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Alumni Couple Supports Chancellor’S Trust, Sonia Thompson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – A University of Mississippi alumni couple has honored Chancellor Robert Khayat with a gift of $25,000 to the Chancellor’s Trust. Pete and Allison Davis wanted to give back to their alma mater and support Khayat’s leadership and vision for the institution.

Approval Of The Discount Rate Action Of The Federal Reserve Bank Of Kansas City, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors

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Restoring Market Liquidity In A Financial Crisis, Timothy F. Geithner

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Minutes Of Meeting Of The Finance Committee Of Aig, American International Group, Inc. (Aig)

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A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors of American International Group. Inc. was held on December 13, 2007 at 70 Pine Street, New York, New York pursuant to notice duly given to all members of the Committee.

The Zircon, December 13, 2007 [Spoof Issue], Dordt College

Dordt Diamond

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Evaluation Of Selected Ground Water Abatement Strategies For Two Produced Water Impact Sites, Katharyn M. Lee

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

Past practices of produced water management in southeastern New Mexico have caused impact to ground water at numerous locations. Impacted ground water shows elevated levels of dissolved solids, including chloride and in some cases petroleum hydrocarbons. Operators must abate ground water impacts to comply with New Mexico Oil Conservation Division Rules. This paper discusses the environmental costs associated with several ground water abatement strategies that might be employed to cause ground water quality to meet the New Mexico ground water standard for chloride (250 mg/L). This investigation examines two sites that exhibit ground water chloride concentrations ranging from 5,000 mg/L …

Effects Of Time-Compressed Audio And Adjunct Images On Learner Recall, Recognition, And Satisfaction, Albert Dieter Ritzhaupt

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of time-compressed narration and representational adjunct images on undergraduate college students' 1) ability to recall and recognize information in a multimedia learning environment, and 2) overall satisfaction with this type of learning environment. The goals of this research were to shed light on time-compression technology incorporated into multimedia learning environments, help fill the existing gap in the research literature by merging two disjoint bodies of research, and aid instructors and instructional designers to better understand time-compression technology while creating rigorous multimedia materials.

This research was guided by the underlying principles …

Communication And Culture: Implications For Hispanic Mothers With Deaf Children, Alliete Rodriguez Alfano

Open Access Dissertations

The majority of deaf children are born to hearing parents. The fact that many of these children use sign language as their primary form of communication poses a unique language barrier between them and their hearing families. In addition, for children who are born into Hispanic families, these children have limited access to Hispanic and Deaf cultures unless their families actively pursue involvement with those communities. Data were collected through ethnographic interviews and limited participant observation and analyzed by means of grounded theory methodology. The study investigated how Hispanic mothers communicate with their deaf children who use ASL as their …

Bard Observer (December 12, 2007), Bard College

Bard Observer - All Issues (1956 - Current)

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Public Health Campaigns To Change Industry Practices That Damage Health: An Analysis Of 12 Case Studies, Nicholas Freudenberg, Sarah Picard Bradley, Monica Serrano

Publications and Research

Industry practices such as advertising, production of unsafe products, and efforts to defeat health legislation play a major role in current patterns of U.S. ill health. Changing these practices may be a promising strategy to promote health. The authors analyze 12 campaigns designed to modify the health-related practices of U.S. corporations in the alcohol, automobile, food and beverage, firearms, pharmaceutical, and tobacco industries. The objectives are to examine the interactions between advocacy campaigns and industry opponents; explore the roles of government, researchers, and media; and identify characteristics of campaigns that are effective in changing health-damaging practices. The authors compared campaigns …

Stony Brook Press, V. 29, N. 07, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press.

Stony Brook Press

v. 29, n. 07, v.:ill. ; 38 cm (original analog pub.)

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Faculty Meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007, Arts & Sciences Faculty

The College of Liberal Arts Faculty Minutes

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Do Parents' Literacy Beliefs And Home Literacy Experiences Relate To Children's Literacy Skills?, Rebecca C. Norman

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the relationship among parents' literacy beliefs, home literacy experiences, and children's literacy skills. Forty-three children, who attended a university preschool, and their parents participated in the study. Parents' literacy beliefs and the home literacy experience, namely shared book reading, were examined through a self-report questionnaire. One important section of this questionnaire provided information about parents' beliefs concerning literacy acquisition; specifically, whether they believed in a top-down or bottom-up approach. The children were tested individually for emergent literacy skills, including concepts of print, alphabetic knowledge, rhyming skills, oral language skills, word recognition, and invented spelling. The results were …

Guide To Ms114 Laurence E. Stevens Papers, Abbie Weiser

Finding Aids

Born in Lordsburg, New Mexico on April 6, 1895, Laurence Edwin Stevens (1895 – 1969) moved to El Paso with his family around 1897. A prominent El Paso businessman, Stevens was involved in the family real estate business along with his father and uncle, Horace B. Stevens, and later had farming interests in El Paso’s Upper Valley. The Laurence E. Stevens papers date 1880s – 1990s, bulk 1910 – 1962. Types of records include correspondence, clippings, publications and other printed material, field notes, real estate records, souvenirs, memorabilia, and photographs. Arranged in five series (El Paso history and souvenirs, Real …

12-12-2007 Swosu Students Complete Degrees In December, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2007

Approximately 298 students from Southwestern Oklahoma State University at Weatherford will complete requirements for either bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees after the current Fall 2007 semester.

The Daily Egyptian, December 12, 2007, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 2007

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December 12th 2007, Hispanic News

Inland Empire Hispanic News

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Minutes, Administrative And Professional Council Meeting, December 12, 2007, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Administrative And Professional Council

Administrative and Professional Council

The minutes from the December 12, 2007, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Administrative and Professional Council.

Miniboats Will Sail At Mirror Lake, December 12, 2007, Peter Castillo

Newspaper and Magazine Clippings

Write up about a month-long project called "The Water Is Wide: The Art of Boat Building," with Studio@620 and the Bay Area Electric Boaters and the Tampa Bay Ship Models Society.

Minutes, College Of Education Curriculum And Program Committee Meeting, December 12, 2007, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Education. Curriculum And Program Committee

College of Education: Curriculum and Program Committee

Minutes of the December 12, 2007, meeting of the Curriculum and Program Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's College of Education.

Measures Designed To Address Elevated Pressures In Short-Term Funding Markets, European Central Bank (Ecb)

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Measures Designed To Address Elevated Pressures In Short-Term Funding Markets, European Central Bank (Ecb)

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Other Relevant YPFS Case Series: Central Bank Swaplines

Bank Of Canada Temporarily Expands List Of Securities Eligible For Term Pra Transactions, Bank Of Canada/Central Bank Of Canada/La Banque Du Canada

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Press Release, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors

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Swiss National Bank Provides Us Dollar Funding, Swiss National Bank

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Central Bank Measures To Address Elevated Pressures In Short-Term Funding Markets, Bank Of England/Central Bank Of The United Kingdom

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Approval Of The Discount Rate Action Of The Federal Reserve Banks Of Boston, Minneapolis, Dallas, And San Francisco, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors

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Remarks By Under Secretary Robert K. Steel To The Nyc Subprime Lending And Foreclosure Summit, Robert Steel

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On The Measures Announced By Five Central Banks On December 12, 2007, Bank Of Japan/Central Bank Of Japan

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Student Connection: How Graduate Assistants Of Rowan University Connect To The Campus Community, Janelle R. M. Duncan

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate how graduate assistants at Rowan University, Glassboro campus connect to the campus community using socialization theory. Data collection consisted of interviews of 10 randomly selected first and second year graduate students during the 2006-07 academic school year. The interviews were conducted at Rowan University during the spring 2007 semester. On average the interviews took about 25 minutes to conduct. Participants were interviewed to see how the graduate assistants felt about graduate school and their programs of study. Interviews were transcribed into a word document and then analyzed for common themes.

The study …