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Finding A "Disappearing" Nontimber Forest Resource: Using Grounded Visualization To Explore Urbanization Impacts On Sweetgrass Basketmaking In Greater Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, Patrick T. Hurley, Angela C. Halfacre, Norm S. Levine, Marianne K. Burke

Environment and Sustainability Faculty Publications

Despite growing interest in urbanization and its social and ecological impacts on formerly rural areas, empirical research remains limited. Extant studies largely focus either on issues of social exclusion and enclosure or ecological change. This article uses the case of sweetgrass basketmaking in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, to explore the implications of urbanization, including gentrification, for the distribution and accessibility of sweetgrass, an economically important nontimber forest product (NTFP) for historically African American communities, in this rapidly growing area. We explore the usefulness of grounded visualization for research efforts that are examining the existence of "fringe ecologies" associated with NTFP. …

Information Outlook, November 2008, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2008

Volume 12, Issue 11

The Opinion – Volume 21, No. 9 (7) November 2008, William Mitchell College Of Law

The Opinion

Selected Table of Contents

Noted Sergeant Loses Discrimination/Retaliation Claim Against City / Vogel, Mike

Around the Neighborhood: A Piece of Cake / Peterson, Elise

Editorial Board

Vogel, Mike; Gabriel, Patricia; Byellin, Jeremy; Peterson, Elise; Vang, Nou

Sense And Sensibility In Securitization: A Prudent Legal Structure And A Fanciful Critique, Thomas E. Plank

Scholarly Works

This article responds to a recent critique that the securitization of receivables is a legally shaky financial product that survives only because it is too big to fail. This critique argues that securitization's success in avoiding the costs that the Bankruptcy Code imposes on secured credit, including a bankruptcy trustee's ability to use the cash collateral from the receivables, is a type of fraud that hinders or delays the creditors of the originators of receivables. The critique, however, fails. The cases cited for the author's fraud analysis do not support its thesis. Further, the critique fails to demonstrate that securitization's …

Proposition 6: The Safe Neighborhood Act: Stop Gang, Gun, And Street Crime, Lee Edwin Sheldon

California Initiative Review (CIR)

No abstract provided.

Proposition 10: Alternative Fuel Vehicles And Renewable Energy Bond Act, Jason Munroe

California Initiative Review (CIR)

No abstract provided.

The Curricular And Instructional Implication For The Tacit Knowledge Exhibited While Creating A Forensic Craniofacial Reconstruction, Daniel Marion, Jr.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In our teaching careers, K-12 classroom teachers come to know that the way a given student connects the dots to comprehend a concept, lesson, or subject is not always (and most likely never is) in a straight linear fashion. The connections between the dots are defined as the student’s personalized understanding (tacit knowledge/knowing) of concepts, lessons, and/or subjects. The student most likely did not perceive, process, and/or retain the concept, lesson, or subject in the manner it was taught to her or him. Teachers asking a student to explain how he or she arrived at an answer or knew the …

Role Of Perceived Partner Responsiveness On Mexican American Males' Pain Severity And Depressive Symptomatology, Carolyn M. Freedman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the role of cultural indicators in moderating the influence of perceived partner responses and relationship satisfaction on pain severity and depressive symptomatology among a sample of 62 married and cohabiting Mexican American men, the majority of whom were first generation Mexican Americans, with chronic back and/or neck pain. The cultural indicators were not found to act as moderators in the analyses that involved pain severity and depressive symptomatology as outcome variables. Nevertheless, this study's findings are an important initial step in understanding the relationship dynamics among an understudied population with chronic pain and raise many important questions …

Effects Of Plain Language Revision On Item Difficulty, Discrimination And Dif, Holly E. Baker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Colorado assesses approximately 98% of students enrolled in grades 3-10 in the area of mathematics. In 2005, 69,872 English Language Learners (ELLs) in grades 3-10 participated in the state content area assessments. In 2007, 88,060 ELLs participated in the state content area assessments. With this dramatic growth in the ELL population in the state of Colorado and elsewhere in the nation, ensuring that ELLs have access to comprehensible materials on state assessments is of paramount importance. Accommodations provide access for students based on their individual needs. Likewise, assessment items designed and/or revised using the principles of plain language and universal …

Team Teaching High School Science: Game Plan For Success, Ed Linz, Mary Jane Heater, Lori A. Howard

Special Education Faculty Research

Recently team teaching has become more prevalent in high school classes. These teams often pair a general education teacher with content knowledge with a special education teacher. Due to a lack of detailed knowledge/experience in the other’s area of expertise, many team teachers in science courses are confronted with unique challenges. In this article, a general education science teacher and a special education teacher share how they successfully developed their “team.” Through the use of a sports related metaphor, “the game plan,” these teachers provide insight into how successful co-teaching relationships can be fostered. Both teachers describe the importance of …

On Bullshit By Harry G. Frankfurt, Princeton University Press, 2005, J. Rocky Colavito

LAS Faculty Book Reviews

No abstract provided.

Is Bigger Better Or Is Less More? : American Compared To Non-American Consumption Habits, Amanda Bratcher, Sofia Aneas, Jesus Lopez

Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal

The purpose of this experiment was to determine if American participants compared to non-Americans participants would choose a bigger consumable item regardless of its cost when asked to choose between a smaller and larger item. Participants were shown a series of items that consisted of five pairings of two different-sized consumable items and asked to state their preference after each set of items was presented. This process was administered one time with pricing information of the items made known to the participants and one time without pricing information, counterbalancing of pricing information was utilized. The results concluded that price did …

What's Up Newsletter, November 2008

What's Up Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Milwaukee, WI

What's Up Newsletter Finding Aid

Prism #34, November 2008, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Members In Small Local Public Accounting Firms, November 2008, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Competency-Based Curriculum For A Master's Program In Service Science, Management And Engineering (Ssme): An Online Delphi Study, Rahul Choudaha

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The overarching purpose of this research was to provide theoretical and conceptual foundations for developing a competency-based curriculum for an interdisciplinary master's program in Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME). Specifically, the objective was to ascertain the competencies and courses that are relevant for developing a competency model for a service scientist and a curriculum blueprint for SSME. The study employed three rounds of the online Delphi survey to achieve the research objectives. The three rounds were used to identify, prioritize, and define competencies and courses. A panel of industry professionals and university faculty were invited to participate as experts. …

November 1, 2008 (Pages 5929-6132), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 38 (2008)

No abstract provided.

Campus Connection, November 2008, Vol. 10 No. 3, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

Vince Otoupal Named Athletic Director -- Access To Change For Recreational Users -- Partnership To Provide Solar Power For CSUMB -- New University Magazine Debuts -- Library Open To Campus For First Time Dec. 1 -- Creativity And Speed Win At Gingerbread House Contest -- A Landscape Project That Really Rocks -- It's Out With Building Numbers, In With Names -- Meet Sam Pacheco -- President's Speaker Series: Irshad Manji -- Put On Your Dancing Shoes And Prepare To Party -- Bring Holiday Cheer To Needy Families -- New HR Appointment, Tamberly Petrovich -- New Employees, Status Changes, Probation Passed …

Proposition 8: Eliminates Right Of Same-Sex Couples To Marry. Initiative Constitutional Amendment., Joshua Irving Kob, Rebekah Leah Grodsky

California Initiative Review (CIR)

No abstract provided.

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 84, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Computerized Visually Presented Story Recall Tasks: Effects On Performance In Dementia, Nidhi Mahendra, Nisha Engineer, Susan Carroll

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Bridges : Newsletter Of The Stony Brook Health Sciences Chapter Of United University Professions, Stony Brook University

Bridges Newsletter (UUP HSC Chapter)

Newsletter

Blackworld, V. 28, I. 04, Stony Brook University

Blackworld

v. : ill. ; 38-43 cm (original analog pub.),Black world, v.28;n.4

2008 November-Newsletter, Nancy Rockey

Life Renewal Archive

No abstract provided.

Reaccreditation Self-Study, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Accreditation

mission

planning

learning

knowledge

community

online

compliance

response

acknowledgements

Student Growth, Recruitment, And Retention, David B. Ross, R. Rahamin

Faculty Presentations

No abstract provided.

The Global Labour Market And Graduate Employability: Challenges For Higher Education, Ellen Hazelkorn

Other resources

No abstract provided.

It's In Your Nature: A Pluralistic Folk Psychology, Kristin Andrews

Sentience Collection

I suggest a pluralistic account of folk psychology according to which not all predictions or explanations rely on the attribution of mental states, and not all intentional actions are explained by mental states. This view of folk psychology is supported by research in developmental and social psychology. It is well known that people use personality traits to predict behavior. I argue that trait attribution is not shorthand for mental state attributions, since traits are not identical to beliefs or desires, and an understanding of belief or desire is not necessary for using trait attributions. In addition, we sometimes predict and …

Selective Screenability In Topological Groups, Liljana Babinkostova

Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations

We examine the selective screenability property in topological groups. In the metrizable case we also give characterizations of S_c(O_nbd,O) and Smirnov-S_c(O_nbd,O) in terms of the Haver property and finitary Haver property respectively relative to left-invariant metrics. We prove theorems stating conditions under which S_c(O_nbd,O) is preserved by products. Among metrizable groups we characterize the countable dimensional ones by a natural game.

Don't Let Your Firm Lose Its Soul, Kevin Cooper

Graphic Communication

No abstract provided.