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Annual Reports Of The Town Of Strafford 2007 For The Year Ending December 31, 2007., Strafford Town Representatives Jan 2008

Annual Reports Of The Town Of Strafford 2007 For The Year Ending December 31, 2007., Strafford Town Representatives

Strafford, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

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Producing Lupins, Peter White, Bob French, Amelia Mclarty, Grains Research And Development Corporation Jan 2008

Producing Lupins, Peter White, Bob French, Amelia Mclarty, Grains Research And Development Corporation

Bulletins 4000 -

The book contains detailed information on lupin establishment, weed control, disease management and harvesting. It also provides an excellent background to the history of lupins in Western Australia, the development of the plant and its adaptation to the Western Australian environment

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“Common-Sense” Meets The Book Of Mormon: Source, Substance, And Prophetic Disruption, Terryl L. Givens Jan 2008

“Common-Sense” Meets The Book Of Mormon: Source, Substance, And Prophetic Disruption, Terryl L. Givens

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

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Reason, Faith, And The Things Of Eternity, Bruce C. Hafen Jan 2008

Reason, Faith, And The Things Of Eternity, Bruce C. Hafen

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

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Ark Of The Covenant . . . Again, John A. Tvedtnes Jan 2008

Ark Of The Covenant . . . Again, John A. Tvedtnes

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Tudor Parfitt. The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark.

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Danish Immigration To Racine County, Wisconsin: A Case Study Of The Pull Effect In Nineteenth-Century Migration, Pia Viscor Jan 2008

Danish Immigration To Racine County, Wisconsin: A Case Study Of The Pull Effect In Nineteenth-Century Migration, Pia Viscor

The Bridge

The year 1971 marked a turning point in Danish migration history with the appearance of Kristian Hvidt's monumental study of emigration registers maintained by the Copenhagen police. 1 Four years later, the book appeared in an abridged English edition as Flight to America; The Social Background of 300,000 Danish Emigrants (New York: Academic Press, 1975).

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Confluences, Jennifer Sinor Jan 2008

Confluences, Jennifer Sinor

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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A Behavioral Perspective On Technology Evolution And Domain Name Regulation, Todd Davies Jan 2008

A Behavioral Perspective On Technology Evolution And Domain Name Regulation, Todd Davies

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Classroom Management: Strategies For First Year Middle School Teachers, Joy Easter Jan 2008

Classroom Management: Strategies For First Year Middle School Teachers, Joy Easter

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Classroom Management: Strategies for First Year Middle School Teachers This project is presented in the form of a guidebook, which is indented to assist first year teachers with tools to help them develop effective classroom management techniques. The author reviews the relevant history and theories in the educational literature so that teachers are better able to make conscious and educated decisions on how to most effectively reach their students. The author also addresses specific benefits, strategies, and techniques for establishing a well-managed classroom. The main goal of this project is to lay a foundation for years of potential career satisfaction …

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The Folk Arts Of Oaxaca: Integrating The Pre-Columbian Roots Of The Traditional Folk Arts Of Oaxaca, Mexico Into The Middle School Art Curriculum, Amanda Archer Jan 2008

The Folk Arts Of Oaxaca: Integrating The Pre-Columbian Roots Of The Traditional Folk Arts Of Oaxaca, Mexico Into The Middle School Art Curriculum, Amanda Archer

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Arts of Oaxaca, Mexico into the Middle School Art Curriculum Multicultural education needs continue to grow, as students must learn about the sociocultural contexts of the modern world. Therefore, educators must find ways to develop competencies in students to be able to function in this environment. These include the ability to think analytically and to relate to the world with an understanding of nonwestern perspectives. Therefore, this researcher designed an art curriculum to serve these purposes, based on the folk arts of Oaxaca, Mexico. Oaxacan folk arts are neither isolated from communal identity, nor the pre-Columbian roots from which they …

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Classroom Management Preparation And New Teacher Retention, Michele Deats Jan 2008

Classroom Management Preparation And New Teacher Retention, Michele Deats

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Many factors affect student achievement, however, an effective teacher has been found to be the most influential. A prerequisite of an effective teacher is the ability to manage his or her classroom. However, due to the high rate of attrition of teachers within the first five years of service, coupled with the paucity of the training, and time it takes to learn to effectively manage a classroom, often student achievement suffers. Because authors of many studies have found that new teachers cite student discipline problems and lack of classroom management preparation as major factors for their attrition, this author created …

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At-Risk In The Virtual Classroom: A Handbook For Student Success, Scott F. Peth Jan 2008

At-Risk In The Virtual Classroom: A Handbook For Student Success, Scott F. Peth

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Online education, also known as"the virtual classroom", has proliferated in the United States, as well as in much of the world, in the last few years. Indeed, virtual schooling is one of the fastest-growing areas in K-12 education."In its 2005 report, the National Center for Education Statistics found that 36% of all school districts had students participating in virtual courses, for a total of 300,000 students, and this number is projected to explode in the next decade." (Roblyer, 2006, p. 32). Many students who are considered"at-risk" are looking to the virtual classroom as an alternative to the traditional classroom where …

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Reading Comprehension Strategies For Students With Autism: A Guide And Social Skills Unit Plan, Sarah Gostenik Cass Jan 2008

Reading Comprehension Strategies For Students With Autism: A Guide And Social Skills Unit Plan, Sarah Gostenik Cass

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

This project was initiated in order to help general and special education teachers in elementary classrooms with successful strategies, to assess and teach students with autism how to better comprehend text. The unit developed does two things: one, it educates teachers and students on a number of strategies to use in reading comprehension, and two, it helps students with autism gain important social skills. Each lesson is designed to incorporate Colorado Content Reading and Writing Standards, with aligned Social and Access skills.

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Hidalgo Irrigation Pumphouse : Preserving Hidalgo Heritage, Lauraine Miller, Hidalgo Chamber Of Commerce Jan 2008

Hidalgo Irrigation Pumphouse : Preserving Hidalgo Heritage, Lauraine Miller, Hidalgo Chamber Of Commerce

Spring Workshop May 2020

Physical item available at the UTRGV Special Collections & Archives Edinburg Campus. Link to record.

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Polystyrene As A Medium In Reverse-Phase Separation Of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Madhavi Mantha Jan 2008

Polystyrene As A Medium In Reverse-Phase Separation Of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Madhavi Mantha

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the research was to design a method using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) that would separate the sixteen polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) designated by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as priority pollutants on two different kinds of polystyrene (PS) in the reversed phase. One was a zirconia-based column coated with polystyrene. The other was a polystyrene divinylbenzene (PS-DVB) column. The idea behind using these columns was to take advantage of extreme retention of PAHs by these columns by using high temperatures or temperature programming in order to reduce the amount of organic modifier in the mobile phases to perform …

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Teaching Advanced Life Sciences In An Animal Context: Agricultural Science Teacher Voices, Mark Balschweid, Alexandria Huerta Jan 2008

Teaching Advanced Life Sciences In An Animal Context: Agricultural Science Teacher Voices, Mark Balschweid, Alexandria Huerta

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine agricultural science teacher comfort with a new high school Advanced Life Science: Animal course and determine their perceptions of student impact. The advanced science course is eligible for college credit. The teachers revealed they felt confident of their science background in preparation for teaching the course and they emphasized their intensive science background in preparing to become agricultural science teachers. Teachers indicated they had significant background in advanced science concepts, but they hadn’t used the previous knowledge and it required effort to review the concepts related to the new course. Teachers …

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Using Audio-Visual Technology In Online Teaching: A Study Of Students' Reactions, Frank Wyrostek, James Haefner Jan 2008

Using Audio-Visual Technology In Online Teaching: A Study Of Students' Reactions, Frank Wyrostek, James Haefner

Journal of Business & Leadership: Research, Practice, and Teaching (2005-2012)

This study surveyed students who had taken an online managerial finance classes to measure the effectiveness and impact of audio-visual technologies on anxiety levels, preferred learning styles, satisfaction, and ease in mastering course material. Results showed that a learning style that favors both audio and visual teaching methods existed. Using audio-visual pedagogical techniques helped reduce students’ anxiety levels and created a more personal atmosphere for the online class. The benefits of a more personal environment significantly correlated with both mastering the material and understanding complex processes involved in finance. In Addition, the authors speculate on the potential connection between reduced …

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A Comparison Between Warm-Water Fish Assemblages Of Narragansett Bay And Those Of Long Island Sound Waters, Abby Jane M. Wood, Jeremy S. Collie, Jonathan A. Hare Jan 2008

A Comparison Between Warm-Water Fish Assemblages Of Narragansett Bay And Those Of Long Island Sound Waters, Abby Jane M. Wood, Jeremy S. Collie, Jonathan A. Hare

Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences Faculty Publications

Fish species of warm-water origin appear in northeastern U.S. coastal waters in the late summer and remain until late fall when the temperate waters cool. The annual abundance and species composition of warm-water species is highly variable from year to year, and these variables may have effects on the trophic dynamics of this region. To understand this variability, records of warm-water fish occurrence were examined in two neighboring temperate areas, Narragansett Bay and Long Island Sound. The most abundant fish species were the same in both areas, and regional abundances peaked in both areas in the middle of September, four …

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Shaw-Tarantino Connection: Rolling Thunder Pictures And The Exploitation Aesthetics Of Cool, Kenneth Chan Jan 2008

Shaw-Tarantino Connection: Rolling Thunder Pictures And The Exploitation Aesthetics Of Cool, Kenneth Chan

English Faculty Publications

From the Introduction: The opening credit sequence of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 1 features the Shaw Brothers logo—the letters “SB” encased within a crest symbol not unlike the one used by Warner Bros.—emblazoned across a multicolored frosted-glass backdrop, accompanied by the words “Shaw Scope” and a cheesy trumpet fanfare. For many mainstream American moviegoers, this is probably their first encounter with this iconic symbol from Hong Kong’s cinematic history. But for Hong Kong and diasporic Chinese audiences (in countries such as Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore; and in Chinatowns across North America and Europe), this highly familiar branding sequence …

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Raccoon (Procyon Lotor) Harvesting On And Near The U.S. Department Of Energy’S Savannah River Site, Karen F. Gaines, James M. Novak Jan 2008

Raccoon (Procyon Lotor) Harvesting On And Near The U.S. Department Of Energy’S Savannah River Site, Karen F. Gaines, James M. Novak

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Understanding the toxicodynamics of wildlife populations in contaminated ecosystems is one of the greatest challenges in ecotoxicology today. The goal is to manage these populations to minimize risk to ecosystem integrity as well as human health. Ecological risk assessments (ERAs) in the United States are designed to meet the regulatory mandates of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an ERA evaluates the potential adverse effects that human activities have on the ' ora and fauna that de( ne an ecosystem (U.S. Environmental Protection …

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Collaboration: Faculty Perspective, William D. Woody Jan 2008

Collaboration: Faculty Perspective, William D. Woody

SPS Faculty Publications

From the chapter introduction: Over the past decade and a half, I have worked with many undergraduates as teaching assistants, research assistants on my projects, and advisees who conduct research for honors or other advanced programs. However, in very few cases have I had the special opportunity to genuinely collaborate with a student on research. The materials that follow define collaboration and set it apart from other modes of working with undergraduates, discuss selection processes, goals, challenges, and advantages of collaboration, and provide examples from my work with an outstanding undergraduate student, Joseph Hamm. I conclude this chapter with specific …

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Review: Christina Lee, Feasting The Dead: Food And Drink In Anglo-Saxon Burial Rituals, Bailey K. Young Jan 2008

Review: Christina Lee, Feasting The Dead: Food And Drink In Anglo-Saxon Burial Rituals, Bailey K. Young

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

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Severity Of Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms Depends On Developmental Stage Of Long–Evans Rats, Chun-Shiang Chung, Jian Wang, Monh Wehman, Dennis E. Rhoads Jan 2008

Severity Of Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms Depends On Developmental Stage Of Long–Evans Rats, Chun-Shiang Chung, Jian Wang, Monh Wehman, Dennis E. Rhoads

Past Departments Faculty Publications (CELS)

To investigate alcohol dependency and the potential role of age of initial alcohol consumption, Long–Evans (LE) rats were fed an ethanol-containing liquid diet starting at postnatal (P) ages (days): P23–27 (juvenile), P35–45 (adolescent) or P65–97 (young adult). Severity of subsequent withdrawal symptoms was dependent on age when consumption began and on duration of alcohol consumption. Frequency of withdrawal seizures was highest for rats starting consumption as juveniles, intermediate for adolescents and lowest for adults. Normalized to body weight, alcohol consumption was significantly higher for adolescent and juvenile rats than for adults. Sprague–Dawley rats that began alcohol consumption as adolescents (P35) …

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Activation Of Natural Regulatory T Cells By Igg Fc-Derived Peptide "Tregitopes", Anne S. De Groot, Leonard Moise, Julie A. Mcmurry, Erik Wambre, Laurence Van Overtvelt, Philippe Moingeon, David W. Scott, William Martin Jan 2008

Activation Of Natural Regulatory T Cells By Igg Fc-Derived Peptide "Tregitopes", Anne S. De Groot, Leonard Moise, Julie A. Mcmurry, Erik Wambre, Laurence Van Overtvelt, Philippe Moingeon, David W. Scott, William Martin

Institute for Immunology and Informatics Faculty Publications

We have identified at least 2 highly promiscuous major histocompatibility complex class II T-cell epitopes in the Fc fragment of IgG that are capable of specifically activating CD4+CD25HiFoxP3+ natural regulatory T cells (nTRegs). Coincubation of these regulatory T-cell epitopes or “Tregitopes” and antigens with peripheral blood mononuclear cells led to a suppression of effector cytokine secretion, reduced proliferation of effector T cells, and caused an increase in cell surface markers associated with TRegs such as FoxP3. In vivo administration of the murine homologue of the Fc region Tregitope resulted in suppression of …

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Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Bulletin Courses [2008], Virginia Commonwealth University Jan 2008

Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Bulletin Courses [2008], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Listing of undergraduate courses for 2008-2009.

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Advances In Hearing Aid Technology, Jessica Kerckhoff, Jennifer Listenberger, Michael Valente Jan 2008

Advances In Hearing Aid Technology, Jessica Kerckhoff, Jennifer Listenberger, Michael Valente

Publications

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Five Kingdoms, Kelle Groom Jan 2008

Five Kingdoms, Kelle Groom

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Five Kingdoms. (Under the direction of Don Stap.) Five Kingdoms is a collection of 55 poems in three sections. The title refers to the five kingdoms of life, encompassing every living thing. Section I explores political themes and addresses subjects that reach across a broad expanse of time--from the oldest bones of a child and the oldest map of the world to the bombing of Fallujah in the current Iraq war. Connections between physical and metaphysical worlds are examined. The focus narrows from the world to the city in section II. The theme of shelter is important to these poems, …

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The Identifiability Of Bias In Environmental Law, Shi-Ling Hsu Jan 2008

The Identifiability Of Bias In Environmental Law, Shi-Ling Hsu

Scholarly Publications

The identifiability effect is the human propensity to have stronger emotions regarding identifiable individuals or groups than for abstract ones. The more information that is available about a person, the more likely this person’s situation will influence human decisionmaking. This human propensity has biased law and public policy against environmental and ecological protection because the putative economic victims of environmental regulation are usually easily identifiable workers that lose their jobs, while the beneficiaries—people who avoid a premature death from air or water pollution, people who would be saved by medicinal compounds available only in rare plant and animal species, and …

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Relational Atonement: Covenant Renewal As A Wesleyan Integrating Motif, R. Larry Shelton Jan 2008

Relational Atonement: Covenant Renewal As A Wesleyan Integrating Motif, R. Larry Shelton

Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary

No abstract provided.

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Where Spirit And Bulldozer Roam: Environment And Anxiety In Highland Borneo, Matthew H. Amster Jan 2008

Where Spirit And Bulldozer Roam: Environment And Anxiety In Highland Borneo, Matthew H. Amster

Anthropology Faculty Publications

This paper explores changing perceptions of the natural environment among the Kelabit, an indigenous people of the Borneo interior. It considers both traditional and post-Christian conversion understandings about forest spaces. The former animistic ritual practices of the Kelabit centered on a spiritual dialogue with the natural world and this dialogue was often marked by active efforts to avoid or mitigate danger through ritual practice. One key example presented here is the former ceremony of 'calling the eagle' (nawar keniu), a ritual employed in times of crisis that exemplifies the dialogical and entwined relationship Kelabit had to the natural world. Such …

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