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Avian Response To Field Borders In The Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Ross Robert Conover

Theses and Dissertations

Dramatic alterations have occurred on agricultural landscapes throughout North America, reducing the quantities of herbaceous habitat that once dominated field margins. A concomitant decrease of grassland bird populations paralleled these modifications. Conservation buffers, in the form of field borders, are a method of habitat establishment that effectively balances wildlife and landowner needs. Recent popularity of field borders led to their establishment throughout the southeastern US despite a paucity of knowledge regarding avian response to management regimes. This research evaluated wintering and breeding avian communities, as well as nesting ecology in response to field border establishment. Results indicated that birds utilize …

Summer 2005 Commencement - The University Of Texas Of The Permian Basin, The University Of Texas Permian Basin

UTPB Commencement Programs

Summer 2005 Commencement - August 5, 2005

Keeping Track Of Care: Quality And Technology At Lifebridge Health System (Baltimore), Judith Moore

National Health Policy Forum

This one-day site visit focused on quality and technology in acute, post-acute and long-term care at Sinai Hospital and Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital, both components of LifeBridge Health System in Baltimore. Participants traced the treatment paths of hypothetical cardiac and cancer patients through the hospital and explored the range of home- and community-based as well as institutional care available through the geriatric center. The role of clinical information technology was highlighted in both settings.

Summer Commencement: August 5, 2005, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Summer Commencement program from August 5, 2005.

Sociologist And Author Troy Duster To Address Race And Dna, Diversity And Curricular Reform

News Releases

News release announces that Troy Duster kicks off the University of Dayton's 2005-2006 Diversity Lecture Series with a pair of public lecture on Aug. 25-26.

Summer Commencement Ceremony, University Of North Florida

Commencement Printed Materials

Program for the Summer Commencement ceremony held at UNF Arena.

Printed Material: Disney Contemporary Resort Reservation Documents And Bill

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Disney Contemporary Resort group reservation information, documents and bill. Date: 2005. Box 10 Folder 9

Teachers As Advocates For Student: Why Some Choose To Go The Extra Mile, Linda Cohen

Theses and Graduate Projects

Teachers have the opportunity to become leaders who shape, alter and foster their students' social and academic life. The student population of late has emerged as diverse in culture, needs and learning ability. It has become increasingly more important for a teacher to understand the student as "a whole," since it often pertains to the student's learning capability and growth as a person. Identifying the factors that encourage student advocacy could be a huge step in continuing progress or a positive change toward establishing advocacy environments. This qualitative action research study investigates the factors that formulate a teacher as an …

Winthrop University Galleries 2005-06 Exhibition Schedule, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2005

• This year's exhibitions range from faculty, staff and students to outside artists with much to share.

Winthrop Student Honored With One Of America's Largest Graduate Scholarships, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2005

• The 76 new recipients of the Foundation's graduate and professional scholarships were chosen after a nationwide selection process that drew 1,290 nominees from more than 600 colleges and universities across the country.
• Luepkes, who graduated from Winthrop in May with a degree in political science, was involved in numerous activities and causes during her undergraduate years.
• In recognition of her achievements and outstanding commitment to public service during her time at Winthrop, Luepkes received the 2005 Mary Mildred Sullivan Award.

Independent- Aug. 2, 2005, Patrick O'Brien

The Independent (1988-present)

No abstract provided.

Unm Law: The Magazine For Alumni And Friends, Fall/Winter 2005, University Of New Mexico - School Of Law

Advancement Print Publications

Information on Distinguished Achievement Awards, Commencement and Honors, Outreach, Academic and Faculty News, Fundraising, and Class Notes.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 030, Number 03, August 1, 2005, Grand Valley State University

2005-2006, Volume 30

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Providing For The Priceless Student: Ideologies Of Choice In An Emerging Educational Market, Scott Davies, Linda Quirke

Sociology Faculty Publications

The growing popularity of school choice is typically linked to the spread of neoliberal ideology. Identifying four components of this ideology, we examine the rationales of providers in an emerging private school market. Data come from interviews and site visits at 45 “third-sector” private schools in Toronto, Canada. We find that only one of the four components has a strong resonance among these educators. Few private school operators sharply criticize public schools, compete via quantitative performance indicators, or are strongly business oriented. However, they voice a philosophy of matching their personal talents to the needs of “unique” children. Overall, rather …

Primetimes Newsletter, Fall 2005, Office Of Lifespan Studies

PrimeTimes Newsletter

PrimeTimes is the newsletter of the Office of Lifespan Studies in the College of Science at Coastal Carolina University.

2005-2006 Bulletin

Undergraduate Bulletins

After 2003 the University of Dayton Bulletin went exclusively online. This copy was printed from the web and scanned by the Registrar’s Office.

Bulletin Of The University Of Notre Dame The Law School 2005–06, Volume 101, Number 4, University Of Notre Dame

Bulletins of Information

CONTENTS

Graduate Law Programs

Dual-Degree Programs

Requirements for Graduation and Good Academic Standing

Tuition and Fees

Withdrawal Regulations

Curriculum

Law School Courses

Course Descriptions

Officers of Administration

Law School Faculty

Law School Calendar

Important Addresses

The Integration Of Tax And Spending Programs, David A. Weisbach

Occasional Papers

No abstract provided.

Governor Appoints Governors State Professor Emeritus To Ibhe, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Governor Rod Blagojevich has appointed Governors State University Professor Emeritus Addison Woodward to the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

Woodward served as a professor of psychology in Governors State’s College of Education for more than 29 years and was chair of the Division of Psychology and Counseling from 1979 until his retirement in 2002.

An Exploratory Study Of The Experiences Of Gay, Lesbian, And Bisexual Fraternity And Sorority Members Revisited, Douglas N. Case, Grahaeme A. Hesp, Charles G. Eberly

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

The lead author questioned over 500 self-identified gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) fraternity and sorority members to assess their reasons for joining; how their membership affected their sexual identity development and intimate relationships; the degree of homophobia and heterosexism encountered; how sexual orientation affected the quality of their fraternal experiences; and the level of acceptance or rejection they faced. Many respondents were in the early phases of sexual identity development at the time they joined, and most chose to conceal their sexual orientation from their fellow members. This study details the reactions from fellow members, assesses satisfaction with the fraternity …

服務研習計劃簡訊第三期 Office Of Service-Learning Newsletters, Volume 3, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

SLant 嶺召

在今期通訊中，課程導師、機構代表，以及學生分別分享了他們對推行服務研習計劃的感想 (只有中文)

In this issue, course instructors, service agency supervisors and students share their impression on the implementation of Service-Learning and Research Scheme (Chinese ONLY)

Workplace Organization, Labor Process Control And Occupational Health. Ph. D. Dissertation, Linda Treiber

Faculty Articles

The purpose of this research is to understand the complex relationships between working conditions and occupational health. The research draws from labor process theory that generally views worker control over the labor process as essential to non-alienated labor and from epidemiologic models of host, agent/exposure, and environment. Using General Social Survey 2002 cross sectional data, I investigate the effects of standard epidemiologic factors and worker labor process control factors in multivariate models to predict the dependent variables of workplace injury, persistent pain, exhaustion, and general health status. I suggest that labor process autonomy, social cohesion and skill utilization generally have …

Expectations & Experiences Of Resettlement: Sudanese Refugees’ Perspectives On Their Journeys From Egypt To Australia, Canada And The United States, Martha Fanjoy, Hilary Ingraham, Cyrena Khoury, Amir Osman

Faculty Journal Articles

A key center for refugee­based activity is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regional office, located in Cairo. In recent years, this unit has referred approximately 4,000 recognized refugees per year for resettlement to the United States, Canada, Australia and a number of other smaller receiving countries, making it the largest such program in the world. But despite the size of the refugee population and the resettlement program in Cairo, there has been little research conducted into the expectations and experiences of the refugees themselves on this process. These perspectives could be significant determinants of success in the …

"Brown Flight": Secondary Movement Among Mexican Immigrants, Carlos Garcia

Faculty Publications, Sociology

The past ten years have seen the continued growth of the Mexican origin population in the United States. This growth has been accompanied by the movement of immigrants away from their traditional settlement locations in the Southwest. Using data collected in a small community in Northeastern Oklahoma I explore factors that motivate the movement of Mexican immigrants to nontraditional locations. I find these movements are motivated by a search for a higher quality of life. In effect this movement represents a form of "Brown flight" away from urban centers to rural locations. In areas such as these, respondents find many …

Beginnings Of U.S. Pragmatism, Sociology, And Empire: Dewey, Mead, And The Philippine Problem, 1900-1930s, Peter Chua

Faculty Publications, Sociology

This paper examines how the social psychology of U.S. pragmatists John Dewey and George Herbert Mead shapes how early U.S. sociology position itself on questions of U.S. empire and geo-political dominance. It focuses also on how pragmatist thought influences how 1920s Chicago sociologists Robert Park and Emory Bogardus produced symbolic interactionist theories and studies on U.S. race and international relations.This paper makes several interventions in the history of U.S. sociological theory. It re-examines the history of U.S. sociology and the philosophy of pragmatism through the lens of empire, rather than simply a myopic looking-glass of the “race problem.” This re-examination …

Ua35/1 Doers & Deeds, Volume 5, Issue 1, Wku Provost

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the WKU Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs to highlight the activities of faculty, staff and alumni.

High School Seniors' Plans After Graduation: The Decision To Go To The Military, College, A Trade School, Or Work, Yasamin Shariat

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This research analyzes the decision process of high school seniors in their postgraduation plans. Most of the participants are college bound, so students were compared and analyzed according to their preparedness for college as measured by the ACT. It seems that students go to college whether or not they are actually prepared for the experience. They seem to be more influenced by a societal push towards attending college than by anything else.

History At Eastern (August 2005), History

History at Eastern

No abstract provided.

Sami Matters (Fall 2005), Center For Evidence Based Practices

SAMI Matters

A newsletter of the Ohio Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Coordinating Center of Excellence (SAMI CCOE). The SAMI CCOE is a partnership between the Cuyahoga County Community Mental Health Research Institute at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, CWRU. The partnership is in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Mental Health.

Scoring Subscales Using Multidimensional Item Response Theory Model, Christine E. Demars

Department of Graduate Psychology - Faculty Scholarship

Several methods for estimating item response theory scores for multiple subtests were compared. These methods included two multidimensional item response theory models: a bi­factor model where each subtest was a composite score based on the primary trait measured by the set of tests and a secondary trait measured by the individual subtest, and a model where the traits measured by the subtests were separate but correlated. Composite scores based on unidimensional item response theory, with each subtest borrowing information from the other subtest, as well as independent unidimensional scores for each subtest were also considered. Correlations among scores from all …