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Public Campaign Financing: The Path From Plutocracy To Pluralism, Michael Clyburn Nov 2008

Public Campaign Financing: The Path From Plutocracy To Pluralism, Michael Clyburn

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


An Up-Close Perspective: The Enforcement Of Federal Immigration Laws By State And Local Police, Maria Fernanda Parra-Chico Nov 2008

An Up-Close Perspective: The Enforcement Of Federal Immigration Laws By State And Local Police, Maria Fernanda Parra-Chico

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


"We Are Your Neighbors": How Communities Can Best Address A Growing Day-Labor Workforce, Amy Pritchard Nov 2008

"We Are Your Neighbors": How Communities Can Best Address A Growing Day-Labor Workforce, Amy Pritchard

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.


A Requiem For My New York Times Home Subscription, Kenneth Anderson Nov 2008

A Requiem For My New York Times Home Subscription, Kenneth Anderson

Popular Media

This very short (2000 words) online opinion piece addresses the question of why the author gave up home delivery of the New York Times. It argues that, quite apart from issues of political bias, the New York Times has successively moved to turn itself from a newspaper into a magazine, and, in facing the pressures of the Internet economic model, into a device for creating, caring for, and feeding the newspaper's "online communities" - a business model increasingly based on selling cultural participation in shared-bias-communities. The Times is moving toward a content model that presumes that its readers read it …


Transformational Teacher Leadership In Rural Schools, Kirk David Anderson Nov 2008

Transformational Teacher Leadership In Rural Schools, Kirk David Anderson

The Rural Educator

In this paper, the author explores the rural school context and its teacher leaders as a third transformational leadership prototype adding to Leithwood and Jantzi’s (1999) two transformational leadership prototypes of females and new teachers in the elementary school. The author helps illuminate new understanding of rural schools and their highly interactive decision making styles where teacher leaders are a source of creativity development of unique forms of leadership. If researchers focus on teachers as leaders in rural schools, specifically those who operate outside of traditional leadership roles, there exists a promising area of new understanding for educational leadership as …


Factors Associated With The Personal Assessment Of College Among American Indian Students At A Rural University, Terry Huffman Nov 2008

Factors Associated With The Personal Assessment Of College Among American Indian Students At A Rural University, Terry Huffman

The Rural Educator

This study examines the relationship between four independent variables (gender, age, reservation background, and cultural traditionalism) with three dependent variables (assessment of college, transition to college, and impact of college on an appreciation of Native heritage) among a sample of American Indian students attending a small, rural university. Findings include no significant relationships between any of the independent variables and the assessment of college. However, the transition to college is associated with age, reservation background, and cultural traditionalism while the impact of college on an appreciation of Native heritage is related to cultural traditionalism.


Considering Student Writing From The Perspective Of Parents In One Rural Elementary School, Kathy Brashears Nov 2008

Considering Student Writing From The Perspective Of Parents In One Rural Elementary School, Kathy Brashears

The Rural Educator

This article explores the perspective of parents regarding their elementary children’s writing in one rural, elementary school. During the research, thematic strands emerged indicating that parents may value their children’s writing for purposes that differ from the purposes deemed appropriate by the school. Upon interviewing 30 parents/guardians, the following codes materialized identifying elements that contribute to the parents’ perspectives. These elements include the following: Parents do not see the connection between school and real world writing, parents lack understanding on writing purposes, parents’ perceptions of writing are based on their own school experiences, and some parents are illiterate. Not only …


Rural Teachers’ Best Motivating Strategies: A Blending Of Teachers’ And Students’ Perspectives, Patricia L. Hardré, David W. Sullivan, Natasha Roberts Nov 2008

Rural Teachers’ Best Motivating Strategies: A Blending Of Teachers’ And Students’ Perspectives, Patricia L. Hardré, David W. Sullivan, Natasha Roberts

The Rural Educator

This paper extracts and elaborates rural secondary teachers’ most effective reported motivating strategies. From the data generated by two years of mixed method research in rural secondary schools, these strategies emerged as among the most successful. Selection of best practices was based on a synthesis of what both teachers and students reported as making the greatest positive impact on their school-related motivation. Strategies are illustrated by multiple detailed examples from teacher interviews.


Rural Community Input To School District Strategic Planning: An Action Research Model Using Focus Groups, Brent L. Winand, Carla Edlefson Nov 2008

Rural Community Input To School District Strategic Planning: An Action Research Model Using Focus Groups, Brent L. Winand, Carla Edlefson

The Rural Educator

A rural superintendent used action research principles in conducting a series of focus groups with community members, students, and staff. The focus group data informed strategic planning. At the end of a carefully designed process, district administrators found more agreement among residents than they had expected. Community members were grateful for the opportunity to participate, and the district’s strategic plan contained important goals that would not have been recognized without community input. Administrators believed conducting the focus groups themselves brought more benefit than if they had hired a consultant, because of the interaction with community members. The result was a …


We Are…Marshall, November 14, 2008, Office Of Marshall University Communications Nov 2008

We Are…Marshall, November 14, 2008, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.


Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, November 2008, Lacuny Nov 2008

Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, November 2008, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.


On The Green Vol. 37 No. 44 November 14, 2008, Gallaudet University Nov 2008

On The Green Vol. 37 No. 44 November 14, 2008, Gallaudet University

2001-2010

On the Green is an internal publication of Gallaudet College, which later became Gallaudet University. It notified employees of updates around the campus and in the broader community, including new construction and the establishment of new academic programs. Running until 2010, it was supplanted by various forms of online mass communications across multiple audiences.


Gsu College Of Arts And Sciences Adds New Faculty, Office Of Public Affairs Nov 2008

Gsu College Of Arts And Sciences Adds New Faculty, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

New faculty members recently joined the College of Arts and Sciences at Governors State University.


Krishnaswamy Sampath V. Concurrent Tech Corp Nov 2008

Krishnaswamy Sampath V. Concurrent Tech Corp

2008 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania


The Tiger Vol. 102 Issue 23 2008-11-14, Clemson University Nov 2008

The Tiger Vol. 102 Issue 23 2008-11-14, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers

No abstract provided.


Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 103, November 14, 2008 Nov 2008

Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 103, November 14, 2008

Central Florida Future

Union displays students' works; 50 days and nights of lights; UCF brings holiday cheer to campus; Light up UCF events; Theater breaks 2008 Glass; Christmas project to bring holiday joy; Cornerstone class gives back; New Hope for Kids.


V. 76, Issue 8. November 14, 2008 Nov 2008

V. 76, Issue 8. November 14, 2008

Archway (1946-2020)

No abstract provided.


The Bison, November 14, 2008 Nov 2008

The Bison, November 14, 2008

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.


Minutes, College Of Arts & Sciences Council Meeting, November 14, 2008, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences Nov 2008

Minutes, College Of Arts & Sciences Council Meeting, November 14, 2008, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences

College Council Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the November 14, 2008, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg College of Arts and Sciences' Council.


Pacemaker Patients' Perception Of Unsafe Activities: A Survey, Masooma Aqeel, Azam Shafquat, Nawal Salahuddin Nov 2008

Pacemaker Patients' Perception Of Unsafe Activities: A Survey, Masooma Aqeel, Azam Shafquat, Nawal Salahuddin

Section of Cardiology

Background: Cardiac pacing is a recognized and widely used treatment for Patients presenting with bradycardia. Physicians expect Patients to return to normal activities almost immediately post implantation. However, Patients themselves may perceive interference to pacemaker function by various routine activities and devices, and hence continue to lead restricted, disabled lives. The aim of this study is to determine if routine activities are perceived by pacemaker Patients to interfere with their device function. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional survey was carried out on consecutive Patients at the pacemaker clinic at a public hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. A 47-question tool was developed …


The Hybrid Game Architecture: Distributing Bandwidth For Mmogs While Maintaining Central Control, Jared L. Jardine Nov 2008

The Hybrid Game Architecture: Distributing Bandwidth For Mmogs While Maintaining Central Control, Jared L. Jardine

Theses and Dissertations

Current Massively Multi-player Online Games (MMOGs) have enormous server-side bandwidth requirements. The costs of providing this bandwidth is in turn passed on to the consumer in the form of high monthly subscription fees. Prior work has primarily focused on distributing this bandwidth using peer-to-peer architectures, but these architectures have difficulty preventing cheating, overwhelming low resource peers, and maintaining consistent game state. We have developed a hybrid game architecture that combines client-server and peer-to-peer technologies to prevent cheating, maintain centralized and consistent game state, significantly reduce central server bandwidth, and prevent lower capacity players from being overwhelmed. By dramatically reducing the …


The Drama Of Collaborative Creativity: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Hollywood Film Making-Of Documentaries, Robert M. González Jr. Nov 2008

The Drama Of Collaborative Creativity: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Hollywood Film Making-Of Documentaries, Robert M. González Jr.

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Current creativity research is dominated by attention to the individual, with increasingly less attention paid to creativity in its context, in groups, and in filmmaking as a collaboratively creative enterprise. This study answers the research call to explore filmmaking as an exemplar for collaborative creativity. Utilizing the stories told on DVD extras on special edition releases of feature films, this study analyzes how collaborative creativity is storied. In turn, these stories reveal specific communication forms, practices, and strategies that enrich theoretical conceptions of collaborative creativity. Following dramatistic concepts elaborated by Kenneth Burke, this rhetorical analysis finds three emergent patterns of …


Wright State University Women's Basketball Media Guide 2008-2009, Wright State University Athletics Nov 2008

Wright State University Women's Basketball Media Guide 2008-2009, Wright State University Athletics

Athletics Publications

A media guide for Wright State University's 2008-2009 Women's Basketball team. This guide includes photographs, player stats, game results, and records.


Mustang Daily, November 14, 2008 Nov 2008

Mustang Daily, November 14, 2008

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.


Fisheries Occasional Publication No.72 - Western Rock Lobster Ecological Effects Of Fishing Research Plan., Rhys Brown Nov 2008

Fisheries Occasional Publication No.72 - Western Rock Lobster Ecological Effects Of Fishing Research Plan., Rhys Brown

Fisheries Occasional Publications

The commercial West Coast Rock Lobster Fishery (WCRLF) targets the western rock lobster (WRL), Panulirus cygnus, averaging approximately 10,000 tonnes of lobsters each year. Currently approximately 450 to 500 boats operate in the Fishery in waters ranging from 5 m to 200 m depth adjacent to the Western Australian coast and stretching from Cape Leeuwin in the south to Shark Bay in the north. The Fishery is managed by the Department of Fisheries (DoF) in Western Australia, using an input control system designed to constrain exploitation/fishing effort and deliver sustainable catches. The annual value of the catch is estimated at …


2008114.14: Community College, 1956-1994, Community College Nov 2008

2008114.14: Community College, 1956-1994, Community College

Guides to University Archives

These items include materials from the Marshall Community and Technical College (which later became Mountwest Community and Technical College). These documents range from 1956-1994. Items were received in 2008 and include notable materials about the business operations of the college. Items include faculty lists, forms, continuing education courses, class schedules, Study areas, proposal for the acquisition, development, and operation of the point pleasant point resort property, five-year plans, Conferences, Hospitality, legal assisting, and more. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents.


Sandspur, Vol 115, No 11, November 14, 2008, Rollins College Nov 2008

Sandspur, Vol 115, No 11, November 14, 2008, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.


Daily Eastern News: November 14, 2008, Eastern Illinois University Nov 2008

Daily Eastern News: November 14, 2008, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.


The Daily Gamecock, Friday, November 14, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media Nov 2008

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, November 14, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

No abstract provided.


Revised (And Revised Again) Internal Revenue Code Section 6694 And New Irs Guidance, Brian C. Bernhardt, Craig D. Bell Nov 2008

Revised (And Revised Again) Internal Revenue Code Section 6694 And New Irs Guidance, Brian C. Bernhardt, Craig D. Bell

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

No abstract provided.