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Creating Learning Outcomes And Choosing Corresponding Assessment, Dawn Jo-Anne Spencer

Theses and Dissertations

Executive Summary Title: Creating Learning Outcomes and Choosing Corresponding Assessment Description The design project is for self-paced online instruction for instructional staff of the School of Continuing Education of Red River College. The training material will instruct the learners in the creation of correctly-constructed learning outcomes and the choice of appropriate assessment methods for the outcomes created. Target Learners The learners will be adult learners who are instructional staff of the School of Continuing Education of Red River College. The learners will range in age from 18 — 75 years and have a varied formal educational background that will range …

Mapping Aadl To Petri Net Tool-Sets Using Pnml Framework, Hassan Reza, Amrita Chatterjee

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) has been utilized to specify and verify non- functional properties of Real-Time Embedded Systems (RTES) used in critical application systems. Examples of such critical application systems include medical devices, nuclear power plants, aer- ospace, financial, etc. Using AADL, an engineer is enable to analyze the quality of a system. For example, a developer can perform performance analysis such as end-to-end flow analysis to guarantee that system components have the required resources to meet the timing requirements relevant to their communications. The critical issue related to developing and deploying safety critical systems is how to …

October 14, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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October 7, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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October 3, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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Reclamation, University Of North Dakota. Energy And Environmental Research Center

EERC Brochures and Fact Sheets

Fact sheet on reclamation of land impacted by oil and gas production, an area of Energy & Environmental Research Center study. Includes information on various aspects of land reclamation. [This item is an outdated or superseded version and retained for historical purposes only. It may no longer reflect current information, policies, or practices.]

Vol. 39, No. 3: Fall 2014, School Of Medicine & Health Sciences

North Dakota Medicine Archive

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September 30, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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September 26, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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September 23, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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Assessing The Value Of The Openorbiter Program's Research Experience For Undergraduates, Jeremy Straub, David Whalen, Ronald Marsh

Computer Science Faculty Publications

This article presents an assessment of the benefits gained by undergraduate students who participated in the OpenOrbiter Small Spacecraft Development Initiative. It provides an overview of the program and its learning objectives, as they apply to undergraduate students. It compares the learning impact between students who participated and those who assumed leadership roles. Qualitative assessment with regard to benefits is also discussed. The article extrapolates from these results to identify program elements that were particularly instrumental in delivering the positive benefits discussed. Finally, future work is discussed.

September 19, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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September 16, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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September 12, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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Volume 52, Number 4: September 10, 2014, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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September 9, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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September 5, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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September 4, 2014, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the September 4, 2014, meeting of the University Senate. 11 pages

The Value Premium, Aggregate Risk Innovations, And Average Stock Returns, Knut F. Lindaas, Prodosh Simlai

Economics & Finance Faculty Publications

We test whether innovations in aggregate risk, interpolated from a vector autoregressive system that contains the Chen, Roll and Ross (1986) five factors as in Petkova (2006), are common factors in cross-sectional stock returns. We provide direct evidence that innovation in industrial production growth, a classical business-cycle variable that summarizes the state of the economy, is associated with the cross-sectional return predictability of individual stocks. We conclude that the role of innovation in aggregate risk is not random, and furthermore that it provides guidance concerning an important source of nonfinancial market-based risk in asset returns.

August 29, 2014, The Dakota Student

The Dakota Student

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Volume 52, Number 1: August 20, 2014, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Extension And Applications Of The Gvvpt2 Method To The Study Of Transition Metals, Patrick K. Tamukong

Theses and Dissertations

The ground and low-lying excited electronic states of molecules of the first ( 2 Sc , 2 Cr , 2 Mn , and 2 Ni ) and second ( 2 Y , 2 Mo , and 2 Tc ) row of transition elements have been investigated for the first time with the generalized Van Vleck second order multireference perturbation theory (GVVPT2) method, a variant of MRPT. All potential energy curves (PECs) obtained in these studies were smooth and continuous; that is, they are free from wiggles or inflexion points. In order to account for relativistic effects, which become important in …

Ageism And Experience Bias In Employment Interviews, Dustin Grant Williams

Theses and Dissertations

The present study explored the effects of employment interviewee's age and work experience on hiring manager's recommendations to hire. It was hypothesized that interviewees who were older and therefore had more work experience would receive significantly fewer recommendations to be hired than interviewees with less experience and therefore younger. Furthermore, it was proposed that hiring managers with higher ageist attitudes, as measured by the Fraboni Scale of Ageism, would be less likely to recommend older interviewees with extensive years of work experience be hired than younger interviewees with less work experience. The population was comprised of employment hiring manager from …

Verbal Fluency: Norms For The Lakota Population In Semantic And Phonemic Fluency Tasks, Larissa M. Jordan

Theses and Dissertations

The Lakota language in western South Dakota is spoken by a people group with a rich cultural and religious heritage. The Lakota language, still spoken by elderly Lakota people, is slowly vanishing as the majority of people in younger generations are no longer learning Lakota and with it the semantic knowledge of how Lakota speakers view the world. This study was completed to gather semantic information about the animals that bilingual Lakota English speakers name in English and in Lakota.

An additional objective of this study was to develop normative data for the Lakota people on phonemic (letter P) and …

Subordination In Sarikoli, Deborah Kim

Theses and Dissertations

Sarikoli [srh] is an Iranian language spoken in Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in northwest China. This thesis describes three types of subordinate clauses in Sarikoli: 1) relative clauses, 2) complement clauses, and 3) adverbial clauses. The relative clause and complement clause structures are briefly compared with those found in related Iranian and Pamir languages (Persian, Tajik, Shughni, Rushani, and Wakhi).

Sarikoli relative clauses are placed before the head noun. Common nouns, proper nouns, demonstratives, and genetic terms may be relativized, but pronouns are generally not relativized. A wide range of syntactic functions are allowed for the common argument in both …

The Phonetics And Phonology Of Bora Tone, Amy Roe

Theses and Dissertations

Bora is a Witotoan language spoken in Peru and Colombia. It has an unusual mixed tone/stress system in which L is the specified tone and H the unspecified tone. In this thesis, I describe the underlying tone patterns of noun and verb roots and show how their surface representations change in different phonological environments. I examine noun stems with seven different suffixes and one prefix and verb stems with thirteen different suffixes.

Disyllabic noun roots have three surface tone patterns: L∅, ∅L, and ∅∅. Additionally, Bora has a low boundary tone that associates to the right edge of noun phrases. …

Increasing Influenza Vaccination Rates Within The Veteran Population, Bernadette R. Gomez

Theses and Dissertations

This paper explores the best methods to increase vaccination rates in the Veteran population. The Veteran community is comprised of the young and old, both female and male, and individuals with a healthy or unhealthy status. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Healthy People 2020 were sites utilized, retrieving data and statistics to emphasize the need for this annual vaccination. This information iterates the need for complete compliance from every Veteran. PubMed and Cinahl allowed for a literature review of previously studied populations. This review led to a multifaceted, multi-professional approach to increasing vaccination rates among populations examined. …

Volume 51, Number 47: July 09, 2014, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Power And Effect Size Measures: A Census Of Articles Published From 2009 -2012 In The Journal Of Speech, Language, And Hearing Research, Manish Rami

Communication Sciences & Disorders Faculty Publications

The purposes of this study were to report the use of power and effect sizes in articles in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR). A census of all articles published between the years 2009 - 2012 (n = 436) in JSLHR was conducted to gather data about report of power and effect size. Over 97% (426/436) of the articles did not report power and over 42% (187/436) did not report any effect size measure. Articles not reporting power in each year in this census range from 96.5% to 98.9% and those not reporting any effect size ranges …

Vol. 39, No. 2: Summer 2014, School Of Medicine & Health Sciences

North Dakota Medicine Archive

No abstract provided.