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Generational Differences In Motivation For Learning: An Ethnographic Research Project On The Differences Between Learning Styles And Motivations To Learn Based On Generation, Alan Debelle

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

There are a number of differences between generational groups as far as influences, technology, and preferences. The purpose of this research project can help determine if there are differences in motivations and preferences toward learning delivery methods, based on age groups. To determine this, a Likert scale survey was issued to seventy four college students via a Zoomerang online survey link. The respondents were only asked to display their age and were classified into one of four generational groups. The Likert scale helped determine preferences to online or traditional classroom training. In addition the respondents were asked to list frustrations …

The Persistent Problem: Inequality, Difference, And The Challenge Of Development, Aseema Sinha, John Echeverri-Gent, Leslie Elliott Armijo, Marc Blecher, Daniel Brumberg, Valerie Bunce, Kiren A. Chaudhry, John W. Harbeson, Evelyne Huber, Bronwyn Leebaw, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Loren Ryter, Susan L. Woodward

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

This report highlights the complex, multidimensional nature of inequality in the era of globalization. It documents that despite the impressive strides by nations like China and India, absolute inequality between the richest and poorest countries is greater than ever before in history. It demonstrates that the rise of China and India creates a new dimension to the persistent problem of inequality.

It’S Time To Foreground The Relational Aspects Of Literacy Learning, Mona W. Matthews, John E. Kesner

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This article describes how young children’s early relationships with caregivers and other significant adults, such as teachers, do far more than introduce and mediate their literacy experiences. These relationships are the experience, and only with time and development do young children differentiate from these experiences the signs and symbols as objects for exploration in their own right. To understand the literacy development of children, birth to five, one must understand the role children’s relationships play in this development. To support this argument, the authors cross disciplines and include theories within literacy and developmental psychology. First, they describe theories related to …

Book Review: Lincoln And The Court By Brian Mcginty, Joshua E. Kastenberg

Faculty Scholarship

This book is unique in its approach and topic. Its quality ranks with other recent works on Lincoln and the Civil War such as Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, despite its minor shortcomings. The real winner in this book is the reader. Anyone interested in the expansion of military law, particularly in the post-9/ 11 world, will find great merit in McGinty's work.

Reading Horizons Vol.48 No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 48, issue 4.

American Procedural Exeptionalism: A Deterrent Or A Catalyst For Death Penalty Abolition, William W. Berry Iii

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Identifying State Variables In Multivariate Hydrological Time Series Using Time Series Knowledge Mining, O. Gronz, M. C. Casper, P. Gemmar

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The challenge of modeling rainfall-runoff processes is to define a suitable functional relationship between input variables representing precipitation measurements and the output runoff. Depending on the system’s state, the amount of precipitation resulting in direct flow varies strongly. Thus, state variables indicating the system’s actual state can enhance the accuracy of rainfall-runoff models significantly. Fuzzy models of Takagi-Sugeno-type are one of the effective approaches to simulate rainfall-runoff processes regarding the different system states. The design of a fuzzy rainfall-runoff model consists of two essential steps: the definition of the structure (input quantities, state variables, rules) and the identification of parameters …

Recovered Voices: Fairy Tales And The Reading Child, Jennifer Beaumont Lossing

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

In the traditional literature classroom, students are typically guided through literature discussions by their teacher, and then assessed on how well they can reiterate predetermined interpretations of what they have read. Within these literature discussions, classroom talk creates a power structure, with the teacher as owner of knowledge, and students as those lacking this knowledge. This study seeks to upset this power structure, by removing the guiding force of the teacher in literature discussions, as well as the assessments which follow. In a further effort to allow for a literature discussion which is genuinely for students, the genre of fairy …

Uis Bulletin, Volume 51, No. 2, 2008, Fadi Nader

UIS Bulletin

Contents: Message from Fadi Nader, UIS -- 15th International Congress of Speleology -- News from Commissions -- News from National Delegates -- Just Published -- News from Cavers -- Special Feature -- News -- Speleo Events

Comparison Of Bacterial Diversity Within The Coral Reef Sponge, Axinella Corrugata, And The Encrusting Coral Erythropodium Caribaeorum, Jose V. Lopez, L. K. Ranzer, A. Ledger, B. Schoch, A. Duckworth, P. J. Mccarthy, R. G. Kerr

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

We compared the Caribbean reef sponge, Axinella corrugata, with the Caribbean reef coral, Erythropodium caribaeorum for differences in their resident microbial communities. This cursory survey of bacterial diversity applied 16S rRNA gene sequences. Over 100 culture-independent sequences were generated from five different Axinella 16S rRNA libraries, and compared with 69 cultured isolates. The cultureindependent 16S rDNA clones displayed a higher diversity of Proteobacteria, including “uncultured” or “unknown” representatives from the Deltaproteobacteria. Arcobacterium, and Cyanobacteria were also found. We have also confirmed that Axinella sponges appeared to host specific microbial symbionts, similar to the previously identified clones termed “OSO” …

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2008.07, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Affairs

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

The Case For Tolerant Constitutional Patriotism: The Right To Privacy Before The European Courts, Francesca Bignami

Cornell International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Special Features, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Approaching the nation’s highest bench – Project for new facilities gets underway – The transformation of private practice

Title And Contents- Summer 2008

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

Volume 28 / Number 3 / Summer 2008

CONTENTS

EDITOR'S NOTE

WHY THE HOMESTEADING DATA ARE SO POOR: (AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT)

SHAPING NEBRASKA: AN ANALYSIS OF RAILROAD AND LAND SALES, 1870-1880

LAND, SPECULATION, AND MANIPULATION ON THE PECOS

LEWIS AND CLARK: GONE; AMERICAN INDIANS: STILL HERE

BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK NOTES

NOTES AND NEWS

Review Of Searching For Sacred Ground: The Journey Of Chief Lawrence Hart, Mennonite By Raylene Hinz-Penner, Clyde Ellis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Oklahoma's Cheyenne community, Lawrence Hart has led a life framed by service and self-sacrifice. Widely regarded by his people as the embodiment of what a leader should be, Hart has spent decades tending to their cultural, spiritual, and political health. In Hinz-Penner's hands, Hart's biography is not simply his life story, but also a reflection of the shifting contours of contemporary Native life and a story that tells us much about what it means to be Cheyenne in the modern world. Writing with a keen appreciation for the larger issues at play in Hart's life, Hinz-Penner deftly broadens her …

Review Of The Calgary Project: Urban Form/Urban Life. By Beverly A. Sandalack And Andrei Nicolai., Pierre Gauthier

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Calgary Project is an ambitious narrative. In eight chapters and two appendixes, the authors set about tracing the historical and spatial evolution of Calgary, aiming at drawing conclusions that could inform its planning in the future. The city's development is portrayed through five periods, unfolding from the establishment of a small North West Mounted Police Fort in 1875 to our times. Each period is featured in a chapter that opens with a discussion of the ideas, plans, and planning practices of the time, followed by a discussion of the "spatial structure" of the urbanized areas, and concludes with an …

Droughtscape, Summer 2008, Kelly Smith

DroughtScape: Quarterly Newsletter of the National Drought Mitigation Center (2007–2023)

VegDRI Expands West

Spring Rains Ease Drought But CA Still Dry

Scholar Donates Books

NDMC Welcomes Employees Bathke, Nothwehr

Latest Workshop Info Up

State Lawmakers to Focus on Drought Planning

Decadal Variation -- Clues to Droughts and Floods?

Earth Jurisprudence: The Moral Value Of Nature, Judith E. Koons

Faculty Scholarship

As planetary environmental crises advance toward us like an enormous oil spill, the call of Earth Jurisprudence has arisen, suggesting that a shift is necessary in the way that we think about law, governance, and nature. A predicate to rethinking law, however, is to reconsider the moral status of nature. This article posits that, to preserve a healthy planet for future generations of human beings - and for Earth itself - it is necessary to recognize Earth as the center of the moral community. As an ethical endeavor, the article turns the question of the moral status of nature through …

Controlling Methamphetamine Precursors: The View From The Trenches, Curtis J. Vanderwaal Dr., Rachel M. Bishop, Duane C. Mcbride, Kimberly Rosales, Jamie F. Chriqui, Jean C. O'Connor, Yvonne M. Terry-Mcelrath

Faculty Publications

This paper reports on key informant (KI) and focus group interviews exploring the relationships between methamphetamine small toxic lab (STL) seizures and related activity, and methamphetamine precursor laws. The primary purposes of the KI and focus group interviews were to: 1) examine KIs’ perceptions of the impact of their state’s precursor laws; 2) explore KIs’ perceptions of the organizational and procedural facilitators and barriers to successful implementation of the law(s); and 3) evaluate KIs’ perceptions of the relative importance of various precursor law provisions. Research questions included: 1) What were KIs’ perceptions of the impact of their state’s precursor laws?; …

Volume 2008-09 - Issue 1 - Summer, 2008, Echoes Staff

Rose Echoes

No abstract provided.

The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Roundtable Discussion Celebrating The Sixtieth Anniversary Of Their Discovery, Part 2, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Donald W. Parry, Dana M. Pike, David Rolph Seely

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

Donald Parry, Dana Pike, and David Seely are members of the international team of editors for the Dead Sea Scrolls and have contributed to the official Dead Sea Scrolls publication series, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, published by Oxford University Press. This interview was originally conducted on February 27, 2007.

Watershed Health And Mechanical Fuel Reduction In The Walker Flats, Andrew Erdmann

Water Resources Professional Project Reports

The mechanical fuel reduction project being implemented in the Walker Flats area is the result of a collaborative effort on the part of La Jicarita Enterprise Community (LJEC), the National Forest Service (USFS), the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF), New Mexico State University (NMSU), the University of New Mexico (UNM), and numerous other Federal, state, local, non-profit, and educational agencies (LJEC, 2005). Each of these agencies is involved in several aspects of this project ranging from research, to developing the prescription, to monitoring the impacts and effectiveness of the project. The collective efforts of these agencies to develop and monitor …

Integrated Modeling Of Agricultural Land Use Change In Romania: From Retrospective Causal Analysis To Future Developments, Tobia Lakes, Daniel Müller

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Agricultural land use changed rapidly in Central and Eastern Europe following the collapse of socialism. Cropland is arguably the most dynamic land use class, with cropland abandonment typically exceeding cropland expansion. Yet to date there has been little empirical evidence on the rates, patterns, and processes of cropland change for Central and Eastern Europe. To remedy this, we integrated socioeconomic and environmental data and employed exploratory statistics with predictive simulations to study the causes of past changes, as well as to forecast future cropland development in Arges County, Romania. In a first step, we used spatially explicit logistic regressions to …

Simulation Study On Spatial And Temporal Changes Of Factories In An Industry District, Hiroyasu Nagata, K. Tainaka, J. Yoshimura

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Factories or plants are built or dismantled for various complex reasons. Understanding the construction and dismantlement processes of factories is one of complicated economic problems. The present article has two purposes: one is to explore the spatial and temporal changes of factories at Hamamatsu city in Japan, and the other is to represent the spatial and temporal changes by a simple simulation model. The time dependence of factory number can be classified into two periods. Before the collapse of Japanese stock market (1990), the number of factories increases smoothly. On the contrary, after the collapse, it rapidly decreases. The spatial …

An Activity Based Cellular Automaton Model To Simulate Land Use Changes, Jasper Van Vliet, Hedwig Van Delden

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This paper proposes a spatial explicit model for land use dynamics, based on activities, which can represent for example population or jobs. In land use models based on constrained cellular automata (CA), the total area per land use is defined exogenously, while the model computes the allocation based on transition rules. The activity based model is a CA model, but it is constrained by activities instead of areas. Each time step, activities are distributed over cells based on transition rules. The CA transition rules comprise the effects of the activity in the neighbourhood, the land use of a cell, externalities …

Managing Insular Tropical Environment Through Data And Knowledge Bases By Using Web Services: A Case Study On Corals And Herbarium Of La Réunion Island, Noel Conruyt, D. Sebastien, D. Payet, Y. Geynet, D. Caron, David Grosser

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Decision-makers who want to manage Insular Tropical Environment more efficiently need to narrow the gap between the production of scientific knowledge in universities or other labs and its pragmatic use by the general public. One key environmental problem is to preserve biodiversity of ecosystems that are under human pressure. As we only protect what we know, a solution is to share expert knowledge about habitats and species on the Web for educating the public about their richness and beauty. Data and knowledge bases are part of a biodiversity information system that we have built to deal with this research enhancement …

Towards Model Evaluation Using Self-Organizing Maps, M. Herbst, M. C. Casper

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Basically, any statement on hydrological model behaviour depends on our possibilities to differentiate between model time series. Applied within a model identification context, aggregating statistical performance measures are inadequate to capture details on time series characteristics as essentially different model results can be produced with close to identical performance measure values. It has been readily shown that the loss of information on the residuals imposes important limitations on model identification and -diagnostics and thus constitutes an element of the overall model uncertainty. In this contribution we present an approach using a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) to circumvent the identifiability problem induced …

Design And Implementation Of The Land Use Management Support System (Lumass), A. Herzig

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Because of the increasing complexity of spatial planning processes there is a need for more powerful and more intelligent planning tools. This involves the development of environmental decision support systems (EDSS), or, in a more general term, spatial decision support systems (SDSS). Their design, implementation, and application have been discussed in many articles within the last 15 years or so. A summary of the most important aspects is given here, which distinguishes between functional and structural requirements of SDSS. With regard to the latter, it is argued that, from an end user’s point of view, only a tight coupling or …

Modelers And Stakeholders: Who Is The Boss?, Alexey Voinov, F. Bousquet

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Computer modeling has been regarded as an efficient way of solving problems. Yet it has a history of failure when applied to decision making. Models have not necessarily resulted in better decisions. There is a clear disjoint between analytical quantitative analysis and decision making. How do we make models more appealing and convincing for the decision makers?