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The Principal's Role In Promoting Success For Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Students: A Participatory Research Study, Maria Norma Martinez

Doctoral Dissertations

We need to understand more fully what facilitates success in schools with diverse populations. Through participatory research, the voices of school principals who are responsive to the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students were recorded and analyzed to provide insights on the practices that promote the school success of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Using a dialogic retrospective, the participants had the opportunity to engage, individually and collectively, in reflection and dialogue to identify common themes that emerged in their important work as school leaders and as advocates for diverse students.

A Case For Changing The National Airspace System From A Magnetic North To A Geographic North Based Model, Michael K. Larson

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is currently playing a major role in aviation navigation and is proposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to be the foundation of the future National Airspace System (NAS). The Position, Velocity and Time (PVT) information provided by GPS for navigation purposes is directly based on Geographic North parameters rather than on Magnetic North, which is currently the foundation of the NAS. This paper uniquely addresses the exploration of this relationship between the GPS and Geographic North by applying an experimental research design to analyze the potential benefit of basing the NAS on Geographic North. …

Aviation Opportunities In Ecotourism, Mary M. Snow, Richard K. Snow

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

Ecotourism is a specialized form of tourism designed to allow the exploration of unique natural and cultural areas while creating a positive impact on local communities. As the primary mode of international transportation, aviation stands to benefit further from the burgeoning ecotourism market. This paper presents data that demonstrate the unprecedented growth of ecotourism in recent years and suggests opportunities the industry offers those in the field of aviation. Also discussed is the potential for achieving a greater degree of economic and ecologic sustainability for ecotour destinations.

The Role Of Educational Institutions For Airport Security, Seth Young

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

The following narrative is transcribed from a keynote address presented by Dr. Seth Young, Associate Professor, College of Business Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, at the ICAO 4^th Regional Aviation Security and Facilitation Seminar, held in Amman, Jordan, in September 2002. The seminar was attended by participating member states from ICAO's Middle East region. The purpose of the seminar was to discuss new regulations and policies regarding aviation security, and to become educated in enhancing airport security, from a security, as well as an operations facilitation, perspective.

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Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

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A New Map Of The Universe : A Novel And Accompanying Essay, Annabel Smith

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis comprises a novel entitled A New Map of the Universe and an accompanying essay. The novel tells the story of a young architect named Grace Darlowe, who is struggling with her very first project: the design of a house for her lover, Michael. Grace struggles partly because she is uncertain about the future of her relationship with Michael, but her insecurities are more deeply rooted in her troubled relationship with her mother, Madeleine. Embittered by grief, Madeleine blames Grace for her husband Peter's death and resents Grace's choice to follow her father in becoming an architect. Grace is …

Nearest To Legitimacy: Justice White And Strict Rational Basis Scrutiny, Michael Herz

Articles

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O Constitucionalismo Americano Confronta O Novo Paradigma Constitucional De Denninger, Michel Rosenfeld

Articles

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Preschool Experience And Its Effect On The Reading Level Of First Grade Students At Perrin Woods, Angela Caudill

Urbana University Master’s Theses

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Will Student's Instructional Reading Level Increase After Using The Reciprocal Teaching Model, Heather Godwin

Urbana University Master’s Theses

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Kindergarten Speech And Language Delays And Their Effect On Reading Achievement In First Grade, Amanda Robison

Urbana University Master’s Theses

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The Correlation Between The Percentage Of Letter Names And Sounds Kindergarten Students Master And The Number Of Books Read To The Students At Home, Miranda Uhl

Urbana University Master’s Theses

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Characteristics Of Effective Leadership, Van Stickney

Urbana University Master’s Theses

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Is There Significant Difference In Vocabulary Retention Level By Using Word Webbing?, Teresa Thuel

Urbana University Master’s Theses

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Teachers Attitudes Towards The Inclusion Of Special Needs Children Into Regular Education Classrooms, Kristy Zeller

Urbana University Master’s Theses

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A Study To Identify The Attributes Of Police Strategies And The Related Leadership Styles In Order To Address The Quality Of Life Issues In Police Organizations And The Community, John Christopher Gregory

Theses and Dissertations

This research identified and examined the attributes of police strategies and the related leadership styles in an attempt to develop a model that would benefit police organizations and the community in an effort to have a positive impact on the quality of life of all citizens in the community.

It was a qualitative study that utilized literature from the law enforcement community, the business community, the athletic community, as well as the military community. Personal law enforcement and military experience was considered in order to bring an intimate view of leadership in times of peril and crisis into the text. …

Globe Newspaper Co. V. Commonwealth: An Examination Of The Media’S “Right” To Retest Postconviction Dna Evidence, Emily S. Munro

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

In January of 2000, Governor George Ryan of Illinois issued a statewide moratorium on capital punishment, citing among his reasons the fact that more convicted killers had been exonerated than executed since Illinois reinstated the death penalty in 1977. In 2001 Maryland’s governor issued a temporary moratorium on capital punishment, pending the results of a University of Maryland death penalty study. The North Carolina Senate recently approved a bill that would suspend all state executions for two years, after twenty-one North Carolina municipalities passed resolutions favoring a moratorium and two death-row inmates were awarded new trials.

Mid-Western Educational Research Association 2003 Annual Meeting Call For Proposals, Janet K. Holt

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Call for Proposals

A Student Learning Model For Community Service Field Placements, Laura Dreuth, Martha Dreuth-Few

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Educators recognize the importance of understanding how students integrate community service learning with professional practice. This article provides insight into the student experience as expressed in the voices of pre-service social workers that completed community service field placements. The findings suggest a developmental model of learning with common themes that progressed from basic understanding to integration. Findings also suggest that service learning positively influenced the students in relation to personal and professional performance.

Postsecondary Remediation Policy: Analysis And Recommendations For Ohio’S System Of Public Education, Marcus Herzberg, Noriko Nagata, Joyce Long, Art Bollman

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

This paper explores the issue of remediation and the development of remediation policy in primary, secondary, and higher education within a statewide public school system. While much of the discussion focuses on the state of Ohio, other states are also examined. The primary goal of the paper is to discuss and identify the trends and problems surrounding the formation and implementation of remediation policy. The secondary goal is to seek potential long-term and short-term solutions to current remediation problems. Recommendations for improving the academic preparedness and success of students entering public institutions of higher education are also included.

Special Program Issue October 15-18, 2003, Janet K. Holt

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Special Program Issue

Online Instruction: A Positive Alternative For Master Of Education Students, James Van Keuren

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The system of higher education like the public education system was designed to meet the needs of the industrial age and now is attempting to meet the needs of the informational age. At the higher education level, a need exists to develop new ways to deliver instruction to adult learners who are mobile and pressed for time with their jobs and families. This article will describe how this author is taking advantage of online course instruction as an alternative instructional delivery approach to meet the needs of today's adult learners. The author also used student survey information to examine online …

Transitioning To An Online Instructional Delivery System: Successes And Challenges, Ronald B. Childress, Rudy Pauley

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

This article examines many of the issues that the Graduate School of Education and Professional Development at Marshall University has experienced in its move to online delivery of coursework. Institutional, faculty, and student matters are addressed in the context of the transition. Examples of the challenges as well as successes are offered as a reference for institutions contemplating moving to or expanding online course offerings.

Using Online Instruction To Deliver A Discussion-Intensive Format, Herbert W. Broda

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Delivering a discussion-intensive curriculum via online instruction can pose a variety of challenges. This article presents an overview of a contemporary issues online graduate course, and analyzes the degree to which the course encouraged feelings of community, a tone of thoughtful and willing reflection, and an overall understanding of contemporary issues.

Online Instruction An Alternative Delivery System For Higher Education, Michael Wronkovich

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

In an increasingly technological society, delivery systems for professional development and higher education have greatly expanded. Video conferencing and web-based alternatives provide opportunities to extend the college campus far beyond the boundaries traditionally considered feasible. Adult learners have found the convenience of web-based instruction fits their already complicated lifestyle. And for the university, web-based learning is cost effective. The two major questions for this paper are: (1) How does an institution begin web-based instruction? (2) How does it maintain quality for the students who are learning over long distances?

Quorum Sensing In Gram-Negative Bacteria, Gülgün Boşgelmez Tinaz

Turkish Journal of Biology

It has become increasingly and widely recognised that bacteria do not live as isolated entities but instead exist as communities that exploit elaborate systems of intercellular communication to facilitate their adaptation to changing environmental conditions. A well-characterised example of such intercellular communication is quorum sensing. Quorum sensing depends on the production of diffusible signal molecules termed autoinducers or pheromones, which enable a bacterium to monitor its own cell population density. A variety of physiological processes in a range of bacterial species is regulated by quorum sensing. Examples include bioluminescence, antibiotic biosynthesis, swarming, biofilm differentiation, conjugation and the production of virulence …

A Procedural Model For Integrating Physical And Cyberspaces In Architecture, Peter Anders

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This dissertation articiilates opportunities offered by architectural computation, in particular the digital simulation of space known as virtual reality (VR) and its networked, social variant cyberspace. The thesis will argue that VR/cyberspace has exacerbated differences between architecture's materialist and idealist practices, widening the gap that separates them. In an effort to bridge this gap it presents a procedural model for how VR and cyberspace may be integrated within the practice and product of architecture. The dissertation presents important developments in architectural computation that disclose concepts and values that contrast with orthodox practice. Virtual reality and cyberspace, the foci of this …

Fatigue Properties Of Metal Inert Gas And Friction Stir Welded Aluminium Alloy 5383-H321, Gareth Richard Bradley

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

The following dissertation details the development of a simple defect-tolerant based model for determining the fatigue properties of a 5383-H321 aluminium alloy and metal inert gas and friction stir welded butt joints in the same alloy. The model considers the fatigue life to consist of three regimes, crack initiation and short and long crack growth, in contrast to the typical defect-tolerant approaches which only consider the long crack growth period. Crack initiation was considered to consist of an initial short crack, present prior to fatigue loading, identical in length to the crack initiator. The short crack growth rate was considered …

Principles Of Metadesign : Processes And Levels Of Co-Creation In The New Design Space, Elisa Giaccardi

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

In the tight of the material and cultural conditions of the present world and within the context of current design theories, this research aims to provide an understanding of Metadesign as emerging design cutture, and to integrate and advance its conceptual framework and principles through a tra nsdisci pli nary dialogue with the aesthetics and practice of Net Art. By rejecting the notion of Metadesign as an established design approach and practice, the creation of an etymological hypothesis based on the meanings of the prefix "-meta" (behind, together, between) becomes possible. Following this historical and cultural path, the research describes …

Database Development And Intranet Based Image Included Database Management System For Ballistic Firearm Identification System, Toni C. Jiao

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The process of imaging, collecting and searching a cartridge case to identifying its suspected firearm is a time consuming procedure. Within this study, a cartridge case identification database management system in an Intranet environment is designed and implemented, thus enabling firearm examiners from different forensic laboratories to engage firearm identification without the constraints of time and location. Specifically, the study investigates appropriate database management system for image involved and Intranet secured ballistics firearm identification database. The results demonstrated that a computerized firearm identification system could be implemented in Intranet with a secure, scalable, performable Intranet database management system.