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Gender, Spatial Learning Trials, And Object Recall., Tifani R. Hite

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Previous researchers have reported women doing better than men in object recall. The current study tested for gender differences in object recall over three memorization trials using gender neutral stimuli. Fifty men and 53 women viewed pictures of 60 objects (15 in each of four quadrants) for one minute, and then had three minutes to recall as many objects and locations as they could. This procedure was followed over three trials. Women performed better than men, and the difference increased across trials. Training was successful as participants recalled significantly more objects and locations on trial 3 than on trial 1. …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, August 10, 2003, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2003

No abstract provided.

Commencement Convocation Program, Tampa Campus, August 9, 2003, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Jeni Elaine Norstrom and Candee Lynn West; Outstanding Senior - Juno Priscilla Paramadevan; Honorary Doctorate of Humanities - Robert W. Saunders, Sr.

Clemson Commencement Program, August 2003, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

08/08/2003 - Eiu Holds Annual Honors Awards Day.Pdf, University Marketing And Communications

2003

No abstract provided.

Legal Negotiation And Communication Technology: How Small Talk Can Facilitate E-Mail Dealmaking, Janice Nadler

Law and Economics Papers

E-mail recently has become a popular mode of communication for lawyers negotiating deals and conducting settlement discussions. But the obvious conveniences of e-mail as a negotiation medium can blind users to its pitfalls. The impoverished nature of the e-mail medium can lead to misunderstandings, sinister attributions, and ultimately, negotiation impasse. How can lawyers make use of the advantages of e-mail for negotiation while overcoming its disadvantages? One solution consists of a very simple insurance measure: small talk. In the empirical demonstration described in this Article, law students each negotiated a commercial transaction with another law student at a different university …

Volume 40, Number 42: August 8, 2003, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Summer Commencement: August 8, 2003, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Summer Commencement program from August 8, 2003.

The Rational Exuberance Of Structuring Venture Capital Startups, Victor Fleischer

ExpressO

This Article takes the bursting of the dot com bubble as an opportunity to reevaluate the tax structure of venture capital startups. By organizing startups as corporations rather than as partnerships, investors and entrepreneurs seem to leave money on the table by failing to fully use tax losses -- especially since the vast majority of startups fail. Conventional wisdom attributes the lack of attention paid to losses to a "gambler's mentality" or optimism bias. I argue here that the use of the corporate form is, in fact, rational, or at least that there is a method to the madness.

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The Perils Of "Consensus": Hans Kelsen And The Legal Philosophy Of The United Nations, J. Peter Pham

ExpressO

Recently the United States and a number of its traditional allies have clashed over a variety of foreign policy issues that are profoundly juridical: the authority for war and peace, the International Criminal Court, etc. The source of these recent tensions is to be located at a level deeper than that of narrow national interests and specific policies. Rather, they arise from significant differences concerning the nature of "consensus" and, ultimately, legal philosophy. While the United Nations and many other international organizations derive their legal visions from the philosophy of law of Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), one of the most important …

Usa V. Mussayev

2003 Decisions

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

Research Or "Cheerleading"? Scholarship On Community School District 2, New York City, Lois Weiner

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This article examines data on student achievement and school demographics not explored by the researchers who have promoted Community School District 2 (CSD 2) as a model of urban school reform that should be replicated elsewhere. Data on achievement indicate a remarkable degree of social and racial stratification among CSD 2's schools and levels of achievement that closely correlate with race, ethnicity, and poverty. In addition, when CSD 2's scores on state and city tests of mathematics are compared with results from CSD 25 in Queens, a school district that serves a population demographically similar, the superiority of its functioning …

Reforms, Research And Variability: A Reply To Lois Weiner, Laurence B. Resnick

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

Lois Weiner (2003) argues that the research reports from High Performance Learning Communities (HPLC) were biased because of the close working relationships between the researchers and the leaders of the Community School District Two (CSD2) reform. Contrary to any claims otherwise, this relationship was quite open and acknowledged. The intent of the HPLC investigation was always to link scholars and practitioners in a new form of research and development in which scholars became problem-solving partners with practitioners. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/27 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Research or , Äúcheerleading, Äù? Scholarship on Community School District 2, New York City / Lois Weiner.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/28 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Reforms, research and variability: A Reply to Lois Weiner / Lauren B. Resnick -- Reply To Resnick, Äôs , Äúreforms, research And variability, Äù / Lois Weiner.

The Weekly Challenger, August 7, 2003, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 7, 2003, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Asking To See The Soul: A Video Documentary Exploring The 'Coming Out' Experiences Of Men Identifying With A Gay Subculture, Barth Cox

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This thesis details the production process of a video documentary that describes the coming out processes of gay men who identify with the Bear subculture of the gay community and some of the conflicts and consequences that they face due to this action. The aim of this production was to portray with dignity and compassion the recorded feelings and personal histories of the subjects interviewed. Chapters are devoted to the development, pre-production, production and post-production phased of this documentary. A detailed script, transcripts, shot list, and other examples and illustrations are included to give a better understanding of the entire …

The Association Between Callous-Unemotional Traits And Emotional Processing Within Individuals And Across Generations, Eva Kimonis

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

There is evidence to suggest that an impaired ability to process distressing and threatening emotional stimuli may result in a callous-unemotional (CU) and thrill-andadventure- seeking (TAS) personality. In this study we examined emotional processing in fifty community children, each with one parent, using the emotional pictures dot-probe task, which is a computerized task measuring attention to emotional pictures in the form of a facilitation score. The relationship between emotional processing, CU traits, and TAS were examined to determine whether individuals high on CU traits would also be more TAS, and show a lack of facilitation to emotional pictures. The results …

Development Of Novel Nicotinic Receptor Mediated Therapeutic Agents: Synthesis And Biological Evaluation Of Novel Epibatidine Analogs And The First Total Synthesis Of Anabasamine And Related Analogs, Stassi Dimaggio

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In an effort to search for a more selective, less toxic neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor analgesic agent in comparison to epibatidine, a series of analogs with hybrid structures of epibatidine and ABT-594 were designed and synthesized. The 1-(pyridyloxymethyl)-7-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane ring systems were furnished via an intramolecular cyclization from a trans 1, 4 disubstitituted amino-cyclohexane derivative. The functionalized cyclohexane ring was formed via a [4+2] Diels-Alder cyclization reaction between the acetamidoacrylate and Danishefsky's diene. These 1- (pyridyloxymethyl)-7-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptane ring systems were then tested in vitro as potential á4â2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ligands with high potency and selectivity. In addition, a series of rigid …

Relational And Overt Aggression In Youth: Same Aggressive Tendency, Different Manifestations?, Monica Marsee

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this research was to determine whether relational aggression in girls was similar to overt aggression in boys in terms of social-psychological adjustment. A total of 199 fifth through ninth grade children (86 boys, 113 girls) participated in this study. Relational and overt aggression scores were used to form groups of children who varied on the two types of aggression. Results indicated that overtly aggressive boys did not differ from relationally aggressive girls in terms of depression, anxiety, psychopathy, sensation seeking, ADHD, delinquency, and drug use. Further, boys in the aggressive groups scored consistently higher than boys in …

Murray Ledger And Times, August 7, 2003, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Toward A Criminal Law For Cyberspace: Distributed Security, Susan Brenner

ExpressO

The article analyzes the structure and evolution of the current, traditional model of law enforcement and explains why this model is not an effective means of addressing computer-facilitated criminal activity. It begins by analyzing the operation of rules in collective systems composed of biological or artificial entities; it explains that every such system utilizes basic, constitutive rules to maintain both internal and external order. The article explains that intelligence has a profound effect upon a system’s ability to maintain internal order. Intelligence creates the capacity for deviant behavior, i.e., the refusal to abide by constitutive rules, and this requires the …

Gsuniverse, 2003-08-04, Office Of Public Affairs

GSUniverse

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2002-2005.

The Statesman, V. 46, I. 60, State University Of New York At Stony Brook

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 46, i. 60

High-Stakes Testing: Another Analysis, Barak Rosenshine

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

Amrein and Berliner (2002b) compared National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results in high-stakes states against the national average for NAEP scores. They studied NAEP scores for 8th grade mathematics, 4th grade mathematics, and 4th grade reading. They concluded that states that introduced consequences (high-stakes) to their statewide tests did not show any particular gains in their statewide NAEP scores. However, there was no comparison group in their analysis. In this analysis, a comparison group was formed from states that did not attach consequences to their state-wide tests. ...

Re-Analysis Of Naep Math And Reading Scores In States With And Without High-Stakes Tests: Response To Rosenshine, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, David C. Berliner

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

Here we address the criticism of our NAEP analyses by Rosenshine (2003). On the basis of his thoughtful critique we redid some of the analyses on which he focused. Our findings contradict his. This is no fault of his, the reasons for which are explained in this paper. Our findings do support our position that high-stakes tests do not do much to improve academic achievement. ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/24 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

High-stakes testing : another analysis / Barak Rosenshine.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 11/25 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Re-analysis of NAEP Math and Reading Scores in States with and without High-stakes Tests: Response to Rosenshine / Audrey Amrein-Beardsley [and] David C. Berliner.

August 4, 2003 Reporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

The Spiritual Self: Toward A Conceptualization Of Spiritual Identity Development, Timothy B. Smith, Justin B. Poll

Faculty Publications

Both researchers and practitioners have demonstrated considerable interest in identity development, and positive personal identities have been associated with numerous positive mental health outcomes. However, major theories of identity development have neglected the salience of spiritual identity, even though the early work of William James placed this as a central component of personality. This article reviews four major theories of identity development (cognitive, psychodynamic, systems, and narrative) and suggests spiritual identity parallels to these theories. A tentative model of spiritual identity development is presented. Implications for therapy and future research concerning spiritual identity development are discussed.