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Westview: Vol. 23, Iss. 1 (Fall/Winter 2003)

Westview

No abstract provided.

Inside Earth, Volume 6, No. 2, Winter 2003, Joel Despain, Cave And Karst Program (U.S.)

Inside Earth

Contents: Twenty Seven Years of Radon Monitoring at Wind Cave National Park -- Great Basin National Park FY 2003 Update -- Carlsbad Caverns National Park Update -- Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks Update -- Protecting Bats at Death Valley National Park -- NCKRI Workshop Brings Together the Caving Community to Discuss the Future of the National Institute -- NCKRI October 2003 Update

Because A Better World Is Possible: Women Casino Workers, Union Activism And The Creation Of A Just Workplace, Susan Chandler

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Based on a re-analysis of data from a qualitative study of the work experience of 36 women casino workers, this article examines the contributions and personal characteristics of the 13 women in the sample who described themselves as committed union activists. These women, all leaders in the Hotel Employees, Restaurant Employees Union, were proud that collectively they had improved wages, benefits, and the conditions of work in Nevada casinos, and had created an environment that reinforced pride in a job well-done, provided job security, and promoted strong families and communities. These women's workplace experience serves as a reminder to the …

Review Of Working Parents And The Welfare State: Family Change And Policy Reform In Scandinavia. Arnlaug Leira. Inventing The Needy: Gender And The Politics Of Welfare In Hungary. Lynne Haney. Reviewed By Rebecca A. Van Voorhis., Rebecca A. Van Voorhis

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book review of Arnlaug Leira, Working Parents and the Welfare State: Family Change and Policy Reform in Scandinavia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. $65.00. & Lynne Haney, Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. $24.95 papercover.

Building Strategic Leadership And Management Capacity To Improve School Effectiveness, Kelvin Canavan

Journal of Catholic Education

The building of leadership and management capacity with a focus on teaching and learning effectiveness has been a defining characteristic of the Catholic schools in Sydney, Australia, during the past decade. During the 1990s, the leaders of the 150 parish primary and regional secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Sydney adopted a common leadership and management framework that incorporates long-term strategic planning with an annual implementation cycle characterized by a sharp focus on teaching and learning outcomes. Principals and senior staff are involved in an ongoing performance management plan that is linked to the schools’ annual curriculum goals and targets. …

The Sacred And The Secular: Aligning A Marianist Mission With Professional Standards Of Practice In An Educational Leadership Doctorial Program, Darla J. Twale, Carolyn S. Ridenour

Journal of Catholic Education

This inquiry was conducted to explore how the characteristics of our university’s religious mission are interwoven into our educational leadership doctoral program and are manifest in the structure and learning experiences that our students encounter. We examined how these characteristics might correspond to or relate to the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards that resulted from national reform initiatives in educational leadership in the mid 1990s. We concluded that the foundations of the PhD program are built solidly on the distinctive characteristics and identity of our founders and are aligned with these professional standards as well. Implications for universities …

Catholic Higher Education And Latino(A) Students: Exploring The Experience Of University Undergraduates, Lisa M. Raphael, Michael Pressley, Jennifer Kane

Journal of Catholic Education

The experience of Latino(a) undergraduates at Notre Dame was the focus of this study. In general, the students had a positive experience at the university, but one that included challenges, including physical separation from family and familiar community. Family and spiritual supports were important to the Latino(a) students as they coped with difficulties they encountered at the university, than for a comparable sample of Anglo students attending Notre Dame.

Validation And Use Of The Catholic School Graduate Characteristics Inventory, Jeffrey P. Dorman

Journal of Catholic Education

Scales and subscales to assess the desirable characteristics of Catholic school graduates were developed and validated using a sample of 557 alumni of Australian Catholic high schools. Exploratory factory analysis supported a 4 scale structure (viz., Religious Faith & Spiritual Development, Personal Integration, Social Responsibility, and Life-long Learning Skills). The utility of this instrument, the Catholic School Graduate Characteristics Inventory (CSGCI), is enhanced by the optional subdividing of each scale into 3 internally consistent subscales. The use of the CSGCI revealed statistically significant differences in the characteristics of Catholic school graduates according to gender and year of graduation. These results …

The End Of Education: Redefining The Value Of School, By Neil Postman, Molly Welzbacher

Journal of Catholic Education

No abstract provided.

Physics First, Marcelo Alonso

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

It is true that now most biology courses begin with the DNA molecule, and many chemistry courses introduce the notion of electronic orbitals in atoms and molecules, topics for which students are not well prepared, since most of them have not taken physics courses. Physics courses in turn relegate to the end some discussion of the structure of matter and electromagnetic interaction, or do not discuss that at all. Thus, students miss the overall picture.

The Mechanics Of Microeconomic Choice: A School Option Perspective, Ikwukananne I. Udechukwu

Essays in Education

The development of this paper describes uniquely the mechanics of choice in the delivery of education services relative to the public school system and school options. Three components, which magnify choice, are consumer (parents), market (pupils), and producer (government). Macbeth (1989) notes that there are four groups of people who benefit from the education system, namely: (1) the pupil (children) (2) the parent (3) the owners of a school (government) and (4) society at large. The first three beneficiaries of the education system are appropriately linked to the three components of choice as illustrated in the model and discussed in …

Infrastructure Development Strategy In Africa Under Nepad: Imperatives For Success, Olu Ajakaiye

Economic and Financial Review

This paper summarizes some of the achievement in the infrastructure development strategy in Africa under the New Partnership for African's Development (NEPAD) under the imperatives for success are proposed.

Mobilization Of Funds For Nepad Implementation, Victoria Kwakwa

Economic and Financial Review

This paper explores issues relating to the mobilization of funds for NEPAD implementation. The next section discusses the nature of the financing need; the third section explores domestic sources of funding, followed by a discussion of external funding sources in section four. Section five suggests some critical success for mobilization of funds for NE PAD and last sections concludes.

The Role Of Human Resource Development In The New Partnership For Africa's Development (Nepad), Chris Ltsede

Economic and Financial Review

The paper is divided into five parts. Following the introduction in Part I, Part 11 highlights salient features of NEPAD; Part111 examines the role of human resources development in realizing the objectives for NEPAD. Part IV discusses strategies for building capacity for NEPAD, while the final part presents the conclusion.

Good Governance And Nepad -, Basil O. Oshionebo

Economic and Financial Review

Section (1) introduces the paper while section (2) discusses the rising incidence of poverty in Africa (and Nigeria) so as to contextualise the growing importance of "good governance" if the situation is to be reversed. Section 3 explores the concept of good governance and annotates its components and attributes. Section 4 traces the origins of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and discusses its mission and objectives. Section 5 relates NEPAD and good governance and discusses the resolve of African leaders to respect the precepts of good governance in the management of their economies. Section 6 discusses good governance …

Prevalence Of H.Influenzae Biotypes And Their Clinical Significance In A University Hospital, Nurum N. Begum, Abdul-Aziz S Al-Khattaf, Abdelmageed M. Kambal, Edward A. Yeboah

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Hemophilus influenzae is an important pathogen that is responsible for invasive and non-invasive infections in both children and adults. This study aims to assess the relationship of biotypes to the sites of infection, serotypes, antimicrobial susceptibility, b-lactamase production and age. METHODS: A total of 200 isolates of H.influenzae were obtained from clinical specimens over a period of 12 months from January 2001 through to January 2002 from King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. RESULTS: Most of the strains were non-typable and were isolated from patients with non-invasive infections. The typable isolates from invasive infections mostly serotype …

Dental Health Status And Caries Pattern Of Preschool Children In Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia, Tahir R. Paul

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to assess dental caries and its relation to plaque, tooth brushing habit and past dental attendance, and to determine the caries pattern in primary dentition of preschool children. METHODS: One hundred and three, 5-year-old children, from preschool nurseries in Al-Kharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were studied in 1994. The World Health Organization criteria was used to determine caries. RESULTS: Only 16.5% were caries free. The mean decayed missing filled teeth (dmft) was 7.1, and by excluding caries free children it was 8.5. The decay component of dmft was predominant (82%). Almost 90% of …

Lack Of Association Of Coronary Artery Disease With H.Pylori Infection, Mansour M. Al-Nozha, Mohamed Z. Khalil, Ibrahim A. Al-Mofleh, Abdullah S. Al-Ghamdi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: It has been suggested from previous studies that there is an associated increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with Helicobacter pylori (H.pylori). However, others dispute this. We therefore evaluated this hypothesis in a group of patients with confirmed H.pylori infection. METHODS: A total of 158 patients with dyspeptic symptoms were evaluated by esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (EGD) in King Khalid University Hospital in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from May through to June 1997. Endoscopic biopsies and histology as well as culture and serology for H.pylori were obtained. In patients with confirmed H.pylori a further analysis was performed looking …

Skin Cancers In Western, Manzoor A. Bhat, Venkatashari Ramesh, Syed M. Ali

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: A retrospective analysis of skin cancers in a major referral centre in Taif region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, (KSA). METHODS: The case records of all malignant skin cancers diagnosed during a 10 year period, from 1992 through to 2001 were taken for the study. The clinical and histopathological details were noted. These were compared to reports from the rest of KSA and other countries. RESULTS: One hundred and four cases of malignant skin lesions including primary and metastatic tumors were seen. The majority were Saudis. The male to female ratio was 2.25:1. Most of the patients were over the …

Mesenteric Cystic Teratoma In Children, Abdullatif A. Al-Arfaj, Mohammad A. El-Shawarby, Fatma A. Al-Mulhim, Amer A. Lardhi

Saudi Medical Journal

Mesenteric teratoma is an extremely rare tumor, arising, akin all other teratomas, from totipotent primordial cells and displays a mixture of tissues of tridermal or bidermal origin. Two cases of mature mesenteric teratoma in a 5-month-old girl and a 4-month-old boy, the youngest reported in the literature, excluding a case recently diagnosed prenatally, are described. Diagnostic tools, differential diagnosis and management are also discussed.

A Comparative Study On The Application Of 3 Molecular Methods In Epidemiological Typing Of Bacterial Isolates Using Mrsa As A Prototype, Sahar I. Al-Thawadi, George Kessie, Damian Dela Cruz, Mohammed N. Al-Ahdal

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and compare 3 widely used molecular techniques, namely, restriction endonuclease analysis of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid (REAP), randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for their suitability and usefulness in the typing and fingerprinting of bacterial isolates. METHODS: Twenty-four epidemiologically unrelated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates were used to evaluate the molecular typing methods (REAP, RAPD and PFGE). The study was conducted at the Research and Diagnostic Laboratories of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center from January 2002 through January 2003. RESULTS: Only 20.8% of all isolates studied were of the same genotypes by …

Review: Sean Mallon, Samoan Art And Artists: O Measina A Sāmoa, Teri Sowell

Pacific Studies

Sean Mallon, Samoan Art and Artists: O Measina a Sāmoa. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. Pp. 224, illus., bib., index. US$29.95 paper.

Reviewed by Teri Sowell, San Diego State University

Celebrating Mother's Day In A Melanesian Village Church, Deborah Van Heekeren

Pacific Studies

Christianity dominates village sociality in the Hula villages of Papua New Guinea's southeastern coast to the extent that the United Church has appropriated and indigenized the Western custom of setting aside a day to celebrate motherhood. In the process Mother's Day has been transformed into an expression of local Christian values to which women should aspire. In many ways the events that take place invert gender roles, but we also find that certain things are always left to women. The events related here, through the perspective of the United Church Women's Fellowship (UCWF), also comment briefly on Adventism in Irupara …

Vol. 26 Nos. 3/4 (2003): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US $26.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, …

Review: John Overton And Regina Scheyvens, Editors, Strategies For Sustainable Development: Experiences From The Pacific, Norman S. Wright

Pacific Studies

John Overton and Regina Scheyvens, editors, Strategies for Sustainable Development: Experiences from the Pacific. London and New York: Zed Books, 1999. Pp. 306, bib., index. US$15.50 paper.

Reviewed by Norman S. Wright, Brigham Young University-Hawai'i

Books Noted: Recent Pacific Islands Publications: Selected Acquisitions, May 2002-March 2003, Riley M. Moffat

Pacific Studies

THIS LIST of significant publications relating to the Pacific Islands was selected from new acquisitions lists received from Brigham Young University-Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, University of Auckland, East-West Center, University of the South Pacific, National Library of Australia, Melanesian Studies Resource Center of the University of California-San Diego, Radboud University of Nijmegen's Centre for Pacific Asian Studies, and Secretariat of the Pacific Community Library. Other libraries are invited to send contributions to the Books Noted Editor for future issues. Listings reflect the extent of information provided by each institution.

Constraint Datalog In Trust Management, Scot Anderson

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Constraint Datalog holds an increasing role in Trust Management. We discuss several Trust Management systems and give a description of the environment and requirements for Trust Management. Constraint Datalog using addition constraints and approximation theory provides an expressive semantic with which to describe security policies for credentials, delegations and authorizations. Approximation theory allows halting in Constraint Datalog over addition constraints. We use the decision problem of Diophantine equations to show that Constraint Datalog over addition constraints is complete. Combining these two concepts provides an approximately complete, safe language. The problem of constant additions to closed languages provides reasons for using …

Effects Of Sodium Metaborate On Kraft Pulping, Biljana M. Bujanovic

Dissertations

The kraft lime cycle can be either replaced or supplemented by borate-based autocausticizing (total or partial autocausticizing, respectively). The borate-based autocausticizing uses sodium metaborate to produce sodium hydroxide in the two-step reaction performed in a recovery boiler and dissolving tank. In accordance with the borate-based autocausticizing chemistry, sodium metaborate is an additional chemical in both pulping and recovery. The studies of kraft pulping in the presence of sodium metaborate provide insight into the effect which sodium metaborate might have on the pulping process including the delignification rate, selectivity of lignin removal, and the properties of both pulp and black liquor. …

Preparing Teachers To Use Technology: The Webquest In The Secondary English Language Arts Methods Classroom, Melinda C. Dobson

Dissertations

This study focuses on why and how English language arts methods instructors can integrate WebQuest development into their courses. Behavioral, cognitive, and constructive learning theory are established as a theoretical basis for introducing the WebQuest into the English language arts methods curriculum. Practicing teachers are surveyed about their WebQuest-use to identify positive and negative outcomes of the activity. National and international standards the WebQuest fulfills are identified. This study focuses on how to integrate technology in general into the methods course and then documents the development of the researcher's WebQuest and that of three different secondary English language arts methods …

The Writing Observation Framework: A Guide For Refining And Validating Writing Instruction, Bill Henk, Barbara A. Marinak, Jesse C. Moore, Marla H. Mallette

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

The Writing Observation Framework (WOF) is a new tool for enhancing writing instruction in schools. The WOF organizes principles of writing instruction In a way that improves the evaluation of teachers' writing practices, encourages a shared philosophy of the writing process and its instruction, and assists schools in demonstrating the integrity of their writing programs.