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Biomedical Science Journals In The Arab World, Ghazi O. Tadmouri

Saudi Medical Journal

Medieval Arab scientists established the basis of medical practice and gave important attention to the publication of scientific results. At present, modern scientific publishing in the Arab world is in its developmental stage. Arab biomedical journals are less than 300, most of which are published in Egypt, Lebanon, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Yet, many of these journals do not have on-line access or are indexed in major bibliographic databases. The majority of indexed journals, however, do not have a stable presence in the popular PubMed database and their indexes are discontinued since 2001. The exposure of Arab biomedical …

The Perceptions Of Middle Class Male And Female Consumers Regarding Internet Retailing, Shane R. Premeaux

Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology

This study analyzes consumer perceptions regarding Internet retailing. Although there were differences between the attitudes of males and females regarding several aspects of Internet retailing the overall consensus was positive. Most of the perceptual differences were more a matter of intensity than direction. The preferred retail model is a “clicks-and-bricks” approach, where a retailer has a brick-and-mortar store and a companion web site. There was general agreement that a visually stimulating web site, with web pages for each product category, that is easy to navigate, with an effective search procedure enhances Internet shopping. There was also agreement that online shopping …

A Review Of The Americans With Disabilities Act: Accent On Employment Decisions, Gloria Fernandez-Vanzante, Neal Vanzante

Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Technology

This article focuses on Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination against any qualified individual with a disability in hiring, compensation, promotion, termination, and job opportunities. The article is intended to be a follow up to Professor Cheryl Hein’s article entitled “The Americans with Disabilities Act: Accent on Employment Decisions” that appeared in the Summer 1992 edition of the Central Business Review. The article begins with an overview of the ADA and offers a brief ten-year review of the ADA, as well as a discussion of two recent Supreme Court decisions and reactions to those …

Preparing Teachers For Family Centered Services: A Survey Of Preservice Curriculum Content, Michelle Rupiper, Christine Marvin

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

A family-centered approach is recommended as best practice in the field of early intervention. However, recent research suggests that some professionals in the field do not always implement familycentered services. This study investigated the content taught to pre-service early intervention/early childhood special education students regarding family-centered services. Eighty-two faculty members from institutions of higher education across the U.S. rated the importance of and the extent to which they taught five categories of content associated with family-centered services. Content associated with Knowledge of Families, IFSP/IEP Skills, and Respecting Diversity were taught significantly more than Communication Skills and Knowledge of Team Work. …

Water Current, Volume 36, No. 4. Fall 2004

Water Current Newsletter

Contents

• Gleick to Speak at April Water Law Science and Policy Conference by Steve Ress

• Measurements From Nearly 5,000 Wells Show Groundwater Declines by Steve Ress

• From the Director

• Meet the Faculty

• Combating An Odorless, Tasteless, Unseen Problem in Nebraska Drinking Water by Steve Ress

• UNL Researchers Studying SDI Technology Near Clay Center by Steve Ress

• UNL Study Looks at Economic Impacts of Water Allocations To Republican River Basin Economy

• Husker Harvest Days 2004

• Algae Test Kits Travel Far and Wide

• Missouri River Study Nets EPA Grant

• Free Lectures …

I Now Pronounce You Husband And Wives: Lawrence V. Texas And The Practice Of Polygamy In Modern America, Cassiah M. Ward

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Bridges And Barriers To Housing For Chronically Homeless Street Dwellers: The Effects Of Medical And Substance Abuse Services On Housing Attainment, Tatjana Meschede

Center for Social Policy Publications

In the winter of 1998/99, after the deaths of 16 homeless people in the streets of Boston attracted wide attention by the media, the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH), Dr. Howard Koh, convened a group of I stakeholders serving the homeless street population. The goal of this MDPH Homeless Taskforce was to reduce the number of homeless people dying on the streets as well as to improve service delivery to those homeless individuals most at risk of dying. A wide range of individuals serving or encountering the homeless street population, including homeless outreach teams, law enforcement …

The Canon Of Family Law, Jill Elaine Hasday

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Three Strategies Of Interpretation, Adrian Vermeule

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

General Education Survey Reports, 2004, Assessment Of Student Learning Committee

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

Under Pressure, Tim Obermiller, Sarah Hedgespeth '04

Illinois Wesleyan University Magazine, 2002-2017

Illinois Wesleyan students are finding resources to help them cope with stress and its adverse effects.

The Hilltop 10-1-2004, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.

Fordist Applied Research In The Era Of The Five-Dollar Day, Georgios P. Loizides, Subhash R. Sonnad

Peer Reviewed Articles

This article provides a description of the early attempts at applied social research and research driven policies and procedures used in the assessment of the employees and the consequent rewards and punishments meted out by the Ford Motor Company during the late Progressive Era. An additional aim of this paper is to show the relevance and signijkance of these attempts and to examine the extent to which early Ford research can inform our applied research today. In particular, this study examines the early data collection efforts by investigators of the Ford Motor Company Sociological Department. These took place in the …

Broken Scales: Obesity And Justice In America, Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson, David Yosifon

Faculty Publications

This Article is not so much about the scales we use to measure weight, but the scales we use to infer causation and assign responsibility-including the scales of justice. Ultimately, the problem we face is not obesity itself. Obesity is only a symptom of the problem. When scientists and public health experts point to various environmental agents-whether larger portion sizes, corn subsidies, video games, or urban sprawl-they, too, overlook the deeper source of our troubles. Our real problem is that we have an extremely difficult time seeing and understanding the role of unseen features in our environment and within us …

Prospective Teachers’ Ability To Pose Word Problems, Nusrat Fatima Rizvi

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

The purpose of this study was to assess difference in prospective teachers’ ability to pose word problems for mathematical expressions involving division before and after an instruction intervention. After the initial assessment of participants’ ability to pose word problems for division expressions, the researcher introduced an alternative model i.e. rate or ratio to represent division involving whole numbers. After the intervention it was assessed whether the model helped the prospective teachers develop word problems for division of fractions. The findings revealed that the prospective teachers successfully posed word problems for division of whole numbers based on intuitive model of fair …

The Feeling Of Music Past: How Listeners Remember Musical Affect, Alexander Rozin, Paul Rozin, Emily Goldberg

Music Theory, History & Composition Faculty Publications & Performances

No abstract provided.

The Trojan Women: Emma Hart Willard And The Troy Society For The Advancement Of Female Education In Greece, Angelo Repousis

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Nietzsche, Nihilism, And The Virtue Of Nature, Steven Michels

Political Science & Global Affairs Faculty Publications

Nietzsche’s view of nature and his attack on the platonic tradition has given him a reputation as a nihilist, a label he himself acknowledged. Yet what does Nietzsche mean by nihilism? and to what extent is he a nihilist? This article explores Nietzsche’s use of the term as it relates to modernity, his own postmodern project, and how it is connected with what Nietzsche calls “virtue.”

Conscientiousness Is Key: Incentives For Attendance Make Little Difference., Maureen A. Conard

SHU Faculty Publications

"This study examined differences in class attendance at different levels of conscientiousness and incentives (3.5% vs. 6% of course points). Results of a 2 × 2 (Level of Incentives × Level of Conscientiousness) ANOVA indicated a significant main effect for conscientiousness. Conscientiousness accounted for 14% of the variance in attendance, compared to 1% for incentives. Attendance appears to be influenced more by conscientiousness than by incentives."

A Correlational Study Of The Effect Of Per Pupil Expenditure On Standardized Third Grade Reading Scores In Missouri, John Arthur Dunahm Jr.

Theses

Funding of education has long been a major topic of discussion in both the public and political arenas. How tax dollars are spent in the area of education is now at the forefront of this debate with the advent of mechanisms which are designed to hold schools accountable for their funding. The chief mechanism of accountability is standardized testing achievement by students.

In this study, per-pupil expenditures for schools districts in the state of Missouri, for the years 1998 and 2002, will be examined as a correlation to high student achievement on the Missouri Assessment Program third grade communication arts …

Philosophical Conversations, Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall 2004, Illinois State University, Department Of Philosophy

Philosophical Conversations

An interactive newsletter of the Illinois State University Department of Philosophy

Cultural Topology: An Introduction To Postmodern Mathematics, Brent M. Blackwell

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[Editors' Introduction]

This essay develops a new way of thinking about the cultural relationships among and within the sciences and the arts through a new understanding of the term postmodernism that at once derives from literary theory and the mathematical discipline of topology. While topology forms the main vertebra of this connective approach in its capacity as the mathematics of connectivity, quantum mechanics and non-Euclidean geometry -- the atlas and axis of this spinal column -- form the context through which this “postmodern” approach will develop. However, in order to position topology as a “postmodern” branch of mathematics, some brief …

From Guts To God: Credulity, Postmodernism, And Contemporary Physics, Michael Hardin

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[Editors' Introduction]

In an attempt to remove one of the major misunderstandings made by individuals in the humanities about contemporary physics, the issue of incredulity, this essay examines Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge against contemporary and twentieth-century theories and discoveries in physics. One of the best arguments against incredulity is the frequent use of god as metaphor within physics. In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, two physicists, argue that the use of metaphor is one of the characteristics of postmodern science; this essay concludes with a discussion of those elements …

A Privatization Of Politics: Anthony Elliot's Concepts Of The Self (2001), Paula Murphy

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

It would be difficult to find a more appropriate image of selfhood in the modern world than that found in Ezra Pound's poem In a Station of the Metro. It is a selfhood which is at once unique and conglomerative, fleetingly visible then tantalizingly out of focus. It is this slippery, indefinable entity that is the subject of Anthony Elliot's book. The title bears witness to the enormous breadth of its subject matter: Concepts of the Self is an attempt to engage with the various contemporary theoretical frameworks through which selfhood is explicated. Elliot's approach is admirably inter-disciplinary, …

Building Relationships Between Business Schools And Students: An Empirical Investigation Into Student Retention, Phani Tej Adidam, R. Prasad Bingi, Birud Sindhav

Marketing and Management Faculty Publications

This study uses the relationship marketing theory of commitment and trust as a framework to investigate the issue of student retention in business schools. Structural equation modeling was used to examine relationships specified by Morgan and Hunt's (1994) theory of relationship marketing. Students' commitment to the business schools were determined by perceived benefits of attending the school, perceived similarity of values between the school and the students, and trust between the professors and the students. Commitment increased intentions to remain at the business school.

Fact Book 2004, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Fact Book

The Fact Book has been designed to present a variety of information and data about the University, in a concise, easily-used format. Included are details regarding student and faculty. Generally, data are broken out by college, rank, level, gender, age and ethnicity for both spring and fall semesters.

A Charismatic Iranian American Engineer, Jane Meehan

English Faculty Publications

This is the story of Iranian engineer Mostafa Jamshidi and his twenty-five years in Nebraska: his student days, his experiences with the immigration department and his eventual citizenship, his work history, and his personal life as told by his English teacher and surrogate mother. His language skills, soccer playing, and personality enabled him to combat his homesickness and the harassment of the immigration officials. The University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Nebraska Department of Roads gave him a place to learn and grow despite the time and geography in which he was born. The Great Plains, with its friendliness, …

Development And Validation Of A Facebook Relational Maintenance Measure, B. Mcewan, J. Fletcher, J. Eden, Erin M. Bryant

Human Communication and Theatre Faculty Research

This manuscript details the construction of a measure of Facebook relational maintenance behaviors. The first study generated an item pool by drawing from previous qualitative investigations and adapting an established relational maintenance scale. Participants were then invited to evaluate these items in order to establish face validity. During study two, participants were asked how often they used the behaviors represented in these items to maintain a specific friendship. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to determine the underlying structure of these items; three latent factors emerged, social contact, response-seeking, and relational assurances. This factor structure was then assessed using confirmatory factor …

Resilience And Emotional Depletion As Predictors Of Dyadic Satisfaction Of Psychologists In Pennsylvania, Kevin R. Ganey

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

Although psychologists have been practicing for nearly one hundred years, relatively little research has been conducted on the impact of the profession upon the psychologist's personal life. Historically, most studies have attempted to determine whether the practice of psychology leads to burnout or impairment rather than what helps a psychologist to function well. A growing body of research on self-care places an emphasis on the personhood of the clinician and his or her ability to function well in practice and personal life (Alterman, 1998). The purpose of this study is to add to the growing body of literature that addresses …

Thou Shalt Not Publicly Display The Ten Commandments: A Call For A Reevaluation Of Current Establishment Clause Jurisprudence, Christal L. Hoo

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.