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Assessing Extension Internal Organizational Needs Through An Action Research And Learning Process, Michael Havercamp, Elizabeth Christiansen, Deborah Mitchell Oct 2003

Assessing Extension Internal Organizational Needs Through An Action Research And Learning Process, Michael Havercamp, Elizabeth Christiansen, Deborah Mitchell

Journal of Extension

A participatory action research and learning process was used to carry out an internal needs assessment for a statewide Extension organization in a western United States land-grant institution. Focus groups, a written questionnaire, and employee feedback sessions were utilized as a means of identifying strategic organizational issues, needs, and resources that the organization would prioritize based on a 5-year time frame. The research and learning process, discussion of the results, limitations of the study, and implications for similar use of this process are discussed in this article.

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A Survey-Based Model For Collecting Stakeholder Input At A Land-Grant University, Kathleen Dodge Kelsey, S Christian Mariger Oct 2003

A Survey-Based Model For Collecting Stakeholder Input At A Land-Grant University, Kathleen Dodge Kelsey, S Christian Mariger

Journal of Extension

The 1998 Farm Bill (AREERA) called for greater engagement of land-grant universities with the public by mandating stakeholder input when setting priorities. The study described here developed a model for collecting and implementing input from stakeholders. The researchers collaborated with the Cooperative Extension Service (CES). Data was collected from a randomly selected group of producers. Findings include data regarding producers' needs for services and preferred information sources. The model gives the CES a methodology for gathering input and stakeholders a voice at the program-planning table, increasing the likelihood that they will use research findings to improve practice.

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Success Outcome Markers In Extension (Some): Evaluating The Effects Of Transformational Learning Programs, S Kay Rockwell, Ladeane Jha, Eileen Krumbach Oct 2003

Success Outcome Markers In Extension (Some): Evaluating The Effects Of Transformational Learning Programs, S Kay Rockwell, Ladeane Jha, Eileen Krumbach

Journal of Extension

Success outcome markers (SOMs), and the process of creating them, offer Extension a new approach to plan, monitor, and evaluate programs. Generating success outcome markers helps to carefully determine all partners (including beneficiaries) who may need to change to accomplish program goals and identifies steps to continuously track incremental successes. Hard-to-measure human behaviors become more concrete when success outcome markers are listed. To successfully use SOMs, one must (a) create a vivid and compelling vision, (b) list your WHOs, (c) write an outcome challenge for each WHO, and (d) determine SOMs. Then decide how to monitor and report on each …

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Opportunities And Challenges For Land Use Planning In The Intermountain West, Donald Mcleod, Roger Coupal, Andrew Seidl, Katherine Inman Oct 2003

Opportunities And Challenges For Land Use Planning In The Intermountain West, Donald Mcleod, Roger Coupal, Andrew Seidl, Katherine Inman

Journal of Extension

Land use planning is a persistent challenge for rural communities of the Intermountain West. A role for Land-Grant Universities in planning activities is provided through lesson learned in four county projects. Inclusiveness, reciprocal communication, transparency, and objectivity are illustrated as keys to success in applied research and outreach programming.

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Women's Retirement: Beyond Issues Of Financial Security, Christine A. Price Oct 2003

Women's Retirement: Beyond Issues Of Financial Security, Christine A. Price

Journal of Extension

As increasing numbers of women retire from the U.S. labor force, Extension educators will be called on to provide programming that (1) emphasizes women's retirement and (2) addresses the psychosocial components of women's retirement beyond financial concerns. This article identifies topics of significance for future retiring women as reported by a sample of 31 professional and nonprofessional retired women. These "words to retire by" can serve as a foundation for future program development in the area of women's retirement as well as further study.

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A Longitudinal Study Of The Evolution Of Organizational Values Of Ohio State University Extension Educators, R Dale Safrit, Nikki L. Conklin, Jo M. Jones Oct 2003

A Longitudinal Study Of The Evolution Of Organizational Values Of Ohio State University Extension Educators, R Dale Safrit, Nikki L. Conklin, Jo M. Jones

Journal of Extension

A 2001 replication of a 1991 study investigated the evolution of OSU Extension organizational values. For almost a decade, the 1991 values were used by administrators for decision making and policy development. The authors used a census and Values Questionnaire to collect data. The authors identified 10 of the 12 original organizational values as current OSU Extension organizational values. The strength and stability of its organizational values may be both a source of continuity for OSU Extension during times of rapid social and fiscal change, as well as a source of frustration for leaders seeking to reshape the organization's culture.

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Concordance Among Extension Workers, Researchers, And Professional Arborists In Rating Landscape Trees, Alfredo B. Lorenzo, Catalino A. Blanche, James F. Henson Oct 2003

Concordance Among Extension Workers, Researchers, And Professional Arborists In Rating Landscape Trees, Alfredo B. Lorenzo, Catalino A. Blanche, James F. Henson

Journal of Extension

Formulas developed to determine the monetary value of landscape trees require a species rating value. Polling Extension professionals, researchers, and arborists is a common procedure to derive species rating value. Due to differences in professional training and background, and the variability of landscapes in any given area, professional agreement on the rating of a species is difficult to reach but is necessary to be useful. The Delphi method and W criterion were used to determine the strength of concordance among extension professionals. We hope that other Extension professionals can use this method in developing species rating in their respective areas.

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Logger Training Leads To Improved Market Access But No Price Premium, Renė Germain, Steve Harris Oct 2003

Logger Training Leads To Improved Market Access But No Price Premium, Renė Germain, Steve Harris

Journal of Extension

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Program is a catalyst to develop or improve state-based logger training programs. SFI characterizes the role of loggers as the most visible and engaged participants in the implementation of sustainable forest management. This article discusses the use and compensation of trained loggers, contrasting SFI wood procurement operations with non-SFI operations. The results indicate that trained loggers are being used but are not receiving additional compensations for their training efforts. Logger training providers, such as Cooperative Extension Forestry Programs, should be aware that training for loggers may not translate into a price advantage but is likely …

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Evaluating Mississippi Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners Acceptance Of An Interactive Video Short Course, Andrew J. Londo, Deborah A. Gaddis Oct 2003

Evaluating Mississippi Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners Acceptance Of An Interactive Video Short Course, Andrew J. Londo, Deborah A. Gaddis

Journal of Extension

An interactive forest landowner short course was held in Mississippi in the spring of 2001. Participants evaluated the interactive video versus traditional short course delivery methods. Ninety-five percent of participants said that they would attend another interactive program in the future if given the opportunity. Technical problems were the main reasons cited for not preferring the interactive video format. Results indicate that several subject areas not currently covered in traditional short courses were requested for future interactive programming. Travel costs were significantly reduced. Suggestions for ensuring the success of future interactive programs are given.

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Adult Attitudes About Youth Participation In Community Organizations, Marilyn F. Rasmussen Oct 2003

Adult Attitudes About Youth Participation In Community Organizations, Marilyn F. Rasmussen

Journal of Extension

Many youth development professionals advocate for youth participation in civic and community organizations, but how do the leaders of these organizations feel about inviting youth to become partners in the decision-making process? A small-scale survey indicated that one-fourth of the responding organizations in South Dakota currently had some level of youth participation. More than half of the leaders of the remaining organizations indicated that youth should be consulted and invited to participate as members of their organizations. Youth development professionals should be encouraged by these results to explore potential youth and adult partnerships within their communities.

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Value Of An Educational Program On Osteoporosis, Judy A. Driskell, H Darlene Pohlman, M Michelle Naslund Oct 2003

Value Of An Educational Program On Osteoporosis, Judy A. Driskell, H Darlene Pohlman, M Michelle Naslund

Journal of Extension

Cooperative Extension helped initiate a community-based educational program on osteoporosis prevention and treatment. The program utilized a network of partners and coalitions. A team approach was taken in presenting the educational session, offered twice, and answering/discussing participant questions. Statistically significant differences were observed in the program participants' reported knowledge of osteoporosis, taking of calcium supplements, eating of a calcium-rich diet, and performing weight-bearing exercises 1 month after the sessions as compared to prior. The results demonstrate that Cooperative Extension can play a leadership role in building partnerships that implement effective programs that improve the health behaviors of individuals and strengthen …

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Strategies For Extension Specialists With Research Or Classroom Instruction Assignments, Scott Loveridge Oct 2003

Strategies For Extension Specialists With Research Or Classroom Instruction Assignments, Scott Loveridge

Journal of Extension

Many Extension Specialists hold appointments including classroom teaching and research functions. The article discusses using the classroom to enhance Extension work, structuring a research program synergistic with Extension, and developing a focused program consistent with a smaller percentage time appointment in Extension. Integrating research and classroom teaching with a meaningful Extension appointment may seem daunting, but it can be done. The key to success is to creatively assess opportunities for blending the activities in a synergistic way instead of simply segmenting time across the three functions.

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Using Regional Economic Analysis Tools To Address Land Use Planning Issues, James R. Nelson, Jerold D. Neufeld, Steven S. Peterson Oct 2003

Using Regional Economic Analysis Tools To Address Land Use Planning Issues, James R. Nelson, Jerold D. Neufeld, Steven S. Peterson

Journal of Extension

This article presents an example of how Extension economists and local Extension educators can use local economic information along with readily available data and tools to provide relevant factual information to help contextualize problems and evaluate alternative outcomes related to land use planning (especially land use planning focused on farmland preservation). The focus of this article is on how such information was developed, delivered, and used to help local policy makers and citizens make better informed decisions in a county with highly productive agriculture and heavy pressure from suburban and rural residential sprawl.

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Volunteers: The Key To Expanding Extension Programming For Older Adults, Claudia C. Collins Oct 2003

Volunteers: The Key To Expanding Extension Programming For Older Adults, Claudia C. Collins

Journal of Extension

With the rapid growth of the nation's aging population, Extension is trying to provide useful programming for seniors. Like many other Extension programs, older adult wellness education is expanding through the use of volunteer instructors. For the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's Seniors CAN program, these volunteers come primarily from two groups: peer-educators who are over 55 years of age, including those from diverse populations, and the staff of agencies that already provide services to elderly clients. The inclusion of these volunteer instructors has the benefit of bringing Extension programming to a much larger and more diverse aging audience.

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Oct. 2003, Cao. Intent Behind Ifc's Safeguard Policies. Generally Accepted Interpretation For Audit Purposes., Cao Oct 2003

Oct. 2003, Cao. Intent Behind Ifc's Safeguard Policies. Generally Accepted Interpretation For Audit Purposes., Cao

CAO General 1999-Present

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Construction Of Tire Shreds Test Embankment, Rodrigo Salgado, Sungmin Yoon, Nayyar Zia Siddiki Oct 2003

Construction Of Tire Shreds Test Embankment, Rodrigo Salgado, Sungmin Yoon, Nayyar Zia Siddiki

JTRP Technical Reports

According to recent research, it is estimated that there are more than 500 million tires stockpiled across the United States, and 270 million more are generated each year. A significant number of tires are left in empty yards and even dumped illegally. Tires have characteristics that make them not easy to dispose, and potentially combustible. For these reasons, there is a strong need to find beneficial ways to recycle or reuse tires. Civil engineering applications constitute one of biggest markets for scrap tires. Tire shreds can be used as fill material, for example. The objective of this research is to …

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Implementation Of Steel Bridge Protection Policy, Luh M. Chang, Po-Han Chen, Sangwook Lee Oct 2003

Implementation Of Steel Bridge Protection Policy, Luh M. Chang, Po-Han Chen, Sangwook Lee

JTRP Technical Reports

Many Departments of Transportation (DOTs) have made tremendous efforts for managing their civil infrastructure systems effectively and to meet public demands for their performance and safety. The introduction of warranties help many DOTs keep their construction with better quality by shifting post-construction responsibilities to contractors. Warranties are applied to numerous items according to each DOT’s needs, and this research focuses on steel bridge painting protection policy for Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT). This research represents the development of an implementable warranty clause for protecting steel bridge painting and the image processing technique for the objective and quantitative painting quality assessment. …

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Pedagogy For The Economically Privileged: “Tuning In” To The Privileged Learner, Ann Curry-Stevens Oct 2003

Pedagogy For The Economically Privileged: “Tuning In” To The Privileged Learner, Ann Curry-Stevens

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Today’s activists are challenged by the sheer scope of losses by social movements. We have lost most significant battles and have moved into a defensive position struggling to retain earlier gains in social policy. The gap between rich and poor continues to widen, and it is clear that we need new allies in the struggles for justice. The middle class has been eyed as potential allies, with the hope that in bringing their resources, information, and power to bear, progressive social change will result. This paper draws from dissertation research on a pedagogy for the privileged: research that involves transformative …

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Seven Principles Of Efficient Human Robot Interaction, Michael A. Goodrich, Dan R. Olsen Jr. Oct 2003

Seven Principles Of Efficient Human Robot Interaction, Michael A. Goodrich, Dan R. Olsen Jr.

Faculty Publications

Advances in robot technology and artificial intelligence have increased the range of robot applications as well as the importance of supporting human interaction with robots and robot teams. Previous work by the authors has highlighted the importance of creating neglect tolerant autonomy and efficient interfaces. In this paper, lessons learned from evaluating neglect tolerance and interface efficiency are compiled into a set of principles for efficient interaction. Emphasis is placed on designing efficient interfaces, but many of the principles require autonomy levels that support the principles. Each principle is illustrated by an example and motivated by citing relevant factors from …

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Ab Initio Theoretical Studies Of Potential Energy Surfaces In The Photodissociation Of The Vinyl Radical. I. Ã State Dissociation, Peng Zhang, Stephan Irle, Keiji Morokuma, Gregory S. Tschumper Oct 2003

Ab Initio Theoretical Studies Of Potential Energy Surfaces In The Photodissociation Of The Vinyl Radical. I. Ã State Dissociation, Peng Zhang, Stephan Irle, Keiji Morokuma, Gregory S. Tschumper

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The mechanism of photodissociation of the vinyl radical, C2H3 was studied with high-level ab initio methods. Geometry optimizations of stationary points and surface crossing seams were performed with complete active space self-consistent field method. Both internal conversion and intersystem crossing channels which bring the excited vinyl radical down to ground state potential energy surface were identified.

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Enter The Dragon: Foreign Direct Investment Laws And Policies In The P.R.C., George O. White Iii Oct 2003

Enter The Dragon: Foreign Direct Investment Laws And Policies In The P.R.C., George O. White Iii

North Carolina Journal of International Law

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Securing Mobile Assets: The Cape Town Convention And Its Aircraft Protocol, Sandeep Gopalan Oct 2003

Securing Mobile Assets: The Cape Town Convention And Its Aircraft Protocol, Sandeep Gopalan

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

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East Seats West: China's Accession To The World Trade Organization And The Rise Of A Potent Threat To The North Carolina Furniture Industry, Daniel Johnson Oct 2003

East Seats West: China's Accession To The World Trade Organization And The Rise Of A Potent Threat To The North Carolina Furniture Industry, Daniel Johnson

North Carolina Journal of International Law

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Table Of Contents - Issue 1, North Carolina Journal Of International Law And Commercial Regulation Oct 2003

Table Of Contents - Issue 1, North Carolina Journal Of International Law And Commercial Regulation

North Carolina Journal of International Law

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Gender And Politics In Palestine: Discourse Analysis Of The Palestinian Authority & Islamists, Nahda Y. Sh'hada Oct 2003

Gender And Politics In Palestine: Discourse Analysis Of The Palestinian Authority & Islamists, Nahda Y. Sh'hada

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

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Characterizing Debris Clouds Created In Oblique Orbital Debris Particle Impact, D. Depczuk, William P. Schonberg Oct 2003

Characterizing Debris Clouds Created In Oblique Orbital Debris Particle Impact, D. Depczuk, William P. Schonberg

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The problem of pollution within Earth's orbital environment has gained considerable recognition over the past decades. Determining adequate passive protection schemes is an unending process that attempts to meet different objectives for widely varying types of missions. Significant amounts of resources have been expended toward development of numerical and analytical models that model the response of a variety of target systems under high-speed orbital debris impacts. the objective of the study whose results are presented herein was to improve upon an existing oblique hypervelocity impact model that characterizes the various secondary debris clouds created in such an impact. This was …

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Public Child Welfare And The American Indian: A California Profile, Gordon E. Limb, Robin Perry Oct 2003

Public Child Welfare And The American Indian: A California Profile, Gordon E. Limb, Robin Perry

Faculty Publications

Historically, American Indians have been disproportionately represented in public child welfare services. This article reports findings from a survey of all public child welfare workers in California (N= 5,741) in 1998. A descriptive profile of American Indian clients (where they reside and who works with them) and American Indian child welfare workers ( n= 1 71) is detailed. Attempts are made to identify counties with a disproportionately high number of American Indians represented on public child welfare caseloads and to estimate the probability that an American Indian worker would have a higher proportion of American Indians on his or her …

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Resolution Of Multiple Ssdna Structures In Free Solution Electrophoresis, Eve F. Fabrizio, Ali Nadim, James D. Sterling Oct 2003

Resolution Of Multiple Ssdna Structures In Free Solution Electrophoresis, Eve F. Fabrizio, Ali Nadim, James D. Sterling

Business and Information Technology Faculty Research & Creative Works

By using high concentrations of buffer, electroosmotic flow within uncoated channels of a microfluidic chip was minimized, allowing the free solution electrophoretic separation of DNA. More importantly, because of the ability to efficiently dissipate heat within these channels, field strengths as high as 600 V/cm could be applied with minimal Joule heating (< 2 °C). As a result of the higher field strengths, separations within an 8-cm-long channel were achieved within a few minutes. However, when the electrophoretic separation of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) less than 22 bases in length was performed, containing the fluorophore Texas Red as an end label, more than the expected single peak was observed at this high electric field. On the other hand, the free solution electrophoresis of a double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) consisting of a random sequence did exhibit the expected single peak. The appearance of these multiple peaks for ssDNA is shown to be dependent upon the base content and sequence of the ssDNA as well as on the chemical structure of the fluorophore used to tag the DNA for detection. Specifically, the peaks can be attributed to different secondary structures that result either from hydrophobic interactions between the DNA bases and an uncharged fluorescent dye or from G-quadruplexes within guanine-rich strands.

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Studying "Working Fathers": Comparing Fathers' And Mothers' Work-Family Conflict, Fit, And Adaptive Strategies In A Global High-Tech Company, E. Jeffrey Hill, Alan J. Hawkins, Vjollca Märtinson, Maria Ferris Oct 2003

Studying "Working Fathers": Comparing Fathers' And Mothers' Work-Family Conflict, Fit, And Adaptive Strategies In A Global High-Tech Company, E. Jeffrey Hill, Alan J. Hawkins, Vjollca Märtinson, Maria Ferris

Faculty Publications

Working fathers are underrepresented-conceptually and empirically-in work-family research. Using a global corporate sample of working fathers from 48 countries (N = 7,692), this study compares working fathers to working mothers on key work-family variables as suggested by Voydanoff's (2002) application of ecological systems theory. It examines the direction and the path of the predictors of work-family fit and whether a scarcity or expansion model better explains these results. Finally, it considers what work-family adaptive strategies may affect those relationships. Although fathers consistently reported less family-to-work conflict than mothers, they reported equal amounts of work-to-family conflict. That is, fathers struggled as …

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Table Of Contents Oct 2003

Table Of Contents

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

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