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Language Skills Of Elementary-Aged Children With Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Gregory Benner Oct 2005

Language Skills Of Elementary-Aged Children With Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Gregory Benner

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

A cross-sectional design was used to assess the language skills and prevalence of language disorders among 84 randomly selected public school children (K-5) receiving special education services for emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). The mean receptive language standard score fell in the nonclinical range, whereas the mean total and expressive standard scores fell in the clinical range. The prevalence rates of total, expressive, and receptive disorders among children with EBD were 54%, 55%, and 42%, respectively. Approximately two-thirds of children experienced a language disorder (i.e., total, expressive, and/or receptive). Half of those experiencing a language disorder met clinical criteria in …

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Breeding Bird Communities In Riparian Forests Along The Central Platte River, Nebraska, Craig Davis Oct 2005

Breeding Bird Communities In Riparian Forests Along The Central Platte River, Nebraska, Craig Davis

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Platte River has changed from a nearly treeless prairie river to a heavily forested river. These habitat changes have likely benefited many woodland birds, but have harmed other migratory birds such as cranes. In response to this impact on migratory birds, conservation groups implemented a tree-clearing program to enhance habitat for these species. This practice is not without controversy because of concerns about its effect on woodland birds. The goal of this study was to determine the composition and abundance of breeding birds that use these forests and discuss the potential impacts of tree clearing on woodland birds. Surveys …

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Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - Backmatter Oct 2005

Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - Backmatter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Instructions to Authors

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Review Of Three Nations, One Place: A Comparative Ethnohistory Of Social Change Among The Comanches And Hasinais During Spain's Colonial Era, 1689- 1821 By Martha Mccollough, Maria Wade Oct 2005

Review Of Three Nations, One Place: A Comparative Ethnohistory Of Social Change Among The Comanches And Hasinais During Spain's Colonial Era, 1689- 1821 By Martha Mccollough, Maria Wade

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Few works on the Southern Plains have taken a decisively theoretical approach to the understanding of the relationships between the European colonizing nations and Native American groups and the mutual effects of contact. Building on previous scholarly works, this book provides a good synthetic and analytic review of the theoretical approaches and models previously applied to Plains studies, but furthers the discourse by zooming in on the Hasinai and the Comanche. Although this is problematic because neither the Comanche nor certainly the "Hasinai" groups can be treated wholesale or in terms of their long-term trajectories, McCollough's use of World Systems …

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Review Of The Prehistory Of Texas Edited By Timothy K. Perttula, James Bruseth Oct 2005

Review Of The Prehistory Of Texas Edited By Timothy K. Perttula, James Bruseth

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Prehistory of Texas is an attempt to synthesize work on the prehistoric archaeology of the Southern Great Plains and surrounding areas of Texas. Sixteen archeologists contributed to the book, which is divided into six parts. The first chapter of part one provides the necessary cultural-historical and environmental background for the chapters that follow. The second chapter is a long, in-depth, well-researched treatment of the Paleoindian presence in Texas.

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What Is Honors?, Dail W. Mullins Jr. Oct 2005

What Is Honors?, Dail W. Mullins Jr.

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

For several years I have edited a small, in-house journal for the School of Education’s Technology Advisory Committee at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), a journal which is distributed to the faculty and posted on the School of Education’s website. Until last issue. The last issue I submitted—while dutifully made available to the faculty and staff—never made it onto the website. No one offered an explanation, and I never inquired about the matter—after all, I was still able to add the activity to my already portly and now largely useless post-retirement vita—but I remained mildly curious about it …

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In Praise Of Silence, Bebe Nickolai Oct 2005

In Praise Of Silence, Bebe Nickolai

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I thought I was ready for her, a sophomore in my honors rhetoric class. I have been teaching the honors rhetoric class for almost twenty years. Yet every semester I revise my syllabus for the class as I realize that honors students can handle even bigger challenges—more difficult readings, more demanding writing assignments.

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Comparison Of The Academic Achievement Of First-Year Female Honors Program And Non-Honors Program Engineering Students, Gayle Hartleroad Oct 2005

Comparison Of The Academic Achievement Of First-Year Female Honors Program And Non-Honors Program Engineering Students, Gayle Hartleroad

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The purpose of this study was to compare the academic achievement of first-year female engineering students based on participation, or lack thereof, in the honors program. A single research question was developed for this study: “Is there a significant difference in academic achievement of first-year female engineering Honors Program students and non-honors program students?” The problem for this study was that many students in the Freshman Engineering program at Purdue University believed that participation in an honors program damaged students’ grade point averages with its challenging curriculum. This was especially true for beginning female students entering a traditionally male-dominated career …

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Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 6, No. 2 -- Complete Issue Oct 2005

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 6, No. 2 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Jocelyn E. Whitehead Jackson
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON “WHAT IS HONORS?”
What is Honors? -- Dail W. Mullins, Jr.
What is an Honors Student? -- Jay Freyman
Teaching Honors -- Sam Schuman
Honors as an Adjective: Response to Jay Freyman -- Len Zane
What Honors Can Do -- Vince Brewton
Is, Ought, and Honors -- Daniel Pinti
A Way of Life -- Sriram Khé
In Praise of Silence -- Bebe Nickolai
A Student like Me -- Bonnie D. Irwin
Honors: When Value-Added is Really Added Value -- Jacqueline P. …

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Honors: When Value-Added Is Really Added Value, Jacqueline Kelleher Oct 2005

Honors: When Value-Added Is Really Added Value, Jacqueline Kelleher

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Sometimes I look at the responsibilities and demands placed on me in my current position and cannot believe I haven’t cracked up yet. In this era of accountability and “show me the data,” institutional assessment directors like me are constantly bombarded with challenges that require quick, critical, divergent thinking, analytical reasoning, effective speaking, and, to some extent, creative writing. As both a professor and administrator at a state university, I live and breathe producing evidence that we as an institution are having an impact on student learning. When I was growing up, I never imagined I would end up being …

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Honors As An Adjective: Response To Jay Freyman, Len Zane Oct 2005

Honors As An Adjective: Response To Jay Freyman, Len Zane

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

As an ex-honors program/college CEO, the question raised by this Forum— ”What is an Honors (fill in the blank)?”—got me reminiscing about the old days. In some sense the best answers are the obviously circular answers. An honors student is a student participating in an honors program. An honors curriculum is the curriculum required to graduate with honors and is made up, obviously, of honors courses. The people teaching those courses are by necessity honors faculty. But how can an honors course be identified? Well, it is one populated by honors students that meets some curricular requirement of an honors …

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A Way Of Life, Sriram Khe Oct 2005

A Way Of Life, Sriram Khe

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The question “What is Honors?” could not have been posed at a better time for me: earlier this summer, I took up a new responsibility of directing the Western Oregon University (WOU) Honors Program while only in my fourth year at the university. Work has commenced at WOU to prepare for the accreditation process, which is also a wonderful opportunity to think about questions such as “What is Honors?”

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A Student Like Me, Bonnie D. Irwin Oct 2005

A Student Like Me, Bonnie D. Irwin

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Jay Freyman suggests that we often define “honors” (and, I suspect, many other things) based on our own experiences and observations as undergraduates. He then provides us with a valuable means of uncovering those diamonds in the rough and shading our eyes from those sparkling cubic zirconia who may have the resumés but lack the drive to take full advantage of the honors experience. This selection process has become even more complicated by the intrusion of parents who act as brokers for their students and who, despite our best efforts to thwart them, sometimes overshadow the stellar qualifications of their …

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Book Review How To Write A Ba Thesis: A Practical Guide From Your First Ideas To Your Finished Paper (Chicago Guides To Writing, Editing, And Publishing) By Charles Lipson, Hallie Savage Oct 2005

Book Review How To Write A Ba Thesis: A Practical Guide From Your First Ideas To Your Finished Paper (Chicago Guides To Writing, Editing, And Publishing) By Charles Lipson, Hallie Savage

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

A hallmark of honors education is high-quality undergraduate research. For honors faculty and administrators, curricular planning that results in excellent thesis research can be a special challenge because honors students represent a wide range of disciplines and vary in competency and preparation for research. How to Write a BA Thesis meets this challenge. It is a well-developed, practical guidebook for accomplishment of honors and/or undergraduate research. The contents are built on a developmental continuum or time table beginning with the conceptual basis for a thesis. As such, it is applicable to one-semester projects as well as theses or other indepth …

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What Honors Students Want (And Expect): The Views Of Top Michigan High School And College Students, James P. Hill Oct 2005

What Honors Students Want (And Expect): The Views Of Top Michigan High School And College Students, James P. Hill

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Often missing in an overall assessment of honors is a broad, comparative analysis of what top academic students want and expect from college and more particularly from an honors experience. Limited case studies or theoretical research articles analyzing how honors students think or perform may overlook or undervalue this important voice in the honors discourse. This article, although in some respects also just a larger-scale case study, has a broader perspective than many similar studies of honors students. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the expectations of prospective and current college honors students. This study also compares the …

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Redemptive Memory: The Christianization Of The Holocaust In America, Laura Bender Herron Oct 2005

Redemptive Memory: The Christianization Of The Holocaust In America, Laura Bender Herron

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

There has been a considerable debate among historians concerning the role of the Holocaust in the American collective memory. Since the watershed year 1993, when the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened its doors on the Mall in Washington, DC, and the film Schindler’s List debuted, the level of awareness of the Holocaust in the public mind has been at an all-time high in the United States. The question at the heart of this academic discussion is how Americans have come to identify so strongly with an experience that occurred over sixty years ago, on foreign shores, to a group …

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Editorial Matter For Volume 6, Number 2, Ada Long, Dail Mullins Oct 2005

Editorial Matter For Volume 6, Number 2, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Jocelyn E. Whitehead Jackson
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

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Characteristics Of The Contemporary Honors College* A Descriptive Analysis Of A Survey Of Nchc Member Colleges, Peter Sederberg Oct 2005

Characteristics Of The Contemporary Honors College* A Descriptive Analysis Of A Survey Of Nchc Member Colleges, Peter Sederberg

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Every year the number of honors colleges across the country increases. Most of these new colleges emerge out of pre-existing honors programs, an origin that suggests that the change reflects an interest in raising the public profile of honors education at a particular institution. Sometimes this transformation entails only a cosmetic name change; other times, institutions take the opportunity to review what they are providing in honors education and how they might enhance it.

The Executive Committee of the National Collegiate Honors Council recognized that the NCHC ought to take a strong interest in this phenomenon. If an institution is …

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“What Is An Honors Student?”, Jay Freyman Oct 2005

“What Is An Honors Student?”, Jay Freyman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

It is first necessary to recognize the distinction between the questions “What is an honors student?” or better “What are the characteristics of an honors student?” and “How do you recognize a student with those characteristics?” The first of these two questions is easier to approach since it is more a matter of prescription than of description, a presentation of an ideal rather than a recognition of an actual state. We can all list characteristics which we would like or expect those special students to have who are worthy in our estimation of the designation “honors.” These expectations, I submit, …

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Is, Ought, And Honors, Daniel Pinti Oct 2005

Is, Ought, And Honors, Daniel Pinti

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Somewhat uncomfortably, I confess that the question “What is Honors?” rings a bit too Platonic to these ears. I hardly feel qualified to describe “Honors” in terms of its timeless, disembodied, ideal Form, although I suppose the shadows on the wall of my own humble cave are recognizable enough. Honors at Niagara University has as its primary purpose to enrich the academic experience of NU’s most talented students, and we try to do so by weaving coursework and individual research opportunities into each student’s curriculum in order to enhance both the general education and the major programs. We put on …

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Teaching Honors, Sam Schuman Oct 2005

Teaching Honors, Sam Schuman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Jay Freyman’s discussion of “What is an Honors Student?” sent me off on the somewhat quirky tangent of asking, “So What is an Honors Teacher?” Even quirkier, my musings led me to the conclusion that the best answer was provided by John Lennon and the Beatles: “all you need is love.”

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Ultra High-Speed Sorting, James F. Leary Oct 2005

Ultra High-Speed Sorting, James F. Leary

Other Nanotechnology Publications

Background: Cell sorting has a history dating back approximately 40 years. The main limitation has been that, although flow cytometry is a science, cell sorting has been an art during most of this time. Recent advances in assisting technologies have helped to decrease the amount of expertise necessary to perform sorting. Methods: Droplet-based sorting is based on a controlled disturbance of a jet stream dependent on surface tension. Sorting yield and purity are highly dependent on stable jet break-off position. System pressures and orifice diameters dictate the number of droplets per second, which is the sort rate limiting step because …

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Laser Bending For Adjusting Curvatures Of Hard Disk Suspensions, Xi R. Zhang, Xianfan Xu Oct 2005

Laser Bending For Adjusting Curvatures Of Hard Disk Suspensions, Xi R. Zhang, Xianfan Xu

Other Nanotechnology Publications

The purpose of this work is to use 3D finite element analyses to compute bending of a hard disk suspension using a laser. The pitch and roll of the suspension can be precisely adjusted by producing a controlled amount of residual strain using the laser as a heat source. In the computational model, an uncoupled thermo-mechanical analysis is applied to calculate the laser induced thermal loading and mechanical deformation. The relation between suspension bending and laser parameters is studied based on extensive simulations. Bending resolution as high as 0.01 degrees can be achieved. In addition, a data table is established …

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Review Of Playas Of The Great Plains By Loren M. Smith, James H. Locklear Oct 2005

Review Of Playas Of The Great Plains By Loren M. Smith, James H. Locklear

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Loren M. Smith and his students at Texas Tech have been studying the ecology of playas for two decades. Playas of the Great Plains is the fruit of that work.
Playas (or playa lakes) are shallow, circular basins that hold water following rainstorms but usually dry up later in the growing season. These unique, ephemeral wetlands occur in arid and semi -arid environments around the world, but nowhere more abundantly than on the tablelands of the Southern Great Plains of North America.

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Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - News And Notes Oct 2005

Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - News And Notes

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Conferences

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Great Plains Research 15 - Annual Index 2005 Oct 2005

Great Plains Research 15 - Annual Index 2005

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Annual Index

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Review Of Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point By John Janovy, Jr., Leanne Avery Oct 2005

Review Of Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point By John Janovy, Jr., Leanne Avery

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This is the rousing story of a rebel university professor who has spent a 36- year career passionately committed to teaching science students to be scientists rather than lecturing to them about science. Janovy's teaching experiences both at the Cedar Point Biological Station (CPBS) on the south shore of Lake Ogallala in Keith County, Nebraska, and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's "city" campus can be described as an ongoing quest to bring the wealth of science in its context from Cedar Point to the "pedagogical poverty" of the large lecture hall setting in Lincoln.

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Optimum Windbreak Spacing In Great Plains Agriculture, Glenn A. Helmers, James Brandle Oct 2005

Optimum Windbreak Spacing In Great Plains Agriculture, Glenn A. Helmers, James Brandle

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Integer programming techniques were used to determine the optimal windbreak pattern for corn and soybean production over a 70-year planning horizon. Field windbreaks provide numerous benefits to agricultural producers, including increased crop yields, erosion control, and wildlife habitat. However, windbreaks involve costs of establishment, maintenance, removal, localized yield reductions, and a loss of income resulting from cropland dedicated to windbreaks. As with any farm investment, windbreaks must be economically viable if they are to be adopted by producers. In addition to the direct costs of establishment, maintenance, and removal, yield increases must be large enough to replace opportunity costs of …

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Becoming Neighbors Or Remaining Strangers? Latinos And Residential Segregation In The Heartland, Ana-Mari Gonzalez Wahl, Steven Gunkel, Bennie Shobe, Jr. Oct 2005

Becoming Neighbors Or Remaining Strangers? Latinos And Residential Segregation In The Heartland, Ana-Mari Gonzalez Wahl, Steven Gunkel, Bennie Shobe, Jr.

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Debate persists about the dynamics of segregation and their consequences for Latinos as well as others. This paper draws from the most recent census to examine these dynamics and their consequences in three midwestern cities: Omaha, Lincoln, and Lexington. By shifting the focus to new centers of Latino population growth, we clarify the complexities of Hispanic segregation across the United States. Our findings extend and inform previous debates in several ways. Using the index of dissimilarity, we find evidence of rising segregation in Omaha and Lincoln while Lexington appears a model of integration, at least at first glance. Class factors, …

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Review Of Every Farm A Factory: The Industrial Ideal In American Agriculture By Deborah Fitzgerald, Kimberly Porter Oct 2005

Review Of Every Farm A Factory: The Industrial Ideal In American Agriculture By Deborah Fitzgerald, Kimberly Porter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In many ways Deborah Fitzgerald's Every Farm a Factory is a familiar story. Students of early twentieth-century American agriculture will find recognizable contours: mechanization, standardization, economies of scale, depopulation, professionalization, and a developing managerial mind-set. What makes Fitzgerald's work an invigorating contribution to the history of rural America is her framework. The new "opportunities and constraints" confronting farmers and their families in the 1920s, she argues, were not an accidental convergence.

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