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Positive Behavioral Support: Strategies For Teachers, Michael B. Ruef, Cindy Higgins, Barbara J.C. Glaeser, Marianne Patnode

Graduate Studies in Education

Positive behavioral support (PBS) is a comprehensive, research-based proactive approach to behavioral support that endeavors to generate comprehensive change for students with challenging behavior. It involves identifying the purpose of challenging behavior, teaching appropriate alternative responses that serve the same purpose as the challenging behavior, consistently rewarding positive behaviors and minimizing the rewards for challenging behavior, and minimizing the physiological, environmental, and curricular elements that trigger challenging behavior. Proven PBS strategies include altering the classroom environment, increasing predictability and scheduling, increasing choice making, adapting the curriculum, appreciating positive behaviors, and teaching replacement skills. Relevant sources for those interested in implementing …

The Enemy Within: A National Study On School Violence And Prevention, George J. Petersen, Dale Pietrzak, Kathryne M. Speaker

Graduate Studies in Education

This study investigated teacher, district, and site administrators' perceptions of school violence and violence prevention programs in 15 school districts of various sizes in 12 states located across the United States. The study focused on: (a) school personnel fears about violence, (b) frequency of school personnel as victims of violent actions over the past 2 years, (c) areas in the school environment that pose the greatest risk of violence for students or school personnel (d) profiles of typical victims and perpetrators of violence, (e) strategies implemented by schools to deal with violence, (f) perceptions regarding which strategies were considered to …

Practice Alert 98-2: Professional Skepticism And Related Topics; Members In Public Accounting Firms, September 1998, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Professional Issues Task Force

Newsletters

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Members In Education, September 1998, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

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Members In Medium Public Accounting Firms, September 1998, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

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Members In Large Public Accounting Firms, September 1998, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

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Peaks Island Star : September 1998, Vol. 18, Issue 9, Service Agencies Of The Island

Peaks Island Star, 1998

The Peaks Island Star is the newsletter of the island's service agencies and other community news

On Cue Newsflash! Vol. 10 No. 5 September / October 1998, Marianne Flanagan

On Cue

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Coming Of Age: Female Attorneys In Politics, Bret Bryce

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

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Linfield College Catalog, 1998-1999, Linfield Archives

Student Course Catalogs

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The Deaf Catholic, September-October 1998

ICDA The Deaf Catholic

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in USA

ICDA The Deaf CatholicFinding Aid

Catholic Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Society Of Madison, September 1998

Catholic Deaf and Hard of Hearing Society of Madison

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Madison, WI

Catholic Deaf and Hard of Hearing Society of Madison Finding Aid

Plain English Part V: Go Aggro Over Argot, K.K. Duvivier

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The SEC has set out six "dear writing techniques" to require that disclosures be written in Plain English. Previous columns have addressed the first four techniques. This column addresses the fiflh: replacing jargon and legalese with short common words.

Bowen Ratio Estimates Of Evapotranspiration For Tamarix Ramosissima Stands On The Virgin River In Southern Nevada, D. A. Devitt, Anna Sala, S. D. Smith, J. Cleverly, L. K. Shaulis, R. Hammett

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

A Bowen ratio energy balance was conducted over a Tamarix ramosissima (saltcedar) stand growing in a riparian corridor along the Virgin River in southern Nevada, Measurements in two separate years were compared and contrasted on the basis of changes in growing conditions. In 1994, a drought year, record high temperatures, dry winds, and a falling water table caused partial wilt of outer smaller twigs in the canopy of many trees in the stand around the Bowen tower. Subsequently, evapotranspiration (ET) estimates declined dramatically over a 60-day period (11 mm d(-1) to <1 mm d(-1)). In 1995, the Virgin River at the Bowen tower area changed its course, hydrologically isolating the Tamarix stand in the vicinity of the tower. In 1996, a 25% canopy loss was visually estimated for the Tamarix growing in the area of the tower. Higher soil temperatures relative to air temperatures were recorded in 1996 in response to this loss in canopy, With a more open canopy, thermally induced turbulence was observed in 1996, On day 160 of 1996, a 28 degrees C rise over a 9-hour period was correlated with increased wind speeds of greater than 4 m s(-1). Subsequently, higher ET estimates were made in 1996 compared to 1994 (145 cm versus 75 cm), However, the energy balance was dominated by advection in 1996, with latent energy flux exceeding net radiation 65% of the measurement days compared to only 11% in 1994, We believe this advection was on a scale of the floodplain (hundreds of meters) as opposed to regional advection, since the majority of wind (90%) was in a N-S direction along the course of the river, and that a more open canopy allowed the horizontal transfer of energy into the Tamarix stand at the Bowen tower. Our results suggest that Tamarix has the potential to be both a low water user and a high water user, depending on moisture availability, canopy development, and atmospheric demand, and that advection can dominate energy balances and ET in aridland riparian zones such as the Virgin River.

Ua12/2/1 On Top Of The World, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special football issue of the College Heights Herald, contains articles:

• Mayo, Travis. Small, Fast Defense Will Face Big Task
• Mayo, Travis. New Offense Will Confuse a Lot of People
• Brewer, Jerry. Success Can Earn Coach Recognition – Jack Harbaugh
• Mayo, Travis. We’re Definitely Eyeing the Gold Ring
• Sutton, Lyndsay. Replacing Losses Critical for Topper Offense
• Taking a Look at Western’s Opponents
• Mayo, Travis. Offensive Line Under-appreciated, But Satisfied

Cpa Management Consultant, September/October 1998, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

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Cpa Client Bulletin, September 1998, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

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Ndls Update 09/1998, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

No abstract provided.

Fish & Wildlife News: September/October 1998

Fish and Wildlife News

Contents:
Mexican Wolf Pup Born in Wild 3
Group Proposes “Fishable Waters Act” 6
NCTC Offers “Virtual Tour” 8
Special Section: Recent LE Successes 10
Rare Fish on the Rebound in AZ 13
Service Firefighters Heed the Call 14
Web Group Sets the Standards 14
Prairie Learning Center Opens 15
The Adventures of Two Tigers 17
A Look at Midway Atoll NWR 18
Boating Campaign Promotes Clean Fun 20
Sevilleta NWR Goes Back in Time 21
Fish and Wildlife...In Brief 23

Climate Change And Nebraska

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

The earth’s climate is predicted to change because human activities are altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases — primarily carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons. The heat-trapping property of these greenhouse gases is undisputed. Although there is uncertainty about exactly how and when the earth’s climate will respond to enhanced concentrations of greenhouse gases, observations indicate that detectable changes are under way. There most likely will be increases in temperature and changes in precipitation, soil moisture, and sea level, which could have adverse effects on many ecological systems, as well as on …

A Structural Result Of Irreducible Inclusions Of Type Iii Lambda Factors, Lambda Is An Element Of (0,1), Phan Loi

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications

Given an irreducible inclusion of factors with finite index N ⊂ M, where M is of type III_λ1/m, N of type III_λ1/n, 0 < λ < 1, and m,n are relatively prime positive integers, we will prove that if N ⊂ M satisfies a commuting square condition, then its structure can be characterized by using fixed point algebras and crossed products of automorphisms acting on the middle inclusion of factors associated with N ⊂ M. Relations between N ⊂ M and a certain G-kernel on subfactors are also discussed.

Hastings Community (Autumn 1998), Hastings College Of The Law Alumni Association

Hastings Alumni Publications

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Pod Network News, September 1998

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

President's Column

New Publishing Activities

Diversity Dimensions

Regional Association Overview

More Bright Ideas, Please!

Conferences

Member News

Position Announcement

Center Updates

Future Newsletter Items

Four Ways to Communicate With the POD Network

POD Core Committee, 1999-2002 Self-Nomination Form

Optimizing Amplifier Placements In A Multiwavelength Optical Lan/Man: The Equally Powered-Wavelengths Case, Byrav Ramamurthy, Jason Iness, Biswanath Mukherjee

School of Computing: Faculty Publications

Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) provides the ability to utilize the enormous bandwidth offered by optical networks, using today’s electronics. WDM-based optical networks employing passive-star couplers have been proposed for deployment in local and metropolitan areas. Optical amplification is often required in such networks to compensate for the signal attenuation along the fiber links and the splitting and coupling losses in the network. However, an optical amplifier has constraints on the maximum gain and the maximum output power it can supply; thus optical amplifier placement becomes a challenging problem. A simplifying assumption for analytical tractability requires that all wavelengths, present at …

The Problem Of Hipparcos Distances To Open Clusters. Ii. Constraints From Nearby Field Stars, David R. Soderblom, Jeremy R. King, Robert B. Hanson, Burton F. Jones, Debra Fischer, John R. Stauffer, Marc H. Pisonneault

Publications

This paper examines the discrepancy between distances to nearby open clusters as determined by parallaxes from Hipparcos compared to traditional main-sequence fitting. The biggest difference is seen for the Pleiades, and our hypothesis is that if the Hipparcos distance to the Pleiades is correct, then similar subluminous zero-age main-sequence (ZAMS) stars should exist elsewhere, including in the immediate solar neighborhood. We examine a color-magnitude diagram of very young and nearby solar-type stars and show that none of them lie below the traditional ZAMS, despite the fact that the Hipparcos Pleiades parallax would place its members 0.3 mag below that ZAMS. …

The Problem Of Hipparcos Distances To Open Clusters. I. Constraints From Multicolor Main-Sequence Fitting, Marc H. Pinsonneault, John Stauffer, David Soderblom, Jeremy R. King, Robert B. Hanson

Publications

Parallax data from the Hipparcos mission allow the direct distance to open clusters to be compared with the distance inferred from main-sequence (MS) Ðtting. There are surprising differences between the two distance measurements, indicating either the need for changes in the cluster compositions or reddening, underlying problems with the technique of MS Ðtting, or systematic errors in the Hipparcos parallaxes at the 1 mas level. We examine the di†erent possibilities, focusing on MS fitting in both metallicity-sensitive B[V and metallicity-insensitive V [I for five well-studied systems (the Hyades, Pleiades, a Per, Praesepe, and Coma Ber). The Hipparcos distances to the …

1998 September, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

MSU Clip Sheet Archives

MSU Clip Sheet newsletters published in September of 1998.

0440 Capital Development Committee, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

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Conceptual Breakthroughs In Developmental Biology, Scott F. Gilbert

Biology Faculty Works

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Nebraska's Economy Continues Strong Performance, Charles Lamphear

Business in Nebraska

Nebraska's economic momentum continued for another quarter by drawing strength from major sectors that include manufacturing, the FIRE group (finance, insurance, and real estate), retail trade, and services. However, some slowdown by the end of the year or early 1999 is likely as scattered weaknesses now being observed ripple through the rest of the economy. The overall impact is expected to be minimal.

Forty-six percent of all the businesses that participated in the latest Nebraska Quarterly Business Conditions Survey (NQBCS) indicted an increase in 2^nd quarter 1998 revenues over year-ago levels (Table 1). Theeconomicsignificance of this latest report on …