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A Catalogue Of Mayan Glyphs: A Study In Information Design, Timothy J. Wood

Theses

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Teaching Fractions Through The Multiple Intelligences, Lisa K. Freese

Graduate Research Papers

Fractions are frequently used in daily life. However, many students have difficulty learning fraction concepts. In addition, some students begin the study of fractions with negative impressions.

The writer of this article uses Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences to address the difficulties students face in learning fraction concepts. Dr. Howard Gardner, the creator of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Ml Theory), believes that it is unfair to teach all students in the same way. Students need opportunities to solve relevant problems that are meaningful to their everyday lives. Rather than concentrating on singular viewpoints and exclusive answers when studying …

Strategies For Sprinkling Spice On An Elementary Physical Education Program: Thematic Instruction Comes To The Gym!, Kristine Lee Whitcher

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this project was to identify curriculum design strategies that would assist elementary physical education teachers in producing thematic units for elementary physical education classes. Strategies for integrating curriculum were identified in the literature then used to create and implement a thematic physical education project. Specific strategies were explained in detail through examples associated with the project. The strategies demonstrate that thematic instruction can successfully meet the needs of many children, invite new learning, and will assist teachers in coordinating themes with elementary physical education classes. A school-wide Olympic Fest was the culminating event of this project. There …

The Modern Uses Of Ancient Law, Richard A. Epstein

South Carolina Law Review

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Educational Reform Through The Implementation Of National Standards: A Response, Richard J. Reynolds

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

At this writing, federal initiatives for education reform seem to be taking their last gasps. There is a question as to whether Goals 2000 will make it to the year 2000. The development of voluntary, national standards has generated considerable debate both as to the desirability of such standards and the enlarged federal role in education. What is killing these initiatives and are they worth saving?

The Poet's Changing Song : Robert Hass's Psychological Relationship To Language In Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, And Sun Under Wood / By Cory Thomas Shaman, Cory Thomas Shaman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Improving Minority Class Prediction Using Case-Specific Feature Weights, Claire Cardie, Nicholas Howe

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

This paper addresses the problem of handling skewed class distributions within the case-based learning (CBL) framework. We first present as a baseline an information gain-weighted CBL algorithm and apply it to three data sets from natural language processing (NLP) with skewed class distributions. Although overall performance of the baseline CBL algorithm is good, we show that the algorithm exhibits poor performance on minority class instances. We then present two CBL algorithms designed to improve the performance of minority class predictions. Each variation creates test-case-specific feature weights by first observing the path taken by the test case in a decision tree …

Madaba Plains Project 3: The 1989 Season At Tell El-Umeiri And Vicinity, Larry G. Herr Editor, Lawrence T. Geraty Editor, Oystein Sakara Labianca Editor, Randall W. Younker Editor

All Books

"This publication continues in the tradition of the previous two seasonal reports, detailing the hinterland regional surveys, the clarification of the defense system, further excavation of the Iron Age complex, and discovery of extensive Early Bronze Age domestic structures." AU Press catalogue

The Human Constitution And Constitutive Law: A Prolegomenon, John O. Mcginnis

Articles

No abstract provided.

Muddy Waters: Infringement Analysis After "Markman" And "Warner-Jenkinson", Clyde F. Willian, Joseph S. Miller

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Edition Of Dorothy Nicodemus's Coyote Cuts Sun's Heart, Amy L. Hayter

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of The Book Of Mormon Diglot Reader: A Study Of The Vocabulary Acquisition, Reading Comprehension, And The Reduction Of Negative Affective Variables In Missionaries, Melinda Silver

Theses and Dissertations

This study addresses the following questions;
1) How does reading The Book of Mormon Diglot Reader compare with reading the Spanish translation of The Book of Mormon in terms of degree of anxiety, frustration, and discouragement experienced by the reader?
2) Will the missionaries using the Diglot Reader experience a greater increase in the amount of Book of Mormon vocabulary acquired as compared with the vocabulary increase experienced by the missionaries who only read from the standard Spanish translation of The Book of Mormon?
3) Does the use of the Diglot Reader increase the missionaries' ability to understand sentences …

Alabama-Coushatta Indian Ethnographic, Historical, And Archeological References, Timothy K. Perttula

East Texas Historical Journal

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Ethj Vol-35 No-1

East Texas Historical Journal

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Integrated Self| Assimilated Surrealism In Later 20th Century American Poetry And Music, Ryan Turner

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Foucault In Cyberspace: Surveillance, Sovereignty, And Hardwired Censors, James Boyle

Faculty Scholarship

This is an essay about law in cyberspace. I focus on three interdependent phenomena: a set of political and legal assumptions that I call the jurisprudence of digital libertarianism, a separate but related set of beliefs about the state's supposed inability to regulate the Internet, and a preference for technological solutions to hard legal issues on-line. I make the familiar criticism that digital libertarianism is inadequate because of its blindness towards the effects of private power, and the less familiar claim that digital libertarianism is also surprisingly blind to the state's own power in cyberspace. In fact, I argue that …

Leadership From The Perspectives Of Filipino-Americans: A Delphi Study, Pablo J. Mendoza Edd

Dissertations

The majority of the texts and other materials on leadership have been written from the perspective of people from Western culture. A number of scholars have called attention to this lack of a more diverse literature, inquiring as to the reasons why academicians primarily offer leadership literature that has a predominantly Western culture perspective. Since social and political contexts represent diverse cultural views, leadership literature should also reflect that diversity. This issue is particularly important in the San Diego area for Filipino-Americans because of their increasing numbers and active participation in social and political endeavors. The absence of culturally and …

Administrative Law In The 21st Century, Andrew Popper

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Ahead And Behind, Francis Picabia

The Prose Poem: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

Gian Lombardo's Sky Open Again, Brian Henry

The Prose Poem: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

Contributors

The Prose Poem: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

Northeastern Illinois University, Academic Catalog 1997-1998, Northeastern Illinois University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Review: Aspects Of Nepali Grammar, Clive W. Mcclelland

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Mythic America: Developing An Interdisciplinary Course, Brenda A. Ayres, Phillip A. Gibbs

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

The History Of The Present Illness As Treatment: Who's Listening, And Why Does It Matter?, Herbert M. Adler, Md, Phd

Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: The history of the present illness (HPI) is examined as a narrative communication that has the potential to be therapeutic.

METHODS: The general principles that influence the therapeutic potential of the HPI are induced from participant observation of personal experience and natural observations of conventional social interaction. These principles are corroborated by evidence from cross-cultural healing practices, clinical experience, and experimental psychology.

RESULTS: To facilitate a therapeutic HPI, the clinician should convey a sense of safety, sensitivity, affective competence, and cognitive competence. Furthermore, the effective clinician joins the patient in coprocessing the illness experience.

CONCLUSIONS: The (HPI) is not …

Toward The Universal, Jennifer Bracy

Theses and Dissertations

This creative project is concerned with archetypal forms expressed in art, design and communication, from Neolithic rock carvings and native American Indian petroglyphs to individual graphic languages that look to the 'primitives' like those of Joan Miro and Neville Brody. It is my belief that through the study of this diverse collection of graphic signs and archetypal forms, one can develop a system of signs that cross barriers of language and culture. A morphology, a collection of possibilities, derived from such archetypal forms, could provide designers with a foundation for the development and use of symbol signs and sign systems.

The Writing Center As "Purified Space": Competing Discourses And The Dangers Of Definition, Angela Petit

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

... And Justice For All: Normative Descriptive Frameworks For The Implementation Of Tribunals To Try Human Rights Violators, Gautam Rana

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

With the formation of the Bosnian and Rwandan War Crimes Tribunals, the international community has created a mechanism for the enforcement of human rights law for the first time since the Nuremburg and Tokyo War Trials. The efficacy of these tribunals, however, is in doubt. This Note proposes that only a few human rights are truly universal in nature and can be guaranteed by the international community. Furthermore, the political realities of the international system precludes the use of international tribunals against the more powerful nations of the international community. The Note concludes that by focusing on the human rights …

Lady Griz Volleyball Media Guide, 1997, University Of Montana—Missoula. Athletics Department

Lady Griz Volleyball Media Guides, 1979-2008

Media guide created about the Lady Griz volleyball team.

Defining Religious Tolerance: German Policy Toward The Church Of Scientology, Emily A. Moseley

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Members of the Church of Scientology face persecution from the German government and its citizens, raising international concern over the rights of religious minorities in a country determined to overcome its Nazi past. The German Constitution provides many protections for religious freedom and also allows a relatively close relationship between church and state. Historically, the German state has been closely intertwined with the traditionally dominant churches, and today Germans enjoy a great deal of freedom of religion. Until very recently, however, the Federal Constitutional Court has not upheld the similar freedom from religion guaranteed by the "establishment clause" in the …