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Developing Intercultural Competence In Multilingual Science Classrooms: A Narrative Study, Uma Ganesan, Amanda Morales

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Increased globalization of the world economy, growth in human migration, and rapid developments in science and technology have required people to develop intercultural communication skills. Teachers play a crucial role in developing intercultural competence among students in our globalized, multilingual classrooms. The need for fostering discourse and building intercultural competence among students is a common blind spot in teacher praxis. This can inhibit efforts to cultivate safe and supportive learning environments for all students and can ultimately threaten multilingual student success. As part of a larger study, this narrative inquiry explores the phenomenon of intercultural competence development through the lived …

Evaluation Of Methane And Co2 Production In Growing And Finishing Cattle Raised In Conventional Or Partial Confinement-Based Herds, L. J. Mcphillips, Z. E. Carlson, Rick R. Stowell, J. C. Macdonald, Andrew E. Suyker, Galen E. Erickson

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Methane emissions from growing and finishing calves compared either a spring calving, conventional cow system or a summer calving, partially-confined cow system. Calves weaned from the confinement-based production system were smaller at weaning and compensated with greater gain during the growing phase. More days on feed in the finishing phase were needed for the calves from the confinement system to reach same backfat thickness. Over the entire growing and finishing phases, calves from the confinement-based system produced more total CH₄ and CH₄ per lb. HCW. Production of methane and CO₂ per lb. of gain was lower in …

Impact Of A Natural Feed Additive Using Direct Fed Microbes On Finishing Beef Cattle Performance And Liver Abscess Rate, Kelton C. Adair, Alison C. Bartenslager, Zachary E. Carlson, Galen E. Erickson, Samodha C. Fernando, J. C. Macdonald

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

A feedlot study with individually fed steers (n=60) was conducted comparing a natural feed additive (Direct Fed Microbial) to no feed additive (control) on performance and liver abscess rate of finishing beef cattle. There were no significant differences between treatments on intake, gain, feed conversion, or hot carcass weight and carcass traits. Liver abscess occurrence and severity were similar for both treatments with 4/29 steers having abscessed livers in the control group and 3/29 steers in the group that received direct fed microbials. The direct fed microbial feed additive fed in this exploratory study did not significantly affect performance, liver …

Evaluation Of Processing Technique For High-Moisture And Dry Corn On Nutrient Digestion When Fed To Finishing Cattle, Caitlin A. Coulson, Mitch M. Norman, Nicole M. Woita, Hannah C. Wilson, Kylie M. Butterfield, Tyler J. Spore, Galen E. Erickson

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

A digestion trial was conducted to determine the effect of corn milling method when processing dry or high-moisture corn on nutrient digestion. Treatments were evaluated as a 2 × 2 factorial with the first factor as corn type [dry corn or high-moisture corn] and second factor as mill type [roller mill or hammer mill]. Feeding high-moisture corn decreased the amount of excreted dry matter and organic matter regardless of processing method, but there tended to be an interaction between corn type and milling method for digestibility. There was no difference between milling treatments fed as high-moisture corn, but hammer milled …

Characterizing Digestion Traits Of Novel Corn Bran Products, Jiehua Xiong, Chanon Suntara, Rebecca Sjostrand, Tyler Spore, Maggie Youngers, Rick Stock, Galen E. Erickson, J. C. Macdonald

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

A digestion study was conducted to evaluate novel corn bran products from Cargill Corn Milling on nutrient digestibility in beef steers. Three bran products (Bran A/B/C) were included at 70% of diet dry matter of TRT A, B and C, with an internal control (SFC control) diet which consisted of 70% SFC. The SFC control exhibited the greatest dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM) and starch digestibility, and the least neutral detergent fiber (NDF) digestibility. Among TRT A, B and C when bran products were included at 70%, there was no difference in DM or OM intake and digestibility. NDF …

Evaluation Of Models To Predict Dry Matter Intake Of Forage Based Diets, Aksel Wiseman, Andrea K. Watson, Rick Stock, Terry Klopfenstein

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Dry matter intake (DMI) data from growing cattle experiments at the Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center were summarized in order to evaluate the accuracy of model predicted DMI. Cattle were fed individually (n = 78) or in pens (n = 15) and predicted DMI using the Beef Cattle Nutrient Requirements Model (BCNRM, 2016) was compared to observed DMI. The model over predicted DMI when total digestible nutrients (TDN) was less than 64%, under predicted DMI when dietary TDN was greater than 64%, and had a low accuracy, explaining less than 22% of the variation in DMI. An equation to …

Honors In Practice, Volume 18: Frontmatter Materials, National Collegiate Honors Council

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Cover

Indexing

Editorial Board

Contents

Editorial Policy, Deadline, and Submission Guidelines

Dedication to P. Brent Register

Editor’s Introduction • Ada Long

Serving Through Transcribing: Preserving History While Building Community, Julie Centofanti, Mollie Hartup

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Community is a foundational element in honors education. During the global pandemic, students reimagined ways to connect in order to build community and serve one another. Authors describe a virtual collaboration in transcription, where honors students gathered to participate in digital transcribe-a-thons. These informal groupings evolved into a transcribing club that met three times a week (collectively logging more than 1,600 hours) and transcribed over 16,000 historical documents. A study of participating transcribers reveals enhanced historical knowledge, skill building, and opportunities for relationships with students of varying interests and backgrounds despite edicts for social distancing. While a common feature of …

Creating Knowledge: The Literary Dictionary Assignment, Rebecca Cepek

Honors in Practice Online Archive

A literary dictionary assignment provides honors students with an understanding of the ways knowledge shifts and changes over time as well as an opportunity to create knowledge rather than just recall correct answers.

For honors students, reciting the correct definitions of key terms—regardless of discipline—is generally simple. Where they struggle is understanding the ways such definitions may shift over time, shedding or accruing meanings with changes in usage, context, and critical perspective. To allow students to engage with such changes and to continue a tradition of “teaching the conflicts,” I have students create a dictionary of literary terms over the …

Sheep & Goat Research Journal, Volume 37, 2022

Sheep and Goat Research Journal

Sheep & Goat Research Journal, Volume 37, 2022

Effect Of Health Aid On Life Expectancy In Sub-Saharan Africa, Sakiru Oladele Akinbode Dr., Isiaq O. Oseni

Journal for the Advancement of Developing Economies

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Gadgets And Gizmos, Seth Blanton

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Life in honors largely took place in a lounge on the first floor of the Liberal Arts building. Students congregated after, before, and in-between classes, discussing life, school, love, food, and all things in between. Discussions veered into decisions—courses, graduate school, love, and food. That is to say, through its organization, location, and design honors, examined life fastidiously and fatuously. Honors provided community and guidance. It also introduced us to ideas, books, movies, and people that otherwise would have been absent from our educations. Many of the books have faded from my memory, but the people and ideas continue to …

The Value Of Honors: Defined By Quality And Cost, Christopher Kotschevar, Nicholas Arens

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

As part of the National Collegiate Honors Council’s (2022) collection of essays about the value of honors to its graduates (1967–2019), the authors reflect on the personal and professional impacts of the honors experience.

Value, simply defined, is quality divided by cost. Cost, whether it be in terms of money, time, energy, or another expense, is relatively easy to measure. Conversely, quality proves challenging to measure, regardless of the context. Typically, measuring quality is pursued with the purpose of quality improvement, such as in manufacturing or healthcare, and/or for the purpose of comparison, as demonstrated by the ever-growing industry of …

Interdisciplinary Education Equips People To Face Unique Challenges, Claire Guthrie Stasiewicz

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

As part of the National Collegiate Honors Council’s (2022) collection of essays about the value of honors to its graduates (1967–2019), the author reflects on the personal and professional impacts of the honors experience.

Earning an undergraduate degree feels decidedly common today. 42% of Americans hold an undergraduate degree, and about 62% of all high school graduates attend some college (U.S. Census Bureau, 2021). What feels less common, however, is an education through an Honors College. As one of the first graduates to earn an Honors Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts degree from the University of New Mexico (something done by only …

Bringing Order To Chaos: Reviving Uniformity And Balance Within Nebraska’S Rental Housing Laws, Ryan Sullivan

Nebraska Law Review

In 1973, the Nebraska Legislature was presented with the opportunity to adopt the Uniform Residential Landlord & Tenant Act (Uniform Act).1 The Uniform Act sought to “simplify, clarify, modernize, and revise the law governing rental of dwelling units and the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants” as well as improve the quality of housing, and make housing laws more uniform.2 The Unicameral delayed adoption for a year, and in the interim, that thoughtfullycrafted, balanced, and uniform set of proposed laws was eviscerated through one-sided amendments pushed through by landlord and real estate lobby groups (Real Estate Lobby).3 The final …

Access, Flexibility, And Patience, Cynthia Gray

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Judges are not required to be bumps on a log in their own courtrooms, just spectators as proceedings bog down and hapless self-represented litigants flounder in confusion or attorneys use court procedures to trip up the attorneyless. Judges can use the authority they have and employ in every case, if not to level the playing field for the unrepresented (probably impossible), to at least correct the tilt a little and smooth out some of the hazards, reducing the potential for miscarriages of justice.

Over 35 jurisdictions have adopted a provision in their code of judicial conduct to encourage judicial flexibility …

President's Column, Vol. 58, No. 1, Yvette Mansfield Alexander

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Greetings my esteemed colleagues and Court Review readers, 2021 was yet another challenging year. We all have learned lessons from it about how to adapt and how to embrace the people and things that are most important. After not traveling for over two years, we look forward to our in-person midyear conference in Napa Valley, California, April 26-27, 2022, and our in-person annual conference in the city of brotherly (and sisterly) love—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 28-31, 2022. We value you as an American Judges Association member, and believe that this organization has demonstrated its adaptability and value during the pandemic. I …

The Role Of Information Sharing To Improve Case Management In Child Welfare, Sarah J. Beal, Paul Demott, Rich Bowlen, Mary V. Greiner

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Congress enacted the Adoption and Safe Families Act to improve outcomes concerning the permanency, safety, and wellbeing of children in the care of child welfare agencies. However, achieving its goals for the more than 700,000 children who spend time in the custody of child protective services (CPS) every year in the United States is made more difficult by their poorer health compared to the general population.¹ Common health concerns among children in CPS custody include developmental delay (e.g., intellectual delay or disability, gross or fine motor delay, speech delay), infections diseases, mental and behavioral health concerns, and medical concerns. …

Strip Searches In Canada And The Constitutional Right To Be Free From Unreasonable Searches And Seizures, Wayne K. Gorman

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

On January 18, 1997, in a restaurant in Toronto, Mr. Ian Golden, a black male, was observed by the police selling what they believed to be cocaine. As a result, he was arrested and searched. The search included a “pat-down” search, but also included the police undoing and pulling back Mr. Golden’s pants and underwear. The police saw a white substance within a clear plastic wrap protruding from between Mr. Golden’s buttocks. The police then forced Mr. Golden to bend over a table. Mr. Golden’s buttocks and genitalia were completely exposed. Mr. Golden defecated. The police retrieved a pair of …

The Military Divorce: An Overview, Joseph A. Dewoskin, Mark E. Sullivan, Dan Wiley

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Your Court Review Editors asked Mark Sullivan, nationally known expert on the military divorce, to contribute an article to this journal. Mark recruited colleagues Joe DeWoskin of Kansas City, KS, a retired Army officer, and Kansas District Court Judge Dan Wiley, who presides over domestic relations cases, to assist him. What follows is their round table discussion of the key issues in a military divorce.

Cooperajudicial Accomodation Of Pro Se Parties, Michael Roundy

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

A fundamental facet of our criminal legal system is that every “litigant” (defendant) is entitled to be represented by an attorney.¹ What is equally fundamental, though less frequently invoked in the criminal context, is the right of an individual to represent him- or herself.² Self-representation is not merely the default consequence of an inability to afford an attorney, it is an affirmative right. In Faretta v. California, a criminal case, the court held that forcing the defendant against his will to accept a state-appointed public defender rather than allowing him to conduct his own defense violated rights …

The Impact Of Anti-Black Racism On The Sentencing Of “Black Offenders” In Canada: What Is The Correct Approach?, Wayne K. Gorman

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Should the approach to the sentencing of “Black offenders” in Canada be different from the approach to non-Black offenders as a result of the history of racism and discrimination suffered by Black people in Canada?

In this column, I am going to review two recent Canadian Court of Appeal decisions (R. v. Anderson, 2021 NSCA 62, and R. v. Morris, 2021 ONCA 680), which have considered this question. As will be seen, two very different answers have been provided, sparking a debate in Canada about the appropriate approach to be taken to the sentencing of individuals who …

The American Psychological Association’S Guidelines For Child Custody Evaluations In Family Law Proceedings: Implications For The Courts, Helen T. Brantley, Eric Y. Drogin, Jemour A. Maddux

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Whether they directly preside over such matters or not, all judges are aware that child custody cases are among the most contentious, nerve-wracking, and costly proceedings in our entire legal system. The most aggrieved and well-heeled of litigants are likely to up the ante by enlisting psychologists as expert witnesses—even when the Court has already found it necessary to do so on its own. American Psychological Association (APA) Guidelines exist to encourage best practices for these witnesses, and to help them to avoid commonly encountered pitfalls. This article addresses how the Court can best access, interpret, and reinforce the latest …

The Road To A Federal Family Court, Jane M. Spinak

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The federalization of child protection policy and the family court began with the so-called discovery of child abuse by Dr. C. Henry Kempe in 1962. Dr. Kempe and his colleagues labeled the emerging documentation of physical abuse of children under three as “battered child syndrome” and provided an explanation for injuries that had previously been inadequately or inconsistently explained. The country was shocked by Kempe’s findings, spurring the federal Children’s Bureau to propose model child-abuse-reporting laws.¹ By 1966, only four years after Kempe’s hospital study, all fifty states had adopted legislation to regulate child abuse; by 1968 all states …

Timely Permanency For Children In Foster Care: Revisiting Core Assumptions About Children’S Options And Outcomes, Sarah A. Font, Lindsey Palmer

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA, 1997) represented an emerging consensus that foster care should not be a long-term solution for children. Foster care is intended to provide a temporary living arrangement until permanency can be achieved, but, at the time ASFA was passed, some children were spending large proportions of their childhoods in temporary homes. In many cases, these children had a permanency plan of reunification that had little chance of being realized. Thus, the overarching goals of ASFA were to reduce the amount of time children spent “in limbo” and to promote permanency, while maintaining explicit preferences …

Threats To Impartiality In Capital Jury Selection: Addressing Dead-Serious Falsifications, Richard Rogers, Eric Y. Drogin, Sara E. Hartigan

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The American Bar Association (ABA) filed an amicus brief1 in the Boston Marathon bombing case that took direct aim at current jury selection procedures within the context of highly publicized capital trials. It strongly recommended that knowledge about the case, including pretrial publicity, be carefully investigated. Moreover, the brief flatly stated that assertions of fairness and impartiality by venirepersons are “not reliable.”² Is this true? What can social science tell us about the objectivity, truthfulness, and personal perspectives (e.g., biases or viewpoints) of potential jurors—in general, and on a case-by-case basis?

Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 58, No. 4, Eve M. Brank, David Dreyer, David Prince

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Interview

Stresses of the Job in Modern Times: Coaching Resilience in Judges, Peer-to-Peer, an Interview with Jan Bouch; David Prince

Articles

Prosecutorial Misconduct: Assessment of Perspectives from the Bench, Saul M. Kassin, Stephanie A. Cardenas, Vanessa Meterko, and Faith Barksdale

Limiting Access to Remedies: Select Criminal Law and Procedure Cases from the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 Term, Eve Brensike Primus and Justin Hill

You Can Change Judging and Justice, Thomas R. French

The Online Courtroom: Leveraging Remote Technology in Litigation American Bar Association, Tort, Trial, and Insurance Practice Section, J. Gary Hastings

Departments

Editor’s Note, Eve Brank, David Dreyer, and David …

Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 58, No. 2, Eve M. Brank, David Dreyer, David Prince

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The Military Divorce: An Overview; Joseph A. DeWoskin, Mark E. Sullivan and Dan Wiley

The American Psychological Association’s Guidelines for Child Custody Evaluations in Family Law Proceedings: Implications for the Courts; Helen T. Brantley, Eric Y. Drogin, and Jemour A. Maddux

Uncovering the Secrets of Statistics as Evidence in Business Valuations; Christopher C. Melcher

Judicial Accommodation of Pro Se Parties; Michael Roundy

Editor’s Note; David M. Johnson

President’s Column; Yvette Mansfield Alexander

Canon Conversations; Access, Flexibility, and Practice; Cynthia Gray

Crossword; Vic Fleming

Thoughts from Canada: Strip Searches in Canada and the Constitutional Right to be Free from Unreasonable …

Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 58, No. 1, Eve M. Brank, David Dreyer, David Prince

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The Road to a Federal Family Court; Jane M. Spinak

The Role of Information Sharing to Improve Case Management in Child Welfare; Sarah J. Beal, Paul DeMott, Rich Bowlen, and Mary V. Greiner

Timely Permanency for Children in Foster Care: Revisiting Core Assumptions about Children’s Options and Outcomes; Sarah A. Font and Lindsey Palmer

The Deportation of America’s Adoptees; DeLeith Duke Gossett

Editor’s Note; Eve Brank

President’s Column; Yvette Mansfield Alexander

Crossword; Vic Fleming

Thoughts from Canada: The Impact of Anti-Black Racism on the Sentencing of “Black Offenders” in Canada: What Is the Correct Approach?; Wayne K. Gorman

The Resource …

Constitution Day: An Opportunity For Honors Colleges To Promote Civic Engagement, Richard J. Hardy, Paul A. Schlag, Keith Boeckelman

Honors in Practice Online Archive

The United States Constitution is the bedrock upon which government and society rest, yet its precepts remain generally unfamiliar to contemporary college students. Considering the extent of its impact and the misinformation regarding its purpose, content, efficacy, and limits, the authors provide suggestions for civic learning based on this seminal document. While all American educational institutions receiving federal funding must celebrate the U.S. Constitution each year on or near September 17th, research suggests that comprehensive and integrative instruction is scarce. Citing a lack of formal Constitution Day programming among honors colleges, the authors present a multi-modal framework for honors students …