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Mandatory Faculty Development Works, Mona B. Kreaden

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This chapter tells the story of a successful, ongoing, mandatory faculty development program. It explains the historical reasons why a business school in a large, urban Research I institution felt the need to make their program mandatory, examines how it was developed, and the university faculty development program’s role in the process. The author makes the case that mandatory programs can be successful in faculty development when they are administered by an outside credible entity, are faculty driven, and guarantee confidentiality.

Harnessing The Potential Of Online Faculty Development: Challenges And Opportunities, Timothy P. Shea, Pamela D. Sherer, Eric V. Kristensen

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This chapter explores several issues regarding the current state of online faculty development resources. First, it describes the breadth and depth of today’s online teaching and learning resources. Then, it explains the benefits of designing an institutional teaching and learning center portal as a means for organizing and focusing resources. Finally, it discusses the importance of the faculty developer’s role in harnessing these resources for individual and institutional advantage. The online portal provides a powerful tool for institutional change on a scale heretofore impossible for most, and puts faculty development at the center of an institution’s mission.

Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 4 - Illinois V. Wardlow: The Empowerment Of Police, The Weakening Of The Fourth Amendment, Pamela Richardson

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right of the people against unreasonable searches and seizures by requiring a probable cause showing in order to obtain a warrant before conducting such searches. Since the United States Supreme Court decided Terry v. Ohio in 1968, however, the words of the Fourth Amendment have been questioned and the rights of the individual challenged. When the Court decided Illinois v. Wardlow in 2000, it was made clear that the words once written to protect all Americans do not pertain to those residing in locations deemed “highcrime areas.”

Review Of Videostyle In Presidential Campaigns: Style And Content Of Televised Political Advertising By Lynda Lee Kaid And Anne Johnston, E.D. Dover

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

American elections have increasingly become candidate-centered campaigns in which solitary aspirants for office bear the primary responsibility for generating their own money, issues, imagery, and support. Candidates present themselves through televised advertising appearing as social tribunes instead of representatives for political and governmental institutions. News media respond by depicting campaigns as ongoing battles among individual combatants and direct much of their attention to the question of who is winning and who is not.

In an important book addressing these electoral features, Kaid and Johnston focus on the personal style candidates develop through television advertising. They claim a candidate's style is …

Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter Newsletter, Issue #24 [#25], August 2002

Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Newsletters

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE - Marilynn Schnepf, President, Nebraska Chapter

Gamma Sigma Delta Scholarship Recognition Reception

HISTORIAN'S REPORT - DeLynn Hay, Historian

GAMMA SIGMA DELTA MEMBERSHIP REPORT (PRELIMINARY) - 2002 - David L. Keith, Membership Coordinator

NOMINATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP TO GAMMA SIGMA DELTA August 2002

Merit Award Nomination

Teaching Award Nomination

Research Award Nomination

Extension Award Nomination

The Ogoni Of Nigeria, A. Olu Oyinlade, Jeffery M. Vincent

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

The Ogoni are a minority ethnic people who live in the Western Niger Delta Region of southern Nigeria. During the 1970s, Ogoniland, or the Ogoni Nation, became part of the Rivers State of Nigeria. There are approximately 500,000 Ogoni who represent less than 0.05 percent of Nigeria's 100 to 120 million people. The population density of this region equals 1,233 people per square mile, making it one of the most densely populated areas of Nigeria. Reliable information about the origin of the Ogoni is limited. Archaeological and oral historical evidence suggests that the Ogoni have inhabited the area for over …

Who's Moving To Nebraska?, Charles Lamphear

Business in Nebraska

A survey of recent migrants to Nebraska revealed that about one-third were single. Nearly half of them were born here or previously had lived in Nebraska. Most were in their mid-fifties, and most moved to the state to be close to family.

The remaining two-thirds of the recent arrivals surveyed were couples. Like singles, most were either born in Nebraska or had lived in the state. Their most frequently cited reason for moving back to Nebraska also was to be close to family.

Singles

Couples

Acuta Journal Of Telecommunications In Higher Education

ACUTA Journal

In This Issue

CRM Solutions Let Clients Help Themselves

It's a Win-Win for MoBull Messenger

Assistive Technologies Meet Students'Needs

Autoattendant: Boon or Bane?

Hot Spots: A Hot New ldea for Serving Customers and Generating Revenue?

lnstitutional Excellence Award: Bridgewater State College

A Primer on Optical Networking

The Right Way to Make a Name for Yourself

Interview

Columns

Future Antarctic Margin Drilling: Developing A Science Program Plan For Mcmurdo Sound -- Report Of A Workshop Oxford, Uk April 5–7, 2001, David M. Harwood, Laura Lacy, Richard Levy

ANDRILL Research and Publications

ANDRILL (ANtarctic DRILLing) is a multinational initiative with the objectives to recover stratigraphic core records for use in interpreting Antarctica’s climatic, glacial and tectonic history over the past 50 million years and at varying scales of age resolution (0.1 to 100 thousand years [k.y.]). A key motivation of ANDRILL is that the role of the Antarctic cryosphere (ice sheets, ice shelves and sea-ice) in the global climate system is complex and poorly known. Understanding the past history of ice volume variation in Antarctica and associated physical changes in this region is critical to proper assessment of the global climate system …

Foreign Government Complicity In Human Trafficking: A Review Of The State Department's "2002 Trafficking In Persons Report", U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On International Relations

Human Trafficking: Data and Documents

The Smith-Gejdenson Act provides a comprehensive plan for putting an end to modern-day slavery. A key component of this plan is the State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report. This report is intended to inform the President and the Congress about which foreign governments are making serious efforts to combat the most egregious forms of trafficking in persons—the buying and selling of women and children into the international sex industry, and the trafficking of men, women, and children alike into slavery and involuntary servitude—and which governments are failing to make such efforts.

At today’s hearing, the Committee will hear …

2002 Trafficking In Persons Report, U.S. Department Of State

Human Trafficking: Data and Documents

Over the past year, at least 700,000, and possibly as many as four million men women and children worldwide were bought, sold, transported and held against their will in slave-like conditions. In this modern form of slavery, known as “trafficking in persons,” traffickers use threats, intimidation and violence to force victims to engage in sex acts or to labor under conditions comparable to slavery for the traffickers’ financial gain. Women, children and men are trafficked into the international sex trade for the purposes of prostitution, sex tourism and other commercial sexual services and into forced labor situations in sweatshops, construction …

Endangered Species Bulletin, January/February 2002 - Vol. Xxvii No. 1

Endangered Species Bulletin

In this issue:
4 Endangered Species and the National Park Service
8 Endemic Amphipods in our Nation’s Capital
10 Endangered Species in Midwestern Parks
12 Alaska: A Great Life for Wildlife
14 Diverse Challenges in the Intermountain Region
16 Improving Prospects for the Florida Panther
18 Endangered Species in the Pacific and Western Parks
20 Restoring an Atlantic Barrier Island Epidemic
22 Turtle Patrol on Padre Island

Ec02-893 Basis Patterns For Selected Sites In Nebraska For Corn, Wheat, Sorghum, And Soybeans, Lynn Lutgen

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

The following publication contains corn basis patterns for several towns in Nebraska. The basic price information was collected through electronic media. The listing includes towns that are representative of different geographic locations in Nebraska. The amount of data varies among locations. This publication will be updated each year by adding a year's data to each location which will allow the user to observe changes in the basis patterns over time.

Nf02-505 Drinking Water: Chloramines Waters Disinfection In Omaha Metropolitan Utilities District, Sharon Skipton, Bruce I. Dvorak

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Bacteria and other disease-causing organisms in drinking water can cause intestinal infections, dysentery, and a variety of other illnesses. Water disinfection reduces disease-causing organisms and prevents the transmission of disease. This publication discusses the disinfection process used by Metropolitan Utilities District and how it will change in 2002.

2001-2002 Annual Report

Lancaster County, Nebraska Extension: Reports

Helping You Put Knowledge to Work
Extension Provides Reliable, Research-Based Information
New to Extension in 2002
Gov. Johanns Proclaimed 2002 "4-H Centennial Year in Nebraska"
From NU to You
Over 3,000 Web Pages of Content
Partnering with the Community
Increasing Outreach Through "Training the Trainer"
Lancaster Extension Education Center Facilitates Community Programs
UNL Cooperative Extension in Lancaster County 2001-02 Honors and Awards
A Winning Partnership
4-H Teaches "Learning by Doing"
Celebrating 100 Years
4-H Clubs Develop Life Skills
4-H Council Provides Behind-the-Scenes Support
4-H Offers Many Opportunities for Personal Growth
County Fair Showcases Talents
Citizen Washington Focus (CWF) Teaches Government …

Drinking Water: Chloramines Water Disinfection In Omaha Metropolitan Utilities District, Sharon Skipton, Bruce I. Dvorak

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Bacteria and other disease-causing organisms in drinking water can cause intestinal infections, dysentery, and a variety of other illnesses. Water disinfection reduces disease-causing organisms and prevents the transmission of disease. This publication discusses the disinfection process used by Metropolitan Utilities District and how it will change in 2002.

Building On Assets And Mobilizing For Collective Action: Community Guide, John C. Allen, Sam M. Cordes, Smith Covey, Randy Gunn, Dorlene Hicks, Lacey Madden, Kathie Starkweather

Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)

This document focuses on the positive assets the community’s individuals, associations, institutions, and economy. Focusing on community problems conveys negative images of the community, and residents begin to accept these images as the only guide to the reality of their lives. Focusing on positive asset components will help build the community, giving residents hope and a positive vision for themselves. Most of this community guide publication is devoted to how community assets can be inventoried. Concludes with steps to developing an action plan.

Mechanisms Counteracting Swelling In Brain Cells During Hyponatremia, Herminia Pasantes-Morales, Rodrigo Franco, Benito Ordaz, Lenin D. Ochoa

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Water gain in the brain consequent to hyponatremia is counteracted by mechanisms that initially include a compensatory displacement of liquid from the interstitial space to cerebrospinal fluid and systemic circulation and subsequently an active reduction in cell water accomplished by extrusion of intracellular osmolytes to reach osmotic equilibrium. Potassium (K⁺), chloride (Cl^–), amino acids, polyalcohols, and methylamines all contribute to volume regulation, with a major contribution of ions at the early phase and of organic osmolytes at the late phase of the regulatory process. Experimental models in vitro show that osmolyte fluxes occur via leak pathways …

Greenhouse And Field Evaluation Of Biological Control Of Fusarium Head Blight On Durum Wheat, D. A. Schisler, N. I. Khan, Michael J. Boehm, P. J. Slininger

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a devastating disease that causes extensive yield and quality losses to wheat and barley. In durum wheat, the pathogen-produced toxin deoxynivalenol (DON) is retained in semolina at ~50%, and the causal agent of FHB, Gibberella zeae, has a strong adverse effect on pasta color. Two bacteria and two yeast strains with known efficacy against G. zeae on hexaploid wheats were produced in liquid culture and assayed on two cultivars of durum wheat in greenhouse bioassays. All antagonists reduced FHB severity on cultivar Renville, and three of the four reduced severity on cultivar Ben, with …

Effect Of Habitat Depth On Host Location By Five Species Of Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae, Chalcididae) Of House Flies (Diptera: Muscidae) In Three Types Of Substrates, Christopher Geden

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

Four species of pteromalid parasitoids [Muscidifurax raptor Girault & Sanders, Spalangia cameroni Perkins, Spalangia endius Walker, Spalangia gemina Boucek, and the chalcidid Dirhinus himalayanus (Masi)] were evaluated for their ability to locate house fly pupae at various depths in poultry manure (41% moisture), fly rearing medium (43% moisture), and sandy soil (4% moisture) from a dairy farm. Searching activity in manure was largely confined to the surface (M. raptor, D. himalayanus, and S. gemina) or to depths of up to 2 cm below the surface (S. endius, S. cameroni). S. cameroni was the …

Strategies For Controlling House Fly Populations Resistant To Cyromazine, Diana C. Crespo, Roberto E. Lecuona, Jerome Hogsette

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

The objectives of this study were to compare, from both biological and economic viewpoints, the impact of various control strategies and evaluate their effect on cyromazine-resistant Musca domestica L., and beneficial house fly pupal parasitoids on caged-layer farms (240,000 hens) in Argentina. The strategies evaluated were: chemical, chemical + cultural, and chemical + cultural + biological (integrated management). The products used were: cyromazine 1% and 50%, DDVP, azamethiphos with and without z-9-tricosene, lime, and the parasitoids Spalangia endius Walker and Muscidifurax raptor Girault & Sanders. In the absence of control measures, fly density increased quickly and the average parasitism rate …

Recycled Paper Products As Substitutes For Gelling Agent In Screwworm (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Larval Diet, M. F. Chaudhury, L. Alfredo Alvarez, L. Lopez Velazquez

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

Absorbent recycled paper products were tested and compared with a sodium polyacrylate gelling agent, Aquatain, for solidifying larval diets of the screwworm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel). A recycled newsprint product, Terra-Mulch, when mixed with water and dietary ingredients produced a diet medium of homogeneous texture that supported larval growth and development comparable to the standard diet prepared with the gelling agent. Biological yields as calculated from number of pupae per tray from both the diets were similar. Three other types of recycled paper products were tested. Although less homogeneous in texture, these diets were as good as the diet with Terra-Mulch. …

Death Penalty Research In Nebraska: How Do Judges And Juries Reach Penalty Decisions?, Richard L. Wiener

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction . . . . . 757

II. Aggravating Factors as Predictors of the Death Sentence Outcomes . . . . . 764

III. Number of Aggravating Factors, Mitigation, and Predicting Death Sentences . . . . . 768

IV. Socioeconomic Status of Victims and Sentence Outcomes . . . . . 772

V. Minorities Advancing to the Penalty Phase in Capital Cases . . . . . 773

VI. Conclusion . . . . . 776

Southeast Research And Extension Center 5-Year Issue-Based Review

Southeast Research and Extension Center: Reports and Administration

Director's Introduction

Demographic and Economic Profile of Southeastern Nebraska

Geography and Organization

Population

Agriculture

Income and Poverty

Commuting

Race and Ethnicity

Preface - Writing Team

Agriculture Issue Team Report

Acreage Team Report

Small/Medium Farm Team Report

Large Farm Team Report

Agribusiness/Consultants Team Report

Structure of Agriculture Report

Crops

Animal Agriculture

Agribusiness

Public Policy

Community Visions: Urban/Rural Issue Team Report

Environmental Sustainability Issue Team Report

Family Life Issue Team Report

Healthy Lifestyles Issue Team Report

Food Safety

Healthcare in Communities

Nutrition Education Program

Nutrition Through the Lifecycle

Youth Issue Team Report

Research in the Southeast District

Final Report of Focus Group …

Review Of Stillman, Arab Dress: A Short History, From The Dawn Of Islam To Modem Times., Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Arab Dress: A Short History, From the Dawn of Islam to Modem Times. By YADIDA KALFON STILLMAN. Edited by NORMAN A. STILLMAN. Themes in Islamic Studies, vol. 2. Leiden: BRILL, 2000. Pp. xxxii + 240, plates, figs.

Billowing folds, exquisite pleats, tightly wound turbans, flowing burqas, short square kerchiefs-the dramatic drapery of Islamic fashion fills the quiet spaces of our daily news coverage; yet the garments illustrated and their significance often pass without verbal notice. Little would Yedida Stillman ever have anticipated the widespread presence of the Islamic vestimentary system in Western media a short three years after her death …

Mycobacterium Bovis–Infected White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus): Detection Of Immunoglobulin Specific To Crude Mycobacterial Antigens By Elisa, W. Ray Waters, Mitchell V. Palmer, Diana L. Whipple

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) have recently emerged as a source of Mycobacterium bovis infection for cattle within North America. The objective of this study was to evaluate the antibody response of M. bovis–infected deer to crude mycobacterial antigens. Deer were experimentally inoculated with M. bovis strain 1315 either by intratonsilar instillation or by exposure to M. bovis–infected (i.e., in contact) deer. To determine the time course of the response, including the effects of antigen administration for comparative cervical skin testing, serum was collected periodically and evaluated by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for immunoglobulin (i.e., IgG heavy …

Nitric Oxide Production As An Indication Of Mycobacterium Bovis Infection In White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus), W. R. Waters, M. V. Palmer, R. E. Sacco, D. L. Whipple

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

White-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ) are reservoirs for Mycobacterium bovis in northeast Michigan, USA. Production of nitric oxide (NO) by activated macrophages is a potent mechanism of mycobacterial killing. The capacity of macrophages to produce NO, however, varies among mammalian species. The objective of this study was to determine if mononuclear cells from white-tailed deer produce nitrite as an indication of NO production and, if so, is NO produced in response to stimulation with M. bovis antigens. Supernatants were harvested from adherent peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) cultures that had been stimulated with either Mannheimia haemolytica lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or …

Bovine Tuberculosis In Michigan Wildlife And Livestock, Stephen M. Schmitt, Daniel J. O'Brien, Colleen S. Brunning-Fann, Scott D. Fitzgerald

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

Since 1994, the state of Michigan has recognized a problem with bovine tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, in wild white-tailed deer from a 12-county area in northeastern Lower Michigan. A total of 65,000 free-ranging deer have been tested, and 340 have been found to be positive for M. bovis. The disease has been found in other wildlife species, and, in 1998, in domestic cattle, where to date 13 beef cattle and 2 dairy cattle herds have been diagnosed with bovine TB. Unfortunately, the situation is unique in that there have never been reports of self-sustaining bovine TB …

Análisis Narrativo Del Recuerdo En 'El Regreso' Y 'Del Cemento. La Trampa De Cemento', De Martín De Ugalde, Iker González-Allende, Joseba Pérez Moreno

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

El recuerdo en la producción de Martín de Ugalde', debido a sus experiencias personales, queda muy patente en sus relatos, de ahí que la elección de estas dos narraciones se deba a una cuestión significativa, ya que la primera de ellas, "El regreso", supone un cuento "portada" de su producción cuentÍstica de madurez, introduciéndonos en notas comunes que aparecerán reiteradamente en el resto de narraciones, en temas como la soledad, la muerte, el desarraigo ... Semejante a este relato en muchos aspectos es el segundo elegido, "Del cemento. La trampa de cemento", que enriquece nuestro análisis comparativo al ofrecer otras …

Progress On Geoenvironmental Models For Selected Mineral Deposit Types, Robert R. Seal Ii, Nora K. Foley

United States Geological Survey: Publications

Since the beginning of economic geology as a subdiscipline of the geological sciences, economic geologists have tended to classify mineral deposits on the basis of geological, mineralogical, and geochemical criteria, in efforts to systematize our understanding of mineral deposits as an aid to exploration. These efforts have lead to classifications based on commodity, geologic setting (Cox and Singer, 1986), inferred temperatures and pressures of ore formation (Lindgren, 1933), and genetic setting (Park and MacDiarmid, 1975; Jensen and Bateman, 1979). None of these classification schemes is mutually exclusive; instead, there is considerable overlap among all of these classifications. A natural outcome …