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2002-2003 - Graduate Council Annual Report, College Of Graduate And Continuing Studies, East Tennessee State University

Graduate Council Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Gender Differences In Educational And Labour Market Outcomes., Kylie Hillman, Sheldon Rothman, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

LSAY Briefing Reports

Despite numerous changes in policy and legislation, issues of gender equity in the Australian education system and labour market remain a concern of the Australian public. Males and females differ in academic performance at various points in their education; there are differences in the numbers of young men and women participating in education and training; men and women experience differential success in the labour market. This Briefing focuses on differences between young males and females on a range of educational and labour market outcomes. The educational outcomes include achievement on tests of reading and mathematics, retention in secondary school, performance …

The Probe, Issue 229 – July/August 2003

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

• Human/Wildlife Conflicts in Ethiopia -- Jeff Peter sen, Berryman Institute, Utah State University
• NADCA 2004 Election
• If the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) originated in Asia, why is this rat commonly called a Norway rat?
• Book Review: When Raccoons Fall through Your Ceiling: The Handbook for Coexisting with Wildlife by Andrea Dawn Lopez.
• Antarctic Scientist Dies in Seal Attack: Research scientist, Kirsty Brown was snorkelling in waters close to the Rothera Research Station as part of her studies when a Leopard seal pulled her under.
• Giant Lizards Spreading Through the Gulf Coast: Cape Coral, Florida …

Cluster Analysis For Medical Technologies And Health Services For El Paso County And The Upper Rio Grande Region, Carlos Olmedo, Daniel Carrasco-Terrazas

IPED Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Renaissance Retirees, No. 2, Summer 2003, College Of Arts And Sciences

Renaissance Retirees

Newsletter profiling retirees from Illinois State University's College of Arts and Sciences

Decreasing Liability Contracts, Robert D. Cooter, Ariel Porat

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Like constructing a building, performance on many contracts occurs in phases. As time passes, the promisor sinks more costs into performance and less expenditure remains. For phased performance, we show that optimal liability for the breaching party decreases as the remaining costs of completing performance decrease. In brief, efficiency requires a decreasing liability contract. To implement such a contract, we recommend deducting past expenditure on incomplete performance from liability. We show that progress payment contracts, which are commonplace in some industries, are materially equivalent to decreasing liability contracts. Our analysis should prove useful for elucidating progress payment contracts and for …

Problem-Based Learning In A Fourth Grade Gifted And Honors Mathematics Class, Barbara J. Barr

All Graduate Projects

Problem-based learning was used to deliver math instruction on three different occasions. Thirty-two fourth-grade students were involved in the project. The purpose was to investigate students' attitudes towards word problems and the development of their confidence with problem-solving skills by providing differentiation through Problem-based learning. The results showed that the majority of the students perceived themselves as good problem solvers and that math in school was related to real life.

Global Patterns Of Dissolved N, P And Si In Large Rivers, R. Eugene Turner, Nancy N. Rabalais, D. Justic', Q. Dortch

Faculty Publications

The concentration of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), dissolved nitrate-N, Total-N (TN), dissolved inorganic phosphate (DIP), total phosphorus (TP), dissolved silicate-Si (DSi) and their ratios in the world's largest rivers are examined using a global data base that includes 37% of the earth's watershed area and half its population. These data were compared to water quality in 42 subbasins of the relatively well-monitored Mississippi River basin (MRB) and of 82 small watersheds of the United States. The average total nitrogen concentration varies over three orders of magnitude among both world river watersheds and the MRB, and is primarily dependent on variations …

An Investigation Of Gravity Wave Activity In The Low-Latitude Mesosphere: Propagation Direction And Wind Filtering, A. F. Medeiros, Michael J. Taylor, H. Takahashi, P. P. Batista, D. Gobbi

All Physics Faculty Publications

An all-sky charge-coupled device imager capable of measuring wave structure in the OH, O2, and O I (557.7 nm) airglow emissions was operated at Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil (23S, 45W), for 2 years in collaboration with Utah State University, Logan. The dominant quasi-monochromatic gravity wave components investigated over a 1 year period (September 1998 to October 1999) have been extracted, and their seasonal variations have been measured. A total of 283 wave events were measured, exhibiting horizontal wavelengths from 5 to 60 km, observed periods from 5 to 35 min, and horizontal phase speeds of up to 80 m s1. The …

Wooster Magazine: Summer 2003, Lisa Watts

Wooster Magazine: 2001-2010

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the Summer of 2003. Members of the class of 1953 have donated 9 million dollars to the college for the construction of a new residence hall -- Bornhuetter Hall, names after trustee Ronald L Bornhuetter who donated $5 million. Two long time faculty members, Deborah Hilty and Michael Kern, retired this spring. Six new alums are highlighted for the Independent Study projects. Pages 25 to 58 are dedicated to the Class Notes section. Photos and highlights from Alumni Weekend are on pages 59 and 60.

Hydrogeologic Principles Useful In Predicting The Effects Of Stream Flow Alterations On Shallow Groundwater And Associated Riparian Vegetation, Mark Cable Rains

Geology Faculty Publications

Numerous studies have shown that stream water and shallow groundwater are tightly linked in alluvial settings, and that changes in stream stage are propagated rapidly across alluvial aquifers (Castro and Hornberger 1991, Sophocleous 1991). Thus, many researchers have assumed that stream stages approximate water tables in alluvial aquifers (Auble et al. 1994, Stromberg and Patten 1996). This assumption is valid in some cases but invalid in other cases, particularly in arid basin terrain and more humid mountain terrain. Even when this assumption is valid, this relationship only implies correlation and not causation so the potential effects of stream flow alterations …

Validation Of Imaging Doppler Interferometer Winds Using Meteor Radar, G. O.L. Jones, C. S. Fish, W. K. Hocking, Michael J. Taylor

All Physics Faculty Publications

There has been some debate over the years concerning the accuracy of mesospheric wind observations made using the imaging Doppler interferometer (IDI) technique. The high potential and increasing use of IDI wind data in joint studies with spaced-antenna MF and meteor radar systems make it important to quantify the IDI results. This paper presents a novel comparison of wind measurements between a dynasonde implementation of IDI and winds derived from an all-sky meteor radar system, a widely-accepted standard for such measurements. Both radars were located at the USU Bear Lake Observatory and operated almost continuously for a four-month period. The …

Functional Behavioral Assessments: Beyond Student Behavior Special Education, Cynthia Dieterich, Christine A. Villani, Tyson J. Bennett

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Multidentate Sulfur-Containing Ligands, David A. Atwood, Brock S. Howerton, Matthew Matlock

Chemistry Faculty Patents

Novel sulfur-containing ligands for binding of heavy metals are disclosed.

To read the remainder of this abstract, please download this patent.

Impulse, Dave Graves, Kyle Johnson, Krista Tschetter

Impulse (Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Publication)

Features:
[Page] 2 Expo proves to be vital recruiting tool
[Page] 4 Bridge designers span indoor river
[Page] 5 EET, MNET students learn from the experts
[Page] 6 BattleBot team creates new, manner battling robot
College:
[Page] 10 Solberg Hall set to open its historic doors once more
[Page] 12 Activated Guard members awaken campus to Iraqi conflict
[Page] 16 College writes new software engineering degree
Students:
[Page] 18 ME students design 65-foot tower at Kirby Science Center
[Page] 22 Engineers Without Borders created to help needy areas 22
[Page] 23 Students form CEO, a new entrepreneurship group
[Page] 24 …

Gold & Blue, Summer 2003, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Summer 2003 edition of Gold & Blue which is St. Mary's University's official school publication.

The Effect Of Cooperative Learning And Traditional Instruction On The Spelling Performance Of Third Grade Students, Tracey Patella

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of cooperative learning and traditional instruction on the spelling test performance of twenty-six third grade students from a southern New Jersey school district. It was hypothesized that students who were taught using cooperative learning strategies during spelling instruction would score significantly higher on their weekly spelling post-tests than students who were taught using traditional spelling instruction.

A one group, pretest/posttest, pre-experimental design was utilized to determine whether students who are randomly grouped in cooperative learning pairs will have higher achievement levels in spelling than students who are taught using traditional …

Manitoba Women And Higher Education: Momentum To Stay The Course, Carolyn Crippen, John R. Mccarthy

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Her education is the same as that of a man ... she is able to unfold and exercise her mental powers and faculties. She chooses her occupation in such a way as corresponds with her wishes, inclinations and natural abilities, and she works under conditions identical with man's. Even if engaged as a practical working woman on some field or other, at other times of the day she may be educator, teacher, or nurse, as yet others she may exercise herself in art, or cultivate some branch of science, and yet others may be filling some demonstrative function. She joins …

Journal Of Women In Educational Leadership, Vol. 1, No.3-July 2003

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

No abstract provided.

Emerging From The Academic Pipeline: Senior Women Faculty Members, Florence A. Hamrick

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Twenty-six women with professor rank at a large, public, research extensive university were interviewed for this study in which respondents discussed the meanings and significance associated with full professorship. Major themes included: the promotion event and the accompanying title of professor, anticipated and actual changes in their status and working conditions, and their identities, goals, and contributions as professors. Conclusions address issues such as dilemmas of senior professorship, effective participation in institutional governance, and progress of women through the faculty ranks.

The Effect Of An Unconscious Auditory Stimulus On Pilot Performance Under Varying Instrument Flying Conditions, Christina Eleni Christakou

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

Human error remains a significant contributing factor with respect to accidents in civil air transportation. It is therefore crucial to establish avenues by which performance on the flightdeck can be enhanced under conditions of distress. The purpose of this study was to examine whether an unconscious auditory stimulus (UAS) could enhance pilot performance under varying instrument flight (IFR) conditions on the aircraft flightdeck. Forty IFR student pilots underwent two eight-minute simulated flights, whereupon they were presented with different IFR weather conditions. During the trial, the experimental group listened to a UAS, whereas the control group listened to white noise (WN). …

Numerical Analysis Of An Airfoil Response To An Impinging Gust, Claire M. Lessiau

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

The BASS code, a nonlinear high-order prefactored compact code is validated on a benchmark problem. The nonlinear response of a loaded airfoil to an impinging vertical gust is investigated in the parametric space of gust intensity and frequency. Computational resources, involving a Linux cluster, were set up and maintained. The code was corrected and adapted to this particular problem. Results are compared with linear solution from the GUST3D solver.

Study Of The Distribution And Variation Of The Herbicide Atrazine In Finished Drinking Water At A Small Community Water System In Kentucky, Vijay Golla

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study examines the variation in the distribution of the concentration of atrazine, a triazine herbicide used in Kentucky to control weeds primarily in corn fields. Atrazine is known to have carcinogenic properties and is an endocrine disruptor in aquatic species even at low concentrations. Atrazine has the ability to be transported through the environment into water bodies due to its physical and chemical properties favoring its occurrence and distribution. Raw and Finished drinking water samples were collected from the Lewisburg water treatment plant which derives its drinking water supplies from a source water intake namely Spa Lake, which has …

Stock Options And Child Support: The Price Of Accuracy, Susan Isard

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

Stock options present difficult problems for family law judges attempting to value parents' wealth for the purpose of creating an equitable child support order. Because markets fluctuate and the value of options before they are exercised and sold is speculative, they do not fit neatly into child support systems. Consequently, appellate courts in several states have struggled with two issues: First, whether a noncustodial parent's stock options should rightly factor into his or her child support obligation. Second, if stock options are relevant, how they should be valued. As courts wrestle with these questions, there is another important non-financial consideration …

Frequency Scanned Interferometer Demonstration System, Tim Blass, Jason A. Deibel, Sven Nyberg, Keith Riles, Haijun Yang

Physics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Extension Newsletter, Issue 39, Summer Quarter 2003, Wright State University Retirees Association

The Extension Newsletter

An eight page newsletter from the Wright State University's Retirees Association.

Market Incentives, Farmers’ Response And A Policy Dilemma: A Case Study On Expansion Of Chat Production As A Cash Crop In The Eastern Ethiopian Highlands.\, Tesfaye Lemma Tefera, Johann Kirsten, Sylvain Perret

International Conference on African Development Archives

This paper discusses the reasons for and effects of the dramatic expansion of chat production as a cash crop in the Hararghe Highlands of Ethiopia. Despite the Ministry of Agriculture’s deliberate attempt to marginalize and openly discourage chat production, farmers continue shifting their scarce resources to chat production. Using data generated by a rural livelihood survey from 197 randomly selected households, economic and non-economic factors contributing to the expansion of chat production are identified and its food and nutritional security impact was analyzed. The case study confirms once more again the power of market incentives in encouraging agricultural activity of …

Li-Yorke Sensitivity, Ethan Akin, Sergiǐ Kolyada

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We introduce and study a concept which links the Li-Yorke versions of chaos with the notion of sensitivity to initial conditions. We say that a dynamical system (X, T) is Li-Yorke sensitive if there exists a positive ε such that every x ∈ X is a limit of points y ∈ X such that the pair (x, y) is proximal but not ε-asymptotic, i.e. for infinitely many positive integers i the distance ρ(Tⁱ(x), Tⁱ(y))is greater than ε but for any positive δ this distance is less than δ for infinitely many i.

The Voice, Summer 2003: Volume 18, Issue 1, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Student Writers Join Professionals to Publish Book of Stories; Find Your Place in God's World; Course Gets Students Communicating Across Cultures; Social Work Majors Raise Awareness of Their Vocation; Criminal Justice Program Is Moving Ahead; Kudos to Students; N-SPICE Program Will Continue; Enthusiastic Beekeepers Get Their Way; Brain Day Gives Students Brain Tour; Senior Laura Groen Stages Ghostdance, a One-Person Show; The Missing Majesty of God; Model Arab League Challenges Students to See Complexity of Issues; Krygsman Sets the Stage for Delegates in Opening Address at Three-Day Session; Senior Research Project Studies Recycling on Campus; Faculty News; Professor Cella Bosma …

Newscope - Summer 2003

Newscope

No abstract provided.