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A History Of Wildlife Damage Management: Twelve Lessons For Today, Robert M. Timm

Wildlife Damage Management Conference

The history of wildlife damage management in the United States, beginning with the roots of the federal Biological Survey, is examined. Selected lessons are drawn from history and applied to today's situation, in the hope that they will be useful to those who guide this profession in the 21st Century.

History And Future Of Wildlife Damage Management Conference, Daniel J. Decker

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

The Eastern Wildlife Damage Management (EWDM) Conference was developed (1st conference held in 1983) to focus on people-wildlife interaction issues occurring in the eastern U.S. Developed as a Renewable Resources Extension Act activity, the purpose of the conference was to improve wildlife resource management and increase outputs of agricultural and forestry commodities. A primary planning issue for the 1st EWDM Conference was whether to represent the conference focus as wildlife damage "control" or "management." Control was selected initially, but the title evolved since then to be replaced by "management," reflecting the central role of wildlife conflict mitigation in wildlife management. …

A History Of Wildlife Damage Management: Twelve Lessons For Today, Robert M. Timm

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

The history of wildlife damage management in the United States, beginning with the roots of the federal Biological Survey, is examined. Selected lessons are drawn from history and applied to today's situation, in the hope that they will be useful to those who guide this profession in the 21st Century.

8th World Congress Of Accounting Historians, Madrid, Spain, July 19-21, 2000, Academy Of Accounting Historians

Accounting Historians Notebook

The 8th World Congress of Accounting Historians met in Madrid, Spain, July 19-21, 2000, on the social science Campus of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Accounting history as old as humanity itself has been enhanced with new subjects, new fields of interest, and new approaches. However, a variety of interests and new possibilities bring a little confusion and disorder. As a result, it is clear that the 8th World Congress of Accounting Historians is an essential event especially at the end of second millennium. Approximately 200 accounting historians representing 24 countries came to this academic event.

Mgmt 3601 Course Proposal Fall 2000, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Human Services For Latinos In The Plains: New Paradigms And Recommendations For Practice, Robert Moreno, Lawrence P. Hernandez, Jennifer Schroeder, Ani Yazedijan

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In this paper we provide human service professionals with a foundation for understanding the cultural and programmatic issues necessary for effectively addressing the needs of Latinos within a context of demographic transition and decreases in public support for educational attainment, physical and mental health, and occupational success. A long tradition of deficit thinking has shaped many of the current models employed when addressing the needs of Latinos. The authors suggest "community/culturally centered" or "strengths-based" approaches, such as community based organizations (CBOs), as promising alternatives to current practices. Coalitions among CBOs can be the most effective method in creating and sustaining …

Otter Realm, September 27, 2000, Vol. 6 No. 3, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

The Box is Back! -- International Programs -- Laptops for Summer Bridge Students -- WASC-uuuuuuuup?! -- Person on the Street -- New "Kid" on the Block -- Women's Golf Comes to CSUMB -- Irresponsible Computing: A dialog on the use of Open Forum -- Campus Life? -- Showdown at the Fremont Blvd. Corral -- Horoscopes

Should Achievement Tests Be Used To Judge School Quality?, Scott C. Bauer

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This study provides empirical evidence to answer the question whether student scores on standardized achievement tests represent reasonable measures of instructional quality. Using a research protocol designed by Popham and the local study directors, individual test items from a nationally-marketed standardized achievement test were rated by educators and parents to determine the degree to which raters felt that the items reflect important content that is actually taught in schools, and the degree to which raters felt that students' answers to the questions would be likely to be unduly influenced by confounded causality....

Education Policy Analysis Archives 08/46 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Should achievement tests be used to judge school quality? / Scott C. Bauer.

Impact Assessment Of Microfinance And Organizational Learning: Who Will Survive?, James G. Copestake

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

To what extent is it possible for organizations to reflect honestly on their own performance, draw appropriate conclusions, and then act on them? For many microfinance organizations this is now a question of survival. This paper argues that formal impact assessment can assist in the transition from donor-controlled replication projects to autonomous and adaptable organizations--but it often fails to do so. Pitfalls include inadequate attention to methodological detail and to the links between impact assessment and wider aspects of organizational change. The paper starts by highlighting the complexity of the overall task to which impact assessment is expected to contribute. …

Organizations Evolving By Howard A Ldri Ch, Sage Pub Lications, London, 1999, Pp Xv + 413, Price:£ 55.00 (Cloth), £ 17.99 (Paper)., Ishwar Dayal

IIMB Management Review

The book examines processes by which organisations come into being and achieve coherence as entities. It also discusses the issues surrounding organisational transformation and change. The understanding of these sociopsychological processes is necessary to enable managers to look at organisations as 'living' entities, to understand, maintain and develop organisations, and to manage change.

Furman Alumni News, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.

Otter Realm, August 30, 2000, Vol. 6 No. 1, California State University, Monterey Bay

The Otter Realm

Focus 2000: Summer Bridge into Academic Life -- A New Semester...A New Athletic Season... -- CSUMB Receives Nearly $9 Million in State and Federal Grants -- Fairy Shrimp Species Identified in Fort Ord Vernal Pools -- CSUMB Receives Nearly $14.5 Million for New Science/Academic Center -- Dr. Bert Rivas Retires -- The Otter Bay Cafe Now Open -- What's There to do Around Here? -- Horoscopes

Univercity News (2000-08-28)

UniverCity News, 1998-2001

VCU Today, the University’s first official administrative organ, began as a somewhat irregular monthly publication but moved to a bi-weekly newspaper format in the 1980s. The newspaper changed its name to VCU Voice in 1988 and ten years later it appeared under the title UniverCity News. As it neared the end of its run as a physical newspaper, the publication became simply VCU News. These four publications were essentially the same periodical published under different titles by the Office of University Relations. VCU News appeared online for the first time in 2002.

Review Essays, William J. Prior, Vince Golding, Earl H. Tilford Jr.

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Army Professionalism: A Need For Renewal And Redefinition, Don M. Snider, Gayle L. Watkins

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Continuing Professional Development Towards Employee Empowerment In Manpower Training: A New Domain Of Organisational Strategy, Joseph S.L. Yip

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

In response to the growing complexity and dynamics of global environment, the key to success is to encourage employee to be responsible for the success or failure of the enterprise. The process for securing that employee involvement and creating change is employee empowerment. This paper provides an overview of the employee empowerment considerations pressing upon the managers’ attitude and proposes an overall empowerment process management model and training curriculum in effective quality service delivery. It also reports on a case study investigating the current and potential existence, implementation and levels of training in empowering management styles in ten international property …

What Is Missing From Iso 9000 International Quality Standards Training In The United States?, Paul Krueger

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

Carnevale, Gainer and Villet (1991) observed that employers have too often used training approaches that failed to deliver “new knowledge in a context meaningful to the learner.” This conclusion was consistent with the results found in a recent study of 406 United States companies that used training to prepare their employees for registration to the ISO 9000 series of international quality assurance standards. The vast majority of companies failed to address employee learning needs, and used few research-based instructional strategies to enhance training transfer from workshop to shop floor. Companies rarely grouped employees by their ability to learn and infrequently …

New Roles Of Vocational Education And Vocational Teachers For Technological Change: A Case Study Of The Hong Kong Institute Of Vocational Education, Che Keung Yeung, Choi Fung Cheng, Alfred Koo

International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Conference

This study aims to identify the recent changes happened in the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) and to investigate the new roles of vocational teachers for technological changes, in particular, Information Technology (IT). A number of recommendations were made to vocational teachers so that they can make significant changes to meet the demands and challenges brought by these changes.

Effect Of Early Childhood Tobacco Education Program On Knowledge And Attitudes Of Elementary Students, Dianne G. Pittman

MSN Research Projects

Tobacco use is recognized as the number one preventable cause of disease and death in the United States. As such, development of better tobacco-use prevention strategies, utilized by health care providers, is a worthy endeavor. Where it exists, initiation of formal tobacco education within the schools is focused at sixth- to eighth-grade students, the age research has shown when most tobacco experimentation begins, yet well beyond the age when ideas and attitudes are developed in favor of or in opposition to tobacco use. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the effect of an early childhood tobacco education …

Implementation Of The Tennessee Divorce And Mediation Pilot Project In Hamilton County: Evaluating Program Effectiveness, Mary Kathryn Robertson

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

As more time and money are invested in training programs, the sponsors of these programs, whether those are corporations, or government agencies, want to know if the training is worth the investment. An evaluation of the training and its effects is needed to answer the questions about the usefulness, and utility of the training program. Training is typically assessed using some combination of the criteria presented in Kirkpatrick's hierarchical model (Noe & Schmitt, 1986). The four levels of evaluation in the hierarchy include reactions, learning, behavior and results. Kirkpatrick's hierarchical model has been used to devise an evaluation system for …

Agricultural Non-Point Source (Agnps) Water Quality Modeling In A Gis Environment, Stephen George Carpenter

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis project outlines the development and implementation of a complex GIS project in a government agency. The objective of the project was to integrate a public domain GIS package (GRASS) with a commercial structured query language database in order to undertake Agricultural Non-Point Source (AGNPS) water quality modeling. Three general areas of GIS technology were investigated consisting of technical issues involved in linking GIS; the model; database development; and a discussion of system performance from an institutional perspective.

The Information Revolution And National Security, Thomas E. Copeland Mr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The effects of the information revolution are particularly profound in the realm of national security strategy. They are creating new opportunities for those who master them. The U.S. military, for instance, is exploring ways to seize information superiority during conflicts and thus gain decisive advantages over its opponents. But the information revolution also creates new security threats and vulnerabilities. No nation has made more effective use of the information revolution than the United States, but none is more dependent on information technology. To protect American security, then, military leaders and defense policymakers must understand the information revolution.

The essays in …

Opportunities That Exist For Communication Experts In The Field Of Communication Consulting, Dale Eugene Shriver Ii

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study examined the opportunities that exist for communication experts, particularly graduate students, in the field of consulting. Interviews were conducted with established consultants to determine how consultants describe their job functions, what kinds of consultants are needed in organizations, and what barriers to entry exist for those wishing to enter the field. Results indicate that there are several factors to consider when attempting to enter the field of consultation.

Central Florida Future, July 19, 2000

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Stonehill Alumni Magazine Summer 2000, Stonehill College Office Of Communications And Media Relations

Stonehill Alumni Magazine

This issue of the magazine includes the following features:

• Fr. Cregan Named Stonehill's Ninth President: In April, the Board of Trustees appointed Fr. Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C. '78 an alumnus and trustee, and the pastor of a large inner-city parish in New York City, as the College's ninth president.
• Ireland: Historical Echoes, Contemporary Politics. Professors Richard Finnegan and Edward McCarron talk about their new book, Ireland: Historical Echoes, Contemporary Politics, which analyzes the ever-changing history, society and culture of Ireland. Interview by Michael Reardon
• Twilight: As Fr. Bartley MacPhaidin, C.S.C. entered the last days of his presidency, we shadowed him …

Acuta Journal Of Telecommunications In Higher Education

ACUTA Journal

In This Issue

Roundtable Discussion: Convergence: Dealing with Change

Convergence: A Framework for Change

Planning for Competition and Convergence

Voice and Telephony over IP: Risk Dimensions and Solutions

Cybervandals: Fending Off Attacks

Why Vendors See Colleges as a Key Market Segment

Campus Profile: Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Called to Serve: The Conscripted Consultant

Columns

The Constitutions: Unity In The Diviersity Of The Congregation Of The Mission, J. Ignacio Fernández De Mendoza C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Chinese Army Building In The Era Of Jiang Zemin, Andrew Scobell Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

To many in the United States, China looms large and threatening. This monograph attempts to answer, through an analysis of China's defense establishment under the leadership of Jiang Zemin, questions such as: What are the national security and national military goals of China's leaders? What strategies are Chinese leaders considering in pursuit of these goals? What is the likelihood that these goals will be attained? It assesses the political and economic determinants of China s effort to modernize its armed forces. Four possible strategies are outlined: (1) playing the superpower game," (2) playing to its strengths," (3) changing the rules …

Charismatic Authority And The Board Of The Hull House Association, 1895-1935, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Discussions of boards in the third sector literature usually proceed from assumptions grounded in Weber’s rational-legal authority and international management principles like those of Henri Fayol. The generalizations made about boards are based on rational-legal views of the board as the principal governing body of a nonprofit organization. Much less frequently examined are the roles and functions of boards in organizations grounded in other forms of authority. In particular, the relationship between charismatic authority and boards has seldom been studied. This paper will examine the role of one such board, the Board of Trustees of the Hull House Association through …