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Policy Profiles Vol. 3 No. 4 December 2003, Northern Illinois University Center For Governmental Studies, J. Dixon Esseks

Policy Profiles

Safeguarding Farmland From Non-Agricultural Uses

A Survey Of Teachers' Perceptions Of Homogeneous, Heterogeneous, And Multiage Grouping And The Achievement Results Of Their Students, Tracy G. Achord

Electronic Dissertations and Theses

Many schools in the state of Louisiana are being rated as either effective or at-risk. The public looks down on those schools that are at-risk and hold a corrective action status. If the schools in corrective action do not improve over a three-year period, they will be closed forever. Now faced with possibility of losing their jobs, teachers need to discover the most effective techniques and strategies of teaching students more than ever before. These have been studies, which indicate that grouping students for instruction id productive and effective. But which grouping method is best? There are many different grouping …

Measurement Of The Ocean And Coastal Economy: Theory And Methods, Charles S. Colgan

Publications

This paper supplements reports and data released on the coastal and ocean economy of the United States by the National Ocean Economics Project. It provides a discussion of the relevant literature involved in the investigation of the ocean and coastal related economy, the theoretical background of measures such as gross domestic and gross state product, and provides details on sources, methods, assumptions, and limitations of the data provided by NOEP.

Accountability In Medicaid Managed Care: Implications For Pediatric Health Care Quality, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Anne R. Markus, Colleen Sonosky, Lee Repasch, D. Richard Mauery, Andy Schneider

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

This study examines the structure and operation of Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) health care access and quality monitoring systems for children enrolled in comprehensive managed care arrangements. As the single largest purchasers of pediatric health care in the U.S., Medicaid and SCHIP agencies play a potentially powerful role in pediatric health policy. How these agencies approach, design, and carry out health quality monitoring activities has the potential to have a major impact not only for poor and low-income children, but for the entire pediatric health system. Even when these systems are developed exclusively for publicly insured …

Acuta Enews December 2003, Vol 32, No 12

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

From the President........................ Walter L. Czerniak, Northern Illinois Univ.

Tech Talk................................. Kevin Tanzillo, Dux Public Relations

Eleanor Smith, ACUTA Business Manager, Retires

Meet ACUTAs New Business Manager, Margaret Riley

Wireless lndustry Announces Recycling lnitiative...................... CTIA

DC Update........................ Whitney Johnson, Retired, Northern Michigan univ.

ACUTA Member Sites to See

Thanks to Sponsors for '03

ACUTA: Have You Shopped the eStore Lately?

Welcome New Members

Paths To Success: The Relationship Between Human Development And Economic Growth, Michael Boozer, Gustav Ranis, Francis Stewart, Tavneet Suri

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Evidence Of Returns To Schooling In Africa From Household Surveys: Monitoring And Restructuring The Market For Education, T. Paul Schultz

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Do Family Caps Reduce Out-Of-Wedlock Births? Evidence From Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey And Virginia, Wendy Tanisha Dyer, Robert W. Fairlie

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Gmos: Prospects For Increased Crop Productivity In Developing Countries, Robert E. Evenson

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Role Of Physical Activity On Bone Mineral Content In Young Children, Bonny L. Specker

Ethel Austin Martin Program Publications

Previous studies identifying factors that influence peak bone mass have typically focused on older children, although it has been suggested that environmental factors early in life also may be important in optimizing the genetic potential for bone gain1 . Physical activity and calcium intake are considered major environmental factors influencing bone mass accretion. Longitudinal studies beginning in childhood show that high activity early in life is associated with high adult bone density2,3. The long-term effect between bone mass accretion and early calcium intake is less clear, with most trials finding that the beneficial bone effect of high calcium intake does …

Arbiter, December 1, Students Of Boise State University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Optimization Of Breast Cancer Screening Modalities, Yu Shen, Giovanni Parmigiani

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

Mathematical models and decision analyses based on microsimulations have been shown to be useful in evaluating relative merits of various screening strategies in terms of cost and mortality reduction. Most investigations regarding the balance between mortality reduction and costs have focused on a single modality, mammography. A systematic evaluation of the relative expenses and projected benefit of combining clinical breast examination and mammography is not at present available. The purpose of this report is to provide methodologic details including assumptions and data used in the process of modeling for complex decision analyses, when searching for optimal breast cancer screening strategies …

Modeling The Incubation Period Of Anthrax, Ron Brookmeyer, Elizabeth Johnson, Sarah Barry

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

Models of the incubation period of anthrax are important to public health planners because they can be used to predict the delay before outbreaks are detected, the size of an outbreak and the duration of time that persons should remain on antibiotics to prevent disease. The difficulty is that there is little direct data about the incubation period in humans. The objective of this paper is to develop and apply models for the incubation period of anthrax. Mechanistic models that account for the biology of spore clearance and germination are developed based on a competing risks formulation. The models predict …

Empirical And Kernel Estimation Of Covariate Distribution Conditional On Survival Time, Xiaochun Li, Ronghui Xu

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Why A State Exclusion Of Religious Schools From School Choice Programs Is Unconstitutional, Thomas C. Berg

First Amendment Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Theology Of The Blaine Amendments, Richard W. Garnett

First Amendment Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Blaine Debate: Must States Fund Religious Schools, Laura S. Underkuffler

First Amendment Law Review

No abstract provided.

Blaming Blaine: Understanding The Blaine Amendment And The No-Funding Principle, Steven K. Green

First Amendment Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reconstructing The Blaine Amendments, Frederick Mark Gedicks

First Amendment Law Review

No abstract provided.

Assessing A Media Discernment Course For Freshmen At Illiana Christian High School: A Case Study, William Boerman-Cornell

Master of Education Program Theses

This case study examines the effectiveness of a team-taught mass-media freshman level course on discernment of media messages, and decision-making. By means of pre- and post- course surveys of students and faculty, this study examines students' decisions about consuming mass media and how after taking the course, their media selection process became more complex, deliberate, and organized. It also examines faculty response to the course in terms of how it appears to affect the students and how it affects faculty teaching and learning.

Focus: The Quarterly Newsletter For Physician Office Staff, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Focus

No abstract provided.

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Archival Chronicle: Vol 22 No 3, Bowling Green State University. Center For Archival Collections

Archival Chronicle

Explanation on the virtues of microfilm

New Expression: December/January 2003 (Volume 26, Issue 9), Columbia College Chicago

New Expression

December/January 2003, Volume 26, Issue 9, edition of New Expression, a news publication researched, contributed, written, and edited by Chicago high school journalists

Love At What Price? Estimating The Value Of Marriage, Michael Conlin, Stacy A. Dickert-Conlin, Elyse Whitney

Economics - All Scholarship

Using a law within Social Security that provides clear financial incentives to delay marriage, we estimate the financial value of a month of marriage. Specifically, the law provides that widows who are eligible for Social Security benefits on their deceased spouse's earnings records are eligible for benefits at age 60, unless they remarry before that age. If they remarry before that age, they cannot claim widow benefits and must wait until at least age 62 to claim spousal benefits on their new husband's record, which are typically less generous than widow benefits. To generate an estimate of what this behavior …

Center For Grassland Studies Newsletter, Winter 2003, Volume 9, No. 1

Center for Grassland Studies: Newsletters

Planning for Bison Grazing on Native Rangeland by Kristin Miller, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

Pooled Sales Add Value to Cull Cows by Rebekka Martin and Jana Beckman

The Grass Dance

UNL Offers Online Course in Turf Diseases

Second National Conference on Grazing Lands

Seed Dormancy – the Uncertainty in Native Grass Seeding

Prairie Pines to Benefit UNL Programs by Steven Ress, Water Center, UNL

Platte River Trust Begins Study of Birds Breeding in Grasslands by Felipe Chavez-Ramirez, Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust

Rejecting Perfection, Jennifer Miller

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.

Procurement Fraud & Data Analytics, Sridhar Ramamoorti, Scott Curtis

Accounting Faculty Publications

The purpose of this article is to bolster the government auditor's ability to detect procurement fraud through the use of information technology (IT) tools in performing more sophisticated data analytics and effective audit testing. The article primarily focuses on fraud detection. The government auditor should customize the application of general fraud detection principles to specific facts and circumstances and use sound professional judgment. Procurement fraud detection tests may help identify fraudulent activity and also inefficiencies, waste and abuse.

The Effects Of The Viscidity Of The Client-Agency Relationship And The Agency's Expert Power On The Level Of Personalization In Advertising Campaigns, Svetlana Kirpichenko

Theses

This study examines the effect of the viscidity of the corporate client-advertising agency relationship and of the expert power exercised by the agency on the level of personalization in the resultant print campaign. A phone survey of 250 advertising agencies nationwide provides statistical support to the findings. The results indicate that for those advertising agencies that perform a significant volume of work on a retainer basis, the expert power exercised by the agencies and the level of the viscidity of the relationship between the clients and the agencies are in close correlation to the level of personalization employed by the …