate broker plays in a typical residential real estate transaction, discusses how statutory guidelines and common-law theories of liability have served to protect the real estate consumer, and analyzes Nebraska's Real Estate Consumer Protection Act to see what new protections are available to the real estate consumer. It is the thesis of this article that traditional theories of liability and statutory regulation have provided insufficient protection for the residential real estate consumer, and that a real estate consumers protection act is an appropriate vehicle for providing additional protection.

I. Introduction

II. The Real …

Arguments In Favor Of Fiduciary Divestment Of "South African" Securities, Joel C. Dobris

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Initial Considerations ... A. Divestment Defined ... B. Why Divestment? ... C. Basic Trust Law ... 1. Pension Trusts ... 2. Charities ... 3. Universities

III. Arguments That Transcend the Law ... A. Moral Considerations in Trust Law ... B. Moral Considerations in South African Investment

IV. Legal Arguments ... A. The Analogy of Real Property Law ... 1. Changing Public Values ... 2. Why We Recognize Trusts ... 3. Redefining Property Rights for Social Purposes … 4. Property Rights, Especially Pension Rights, As a Function of the Political Process ... B. Pension Trusts As Quasi-Public Entities …

Proliferative Kidney Disease In Salmonid Fishes, R. P. Hendrick, M. L. Kent, C. E. Smith

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) in salmonid fishes is caused by a poorly understood protozoan, the vegetative stages of which are known as PKX cells. The organism was initially believed to be an amoeba (phylum Sarcomastigophora) by Plehn (1924) and later by Ghittino et al. (1977) and Ferguson and Needham (1978). Similarities between PKX and oyster pathogens of the genus Marteilia led Seagrave et al. (1980) to suspect that the parasite was instead a haplosporidan (phylum Acetospora). More recent studies by Hedrick et al. (1984) and Kent and Hedrick (1985a,b) indicated that the PKX cells are pre sporogonic forms …

Channel Catfish Virus Disease, John A. Plumb

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

Channel catfish virus disease (CCVD) is an acute infection of cultured fry and fingerling channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). The disease occurs primarily during summer and, with few exceptions, in fish less than 4 months old. The causative agent, the channel catfish virus (CCV), is a member of the herpesvirus group. Since its first identification (Fijan 1968), it has been isolated from infected fish in most areas of the United States where channel catfish are cultured.

Production Of Shiga-Like Toxin By Escherichia Coli, Lilian R. M. Marques, Marjorie A. Moore, Joy G. Wells, I. Kate Wachsmuth, Alison D. O'Brien

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Escherichia coli is one of several agents that cause intestinal disease in humans and animals. Four classes of E. coli have been recognized [1], Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) strains produce a heat-labile (LT) enterotoxin and/or a heat-stable( ST) enterotoxin. Enteroinvasive E . coli (EIEC) strains, like shigellae, penetrate and multiply within epithelial cells. Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) strains belong to certain serogroups that have been incriminated as pathogens by epidemiological studies. Some EPEC strains have been shown to adhere to cells of the intestinal mucosa and to produce pathognomonic lesions at the site of attachment. Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) strains …

Genetic Improvement For Milk And Meat Production In The Tropics, N. Künzi, W. Kropf

World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production: 3rd (1986)

Theoretical and practical ways to improve meat and milk production in the tropics by selection within local Bos indicus breeds, within Bos taurus x Bos indicus composite populations, upgrading of Bos indicus with Bos taurus breeds and though different crossbreeding programs have been discussed by various authors and summarized by Mason and Buvanendran (1982), Gregory et al. (1982) and Hickman (1979). Only few publications (Auriol, 1984; Chacko et al., 1985; Donegan and Roberts, 1984) exist on successful programs but numerous reports in developing agencies (FAO, 1985; SDC, 1985) indicate that many possibilities have been exploited and that various …

Another Style Of Competence: The Caregiving Child, Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This chapter discusses child and sibling caregiving as an opportunity for the learning of nurturance and responsibility. The argument is based on case examples from ethnographic material, that children in multiage dyads or groupings negotiate constantly with one another and thereby reveal their reasoning about rational and conventional moral rules. The observational material is drawn from the work of Carol R. Ember (1970, 1973) who studied children in a Luo community of about 250 people in the South Nyanza district of Kenya. This community, referred to as Oyugis (actually the name of the market town 2.5 miles away, is one …

Recovery Of Parasite Remains From Coprolites And Latrines: Aspects Of Paleoparasitological Technique, Karl J. Reinhard, Ulisses E. Confalonieri, Bernd Herrmann, Luiz F. Ferreira, Adauto J. G. De Araujo

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Standard techniques for the analysis of prehistoric soils have not been devised. It is unlikely that any single technique is applicable to all types of fecal remains. This is due to various environmental conditions which effect the preservation of helminth ova. In general, gravitational sedimentation is a useful technique for isolating helminth eggs and larvae from coprolites. Latrine soils pose greater problems for helminthological examination. Although various clinical techniques have been successfully utilized in soil study, it is important to remember that some latrine soils have not yielded helminth eggs to any clinical technique. Consequently the paleoparasitologist must be ready …

Sexism In Space: The Freudian Formula In "Star Trek", Mary Jo Deegan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

These words, spoken at the beginning of each televised "Star Trek" episode, set the stage for the fantastic future. Although the "Star Trek" series was cancelled in 1969 after only three years of production, it generated a large cult following that flourishes still today. One reason for the series' remarkable longevity is its depiction of the future as a Freudian fantasy. This Freudian vision draws on cultural myths embedded in the patriarchal dominance of men over women characteristic of Western civilization.

According to Freud, both sexes are driven by three instincts --- sex, aggression, and the death wish---but men have …

Founders And Presidents Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences, 1880-1986, C. Bertrand Schultz

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The Nebraska Academy of Sciences is the oldest interdisciplinary scientific organization in Nebraska and one of the oldest and most successful state academies in the United States. It was founded in Omaha on January 30, 1880, and there were seventy-five Charter Members from eighteen communities.

The Union Pacific Railroad officials and employees provided much of the impetus for the establishment of an Academy of Sciences in Nebraska by providing office space and meeting rooms near the Union Pacific headquarters. Railroad passes were issued to all science teachers, professional scientists, and interested citizens to attend monthly meetings. Five of the officers …

Formation Of Influenza Virus Particles Lacking Hemagglutinin On The Viral Envelope, Asit K. Pattnaik, Donald J. Brown, Debi P. Nayak

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

We investigated the intraceUular block in the transport of hemagglutinin (HA) and the role of HA in virus particle formation by using temperature-sensitive (Is) mutants (1s134 and 1s61S) of inOuenza virus AlWSN/33. We found that at the nonpermissive temperature (39.5°C), the exit of ts HA from the rough endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi complex was blocked and that no additional block was apparent in either the exit from the Golgi complex or post-Golgi complex transport. When MDBK ceUs were infected with these mutant viruses, they produced noninfectious virus particles at 39.5°C. The efficiency of particle formation at 39.5°C was essentiaUy …

Soil Erosion From Tillage And Planting Systems Used In Soybean Residue: Part I - Influences Of Row Spacing, David P. Shelton, Paul J. Jasa, Elbert C. Dickey

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

A rainfall simulator was used to compare soil losses from various tillage and planting systems used in residue from soybeans which had been grown in both wide and narrow spaced rows the previous season. Up and- down hill tillage and planting treatments ranging from a double disk system to no-till planting were evaluated using replicated plots on a silt loam soil in the Nora Series having a 10% slope.

Tillage and planting systems used in soybean residue from narrow spaced rows had soil erosion and soil erosion rates that were reduced by approximately 50% compared to the same systems used …

Intercontinental Simultaneous Survey Of The Unique Cepheid Hr 7308 In Photometry And Radial Velocity, Gilbert Burki, Edward G. Schmidt, Armando Arellano Ferro, J.D. Fernie, Dimitar Sasselov, Norman R. Simon, John R. Percy, Laszlo Szabados

Norman R. Simon Papers

A simultaneous monitoring in photometry and radial velocity was organized in August 1984 on the unique Cepheid HR 7308 (V473 Lyr). The data were obtained by using ten telescopes located in six different countries in Europe and North America.

Three different versions of the Baade-Wesselink method have been applied and the results (50 ± 15 R_ʘ , 41 ± 11 R_ʘ , 32 ± 10 R_ʘ ) are in favor of a mean radius larger than 30 R_ʘ . The photometric analysis confirms that the star has a normal solar abundance.

HR 7308 is most probably …

Transposon Mutagenesis And Excision Of R' Plasmids By Conjugative, Chimeric Plasmid Puw942 In Extra-Slow-Growing Rhizobium Japonicum Strains, Alahari Arunakumari, Anne K. Vidaver

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Transposons Tn501 (specifying mercury resistance) and Tn7 (specifying resistance to trimethoprim and streptomycin) were introduced into extra-slow-growing Rhizobium japonicum by conjugal transfer of the 82 kilobase chimeric plasmid pUW942. Mercury-resistant transconjugants were obtained at a frequency of 10^-7 to 10^-9. The transfer frequency of streptomycin resistance was lower than that of mercury resistance, and Tn7 was relatively unstable. pUW942 was not maintained as an autonomously replicating plasmid in R. japonicum strains. However, some of the Hg^r transconjugants from the RJ19FY, RJ17W, and RJ12S strains acquired antibiotic markers of the vector plasmid pUW942. Southern hybridization of plasmid …