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Classroom Success Using Online Distance Education : Methods For Maximizing The Effectiveness Of Online Distance Education, Deborah Rae Crane

Graduate Research Papers

This review of literature was conducted to explore classroom success using online distance education and proven methods of maximizing the effectiveness of online distance education.

The components of successful online distance education programs are reviewed and brought together in a paper that suggests that online education developed with careful planning will continue to grow and become a standard component of many programs. The challenges that online instruction faces as it continues to develop are also included.

The future of online education is dependent on the quality that is built into courses. Technologies continue to evolve and present opportunities and challenges …

Surfactant-Induced Relative Permeability Modifications For Oil Recovery Enhancement, Subhash C. Ayirala

LSU Master's Theses

Surfactants have been considered for enhanced oil recovery by reduced oil-water interfacial tension. However, these surfactants may enhance oil recovery via wettability alteration as well. This study experimentally determines the influence of surfactant type and concentration on oil recovery, oil-water relative permeabilities and wettability in reservoir rocks. Several coreflood experiments were conducted using Yates reservoir fluids in Berea rocks and two types of surfactants (nonionic and anionic) in varying concentrations. A coreflood simulator was used to calculate oil-water relative permeabilities by history matching recovery and pressure drop measured during the corefloods. These relative permeability variations were interpreted using Craig's rules-of-thumb …

Human Heir, Andrew Jay Saluti

LSU Master's Theses

Human heir catalogues the mechanism as living being through character and interaction. The life of basic machines such as hand tools and anvils is characterized by the interaction with other mechanical forms and the collaboration with their creator, the human machine. The concepts of function, personality, relevance, and existence are observed on seemingly lifeless elements, and the simplicity of the human mechanism is explored.

Xeriscape Guidelines Adapted To Residential Gardens In Cyprus, Elli George Georgiou

LSU Master's Theses

One of the major problems that my country, Cyprus, faces is water scarcity. In the last five to ten years, the problem has become more serious because of a series of droughts that have left the island with limited water. As a result, Cypriots keep their gardens to a minimum or they abandon their gardens due to water shortage. This attitude of Cypriots toward their gardens was the inspiration of this thesis topic. The idea of Xeriscape and the seven guidelines of Xeriscape that were first introduced and organized by the Denver Water Department in Colorado are directly related to …

Content Analysis Of Children’S Literature Depiction Of Modern Agriculture, David William Mixdorf

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study was to investigate children's books and determine if they are portraying agricultural changes over the last 100 years, and whether the different revolutions of farming (horse, tractor, and technology) and alternative methods of farming are being represented.

The population of books examined were picture books, juvenile fiction, and informational books appropriate for K-6th grade. The population was limited to books published between 1982-2002, the United States as the geographical setting, and the main focus of the story was a farm setting. Fifty books were randomly selected from specific subject headings. The researcher discovered that modem …

The Effects Of Reading Poetry In Library Classes On Circulation Of The Library’S Poetry Collection, Mary Musselman

Graduate Research Papers

Many of the elementary poetry books on the shelves of the Manson Northwest Webster Barnum Center library in Barnum, Iowa were not being checked out by students. By reading poetry from those books to third and fourth graders during library time the librarian hoped to stimulate interest in those poetry books and increase circulation of them. After keeping track of the poetry book circulation before and after reading poetry to the groups, the reading did in fact increase the circulation of the poetry books significantly at the .05 level.

To Be Or Not To Be: A Portrayal Of William Shakespeare In Children's Literature, Kathy S. Grout

Graduate Research Papers

This study analyzed how accurately authors of historical fiction portray William Shakespeare, the man and events of his life. An attempt was made to locate 25 books that contained Shakespeare as a character or dealt with events from his life. Twenty-two books were chosen that were written for children, young adults and adults with recommendations for young adults. Each book was read, summarized, reread and examined by completing a content analysis checklist designed to evaluate the portrayal of William Shakespeare and events of his life. Four hypotheses relating to known facts about Shakespeare's life, the fictionalization of his character, the …

Music On The Internet: Is Technology Moving Faster Than Copyright Law?, Kimberly Kerry

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Wither Convergence: Legal, Regulatory, And Trade Opportunism In Telecommunications, Rob Frieden

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

No abstract provided.

A Spatio-Temporal Data Model For Zoning, Philip J. Uhl

Theses and Dissertations

Planning departments are besieged with temporal/historical information. While for many institutions historical information can be relegated to archives, planning departments have a constant need to access and query their historical information, particularly their historical spatial information such as zoning. This can be a cumbersome process fraught with inaccuracies due to the changing organizational methods and the extended historical legacies of most municipalities. Geographic Information Systems can be a tool to provide a solution to the difficulties in querying spatio-temporal planning data. Using a data model designed specifically to facilitate the querying of historical zoning information, queries can be performed to …

Analysis Of Genetic Variability Of Quinoa (Chenopodium Quinoa Wild.) Germ Plasm Around Lake Titicaca, Milton Víctor Pinto Porcel

Theses and Dissertations

With the goal of analyzing the genetic variability of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd) germ plasm around Lake Titicaca, which is conserved in the National Bank of High Andean Grains of the PROINPA Altiplano Regional Foundation, the agromorphological behavior of 432 quinoa samples from the surrounding area (both Bolivian and Peruvian) were characterized and evaluated. This activity occurred at agricultural step 99/2000 of Belén Agricultural Station (16°1' South by 68°42' West), with the San Andrés Higher University Faculty of Agronomy, which because of its proximity to the lake represents climate conditions like those of the studied material's origin. In order to …

The Multinational And The "New Stakeholder": Examining The Business Case For Human Rights, Scott Greathead

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Business managers who ignore these realities--the concerns of these new corporate stakeholders--do so at the risk of their company's brand and their own careers. These are just a few examples of the new stakeholders of multinational corporations--workers, consumers, investors, indigenous peoples, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the media...

The concerns of these new stakeholders embrace human rights. It is a much broader concept of human rights, however, than the civil and political rights that used to dominate the agenda. Former concerns centered on freedom from arbitrary arrest, detentions, and other due process rights, freedom of speech and association, and governmental abuses …

Excellence In Nursing Education & Research [Complete Issue : Third Quarter 2002, Vol. 3, 3], Sigma Theta Tau International

Sigma Past Publishing - Excellence Newsletters

Publishing History: Nursing Excellence published yearly in 1998 and 1999. The publication became Excellence in the first quarter 2000. It transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education, Excellence in Nursing Administration, and Excellence in Clinical Practice in the second quarter 2000 with volume 1, number 2. Excellence in Nursing Education transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education & Research in the first quarter 2002.

Publishing Frequency: Yearly 1998, 1999; Quarterly 2000 - 2004.

Format: Print 1999 - third quarter 2002; Online fourth quarter 2002 - first quarter 2004. Ceased publishing in 2004.

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Evidence, ideas and actions:New reports …

Excellence In Nursing Education & Research [Complete Issue : Second Quarter 2002, Vol. 3, 2], Carla L. Mueller, May L. Wykle, Sigma Theta Tau International

Sigma Past Publishing - Excellence Newsletters

Publishing History: Nursing Excellence published yearly in 1998 and 1999. The publication became Excellence in the first quarter 2000. It transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education, Excellence in Nursing Administration, and Excellence in Clinical Practice in the second quarter 2000 with volume 1, number 2. Excellence in Nursing Education transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education & Research in the first quarter 2002.

Publishing Frequency: Yearly 1998, 1999; Quarterly 2000 - 2004.

Format: Print 1999 - third quarter 2002; Online fourth quarter 2002 - first quarter 2004. Ceased publishing in 2004.

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Teaching at a distance via …

Excellence In Nursing Administration [Complete Issue : Third Quarter 2002, Vol. 3, 3], Pamela Klauer Triolo, Tricia Lewis, Johnie Leonard, Mary Shepherd, Sigma Theta Tau International

Sigma Past Publishing - Excellence Newsletters

Publishing History: Nursing Excellence published yearly in 1998 and 1999. The publication became Excellence in the first quarter 2000. It transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education, Excellence in Nursing Administration, and Excellence in Clinical Practice in the second quarter 2000 with volume 1, number 2. Excellence in Nursing Education transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education & Research in the first quarter 2002.

Publishing Frequency: Yearly 1998, 1999; Quarterly 2000 - 2004.

Format: Print 1999 - third quarter 2002; Online fourth quarter 2002 - first quarter 2004. Ceased publishing in 2004.

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Creating a culture of excellence …

The Fine Art Of Copyright Protection: A Suggestion For Change In The Application Of The Fair Use Doctrine, Joshua W. Andrews

University of San Francisco Law Review

No abstract provided.

Are Judges Really More Principled Than Voters?, Roderick M. Hills Jr.

University of San Francisco Law Review

Chris Eisgruber's Constitutional Self-Government gives federal judges broad discretion to read what they take to be our moral convictions into the United States Constitution.

Guilt By Association: Proposition 21'S Gang Conspiracy Law Will Increase Youth. Violence In California, Lizabeth N. De Vries

University of San Francisco Law Review

In March 2000, Proposition 21 enacted two revisions to the California Penal Code that dramatically altered the identification and punishment of fringe-offenders. First, a defendant need not be a member to be charged as an active participant in a gang. Second, and most importantly, Proposition 21 enacted a conspiracy law allowing gang participants to be charged as co-conspirators for any crime a fellow gang member commits. Under this newly created conspiracy theory, a juvenile may now be sentenced for a gang-related crime in which he did not participate.

The Spillikin (Vol. 19), Valparaiso University

The Spillikin - The Christ College Newsletter

No abstract provided.

University Reporter - Vol. 06, No. 05 - January 2002, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

Sponsored Bills 107th Congress - 2001-2002 (Part 4), Office Of Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez

1.4. Legislation

This sub-series consists of legislation sponsored by the Office of Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez. Legislation supported or sponsored includes: Ban junk guns, The Bracero Justice Act of 2002, Consumer Fairness Act of 2002, Central American and Haitian Parity Act, Alien Child Organ Transplant Act of 2002, Small Business Insurance Data Disclosure Act of 2001,

Sponsored Bills 107th Congress - 2001-2002 (Part 3), Office Of Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez

1.4. Legislation

This sub-series consists of legislation sponsored by the Office of Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez. Legislation supported or sponsored includes: Wire Transfer Fairness and Disclosure Act of 2001, Renew call for Long-Term, Fair Extension of Family-Based Visa Program, Bracero Workers Deserve Their Day in Court, and Immigrant Children's Educational Advancement and Dropout Prevention Act of 2001.

Sponsored Bills 107th Congress - 2001-2002 (Part 2), Office Of Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez

1.4. Legislation

This sub-series consists of legislation sponsored by the Office of Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez. Legislation supported or sponsored includes: Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act, reinstatement of family-based 245(i) visa program, Youth Service Scholarship Act of 2001, Day Laborer Fairness and Protection Act, legislation to offer Mexican guest-workers legal recourse to recoup lost wages, and The Bracero Justice Act of 2002.

Insights- April 2002, Erika Malek

Insights

No abstract provided.

Insights- May 2002, Erika Malek

Insights

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Insights- October 2002, Erika Malek

Insights

No abstract provided.

Insights- Jun/Jul. 2002, Erika Malek

Insights

No abstract provided.

Insights- November 2002, Erika Malek

Insights

No abstract provided.

Bgsu Football Media Guide 2002, Bowling Green State University. Department Of Athletics

Football Media Guides

Media guide for Bowling Green State University's 2002-2003 football season.

E-Issues Take Center Stage: The 2000 Sag/Aftra Strike, Craig J. Ackermann

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.