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Central Southern Region, Robert D. Purrington

National Audubon Society Field Notes

No abstract provided.

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 59, No. 3, December 1997, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Trade Orientation And Human Capital On Total Factor Productivity, Stephen M. Miller, Mukti P. Upadhyay

Economics Working Papers

We study the effects of trade orientation and human capital on total factor productivity for a pooled cross-section, time-series sample of developed and developing countries. We first estimate total factor productivity from a parsimonious specification of the aggregate production function involving output per worker, capital per worker, and the labor force, both with and without the stock of human capital. Then we consider a number of potential determinants of total factor productivity growth including several measures of trade orientation as well as a measure of human capital. We find that a high degree of openness benefits total factor productivity and …

Flotsam And Jetsam - December 1997, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Sport Diver Newsletters

Contents:

Canoes in the Lowcountry..... p.20
Hunley Update..... p.22
Volunteer Opportunities..... p.23
Port Royal Sound Survey..... p.24
Mepkin Abbey Shipwreck..... p.26

The Marian Library Newsletter: Issue No. 35, University Of Dayton. Marian Library

Marian Library Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Alumnus, Siu Alumni Association

SIU Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

Inside Front Cover: Bridgewater Normal School Catalogue Pages

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Refining The Racial Gerrymandering Claim: Bush V. Vera, Nelson Ebaugh

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

Of Rectangles And Centuries. A History Of The Use Of A Garden Pattern From Romanesque Europe To Nineteenth-Century New Orleans, David Dwayne Lewis

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Settlers of New Orleans brought with them ideas of gardens that influenced the way they shaped gardens in the colony. Although the influence of those ideas has been acknowledged in studies of New Orleans gardens, specific connections between the ideas and gardens in New Orleans have not been made. To illuminate some of those connections, this study focuses on one garden pattern — a composition of long, rectangular planting beds -- that is common to at least fifty gardens in New Orleans and to European gardens dating from the ninth century. A developmental history that chronicles the use of the …

Arqueología De Un Paisaje Agrícola En La Provincia Yacuma, Departamento Del Beni, Bolivia, John H. Walker

ProSIGAB Documents

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, December 1997

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Life In The Slow Lane: The Old Order Amish Cultural Landscape Of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Glenn Miller

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

The African Tribe: Ethnic Identity As A Social And Political Control Mechanism During Twentieth Century British Imperialism, Sefakor Amaa

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Minnesota Graduation Standards And Their Impact On The Midde School Philosophy, Leslie Nordheim

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Integration Of Educational Technology Into The Elementary School Curriculum, Pamela J. Carlson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of a one school year educational technology staff development program for kindergarten through grade six classroom teachers in the Grand Forks Public School District. The research population included teachers from all 13 elementary schools in the district.

The pre-post survey instrument was cooperatively designed by Grand Forks Public School District technology personnel and the researcher. The pre-post survey results measured (a) statistical changes in teacher comfort level, perceptions, and teacher and student technology experiences; (b) problems encountered and technology implementation; (c) preferred technology staff development; (d) influences on teaching; (e) …

Mastodon, 80% Complete: Poems, Jonathan Johnson

Dissertations

Many of the poems in this collection are set in the vast woods and along the Lake Superior coastline of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Others take place in and around the poet's remote cabin in northern Idaho where the Selkirk, Bitteroot, and Cabinet mountain ranges converge. However, they all take as their definition of wilderness the complete external beyond the individual consciousness, including the body, other people, and the decaying cultural landscape, as well as vistas of yet unmolested nature. The poems chronicle an ongoing attempt to occupy the borderlands of faith between imaginative will and allegiance to the world, that …

Number 1, 1997, Palara Editors

PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association

Complete Issue

Gender, Ethnicity And Space: The Case Of Racial Ethnic Minority Women Telecommuters In Omaha, Ne, Hope Kawabata

Student Work

Telecommuting is a labor process in which employees work from home on a regular basis, but maintain contact with the office through telecommunications technology such as computer networks, facsimile machines, voice messaging systems, and so on. Telecommuting has become very popular in recent years; however, little is known about its social and spatial impacts. Preliminary research on gender and telecommuting has shown that telecommuting tends to reinforce a traditional division of domestic labor and identification of women with the home; however, whether this is the case for ethnic minority women is unknown. This thesis research used in-depth, semistructured interviews to …

Sciaa's Underwater Archaeology Division Completes First Phase Of The Port Royal Sound Survey, James D. Spirek, Christopher F. Amer

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

The National German-American Alliance, 1901 -1918: Cultural Politics And Ethnicity In Peace And War, Charles Thomas Johnson

Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to tell the story of the National German- American Alliance, an organization of middle to upper-middle class well-educated professionals formed in 1901 to promote and preserve aspects of German culture in the United States. Increasingly, however, it found itself drawn into controversial political and diplomatic issues in the rapid political, social and international change that marked the first two decades of the twentieth century.

The dissertation begins with a review of German-America from colonial times to 1899 and serves as a background for the founding of the Alliance within the context of the growth …

Operational Report 1997, University Of Montana--Missoula

University of Montana Annual Financial Reports, 1918-2012

University of Montana annual financial report for fiscal year ending June 30, 1997.

University Reporter - Vol. 02, No. 04 - December 1997 - Calendar, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

Block Scheduling: From Possibility To Reality?, Frederic M. Muse

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines teacher practices and student learning as perceived by teachers within public high schools that have implemented block scheduling. Comparisons are made between the possibilities advanced by block scheduling advocates and the actual results as interpreted from the data gathered. Comparisons are made between teaching and learning with the traditional schedule and the manner in which it takes place with block scheduling. Open-ended questionnaires were developed for use with voluntary participants who had worked with traditional scheduling and now taught with some form of block scheduling. Participants recorded observations based solely upon personal perceptions of experiences with students …

The Cincs' Strategies: The Combatant Command Process, William W. Mendel Col (Ret), Graham H. Turbiville Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The authors report their observations of the different ways combatant commanders-in-chief (CINCs) produce a strategy document, and suggest that new joint doctrine is needed to bring a degree of regularity and orderliness to the CINCs' strategic planning process. The CINCs' Strategies: The Combatant Command Process provides a brief look at the CINCs' strategy objectives and concepts in order to place the planning process in context. The focus of the study, however, is on the process itself as it exists and could be further developed. With our National Security and National Military Strategies so clearly directed toward shaping the international environment, …

Bighorn Sheep (Ovis Canadensis) Ecology And Demography In The North Dakota Badlands, Jerry J. Feist

Theses and Dissertations

The bighorn sheep (Oyis canadensis califomiana) in the North Dakota Badlands were studied in an effort to obtain baseline ecological data and examine the effects of human disturbance (primarily oil development) on their ranges, habitat use, movements and reproductive performance. The study was conducted from May and April, 1992 and 1993, respectively, through December of each year. Additionally, the summer of 1994 was used to complete habitat classification in the field.

Eight bighorn ewes were captured by helicopter and net-gun in each of 2 primary study areas (one highly impacted by oil development and the other less impacted) and fitted …

Digital Science: Electronic Association And Groupware In Facilitating Third Sector Research, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

In thinking about the application of computers and the internet technology to problems of association, collaboration and civil society we need to get beyond the current state of mimicking existing social processes and discover new ways to extend and enhance those social processes.

Effects Of Catholic School Attendance On Student Achievement: A Review And Extension Of Research, Thomas Hoffer

Journal of Catholic Education

This paper begins with a review of basic descriptive data on achievement differences between public and Catholic school students and the main theories intended to explain Catholic sector effects on student achievement. The main theories are cast in terms of competitive markets, the communities in which the schools are embedded, and the historically institutionalized purposes of the schools. The analytical research is then reviewed and extended with some original analyses from recently collected national survey data on high school students. The main points from the review and extension of empirical research are as follows: (a) Catholic high schools have positive …

Encouraging Marketing Research, Ronald B. Larson

Journal of Extension

Some business people are unfamiliar with the need for or the benefits from marketing research. One tool for communicating the value of marketing and marketing research is regional sales indices. These indices can help highlight market heterogeneity, illustrate marketing complexities, and encourage the use of regional events. They can also be used to help identify potential marketing partners, guide test market selection, and assist with volume forecasting. By including analyses of these sales development indices in presentations to business groups, greater interest in conducting marketing research and in supporting marketing programs may be generated.

Vol.25 N.43 November 27th 1997, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

The Cord Weekly (November 26, 1997)

The Cord

No abstract provided.