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Systematic Study Of The Validity Of Clinical Performance Assessments In Entry-Level Athletic Training Education, Gayle A. Thompson

Dissertations

PPerformance assessment (PA) is essential to determining the competency of clinical skills in allied health education, yet little research has been conducted to determine what validity evidence supports the interpretations made from PA currently utilized in athletic training clinical education. This study examined current PA practice and associated effectiveness of PA used by athletic training clinical practicum course instructors. Current research suggests the most predominant method of PA utilized in athletic training follows a behavioral approach that emphasizes observation of specific skills in standardized ways, as exemplified by the 'check-list' method. An alternative to the behavioral approach is the holistic …

Gerakan Budaya Menjelang Kemerdekaan Indonesia-Malaysia, Maman S. Mahayana

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

For a long period, the Indonesian and Malaysia relationship has proved the single root of socio-cultural tradition. Yet, the London Treaty 1824, an agreement between the British and Dutch colonials, failed to split the emotional bond between the two nations. Although this treaty successfully divided the Malay Kingdom into two different political region, where Singapore (Temasek) and Johor was politically put under British rule while Riau and Lingga was put under the Dutch, the socio-cultural communication among the people in those areas remained undisturbed by the political decision of the two colonial rulers. Even, during the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation period, the …

Jurnalisme Warga Di Indonesia, Prospek Dan Tantangannya, Moch. Nunung Kurniawan

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

This paper examines the experience of Radio Elshinta in Jakarta with people-initiated journalism long before the descriptor “citizen journalism” emerged as a topic of research in academic level. Elshinta has 100,000 listeners, most with no formal training in journalism, contributing to its news broadcast since 2000. This study compares Elshinta’s experience with a popular online citizen media portal Ohmynews in South Korea and attempts to identify the catalysts of ‘citizen journalism’ in the two countries. The case study is complemented by interviews with journalists from Ohmynews and Elshinta. The study concludes that despite the low penetration of internet in Indonesia, …

Fluxes Of Iron And Manganese Across The Sediment-Water Interface Under Various Redox Conditions, Svetlana V. Pakhomova, Per O.J. Hall, Mikhail Yu Kononets, Alexander G. Rozanov, Anders Tengberg, Andrei V. Vershinin

Faculty Publications

Fluxes of dissolved forms of iron and manganese across the sediment-water interface were studied in situ in the Gulf of Finland and the Vistula Lagoon (Baltic Sea), and in the Golubaya Bay (Black Sea) from 2001 to 2005. Fluxes were measured using chamber incubations, and sediment cores were collected and sliced to assess the porewater and solid phase metal distribution at different depths. Measured and calculated benthic fluxes of manganese and iron were directed out of sediment for all sites and were found to vary between 70-4450 and 5-1000 μmole m- 2 day- 1 for manganese and iron, respectively. The …

Polymer Microfluidic Chips With Integrated Waveguides For Reading Microarrays, Feng Xu, Proyag Datta, Hong Wang, Sitanshu Gurung, Masahiko Hashimoto, Suying Wei, Jost Goettert, Robin L. Mccarley, Steven A. Soper

Faculty Publications

A microfluidic chip with an integrated planar waveguide was fabricated in poly(methyl methacrylate), PMMA, using a single-step, double-sided hot-embossing approach. The waveguide was embedded in air on three sides, the solution being interrogated on the fourth. DNA probes were covalently attached to the waveguide surface by plasma activating the PMMA and the use of carbodiimide coupling chemistry. Successful hybridization events were read using evanescent excitation monitored by an imaging microscope, which offered high spatial resolution (2 μm) and a large field-of-view (20 mm diameter field-of-view), providing imaging of the entire array without scanning. The application of the microfluidic/waveguide assembly was …

Impact Of Energy Intake, Physical Activity, And Population-Wide Weight Loss On Cardiovascular Disease And Diabetes Mortality In Cuba, 1980-2005, Manuel Franco, Pedro Orduñez, Benjamín Caballero, José A. Tapia Granados, Mariana Lazo, José Luís Bernal, Eliseo Guallar, Richard S. Cooper

Faculty Publications

Cuba's economic crisis of 1989-2000 resulted in reduced energy intake, increased physical activity, and sustained population-wide weight loss. The authors evaluated the possible association of these factors with mortality trends. Data on per capita daily energy intake, physical activity, weight loss, and smoking were systematically retrieved from national and local surveys. National vital statistics from 1980-2005 were used to assess trends in mortality from diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer, and all causes. The crisis reduced per capita daily energy intake from 2,899 calories to 1,863 calories. During the crisis period, the proportion of physically active adults increased from 30% …

The Civil War And The Lives Of Americans, Christopher Childers

Civil War Book Review

The Civil War and the Lives of Americans After reading the books reviewed in this issue of Civil War Book Review, one cannot miss the incredible and almost incomprehensible effect that the war had on individual peopleùboth its participants and the civilians who witnessed its destructi....

The California Gold Rush And The Coming Of The Civil War, Leonard L. Richards

Civil War Book Review

Leonard L. Richards, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, took his degrees at the University of California, Berkeley and Davis. He has also taught at San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. His Gentlemen of Property and Standing: Anti-Abolition Mobs in ....

General Ulysses S. Grant: The Soldier And The Man, William D. Bushnell

Civil War Book Review

General Grant

His Public and Professional Life

Native Guard: Poems, Jack Trammell

Civil War Book Review

Interpreting Southern Memory

Bold, Sincere, Thought-Provoking

Redemption: The Last Battle Of The Civil War, Barton A. Myers

Civil War Book Review

The Battle after the War

Understanding Reconstruction and Redemption

Perspectives From Afield And Afar:The South: A Tour Of Its Battlefields And Ruined Cities, A Journey Through The Desolated States, And Talks With The People, 1867, Daniel W. Stowell

Civil War Book Review

Prospects for Peace in a War-torn Country

A Black Patriot And A White Priest: Andr Cailloux And Claude Paschal Maistre In Civil War New Orleans, Edward J. Blum

Civil War Book Review

Radicals in Their Own Right

Fighting For Justice in the Deep South

The Colors Of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History: Immigrants, Women, And African Americans In The Civil War's Defining Battle, Jeffry D. Wert

Civil War Book Review

Gettysburg

A Different Look at a Famous Battle

The Business Of Civil War: Military Mobilization And The State, 1861-1865, Frank J. Williams

Civil War Book Review

The Economics of the Civil War

Mobilizing Soldiers and the Homefront

Density Gradient Enrichment Of Escherichia Coli Conditional Msba Mutants, William T. Doerrler

Faculty Publications

Insight into the mechanism of lipid transport to the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria has been hampered by the lack of an effective genetic screen for defective mutants. This work demonstrates an enrichment of conditional mutants defective in lipopolysaccharide export by Ludox density gradient centrifugation and selection for detergent resistance. New temperature-sensitive mutants with lipid export defects were isolated with single missense mutations in msbA. The results demonstrate the power of this approach for the study of lipid export in Escherichia coli. Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Weak Ferromagnetism In Fe₁₋ₓcoₓsb₂, Rongwei Hu, Raphäel P. Hermann, Fernande Grandjean, Yong Jae Lee, John B. Warren, Vesna F. Mitrovic, Cedomir Petrovic

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Weak ferromagnetism in Fe_1-xCo_xSb₂ is studied by magnetization and Mössbauer measurements. A small spontaneous magnetic moment of the order of ~ 10^-3µ_B appears along the b axis for 0.2 ≤ x ≤ 0.4. Based on a structural analysis, we argue against extrinsic sources of weak ferromagnetism. We discuss our results in the framework of the nearly magnetic electronic structure of the parent compound FeSb₂.

Markov Semigroups And Estimating Functions, With Applications To Some Financial Models, Jerome A Goldstein, Rosa Maria Mininni, Silvia Romanelli

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

Moments And Commutators Of Probability Measures, Luigi Accardi, Hui Hsiung Kuo, Aurel Stan

Faculty Publications

Let a0, a- and a+ be the preservation, annihilation, and creation operators of a probability measure μ on ℝd, respectively. The operators a0 and [a -, a+] are proven to uniquely determine the moments of μ. We discuss the question: "What conditions must two families of operators satisfy, in order to ensure the existence of a probability measure, having finite moments of any order, so that, its associated preservation operators and commutators between the annihilation and creation operators are the given families of operators?" For the case d = 1, a satisfactory answer to this question is obtained as a …

Cold Seeps And Associated Communities Of The Gulf Of Mexico, Charles Fisher, Harry Roberts, Erik Cordes, Bernie Bernard

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Monitoring The Low-Energy Gamma-Ray Sky Using Earth Occultation With Glast Gbm, G. L. Case, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, M. L. Cherry, R. M. Kippen, J. C. Ling, R. G. Radocinski, W. A. Wheaton

Faculty Publications

Long term all-sky monitoring of the 20 keV - 2 MeV gamma-ray sky using the Earth occultation technique was demonstrated by the BATSE instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The principles and techniques used for the development of an end-to-end earth occultation data analysis system for BATSE can be extended to the GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM), resulting in multiband light curves and time-resolved spectra in the energy range 8 keV to above 1 MeV for known gamma-ray sources and transient outbursts, as well as the discovery of new sources of gamma-ray emission. In this paper we describe the application …

Superexponential Distortion Of Subgroups Of Cat(-1) Groups, Josh Barnard, Noel Brady, Pallavi Dani

Faculty Publications

We construct 2 -dimensional CAT(1) groups which contain free subgroups with arbitrary iterated exponential distortion, and with distortion higher than any iterated exponential. © 2007 Mathematical Sciences Publishers.

The Barbarous Voice Of Democracy: American Captivity In Barbary And The Multicultural Specter, Jacob Rama Berman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Winter 2007, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

Winter 2007 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 41 pages

Volume 90, Number 5

English And French Speakers' Perception Of Voicing Distinctions In Non-Native Lateral Consonant Syllable Onsets, Catherine T. Best, Pierre A. Hallé, Jennifer Pardo

Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

English and French listeners were tested on discrimination and open-response categorization of laryngeal contrasts in three non-native syllable onsets differing in gestural complexity, in particular in the phasing between laryngeal and supra-laryngeal articulations. All onsets involved a lateral, which was combined with a coronal stop in two contrasts. Results support the view that syllable onsets are perceived as holistic articulatory patterns, in which voicing is more difficult to perceive separately as gestural complexity of the onset increases.

The Effects Of Feedback On The Accuracy Of Completing Flight Checklists, William G. Rantz

Masters Theses

This study examined whether pilots completed airplane checklists more accurately when they received post-flight graphic and verbal feedback. Participants were 8 college student pilots with instrument rating. The task consisted of flying flight patterns using a Personal Computer Aviation Training Device. The main dependent variable was the number of checklist items completed correctly per flight. A multiple baseline design across pairs with reversal was used. During baseline, the average number of correctly completed items per flight varied considerably across participants, ranging from 21 to 39 out of 40. It increased to near perfect levels for all participants after they were …

Building Swift Clan Control In Complex It Projects, Cecil Eng Huang Chua, Wee-Kiat Lim, Christina Soh, Siew Kien Sia

CCX Research

Clan control is often essential in complex multi-stakeholder projects for project success. Furthermore, clan control is especially important during requirements analysis which occurs at project inception. How can controllers quickly institute clan control in complex IT projects? Through the case analysis of a large IT project, we observed that clan control can be accelerated by the purposeful application of formal controls to build social capital. Our findings corroborate the notion that, properly structured, clan control can emerge quickly in a multi-stakeholder project to improve the likelihood of IT implementation success.

An Update: Preparation And Credentialing Requirements Of Two-Year College Technical Instructors: A National Study, Susan J. Olson, Cathy M. Spidell

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

This study was conducted to see what changes have occurred in the preparation and credentialing of postsecondary technical faculty. The specific objectives of this study were: (a) to describe current credentialing requirements for two-year college technical instructors; (b) to describe program requirements for postsecondary technical teacher education programs; and (c) to compare changes that have occurred since prior studies. Since 1990 there has been a decline in the number of states that have credentialing requirements—down from 19 to 11 in 2006. The number of programs that prepare postsecondary technical faculty appears to be stable at a time of anticipated shortage …

From The Editor, Richard A. Walter

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

No abstract provided.

Sharing Tacit Knowledge Among Expert Teaching Professors And Mentees: Considerations For Career And Technical Education Teacher Educators, Han Sik Shim, Gene L. Roth

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

This case study provides viewpoints of knowledge sharing by expert teaching professors and their mentees. Professors who were recognized as expert teachers with an annual award at a mid-western USA university were the units of analysis of this study. Expert teaching professors had difficulty articulating much of their teaching expertise. The difficulty was rooted in three characteristics of teaching expertise. Sharing tacit knowledge was also noted as a difficult task because the nature of tacit knowledge prevented it from being articulated. Methods of sharing tacit knowledge were categorized in two ways: observation and “bringing it to surface.” Recommendations for additional …