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On The Topic Of Pseudoclefts, Ileana Paul

French Studies Publications

This paper presents arguments in favor of a pseudocleft analysis of a certain class of sentences in Malagasy, despite the lack of an overt wh-element. It is shown that voice morphology on the verb creates an operator-variable relationship much like the one created by wh-movement in free relatives in English and other languages. The bulk of the paper argues in favor of an inversion analysis of specificational pseudoclefts in Malagasy: a predicate DP is fronted to a topic position from within a small clause constituent. Moreover, it is shown that the same inversion occurs in equative and specificational sentences in …

From Skeptic To Believer: One Teacher’S Journey Implementing Literature Circles, Deanna Day, Glenna Ainley

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

This is the story of one middle school teacher’s journey of implementing literature circles with English language learners. Theory and research suggest that literature circles are valuable and important for young adolescents yet many teachers are still skeptical about implementing them. During this three-month study 22 sixth graders, 12 of them English learners, were involved in reading and discussing books. Areas that helped this teacher become a believer in literature circles included: students were able to talk about books in the literature circles, students naturally discussed the major themes and literary elements, students made sense of the texts, and students …

Artist Ranking Through Analysis Of On-Line Community Comments, Julia Grace, Daniel Gruhl, Kevin Haas, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Christine Robson, Nachiketa Sahoo

Kno.e.sis Publications

We describe an approach to measure the popularity of music tracks, albums and artists by analyzing the comments of music listeners in social networking online communities such as MySpace. This measure of popularity appears to be more accurate than the traditional measure based on album sales figures, as demonstrated by our focus group study. We faced many challenges in our attempt to generate a popularity ranking from the user comments on social networking sites, e.g., broken English sentences, comment spam, etc. We discuss the steps we took to overcome these challenges and describe an end to end system for generating …

Graduate Connections- April 2008

Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students

In This Issue:

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Navigating Graduate School... 1

Mentoring Relationships that Last

Good Practices in Graduate

Education.................................. 3

The Responsible Conduct of Research

Teaching Tip ............................. 4

End of Semester Reflection

Essential Connections............... 5

Fellowship Opportunities on the Web

Professional Development........ 5

Writing a Teaching Statement

Principles of Good Writing

Interactions..................................8

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Awards

Grad Student Poster Competition Winners

Graduate Student Association News

Funding Opportunities................9

Resources for Researchers......11

NURAMP Workshops

Announcements........................11

Summer ITA Institute

SPEAK Test Dates

18^th Annual Campuswide TA Workshops

Commencement Changes …

Ella And Henry: A Standards Based Unit And Accompanying Novel, Virginia Harris Prather

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

My CE/T consists of a young adult novel appropriate for elementary students and an accompanying Standards Based Unit of Study (SBUS). An SBUS is an instructional plan for teaching and learning that addresses content areas in a meaningful way. As part of the SBUS, I am including lesson plans, essential questions, a calendar for teaching this four-week unit, all worksheets, writing prompts, and other activities to be used, and an annotated bibliography of related works. The nature of this project is creative, as I have designed a unit for use in the elementary classroom. It will cover material from various …

Reading Horizons Vol.48 No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 48, issue 3.

Imsa360: April 2008, Imsa Fund

IMSA Fund Reports

Message From the President

As a long-time educator in Illinois, I have admired IMSA’s role as an international leader in developing talent and leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). I am honored and privileged to now serve as IMSA’s second president.

This first year, I have been meeting with educational leaders and policy makers across Illinois as well as IMSA students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni and donors to solicit ideas and determine our critical needs. From these conversations, I am convinced that IMSA’s service to students, teachers and schools is more relevant and important than ever. The challenges …

The Clemson Polyglot, Issue Two/Spring 2008, Department Of Languages, Clemson Univeristy

Department of Languages Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Predictors Of Re-Hospitalization For Home Healthcare Patients, Brenda Fischer Phd, Msn, Mba, Rn, Cphq

Dissertations

The overall purpose of this study was to examine the predictive capability of OASIS admission data for acute care re-hospitalization of home healthcare patients. Secondary data analysis using logistic regression was conducted on retrospective data from OASIS collected during the time period of July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007. This study was conducted in a Medicare certified Home Health organization that is part of the largest public health system in California. The sample of 1802 patients with complete episodes of care was derived from a data set of 5,523 patients. All patients were included in the analysis and logistic …

The Lantern Vol. 75, No. 2, Spring 2008, Robert Whitehead, Stephanie Bartusis, Natalie Rokaski, Dayna Stein, Jennifer Mingolello, Josh Krigman, Tori Wynne, Jen Bowlan, India Mcghee, Nicole Dillie, John Lukacs, Steven Markoe, Andy Brienza, Christopher Schaeffer, Joshua Solomon, Christopher Curley, Eric Relvas, Michael Taggart, Dan Sergeant, Samantha Owen, Patrick Hayakawa, Laurel Salvo, Ian O'Neill

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• In a French Courtyard at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Picky Mangoes
• And for My Un-Birthday I Drank Poets' Tea and Got to See
• Tree-Baby
• Wrestling With Plants
• I Smile
• Walking Home
• The Wall Between
• Phalangese, or the Art of Speaking to Fingers
• Early Spring
• Karma Kids
• A Bazaar Triptych
• The Joys of Ritual Circumcision
• [Of] Archetype[s] or I Don't Like Your Poetry
• Truth and Beauty Bombed
• Chevalier Anachronistic
• Kinds of Birds
• Sparknotes Entry for The Changing Tide by Eric Relvas
• …

The Poet As Pretender: Poetic Legitimacy In Cvetaeva, Sibelan E.S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

В статье рассматривается вопрос о поэтической законности в творчестве М.И. Цветаевой. Черубина де Габриак (псевдоним Е.И. Дмитриевой) служит примером женщины, наказанной (разоблачением и фигуративной казнью) за литературное самозванчество, но Цветаева ее потаенно связывает с самым выдающимся русским поэтом А.С. Пушкиным. Игра политических последствий цветаевского отношения к этим поэтам и ее собственной любви к самозванчеству многое объясняет в поэтике и в художественном отношении к гендеру у Цветаевой.

Understanding Racial Segregation: What Is Known About The Effect Of Housing Discrimination, Stephen L. Ross

Economics Working Papers

A central purpose of this chapter is to assess whether the available empirical evidence supports the view that current levels of housing discrimination are a significant contributor to residential segregation in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. Through the course of this chapter, the reader will find that the empirical patterns of racial segregation in the U.S. are often inconsistent the available evidence on housing discrimination. Admittedly, strong evidence exists that both housing discrimination exists today and that housing discrimination throughout much of the Twentieth Century was central to creating the high levels of segregation that we observe in U.S. metropolitan …

The Texas Caver, Volume 54, No. 2, April-June 2008, Mark Alman

The Texas Caver

Contents: Hoskin’s Hole, Austin, TX: By Dave Decker -- Really Cool Things To Do Before, During, and After the International Congress of Speleology: Submitted by Nancy Weaver -- TSA Land Fund: A Legacy or a New Direction?: By Jay Jorden -- The First Cave of the Year: Report and Photos by Bill Russell -- Postcard from the TSA Spring Convention, Saturday, April 5, 2008: Photos by Butch Fralia, Rick Corbell, and Mark Alman -- A Historic Weekend at Honey Creek Cave - Texas Longest: By Bill Steele -- From Grave to Glory: The Cave in American Literature: By Joy Kennedy-O’Neill …

The View From Ventress - 2008, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

Training tomorrow's leaders. New public policy leadership department is 18th in College; Special Section: Then and Now. The English and Music departments 50 years ago and today.

Sounds Of Chinese Korean: A Variationist Approach, Wenhua Jin

Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive

This study approaches the understudied Chinese Korean from a variationist perspective, with an aim to capture the variation patterns and potential changes in the sounds of Chinese Korean. More specifically, three variables were examined: the voice onset time (VOT) of stop consonants and front rounded vowels /y/ and /ø/. To discern any variation and change in these variables, 35 native speakers of Chinese Korean were interviewed in three different styles and digitally recorded in the Korean community of Shenyang, China. Results of the analysis reveal the existence of a diachronic VOT shift and the "incrementation" of VOT change in the …

Accessing High-Quality Instructional Strategies, Edmund T. Hamann, Jenelle Reeves, Bradley Baurain, Graciela Valenciano

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Superintendent O'Connell's 2007 call for greater public attention to the racial achievement gap in education provides the backdrop for our report. This report is intended to provide research-grounded policy recommendations related to assuring all students access to high quality instruction. This includes describing what California teachers should be helped to do in California classrooms if these classrooms are to be rich and successful learning environments where students from the many backgrounds represented in the nation's largest system of schools are all to fare well academically.

Superintendent O'Connell has expressed particular concern with inequities in current practice and current outcomes, so …

Back To Galicia, Eva Roa White

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

"Historical Forgetfulness" In Post-Unification Italy: Black African Migration In Politics And Performance, Raffaele Furno

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

Neo-Liberalism And Family Values In 1990s Immigration Reform Discourse, Christina Gerken

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

Anthropology 2008 Apr Self-Study & Documents, University Of New Mexico

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Anthropology APR self-study report, review team report, response to review report, and initial action plan for Spring 2008, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

Support Our [Dead] Troops: Sacrificing Political Expression Rights For Familial Control Over Names And Likenesses, Clay Calvert

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 9, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to John Grady
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON “HONORS CULTURE”
Defining Honors Culture -- Charlie Slavin
The Culture of Honors -- George Mariz
Creating an Honors Culture -- Jim Ford
Honors Culture Clash: The High Achieving Student Meets the Gifted Professor -- Annmarie Guzy
The Prairie Home Companion Honors Program -- Paul Strong
The Times They Are A-Changin’ -- Dail Mullins

RESEARCH ESSAYS
The New Model Education -- Gary Bell.
The Role of Advanced Placement Credit in Honors Education -- Maureen E. Kelleher, Lauren C. Pouchak, and Melissa A. Lulay
Towards …

The Culture Of Honors, George Mariz

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

What is it that we talk or write about when we talk or write about the culture of honors? Almost always we begin with the second term in the phrase, i.e., honors, the enterprise embodied in programs and colleges in which virtually all of the readers of this journal are engaged. If we think at all about the first term, culture, it is almost certainly for no more than a few minutes, if at all, and then move forward to the really important work. As I write this piece, I am at the moment creating a syllabus for a class …

Book Review: Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, Justin Edwards And Hanna Ziadeh. Other Routes: 1500 Years Of African And Asian Travel Writing. Indiana University Press, 2005., Senayon S. Olaoluwa

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

Linear And Nonlinear Identities: Problematic Identity, History, And The European Union, John Arrington Woodward

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

The Language Of The University: A Systemic Functional Analysis, Erin Gonzales

Linguistics & TESOL Theses - Archive

This study examines the negotiation of interpersonal meaning in the language of university administrators in their communications with students. The three texts in this study were written by the president of a large university to the student body and concern a controversy which arose on campus. The study uses Systemic Functional Grammar to examine how the language of the texts constructs interpersonal relationships between administration and students, as well as the extent to which such language changes when significant contextual issues become a factor. Specifically, in this study data analysis reveals that the language used changes in different contexts in …

Hair Of The Frog And Other Empty Metaphors: The Play Element In Figurative Language, L. David Ritchie, Valrie Dyhouse

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this essay we discuss a class of apparently metaphorical idioms, exemplified by "fine as frog's hair," that do not afford any obvious interpretation, and appear to have originated, at least in part, in language play. We review recent trends in both play theory and metaphor theory, and show that a playful approach to language is often an important element in the use and understanding of metaphors (and idioms generally), even when metaphors can be readily interpreted by means of a vehicle-to-topic mapping. Based on this evidence we call for a more deliberate inclusion of language play in metaphor theory …

Volume 13, No. 1 (Spring 2008), Office Of University Advancement, Bryant University

Bryant Magazine (1997-2019)(2024-present)

No abstract provided.

Pathos, Spring 2008, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Laura Pieroni

Issue 6

Lost In Translation? International Students And Non-English Information Literacy, Ethan Pullman

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2006

The University of Pittsburgh has a substantial community of international students. The library has long been collaborating with the Office of International Students, which helps international students assimilate to university life, in order to provide them with information literacy training specific to their needs. Looking for innovation in addressing the changing needs of our users, librarians recently offered information literacy sessions in several languages to help alleviate stress experienced by international students due to their new environment and language skills so they can focus on addressing immediate research needs. Student demographics and availability of skilled librarians determine the choice of …