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Vocabulary Instruction And Its Effects On Writing Quality, Denise Soileau Moseley

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of writing, specifically in terms of vocabulary use, of students in the 8th grade whose teacher used intensive vocabulary instruction only or intensive vocabulary instruction together with explicit writing instruction. The investigation sought to determine if a deep knowledge of pretaught words would have an effect on those words used in student writing. All students in the study had the same intensive vocabulary instruction, but one group had the added component of explicit instruction on how to use pretaught words in their writing.

Intact groups, consisting of 87 students in …

Fall 2003, Nsu Oceanographic Center

Currents

No abstract provided.

Use Of Pop-Up Satellite Archival Tags To Demonstrate Survival Of Blue Marlin (Makaira Nigricans) Released From Pelagic Longline Gear, David W. Kerstetter, Brian E. Luckhurst, Eric Prince, John E. Graves

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Freeing The Innocent: Obtaining Post-Conviction Dna Testing In Florida, Catherine Arcabascio

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

All The [Athletes] Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others: An Objective Evaluation Of Title Ix's Past, Present, And Recommendations For Its Future, J. Brad Reich

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

One Strike And You're Out-Or Are You?: Rucker's Influence On Future Eviction Proceedings For Section 8 And Public Housing, Amy R. Bowser

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

Christopher Kozlow And John Sullivan, Jane's Facility Security Handbook (Jane's Information Group 2000)., Richard Gonzalez

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.

Children’S Regulatory Law Reporter, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2003), Children's Advocacy Institute, University Of San Diego School Of Law

Children's Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.

Law School Announcements 2003-2004, Law School Announcements Editors

Announcements

• Officers and Faculty
• The Law School - History
• Programs of Instruction
• Curriculum
• Student Activities and Organizations
• Funds and Endowments

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2003.10, University Of San Diego Office Of Communications And Marketing

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

Eleventh Annual Scientific Congress

Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology

No abstract provided.

An Open Letter To The Hong Kong College Of Cardiology Regarding Electron Beam Computed Tomography (Ebt), John A Rumberger

Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology

My experience with Electron Beam Computed Tomography (EBT) now dates me at over 20 years of research and clinical practice, initially in cardiac physiology, but for the past decade in coronary atherosclerosis, athersoclerosis imaging, and Preventive Cardiology. Thus, I feel I can speak from some level of authority as well as considerable experience. The point in question relates to the use of EBT and coronary calcium scoring for defining coronary disease in a non- invasive manner. I will admit, like many trained formally in traditional Cardiology and brought up with the idea that definition of coronary stenoses severity was our …

Illustrating A Behaviorally Informed Approach To Antitrust Law: The Case Of Predatory Pricing, Avishalom Tor

Journal Articles

One of the core assumptions of the traditional economic approach to antitrust law is that competitors are perfectly rational, profit-maximizing, decision makers. Sometimes, this assumption serves as a useful simplification of business behavior, providing an effective foundation for antitrust doctrine. At other times, however, assuming strictly rational behavior on the part of competitors is not “approximately right” but, instead, “perfectly wrong.” In these latter cases, the reliance on the perfect rationality assumption can lead scholars to mispredict market behavior and, possibly, advocate erroneous prescriptions for antitrust policy. In contrast, a behaviorally informed approach to antitrust law is based on scientific …

The Lantern Vol. 71, No. 1, Fall 2003, Katy Diana, Bart Brooks, Sarah Napolitan, Susannah Fisher, Sarah Kauffman, Dan Bruno, Trevor Strunk, Jan Cohen, Jen Brink, Jonathan Gagas, Shane Borer, Kate Chapman, Dennis Kearney, Crystal Mccarney, Ashley Mcintosh, Klaus Yoder, Kate Juliano, John Ramsey, Melanie Scriptunas, Alison Shaffer

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Lights of Venice
• Portrait
• Switzerland
• Drunken
• Revel Writing
• Nectarines
• Shifting Gears
• Stogie
• Reflect
• In the Key of Fuchsia Minor
• Jarring
• Sissy
• Mongols vs. Amish: X-Treme Culture Clash
• Holding On
• The Bethany
• Creekside
• The Real Thing
• On Being Alone and Other Pleasures
• Forced Entry
• The Case of Beauty: Aesthetics of Distance

Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company V. Kurtenbach: Choosing The Road Less Traveled In Interpreting Motor Vehicle Exclusions In Farm Comprehensive Liability Policies, Gregory O. Nies

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Current Debate On Juror Questions: "To Ask Or Not To Ask, That Is The Question", Nicole L. Mott

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Article addresses the concerns as well as the advantages when courts allow jurors to submit questions to the court and/or witnesses. Based on reviewing the content of 2,271 juror questions submitted in 164 cases, the author categorizes what jurors typically ask and to whom jurors direct their questions. Most juror questions were directed to witnesses and experts. In both criminal and civil cases, jurors typically asked facts about the case, motives of both the witness and the defendant/party, and common practices of professions often unfamiliar to laypersons. In criminal cases, jurors were more likely to question specific eyewitness evidence …

When All Of Us Are Victims: Juror Prejudice And "Terrorist" Trials, Neil Vidmar

Chicago-Kent Law Review

On September 11, 2001 all Americans became victims. The threat of terrorism at home and abroad, now and for the indefinite future, is not only to their physical safety and economic well-being, but also to their deeply held social and political values. The terrorists have been identified as members of the Muslim faith and most are of Middle Eastern ethnic descent. This Article discusses the problem of persons accused of being terrorists, or aiding terrorists, obtaining a fair trial in the light of this national victimization. Research conducted for the "American Taliban" case of John Walker Lindh, reported in the …

Nullification At Work? A Glimpse From The National Center For State Courts Study Of Hung Juries, Paula L. Hannaford-Agor, Valerie P. Hans

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In recent years, the criminal justice community has become increasingly concerned about the possibility that jury nullification is the underlying motivation for increasing numbers of acquittals and mistrials due to jury deadlock in felony jury trials. In this Article, the authors discuss the inherent difficulty in defining jury nullification and identifying its occurrence in actual trials. They review the evolution in public and legal opinion about the legitimacy of jury nullification and contemporary judicial responses to perceived instances of jury nullification. Finally, the authors examine the possible presence of jury nullification through empirical analysis of data collected from 372 felony …

Jurors As Statutory Interpreters, Lawrence M. Solan

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The standard division of labor at trial is that jurors find facts and judges interpret statutes. But this was not always the standard, and it is still not always so. Until the end of the nineteenth century, it was up to jurors not only to find the facts, but also to determine the law, at least in criminal cases. This task was considered an important part of democratic government in that it created a buffer of twelve citizens who could refuse to convict if a law was considered unduly oppressive. This history is sometimes discussed as relevant to the practice …

A Conservative Perspective On The Future Of The American Jury Trial, Robert P. Burns

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The American jury trial has evolved in a way that is deeply respectful of the dense complexity of competing values that pervade our common life. The consciously structured hybrid of languages and practices of which the trial is composed reflects those values fairly. The trial is thus the crucible of democracy. Simplistic understandings of the trial rooted in a form of legal positivism and an affection for bureaucracy threaten it. We must be very careful of distorting the architecture of what we have achieved in one of greatest achievements of our public culture. This is not to say that reform …

Proof Beyond All Possible Doubt: Is There A Need For Higher Burden Of Proof When The Sentence May Be Death?, Leonard B. Sand, Danielle L. Rose

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Recent studies conclude that errors occur in the American capital punishment system with such frequency that it is entirely foreseeable that, if continued unaltered, numerous innocent persons will be executed. Assuming that this is unacceptable but that America will wish to continue to utilize the death penalty in its justice system, the authors believe that society has a duty to try to reduce the frequency of such errors. The authors propose that the requisite burden of proof in the penalty phase of a capital trial should be raised from beyond a reasonable doubt to beyond all possible doubt. The …

Variations In Control And Display Gain In A First Control Order Compensatory Manual Tracking Task, Micah N. Morris

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

There exist many factors that contribute to the optimal manual control of a system by a human operator (HO). Two such variables include control gain and display gain. Of particular interest to the following experiment is the contribution of these two variables to the manual tracking performance of any HO conducting a compensatory tracking task while using a first control-order tracking system. Since the optimal level of control gain required for maximal manual control of a tracking device is system dependent, it may be expected that the same holds true of display gain. Regardless, it is the purpose of the …

The Search For The Opto-Kinetic Cervical Reflex And Reduced Roll Reversals In Pilots Viewing A 3-D Perspective Display, John Carl Faust

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

Pilots using conventional instrumentation can suffer spatial disorientation (SD) when unexpectedly forced to transition from visual flight to instrument flight during roll maneuvers. This simulator study was conducted to see if a 3-D perspective display could prevent this form of spatial disorientation by eliciting the opto-kinetic cervical reflex (OKCR), an instinctive postural response that humans use to maintain awareness of their spatial orientation. The current research found evidence of the OKCR in pilots viewing both a 3-D perspective display and an electronic attitude indicator. Pilots viewing a standard moving-horizon attitude indicator produced little or no OKCR response. However, pilots still …

Consanguineous Marriage Resulting In Homozygous Occurrence Of X-Linked Retinoschisis In Girls, Azam Ali, Agha Hassan Feroze, Zulfiqar H. Rizvi, Tausif- Ur -Rehman

Section of Ophthalmology

Purpose: To investigate a family afflicted with X-linked retinoschisis and to determine the pedigree leading to such an occurrence.Design: Observational case series.
Methods: Visual acuities were measured at The Aga Khan University Hospital Ophthalmology clinic. Slit-lamp examination, direct and indirect ophthalmoscopies were performed on each of the seven members of this family. The pedigree was established by appropriate questioning about the rest of their family.
Results: The pedigree revealed the homozygosity of the four daughters for the XLRS mutations borne out of the consanguineous marriage between an affected father and a carrier mother.
Conclusions: This is the first report showing …

Race, Diversity, And Jury Composition: Battering And Bolstering Legitimacy, Leslie Ellis, Shari Siedman Diamond

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Impartiality is both elusive and important for the legitimacy of the jury and its decisions. After presenting a realistic version of impartiality that recognizes how jurors reach judgments, we present empirical evidence demonstrating the costs incurred when the promise of impartiality appears to be violated. We then evaluate various approaches aimed primarily at increasing the racial heterogeneity of juries. Finally, we describe a simplified, multimethod approach that combines improvements in source lists and a simple non-race-based geographic adjustment to improve the appearance and reality of jury impartiality by increasing jury heterogeneity.

2003 Vol. 52 No. 2, Cleveland-Marshall College Of Law

2000s

No abstract provided.

Muscogiana Vol. 14(2), Fall 2003, Dr. Hugh I. Rodgers

Muscogiana

No abstract provided.

Use Of Computer Spreadsheets And Paper-Based Workbooks To Teach Comprehensive Nutrient Management Planning, Charles A. Shapiro, R. L. Deloughery, Richard K. Koelsch, M. K. Kucera, Charles S. Wortmann

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

The objective of this program was to provide producers and ag advisors the skills needed to apply for and maintain the non-engineering components of a Nebraska permit to operate a livestock waste control facility. This includes a Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan (CNMP). Eighty six producers and advisors participated in an intensive three-session hands-on class with a total of nine contact hours at four sites in eastern Nebraska in the spring of 2002. The workshop included lecture and participant use of spreadsheet tools to assist with performing the necessary calculations. With an average of 68 % responses per session, 58% rated …

Ancient Egyptian Religion On The Silver Screen: Modern Anxieties About Race, Ethnicity, And Religion, Caroline T. Schroeder

College of the Pacific Faculty Articles

This essay examines the depiction of religion, race, and ethnicity in four films: The Mummy, Stargate, The Ten Commandments, and Prince of Egypt. Each film - explicitly or implicitly, deliberately or not - uses ancient Egyptian religion as a foil to dramatize American concerns about race and ethnicity. The foil is the mysterious, and often false, religiosity of an often Orientalized religious and ethnic "other."

Preserving Community In The City: Special Improvement Districts And The Privatization Of Urban Racialized Space, Audrey Mcfarlane

All Faculty Scholarship

This essay examines some of the ramifications of the formation of business improvement districts (BIDs) in urban centers that levy additional taxes in particular geographic areas to provide supplementary services. Originally designed to further business development to improve the tax base of the entire city, these districts are increasingly being used by affluent city neighborhoods to enhance what are viewed as inadequate municipal services. Because cities are often divided into affluent, white neighborhoods and poor minority ones, BIDs are troubling in that they reinforce race and class divisions within what is theoretically an urban whole. Professor McFarlane argues that we …