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Communicator, Feb. 2008, San Jose State University, Department Of Kinesiology

Communicator (Kinesiology)

Volume 20, Issue 3

Graduate Connections- February 2008

Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students

In This Issue:

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Navigating Graduate School........... 1

The Dissertation Presentation

Good Practices in Graduate

Education........................................ 4

Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism

Code of Conduct for Teaching

Teaching Tip ...................................... 5

Identifying Relative Importance

Essential Connections...................... 6

Graduate Studies Web Site

Graduate Bulletin Online

Professional Development............... 6

Responding to Academic Job Offers

PFF Call for Nominations

Taking Charge of Your Professional Development

Solving a Teaching Problem

Interactions........................................10

Grad Award Winners

Grad Student Association News

Funding Opportunities.....................12

Resources for Researchers..............14

NEAR Center

Grant Writing Seminar

Announcements................................14

Grad Student …

Millennial Students, Movies And Tourism, Jeeyeon Hahm, Randall Upchurch, Youcheng Wang

Rosen Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This study examines the degree to which the leisure activity of "going to a movie film" influences an individual's image formation process, and therefore desire to visit the portrayed tourist destination. The results of this single case study are twofold. First, demographic differences occur between pretest and posttest measures of destination attributes as the result of exposure to a destination specific movie, and second, the desire to visit the film locations as expressed in the movie significantly vary by gender, age, and ethnicity.

The Opinion – Volume 21, No. 4 February 2008, William Mitchell College Of Law

The Opinion

Selected Table of Contents

• The Law Student Diet and Stress: Braking the Vicious Cycle / Johnson, Maureen E.
• The Educational Value of Winter Break / Crandall, Allison
• What Would Your Mother Think? / Lewis, Carol; Lewis, Jackie
• Kosovo: The Graveyard of Interventionist Ideology / Paul, Justin

Editorial Board

Crandall, Allison; Abramovich, Irina; Aamot, Gregg; Vang, Nou

Gender And Women's Studies Newsletter For February 2008, Uri Gender And Women's Studies Department

Gender and Women's Studies Publications

The February 2008 issue of Gender and Women’s Studies Newsletter, a periodical with articles written by faculty members and some related to events within the Gender and Women’s Studies program.

Torch (February/March 2008), Amy Homans, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.

A Proposed Framework For Developing A Plan For Research In Lifesaving And Water Safety, Robert Stallman, Per-Ludvik Kjendlie

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

No abstract provided.

Service Learning E-News - February 2008, Parkland College

Service Learning Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Sociologists And The Field In The News: Reflected Appraisals - We Perceive Ourselves As We Believe Others Perceive Us, Amy Johnson Conner, Ryan Alaniz

Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet February 2008, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The February 2008 Monthly packet includes the February agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held January 2008

An Integrative Approach To Quality Of Life Measurement, Research, And Policy, Robert Costanza, Brendan Fisher, Saleem H. Ali, Caroline C. Beer, Lynne A. Bond, Roelof Boumans, Nicholas Louis Danigelis, Jennifer Alvarez Dickinson, Carolyn M. Elliott, Joshua C. Farley, Diane Elliott Gayer, Linda Macdonald Glenn, Thomas Richard Hudspeth, Dennis F. Mahoney, Laurence E. Mccahill, Barbara Mcintosh, Brian V. Reed, S. Abu Rizvi, Donna Marie Rizzo, Thomas A. Simpatico, Robert Raymond Snapp

Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations

While Quality of Life (QOL) has long been an explicit or implicit policy goal, adequate definition and measurement have been elusive. Diverse "objective" and "subjective" indicators across a range of disciplines and scales, and recent work on subjective well-being (SWB) surveys and the psychology of happiness have spurred renewed interest. Drawing from multiple disciplines, we present an integrative definition of QOL that combines measures of human needs with subjective well-being or happiness. QOL is proposed as a multiscale, multi-dimensional concept that contains interacting objective and subjective elements. We relate QOL to the opportunities that are provided to meet human needs …

Spring 2008, Graduate School Of Humanities & Social Sciences

CAHSS Graduate SGA Dialogues

No abstract provided.

Campus Report, Vol. 35, No. 6, University Of Dayton

Campus Report

Flyer football coach Mike Kelly turns over his whistle to Rick Chamberlin; plus, Lackner Award winners, the Immaculate Conception Chapel's new sacristan, faculty promotions and more.

Prism #28, February 2008, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Targeted Interventions Could Ease Maine's Prison And Jail Populations, Mark Rubin

Justice Policy

Overcrowding and rising costs in Maine’s corrections system have become a serious problem. In the past twenty years, the average daily population in state prisons has grown 74 percent, while county jails have grown 193 percent. To accommodate this growth, Maine, in 2004, spent $127,343,971, not including debt service, to operate the prisons and county jails. This brief examines state prison, county jail, and probation population trends since 2004 and identifies key factors driving the number of prisoners

C&I 407e.00: Ethics And Policy Issues, Jean A. Luckowski

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 1990-2010

No abstract provided.

Pubh 540.01: Social And Behavioral Sciences In Public Health, Kari Harris

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 1990-2010

No abstract provided.

Sw 511.01: Hbse Ii - Difference, Diversity, And Oppression, Janet L. Finn

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 1990-2010

No abstract provided.

Sw 525.01: Theory And Practice Of Groups And Communities, Catherine O'Day

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 1990-2010

No abstract provided.

Sw 525.02: Theory And Practice Of Groups And Communities, Timothy B. Conley

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 1990-2010

No abstract provided.

Flyer News, Vol. 55, No. 26 (Feb. 1, 2008), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Mapping The Discipline Of The Olympic Games An Author-Cocitation Analysis, Peter Warning, Rosie Ching, Kristine Toohey

Research Collection School Of Economics

The authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about by the cited authors. This enables a visual representation of the “intellectual space” of the discipline, in this case the Olympics, to be created for the period under review. So core and peripheral research areas are identified, along with their major contributors. The representation appears as a two-dimensional cluster-enhanced map. Subject expertise was then applied to the results to place labels on the …

University Of San Diego Women's Rowing Media Guide 2008, University Of San Diego Athletics Department

Rowing (Women)

20 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21.5 x 28 cm

Modeling Data Envelopment Analysis (Dea) Efficient Location/Allocation Decisions, Ronald K. Klimberg, Samuel J. Ratick

Sustainability and Social Justice

Many types of facility location/allocation models have been developed to find optimal spatial patterns with respect to various location criteria that include cost, time, coverage, and access among others. In this paper we develop and test location modeling formulations that utilize data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency measures to find optimal and efficient facility location/allocation patterns. We believe that solving for the DEA efficiency measure, simultaneously with other location modeling objectives, provides a promising rich approach to multiobjective location problems. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Church And State, Metin Cosgel, Thomas Miceli

Economics Working Papers

Church and state have historically had an uneasy relationship, sometimes close allies, at others harsh adversaries, and at still others largely independent of one another. This paper develops an economic model of this relationship, where the state's objective is to maximize net tax revenue, while the church provides religious goods. Religious goods benefit the state in two ways: first, they provide utility to citizens, thus allowing the state to extract more taxes before running up against citizens' reservation utility (the point at which they would revolt), and second, they potentially provide legitimacy to the state, thereby lowering the costs of …

Parent-Child Relations And Peer Associations As Mediators Of The Family Structure-Substance Use Relationship, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey of 1988, the authors assess the extent to which adolescents’ levels of parental attachment and opportunities for participating in delinquent activities mediate the family structure–substance use relationship. A series of hierarchical regressions supported the hypotheses that high levels of substance use among adolescents residing with stepfamilies would be explained by low parental attachment, whereas heightened opportunities for participating in deviant activities would account for the substance use behaviors of individuals living in single-parent households. More generally, the findings suggest that family structure has a moderate effect on youth substance use; that parental …

Black History Month 2008 Supplement

Diversity Programs

Lectures, Cultural Events and Cuisine during Black Heritage Month, February 2008.

Black Heritage Month 2008

Diversity Programs

Lectures, Cultural Events and Cuisine during Black Heritage Month, February 2008.

Community Leader, Vol. 06, No. 02, University Of Dayton. Fitz Center For Leadership In Community

Newsletter: Community Leader

News and notes from the University of Dayton Fitz Center for Leadership in Community.

Daily Eastern News: February 01, 2008, Eastern Illinois University

February

No abstract provided.