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Design And Implementation Of A Web-Based Portfolio For Aspiring Educational Leaders: A Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Model, Traci Redish, Linda Webb, Binbin Jiang

Faculty Articles

Following a programmatic model for change, one new educational leadership department describes the process involved to design, develop, and implement a Web-portfolio to integrate, document, and evaluate leadership experiences of aspiring school leaders in a graduate education program. To ensure the successful implementation of the Web-portfolios, the department followed Barrett's model—vision, skills, incentives, resources, and action plan [1]. Each aspect of the model is described as the department migrates from a traditional paper-based portfolio to a Web-portfolio that scaffolds the development process through the use of a template—and at the same time—maintains the creativity of expression that has always been …

Uneasy Transvestism? Fashioning A Space For The Single Woman In Sex And The City, Nicola Rodie

Journal of International Women's Studies

‘Uneasy Transvestism? Fashioning a Space for the Single Woman in Sex and the City’ is essentially an exploration of the ways in which fashion is used within the programme to explore the parameters of the female body, and in particular, to define a sexually fluid space for the single woman. I approach the material from a cultural studies methodology, trying to especially decipher the meanings inherent in the visual language of the programme, and its use of clothing to costume its four female protagonists. Intrigued and influenced by theorists such as Butler, Hollander and Garber, but largely relying on …

Us Inflation And Commodity Prices: Analytical And Empirical Issues, Anastasios G. Malliaris

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper reviews both theoretical and empirical issues regarding inflation and evaluates the contribution of Kyrtsou and Labys. Analytically it is very difficult to propose a general theory of inflation because as economies evolve over time both new causes of inflation emerge and the consequences of inflation become more complex. Kyrtsou and Labys perform several tests between the Primary Commodity Price component of the PPI and the CPI and construct a noisy chaotic multivariate model that describes the relationship between these two measures of inflation.

Volume 30, No. 5

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editor in Chief: Michael Shalke

Layout Editor: Rob Richler

Assistant Editors: John Drover, Jennifer Bye, Jennifer Morrison, Simone Bern

Is It All A Question Of Openness?, Seow Hon Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

No abstract provided.

Overlap Food For Fish In The Haditha Dam Reservoir (Qadisiyah) Iraq, Amir A. Al-Shamma'a, Mahmmod A. Mohammed, Eman N. Naser, Muhanned R. Nashaat

Baghdad Science Journal

Shehadt 683 fish of different fish present in the tank Haditha Dam during the period of February 1993 and the end Maes 1994 to identify the nutritional content of the digestive tract or the stomach for these fish and their impact on the environment of the tank and found that Fish fine linen and Alhalg animal feeding predators feed on small fish, mainly the fish brown plantnutrition

Famous Trademarks And The Rational Basis For Protecting "Irrational Beliefs", Shahar J. Dilbary

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

This Article challenges the common wisdom about the desirability of celebrated trademarks. Contrary to the traditional view, it argues that mega-brands are neither economic evils nor is their function limited to imparting information regarding the physical product they flaunt. The Article also rejects the view that famous marks persuade consumers (often referred to as "Snobs") to "irrationally" pay more for the same physical product they could have purchased for less. Rather, it argues that in purchasing a branded good the consumer is actually purchasing three tied products in one package: a physical product, information about the physical product, and an …

A Platform For Antenna Optimization With Numerical Electromagnetics Code Incorporated With Genetic Algorithms, Timothy L. Pitzer

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigation presents a unique incorporation of the Method of Moments (MoM) with a Genetic Algorithm (GA). A GA is used in accord with the Numerical Electromagnetics Code, Version 4 (NEC4) to create and optimize typical wire antenna designs, including single elements and arrays. Design parameters for the antenna are defined and encoded into a chromosome composed of a series of numbers. The cost function associated with the specific antenna of interest is what quantifies improvement and, eventually, optimization. This cost function is created and used by the GA to evaluate the performance of a population of antenna designs. …

March 1, 2006, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

2006 March, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for March 2006.

Globalization And The Christian Community, Duane Bajema

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Hepatic And Renal Cytochrome P450 Gene Regulation During Citrobacter Rodentium Infection In Wild-Type And Toll-Like Receptor 4 Mutant Mice, Terrilyn A Richardson, Melanie Sherman, Leposava Antonovic, Sean S Kardar, Henry W Strobel, Daniel Kalman, Edward T Morgan

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Citrobacter rodentium is the rodent equivalent of human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli infection. This study investigated regulation of hepatic and renal cytochrome P450 (P450) mRNAs, hepatic P450 proteins, cytokines, and acute phase proteins during C. rodentium infection. Female C3H/HeOuJ (HeOu) and C3H/HeJ (HeJ) mice [which lack functional toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)] were infected with C. rodentium by oral gavage and sacrificed 6 days later. Hepatic CYP4A10 and 4A14 mRNAs were decreased in HeOu mice (

Effects Of Conjugated Linoleic Acid And Exercise On Bone Mass In Young Male Balb/C Mice, Jameela Banu, Arunabh Bhattacharya, Mizanur Rahman, Marianne O'Shea, Gabriel Fernandes

Health & Biomedical Sciences Faculty Publications

There is an increase in obesity among the population of industrialized countries, and dietary supplementation with Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) has been reported to lower body fat mass. However, weight loss is generally associated with negative effects on bone mass, but CLA is reported to have beneficial effects on bone. Furthermore, another factor that is well established to have a beneficial effect on bone is exercise (EX). However, a combination therapy of CLA and EX on bone health has not been studied. In this paper, we report the beneficial effects of CLA and EX on bone, in four different groups …

Relationships Between The Immune System And Stress Reactivity In Pig: Visualizing The Immuno-Neuroendocrine Framework In Action, Sanipa Suradhat

The Thai Journal of Veterinary Medicine

Activation of the immune system is regulated through several mechanisms, within the system itself and by other body systems, in order to maintain disease resistance, and prevent immune-mediated disorders within the host. It is well accepted that the immunological, physiological, behavioral, and psychological state of an animal are closely linked and the factors affecting one feature of the network can influence the rest of the system.In recent years, our understanding of the interactions between the neuroendocrine network (i.e. the hypothalamicp tuitary- adrenal axis, HPA) and immune-mediated inflammatory reactions has expanded enormously. This article outlines the nature of the immuno-neuroendocrine network …

Expectations, Animal Spirits, And Evolutionary Dynamics, Angelo Antoci, Massimiliano Landi, Pier Luigi Sacco

Research Collection School Of Economics

We consider a (deterministic) evolutionary model where players have dynamic expectations about the strategy distribution. We provide a global analysis of the co-evolution of play and expectations for a generic two-by-two game. Besides the the typical indeterminacy of the evolutionary dynamics, we find some other ones: for any initial strategy configuration the dynamics can converge to any asymptotically stable fixed point, for different initial values of the expectations. Moreover, starting from the same initial pair of strategy configuration and values of expectations, the dynamics may lead to different asymptotically stable fixed points for different parameters of the expectations.

Triple Bottom Line: A Business Metaphor For A Social Construct, Darrell Brown, Jesse F. Dillard, Scott Marshall

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

The triple bottom line is emerging as a popular conceptualization and reporting vehicle for articulating corporate social, environmental, and economic performance and is receiving significant attention in connection with its efficacy and sufficiency as a means for reporting the extent to which an organization meets its societal responsibilities. By preparing and disseminating triple bottom line statements, an organization conveys an image of concern and sensitivity to the three dimensions of societal responsibility: economic, environmental, and social. However, as currently conceived and operationalized, we question whether the triple bottom line reports actually provide information relevant to accessing corporate responsibility and enforcing …

Abnormal Expression Of Rest/Nrsf And Myc In Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells Causes Cerebellar Tumors By Blocking Neuronal Differentiation, Xiaohua Su, Vidya Gopalakrishnan, Duncan Stearns, Kenneth Aldape, Fredrick F Lang, Gregory Fuller, Evan Snyder, Charles G Eberhart, Sadhan Majumder

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Medulloblastoma, one of the most malignant brain tumors in children, is thought to arise from undifferentiated neural stem/progenitor cells (NSCs) present in the external granule layer of the cerebellum. However, the mechanism of tumorigenesis remains unknown for the majority of medulloblastomas. In this study, we found that many human medulloblastomas express significantly elevated levels of both myc oncogenes, regulators of neural progenitor proliferation, and REST/NRSF, a transcriptional repressor of neuronal differentiation genes. Previous studies have shown that neither c-Myc nor REST/NRSF alone could cause tumor formation. To determine whether c-Myc and REST/NRSF act together to cause medulloblastomas, we used a …

Sixth National Garrett Morgan Symposium On Sustainable Transportation, Mti Report S-06-01, Mineta Transportation Institute

Mineta Transportation Institute

The Mineta Transportation Institute brought together experts in surface transportation and students from elementary, middle, and high schools to discuss sustainable transportation topics on March 28, 2006. The goal was to introduce the students to transportation-related careers and to inspire them to pursue the academic curricula that would lead to success in those careers. Students from California, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., participated in a videoconference, during which they heard a keynote statement from the U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta. The students also presented project proposals for innovative transportation alternatives during the videoconference. The presentations were followed by …

The Boilerplate Puzzle, Douglas G. Baird

Michigan Law Review

The warranty that comes with your laptop computer is one of its many product attributes. The laptop has a screen of a particular size. Its microprocessors work at a particular speed, and the battery lasts a given amount of time between recharging. The hard drive has a certain capacity and mean time to failure. There is an instruction manual, online technical support (or lack thereof), and software. Then there are the warranties that the seller makes (or does not make) that are also part of the bundle. Just as I know the size of the screen, but nothing about the …

The History Of Reynard The Fox: How Medieval Literature Reflects Culture, Anne Lair

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Teaching about the Middle Ages in French culture or literature courses is always an enlightening experience to me because of the richness of symbols, events, and starting points occurring during this time period. Very often, when thinking about the Middle Ages, Christianity, chivalry, and nobility come to mind, all values still of high importance in contemporary Western societies. However, medieval culture presents itself with an array of other behaviors and values, some of which may today be considered as offensive and even sometimes “alienating”: primitive, barbaric, or even animalistic forms of behavior.

Effects Of Swimming Training And Free Mobilization On Bone Mineral Densities Of Rats With The Immobilization-Induced Osteopenia, Hilmi Karatosun, Ali Erdogan, Mustafa Yildiz, Celal Akgun, Cem Cetin

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the possible effects of regular swimming exercise on bone mineral density (BMD) compared with free activity after cast immobilization of rats. METHODS: We carried out the study from April 2005 to June 2005 at the Department of Sports Medicine, Medical School of Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey. The study included a total of 24 female Wistar rats. The rats were randomized to control (n = 6), swimming training (ST) n = 9, and free mobilization (FM) n = 9 groups. We measured Bone mineral densities of femur and vertebra of all rats with a total body scanner …

Frequency And Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns Of Bacterial Pathogens Isolated From Septicemic Patients In Makkah Hospitals, Atif H. Asghar

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of septicemic cases in Makkah hospitals, the main pathogens causing septicemia, and to describe the prevalence of antibiotic resistance among septicemia clinical isolates. METHODS: We performed a prospective study of 1626 septicemic cases in the 4 main hospitals in Makkah City during April 2004 to March 2005. Blood culture, isolation of organism and susceptibility to antibiotics were assessed using a routine microbiological methods. RESULTS: Out of the 1626 septicemic cases identified, gram-positive organisms were involved in 56.6% of these episodes with coagulase-negative Staphylococci and Staphylococcus aureus being the most frequent. While Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas …

Effects Of Nonstrangulated Small Bowel Obstruction On Intestinal Histology, Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Level, Antioxidants, And Lipid Peroxidation In Rats, Ismet F. Ozguner, Cagri Savas, Meltem Ozguner, Namik Delibas

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Ultrastructural Investigation Of The Protective Role Of Folic Acid And Vitamin E Against Toxic Effects Of Valproic Acid On Maternal Liver Tissue During Period Of Gestation, Ozlem P. Baran, Piraye Kervancioglu, Murat Akkus, Yusuf Nergiz

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Are The Laws Or Applications Insufficient To Prevent Children From The Hazards Of Corrosive Materials?, Tarik Gunduz, Omur Elcioglu, Huseyin Ilhan

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

An Unusual Case Of Colouterine Fistula, Tara C. Sharma, Sonal Bathla, Nirmala Agarwal, Subhash C. Arya, Pragya Ahuja

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation In Pregnancy, Farhad Kamrani, Mehdi Khalighimonfared

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Procalcitonin Marker For Sepsis Diagnosis. Evaluating A Rapid Immuno-Chromatografic Test, Alireza E. Naeini, Shahin Montazerolghaem

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

A Hydrothermal After-Ripening Time Model For Seed Dormancy Loss In Bromus Tectorum L., Phil S. Allen, Necia B. Bair

Faculty Publications

After-ripening, the loss of dormancy under dry conditions, is associated with a decrease in mean base water potential for germination of Bromus tectorum L. seeds. After-ripening rate is a linear function of temperature above a base temperature, so that dormancy loss can be quantified using a thermal after-ripening time (TAR) model. To incorporate storage water potential into TAR, we created a hydrothermal after-ripening time (HTAR) model. Seeds from two B. tectorum populations were stored under controlled temperatures (20 or 30° C) and water potentials (400 to 40MPa). Subsamples were periodically removed from each storage treatment and incubated at 15 or …

Supplementation Of Energy And Protein For Beef Cattle, A Literature Review, D. Zobell

All Current Publications

On cattle production operations, a forage diet often will not provide the necessary nutrients to meet the demands of grazing cattle throughout the year. Therefore, supplementation may be necessary to aid in meeting the demands of production.