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School Counselors' Perceptions Of Their Academic Preparation In Their Roles As Professional School Counselors, Libby Ann Schayot Dec 2008

School Counselors' Perceptions Of Their Academic Preparation In Their Roles As Professional School Counselors, Libby Ann Schayot

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The focus of this study was perceptions of professional school counselors' (PSC) graduate preparation in their roles as school counselors. The relationships examined were PSCs' roles and the number of hours completed in the school counselors' graduate programs, PSCs' roles and the level of their professional identity, and PSCs' roles and the number of school counseling specialty courses completed in their school counseling graduate programs. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA, 2005) and the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP, 2001) have established standards for school counselors to master in their programs. These standards were used …

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Globalization And National Information Policy In Nigeria, Augonus Nnamdi Uhegbu Dec 2008

Globalization And National Information Policy In Nigeria, Augonus Nnamdi Uhegbu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper focuses on the need for a national information policy in Nigeria in the face of globalization. The paper is not anti-globalization, but believes that although globalization facilitates global access to information and its generating media, it also has the potential of exposing Nigerians to obscene information materials, and of dumping unwholesome, improperly packaged and substandard information resources in the country. The conceptual explanation of both globalization and information policy is discussed. Also discussed is Nigeria 's contemporary information environment, which this paper sees as highly risky, volatile and uncoordinated. The paper argues that with national information policy, globalization …

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The Changing Role Of Researchers In Nigeria : The Internet As An Alternative Future To Modernity, Manir Abdullahi Kamba Dec 2008

The Changing Role Of Researchers In Nigeria : The Internet As An Alternative Future To Modernity, Manir Abdullahi Kamba

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Researchers in Nigeria have traditionally depended on conventional libraries, and information centers, where they can physically access their needed information. Their main source of information has been traditional sources such as books, journals, and newspapers. The Internet has simplified the research process. The paper further examines how the Internet has become a tool for academic research, and also a publisher that Nigerian academics and researchers should maximally use. The paper focuses on the role played by the Internet in academic research and highlights opportunities and challenges it presents. It explores the status of Internet connectivity in Nigeria and examines the …

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The University Library, Information Provision, And Use By Policymakers In Olabisi Onabanjo University (Oou), Nigeria, Abiodun O. Odunewu Dec 2008

The University Library, Information Provision, And Use By Policymakers In Olabisi Onabanjo University (Oou), Nigeria, Abiodun O. Odunewu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Availability and timely access to information is indispensable in policy formulation and implementation. It is often believed that a library is as good as its patronage. This study is an attempt to relate the level of patronage of Olabisi Onabanjo University Library by its policymakers to its information delivery capability. A questionnaire was used to gather data, with 102 copies administered at the senate level and 18 copies administered at the Governing Council level. A total of 89 copies were returned, representing an 80 percent response rate. The study reveals inadequate patronage of the library by policymakers. The study concludes …

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Information Needs And Information-Seeking Behavior Of Arts And Humanities Teachers: A Survey Of The University Of The Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, Muhammad Tahir, Khalid Mahmood, Farzana Shafique Dec 2008

Information Needs And Information-Seeking Behavior Of Arts And Humanities Teachers: A Survey Of The University Of The Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, Muhammad Tahir, Khalid Mahmood, Farzana Shafique

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study explores the information needs and information-seeking behavior of humanities faculty members of the University of the Punjab, Lahore . It investigates the methods and sources used to acquire information, the importance of various information resources for their teaching and research activities, their preferred formats, the purpose of their information-seeking and problems faced. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted to get a response from the targeted population which consisted of 90 teaching and research staff of humanities departments. The response rate was 69 percent. The study reveals that most of the humanities faculty members rely heavily upon books and experts …

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University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For December 18, 2008, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Dec 2008

University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For December 18, 2008, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the December 18, 2008 Board of Regents Meeting

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The Importance Of Sexual And Clonal Reproduction For Population Dynamics In The Understory Herb Calathea Marantifolia (Marantaceae), David P. Matlaga Dec 2008

The Importance Of Sexual And Clonal Reproduction For Population Dynamics In The Understory Herb Calathea Marantifolia (Marantaceae), David P. Matlaga

Open Access Dissertations

I addressed how light availability influences sexual and clonal offspring production, demographic performance and contribution to population dynamics by studying the Neotropical understory herb Calathea marantifolia across a light gradient in Costa Rica. To understand how demographic performance was influenced by light availability I conducted a transplant experiment in the field. Both seedlings and clonal offspring grew best when planted in high light areas, but seedlings showed a faster and more dramatic response. Survival of seedlings was greatest in high light sites but clonal offspring survival was greatest where light availability was low. To examine the demographic consequences of physiological …

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Council On Academic Affairs Minutes, Dec 18, 2008, Eastern Kentucky University Dec 2008

Council On Academic Affairs Minutes, Dec 18, 2008, Eastern Kentucky University

Council on Academic Affairs

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12/18/2008 - Student's Exchange Experiences Lead To National Awards And New Outlook, University Marketing And Communications Dec 2008

12/18/2008 - Student's Exchange Experiences Lead To National Awards And New Outlook, University Marketing And Communications

2008

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Web 3d For Public, Environmental And Occupational Health: Early Examples From Second Life®, Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Rameshsharma Ramloll, Susan Toth-Cohen Dec 2008

Web 3d For Public, Environmental And Occupational Health: Early Examples From Second Life®, Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Rameshsharma Ramloll, Susan Toth-Cohen

Department of Occupational Therapy Faculty Papers

Over the past three years (2006-2008), the medical/health and public health communities have shown a growing interest in using online 3D virtual worlds like Second Life® (http://secondlife.com/) for health education, community outreach, training and simulations purposes. 3D virtual worlds are seen as the precursors of ‘Web 3D’, the next major iteration of the Internet that will follow in the coming years. This paper provides a tour of several flagship Web 3D experiences in Second Life®, including Play2Train Islands (emergency preparedness training), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—CDC Island (public health), Karuna Island (AIDS support and information), Tox Town …

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The Effects Of Art Therapy On Students With Emotional/Behavioral Disorders, Amy V. Krueger Dec 2008

The Effects Of Art Therapy On Students With Emotional/Behavioral Disorders, Amy V. Krueger

Theses and Graduate Projects

The process of creating art is considered to be a therapeutic method for students with emotional behavioral disorders (E/BD) to non-verbally express their thoughts and feelings. It has also been used by therapists and at times collaboratively with special education teachers to assess thoughts, feelings and also state of mind. Research suggests that art assessment offers an uncensored view of a child's thoughts and feelings and is a nonverbal method of assessment for children who are still developing language skills or who are unwilling to verbalize their feelings or emotions (White, Wallace, Huffman, 2004). Art psychotherapy with students with E/BD …

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2008-December-18-Etsu Recruiting Subjects For Alzheimer’S Study, University Marketing And Communications Dec 2008

2008-December-18-Etsu Recruiting Subjects For Alzheimer’S Study, University Marketing And Communications

ETSU News

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2008-12-18 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department Dec 2008

2008-12-18 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2008

No abstract provided.

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Virtual R&D Teams: A Sustainable Infrastructure For Promoting Smes, N. Ale Ebrahim, S. Ahmed, Z. Taha Dec 2008

Virtual R&D Teams: A Sustainable Infrastructure For Promoting Smes, N. Ale Ebrahim, S. Ahmed, Z. Taha

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are a major part of the industrial economies. Their survival and growth has therefore been a prominent issue. Research and development (R&D) enables firms to create new technologies and/or to build on existing technologies obtained through technology transfer. Nowadays unpredictable environment suggests that many firms seek new ways of conducting their business through some kind of R&D activities to make a profit and stay ahead of the competition. To survive in the global economy SMEs have to improve their products and processes exploiting their intellectual capital in a dynamic network of knowledge-intensive relations inside …

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The Weekly Challenger, December 18, 2008, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Dec 2008

The Weekly Challenger, December 18, 2008, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 18, 2008, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

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Faculty Budget Priority Committee Meeting Minutes, December 18, 2008, Faculty Budget Priority Committee Dec 2008

Faculty Budget Priority Committee Meeting Minutes, December 18, 2008, Faculty Budget Priority Committee

All Faculty Senate 2007-2014 Committee Minutes and Reports

Minutes from the Faculty Senate Faculty Budget Priority Committee meeting held on

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Vol.36 N.27 December 18th 2008, Brown Publishing Company Dec 2008

Vol.36 N.27 December 18th 2008, Brown Publishing Company

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

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State Aid: Commission Approves State Support For Bayernlb, European Commission Dec 2008

State Aid: Commission Approves State Support For Bayernlb, European Commission

Documents

No abstract provided.

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Burger King At Forefront Of Viral Marketing With New Men's Fragrance 'Flame', Lori Wright Dec 2008

Burger King At Forefront Of Viral Marketing With New Men's Fragrance 'Flame', Lori Wright

Media Relations

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A Trust-Based Secure Service Discovery (Tssd) Model For Pervasive Computing, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Moushumi Sharmin Dec 2008

A Trust-Based Secure Service Discovery (Tssd) Model For Pervasive Computing, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Moushumi Sharmin

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

To cope with the challenges posed by device capacity and capability, and also the nature of ad hoc networks, a Service discovery model is needed that can resolve security and privacy issues with simple solutions. The use of complex algorithms and powerful fixed infrastructure is infeasible due to the volatile nature of pervasive environment and tiny pervasive devices. In this paper, we present a trust-based secure Service discovery model, TSSD (trust-based secure service discovery) for a truly pervasive environment. Our model is a hybrid one that allows both secure and non-secure discovery of services. This model allows Service discovery and …

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2008-December-18-Kingsport’S Pinnacle Receives 2008 Entrepreneurial Spirit Award, University Marketing And Communications Dec 2008

2008-December-18-Kingsport’S Pinnacle Receives 2008 Entrepreneurial Spirit Award, University Marketing And Communications

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

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Best Of All Possible Care: An Examination Of Scientifically Progressive Medicine In Hays From 1867 To 1918, Ben Peeler Dec 2008

Best Of All Possible Care: An Examination Of Scientifically Progressive Medicine In Hays From 1867 To 1918, Ben Peeler

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

From the mid-nineteenth century until the early decades of the twentieth century, medicine underwent a tremendous transformation. No longer was medicine to be based on archaic theories that were grounded on unquantifiable guesswork. Instead, medicine became scientifically progressive, pushing the reliability and credibility of medical professionals to new heights. Scientific progressivism was the concept of standardizing medicine around a common set of ideals, such as basing treatment upon scientifically sound methods and procedures. A scientifically progressive community can be identified through the application of one or more of the following criteria: education adaptability, and technology. These three criteria could be …

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Position Of The European Parliament Adopted At First Reading On 18 December 2008 With A View To The Adoption Of Directive 2009/.../Ec Of The European Parliament And Of The Council Amending Directive 94/19/Ec On Deposit Guarantee Schemes, European Union: Parliament And European Union Council Dec 2008

Position Of The European Parliament Adopted At First Reading On 18 December 2008 With A View To The Adoption Of Directive 2009/.../Ec Of The European Parliament And Of The Council Amending Directive 94/19/Ec On Deposit Guarantee Schemes, European Union: Parliament And European Union Council

Documents

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Amendment No. 1 To Shortfall Agreement Between Maiden Lane Iii Llc And Aig Financial Products Corp, American International Group, Inc. (Aig), Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York Dec 2008

Amendment No. 1 To Shortfall Agreement Between Maiden Lane Iii Llc And Aig Financial Products Corp, American International Group, Inc. (Aig), Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of New York

Documents

Attached at end, to 12/24/08 SEC filing

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State Aid N 615/2008, Germany, European Union: European Commission Dec 2008

State Aid N 615/2008, Germany, European Union: European Commission

Documents

No abstract provided.

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Can Nintendo Wii Game Consoles Improve Family Fitness?, Admin Dec 2008

Can Nintendo Wii Game Consoles Improve Family Fitness?, Admin

University of Mississippi News

No abstract provided.

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Improving Library Searches Using Word-Correlation Factors And Folksonomies, Maria Soledad Pera Dec 2008

Improving Library Searches Using Word-Correlation Factors And Folksonomies, Maria Soledad Pera

Theses and Dissertations

Libraries, private and public, offer valuable resources to library patrons; however, formulating library queries to retrieve relevant results can be difficult. This occurs because when using a library catalog for library searches, patrons often do not know the exact keywords to be included in a query that match the rigid subject terms (chosen by the Library of Congress) or terms in other fields of a desired library catalog record. These improperly formulated queries often translate into a high percentage of failed searches that retrieve irrelevant results or no results at all. This explains why frustrated library patrons nowadays rely on …

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Women's Soccer Earns Nscaa Academic Award, University Relations Dec 2008

Women's Soccer Earns Nscaa Academic Award, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The women’s soccer team has earned the National Soccer Coaches Association of America College Team Academic Award for the 10th time. The women earned a collective cumulative GPA of 3.56 in the 2007-2008 academic year.

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Clemson Commencement Program, December 2008, Clemson University Dec 2008

Clemson Commencement Program, December 2008, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

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Many New Voters Make The Granite State One To Watch In November, Kenneth M. Johnson, Dante J. Scala, Andrew Smith Dec 2008

Many New Voters Make The Granite State One To Watch In November, Kenneth M. Johnson, Dante J. Scala, Andrew Smith

Carsey Publications

A third of potential voters in New Hampshire during the fall of 2008 have become eligible to vote in the state. Further, these potential new voters are more likely to identify with the Democratic Party and less likely to identify as Republicans than are established New Hampshire voters, contributing to the state's "purple" status.

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