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Specimen Evidence For The Occurrence Of Both Gray-Cheeked And Bicknell’S Thrushes In Florida, Glen E. Woolfenden, Jon S. Greenlaw

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

All The News That’S Fit To Print? Media Reporting Of Environmental Protection Agency Penalties Assessed Against The Petroleum Refining Industry, 1997-2003, Melissa L. Jarrell

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Although examination of the relationship between the media and crime has received considerable attention in the academic literature, only a few studies have examined news media coverage of environmental crimes. The present study examines print news media coverage of federal penalties assessed against the petroleum refining industry from 1997 to 2003. The Environmental Protection Agency initiated and/or settled 162 cases involving seventy-eight petroleum refining companies from 1997 to 2003. While a news search of the nation’s twenty-five largest newspapers produced seventy-four articles related to petroleum refining industry violations, only seventeen articles matched the EPA cases analyzed in the present study. …

Reducing Pollutants In Industrial Stormwater Runoff: Improved Water Quality Protection Using Prioritized Facility Regulation, Lindsay M. Griffen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Stormwater pollutants originating from industrial facilities can lead to degraded water quality, even in residentially dominated regions of the country. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program regulates stormwater pollutants generated at industrial sites using Multi-Sector General Permits (Generic permits) for industrial facilities and a permit requirement for Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) operators. All industrial facilities within 11 broad categories of industry are responsible for self-identifying the need to comply with the Generic permit, and subsequently, implementing self-selected pollution prevention strategies. MS4 operators are required to identify and inspect “high risk” industrial and commercial facilities that may …

Mo_33_2_Insidefront.Pdf, Marine Ornithology

Marine Ornithology

No abstract provided.

Contents, Marine Ornithology

Marine Ornithology

No abstract provided.

Back Matter (Pdf), North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

From The President's Comer, Bob Rufe

Delaware Ornithologist

No abstract provided.

Summary Of Meetings, Alison Ellicott

Delaware Ornithologist

No abstract provided.

The First American Bird Check-List, Jeff Holt

Delaware Ornithologist

No abstract provided.

Delaware Bird Records Committee Annual Report For 2003, Nick Pulcinella

Delaware Ornithologist

No abstract provided.

Front Matter (Pdf), North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

Front Matter (Pdf), North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

No abstract provided.

Contents, Bird Observer

Bird Observer

No abstract provided.

Can Blogs Promote Fair And Equitable Teamwork?, Joseph Luca, Catherine E Mcloughlin

Research outputs pre 2011

Online collaboration tools can provide an opportunity to enhance community building while at the same time motivate students to actively participate in their learning. In this investigation an online learning environment was designed with the aim of promoting clear and transparent communication between higher education students to enable fair and equitable teamwork. The environment was designed with a combination of authentic project work, self-regulated tasks and reflective activity through the use of Bloggers. An evaluation of the learning environment was conducted through both qualitative and quantitative survey instruments.

2005 Survey Report On The Wellbeing Of The Professions: Policing, Nursing And Teaching, Institute For The Service Professions, Edith Cowan University

Research outputs pre 2011

This report assesses the wellbeing of the professions of policing, nursing and teaching in Western Australia. The findings are derived from surveys of how individuals think about their occupations, their colleagues and employers. The level of wellbeing affects the ease of attracting and retaining staff and the quality of delivered services.

We present and discuss summary results of responses to questionnaires sent in 2005 to 5,180 police, 6,000 nurses and 9,000 teachers. Each of the professions is here regarded as a single group. The number of respondents is sufficient to allow many more detailed analyses to be performed and reported …

Potential Bluetooth Vulnerabilities In Smartphones, Lih Wern Wong

Research outputs pre 2011

Smartphone vendors have been increasingly integrating Bluetooth technology into their devices to increase accessible and convenience for users. As the current inclination of integrating PDA and telephony increase, the likelihood of sensitive information being stored on such a device is also increased. Potential Bluetooth vulnerabilities could provide alternative means to compromise Bluetooth-enable smartphones, leading to severe data breaches. This paper gives an insight on potential security vulnerabilities in Bluetooth-enabled smartphones and how these vulnerabilities may affect smartphone users. This paper is discussed from the viewpoint of Bluetooth weaknesses and implementation flaws, which includes pairing, weak key storage, key disclosure, key …

Maximising Parent Involvement In The Pedestrian Safety Of 4 To 6 Year Old Children: December 2005, Donna Cross, Margaret Hall, Greg Hamilton

Research outputs pre 2011

In Australia, pedestrian injury is the leading specific cause of death among five to nine year old children (AI Yaman, Bryant & Sargeant 2002). In 1999-00 in Australia, there were 1,144 hospitalisations of children aged 0-14 years for pedestrian injuries, with a hospitalisation rate of 29.1 per 100,000 children. These rates decreased with age and were lowest for children aged 1 0-14 years. Pedestrian injuries among 0-14 year olds in 1999-00 were the second highest cause of hospitalisation in children (AI Yaman, Bryant & Sargeant 2002). While fatalities from pedestrian injuries among children 0-14 years have declined from 3.7 per …

Design Explorations For An Online Environment To Promote Metacognitive Processing Through Negotiated Assessment, Mark Mcmahon, Joseph Luca

Research outputs pre 2011

This study uses design-based research to explore how negotiated assessment contributes to students metacognitive processing. Metacognitive processing is shown to be linked to self-regulation and the development of generic skills. The research derived a conceptual framework from the literature that was integrated into a face-to-face learning strategy and evaluated. The results of this study were then used to refine the learning design, and another study was conducted with a view to explore its potential to be instantiated into an online electronic performance support system. Results from the second study are discussed and a new conceptual framework is proposed to promote …

Rome: A Poem In Three Parts, Andrew Taylor

Research outputs pre 2011

This poem was written during a six month period, in 2004 and early 2005, as Writer in Residence at the EB Whiting Library in Rome, and in Perth during the weeks preparatory to going to Italy.

Prepared To Teach : An Investigation Into The Preparation Of Teachers To Teach Literacy And Numeracy, William Louden, Mary Rohl, Jennifer Gore, Daryl Greaves, Alistair Mcintosh, Robert White, Dianne Siemon, Helen House

Research outputs pre 2011

Teacher education in Australia is a large and diverse enterprise. There are more than 400 programs in 36 universities, enrolling a total of about 35,000 preservice teachers (DEST, 2003).

The labour market for newly graduating teachers, pattern of entry to teacher education, the range of courses offered, the place of literacy and numeracy in those courses, and the provision of school experience influence the quality of beginning teachers' literacy and numeracy teaching.

Better Beginnings: A Western Australian State Library Initiated Family Literacy Project, Caroline Barratt-Pugh, Mary Rohl, Grace Oakley, Jessica Elderfield

Research outputs pre 2011

Better Beginnings is an early intervention family literacy program that has been developed by the Public Library Services Directorate, at the State Library of Western Australia. Its stated purpose is to provide positive language and literacy influences for children in their first three years of life. The program is thought to be the first of its kind in Australia and has recently been taken up by another Australian Territory State. A fully evaluated pilot of Better Beginnings commenced in January 2004 in Gosnells, Mandurah, Midland, Carnarvon, Halls Creek and Kalgoorlie and in September was extended to include Armadale, Rockingham, Bayswater, …

Intermediate Stages Of Age Characters Create Dilemmas In Ageing Female Ruffs Philomachus Pugnax In Spring, Wlodzimierz Meissner, Sergio Scebba

Wader Study Group Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Waterbird Breeding On Salinas In Ria Formosa, Southern Portugal, Vera Fonseca, Nuno Grade, Luís Cancela Fonseca

Wader Study Group Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Return Rates Of Male And Female Monogamous Shorebirds To Their Breeding Grounds, Joanna Klima, Oscar W. Johnson

Wader Study Group Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Long Term Demographic Monitoring Of Wader Populations In Non-Breeding Areas, Robert A. Robinson

Wader Study Group Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Karst And Caves Of Ha Long Bay, Tony Waltham

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

Two Cave Swallows And One Northern Roughwinged Swallow On The December 2002 Macon Christmas Bird Count, Paul Johnson

Oriole

No abstract provided.

Fish As Food For Indigo Bunting Nestlings, Jessica C. Rutledge, L. Mike Conner

Oriole

No abstract provided.

General Notes, Robert L. Crawford

Oriole

No abstract provided.

Recovering Bird Bands: The Joy Of Discovery, Alfred J. Mead

Oriole

No abstract provided.