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Design Of Wrap Around Steel Gusset Plates., Ronald Scott Dowswell

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Regulation Of Angiogenesis In Gliomas And Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells., Constance Y. Fears

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Blockage Of O-Glcnac Metabolism By Overexpressing A Dominant-Negative Splice Variant Of Ncoat Results In Cell Apoptosis., Yong Hu

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A Longitudinal Analysis Of Factors Related To Persistence Of Academically Underprepared Community College Students., Kimberly M. Ennis

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Hox Proteins As Bmp Downstream Transcription Factors., Xuelin Li

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Calcium Entry Channels And Calcium Mobilizing Receptors In Human Airway Epithelial Cells: Implications For Respiratory Disease Therapy., Lihua Liang

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Single -Gender Classes: A Quantitative Analysis Of The Impact On The Academic Achievement And Behavior Of Students In An Urban Middle School., Spencer Wade Horn

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The Functional Role Of Human Breast Fibroblasts In Breast Carcinogenesis., Andrea Sadlonova

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Examining Relationships Between Dibels And Sat 10., Susan Arnold Seay

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Two To Tango: Sexual Health And Sex Partners At High Risk Of Sexually Transmitted Infections., Margaret Christine Snead

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A Mouse Model With Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase -1a Deficiency Reveals Its Crucial Roles In Gestation And Glucose Tolerance., Lara Rachel Nyman

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Activation Of Neuregulin -1/Erbb Signaling Promotes Proliferation In Human Schwann Cell Neoplasia., Mark S. Stonecypher

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Analysis And Mitigation Of High Frequency Harmonic Interference In High Voltage Power Line Carrier Coupling Systems., Gregory A. Franklin

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Peptide Agonists And Antagonists Of A Novel Pathway In Neutrophilic Inflammation., Nathaniel M. Weathington

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Mechanisms Regulating Mesenchymal Stem Cell Adhesion To Biomimetically-Functionalized Hydroxyapatite Biomaterials For Bone Tissue Engineering Applications., Amber Annette Sawyer

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The Development Of Insulin Resistance Following Hemorrhage., Lawanda Holland Thompson

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Functional Properties Of Subplate Neurons., Juan Ed Torres-Reveron

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Primum Non Nocere: Measuring And Benchmarking Hospital Malpractice Performance., Carlton C. Young

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Characterization Of A Rod Photoreceptor Cgmp -Gated Cation Channel Beta-Subunit Knockout Mouse., Youwen Zhang

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Investment Companies Industry Developments, 2005/06; Audit Risk Alerts, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Division

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Perceptions Of The Teacher–Leader In Modern Society: Insights From The Master Teacher’S Pedagogy, Stanley E. Fawcett, James C. Brau, Amydee M. Fawcett

Faculty Publications

Meeting the challenges of a modern era, including corporate scandal, government gridlock, and societal turmoil, requires a high level of effective leadership. In such an environment, the teacher–leader plays a critical role in cultivating the knowledge worker and learning organization. After all, the teacher–leader leverages the human resource by challenging and inspiring people to bring forth their best efforts and ideas in the quest to identify and implement creative solutions to society’s dilemmas. To understand the opportunities and challenges encountered in the teacher–leader paradigm, the pedagogy of a prototypical teacher was modeled and evaluated. As the ideal model of the …

Equilibrium Underdiversification And The Preference For Skewness, Todd Mitton, Keith Vorkink

Faculty Publications

We develop a one-period model of investor asset holdings where investors have heterogeneous preference for skewness. Introducing heterogeneous preference for skewness allows the model's investors, in equilibrium, to underdiversify. We find suppport for our model's three key implications using a dataset of 60,000 individual investor accounts. First, we document that the portfolio returns of underdiversified investors are substantially more positively skewed than those of diversified investors. Second, we show that the apparent mean-variance inefficiency of underdiversified investors can be largely explained by the fact that investors sacrifice mean-variance efficiency for higher skewness exposure. Furthermore, contrary to the asset-pricing predictions of …

Stock Market Liberalization And Operating Performance At The Firm Level, Todd Mitton

Faculty Publications

I use firm-specific measures of openness to foreign investors to study the impact of stock market liberalization on firm-level operating performance. In a sample of over 1,100 firms from 28 countries, firms with stocks that are open to foreign investors experience higher growth, greater investment, greater profitability, greater efficiency, and lower leverage. Strategies to address potential endogeneity suggest that the observed relationship, at least in part, reflects a causal effect of openness on operating performance.

Dependability Auditing With Model Checking, Bonnie Anderson, James Hansen, Paul Benjamin Lowry

Faculty Publications

Model checking offers a methodology for determining whether a model satisfies a list of correctness requirements. We propose a theory of dependability auditing with model checking based on four principles: (1) The modeling process should be partitioned into computational components and behavioral components as an aid to system understanding; (2) The complex system will be abstracted to create a model; (3) A language must be available that can represent and evaluate states and processes that evolve over time; (4) Given an adequate model and temporal specifications, a model checker can verify whether or not the input model is a model …

What Does The Naep Tell Us About Student Achievement In Arkansas?, Joshua H. Barnett, Gary W. Ritter

Arkansas Education Reports

This brief discusses the most recent and historical NAEP data in math, science, reading, and writing. Arkansas’ NAEP results are compared to national and border state averages. Based on the most recent NAEP exams, Arkansas is performing slightly below the national average in reading, math, science, and writing. There is also data to support that Arkansas students perform less well in Grade 8 than in Grade 4 when compared to the national and border state averages. Arkansas, however, is among the highest performing states with regard to change over the last decade. Since 1992, Arkansas has gained on the national …

A Longitudinal Survey Of The Language Learning Careers Of Actr Advanced Students Of Russian: 1976-2000, Dan E. Davidson, Susan Goodrich Lehmann

Russian Language Journal

In 1976, the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) began sending American college students to Russia for advanced training in Russian language and literature. The original ACTR program was open to qualified students from any U. S. institution and represented one of the very few opportunities available to American students, graduate students, or faculty to pursue advanced language training in Russia, in this case, the newly established A. S. Pushkin Institute of the Russian Language in Moscow. Admission to the program was competitive, and, in practice, the ACTR program accepted for the most part graduate students and immediate-post BA …

Perspectives On Curriculum Construction At The Postsecondary Level: Contexts, Approaches, Principles, Heidi Byrnes

Russian Language Journal

A curriculum is an attempt, wrote Stenhouse three decades ago (1975, 4), to communicate the essential principles and features of an educational proposal in such a form that it is open to critical scrutiny and capable of effective translation into practice.

If one applies that notion of curriculum to the foreign language field in general, and to second- or foreign-language learning in U.S. colleges and universities in particular, one is immediately confronted with a dilemma: how can we speak of a foreign-language curriculum at the college level when a principled approach that is open to scrutiny and that builds on …

The Concept Of “World Language”, V. G. Kostomarov

Russian Language Journal

Although the United Nations has declared that its working languages—English, Russian, French, Spanish, Chinese, and, more recently, Japanese and Arabic— are “world languages,” there is no strictly linguistic basis for such a claim. Indeed, many linguists reject the term, and many of those who do accept it believe that it denotes—roughly—an artificial global language. Moreover, many find in it an unpleasant hint of the pseudoscientific idea that one language can be superior to another.

Globalization, Internationalization, And Language Learning In Russia, Liudmila Verbitskaya

Russian Language Journal

In reviewing international trends over the last few decades, two words— globalization and internationalization—inevitably come to mind. Thinkers around the world are pondering these processes, which are rooted in the technological and social changes of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

The notions of globalization and internationalization are obviously related, but exactly what do they mean? In The Globalization of Higher Education, Peter Scott (1998a) concludes that not only are the words not synonyms, but the processes they denote are radically different and even dialectically opposed.

Learners And Teachers: The Application Of Psychology To Second-Language Acquisition, Madeline Ehrman

Russian Language Journal

The successful acquisition of second languages depends as much on good psychology as it does on sound linguistics. Both teaching and learning can be enriched by understanding and applying basic psychological principles.

The speaking and reading performance of second-language learners has received a great deal of attention in areas of applied linguistics such as conversation analysis, speech production analysis, oral testing research, classroom interaction analysis, and task-based learning research.(Ellis, 1994). In addition to linguistic variables, researchers have examined psychological determinants of learner achievement in speech performance, among them “individual difference variables.” These relatively stable learner characteristics—including language aptitude, motivation, and …