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"The More Speeches I Gave, The Better It Got:" Reflections On Managing Highly Apprehensive Students, Marsha Clowers Jan 1998

"The More Speeches I Gave, The Better It Got:" Reflections On Managing Highly Apprehensive Students, Marsha Clowers

Iowa Journal of Communication

There is no singular method of immediately and permanently dispensing with anxiety about public communication. The pedagogical strategies described in this thought piece, however, when used in a receptive environment and combined with the essentials of public speaking training can, given time, help students appreciate the thrill of public speaking. In my experience, individual attention outside of class and constructive group criticism during class do much to ease highly apprehensive students. This narrative contains my reflections on working with just such a group.

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A Status Report On Theatre Programs In Iowa's Community Colleges, Sarah Schaefer Jan 1998

A Status Report On Theatre Programs In Iowa's Community Colleges, Sarah Schaefer

Iowa Journal of Communication

Iowa has a strong tradition of supporting the arts in its school systems. This can be seen in the theatre programs that enable thousands of secondary students to participate in competitions, musicals and plays. In their study of the status of speech and theatre education in Iowa's high schools, Erbert and Trank report that their data revealed that there continues to be "strong participation in speech and theatre programs statewide" and that there is "strong support for speech and theatre programs by school administration" (29). This support continues into Iowa's community colleges as can be seen from the fact that …

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An Exploration Of The Use Of Push Technology In A Consortium For Electronic Publishing, Anna H. Perrault, Vicki L. Gregory Jan 1998

An Exploration Of The Use Of Push Technology In A Consortium For Electronic Publishing, Anna H. Perrault, Vicki L. Gregory

School of Information Faculty Publications

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Liberalism Stumbles In Tennessee, Donald J. Herzog Jan 1998

Liberalism Stumbles In Tennessee, Donald J. Herzog

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The Scopes trial will never be the same. I mean the trial immortalized in Inherit the Wind,' with its Southerners clutching in vain to their cozy scientific illiteracy and mechanically literal faith in the Bible, its idiotic intolerant Southerners destined to fall to the gale winds of modernity, liberalism, secularism, and skepticism embodied by a heroic ACLU and the inimitable Clarence Darrow. So what if Scopes got convicted? Surely the trial made a laughingstock of everything Tennessee stood for in banning the teaching of evolution from the public schools. And in a touch worthy of a gruesome morality play, William …

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Characterization Of The Cyanobacterial Metallothionein Regulator Smtb., Sambit Ranjan Kar Jan 1998

Characterization Of The Cyanobacterial Metallothionein Regulator Smtb., Sambit Ranjan Kar

All ETDs from UAB

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Analysis And Characterization Of The Metabolic And Morphologic Responses To Uniaxial Deformation Of Osteoblasts Cultured On Ti-6al-4v., Deborah F. Rigsby Jan 1998

Analysis And Characterization Of The Metabolic And Morphologic Responses To Uniaxial Deformation Of Osteoblasts Cultured On Ti-6al-4v., Deborah F. Rigsby

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Novel Genes That Are Differentially Expressed During Human B Cell Development., Milson Jude Luce Jan 1998

Novel Genes That Are Differentially Expressed During Human B Cell Development., Milson Jude Luce

All ETDs from UAB

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Prenatal Drug Exposure: An Examination Of Cognitive, Language, And Social Skills., Rhonda Chantelle Conerly Jan 1998

Prenatal Drug Exposure: An Examination Of Cognitive, Language, And Social Skills., Rhonda Chantelle Conerly

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Language Literacy Development In A Community Of Second-Grade Learners., Margaret Taylor Stewart Jan 1998

Language Literacy Development In A Community Of Second-Grade Learners., Margaret Taylor Stewart

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Consumer Protection In A Managed Care World: Should Consumers Call 911, David A. Hyman Jan 1998

Consumer Protection In A Managed Care World: Should Consumers Call 911, David A. Hyman

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Alumni Communicator, Winter 1998, Wnec Alumni Association Jan 1998

Alumni Communicator, Winter 1998, Wnec Alumni Association

Alumni Magazines

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Reporting From The Front Line—One Mediator's Experience With Mass Torts, Kenneth R. Feinberg Jan 1998

Reporting From The Front Line—One Mediator's Experience With Mass Torts, Kenneth R. Feinberg

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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Life After Amchem: The Class Struggle Continues, Elizabeth J. Cabraser Jan 1998

Life After Amchem: The Class Struggle Continues, Elizabeth J. Cabraser

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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Litigating Claims For Punitive Damages: The View From The Front Line, Arvin Maskin Jan 1998

Litigating Claims For Punitive Damages: The View From The Front Line, Arvin Maskin

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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An Interdisciplinary Critique Of The Reasonable Expectations Doctrine, Jeffrey E. Thomas Jan 1998

An Interdisciplinary Critique Of The Reasonable Expectations Doctrine, Jeffrey E. Thomas

Faculty Works

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Rhetorical Knowledge In Legal Practice And Theory, Francis J. Mootz Iii Jan 1998

Rhetorical Knowledge In Legal Practice And Theory, Francis J. Mootz Iii

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Regional Libraries Online Project : Survey, Glenn Watkins, Kitty Delaney, Gail Woods Jan 1998

Regional Libraries Online Project : Survey, Glenn Watkins, Kitty Delaney, Gail Woods

Research outputs pre 2011

The Library and Information Service of Western Australia (LISWA) implemented their Regional Libraries Online Project in 1997 to provide public Internet access to 11 regional libraries in Western Australia. This report highlights major trends and issues that arose during the implementation of the project...

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Localization And Biochemical Characterization Of The Cell Division Protein Ftsa In Escherichia Coli., Anand Immaneni Jan 1998

Localization And Biochemical Characterization Of The Cell Division Protein Ftsa In Escherichia Coli., Anand Immaneni

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Cell division protein, FtsA, is an inner membrane protein with a putative ATP binding motif. Although FtsA has been studied genetically, it has not been characterized biochemically. Immunoelectron microscopy with FtsA polyclonal antibodies permitted FtsA to be within the cell. Since native FtsA is present in low amounts, the cellular level of this protein was increased by induction of ftsA from an overexpression plasmid before processing the cells for immunogold labelling. The immunogold particles localized FtsA to the inner cytoplasmic membrane. Immunogold labelling of cells overproducing C-terminal deleted FtsA, displayed the gold particles throughout the cytoplasm. This suggested that the …

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A Case For Procedural Justice Climate: Development And Test Of A Multilevel Model., Stefanie Elizabeth Naumann Jan 1998

A Case For Procedural Justice Climate: Development And Test Of A Multilevel Model., Stefanie Elizabeth Naumann

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Current conceptualizations of procedural justice focus largely on individual perceptions; no framework exists for examining procedural justice's social context. This dissertation presents a model that identifies contextual factors contributing to procedural justice climate and, in turn, a variety of work-related attitudes and behaviors associated with procedural justice climate. In general, empirical tests on data collected from 220 employees of two banks offered support for the model. Employee perceptions of leader member exchange, organizational support, and supervisor monitoring were positively associated with individual procedural justice perceptions. Work group perceptions of cohesion and supervisor visibility in demonstrating procedural justice were associated with …

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Experimental And Theoretical Study Of Dynamic Water Control In Oil Wells., Ephim I. Shirman Jan 1998

Experimental And Theoretical Study Of Dynamic Water Control In Oil Wells., Ephim I. Shirman

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A dynamic water control, dubbed Downhole Water Sink (DWS) technology, is a well completion technique for production of hydrocarbons from reservoirs with bottom aquifer causing water coning. Typically, a DWS well is dually completed with top completion designated mostly for hydrocarbon production and bottom completion used for water drainage and coning control. Positions and flow rates of the completions are the DWS performance parameters to be determined by a process designer. This dissertation presents a theoretical and experimental study of DWS performance for various reservoir conditions and production schedules. A new mathematical model, developed in this work calculates steady state …

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Beliefs And Practices Of Middle School Language Arts Teachers., Suzan Anderson Jan 1998

Beliefs And Practices Of Middle School Language Arts Teachers., Suzan Anderson

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study is to examine the instructional beliefs and practices of middle school language arts teachers as they relate to developmental appropriate/inappropriate instruction. Developmentally appropriate instruction is defined as matching the curricula to the level of children's emerging mental abilities. If the learner is seen as a growing individual with developing abilities, then the aim of education should be to facilitate this development. This in turn means that the curricula must be studied and analyzed to determine that level of mental ability that is required to comprehend curriculum materials (Elkind, 1970). There is some concern that what …

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Rapid Assessment Of The Bacteriological Quality Of Milk By The Use Of Adenosine Triphosphate Bioluminescence., Pushpa John Samkutty Jan 1998

Rapid Assessment Of The Bacteriological Quality Of Milk By The Use Of Adenosine Triphosphate Bioluminescence., Pushpa John Samkutty

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Raw milk samples (n = 246) and pasteurized milk samples (n = 104) were analyzed to determine adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and compared with the standard plate count (SPC). An ATP filtration method was used to filter milk samples prior to ATP determination, which was measured in relative light units (RLU). The ATP assay took approximately 7 minutes to complete and could allow rapid prediction of SPC which is a measure of raw milk quality. Linear regression analysis was performed on data from three raw milk treatments defined as; fresh milk samples, samples preliminarily incubated at 12.8 and 15.6$\sp\circ$C for 18 …

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The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns Of 1970 And The Changing Politics Of Race., Donald Randy Sanders Jan 1998

The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns Of 1970 And The Changing Politics Of Race., Donald Randy Sanders

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

In 1970 four young racially moderate Democrats won the governor's chairs of Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina and Georgia. These southern gubernatorial elections and the subsequent inaugural speeches signaled a transformation of racial politics in the region. As the campaigns began, however, persistent ambivalence concerning the pace of integration and court-ordered busing of school children to achieve racial balances tempted many politicians to exploit these concerns. Their efforts failed; southerners had decided to obey the law. The successful candidates understood that the electorate had come to this decision with varying degrees of enthusiasm and that their campaigns must reflect this ambivalence; …

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Development Of A New Methodology For Particle Transport Calculations Utilizing Pointwise-Continuous Nuclear Data., Mehdi Asgari Jan 1998

Development Of A New Methodology For Particle Transport Calculations Utilizing Pointwise-Continuous Nuclear Data., Mehdi Asgari

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study is to develop a new method to compute a continuous-energy representation of the neutron flux spectrum using the one-dimensional discrete ordinates method. The technique provides a rigorous calculational tool for applications that require a detailed description of the fine-structure variation in the space-dependent neutron energy spectrum over some energy ranges. This technique uses the combination of multigroup (MG) and rigorous pointwise (PW) solutions to the steady state Boltzmann transport equation in the calculations. Also utilized in this methodology are two new methods called "sub-moment" expansion and "cumulative integral" operator to accurately evaluate the Legendre moments …

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An Exploratory Study Of The Impact Of Hypermedia-Based Approach And Science-In-Fiction Approach For Instruction On The Polymerase Chain Reaction., Lynda A. Britton Jan 1998

An Exploratory Study Of The Impact Of Hypermedia-Based Approach And Science-In-Fiction Approach For Instruction On The Polymerase Chain Reaction., Lynda A. Britton

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Exploration of meaningful learning of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed instruction by a researcher-developed hypermedia computer program that incorporated human constructivist principles and a "science-in-fiction" chapter of a novel that described PCR. Human constructivism is the Ausubel-Novak-Gowin (1997) meaningful learning theory that supports science learning through graphic representations and multiple examples. Science-in-fiction is a new genre of fiction introduced by the prominent scientist, Carl Djerassi, to engender an appreciation for science, and its ethical dilemmas. Chapter 19 of Djerassi's 1994 novel, The Bourbaki Gambit, was placed into hypermedia format to standardize the presentation. As part of a clinical microbiology …

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Three-Dimensional Parallel Finite Element Simulation Of Natural Gas Flow In A Porous Media., James David Callahan Jan 1998

Three-Dimensional Parallel Finite Element Simulation Of Natural Gas Flow In A Porous Media., James David Callahan

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A parallel-three-dimensional finite element simulation of natural gas flow in a porous media was developed for use in multiple well reservoirs. Developed with this simulation was a set of graphical applications to provide a geometric description of the reservoir, viewing of the generated mesh and viewing of results generated by the simulation. An adaptive mesh scheme for the dynamic refinement and derefinement of the mesh during the solution process is presented. The adaptive mesh scheme utilizes a mesh storage technique designed to reduce the space requirements of the mesh. This adaptive mesh technique was applied to an unstructured mesh. A …

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Purification Of Porphobilinogen Deaminase And The Sequencing And Expression Of Thehemc Gene Of Rhodobacter Capsulatus., Keith A. Canada Jan 1998

Purification Of Porphobilinogen Deaminase And The Sequencing And Expression Of Thehemc Gene Of Rhodobacter Capsulatus., Keith A. Canada

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Rhodobacter capsulatus uses the common tetrapyrrole pathway to synthesize heme, bacteriochlorophyll, siroheme and vitamin B-12. As part of our studies on the regulation of this pathway, the product of the hemC gene, porphobilinogen deaminase was purified approximately 200-fold. The molecular weight, isoelectric point, pH optimum and Km of the enzyme were all similar to other porphobilinogen deaminases. The stoichiometry of the enzyme was found not to be the expected four porphobilinogens used per one uroporphyrin formed. Rather a 9:1 ratio was typically seen. Further study of this atypical ratio uncovered evidence of possible in vivo regulation of porphobilinogen deaminase dependant …

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Subterranean Echoes: Curriculum Theory As Cultural Studies., Toby Allan Daspit Jan 1998

Subterranean Echoes: Curriculum Theory As Cultural Studies., Toby Allan Daspit

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Cultural studies has emerged in recent decades as a popular realm of academic inquiry (During, 1993). Giroux (1994), while noting the field's increased acceptance, ponders why cultural studies has yet to permeate critical analyses of education and simultaneously questions cultural studies' reticence in considering schools as an important site of cultural production. Edgerton (1996) concurs with Giroux and notes that cultural studies' use in colleges of education is extremely rare. The realm of popular culture, one of the central foci of cultural studies, has especially been marginalized in academic discourses. My project is to explore the implications of curriculum theory …

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Using Scaffolded Interaction To Improve Lld Readers' Inferencing And Narrative Abilities., Kathryn Patrice Dekemel Jan 1998

Using Scaffolded Interaction To Improve Lld Readers' Inferencing And Narrative Abilities., Kathryn Patrice Dekemel

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A time series control group study was completed to investigate the efficacy of Communicative Reading Strategies (CRS) as an instructional approach for improving the oral reading, question answering, and narrative retelling abilities of LLD students. The participants were 10 LLD students who ranged in age from 9 to 12 years and 5 reading-age matched (RAM) peers who ranged in age from 7 to 9 years. Five of the LLD subjects were randomly assigned to a treatment group (TLD), while the remaining 5 LLD subjects were assigned to a no-treatment group (NLD). All three groups participated in a series of probes …

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Thermomechanical Characterization Of Heat-Activated Coupling For Advanced Composite Piping Systems., Patrick Fitzgerald Mensah Jan 1998

Thermomechanical Characterization Of Heat-Activated Coupling For Advanced Composite Piping Systems., Patrick Fitzgerald Mensah

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A new technology for joining advanced composite piping systems, based on heat-activated coupling (HAC) of a thermosetting pre-impregnated (prepreg) fiber reinforced material has been advanced. The successful design of a heat-activated coupled joint depends on achieving the following requirements: (1) uniformly cured prepreg bonded to the surfaces of coupled pipe; and (2) minimal residual thermal stress as a result of the curing process. In order to address the above concerns, thermal characterization of the uncured and cured prepreg used was undertaken in order to establish prerequisite chemical kinetics parameters and material property data required for the curing process models and …

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