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Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 71, July 6, 2005

Central Florida Future

New UCF SGA Senate training emphasizes budget management: White: expand program to educate clubs student organizations on SGA spending knowledge; UCF's best places fourth in pageant: UF student takes Miss Florida crown; four knights finish with Top 10 honors; Campus officials prepare for potential storm threat; Snarled Orlando highways give students bad case of road rage: Lengthy commutes and lack of nearby job opportunities test patience hurts wallets.

One More River To Cross: The Therapeutic Rhetoric Of Race In The Post-Civil Rights Era, Nigel I. Malcolm

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The rhetoric of W.E.B. Du Bois contributed both to a sense of group failure among blacks and a sense of individual failure. Du Bois also created a need to explain the reasons for the failure of the group, as well as that of individuals within the group, specifically those within a segment of the black population deemed the talented tenth. Today the talented tenth is more generally spoken of as those occupying positions within the black middle class. Explanations for failure among blacks as a group are generally of two kinds. The first posits that the failure blacks experience as …

From International Law To Law And Globalization, Paul Schiff Berman

ExpressO

International law’s traditional emphasis on state practice has long been questioned, as scholars have paid increasing attention to other important – though sometimes inchoate – processes of international norm development. Yet, the more recent focus on transnational law, governmental and non-governmental networks, and judicial influence and cooperation across borders, while a step in the right direction, still seems insufficient to describe the complexities of law in an era of globalization. Accordingly, it is becoming clear that “international law” is itself an overly constraining rubric and that we need an expanded framework, one that situates cross-border norm development at the intersection …

An Investigation Of The Relationships Between Learning Styles, Individual Characteristics, And Mathematical Strand Weaknesses., Lorin Buzay

Theses and Graduate Projects

This study focuses on 1 12 mid-western middle school sixth grade students who exhibit one or more of the following strands: mathematical reasoning, number sense; estimation and computation; patterns, functions, and algebra; data analysis statistics; geometry and spacial sense; or measurement. A series of 2,025 correlations were conducted between: The Measures of Academic Achievement Test (produced by Northwest Evaluation Association), The Dunn, Dunn, and price Learning Style Inventory, and a sixteen point classroom student characteristics survey. This yielded a total of 144 significant values, 10-15 within each weakness strand, indicating possible relationships between test scores and student preferences. Data analysis …

Tauser Killed Both Dogs And Other Suburban American Family Folklore, Kristina Whitley Gashler

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis attempts to answer the questions "What purposes do family pets and the narratives we tell about them serve in modern American society?" and "What do these stories tell us about what Americans value and about where we locate our ‘value center’?" In Chapter 1, I discuss how Americans define loyalty in our pets now that our animals generally no longer help us work. I conclude that since the shift from agricultural to suburban settings, animals prove their loyalty individually and in human-like ways, rather than as "good" members of their own species, but at the same time because …

University Of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Commons, Paul Royster

Institutional Repository Information

A PowerPoint presentation on the UNL Digital Commons program

Personal Or Organisational Control? A Critical Perspective From The Multinational’S International Assignees, Marian Crowley-Henry, David Weir

Conference papers

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of non-national employees of multinational organisations based in Sophia Antipolis (South of France). Here twenty-three in-depth interviews with non-nationals employed by a multinational in the area, together with contextual data regarding the particular case of Sophia Antipolis contribute to the discussion on power and control in an international, organisational context. Irrespective of the initial motivations to follow on an international career, this study highlights the tensions individuals encounter in their desire to retain their international status while seeking out a more individual, balanced, protean career, potentially beyond their current employing organisations. Extracts …

07/03/2005 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 07/03/2005. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 3, 2005, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2005

No abstract provided.

Childbirth And Breastfeeding Over Three Decades: One Mother’S Story, Hila Spear

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article describes one mother's selected childbirth and breastfeeding experiences that transpired over the span of three decades. Her story is a source of inspiration and encouragement for breastfeeding mothers and health-care professionals who provide maternity care for today's childbearing women. Furthermore, this personal account reveals that, although breastfeeding support and childbirth services have improved over the past 30 years, more needs to be done to promote positive birth experiences and breastfeeding outcomes.

Com Outlook Summer 2005, College Of Osteopathic Medicine

COM Outlook

No abstract provided.

What’S Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment In The Consumer Credit Market, Marianne Bertrand, Dean S. Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Debating The Events Of September 11th: Discursive And Interactional Dynamics In Three Online Fora, Laura Robinson

Sociology

This study examines the constituencies, patterns of interaction, and ideologies in three online fora created to discuss the events of September 11th, 2001. Drawing on comparative case studies, the research explores the frames and discursive styles used by Brazilian, French, and American participants to articulate their views about this polarizing topic. The research identifies commonalities and differences across the three cases with respect to trends in posters' participation, interaction patterns between forum participants, and the ideological content of the posts themselves. Interpretive examination of posts from the three sites elucidates linkages between modes of discourse, ideological positions, and faction membership. …

Balanced Approach Needed For Students With Learning Difficulties, Louise Ellis

Research Developments

The latest Australian Education Review, ‘Balancing approaches: Revisiting the educational psychology research on teaching students with learning difficulties’ was released in October. The review’s author, Louise Ellis, explains what contemporary research says about the often controversial subject of how best to teach basic skills to students with learning difficulties.

Ballast Quarterly Review, V20n4, Summer 2005, Roy R. Behrens

Ballast Quarterly Review

A journal devoted to wit, the contents of which are intended to be insightful, amusing, or thought provoking.

The Learning Marketspace, July 2005, Bob Heterick, Carol Twigg

The Learning MarketSpace (4/03 - 4/14)

No abstract provided.

Catholic Deaf Community Newsletter, Summer 2005

Catholic Deaf Community Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Portland, OR

Catholic Deaf Community Newsletter Finding Aid

Research Developments (No. 14) -- Full Issue

Research Developments

Table of contents for this issue: (a) Balanced approach needed for students with learning difficulties; (b) Examining the consequences for Year 12 course choices; (c) Training great teachers; (d) Measuring Australian students' ICT literacy

Macalester Today Summer 2005, Macalester College

Macalester Today

No abstract provided.

Medical Education Digest, Vol. 7 No. 4 (July/August 2005), Nova Southeastern University

Medical Education Digest

No abstract provided.

Civil-Military Relations In A Civilized State: Panama, Ronald D. Sylvia, Constantine P. Danopoulos

Faculty Publications

This article traces and analyzes civil-military relations in Panama. After a brief overview of the role of the National Guard in the country politics, the article concentrates on political developments since the 1989 U.S. invasion to overthrow the Noriega regime and the subsequent elimination of the Panamanian military. The study seeks to shed light on political life in an armyless and politically and socially fractionalized country occupying a sensitive strategic location. The concluding part of the study speculates on the possibility that terrorism, domestic security concerns, and regional considerations may prompt Washington and Panamanian leaders to reverse the decision to …

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: July 2005, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - July 2005

Formative Research For Hygiene Promotion In Kyrgyzstan, Adam Biran, Anara Tabyshalieva, Zumrat Salmorbekova

History Faculty Research

Formative research for hygiene promotion was used to gather data relating to hygiene practices in rural Kyrgyzstan. Some of the hand-washing and faeces disposal practices observed were sub-optimal from a public health perspective. In combination with the poverty, limited medical services and poor water supply infrastructure characteristic of the study area, it is likely that these factors increase the risk of diarrhoeal infections among Kyrgyz children. An association was found between increased rates of hand-washing following latrine use and ownership of a washstand. This offers some empirical support for the idea that promotion of hand-washing technologies can form a useful …

Beauty In Bastardy? Breytenbach On Afrikaans And The Afrikaners, Brian G. Kennelly

World Languages and Cultures

Throughout the twentieth century activists in South Africa for the Afrikaans language struggled with, yet never resolved, the language/people, Afrikaans/Afrikaner issue, as Hermann Giliomee points out in his recent ‘biography’ of the Afrikaners (2003, 389). Was the Afrikaner community a racial or linguistic one? Was the push to promote Afrikaans subordinate to the entrenchment of a white supremacist government and ruling party? Was there a hegemonic or counter-hegemonic relationship between language and ethnicity? If the social identity of the Afrikaner was to be shaped by the acceptance of Afrikaans as a public language on equal footing with English, the creed …

Uni Schedule Of Classes, Summer 2005, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the University of Northern Iowa.

From Legal History To Legal Theory: Or Is It The Other Way Around, James L. Huffman

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cal State San Bernardino Magazine (Spring/Summer 2005), Csusb

CSUSB Magazine

Features:

Update Feature......Page 3
Beyond preparing a more highly-trained work force, guess what CSUSB does for the local economy?

Contributions Feature......Page 17
Int eh late '40s and early '50s, fast-food businesses were popping up all over Southern California, including some major ones in San Bernardino. Neal Baker's connections to that piece of tasty history has established a new link in his life, this one to a scholarship fund.

Athletics Feature......Page 19
From her own days on championship sports teams, Kim Cherniss has drilled into her women's vollyball players some crazy notion that they can win-a lot. Have …

Creating Effective Web-Based Learning Environments: Relevant Research And Practice, Kay Wijekumar

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

No abstract provided.

The Fight Master, Spring/Summer 2005, Vol. 28 Issue 1, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

No abstract provided.

Differential Stress Responses In Fish From Areas Of High- And Low-Predation Pressure, Culum Brown, Carolyn Gardner, Victoria Braithwaite

Aquaculture Collection

We subjected fish from regions of high and low levels of predation pressure in four independent streams to a mild stressor and recorded their opercular beat rates. Fish from low-predation areas showed higher maximum, minimum and mean opercular beat frequencies than fish from high-predation regions. The change in opercular beat frequency (scope) was also significantly greater in fish from low- than in fish from high-predation regions. Under normal activity levels, however, low predation fish showed a reduced opercular beat frequency, which may be indicative of reduced activity levels or metabolic rate. Opercular beat frequency was negatively correlated with standard length …