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“Don’T Tell Me, I’Ll Find Out”: Robert Karplus—A Science Education Pioneer, Robert Fuller Dec 2003

“Don’T Tell Me, I’Ll Find Out”: Robert Karplus—A Science Education Pioneer, Robert Fuller

Robert G. Fuller Publications

Robert Karplus (1927–90), who began his career as a brilliant theoretical physicist, switched to science education in the early 1960s. He made many substantial contributions to this field in addition to developing a complete K–6 hands-on science curriculum. Karplus provided his curriculum with a sound epistemological foundation, based on the work of Piaget. He developed an effective classroom teaching strategy, the learning cycle. He and his team used a scientific approach to curriculum development. They focused on teacher development. Karplus was committed to science for ALL students. Through science activities he sought to share the joy of discovery. A recent …

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Gratitude Dec 2003

Gratitude

The Prairie Light Review

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Extinguished Super Heroes, Sarah Lynn Andrysiak Dec 2003

Extinguished Super Heroes, Sarah Lynn Andrysiak

The Prairie Light Review

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Circles, Donna Pucciani Dec 2003

Circles, Donna Pucciani

The Prairie Light Review

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Bueno Divertido, Joseph Blandi Dec 2003

Bueno Divertido, Joseph Blandi

The Prairie Light Review

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Limonada, Alberto Aguilera Dec 2003

Limonada, Alberto Aguilera

The Prairie Light Review

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Innocence, Alison Balinski Dec 2003

Innocence, Alison Balinski

The Prairie Light Review

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Those Who Wait, Barbara Armbruster Dec 2003

Those Who Wait, Barbara Armbruster

The Prairie Light Review

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Her Hands, Diane Lincoln Dec 2003

Her Hands, Diane Lincoln

The Prairie Light Review

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Sensory Evaluation Of Gluten-Free Brownies Prepared Using Green Banana Flour, Banana-Potato Blend And Rice-Potato-Tapioca Blend, Sonia F. Murgueytio Dec 2003

Sensory Evaluation Of Gluten-Free Brownies Prepared Using Green Banana Flour, Banana-Potato Blend And Rice-Potato-Tapioca Blend, Sonia F. Murgueytio

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Increasing numbers of people worldwide are being diagnosed with Celiac Disease, an intestinal disorder caused by ingestion of foods containing gluten. Traditional baked goods are prepared using wheat flour that contains gluten. Literature suggests that the absorptive surface of the small intestine is damaged in people susceptible to gluten. Alternative gluten-free products are needed to improve the health of people with this disease. The purpose of this study was to assess the overall acceptability and palatability of chocolate brownies made with 100% banana flour or a blend of banana flour and potato starch. Appearance, color, texture, flavor and overall acceptability …

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Minutes, Crummer Graduate School Of Business Faculty Meeting, Monday, December 1, 2003, Crummer Graduate School Of Business Faculty Dec 2003

Minutes, Crummer Graduate School Of Business Faculty Meeting, Monday, December 1, 2003, Crummer Graduate School Of Business Faculty

Crummer Graduate School of Business Minutes and Reports

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Determination Of The Optimal Form Of A Dna Vaccine To Induce An Effective Immune Response Against A Murine B-Cell Lymphoma, Deepti Aurora Dec 2003

Determination Of The Optimal Form Of A Dna Vaccine To Induce An Effective Immune Response Against A Murine B-Cell Lymphoma, Deepti Aurora

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Tumor vaccines are a promising alternative to chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer. To be effective and safe, a cancer vaccine should specifically target antigens expressed only on tumor cells. The B-cell tumor-derived Ig receptor may be considered a model tumor antigen for cancer vaccine development. Specifically the immunoglobulin idiotype (ld) encoded by the variable region genes (VH and VL) provides a target antigen. Promising results have been obtained in clinical studies of ld vaccination using ld proteins. However, ld protein is laborious and time-consuming to produce. Gene-based vaccines, on the other hand, are inexpensive and offer ease of manipulation …

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Letter From The Editor, Allan Young Dec 2003

Letter From The Editor, Allan Young

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

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Entrepreneurial Failure And South Africa's Performance In The World Trading Environment, Mitchell Kellman, Trevor Roxo, Yochanan Shachmurove Dec 2003

Entrepreneurial Failure And South Africa's Performance In The World Trading Environment, Mitchell Kellman, Trevor Roxo, Yochanan Shachmurove

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

In the past four decades, Sub Sahara Africa has been notable in its relative development-performance failure. There exists a growing literature emphasizing the role of the entrepreneur as an essential element in economic development. We argue that the relatively sluggish growth observed in South Africa may be attributed, at least in part, to entrepreneurial failure. Emerging from its Apartheid era with a concomitant embargo on its trade, South Africa has been actively liberalizing its economy, positioning it for integration into the world trading system since the early 1990s. Following several decades of import-substituting efforts, this signals a clear shift toward …

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Does Underwriter Reputation Affect The Performance Of Ipo Issues?, Junbo Wang, Sheen Liu, Chunchi Wu Dec 2003

Does Underwriter Reputation Affect The Performance Of Ipo Issues?, Junbo Wang, Sheen Liu, Chunchi Wu

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

In this paper we examine the relationship between performance of the Chinese IPO firms and the reputation of investment bankers underwriting their stocks. Similar to previous studies on well-developed stock markets, we find that the initial return on the first day of trading is strongly positive for Chinese IPO stocks due to underpricing. This initial return is negatively related to the underwriter's reputation, suggesting that the better the reputation of the underwriter, the less underpricing and hence, the lower the initial return of the IPO stock. Extending the analysis to a ten-day window after the first trading day, we find …

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Corporate Governance, Illiquidity, And Valuation Issues In Privately-Owned Corporations, Chenchuramaiah T. Bathala, Oswald D. Bowlin, William P. Dukes Dec 2003

Corporate Governance, Illiquidity, And Valuation Issues In Privately-Owned Corporations, Chenchuramaiah T. Bathala, Oswald D. Bowlin, William P. Dukes

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Investors in private corporations face unique problems relating to corporate control, illiquidity and valuation of securities. In this research, we survey a large sample of US corporations. Our sample includes both private and public firms. Major findings of our research are as follows: Private firms use written shareholder agreements for safeguarding ownership interests and dividend payments. Family owned firms dominate the ownership structure of private firms. Insiders of private firms own a much larger proportion of common stock than insiders in public firms, and the CEOs of private firms often happen to be the largest stockholders.

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Risk, Return And Degree Of Owner Involvement In Privately Held Firms, Edward Vos, Bronwyn M. Smith Dec 2003

Risk, Return And Degree Of Owner Involvement In Privately Held Firms, Edward Vos, Bronwyn M. Smith

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Financial theory states that the variability of an asset’s return should be explained by the relative riskiness of that asset (Sharpe, 1964). This concept has been built around, and applied to, publicly-listed companies for which market information (which forms the basis of the risk and return measures) is easily visible and obtainable. Unfortunately, the fact that such information is rarely (if ever) available for small businesses, severely limits the usefulness of such a theory for privately-held enterprises. Therefore by using data from 100 small businesses and three measures of risk, this study provides empirical evidence that for small businesses, there …

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Forecasting Short Run Performance Of Initial Public Offerings In The Istanbul Stock Exchange, Ramazan Aktas, Mehmet Baha Karan, Kürsat Aydogan Dec 2003

Forecasting Short Run Performance Of Initial Public Offerings In The Istanbul Stock Exchange, Ramazan Aktas, Mehmet Baha Karan, Kürsat Aydogan

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Previous research on IPOs has identified several factors or issue characteristics that play a role in the level of short term underpricing of initial public offerings. Some of those issue features are the firm size, market trend, size of the offer, investment banker reputation, method of intermediation, stock price range and investor type. The objective of this study is to develop a model based on these features to forecast the short term performance of IPOs in the Istanbul Stock Exchange. To this end we divided our sample period into a model building subperiod and a testing subperiod. After identifying 9 …

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Is Entrepreneurship Only About Entering A New Business, Iraj J. Fooladi, Nargess K. Kayhani Dec 2003

Is Entrepreneurship Only About Entering A New Business, Iraj J. Fooladi, Nargess K. Kayhani

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

To most people entrepreneurship is solely about innovation and entering a new venture. For example, Hisrich and Peters (2002) define entrepreneurship as “the process of creating something new with value by devoting the necessary time and effort, assuming the accompanying financial, psychic, and social risks, and receiving the resulting rewards of monetary and personal satisfaction and independence.” According to Kuratko and Welsch (1994) “Many people now regard entrepreneurship as „pioneership? on the business frontier.” Bygrave (1994) begins with Schumpeter?s definition of an entrepreneur and continues to argue that only a few businesses would have the potential to fit Schumpeterian definition …

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Patterns Of Venturing Financing: The Case Of Chinese Entrepreneurs, Jianwen Liao, Harold Welsch, David Pistrui Dec 2003

Patterns Of Venturing Financing: The Case Of Chinese Entrepreneurs, Jianwen Liao, Harold Welsch, David Pistrui

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

This study examines the sources of venture financing of Chinese entrepreneurs in Wuhan, China. Based on a sample of 222, we found that Chinese entrepreneurs in Wuhan mainly rely on venture financing on their own or parties that are within their close social networks such as parents, relatives and friends. External financing sources are notably missing. We also found that entrepreneurs who use significantly more personal saving in venture financing are older (>37 years), female, with high school education or less, and have longer working experience. Entrepreneurs who are male with college or higher education, and who take time …

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Characteristics Of Venture Capital Firms And Investment Appraisals: Australian Evidence, Alireza Tourani-Rad, Bryce England Dec 2003

Characteristics Of Venture Capital Firms And Investment Appraisals: Australian Evidence, Alireza Tourani-Rad, Bryce England

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

This study examines the characteristics of the venture capital industry in Australia. Our analysis is based on responses by thirty-two venture capitalist firms to a comprehensive questionnaire conducted in 2001. We observe that, on average, a venture capital firm has been operating for five years and consists of six investment executives with two specialist investment executives. Each firm has, on average, two formal layers in its investment decision-making process indicating two checkpoints to control risk. With respect to investment appraisal issues, it was noticed that the valuation methods based on discounted cash flows, recent transaction prices for acquisitions in the …

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The Legacy Of Dames & (And) Moore V. Regan: The Twilight Zone Of Concurrent Authority Between The Executive And Congress And A Proposal For A Judicially Manageable Nondelegation Doctrine, Rebecca A. D'Arcy Dec 2003

The Legacy Of Dames & (And) Moore V. Regan: The Twilight Zone Of Concurrent Authority Between The Executive And Congress And A Proposal For A Judicially Manageable Nondelegation Doctrine, Rebecca A. D'Arcy

Notre Dame Law Review

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When Prosecutors Don't: Trends In Federal Prosecutorial Declinations, Michael Edmund O'Neill Dec 2003

When Prosecutors Don't: Trends In Federal Prosecutorial Declinations, Michael Edmund O'Neill

Notre Dame Law Review

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Trespass-Zoning: Ensuring Neighborhoods A Safer Future By Excluding Those With A Criminal Past, Peter M. Flanagan Dec 2003

Trespass-Zoning: Ensuring Neighborhoods A Safer Future By Excluding Those With A Criminal Past, Peter M. Flanagan

Notre Dame Law Review

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Resurrecting The Faith-Based Plan: Analyzing Government Funding For Religious Social Service Groups, Daniel K. Storino Dec 2003

Resurrecting The Faith-Based Plan: Analyzing Government Funding For Religious Social Service Groups, Daniel K. Storino

Notre Dame Law Review

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Panel Ii: Conflicts Of Interest In Sports, John D. Feerick, David Feher, Craig E. Fenech, Charles Grantham, Steven C. Krane, Nicole Coward Dec 2003

Panel Ii: Conflicts Of Interest In Sports, John D. Feerick, David Feher, Craig E. Fenech, Charles Grantham, Steven C. Krane, Nicole Coward

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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The Glass Sneaker: Thirty Years Of Victories And Defeats Involving Title Ix And Sex Discrimination In Athletics, Diane Heckman Dec 2003

The Glass Sneaker: Thirty Years Of Victories And Defeats Involving Title Ix And Sex Discrimination In Athletics, Diane Heckman

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Rethinking Reexamination Reform: Is It Time For Corrective Surgery, Or Is It Time To Amputate?, Kristn Jakobsen Osenga Dec 2003

Rethinking Reexamination Reform: Is It Time For Corrective Surgery, Or Is It Time To Amputate?, Kristn Jakobsen Osenga

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Ard News December 2003 Dec 2003

Ard News December 2003

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

CONTENTS:

Comments from the ARD Office Staff
Recognition of Junior Faculty for Excellence in Research
William G. Whitmore Student Travel Endowment
ARD-Administered Grants and Awards Programs
CSREES Appropriation for FY 2004
Searching for Collaborators
New or Revised Projects
Proposals Submitted for Federal Grants
Grants and Contracts Received October and November, 2003

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Grb 011121: A Collimated Outflow Into Wind-Blown Surroundings, J. Greiner, S. Klose, M. Salvato, A. Zeh, R. Schwarz, D. H. Hartmann, N. Masetti, B. Stecklum, G. Lamer, N. Lodieu Dec 2003

Grb 011121: A Collimated Outflow Into Wind-Blown Surroundings, J. Greiner, S. Klose, M. Salvato, A. Zeh, R. Schwarz, D. H. Hartmann, N. Masetti, B. Stecklum, G. Lamer, N. Lodieu

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We report optical and near-infrared follow-up observations of GRB 011121 collected predominantly at ESO telescopes in Chile. We discover a break in the afterglow light curve after 1.3 days, which implies an initial jet opening angle of about 9°. The jet origin of this break is supported by the fact that the spectral energy distribution is achromatic during the rst four days. During later phases, GRB 011121 shows signi cant excess emission above the flux predicted by a power law, which we interpret as additional light from an underlying supernova. In particular, the spectral energy distribution of the optical transient …

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