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Community Leadership Programs: Where They Have Been And Where They Are Going, Cynthia A. Hedge

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

Community leadership programs have been a part of the landscape of communities across America for nearly 50 years. This project looked at 14 aspects of community leadership programs: (1) their history; (2) purpose; (3) goals; (4) program participants; (5) alumni; (6) sponsors; (7) funding; (8) tuitions; (9) formats; (10) program faculty; (11) curricula; (12) their impact on participants, organizations, communities, fields and systems; (13) evaluation processes used to measure their impact; and (14) their future.

Developing The Competency Of Serious Play, Mark D. Hylton

Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects

This project explored the development of serious play as a personal competency of creative leadership and as a dimension of a creative organizational climate. Skill development was undertaken through acquiring certification as a LEGO® Serious Play™ facilitator and three workshops were subsequently delivered to a range of clients. The principles of play and Papert’s theory of constructionism were used to develop a serious of creative products as prototypes tried out with clients in the form of team based games. The outcomes of this project are ideas on how to bring play into the workplace, creating a climate for creativity and …

Journal Of The American Deafness And Rehabilitation Association Year 2007, Volume 40, Number 2 Complete

JADARA

Upload of old JADARA issue for digital access

Harvesting The Devil's Garden, Andrew Schurgott

Global CWD Repository

Ambitious development plans for the Northwest Coast run into a 65-year-old problem waiting beneath the sand...

Investigating Web-Based Recruitment Sources: Employee Testimonials Vs Word-Of-Mouse, Greet Van Hoye, Filip Lievens

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Although the internet has dramatically changed recruitment practices, many web-based recruitment sources have not yet been investigated. The present study examines the effects of web-based employee testimonials and web-based word-of-mouth (i.e., 'word-of-mouse') on organizational attraction. The source credibility framework is used to compare these company-dependent and company-independent recruitment sources. In a sample of potential applicants for a head nurse position, word-of-mouse was associated with higher organizational attractiveness than web-based employee testimonials. However, potential applicants were more attracted when testimonials provided information about individual employees than about the organization. Conversely, word-of-mouse was associated with higher organizational attractiveness and more organizational pursuit …

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2007.12, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Relations

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

Audio-Assisted Reading With Digital Audiobooks For Upper Elementary Students With Reading Disabilities, Kelli J. Esteves

Dissertations

Audio-assisted reading has been used as an effective instructional intervention for students with learning disabilities (Carbo, 1978; Gilbert, Williams, & McLaughlin, 1996) and with struggling readers (Chomsky, 1976; Hollingsworth, 1978; Hoskisson & Krohm, 1974; Koskinen, Blum, Bisson, Phillips, Creamer, & Baker, 2000; Rasinski, 1990). The strategy involves reading along while listening to an audio recording of a fluent model (Evans, 1997).

The goal of this study was to compare the efficacy of audio-assisted reading with digital audiobooks against the traditional practice of sustained silent reading in terms of reading fluency rates and reading attitude scores with upper elementary students with …

School Violence And Race: The Problem Of Peer Racial Harassment Against Asian Pacific American Students In Schools., William Y. Chin

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract Forthcoming.

The Religious Sisters Of The Good Shepard And The Professionalization Of Social Work, Margaret Regensburg

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Non-Invasive Measuerments Of Bone Strain During Mechanical Loading Using Pulsed Phase-Locked Quantitative Ultrasound, Frederick Serra-Hsu

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Elevation Of Seprase Expression And Promotion Of An Invasive Phenotype By Collagenous Matrices In Ovarian Tumor Cells, Alanna Marie Kennedy

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Hybridizing History, Spirituality And Genre In The Works Of Lucha Corpi, Julia Alvarez And Achy Obejas, Inés Patricia Vassos

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography For Bladder Cancer Diagnosis, Zhenguo Wang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Some Aspects Of Internet Portal Market Competition, Volha Chuvakin

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Structural Studies Of Molybdopterin Synthase, An Essential Enzyme For Dithiolene Formation During Molybdenum Cofactor Biosynthesis, Juma Nkosi Daniels

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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The Functional Analysis Of Four Connexin50 Variants To Determine The Physiological Relevance Of Connexin50 Protein Domains, Adam Michael Derosa

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Barcelona Múltiple: Transformaciones Urbanas, Ciudadanos, Visitantes E Inmigrantes. De ‘Ciudad Condal’ Vencida A Urbe Postolímpica, Natalia Núñez Bargueño

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Electrospun Hydroxyapatite Incorporated Biocomposite Scaffolds For Tissue Engineering, Koushik Ramachandran

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Characterization Of Damage Due To Environmental Conditions In Heterogeneous Material Systems, Narayanan Ramanujam

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Regulation Of Fungal Morphogenesis, Qiao Zhang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen in humans. It typically lives as a harmless commensal as part of the human gut and skin flora, but under some conditions it causes mucosal infections. In immunocompromised patients it can also cause lifethreatening systemic infections. C. albicans is a multimorphic organism, and the ability to undergo morphological transition from budding to hyphal growth is associated with its virulence. This morphological switch was reported to be regulated by different signaling pathways. One key pathway is cAMP-PKA signaling pathway. The single adenylyl cyclase in C. albicans is CaCdc35, which was reported to interact with …

Molecules That Target Beta-Amyloid, Cliff I. Stains, Kalyani Mondal, Indraneel Ghosh

Cliff Stains Publications

The devastating effects of Alzheimer’s and related amyloidogenic diseases have inspired the synthesis and evaluation of numerous ligands to understand the molecular mechanism of the aggregation of the beta-amyloid peptide. Our review focuses on the current knowledge in this field with respect to molecules that have been demonstrated to interact with either oligomeric or fibrillar forms of the beta-amyloid peptide. We describe natural proteins, peptides, peptidomimetics, and small molecules that have been found to interfere with beta-amyloid aggregation. We also detail recent efforts in selecting molecules that target beta-amyloid isolated from antibody, protein, and peptide libraries. These new molecules will …

Volume 27, Number 4, December 2007 Olac Newsletter, Jain Fletcher, Jay Weitz, Barbara Vaughan, Amy K. Weiss

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized December 2007 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

Open Markets, Competitive Democracy, And Transparent And Reliable Legal Systems: The Three Legs Of Development, James R. Jones

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In the 1990s, reform swept through Latin America. Open markets replaced closed economies. Real democracy replaced one-party rule and rigged elections. For about half of the region's population, economic and political conditions improved—yet the gap between the rich and poor widened. The poor half received little or no tangible benefits from these economic and democratic reforms. This article argues that the most difficult and probably most important reform remains to be accomplished: the reform of the legal and regulatory systems throughout Latin America. Until that happens, dreams of first-world recognition and respectability will elude Latin nations.

Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role Of Law And Markets And The Case Of Developing Countries, Antonio Vives

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In order for the corporation to engage in responsible practices, many obstacles must be overcome. One such obstacle is the belief of many managers that the corporation would be violating its fiduciary responsibility if it engaged in activities that go beyond what is required by the law. Another obstacle is that many of those practices have a real cost but are perceived not to have a corresponding tangible benefit. The article discusses and dismisses these perceived obstacles and argues that it is both through law and the workings of the market that responsible behavior can enhance society's welfare. It is …

Uncertainty And Loss In The Free Speech Rights Of Public Employees Under Garcetti V. Ceballos, Sarah F. Suma

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Resolving a circuit split, the Supreme Court declared in Garcetti v. Ceballos that the First Amendment does not protect speech made pursuant to a public employee's work duties, regardless of whether the speech relates to a matter of public concern or the government's restrictions are justifiable. This article argues that a bright line rule eliminating First Amendment protection for job-duty speech is inconsistent with the theories underlying free speech protection. Further, this article explores practical drawbacks to Garcetti's bright-line rule, including inconsistent judicial determination of the scope of job duties, a disincentive to report government abuse through one's chain-of-command, …

Regulation Of D-Xylose Metabolism In Caulobacter Crescentus By A Laci-Type Repressor, Craig Stephens, Beat Christen, Kelly Watanabe, Thomas Fuchs, Urs Jenal

Biology

In the oligotrophic freshwater bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, D-xylose induces expression of over 50 genes,including the xyl operon, which encodes key enzymes for xylose metabolism. The promoter (PxylX) controllingexpression of the xyl operon is widely used as a tool for inducible heterologous gene expression in C. crescentus. We show here that PxylX and at least one other promoter in the xylose regulon (PxylE) are controlled by theCC3065 (xylR) gene product, a LacI-type repressor. Electrophoretic gel mobility shift assays showed that operator binding by XylR is greatly reduced in the presence of D-xylose. The data support the hypothesis that there is a …

Quantitative Dissection Of Clone-Specific Growth Rates In Cultured Malaria Parasites, Heather B. Reilly Ayala, Hongjian Wang, John A. Steuter, Anastasia M. Marx, Michael T. Ferdig

Faculty Publications - Department of Biological & Molecular Science

Measurement of parasite proliferation in cultured red blood cells underpins many facets of malaria research, from drug sensitivity assays to assessing the impact of experimentally altered genes on parasite growth, virulence, and fitness. Pioneering efforts to grow Plasmodium falciparum in cultured red blood cells revolutionized malaria research and spurred the development of semi-high throughput growth assays using radio-labeled hypoxanthine, an essential nucleic acid precursor, as a reporter of whole-cycle proliferation (Trager and Jensen, 1976; Desjardins et al., 1979). Use of hypoxanthine (Hx) and other surrogate readouts of whole-cycle proliferation remains the dominant choice in malaria research. While amenable to high-throughput …

Today's Army: An Examination Of The Differences Of Newspaper Coverage About America's Army In Small And Large Markets, Kimberly Levine Hanson

Communication Theses - Archive

This study examines differences in coverage of prominent Army news stories in a daily newspaper in a rural town near an Army post and the nearest metropolitan area. Past media and visual effects research suggests that newspaper coverage sets the agenda not only for its readers, but for other mass media, as well. As the American population moves in and around metropolitan regions and further away from any major Army presence, newspaper coverage may become essential in informing the general public about the Army that serves them. A content analysis over a two-month timeframe of the Killeen Daily Herald and …

The Race Gap: Education Of Black Youth In Boston, Alix Cantave Ph.D., Cheryl Holmes Ph.D., Barbara Lewis Ph.D.

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

On April 23, 2007, The William Monroe Trotter Institute held a Roundtable convening more than fifty individuals at UMass Boston for a two-hour conversation on the education of black children in Boston. Roundtable attendees represented a balanced mix of professional and lay persons, including educators, advocates, academics, elected officials and policymakers, and donors. Attendees included the Suffolk County Sheriff, the Acting Superintendent of Boston Public Schools (BPS), and the president of the Boston Teacher’s Union.

Modeling An Information Literacy Programme For Undergraduates: A Soft Systems Methodology Approach / Nor Edzan Che Nasir, Che Nasir Nor Edzan

Student Works (2000-2009)

In its simplest form, information literacy is defined as the ability to recognise a need for information and from there on, one is able to locate, retrieve, evaluate and use the procured information effectively. The acquisition of information literacy skills is deemed by many as a necessity for the Information Age and it is termed by many as a life long learning skill. Set against such a background, this study is centred on the issue of information literacy competencies of Malaysian final year ICT undergraduates. The focus is on final year undergraduates at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information …