Campus Connection, December 18, 2000, Vol. 2 No. 8, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

Community Day of Learning to Focus on University Learning Requirements -- CSUMB Updates Emergency Preparedness Plan -- Faculty/Staff Profile: Meet Richard Bains -- CSUMB Recruitment Effort Continues for High Profile Positions -- Copyright Guide on ATMS Website -- NEWS BRIEFS -- CALENDAR -- HCOM Starts Oral History Website -- 15th Annual Free Christmas Dinner at Monterey Fairgrounds

County Agent's Notes: Have A Safe And Merry Christmas - December 18, 2000, Ernest "Ernie" Flint Jr.

Ernie Flint - Mississippi State Extension Reports

Flint's county agent's notes, which is a type of newsletter, about following rules and regulations for dangerous gifts for children, including 4 wheelers and any firearm.

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 18, 2000, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Kerux - Vol. 35, No. 7, Calvin Theological Seminary

Kerux

Table of Contents:

• Student Input Sought 1
• Hello Seminary! 1
• Inside Story 2
• Theology of the "F-Word" 2
• Prayer Corner 3
• We are 4
• A Suessian Christmas 5
• Open Doors 5
• κρατέω 6

What We Are Learning From The Genome Project?, The Rockefeller University

Posters

On December 18, 2000, The Rockefeller University presented the centennial lecture What We Are Learning from the Genome Project? by David Botstein, Ph.D. (Stanford University School of Medicine).

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, December 18, 2000, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

USF St. Petersburg Graduations and Commencements

Honorary Degree: Dr. John Hope Franklin

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg, December 18, 2000, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

USF St. Petersburg Graduations and Commencements

No abstract provided.

Monitor Newsletter December 18, 2000, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

Northeast Research Station Watertown, South Dakota Annual Progress Report, 2000, Agricultural Experiment Station, Plant Science Department

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This is the 2000 annual progress report for the Northeast Research Station in Watertown, South Dakota. This report is issued by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and the South Dakota State University Plant Science Department. This report includes information on the 2000 crop season, including: precipitation summary, small grain performance testing, corn hybrid trials, soybean variety performance trials, canola variety evaluations, flax variety trials, alfalfa trials, winter wheat breeding, oat research, spring wheat breeding, fungicide trials, weed control, soybean breeding, and fertilizer influence on corn yields.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 025, Number 21, December 18, 2000, Grand Valley State University

2000-2001, Volume 25

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Using Three-Dimensional Cubes In The Development Of Number Sense And Spatial Reasoning Of First Grade Students, Deborah R. Parrish-Hill

Mathematical and Computing Sciences Masters

In this study of six first grade students, my initial goal was to observe and describe the varying developmental levels of spatial reasoning and number sense through which these students would progress as they solved increasingly complex tasks and activities involving one-inch, three-dimensional, primary-colored cubes. These are the types of cubes used in studies by Battista ( 1998) and that are in most primary classrooms. Based upon those observations, my ultimate goal was to demonstrate that when young students have meaningful early experiences with one-inch, three-dimensional cubes, they will be able to reach New York State's benchmarked standards (see Appendix …

Turkey Letter Of Intent: December 18, 2000, Recep Önal, Gazi Erçel

Documents

No abstract provided.

The Savannah River Site: Site Description, Land Use And Management History, David L. White, Karen F. Gaines

Publications

The 78,000-ha Savannah River Site, which is located in the upper Coastal Plain of South Carolina along the Savannah River, was established as a nuclear production facility in 1951 by the Atomic Energy Commission. The site’s physical and vegetative characteristics, land use history, and the impacts of management and operations are described. Aboriginal and early European settlement was primarily along streams, where much of the farming and timber cutting have occurred. Woodland grazing occurred in the uplands and lowlands. Land use intensity increased after the Civil War and peaked in the 1920s. Impacts from production of cotton and corn, naval …

Mixed Media December 18, 2000, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The December 18, 2000 issue includes articles on John Ashcroft's confirmation as U.S. Attorney General, the Jim Isermann exhibition at the RISD Museum "Logic Rules," and a RISD Museum show "From Paris to Providence" focusing on 1920s fashion and the Tirocchi Dressmakers' shop, along with comics, event notices, and other announcements.

The Bg News December 18, 2000, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 18, 2000. Volume 86-Issue 74.

Um Offers Buddhist Meditation Course Online, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest Blue: Vol. 5, No. 20 December 17, 2000, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2000

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest Gold: Vol. 5, No. 20 December 17, 2000, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2000

No abstract provided.

Lady Eagles & Eagles Basketball Games From December 17, 2000 And January 4, 2001, Morehead State University. Office Of Athletics.

Morehead State Sports Team Programs

The official game program from the December 17, 2000 to January 4, 2001 basketball games of Morehead State University.

Japanese Winter Tourism In Rural Alaska: Bettles Lodge, Mie Kojima

Rural Development

Japanese tourists increasingly visit the Arctic in wintertime because of their interest in northern lights. Some rural communities in Alaska see this as an opportunity to enter winter tourism by targeting the Japanese market. The purpose of this study is to gain better understanding of the interests of these Japanese visitors and to explore potentials for tourism development in rural Alaska. A Japanese visitor survey was conducted in the spring of 2000 at Bettles Lodge in Interior Alaska. The data reveal that the average visitor to Bettles Lodge was female, over 61 years of age, an urban dweller, employed full-time, …

Women, Culture, And Identity In Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' And Assia Djebar's 'Ombre Sultane', Shayle M. Hutchison

English

Beginning with the assumption that women of all cultures experience a conflict between their culturally prescribed gender roles and their individual sexual desires, I comparie the characters Edna Pontellier of Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' with Isma and Hajila of Assia Djebar's 'Ombre Sultane.' Each woman undergoes a process of awakening body consciousness that leads to her first experience of desire, an essential link between physical and mental consciousness. The expression of female desire conflicts with prescribed cultural behavior. Each character also moves away from her family and cultural roots, thus assuring herself a necessary distance for rebellion against social standards. …

Competency-Based Education: Teaching And Assessing Oral Communication In Fairbanks, Alaska High Schools, Diane Blair Barnett

Communication

Nationwide developments in the area of educational standards and accountability have produced a movement toward competency-based education in which teachers are increasingly tasked with facilitating the competencies within these developing standards. As a result, professionals in the Communication discipline have an opportunity to apply their knowledge of effective communication practices to provide benefits for students and teachers. The first phase of this study examined State and local educational standards in areas of speaking, listening, and group communication. Local and State standards identified as most closely aligned with standards developed by Communication professionals served as the basis for developing a questionnaire …

Nitrogen Oxide Photochemistry In Marine Air Over The Eastern Pacific, Barbara Elisabeth Trost

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Models predict that photochemistry is the primary contribution to the observed spring surface ozone maxima in the Northern Hemisphere. Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are the limiting reagents for photochemical ozone production. This fact leads to an apparent paradox, because the short lifetime of NOx should lead to a low mixing ratio of NOx far from source regions. However, chemical reservoirs of NOx such as peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) may provide a transport pathway for delivering NOx to 'clean' marine Pacific air masses. A coastal site in Washington, was chosen to investigate the relationship of NOx, PAN and ozone in marine air from …

Lived Ethnicity: Identity, Consciousness, And Discursive Practice In Grayling, Alaska, Brenden Raymond-Yakoubian

Anthropology

This thesis is an analysis of data collected from academic, archival, and ethnographic inquiries into the lives, culture, and history of the residents of Grayling, Alaska. The main argument forwarded in this thesis is that forms of discursive practice provide a means, emic and etic, for critically engaging the historically and locally constructed web of meanings that inscribe and inform the lived social reality of ethnic identity of ethnic identity and consciousness in Grayling. Using a communicative-discursive theoretical framework, influences and forces which inform this 'lived ethnicity, ' the strands of the web, are understood dialogically - as discursive forms …

A Qualitative Analysis Of The Relationship Between Religion And Women's Self Development, Bertha Elia Rodarte

Psychology

This study explored women's spiritual experiences and the effects of patriarchal religions on women's lives. To understand how patriarchal beliefs affect women, a sample of twenty-one women answered open-ended questions about their self-perceptions, images of God, discrepancies between religious education and beliefs in feminist ideology, and views of other women. The participants' experiences describe their spiritual self as Explorers, Adherents, or Liberated women. The research revealed that seventy-one percent of the women categorized as Explorers had a discrepancy between their religious and feminist belief systems. To cope they used emotion focused/avoidance, problem-oriented/avoidance and problem-oriented/active coping strategies. Both the Adherent and …

A Qualitative Study Of The Women And Children's Residential Treatment Center Substance Abuse Treatment Program, Phillip Elwyn Gilbert

Psychology

This thesis presents the results of a formative process evaluation of the Fairbanks Native Association Women and Children's Residential Treatment Center abuse program using interviews, participant observation, and grounded theory methods of qualitative research. Eight clients and eight staff were interviewed across the domains of culture, spirituality and family. A theory of program operation emanated from and was grounded in the data: program functioning was significantly affected by the relationship perceived by the clients to exist between themselves, (their needs, values, desires, goals and world view) and the program's goals and priorities.

Survival And Brood Rearing Ecology Of Emperor Geese, Joel A. Schmutz

Biological Sciences

Emperor Geese (Chen canagica) breed on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in an area inhabited by three other goose species. Whereas populations of other geese increased since the mid 1980s, Emperor Goose numbers remained low. Because survival and habitat selection by broods of Emeperor Geese had not been studied previously and numbers of predatory Glaucous Gulls (Larus hyperboreus) had recently increased, I studied brood rearing ecology of Emperor Geese during 1993-1996 to assess whether this seasonal period could be limiting population growth. Survival of goslings to 30 days varied among years from 0.32 to 0.70 and was primarily influenced by mortality during …

Genetic Engineering And Characterization Of Lysr-Type Transcriptional Regulators, Honghong Sun

Biological Sciences

This thesis describes research aimed at understanding the structure and function of LysR-type transcriptional regulators. I studied two LysR-type proteins. One from the archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii, MJ-LysR. The other is from Burkholderia cepacia, DgdR. The MJ-LysR is the first putative LysR-type transcriptional regulator found in archaea. It is surprising that a prokaryotic transcriptional regulator is present in archaea, whose basal transcription machinery and RNA polymerase are more closely related to those of eukaryotes. To elucidate the structure and function of M-LysR protein, the gene was subcloned and expressed in E. coli. The gene product was isolated and purified by heat …

The Geography Of Isolation: Nineteenth Century Science, Exploration And The Conception Of The Aleutian Islands, Annette Watson

Arctic and Northern Studies

The purpose of this thesis is threefold: first, to follow the early history of Alaska from the point of view of the Aleutian Islands; second, to follow how the history of science intersects with this history. Third, to show how nineteenth century science and scientists conceived of the Aleutians, and how their conceptions translated to public perceptions of landscape. The Aleutian Islands went from being the center of the newly-purchased Alaska in 1867--to an isolated chain of islands stretching beyond the margins of the map. Tracing the progression of this isolation demonstrates how landscape--an amalgamation of physical experience and myth--is …

2000 Academic Hooding Ceremony, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.