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Editor's Page, Len Calvert

Journal of Extension

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Consensus Management Model For Families Caring For A Loved One With Dementia, Robert J. Fetsch, Toni Schindler Zimmerman, Clifton F. Barber

Journal of Extension

This article proposes teaching care-giving families a practical, six-step Care-giving Consensus Management Model. Cooperative Extension professionals can teach clientele this model and can reduce caregiver burden by broadening the ownership of caregiver responsibilities among both proximate and distant family members. The model integrates strategic planning, futuring, decision making, effective family communication, task accomplishment, priority setting, and problem solving. It fosters shared responsibility and provides guidelines for effective family meetings and decision making.

Money 2000 Participants: Who Are They?, Barbara O’Neill, Barbara Bristow, Patricia Q. Brennan

Journal of Extension

This study was conducted to determine if there were any statistically significant differences between MONEY participants and others who attended three Extension personal finance conferences. The sample consisted of 124 MONEY 2000 program participants and 101 others. Using chi-square analysis, no significant demographic differences were found between the two groups of respondents. Significant differences were found at the .05 level, however, for action taken and/or planned to invest funds wisely and to set financial goals and objectives. A third significant difference was paying more than the minimum due on credit cards. A more powerful Mantel-Haenszel chi-square test for ordinal data …

Impact "Women's Participation In Public Policy" Seminars On Participants' Knowledge Gain, Practice Change, And Attitude Change, Charlotte Gorman

Journal of Extension

This study measured the impact of a series of seminars titled "Women's Participation in Public Policy" on participants' knowledge gain, levels of participation in public policy affairs, and attitude change. The study used the pre-test/post-test design. The population was limited to those who attended at least five of the seven sessions in the seminar series. Analysis of the data indicated that the seminar series resulted in participants generally: (a) becoming more knowledgeable about decision makers, (b) developing more positive feelings about themselves and their ability to control their own lives and situations, and (c) increasing their participation in public policy …

Extension Organization Of The Future: Linking Emotional Intelligence And Core Competencies, Deliece Ayers, Barbara Stone

Journal of Extension

Recruiting, hiring, and keeping desirable employees have been fundamental goals in institutions since before the Industrial Revolution. Traditionally, developing an exceptional workforce has been a hit-or-miss process. Recently, however, national and international organizations like Amoco, Dupont, Federal Express, and the Texas Agricultural Extension Service building a workforce for the 21st century. have developed competency models to lure and keep good workers. Part of competency models is the idea that high emotional intelligence is valuable. Emotional Intelligence and competencies are a natural fit, and they will, no doubt, become increasingly popular as organizations recognize their importance in building a workforce for …

Community Mapping Exercises Provide Enhanced Participant Interaction In Visioning Processes, Connie Bodeen, Mark Hilliker

Journal of Extension

The public sector has utilized a variety of techniques to plan for the future since the 1950s. As these techniques have evolved, so has the level of public participation. Community Visioning processes used today rely heavily on public input. Community Mapping exercises provide enhancements to the visioning process by providing a more interactive and tactile method for creating a future vision for a community. By working in small groups and creating "Big and Bold Ideas" on a large-format map, participants create a graphic image of the future of their community that provides a platform for implementation.

Specialty And Minor Crops Handbook: Reference For Agricultural Extension Professionals And Small-Scale Farmers, Gary Gao

Journal of Extension

The second edition of the "Specialty and Minor Crop Handbook" makes a great reference for agriculture and horticulture personnel and small-scale family farmers. This handbook was published in 1998. It is available in softcover for $35 per copy (U.S. funds), plus $5 shipping and handling, from the University of California. The specialty and minor crop section includes 63 crop sheets covering specialty vegetables, culinary herbs, salad greens, specialty fruits, and other interesting crops. The Specialty and Minor Crop Handbook is 186 pages long with 95 high quality color photos.

Taking R&E To The Next Level, Thomas W. Blaine, Stephen Hudkins, Charles R. Taylor

Journal of Extension

During the late 1980s, the business retention and expansion (R&E) program emerged as one of the most successful programs in Ohio State University Extension's Community Development area. As the economic recovery of the early 1990s turned into an economic expansion, business and civic leaders began to shift focus from general R&E efforts to issues related to labor force preparedness. A survey of businesses in Portage County undertaken four years after completion of an R&E program reveals that, while employers believe that local resources are available to help improve basic math and communication skills of employees, those skill levels are still …

Feedback In Distance Education: Broadening Electronic Communication Pathways

Journal of Extension

This article explores how one distance education program has maximized the use of electronic mail for exchanging information between professors and students in a distance education environment. The article discusses issues that face distance educators when using electronic mail for exchanging course materials and offers possible solutions for effective student homework submission and professor feedback. The authors recommend a practical system for exchanging written student-professor communication using the Adobe PDF computer file format which provides a cost-effective solution to many course process problems inherent in distance education settings.

A Psychological Investigation Into The Literary Case Study Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson, Umma Khan

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Forming Strategic Alliances: Issues In Conceptualisation, Nagasimha Balakrishna Kanagal

IIMB Management Review

The interactive and interdependent economy of the present day is rooted in exchanges or 'give and take' of varying complexity. The process of conceptualising, planning and executing exchanges to the benefit of all players involved is basic to marketing. Given the three generic forms of economic organisation - market, hybrid and hierarchy, organisational expansions in high technology markets in recent times have witnessed the emergence of hybrid strategic alliances as an alternative to markets and hierarchies. Strategic alliances enable functional integration in inter-firm relationships involving tangible and intangible exchanges. Rapid technological innovations and technological complexity, and forces such as uncertainty, …

Castor Canadensis Winter 1999, Jed Smith Society

Castor Canadensis - Jedediah Smith Society

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Stellar Angular Diameters Of Late-Type Giants And Supergiants Measured With The Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer, Tyler E. Nordgren, M. E. Germain, J. A. Benson, D. Mozurkewich, Jeffrey J. Sudol, N. M. Elias Ii, Arsen R. Hajian, N. M. White, D. J. Hutter, K. J. Johnston, F. S. Gauss, J. T. Armstrong, T. A. Pauls, L. J. Rickard

Physics & Engineering Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Editor's Notebook: The More Things Change, William C. Levin

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, December 1999

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Faculty Profile: Beverly Lovett

Bridgewater Review

Profile of Professor Beverly Lovett of the Social Work Department.

Swimming Against The Tide: Educational Late-Blooming In America, William C. Levin

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Flotsam And Jetsam - December 1999, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Sport Diver Newsletters

Contents:

Housatonic Investigation..... p.22
Prehistoric Dugout Canoe..... p.26
Historic Ship Supply..... p.26
State House Project..... p.26
H.L. Hunley Update..... p.27
Le Prince Update..... p.27
Pimlico Shipwreck..... p.28
Student Intern..... p.28

Whalesong 1999-12-01 (V.21 No.4), N/A N/A

Whalesong

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The Environment And Working Conditions In Juvenile Boot Camps And Traditional Facilities, Ojmarrh Mitchell, Doris Layton Mackenzie, Angela Gover, Gaylene Armstrong

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

This national study of juvenile correctional facilities compared the correctional environments of 25 juvenile boot camps to those of 22 traditional juvenile facilities. Data on perceived environmental conditions for juveniles and work climate for staff, as well as demographic characteristics, were collected from 1,233 juvenile correctional facility staff. While there was some regional variation, in comparison to staff employed in traditional juvenile correctional facilities, boot camp staff perceived the environmental conditions for juveniles as having significantly more activity, control, justice, structure, caring, and therapeutic programming, and believed that their releases were better prepared for the future. Boot staff also perceived …

Internally Constrained Mixtures Of Elastic Continua, Stephen M. Klisch

Mechanical Engineering

A treatment of internally constrained mixtures of elastic continua at a common temperature is developed. Internal constraints involving the deformation gradient tensors and the common mixture temperature are represented by a constraint manifold, and an internally constrained mixture of elastic continua is associated with each unique equivalence class of unconstrained mixtures. The example of intrinsic incompressibility of each constituent first proposed by Mills is discussed.

Math Department Newsletter, 1999, University Of Dayton. Department Of Mathematics

Department of Mathematics Newsletters

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Symbolic Politics: Government's War Against The Working Class, Warren Charles Gregory

Dissertations

Symbolism and substance are essential parts of any political system. In our system of government, we typically think of symbolism as serving substantive ends. Using a triangulation of _methods (Participant Observation, Archival Data, and Documentary Evidence), the paper examines two cases (Social Security and criminal justice) and concludes that the mix between substance and symbolism has changed dramatically in recent years with symbolism now assuming the central role.

The current debates over Social Security funding and criminal justice sanctions, for example, are less about the concerns of old-age security or making the public safer as much as they reflect a …

臨床教學現況之省思, 培銘 楊

Journal of Medical Education

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“臨床溝通演練”作爲醫學能識課程之檢討, 啓禎 林, 崑巖 黃

Journal of Medical Education

對人生與人性的關懷是一個醫病之間不可或缺的要素，而在醫學敎育裹，「視病猶親」不應是理念與口號，更需要從心靈的體會與誠摯的領悟去落實。成大醫學院的全人教育理念是「作一個良醫之前要先成功作人」，敎導醫師應該在祛病之外，更要醫心。為達此目地，將人文通識課程排在尚未開始接受任何醫學知識敎育的一、二年級，以期突顯其不可或缺的重要性，並達到所謂零歲敎育的效果。「臨床溝通演練」，只是一連串人文與通識課程中的其中一個，重點是讓醫學生提早體認溝通在醫病關係的重要性，並在心態與能力上都有所提升。藉著對其中一個年級的意見調查，只是對此課程與精神的檢討依據。結果發現，醫學生對課程了解及欣賞的程度與老師的用心指導與否與學生的個人努力程度皆密切相關。而學生在訪談病人與家屬的課題心得上產生很大的差異，是值得分析之處。所希望的是有相同理念的醫學敎育工作者，能夠不斷分享經驗，互通有無，以期可以在台灣每個醫學院都達到理想全人醫學敎育的境界。

臺灣地區醫師人力資源之分析與評估, 哲雄 蔡, 雁 黃

Journal of Medical Education

雖然醫師與人口的比例，因醫療科技及行爲的變遷而有不同的意義，但是，一般仍以此數字來分析不同國度的醫療普及度。根據台灣衛生署的資料顯示，目前台灣醫師與人口的比例爲1:845，爲達到醫療普及的政策目標，經建會期望在民國九十五年時將此比例提升爲1:741。此研究是假設台灣的醫學院畢業生人數維持不變，再依據人口統計推估三十年中的人口結構變化，來推算未來醫師／人口的比例。如果根據衛生署及醫師公會之統計數據分析，台灣醫師之平均執業年限估計値分別爲35年及45年，演算的結果爲：執業年限35年，則民國95年時可達到每名醫師服務740人口數；執業年限45年，則民國93年左右達到每名醫師服務740人口的目標。此推論可提供作爲將來是否增加醫學院學生之參考。

小組教學團體的建立與成員角色, 希平 陸

Journal of Medical Education

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“人與醫學”實習心得(Ⅰ), 端瑩 張

Journal of Medical Education

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Teaching At Medical School, Paul P. L. Chang

Journal of Medical Education

The 1910 Abraham Flexner recommendation,which changed medical education inAmerica,was introduced to Peking Union Medical College(PUMC)in 1917 when theschool was established with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.This same educationprinciple was adopted by National Taiwan University College of Medicine in the early1950s.The rapid advances in medical science have made it impossible to teach all theconcepts and topics in our curriculum.Even the experts have knowledge gaps in their specialties.Only the essential knowledge necessary to prepare the student for clinical problemsolving should be included in a digestible medical curriculum executed by the appropriateteaching methods.Information management is imperative to preserve our sanity.To practicemedicine,our students …

Teaching Of Bioethics And Training Of Socially Responsible Physicians, Michael Cheng-Tek Tai, Hsin-Chen Hsin, Ming-Been Lee

Journal of Medical Education

A superior physician is hard to come by.Modern society may have changed so muchthat such an expectation is regarded as unrealistic.Yet with physicians' traditional high socialstatus,medical education must set a noble goal to pursue.The question of whether aphysician can heal and in the meantime be concerned with social harmony and justicearises.It depends on the exemplary role of instructors and the content of the educationalprogram.Medical education is to pass on a humanized medicine so that medical studentsmay understand,experience and grasp the humanistic philosophy of medicine and thusestablish their own theories on values,ethical standards and eventually their own life philosophy.Only when we …