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Graduate Connections- November 2007

Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students

In This Issue:

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Navigating Graduate School........... 1

Staying On Track

We <3 Doctoral Forms

Essential Connections...................... 3

Academic Integrity Quiz

Graduate Studies Web Site

Professional Development............... 5

Letters of Recommendation

CV Formatting Tips

Preparing Future Faculty Program

Teaching Tip: ..................................... 5

Assessing Teaching Innovations

Interactions........................................10

Fellowship Winners

Grad Student Association News

Funding Opportunities.....................11

Announcements................................13

Graduate Studies Bulletin Online

Applications for 08-09 Fellowships

Conversation Partners Program

Calendar.............................................14

Degree Deadlines

Readers’ Corner................................14

How to Write a Lot

Wmu International News November 2007, Haenicke Institute For Global Education

WMU International News

In this issue:

Two decades of twinning success celebrated in Malaysia

Tailgate party and parade an international celebration at WMU's Homecoming

WMU professors perform in prestigious Russian festival, foster student exchanges

Japanese interests compels a major switch to global and international studies

WMU and Hispanic American Council collaborate to expand community ESL classes

WMU’s Japan liaison officer finds many parallels between life in Kalamazoo and Tokyo

Summer study abroad is a short-term affair

November 2007, Pope Benedict Xvi

Marian Thoughts of Pope Benedict XVI

No abstract provided.

November 2007 Docket, Georgia State University College Of Law

The Docket

No abstract provided.

Actions Memo November 2007, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Action Memos

No abstract provided.

Plantsman, Oct/Nov 2007, New Hampshire Plant Growers' Association

Plantsman

A newsletter of the New Hampshire Plant Growers' Association

Gsu And Regional Colleges Investigate Joint Writing Center, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Representatives from nine area community colleges and universities recently met at Governors State University (GSU) in University Park to begin the discussion on how they can all better serve their students through effective, collaborative approaches to teaching writing and developing writing skills.

American Square Dance Vol. 62, No. 11 (Nov. 2007), Boyd, William (Bill), Boyd, Randy

American Squares

Monthly square dance magazine that began publication in 1945.

The Integration Of Children's Literature Into Mathematics, Jaime Elrath Goldstein

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The Integration of Children's Literature into Mathematics By using children's literature in mathematics, teachers can help students see that life is full of problem solving opportunities. In this applied project, the author developed a handbook for upper elementary teachers to integrate literature into the mathematics curriculum while maintaining a commitment to a standards-based curriculum.

Mole Street Journal, November 2007, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Dept. Of Chemistry And Biochemistry

Mole Street Journal

No abstract provided.

Bayesian Subset Selection Of Binomial Parameters Using Possibly Misclassified Data, James D. Stamey, Thomas L. Bratcher, Dean M. Young

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Three Bayesian approaches are considered for the selection of binomial proportion parameters when data is subject to misclassification. The cases where the misclassification is non-differential and differential were considered, thus extending previous work which considered only non-differential misclassification. In this article, various selection criteria are applied to a simulated data set and a real data set.

A Comparison Of Procedures For The Analysis Of Multivariate Repeated Measurements, Lisa M. Lix, Anita M. Lloyd

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Three procedures for analyzing within-subjects effects in multivariate repeated measures designs are compared when group covariances are heterogeneous: the multiple regression model (MRM) with a structured covariance, Johansen’s (1980) procedure, and the multivariate Brown and Forsythe (1974) procedure. A preliminary likelihood ratio test of a Kronecker product covariance structure is sensitive to sample size and derivational assumption violations. Error rates of the procedures are generally well-controlled except when the distribution is skewed. The MRM procedure displayed few power advantages over the other procedures.

Semi Parametric Estimation Of Some Reliability Measures Of Geometric Distribution, Mathachan Pathiyil, E.S. Jeevanand

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Semi parametric estimators of the survival function, the hazard function, and the mean residual life function of geometric distribution using uncensored and Type II censored samples are obtained. The accuracy of the estimators so obtained is investigated empirically using simulated samples. The results are applied to a real life data set for illustration.

The Correlation Coefficients, Rudy A. Gideon

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

A generalized method of defining and interpreting correlation coefficients is given. Seven correlation coefficients are defined — three for continuous data and four on the ranks of the data. A quick calculation of the rank based correlation coefficients using a 0-1 graph-matrix is shown. Examples and comparisons are given.

Agenda - Thursday, November 1, 2007, Fhsu Student Government Association

SGA - Meeting Agendas

An agenda for a meeting of the Student Government Association in November 2007.

Book Review:The Swiss And The Nazis: How The Alpine Republic Survived In The Shadow Of The Third Reich, Louis B. Kuppenheimer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

For hundreds of years Switzerland has been recognized as a nation committed to not being involved in military conflicts. However, in WWII it was confronted by the most serious and credible threat to its neutrality since the inception of the policy. To begin with, Switzerland's wartime population of 4,200,000 was outnumbered nearly eighteen to one by its most lethal contiguous neighbor, Germany. When Austria and Italy were thrown in, the ratio jumped to thirty to one. In addition, the Axis powers of Italy and Germany shared over seventy percent of Switzerland's border. And although her industrial production was of the …

Is The Right "Right" About God? An Examination Of The Theology Of The Religious Right In Modern Day Politics, Kiku Huckle

Seminary Masters Theses

This study examines the Evangelical critique of the Religious Right for veracity, and the position of the Right is then tested for theological soundness. The Evangelical Left is represented by Sojourners Magazine and associates due to its long-lasting position as one of (if not the) main liberal Christian organizations during the two decades reviewed here. The Christian Coalition was chosen to represent the Religious Right during the 1990's as that was its time of great visibility and influence. The Family Research Council stands for the Right in this decade due to its current prominence. The Theological assessment is based upon …

November 2007, Volume 2, Issue 3, Shawn Platt

e-ATS Newsletter

A RWU newsletter designed to keep the faculty informed of the academic technology resources that are available to them on campus.

Conjunctive Queries For A Tractable Fragment Of Owl 1.1, Markus Krotzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Despite the success of the Web Ontology Language OWL, the development of expressive means for querying OWL knowledge bases is still an open issue. In this paper, we investigate how a very natural and desirable form of queries-namely conjunctive ones-can be used in conjunction with OWL such that one of the major design criteria of the latter-namely decidability-can be retained. More precisely, we show that querying the tractable fragment EL++ of OWL 1.1 is decidable. We also provide a complexity analysis and show that querying unrestricted EL++ is undecidable.

Acer Enews 11 November 2007, Acer

ACER eNews Archive 2001-2013

No abstract provided.

Insider Express, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

Insider Express (2003-2013)

No abstract provided.

Culture-Negative Prosthetic Joint Infection, Elie F. Berbari, Camelia Marculescu, Irene Sia, Brian D. Lahr, Arlen D. Hanssen, James M. Steckelberg, Rachel Gullerud, Douglas R. Osmon

MUSC Faculty Journal Articles

Background. Culture-negative (CN) prosthetic joint infection (PJI) has not been well studied. We performed a retrospective cohort study to define the demographic characteristics and determine the outcome of patients with CN PJI. Methods. All cases of CN total hip arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty infections (using a strict case definition) treated at our institution from January 1990 through December 1999 were analyzed. Kaplan-Meier survival methods were used to determine the cumulative probability of success. Results. Of 897 episodes of PJI during the study period, 60 (7%) occurred in patients for whom this was the initial episode of CN PJI. The …

Policy Profiles Vol. 7 No. 2 November 2007, Northern Illinois University Center For Governmental Studies, James M. Banovetz, Norman J. Johnson, Sylvester Murray

Policy Profiles

Networking: The Key to 21st Century Government

The Impact Of Swiss Exile On An East German Critical Marxist, Axel Fair-Schulz

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Among many East German Marxists, who had embraced Marxism in the 1930s and opted to live in East Germany after World War II (between the 1950s until the end of the GDR in 1989), was a commitment to the Communist party that was informed by a more nuanced and sophisticated Marxism than what most party bureaucrats were exposed to.

Do Software Development Projects Dispersed Across The Globe Deliver The Goods?, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Higher demands on computer systems and networks compel technology companies to assign software development duties across many dispersed centres in the US, India, China and elsewhere. In actual practice, does this distributed development model work well? Singapore Management University information systems professors Narayan Ramasubbu and Rajesh Krishna Balan examined this question in an award-winning paper, “Globally Distributed Software Development Project Performance: An Empirical Analysis,” presented recently at a joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium.

The First Amendment Right To Silence, Robert A. Sedler

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: November 2007, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - November 2007.

Vol.35 N.24 November 1st 2007, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Supramolecular Chemistry: A Capstone Course, Adam R. Urbach, Christopher J. Pursell, John D. Spence

Chemistry Faculty Research

A fourth-year capstone course offers students an opportunity to integrate topics covered in the core disciplinary courses, to learn an advanced interdisciplinary topic, and to approach unfamiliar problems and literature. This article describes a fourth-year capstone course designed to incorporate components of faculty lectures, student seminars, and original, hands-on research projects in order to cover the topic of supramolecular chemistry in one semester with unusual depth. This approach should be applicable to other advanced topics in chemistry.

Fisheries Research Report No. 168 - Sustainable Development Of Barramundi Cage Aquaculture At Lake Argyle., Brett Glencross, S. Percival, B. Jones, J Hughes

Fisheries Research Reports

Final FRDC report and KSRP report - Project 2003/026

A preliminary sensory evaluation study was conducted to confirm the presence of a taint issue. Prior to this the issue was reliant on purchaser feedback and was not verified independently. To examine the issue of flavour taint a series of barramundi samples were collected from Lake Argyle (purged and unpurged), wild (estuarine) and marine farmed barramundi were assessed. No significant differences in flavour attributes and/or acceptability attributes were detected between the wild and farmed barramundi, provided the barramundi was either marine-farmed or purged. However, it was determined that a clear “muddy” …