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Michael Roskin: Countries And Concepts Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2003

Michael Roskin: Countries And Concepts Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Robin W. Winks: A History Of Civilization, 9ed. Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson Jan 2003

Robin W. Winks: A History Of Civilization, 9ed. Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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"Don't Show Them Where To Click And Vote:" An Assessment Of Electioneering Law In The United States As A Consideration In Implementing Internet Voting Regimes, Michael Odell Walker Jan 2003

"Don't Show Them Where To Click And Vote:" An Assessment Of Electioneering Law In The United States As A Consideration In Implementing Internet Voting Regimes, Michael Odell Walker

Kentucky Law Journal

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Gender Stereotyping In State Executive Elections: Candidate Selection And Success, Richard L. Fox Jan 2003

Gender Stereotyping In State Executive Elections: Candidate Selection And Success, Richard L. Fox

Political Science and International Relations Faculty Works

Research on gender stereotypes has found that voters ascribe certain beliefs and traits to candidates based on the candidate's sex. Most of this research relies on experimental data and examines stereotyping solely in terms of voter decision making. In contrast, we examine state executive office elections to determine if stereotypes influence both candidate selection and success. State executive elections are ideal for studying gender stereotypes as many of the offices focus on specific policy issues that correspond with stereotypical competencies of male and female candidates. We find considerable support for our expectation of an interaction between candidate sex and office …

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Using Technology To Support Pedagogy In An Or/Ms Course, Kala Seal, Zbigniew Przasnyski Jan 2003

Using Technology To Support Pedagogy In An Or/Ms Course, Kala Seal, Zbigniew Przasnyski

Finance Faculty Works

We tried several methods to improve pedagogy in a graduate introductory OR/MS course. We developed digital video instruction modules, animations, computer-based tutorials, and a course Web site and used Web-based feedback, virtual classrooms, and collaborative learning methods to support students' learning. We learned that the course Web site, Web-based feedback, virtual classrooms, and some collaborative learning methods are easy to develop and implement and provide immediate returns. Others, such as digital video instructions, animations, and real-time collaborative computing, need more time but may provide better pedagogic benefits in the long run. The benefits from all the efforts accumulate over time. …

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Comment: Where Does Creativity Come From ? And Other Stories Of Copyright, Michael J. Madison Jan 2003

Comment: Where Does Creativity Come From ? And Other Stories Of Copyright, Michael J. Madison

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Northeastern Illinois University, Academic Catalog 2003-2004, Northeastern Illinois University Jan 2003

Northeastern Illinois University, Academic Catalog 2003-2004, Northeastern Illinois University

Course Catalogs

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Strategic Alliances And Corporate Control, Stephen Fraidin, Radu Lelutiu Jan 2003

Strategic Alliances And Corporate Control, Stephen Fraidin, Radu Lelutiu

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Keep Your Eyes Open: Avoiding Unintended Consequences In Joint Venture Relationships, Jeanne M. Rickert Jan 2003

Keep Your Eyes Open: Avoiding Unintended Consequences In Joint Venture Relationships, Jeanne M. Rickert

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Allowance For Credit Losses; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2003, June 19, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee Jan 2003

Allowance For Credit Losses; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2003, June 19, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

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Economics, Biology, And Culture: Hodgson On History, Alexander J. Field Jan 2003

Economics, Biology, And Culture: Hodgson On History, Alexander J. Field

Economics

This book addresses what the author claims, with considerable justification, to be the foremost challenge confronting the social and behavioral sciences today: the problem of historical specificity. Hodgson poses the question by asking whether we need different theories to understand social and economic behavior in different societies at different stages of their development. He answers the question in the affirmative, and criticizes the economics profession for suggesting that there is one universal model or theory equally suited to all economies and societies at all times. He faults the profession further for no longer worrying much or conducting serious debate about …

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Ot 520 Old Testament Introduction, Bill T. Arnold Jan 2003

Ot 520 Old Testament Introduction, Bill T. Arnold

Syllabi

LaSor, William S., David Allan Hubbard, and Frederic Wm. Bush. Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament. 2nd ed.; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1996. Coogan, Michael David, editor. The Oxford History of the Biblical World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Alexander, T. Desmond. From Paradise to the Promised Land: An Introduction to the Pentateuch. Second Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2002.

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Ot 520 Old Testament Introduction, Mark J. Boda Jan 2003

Ot 520 Old Testament Introduction, Mark J. Boda

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Dillard, R. B. and Longman, Tremper. An Introduction to the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994. Bright, John and William P. Brown. A History of Israel (Fourth Edition). Minneapolis: Westminster/John Knox, 2000. Tate, W. Randolph. Biblical Interpretation: An Integrated Approach (Revised Edition). Peabody: Hendrickson, 1997.

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Me 745 Leading The Church For The Unchurched, George G. Hunter Jan 2003

Me 745 Leading The Church For The Unchurched, George G. Hunter

Syllabi

1. Hunter, George G. Leading and Managing a Growing Church. Abingdon, 2000. 2. ___________. Radical Outreach: The Recovery of Apostolic Ministry and Evangelism. Abingdon, 2003 3. Schaller, Lyle. Strategies for Change. Abingdon, 1993. 4. Warren, Rick. The Purpose Driven Church. Zondervan, 1995.

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Diversity Matters: Race, Gender, And Ethnicity In Legal Education, Nancy E. Dowd, Kenneth B. Nunn, Jane E. Pendergast Jan 2003

Diversity Matters: Race, Gender, And Ethnicity In Legal Education, Nancy E. Dowd, Kenneth B. Nunn, Jane E. Pendergast

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

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Theories Of System Of Cities;, Hesham M. Abdel-Rahman, Alex Anas Jan 2003

Theories Of System Of Cities;, Hesham M. Abdel-Rahman, Alex Anas

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

Economic theories of systems of cities explain why production and consumption activities are concentrated in a number of urban areas of different sizes and industrial composition rather than uniformly distributed in space. These theories have been successively influenced by four paradigms: i) conventional urban economics emphasizing the tension between economies due to the spatial concentration of activity and diseconomies arising from that concentration; ii) the theory of industrial organization as it relates to inter-industry linkages and to product differentiation; iii) the New Economic Geography which ignores land markets but emphasizes trade among cities, fixed agricultural hinterlands and the endogenous emergence …

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The City Network Paradigm: New Frontiers;, Hesham M. Abdel-Rahman Jan 2003

The City Network Paradigm: New Frontiers;, Hesham M. Abdel-Rahman

Department of Economics and Finance Working Papers, 1991-2006

This chapter provides a survey of recent developments of positive as well as normative theories of city systems. Static theory of city system emphasizes the factors that result in the formation of cities through the interaction between two opposing forces: i) agglomeration economy; ii) agglomeration diseconomy. Furthermore, the theory examines the interaction between cities within the national economy through intercity trade and migration, which shape the internal population composition and industrial structure of cities within the system. New development of this theory has been influenced by industrial organization and economic growth together with the new urban economic paradigm. This chapter …

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Dewey, Bruner, And "Seas Of Stories" In The High Stakes Testing Debate, Kristen Campbell Wilcox Jan 2003

Dewey, Bruner, And "Seas Of Stories" In The High Stakes Testing Debate, Kristen Campbell Wilcox

Educational Theory and Practice Faculty Scholarship

This paper proposes that many of the questions surrounding high stakes testing being debated today are important, yet fall short of moving teachers, parents, students, administrators and legislators to think deeply about how optimal teaching and learning can be achieved in a high stakes testing environment. Finally, the high stakes testing debate is viewed, to borrow a term from Bruner, as a "sea of stories" in which the stakeholders see the same things, but come away with remarkably differing stories of what is happening (1996, p. 147). The principles of learning espoused by Dewey and Bruner put these "seas of …

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The Fcat Is Out Of The Bag: Prominent Concerns Regarding Florida's Comprehensive Assessment Test, David Lewis Jan 2003

The Fcat Is Out Of The Bag: Prominent Concerns Regarding Florida's Comprehensive Assessment Test, David Lewis

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

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Multilateral Management As A Fair Solution To The Spratly Disputes, Wei Cui Jan 2003

Multilateral Management As A Fair Solution To The Spratly Disputes, Wei Cui

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Spratlys are a scattered group of islands in the South China Sea over which China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei have made conflicting jurisdictional claims. Although there has been significant academic discussion of this dispute, the Author argues that much of it is hampered by a discourse obsessed with the regional balance of power and security-related strategies that are only tenuously related to each nation's specific legal claims in the Spratlys. In this Article, the Author suggests that a more productive approach to the Spratly disputes is one focused on finding a solution that is "fair" to all …

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Right To Write - Free Expression Rights Of Pennsylvania's Creative Students After Columbine, Barbara Brunner Jan 2003

Right To Write - Free Expression Rights Of Pennsylvania's Creative Students After Columbine, Barbara Brunner

Faculty Scholarship

This comment analyzes the current state of students' free speech rights in the context of creative writing assignments and examines potential First Amendment applications to the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), a statewide, mandatory, standards-based exam administered to Pennsylvania public school students. The PSSA, which currently contains a writing assessment for students in sixth, ninth, and eleventh grades requiring students to write essays in response to prompts, is scored anonymously by private entities under contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Those private subcontractors have "red-flagging" procedures in place to identify essays containing imagery or themes that indicate imminent …

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Patterns And Trends Of Soil Climate Regimes And Drought Events In The Northern Great Plains, William J. Waltman, Stephen M. Goddard, S. E. Reichenbach, Mark Svoboda, Michael Hayes, J. S. Peake Jan 2003

Patterns And Trends Of Soil Climate Regimes And Drought Events In The Northern Great Plains, William J. Waltman, Stephen M. Goddard, S. E. Reichenbach, Mark Svoboda, Michael Hayes, J. S. Peake

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

Drought is the dominant process of crop loss nationally and within Nebraska. Nearly twothirds of the 18.6 million harvested acres are covered by crop insurance (USDA/RMA, 2003; USDA/NASS, 2003). For the most part, Nebraska’s crop losses range from $50 to 75 million in non-drought years, but the losses approach nearly $200 million in drought years, such as 2000. The past growing season (2002) crop losses are projected to greatly exceed $375 million in Nebraska and more than $4 billion nationally (USDA/RMA, 2003). The analysis and understanding of drought processes in the Great Plains is an important component to developing drought …

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Long-Lived Pluvial Episodes During Deposition Of The Navajo Sandstone, David B. Loope, Clinton M. Rowe Jan 2003

Long-Lived Pluvial Episodes During Deposition Of The Navajo Sandstone, David B. Loope, Clinton M. Rowe

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

The Navajo Sandstone of the American Southwest was deposited at approximately 190 Ma in a giant, subtropical dune field near the western margin of Pangea. From this unit, we report thick intervals of dune cross-strata that were churned by insects and trampled by reptiles. Although dunes continued to migrate freely, the distribution of trace fossils shows that plant life in wet interdune areas sustained high levels of animal activity on the dunes for many thousands of years. We interpret this suite of structures as the record of a pluvial episode climatologically similar to the period of “greening” in the Sahara …

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Intercontinental Migration Of Large Mammalian Carnivores: Earliest Occurrence Of The Old World Beardog Amphicyon (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) In North America, Robert M. Hunt Jr. Jan 2003

Intercontinental Migration Of Large Mammalian Carnivores: Earliest Occurrence Of The Old World Beardog Amphicyon (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) In North America, Robert M. Hunt Jr.

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

North American amphicyonid carnivorans are prominent members of the mid-Cenozoic terrestrial carnivore community during the late Eocene to late Miocene (Duchesnean to Clarendonian). Species range in size from <5 kg to >200 kg. Among the largest amphicyonids are Old and New World species of the genus Amphicyon: A. giganteus in Europe (18–~15? Ma) and Africa, A. ingens in North America (15.9–~14.2 Ma). Amphicyon first appears in the Oligocene of western Europe, surviving there until the late Miocene. Migration to Africa and North America takes place in the early Miocene. The genus occurs in the Arrisdrift fauna (Namibia) of southwest Africa, indicating migration south …

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Male Brown-Headed Cowbird Attacks And Kills A Nestling, Lawrence D. Igl Jan 2003

Male Brown-Headed Cowbird Attacks And Kills A Nestling, Lawrence D. Igl

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

I observed a male Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) attack and kill a nestling of an unidentified passerine in a grassland field in Day County, South Dakota, in June 2000. The killing or removal of nestlings by female cowbirds has been reported by others, but this behavior has not been documented previously in male cowbirds.

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Alteration Of Soil Water Content Consequent To Root-Pruning At A Windbreak/Crop Interface In Nebraska, Usa, Qingjiang Hou, James R. Brandle, Kenneth Hubbard, Michele Schoneberger, Carlos Nieto, Charles A. Francis Jan 2003

Alteration Of Soil Water Content Consequent To Root-Pruning At A Windbreak/Crop Interface In Nebraska, Usa, Qingjiang Hou, James R. Brandle, Kenneth Hubbard, Michele Schoneberger, Carlos Nieto, Charles A. Francis

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Root-pruning is generally recommended as an appropriate treatment to reduce competition for soil water and/or nutrients and suppression of crop yield in areas adjacent to windbreaks. Several recent studies suggest, however, that factors other than soil water might be causing yield reduction at the interface. For two consecutive years, we evaluated root-pruning effects on soil water at the windbreak/crop interface under both cropped (soybean [Glycine max (L) Merr.] variety ‘Iroquois’, 1997) and non-cropped (1998) conditions in Mead, Nebraska, USA. Volumetric soil water content near the windbreaks was systematically measured at various soil depths, distances from the windbreak, …

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Eolian Sand Transport Pathways In The Southwestern United States: Importance Of The Colorado River And Local Sources, Daniel R. Muhs, Richard L. Reynolds, Josh Been, Gary Skipp Jan 2003

Eolian Sand Transport Pathways In The Southwestern United States: Importance Of The Colorado River And Local Sources, Daniel R. Muhs, Richard L. Reynolds, Josh Been, Gary Skipp

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Geomorphologists have long recognized that eolian sand transport pathways extend over long distances in desert regions. Along such pathways, sediment transport by wind can surmount topographic obstacles and cross major drainages. Recent studies have suggested that three distinct eolian sand transport pathways exist (or once existed) in the Mojave and Sonoran Desert regions of the southwestern United States. One hypothesized pathway is eolian sand transport from the eastern Mojave Desert of California into western Arizona, near Parker, and would require sand movement across what must have been at least a seasonally dry Colorado River valley. We tested this hypothesis by …

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The Turn Of The Sword: Length Increases Male Swimming Costs In Swordtails, Alexandra Basolo, Giollermina Alcaraz Jan 2003

The Turn Of The Sword: Length Increases Male Swimming Costs In Swordtails, Alexandra Basolo, Giollermina Alcaraz

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Sexual selection via female mate choice can result in the evolution of elaborate male traits that incur substantial costs for males. Despite increased interest in how female mating preferences contribute to the evolution of male traits, few studies have directly quantified the locomotor costs of such traits. A sexually selected trait that could affect movement costs is the sword exhibited by male swordtail fishes: while longer swords may increase male mating success, they could negatively affect the hydrodynamic aspects of swimming activities. Here, we examine the energetic costs of the sword in Xiphophorus montezumae by experimentally manipulating sword length and …

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Geography Of Religion And Belief Systems, Robert H. Stoddard, Carolyn V. Prorok Jan 2003

Geography Of Religion And Belief Systems, Robert H. Stoddard, Carolyn V. Prorok

Geography Program: Faculty Publications

Spatial and environmental dimensions of religious behavior, artefacts, and attitudes are grist for the geographer’s intellectual mill because spiritually motivated convictions and actions play an important role in human affairs. It is not surprising, therefore, that the geography of religion and belief systems is an important, emerging field of study. We commence this chapter with a definition of the field, particularly as it entails distinctions that arise out of the highly personal nature that religious belief is accorded in the academy and society at large. A limited review and summary of trends in the field over the past decade follows, …

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Where Are The Women Geoscience Professors?, Mary Anne Holmes, Suzanne O'Connel Jan 2003

Where Are The Women Geoscience Professors?, Mary Anne Holmes, Suzanne O'Connel

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

Compiles an extensive set of data on the status of women in the geosciences, identifying successful strategies for increasing diversity as well as obstacles that hinder efforts. The lessons learned and best practices that arise from this report will help geoscientists continue to increase the gender diversity of their community. Some of these lessons also provide insight into ways to improve the racial and ethnic diversity of the geosciences.

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