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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 …

Preliminary Report On The Osteology And Relationships Of A New Aberrant Cryptocleidoid Plesiosaur From The Sundance Formation, Wyoming, F. Robin O’Keefe, William Wahl Jr.

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

The cryptocleidoid plesiosaur Tatenectes laramiensis, new genus, is described from the Redwater Shale Member of the Sundance Formation, Narrona County, Wyoming. The holotype of this species was a partial skeleton that has since been lost. A neotype is designated that preserves the same elements present in the holotype. A second specimen is referred to the taxon, and this specimen includes cranial material. The preserved cranial elements are the left squamosal, a partial right frontal, several isolated teeth, the parasphenoid, and large portions of the left and right pterygoids. The skull shares many traits with that of Kimmerosaurus, a cryptocleidoid plesiosaur …

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.

Expanding The Scope Of The Tropical Forest Conservation Act: Exchanging Foreign Debt For Sustainable Development, David M. Leon

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.

Essay: The Revised Brazilian Civil Code, André Antunes Soares De Camargo

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dispersal Of The Suwannee River Plume Over The West Florida Shelf: Simulation And Observation Of The Optical And Biochemical Consequences Of A Flushing Event, Jason K. Jolliff, John J. Walsh, Ruoying He, Robert H. Weisberg, Antoya Stovall-Leonard, Paula G. Coble, Robyn Conmy, Cynthia A. Heil, Bisman Nababan, Haiying Zhang, Chuanmin Hu, Frank E. Muller-Karger

Marine Science Faculty Publications

We have combined a circulation model with one of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) photolysis to describe the fate of terrestrial CDOM on the West Florida shelf (WFS). Our results for summer 1998 suggest that a near shore plume of CDOM became entrained in a coastal jet extending south from the Suwannee River (Big Bend) region of the WFS towards the Florida Keys-a feature also evident in satellite ocean color imagery. The coupled models suggest that photochemical losses of CDOM were significant, but provided only a minimal nitrogen source for phytoplankton growth on the WFS.

(Mis)Conceptions: Unjust Limitations On Legally Unmarried Women's Access To Reproductive Technology And Their Use Of Known Doners, Justyn Lezin

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

The use of assisted reproductive technologies has vastly increased over the last twenty years. However, legally unmarried women may find that their options are severely limited compared to heterosexual married women. Through excessive physician discretion and a lack of legal protections, legally unmarried women are frequently barred from using their preferred options for conception. Legally unmarried women should be entitled to the full range of reproductive technologies to which married couples enjoy access. States should pass legislation to allow sperm donors and recipients to bar future acknowledgement of paternity and public accommodations laws to bar physician discrimination against legally unmarried …

The Effect Of Hardiness On The Relationship Between Stress And Well-Being: Moderator, Mediator, Or Both?, Alison Jo Donnell

Doctoral Dissertations

Stress, and particularly its negative impact on health; is an important concern to society. Most research, however, has found the magnitude of the relationship between stress and well-being to be moderate, indicating that people's reaction to stress can be varied (Dohrenwend & Dohrenwend, 1981). These results have led researchers to question what factors influence a person's response to stress and to investigate individual differences as potential intervening factors between stress and well-being. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a model of hardiness on the relationship between stress and both physical and mental well-being. Research has …

Fabrication Of Cell Culture Scaffolds Using Micro/Nanotechnologies To Study The Attachment And Alignment Of Smooth Muscle Cells, Mengyan Li

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation elaborates the design and fabrication of in vitro cell culture scaffolds using microfabrication and electrostatic layer-by-layer self-assembly (LbL) technologies, and develops the so-called layer-by-layer lift-off (LbL-LO) technique to control surface topography, surface properties, and underlying architectures of the scaffolds. Smooth muscle cells were cultured on the fabricated scaffolds with gelatin, fibronectin, and polyelectrolytes (PSS, PDDA, PAH, and PEI) as surface materials, multilayer polyelectrolytes as architectures, deposited in strip- and square-patterns. It was found that the exposed surface materials, which have different charge, hydrophobicity, and chemical structure (e.g., amino acid sequence), affect the adhesion of smooth muscle cells. Cells …

Monthly Accomplishments For Turnbull National Refuge, July And August 2003, Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge Reports

A monthly report of accomplishments at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge written by Project Leader Nancy Curry.

Agroforestry And Community Forestry For Rehabilitation Of Degraded Watersheds On The Ethiopian Highlands, Badege Bishaw, Abdu Abdelkadir

International Conference on African Development Archives

Despite the efforts made to develop Ethiopian agriculture over the years, the problems of hunger, famine, and malnutrition and land degradation still linger and present the greatest threat to the survival of the nation. With the new thrust to produce more food using high input and single crop farming, today’s farmers grow only one or two crops in monoculture systems. The traditional diversification of farmlands, which arguably has been the source of sustenance in rural Ethiopia since time immemorial, has largely been abandoned. Furthermore, deforestation, accelerated soil erosion, and land degradation are now serious problems in Ethiopia. As a result …

Perspectives On Food Crop Production For Combating Famine In Ethiopia, Brhane Gebrekidan

International Conference on African Development Archives

Feeding the ever-growing Ethiopian population with the continuously shrinking land holdings and nutrient depleted soils is going to be very difficult to say the least. The realistic option under the current Ethiopian scenario is to increase the food productivity per unit of land. The science and the technological options available to realize higher productivity than what the average Ethiopian farmer gets are widely available both locally and internationally. Assuming that all of the non-technical institutional and policy issues bearing on solving the famine problem in Ethiopia are addressed adequately, my perspective focuses on the technological options to curtail famine and …

Conceptualising Famine In Ethiopia, Getnet Alemu

International Conference on African Development Archives

This paper attempts to explain the nature of recurrent famine, not just as a result of a series of adventitious effects, but more importantly as the unintended outcome of an exclusionary growth model. This adventitious effects matter a great deal, but their impact can only be understood in the light of the inherent weakness of the growth model, which impoverished the peasantry and hence generated their vulnerability to famine.

College Of Dental Medicine Student Handbook July 2003, Nova Southeastern University

Health Professions Divisions Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions

No abstract provided.

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.

The Web Magazine 2003, Summer, Matt Webber

The Web Magazine

The Web Magazine focuses on alumni news and campus events from Gardner-Webb College; now Gardner-Webb University. This issue of the Web starts off with a "President's Update" in which he gives more insight into his reasoning for choosing GWU. The next big story is the one entitled "Honor Codes" which is a debate that occurred during that time. GWU was also proud to offer its second doctoral degree in the fall of 2003. Many faculty members were recognized but the one who stands out is Dr. Tom Jones. Then, the student spotlight is on Justin Alston who struggled with health …

The University Of Texas At Arlington Undergraduate Catalog 2003-2005, The University Of Texas At Arlington

UTA Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Help One Another, Use One Another: Toward An Anthropology Of Family Business, Alex Stewart

Management Faculty Research and Publications

Anthropological kinship theory is explored for potential contributions to a theory of family business. This paper considers the costs and benefits of a role for kinship in business. Both derive from the discrepancy between the normative orders of kinship and markets; respectively, long-term generalized reciprocity and short-term balanced reciprocity. Because the former reflects the morality of society as a whole, kinship integrates social fields more readily than more specialized orders like markets.

A System Dynamics Model Of The Pacific Coast Rockfish Fishery, Wayne Wakeland, Olgay Cangur, Guillermo Rueda, Astrid Scholz

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper presents a model of the dynamic behavior of the yellowtail rockfish of the Pacific Coast of the United States. The purpose of the model is to generate endogenously the historical data for fish population, fishing vessels, regulatory parameters, and fish harvest. The model was subjected to a variety of tests to determine its sensitivity to changes in key parameters and initial values, including extreme conditions. Model results indicate that acceptable biological catch and fleet capacity must be adjusted quickly in response to changing conditions, in order to improve fishery sustainability. Additional analysis reinforces the policy of setting the …

Volume 2002-2003 - Issue 3 - Summer, 2003, Echoes Staff

Rose Echoes

No abstract provided.

Ua64/2 The Challenge: The Newsletter Of The Center For Gifted Studies (No. 11, Summer 2003), Center For Gifted Studies, Tracy Inman Editor

Gifted Studies Publications

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, July 01, 2003, Daily Egyptian Staff

July 2003

No abstract provided.

The Western Michigan University Magazine, Summer 2003, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• Changing Times • 'Let the Good Times Roll' • Homecoming of the Century • Classnotes • Obituaries

Legacy - December 2002 & July 2003, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Magazine - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

Exploring Carolina-Africa Watercraft.....p. 1
Interim Director’s Notes.....p. 2
Avocational Project in Georgia.....p. 5
State Underwater Archaeology Manager Meeting.....p. 6
SCIAA Staff Recognized by National Preservation Award.....p. 7
New Changes in Underwater Law.....p. 7
Golden Spike Wreck.....p. 8
Le Prince Search Continues.....p. 10
International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology Available.....p. 13
Environmental Change on the Coastal Plain.....p. 14
Exploring Fort Moore.....p. 17
Upper Paleolithic in the Russian Far East.....p. 20
Allendale Paleoindian Expedition.....p. 22
South Carolina Paleoindian Point Recording Survey.....p. 30
The Patterson Site.....p. 30
Prehistoric Stone Tool Report.....p. 30
Petroglyph Survey Update.....p. 30
Excavations in Barbados.....p. 32
Completion of Gronauer …

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4 Summer 2003, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.

Contractual Difficulties In Environmental Management And The Protection Of Biodiversity: The Case Of Conservation And Mitigation Banking, Paul Hallwood

Economics Working Papers

This paper offers a principal-agent model of feasible private contracting in mitigation and conservation banking aimed at the protection of natural habitat and bio-diversity of US wetlands and uplands. It is shown that while it is straightforward to design an incentive contract, such a contract may not achieve the federally mandated objective of no net loss of habitat. This is because the minimum payment required as an economic incentive to private agents may be greater than what they should receive for the habitat values that they actually created in the field. This possible problem is shown to derive from nonconvexity …

Sustaining The Economic Rent Of Oceanic Resources: The Case Of Marine Protected Areas, Paul Hallwood

Economics Working Papers

This paper investigates economic aspects of marine protected areas (MPAs) that are closely related to the underlying marine biota. Many marine scientists recognize that enough is now known about the marine biology for the scientific siting of MPAs to protect marine environments that create associated economic values. Marine scientists have identified several objectives of MPAs. These include protection of genetic and biodiversity, increase in population levels and structures (e.g., age, size, fecundity), enrichment of ecosystems by promoting species interactions, and the protection of continental shelf landscapes from invasive human actions. Indeed, some marine scientists and fisheries economists view MPAs as …