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Analyzing The Emergence Of A Learning Issue In A Problem-Based Learning Meeting, Timothy Koschmann, Phillip Glenn, Melinda Conlee Jan 1997

Analyzing The Emergence Of A Learning Issue In A Problem-Based Learning Meeting, Timothy Koschmann, Phillip Glenn, Melinda Conlee

Publications

Though much has been published concerning the intended or realized benefits of participating in a Problem-Based curriculum, we know little about what participants (faculty and students) actually do when they say they are doing Problem-Based Learning (PBL). The current paper is part of an ongoing to effort to apply methods borrowed from studies of discourse to understanding PBL as a form of enacted practice. In particular, the paper provides a description of the interaction within a PBL tutorial meeting leading to the generation of a Learning Issue (LI). We introduce the term Knowledge Assessment Segment (KAS) for important stretches of …

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Distributed Detection With Multiple Sensors: Part I—Fundamentals, Ramanarayanan Viswanathan, Pramod K. Varshney Jan 1997

Distributed Detection With Multiple Sensors: Part I—Fundamentals, Ramanarayanan Viswanathan, Pramod K. Varshney

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In this paper, basic results on distributed detection are reviewed. In particular, we consider the parallel and the serial architectures in some detail and discuss the decision rules obtained from their optimization based on the Neyman–Pearson (NP) criterion and the Bayes formulation. For conditionally independent sensor observations, the optimality of the likelihood ratio test (LRT) at the sensors is established. General comments on several important issues are made including the computational complexity of obtaining the optimal solutions, the design of detection networks with more general topologies, and applications to different areas.

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The Police, Pretextual Investigatory Activity, And The Fourth Amendment: What Hath Whren Wrought, Mark M. Dobson Jan 1997

The Police, Pretextual Investigatory Activity, And The Fourth Amendment: What Hath Whren Wrought, Mark M. Dobson

St. Thomas Law Review

Part II of this article briefly discusses the debate over what was considered pretextual activity in the time before Whren. Part III then analyzes both the facts and resolution of the pretext issue presented in Whren itself. Part IV explores what Wiren means for the future, both in terms of how this decision, when coupled with existing Fourth Amendment precedent enlarges what the police can do; and how two other Fourth Amendment cases which have recently been handed down, may even further expand what the police can do.

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Ethnic Studies Review Jan 1997

Ethnic Studies Review

Ethnic Studies Review

No abstract provided.

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Informed Consent To Human Subject Research: Improving The Process Of Obtaining Informed Consent From Mentally Ill Persons, Dorothy Derrickson Jan 1997

Informed Consent To Human Subject Research: Improving The Process Of Obtaining Informed Consent From Mentally Ill Persons, Dorothy Derrickson

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Note demonstrates that the federal regulations regarding human subject research must provide more specific guidelines that emphasize the process of obtaining informed consent from persons with mental illnesses. Part I discusses schizophrenia as a case example of mental illness that requires more stringent informed consent standards in human subject research. Part II describes the legal foundations of informed consent to human experimentation and the current federal regulations for human subject research. Part III examines the inadequacy of current federal regulations for mentally ill research subjects and proposes revisions to ensure that mentally ill persons provide adequate informed consent to …

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Disease Prevention As Drug Policy: A Historical Perspective On The Case For Legal Access To Sterile Syringes As A Means Of Reducing Drug-Related Harm, Mark Parts Jan 1997

Disease Prevention As Drug Policy: A Historical Perspective On The Case For Legal Access To Sterile Syringes As A Means Of Reducing Drug-Related Harm, Mark Parts

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article integrates the historical medical literature and the current research, so that we can see the full extent of the harm caused by limiting availability of sterile syringes and the importance of policies providing access to sterile syringes as a part of our efforts to fight the epidemics of today and tomorrow. This article concludes that a thorough understanding of the damage created by sterile syringe restrictions is crucial to the development of effective disease prevention policies.

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The Rights To Future Technologies: Should Bourne V. Disney Change The Rules?, Gayley Rosen Jan 1997

The Rights To Future Technologies: Should Bourne V. Disney Change The Rules?, Gayley Rosen

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This note analyzes the decision in Bourne v. Disney and proposes a method for courts to determine whether a licensing agreement includes the rights to future technologies. This Note concludes that courts should only interpret licenses to include the rights to future technology when the contract includes a broad grant of rights or a future-mediums clause. Even when the contract does not include a future-mediums clause, it should not be enforced when the form of technology is so disimilar from the technology contemplated as to be unfair.

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Linking Genes With Behavior: The Social And Legal Implications Of Using Genetic Evidence In Criminal Trials, Carol A. Gaudet Jan 1997

Linking Genes With Behavior: The Social And Legal Implications Of Using Genetic Evidence In Criminal Trials, Carol A. Gaudet

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Note surveys the increasingly problematic issue of using genetic information in legal decision making. This Note concludes that genetic evidence should be admissible during both the guilt or innocence phases and the penalty phases of criminal trials because it improves the trial process by enhancing juries' understanding of the defendant's intentions during the commission of their crimes.

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Development And Evaluation Of Interactive Courseware For Visualization Of Graph Data Structure And Algorithms, Thomas E. Beutel Jan 1997

Development And Evaluation Of Interactive Courseware For Visualization Of Graph Data Structure And Algorithms, Thomas E. Beutel

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

The primary goal of this dissertation was to develop and pilot test interactive, multimedia courseware which would facilitate learning the abstract structures, operations, and concepts associated with graph and network data structures in Computer Science. Learning objectives and prerequisites are presented in an introduction section of the courseware and a variety of learning activities are provided including tutorials, animated demonstrations, interactive laboratory sessions, and self-tests. Courseware development incorporated principles and practices from software engineering, instructional design, and cognitive learning theories. Implementation utilized an easy-to-use authoring tool, NeoBook Professional (1994), to create the overall framework and the user interfaces, and Microsoft …

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A Proposed Solution For Word-Recognition Deficit In The Computer Environment, Hyacinth Williams Jan 1997

A Proposed Solution For Word-Recognition Deficit In The Computer Environment, Hyacinth Williams

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Most college students with reading disabilities have difficulty with word recognition. The purpose of this study was to use an investigator-made cue word list to increase low word recognition skills among college students while creating slides for a university curriculum using a simple presentation tool. The investigator randomly divided fourteen subjects into two groups. One group received the treatment and the other did not. Subjects received fifty minutes to complete a five-slide presentation. The investigator used four different data collection processes for data collection. Beyond this, the investigator presented the results using rank correlation. Results from this study indicated that …

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Greek Letter Subculture, Adrien D. Scales Jan 1997

Greek Letter Subculture, Adrien D. Scales

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

In this study, surveys were administered to a sample of 90 Undergraduate students on the campus of Marshall University, for the Second Summer Term off 1997, for the purpose of exploring the environmental components that support conditions favorable to the development of subculture groups similar to gangs. For the purpose of this study, students were classified into two different groups, members of Greek letter organization and nonmembers of Greek letter organizations.

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The 1990 Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act : A Case Study In Public Interest Lobbying, Louise Ryland Thornton Jan 1997

The 1990 Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act : A Case Study In Public Interest Lobbying, Louise Ryland Thornton

Master's Theses

This thesis compares and contrasts the tactics and techniques used by Virginia public interest lobbyists in the passage of the 1990 VIRGINIA INDOOR CLEAN AIR ACT with Alan Rosenthal's analysis of state legislative lobbying found in his book, THE THIRD HOUSE. Primary sources include personal interviews and legislative documents, while newspaper articles provide the secondary source of information. Lobbyists used the indirect and direct lobbying techniques, suggested in Rosenthal's framework, to persuade others to their point of view. Supporters of the CLEAN AIR BILL had to deviate, in part, from some of Rosenthal's direct lobbying strategies due to Virginia's history …

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Anna Letitia Barabauld's Poetic Vision: Community, Imagination, And The Quotidian, Carrie Ann Woods Jan 1997

Anna Letitia Barabauld's Poetic Vision: Community, Imagination, And The Quotidian, Carrie Ann Woods

Master's Theses

With the publication of her Poems in 1773, favorable reviews welcomed Anna Letitia Barbauld into the literary world. However, Barbauld has traditionally been left out of English literature anthologies, condemned to the murky depths of obscurity. Why has this talented British poet of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries been undeservedly marginalized? Perhaps she has never achieved the status of a major literary figure because her impulse towards community places her outside the mainstream Romantic tradition dominated by the "egotistical sublime." In the poetry of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Keats, an …

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The Puzzling First Amendment Overbreadth Doctrine, Alfred Hill Jan 1997

The Puzzling First Amendment Overbreadth Doctrine, Alfred Hill

Hofstra Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Powered By More Than Gaas: Section 10a Of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Takes The Accounting Profession For A New Ride, Andrew W. Reiss Jan 1997

Powered By More Than Gaas: Section 10a Of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act Takes The Accounting Profession For A New Ride, Andrew W. Reiss

Hofstra Law Review

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The Limits Of Central Bank's Textualist Approach-Attempts To Overdraw The Bank Prove Unsuccessful, Richard H. Walker, David M. Levine Jan 1997

The Limits Of Central Bank's Textualist Approach-Attempts To Overdraw The Bank Prove Unsuccessful, Richard H. Walker, David M. Levine

Hofstra Law Review

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Labor Policy In Late Twentieth Century Capitalism: New Paradoxes For The Democratic State, Daniel J. Gifford Jan 1997

Labor Policy In Late Twentieth Century Capitalism: New Paradoxes For The Democratic State, Daniel J. Gifford

Hofstra Law Review

No abstract provided.

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All The World's A Courtroom: Judging In The New Millennium, Shirley S. Abrahamson, Michael J. Fischer Jan 1997

All The World's A Courtroom: Judging In The New Millennium, Shirley S. Abrahamson, Michael J. Fischer

Hofstra Law Review

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The Road Best Traveled: Removing Judicial Roadblocks That Prevent Workers From Obtaining Both Disability Benefits And Ada Civil Rights Protection, Maureen C. Weston Jan 1997

The Road Best Traveled: Removing Judicial Roadblocks That Prevent Workers From Obtaining Both Disability Benefits And Ada Civil Rights Protection, Maureen C. Weston

Hofstra Law Review

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Safeguarding A Crown Jewel: Judicial Independence And Lawyer Criticism Of Courts, Judith S. Kaye Jan 1997

Safeguarding A Crown Jewel: Judicial Independence And Lawyer Criticism Of Courts, Judith S. Kaye

Hofstra Law Review

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The United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods: Reason And Unreason In The United Kingdom, Angelo Forte Jan 1997

The United Nations Convention On Contracts For The International Sale Of Goods: Reason And Unreason In The United Kingdom, Angelo Forte

University of Baltimore Law Review

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Children Are Losing Maryland's "Tender Years" War, Lynn Mclain Jan 1997

Children Are Losing Maryland's "Tender Years" War, Lynn Mclain

University of Baltimore Law Review

Often times, the child is the only witness. Yet age may make the child incompetent to testify in court... "[W]hen the choice is between evidence which is less than best and no evidence at all, only clear folly would dictate an across-the board policy of doing without."

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Rethinking Equality In The Global Society, Clark D. Cunningham Jan 1997

Rethinking Equality In The Global Society, Clark D. Cunningham

Faculty Publications By Year

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The Assessment Of Expertise: Transcending Construction, Randolph N. Jonakait Jan 1997

The Assessment Of Expertise: Transcending Construction, Randolph N. Jonakait

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Televising High Profile Trials: Are We Better Off Pulling The Plug, Peter L. Arenella Jan 1997

Televising High Profile Trials: Are We Better Off Pulling The Plug, Peter L. Arenella

Santa Clara Law Review

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The Ethics Of Being A Commentator Ii, Erwin Chemerinsky, Laurie Levenson Jan 1997

The Ethics Of Being A Commentator Ii, Erwin Chemerinsky, Laurie Levenson

Santa Clara Law Review

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Eliminate The Cultural Industries Exemption From Nafta, Therese Anne Larrea Jan 1997

Eliminate The Cultural Industries Exemption From Nafta, Therese Anne Larrea

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Books Received, Santa Clara Law Review Jan 1997

Books Received, Santa Clara Law Review

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Teaching An Old Law New Tricks: Rethinking Section 16, Ellen Taylor Jan 1997

Teaching An Old Law New Tricks: Rethinking Section 16, Ellen Taylor

Faculty Publications By Year

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The All Encompassing Role And Function Of The Computing Coordinator In Western Australian Government Senior High Schools, Diana C. Brown Jan 1997

The All Encompassing Role And Function Of The Computing Coordinator In Western Australian Government Senior High Schools, Diana C. Brown

Theses : Honours

The purpose of this study was to determine the role and support afforded Computing Coordinators at Western Australian government senior high schools by undertaking a census survey. Previous studies performed by Weber and Kershaw (1990) and Kershaw and Weber {1991), portrayed the role of Computing Coordinators at Australian high schools as demanding a diversity of knowledge and skills in computer technology together with excellent management qualities. The literature also suggested that time management skills were a major factor in how effectively coordinators carried out the myriad of tasks expected of them. This study found that most Computing Coordinators considered their …

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