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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2008

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Learning Marketspace, July 2008, Bob Heterick, Carol Twigg

The Learning MarketSpace (4/03 - 4/14)

No abstract provided.

Towards A Simulation-Based Study Of Grassland And Animal Diversity Management In Livestock Farming Systems, G. Martin, Michel Duru, Roger Martin-Clouaire, Jp Rellier, Jp Theau, O. Thérond, L. Hossard

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

In less-favored areas, livestock production involves the management of native vegetation as a resource base. A challenging issue in such systems regards the design of efficient and sustainable management strategies that make it possible to exploit the diversity of grasslands and herd batches over different time scales. This paper describes the conceptual approach that supports the representation and simulation of farm-scale models of grassland-based livestock systems in the SEDIVER project. It enables the coupling of species-rich grasslands and livestock models with sophisticated decision-making models. The latter embed a representation of management strategies that specify in a flexible and adaptive manner …

Lu Dining Upgrades Cater To Students' Tastes, Liberty University

July/August 2008

No abstract provided.

Abstracts Of Papers, 86th Annual Meeting Of The Virginia Academy Of Science, Virginia Journal Of Science

Virginia Journal of Science

Abstracts for the 86th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 20-23, 2008, Hampton University, Hampton, VA.

Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role Of Occupational Sorting And Human Capital, Heather Antecol, Anneke Jong, Michael Steinberger

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

Using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, the authors explore two alternative explanations for the sexual orientation wage gap: occupational sorting, and human capital differences. They find that lesbian women earned more than heterosexual women irrespective of marital status, while gay men earned less than their married heterosexual counterparts but more than their cohabitating heterosexual counterparts. Results of a Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition indicate that the relative wage advantages observed for some groups of lesbians and gay men were mainly owing to greater levels of human capital accumulation (particularly education), while occupational sorting had little or no influence. The relative wage penalties …

Effects Of Healthy Families New York On Maternal Behaviors: Observational Assessments Of Positive And Negative Parenting, Center For Human Services Research, University At Albany

Children, Family & Elder Services Reports and Research Briefs

This paper examines the effectiveness of Healthy Families New York (HFNY), a home visiting program based on the Healthy Families America model, in promoting parenting competencies and preventing maladaptive parenting behaviors. The evaluation used a randomized controlled trial, in which women were randomly assigned during pregnancy or shortly after the birth of the target child to an intervention group that was offered home visitation services or to a control group that was given information and referral to other appropriate services. The original data collection effort included maternal self-report and administrative data gathered at baseline, birth, and one, two, and three …

Muscle-Bone Relationships In The Lower Leg Of Healthy Pre-Pubertal Females And Males, Teresa L. Binkley, Bonny Specker

Ethel Austin Martin Program Publications

Muscle-bone relationships in healthy pre-pubertal children were investigated using four muscle measures as predictors of tibial strength: 66% tibia cross-sectional muscle area (CSMA) by pQCT; leg lean mass (LLM) by DXA; and muscle power (Power) and force (Force) measured during a two-footed jump. Polar strength strain index (pSSI), a calculated surrogate for bone strength at the 20% distal tibia, was obtained on 105 (54 male) self-assessed pre-pubertal children. The amount of muscle (CSMA, LLM) may influence bone strength more than muscle strength (Power, Force) during periods of rapid growth. Correlations and multiple regression partial-R values from models controlling for age, …

South Dakota State University Graduate Catalog 2008-2009, South Dakota State University

South Dakota State University Catalogs and Bulletins: 1935 to present

No abstract provided.

Integrative Medicine Research At An Academic Medical Center: Patient Characteristics And Health-Related Quality-Of-Life Outcomes., Jeffrey M Greeson, Steven Rosenzweig, Steven C Halbert, Ira S Cantor, Matthew T Keener, George C Brainard

College of Science & Mathematics Departmental Research

OBJECTIVE: To characterize patients seeking care at a university-based integrative medicine practice, and to assess short-term changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) associated with integrative medical treatment.

DESIGN: Prospective, observational study.

SETTING: This study was conducted at a large U.S. academic medical center affiliated with the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.

PARTICIPANTS: Seven hundred and sixty-three (763) new patients with diverse medical conditions participated in the study. Mean age was 49 years (standard deviation = 16, range = 14-93). Two thirds of patients were women and three quarters were white. The most common International Classification of …

Factors Associated With Success In Guide Dog Training, Lara S. Batt, Marjolyn S. Batt, John A. Baguley, Paul D. Mcgreevy

Service and Support Animals Collection

Tests of motor laterality and behavioral reactivity, as well as salivary cortisol concentrations, were examined in this pilot study to identify dogs best suited to guide dog work. Over a 14-month period, lateralization tests were conducted and cortisol concentrations were determined on 3 separate occasions, and temperament testing was performed on 2. Potential guide dogs (N = 43) involved in this study were 5 golden retrievers (4 males, 1 female) and thirty-eight Labrador retrievers (8 black males, fifteen yellow males, 5 black females, and ten yellow females). Results from these tests were then compared with the ultimate success of the …

Analyzing Best Practices In Technology Education, Dan L. Householder

Engineering Education Faculty Publications

Innovation in technology education is at an all-time high in school programs around the world. Yet creative teachers rarely have an opportunity, even in their local settings, to elucidate the goals and outcomes of their programs, to explain why specific activities are chosen, and to point out the specific student outcomes accomplished in the technology classroom. In this volume, 12 technology educators describe eight unique approaches to introducing learners to intrinsically interesting learning opportunities in their classrooms. These compelling accounts communicate the excitement of student exploration of topics ranging from puppetry to biotechnology, from reverse engineering to the history of …

A Structural Equation Model Of The Relationship Between Body Perception And Self-Esteem: Global Physical Self-Concept As The Mediator, Patrick W. C. Lau, Mike W. L. Cheung, Lynda B. Ransdell

Kinesiology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to investigate: (1) whether three subscale scores (i.e., body fat, appearance, and strength) and the global physical self-concept and global self-concept scores of the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire (PSDQ) are applicable to Chinese children; (2) whether there is a gender difference in these relationships; and (3) whether global physical self-concept acts as a mediator of global self-concept.

Design: A cross sectional study of Chinese children (45% girls, 55% boys) from low to middle class families were randomly recruited. Participants attended grades 3 through 6 at a standard urban primary school in Hong Kong. Children …

The Classic, Summer 2008, Public Relations

The Classic, 2000-2009

Zwemer View: Significant Place; In Box; One-of-a-Kind Minister; Research Fellowship; Space to Study Place; New Administrative Roles; Following a Trend; Mission Mentors; Top Teacher; A Job Well Done; Distinguished Service; Honored Historian; A Summer of Service; Award-Winning Marketing; Hunger Hero; Dorm Deliberations; Of Course: Headstones 'n' Headcounts; Faculty Research; Red Zone; Face Value: Denise Sneller; Decades of Service; Award-winning student supporters Patti Thayer and Dick Van Holland retire; Minding Place: Northwestern cancels classes, closes offices and opens its doors for the college's first Day of Learning in Community; Plains Talk: An interview with Kathleen Norris; Solstice; 1000 Words: Orientation; Summer …

Insider Vol. 9 No. 3 Summer 2008, College Of Arts & Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

A Publication for Friends of the College of Arts and Sciences

Flight Physician - July, 2008, Civil Aviation Medical Association

Browse all Civil Aviation Medical Association Newsletters

A sixteen page newsletter of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. The newsletter provided news about civil aviation medicine and information related to the organization.

The Major Influences Of The Boundless-Extended Family System On The Professional Experiences Of Black Zimbabwean Women Leaders In Higher Education, Miriam Chitiga

Faculty Working Papers from the School of Education

The article examines the major influences of the black Zimbabwean boundless- extended family system on the professional trajectories of women leaders working within the higher education system of Zimbabwe. The study is based on in-depth interviews conducted with thirty female leaders who shared information about their major family responsibilities. Using an analytical framework that facilitates a critical analysis of the evidence, the paper discusses the persisting significance of the interdependent systems of social stratification, namely race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, and class in the private and public spheres of the female leaders. In an effort to preserve the nuances, essence, …

The Leading Object: July 2008

Leading Object

Content:
Perspectives: John C. Owens
IANR partnership with Chinese university to bring students to Lincoln
Ratcliffe’s beetle discovery honored
Knobel credits education with enhancing his career
Lou receives honorary professorship from Chinese university
Biochemistry professor receives Maxcy Professorship
Several faculty receive national recognitions
Corn, wheat boards partner with IANR to benefit agriculture

2007-2008 - Graduate Council Annual Report, College Of Graduate And Continuing Studies, East Tennessee State University

Graduate Council Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Scwds Briefs: Volume 24, Number 2 (July 2008), Gary L. Doster , Editor, Scwds Briefs, Michael J. Yabsley

Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study: Publications

Table of Contents:

Brucellosis in MT and WY

Lead Fragments in Donated Venison

The Threat of Plague

Recent Cases of Plague in the U.S.

Raccoon Roundworm – Public Health Update 2008

Avian Pox in a Nestling Bald Eagle

A Note to Our Readers

Recent SCWDS Publications Available

Uab Nursing - Summer 2008, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

UAB Nursing magazine

No abstract provided.

Monitoring And Assessing The Use Of External Quality Review Organizations To Improve Services For Young Children: A Toolkit For State Medicaid Agencies, Tara Krissik, Henry T. Ireys, Anne R. Markus, Sara J. Rosenbaum

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

Federal regulations encourage state Medicaid agencies to use external quality review organizations (EQROs) to help implement strategies for assessing and improving the quality of medical services provided to beneficiaries enrolled in managed care plans. However, many states have not availed themselves of this opportunity and may lack guidance on how to do so. This report provides agencies with specifications for developing a scope of work that will lead to conceptually and methodologically sound studies of the quality of preventive and developmental services for young children enrolled in Medicaid. Among other recommendations, the authors note that states may require EQROs to …

Patents And Traditional Medicine: Digital Capture, Creative Legal Interventions And The Dialectics Of Knowledge Transformation, Chidi Oguamanam

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

This article examines the debate over the exclusion of indigenous or local knowledge forms from the global intellectual property system, and some of the current attempts to solve this problem. Using the lens of cultural cosmopolitanism, the article highlights important trends in the dialectics of developing countries' engagement with intellectual property and other collateral knowledge protection systems. The three sites at which this significant development is unfolding are: (1) the digitization of traditional medicinal knowledge through India's traditional knowledge digital library (TKDL) project; (2) a recent attempt at incorporating innovations in Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) in Taiwanese patent law; and …

The Voice, Summer 2008: Volume 53, Issue 4, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Serving and Learning in Haiti: Nurses Take Their Training Abroad; Research Grants Fund Summer Studies; Truly Confident or Simply Smug; Hoekstra Brings Leadership Experience to a New Position; Equipped for a Time Like This; Student Teachers Learn and Teach in the Classrooms of Rehoboth; Dordt Engineering Students Show Senior Projects; MacMillan Joins Bread for the World Conference; Students, Alumni Learn to Ask the Right Questions About Ag and Biotechnology; Ag Students Receive an I-CASH Grant; Ag Department Is Awarded a Grant for a Bioenergy Demonstration Project; Campus Pitches in for a Truck; A Semester in Europe; Kevin Timmer Becomes a …

Street Children And U.S. Immigration Law: What Should Be Done, Laura P. Wexler

Cornell International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Josephine Martin - Chapter 1, Josephine Martin, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Josephine Martin has been an area school nutrition consultant, a USDA regional nutritionist in the Southeast, and Georgia’s state child nutrition director. Prior to her retirement from the Georgia Department of Education in 1991, she was an Associate State Superintendent of Schools. She then served as the first Executive Director of the National Food Service Management Institute, The University of Mississippi.

Since retirement from the National Food Service Management in 1996, she has taught courses in food service management at Georgia State University and in child nutrition management at the University of Georgia. She is actively involved as a consultant …

Corn Distillers Dried Grains (Ddgs) For Growing-Finishing Swine, Phillip S. Miller

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Two-hundred and forty pigs growing-finishing pigs were used to evaluate the feeding value of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS). Treatments consisted of 0, 5, 10 and 15% dietary DDGS inclusion. Treatments did not affect average daily gain (ADG), average daily feed intake (ADFI) or gain:feed (G:F) during the grower 1 period (P > 0.05). During the grower 2 period ADG and ADFI linearly decreased as DDGS increased (P < 0.05). No differences among treatments were detected throughout the feeding phase finisher 1 for ADG, ADFI, and G:F (P > 0.05). During the finisher 2 feeding phase, there was a linear reduction in ADG and ADFI in response to dietary DDGS inclusion (P = 0.01). Overall, linear reductions …

Writing Toward Readers' Better Health: A Case Study Examining The Development Of Online Health Information, Russell Willerton

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

Each year, more people search the Internet for health information. Through a case study conducted at a prominent health information company, I will show that technical communicators are well suited to contribute to the development of online health information. Like other technical communicators, online health information developers must make rhetorical choices based on audience needs, function within specific social contexts, and work through challenges of writing, editing, and project management.

Sheep Updates 2008 - Part 3, L. J. E. Karlsson, J. C. Greeff, L. Slocombe, K. Jones, N. Underwood, Fred Wilkinson, W. D. Hoffman, W. A. Mckiernan, V. H. Oddy, M. J. Mcphee, B. L. Mcintyre, P. F. Parnell, R. A. Clark, J. Timms, G. Griffith, C. Mulholland, P. Hyland, Danielle England, Fiona Jones, John Lucey, Martin Staines, Richard Morris, Megan Abrahams, Caroline Peek, Dennis Van Gool, Daniel Gardiner, Kari-Lee Falconer, Sandra Prosser, Mario D'Antuono, John Young, Andrew Thompson, Chris Oldham, Brown Besier, Angus Campbell, Ralph Behrendt

Sheep Updates

This session covers fiveteen papers from different authors:

CONTROLLING FLY STRIKE

1. Breeding for Blowfly Resistance - Indicatoe Traits, LJE Karlsson, JC Greeff, L Slocombe, Department of Agriculture & Food, Western Australia

2.A practical method to select for breech strike resistance in non-pedigreed Merino flocks, LJE Karlsson, JC Greeff, L Slocombe, K. Jones, N. Underwood, Department of Agriculture & Food, Western Australia

3. Twice a year shearing - no mulesing, Fred Wilkinson, Producer, Brookton WA

BEEF

4. Commercial testing of a new tool for prediction of fatness in beef cattle, WD Hoffman^A, WA McKiernan^A, VH Oddy …

The Myth Of The ‘Opportunity To Read’ In Contract Law, Omri Ben-Shahar

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Standard form contracts in consumer transactions are usually not read by consumers. This "unreadness" of contracts creates opportunities for drafters to engage in unfair trade practices. Various doctrines of contracts and consumer protection law address this concern. One of the prominent solutions coming out of recent proposals for reform is to give individuals a more substantial opportunity to read the contract before manifesting assent. With the greater opportunity to read, more transactors will actually read the terms and assent to the boilerplate will be more "robust." This Essay argues that solutions that focus on providing consumers an opportunity to read …