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The Relationship Between Foreign Language Ability And Achievement In Other School Subjects, Samantha J. Chabotar

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the ability to learn a foreign language and abilities in other school subjects at the high school level. The sample included 134 tenth grade students recruited through their English classes. Foreign language ability was measured by an Artificial Language test. Students completed a one-page questionnaire about their experience and exposure to foreign languages. Then they were given a set of new vocabulary and grammar rules. They were asked to translate phrases and complete fill-in-the-blank questions, utilizing the new grammar rules. These test scores were then correlated with various sub-sections …

Development Of The American Indian Biculturalism Inventory - Northern Plains, Jessica L. Gourneau

Theses and Dissertations

American Indians' “place” in the context of the Majority Culture has never been clear to either them or their non-Indian counterparts. Many authors of cross-cultural literature suggest the experience of “living with one foot in two canoes” is stressful, confusing, and can even lead to reduced life success and increased psychopathology. This study attempted to develop a factor-analytically devised inventory intended to aid in identification of bicultural identification in hopes it may contribute to greater understanding between cultural orientation and healthy or maladaptive American Indians' functioning.

One hundred and ninety-eight American Indian and Caucasian students and community members from four …

Attitudes And Beliefs About Obesity Among School Professionals Working With Adolescents, Kelli L. Jelsing

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to describe the attitudes and beliefs about obesity held by school professionals working with adolescents in a primarily rural, Midwestern region of the United States. The concern is that school professionals most likely to interact with adolescents regarding obesity may hold negative attitudes and beliefs about obesity, thus creating a negative environment for obese adolescents. This study partially replicated an urban-based study by utilizing sections of the questionnaire related to attitudes and beliefs about obesity. Fifty-eight science, health, home economics, and physical education teachers, and school nurses, social workers, and counselors working with adolescents …

Notes, Florida Ornithological Society Spring 2002 Meetings, James A. Cox

Florida Ornithological Society - Records - Full Collection

Notes by Jim Cox regarding the Spring 2002 Florida Ornithological Society meetings, including speakers, topics, and pricing.

The Ecology Of Lianas And Their Role In Forests, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Frans Bongers

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Recent studies have demonstrated the increasingly important role of lianas (woody vines) in forest regeneration, species diversity and ecosystem-level processes, particularly in the tropics. Mechanisms responsible for the maintenance of liana species diversity could yield new insights into the maintenance of overall species diversity. Lianas contribute to forest regeneration and competition, not only by competing directly with trees, but also by differentially affecting tree species and thus changing how trees compete among themselves. In addition, they contribute considerably to ecosystem-level processes, such as whole-forest transpiration and carbon sequestration. As the rate of tropical forest disturbance increases, they are likely to …

'Brother Ray' To Preside Over His Final Ud Graduation; Fulbright Winner; First, Habitat Americorps; Post 9-11 Immigration; In Demand; Bye-Bye Fresca King, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that Brother Raymond L. Fitz, S.M., will preside over his final commencement as president; Dominic Marcellino has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship and will spend the next year in Germany; Rachel Miketa will serve with Habitat Americorps for a year; Jeff Galles will be a computer analyst at Procter & Gamble; Ryan Adair proclaims himself the king of fresca followers.

What Is Marriage For? The Public Purposes Of Marriage Law, Maggie Gallagher

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Two "Ics" Of The 2001 Louisiana Child Support Guidelines: Economics And Politics, Katherine Shaw Spaht

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Facing The Hydra: Maintaining Strategic Balance While Pursuing A Global War Against Terrorism, Conrad C. Crane Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The author analyzes the impact of the war on terrorism and the requirements of the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review on the many essential missions conducted by the U.S. Armed Forces. Focusing primarily on the Army, he highlights the requirements associated with combat operations against terrorists, accelerating transformation and the new emphasis on homeland security and force protection. At the same time, he points out that the Army and the other Services must remain involved worldwide in day-to-day assurance, dissuasion, and deterrence activities; execution of peace operations and other smaller-scale contingencies; and remaining ready for other major combat operations. The author …

Spatial And Predictive Foraging Models For Gray Bats In Northwest Georgia And A Comparison Of Two Acoustical Bat Survey Techniques, Joshua Begg Johnson

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The federally endangered gray bat (Myotis grisescens) is an obligate, year-round, cavedwelling species. Efforts to protect caves occupied by gray bats have proved beneficial to recovery. Specific gray bat foraging area characteristics also are critical to gray bat population recovery and maintenance. In summer 2000 and 2001, I determined gray bat presence/absence with Anabat II acoustic bat detectors in potential foraging areas near 2 bachelor colonies in northwest Georgia. In 2000, I systematically sampled 213 locations near water sources over an 8.3 x 9.4 km sampling grid that was established over a 5,100 km2 study area. Each sampling point was …

Clinical, Pathological And Molecular Factors Predicting Axillary Node Involvement In Primary Breast Cancer In Pakistani Women, T. Siddiqui, A. Salam, S. Khan, N. Kayani, Shahid Pervez

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Background:

Axillary lymph node involvement in primary breast cancer is one of its most important prognostic features. Thus any factors that may predict axillary lymph node involvement in this setting could be potentially helpful in treatment planning and other interventions.

Objective:

The objective of this study was to evaluate clinical, pathological and immuno-histochemical markers in univariate and multivariate analysis, which may be helpful predictors of axillary lymph node involvement in breast cancer.

Method:

A retrospective analysis of 555 cases. Of these 58% had axillary nodal positivity and 42% were negative.

Conclusion:

Factors of no significance included patient’s age, height, weight, …

Back To The Future: Intellectual Property And The Rediscovery Of Property Rights—And Wrongs, June Carbone

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Hla-Cw*04 And Hepatitis C Virus Persistence, Chloe L. Thio, Xiaojiang Gao, James J. Goedert, David Vlahov, Kenrad E. Nelson, Margaret Hilgartner, Stephen J. O'Brien, Peter Karacki, Jacquie Astemborski, Mary Carrington, David L. Thomas

Biology Faculty Articles

In studies of acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, the early host immune response is one of the determinants of viral persistence. The class I human leukocyte antigens (HLA), which present foreign antigen to cytolytic T cells, are integral components of this response. We hypothesized that the highly polymorphic HLA genes affect the outcome of an HCV infection. To test this hypothesis, we molecularly typed 231 persons with well-documented clearance of an HCV infection and 444 matched persistently infected persons. HLA-A*1101 (odds ratio [OR], 0.49; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 0.27 to 0.89), HLA-B*57 (OR, 0.62; 95% CI, 0.39 to …

Parental Rights, Emily Buss

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Difficulties In Achieving Coherent State And Local Fiscal Policy At The Intersection Of Direct Democracy And Republicanism: The Property Tax As A Case In Point, Mildred Wigfall Robinson

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Professor Robinson explores the uneasiness present when acts of "direct democracy" through means of voter referenda and ballot initiatives conflict with the ideals of representative government, using fiscal matters, such as the property tax, as an example.

Part I explores the changes that have taken place in the last two decades in voter strategy and in patterns of judicial interpretation, briefly reviewing the history of the property tax focusing on taxpayer reaction to long overdue attempts at administrative reform, and showing how that effort indirectly contributed to the "taxpayer revolt. "It further examines how and why broad-scale attempts to utilize …

Infant And Toddler Child Care Management Handbook, Mary E. Barrett

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Foreword: Interdisciplinarity, Kathleen M. Sullivan

Michigan Law Review

In the beginning, there was law. Then came law-and. Law and society, law and economics, law and history, law and literature, law and philosophy, law and finance, statistics, game theory, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, critical theory, cultural studies, political theory, political science, organizational behavior, to name a few. The variety of extralegal disciplines represented in the books reviewed in this issue attests to this explosion of perspectives on the law in legal scholarship. This development makes clear that the vocation of the legal scholar has shifted from that of priest to theologian. No longer is a law professor successful by virtue …

Campus Observer, Volume 3, Issue 8, Office Of University Communications, Florida Institute Of Technology

Campus Observer

The Campus Observer was a newsletter for the Florida Tech community produced by the Office of University Communications (now the Office of Marketing and Communications). Visit the Campus Observer Collection Guide for more information. Earlier publications of this kind include Tech Talk and Technology Topics.

Profitable And Productive Farming Systems For Management Of Nolba Catchment, B R. Eastough, Nolba Focus Catchment Group

Resource management technical reports

Summary of the main points covered at each of the several workshop and two demonstrations by the Nolba Catchment Group, Western Australia. The areas addressed include: low recharge farming systems; impact on the environment of integrated weed management; management of organic matter in soils within the catchment; dune stabilisation and groundwater hydrology.

University Reporter - Vol. 06, No. 09 - May 2002, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

On Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods For Neural Networks, Raul Cruz-Cano

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Neural Networks (NN) have been used successfully to solve many different problems. It is an area of computer science and statistics that is very useful in real life. The advantages of NN consist of their ability to produce nonlinear input-output mapping, their adaptability, fault tolerance, uniform analysis and design. The search for better ways to train them consists of trying to find the optimal values of their free parameters. Some of these training algorithms are based on Markov Chains. They have some advantages over the traditionally used deterministic methods. In this document the main ideas related to these concepts are …

Using Gis And Land Use Data To Select Candidate Reference Sites For Stream Bioassessment, John Robert Olson

Theses and Dissertations

GIS was used to select candidate reference sites in Georgia to characterize the reference condition by sub-ecoregion for a rapid bioassessment of streams statewide. Instead of relying on best professional judgment or previous knowledge of a limited number of sites, we performed an objective evaluation of cumulative impact on all catchments using land use data sets. These included road and impoundment data from DLGs and Multi-Resolution Land use Consortium data. Land use impairment was measured as percentages of forest, urban, pasture, row crops, and barren area for both the entire catchment and for 10, 40, and 130-m riparian buffers, road …

Medical Information Design: Empowering The Patient, Jon Benjamin-Rupp

Theses

The goals of this project revolve aound the development of a cancer information source book that will provide an accessible resource for cancer patients upon or soon after diagnosis.

Insect Biodiversity In Ficus Tuerckheimii (Moraceae): Which Model Fits Best?, May 2002, Erin L. Kurten

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Understanding how biodiversity is maintained is important both for ecology and conservation biology. Models of biodiversity fall into two broad categories: resource-based models and deterministic models. Local communities of insects on Ficus tuerckheimii (Moraceae) in the Bullpen, Monteverde, Costa Rica were sampled in order to determine whether the predictions from a resource-based model or Hubbell's stochastic model better fit real data. Results could not conclusively support or disprove either model. Positive trends existed between diversity and resources as well as richness and resources; however these were not statistically significant. Species richness and evenness were not correlated, which does not support …

Role Of Driptips On Begonia Involucrata (Begoniaceae), May 2002, Ethan Householder

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

This study examined the dual role of multiple driptips of Begonia involucrata (Begoniaceae) in shedding excess water and minimizing erosion beneath a plant. One hundred and twenty leaves, having between one and four driptips were tested both with and without driptips to determine: the amount of water each leaf retained when a given amount was applied to its surface, the volume of soil displaced by each leaf, and the distance the soil was thrown by the drops. When driptips are removed, the amount of water retained on the leaf increases and the mean volume of soil displaced per driptip increases. …

Mist Variation And Epiphytic Orchid Abundance In A Monteverde Cloud Forest, May 2002, Christopher Frohlich

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

There has been an observed increase in the frequency of days with no mist during the dry season in Monteverde (Pounds et al. 1999). This trend towards an increasingly dry environment could have detrimental effects on epiphytic orchids. The purpose of this project was to investigate the effect of mist level as well as mist frequency and branch direction on orchid abundance in 12 Daphnopsis americana (Lauraceae) host trees. Mist collectors were placed on 24 sample branches within the first horizontal angle of primary branches and mist was collected for eight days from all directions. Abundance counts of total orchids …

Automatic Indoor/Outdoor Scene Classification, Navid Serrano

Theses

The advent and wide acceptance of digital imaging technology has motivated an upsurge in research focused on managing the ever-growing number of digital images. Current research in image manipulation represents a general shift in the field of computer vision from traditional image analysis based on low-level features (e.g. color and texture) to semantic scene understanding based on high-level features (e.g. grass and sky). One particular area of investigation is scene categorization, where the organization of a large number of images is treated as a classification problem. Generally, the classification involves mapping a set of traditional low-level features to semantically meaningful …

A Stream Database Server For Sensor Applications, Moustafa A. Hammad, Walid G. Aref, Ann C. Catlin, Mohamed G. Elfeky, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

The Nature And Nurture Of Economic Outcomes, Bruce Sacerdote

Dartmouth Scholarship

The relative importance of biology and envi- ronment is one of the oldest and most prominent areas of scientific inquiry and has been exam- ined by researchers as diverse as David Hume (1748), Charles Darwin (1859), and Sigmund Freud (1930). Social scientists are particularly interested in the degree to which family and neighborhood environmental factors influence a child’s educational attainment and earnings. The stakes in this debate are quite high and far-reaching. As Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray (1994) point out, the effectiveness of anti- poverty and pro-education policies is largely de- pendent on the degree to which environment matters. …

Bioavailability/Toxicity Of Iron From Aerobically Processed Organic Fertilizer, Stacey Marie Wilson

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

For an undergraduate Honor's project, I worked under the direction of Dr. Jeffery Hall to determine the bioavailability and toxicity of iron from Milorganite® fertilizer, an aerobically processed organic fertilizer. The Milorganite® Company is a subsidiary of the Milwaukee Municipal Sewage District and produces a fertilizer of high iron content (approximately 5-7%). The high iron content has resulted in concern about the toxic potential, which until now was unknown. This thesis paper will explain iron chemistry, bioavailability, requirements, absorption, toxicity, and treatments, followed by a description of fertilizer types and contents. This will be followed by a description and reasoning …