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Confronting The Appalachian Breakdown: Historic Preservation Law In Appalachia And The Potential Benefits Of Historic Preservation For Rural Communities, Rebecca S. Schoen

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Commentary: Where Is The Economic Analysis Of Payment Law?, Joseph H. Sommer

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Modem payment law began precisely a quarter of a millennium ago, when Lord Mansfield decided Miller v. Race. After 250 years, we know little more than Mansfield, even with the analytic power of modern neoclassical microeconomics. Many of the simplest questions have no easy answer: What is a payment? (The U.C.C. has no definition.) What is payment finality, and why is it important? (There is no consensus, especially because payment finality was law long before bankers discovered its connection to systemic risk.) What is the normative rationale of the clearing and settlement rules in the U.C.C.? (Again, no consensus, …

Wooster Magazine: Spring 2008, Karol Crosbie

Wooster Magazine: 2001-2010

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the spring of 2008. This issue covers alumni and faculty that have devoted their professional lives to animals. An article on Wooster's Moot Court is on the fourth page. Communication major, Chris Nixon '08, served dinner to five guests as the creative component of his Independent Study. Dale Brown, Chuck Hampton, and Barbara Hampton are all retiring at the end of this school year. The following faculty and alumni are featured for working with animals professionally: Carrie Myers Felice '97, Todd Naelitz '02, Claudia Thompson, Shawn Sweeney '06, Grey Stafford '88, …

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 State Of The Art In Evaluating The Performance Of Assistant And Associate Deans As Seen By Deans And Assistant And Associate Deans., David G. Dunning, Timothy M. Durham, Mert N. Aksu, Brian M. Lange

Journal Articles: College of Dentistry

This study explores the little-understood process of evaluating the performance of assistant and associate deans at dental colleges in the United States and Canada. Specifically, this research aimed to identify the methods, processes, and outcomes related to the performance appraisals of assistant/associate deans. Both deans and assistant/associate deans were surveyed. Forty-four of sixty-six deans (66.7 percent) and 227 of 315 assistant/associate deans (72.1 percent) completed surveys with both close-ended and open-ended questions. In addition, ten individuals from each group were interviewed. Results indicate that 75-89 percent of assistant/associate deans are formally evaluated, although as many as 27 percent may lack …

Utah Science Vol. 64 No. 1, Spring/Summer 2008

Utah Science

2 MICROSCOPIC VIRUSES & BIC SCIENCE

8 THE WAR ON WEEDS

14 NOT HARD TO DIGEST

24 FORAGE KOCIA AFTER RANGE FIRE

20 SYNTHESIS: Science at Utah State

28 SEEK: Students in science

29 SEARCH: Science on the web

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.

The State Of Coral Reef Ecosystems Of Southeast Florida, Chantal Collier, Rob Ruzicka, Kenneth Banks, Luiz Barbieri, Jeff Beal, David Bingham, James A. Bohnsack, Sandra Brooke, Nancy Craig, Richard E. Dodge (Editor), Louis E. Fisher, Nick Gadbois, David S. Gilliam, Lisa Gregg, Todd Kellison, Vladimir N. Kosmynin, Brian Lapointe, Erin Mcdevitt, Janet Phipps, Nikki Poulos, John Proni, Patrick Quinn, Bernhard Riegl, Richard E. Spieler, Joanna Walczak, Brian K. Walker, Denise Warrick

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

No abstract provided.

Retinopathy Of Prematurity: Frequency And Risk Factors In A Tertiary Care Hospital In Karachi, Pakistan, Ather M. Taqui, Reema Syed, Tanveer Anjum Chaudhry, Khabir Ahmad, Muhammad S. Salat

Section of Ophthalmology

Introduction: To determine the frequency of Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) in the premature infants born in a tertiary care hospital and to determine the risk factors associated with it.
Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of premature infants with birth weight < or = 1500 grams or gestational ago < or = 32 weeks, admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a tertiary care hospital in a three year period. The infants underwent eye examinations between their 4th and 7th week of life. Univariate and multiple logistic regression analysis were performed to determine the association between risk factors and ROP development.
Results: Sixty eight infants were included in the analysis. Out of these, 22 (32.4%) developed ROP (inclusive of all stages) and 14 (20.6%) developed threshold disease. Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that low gestational age, sepsis and respiratory distress syndrome were independent predictors for the development of ROP.
Conclusion: The frequency of ROP in our hospital was on the …

The Role Of Estrogen Receptor Alpha In Neonatal Oocyte Development, Jemella C. Raymore

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The development of primordial germ cells into oocytes is important for mammalian reproduction. Female germ cells first undergo a number of cell divisions resulting in the formation of cysts. Germ cell cysts are clusters of cells connected by intercellular bridges, formed by incomplete cytokinesis. The cysts breakdown after birth, resulting in individual oocytes that become surrounded by somatic pre-granulosa cells to form primordial follicles. During cyst breakdown two thirds of the original population of oocytes die. However, the processes by which cells within the cyst are designated to survive or die is not yet known. In addition, it is not …

Jefferson Review - Spring 2008

Jefferson Review

Contents

Features

• 4 - Partnering for Education
• 8 - Transforming Healthcare Education
• 12 - Practice Makes Perfect
• 16 - Global Connections: Taking the Pulse Worldwide
• 20 - Profiles: Paul Howard and Julie Green
• 26 - Occupational Therapy Alumni Luncheon
• 27 - Meet the Alumni Board of Directors

On Campus

• 22 - Bioscience Technologies
• 22 - CARAH
• 22 - Couple and Family Therapy
• 23 - General Studies
• 23 - Nursing
• 24 - Occupational Therapy
• 24 - Pharmacy
• 25 - Physical Therapy
• 26 - Radiologic Sciences
• 28 - Class Notes

Lack Of Respiratory Effects Of Nicotine Applied To The Caudal Medullary Raphã©, Nicole Bates

Biology Theses - Archive

Breathing is an involuntary and automatic process initiated by a network of neurons within the brainstem. These neurons are affected by a number of factors (mechanical, electrical and chemical) that help modulate the frequency and pattern of breathing. Three respiratory chemosensitive sites have traditionally been described on the ventral medullary surface. These sites are affected by the pH of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) bathing the brain and by chemicals dissolved within the CSF. More recently, additional sites have been described with chemosensitive activity and of these the medullary raphé has received the most attention. Although the dangers of smoking is …

Spring 2008, College Of The Pacific

History News

No abstract provided.

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 …

Gone But Not Forgotten: The Strange Afterlife Of The Jay Treaty's Indian Free Passage Right, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug

Faculty Publications

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.

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 …

Editorial Matter For Volume 9, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to John Grady
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

Honors, Honor Codes, And Academic Integrity: Where Do They Converge And Diverge?, D. Bruce Carter

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Academic integrity has become a topic of increasing concern to faculty and administrators in colleges and universities across the country (Davis, Seeman, Chapman, & Rotstein, 2008; McCabe, Trevino, & Butterfield, 2002). Indeed, the level of concern has led to the development of highly articulated academic integrity procedures at a number of institutions of higher learning. In some instances, schools have felt the need to develop honor pledges and oaths, such as the honor oath recited voluntarily by graduate students entering the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto (Davis et al., 2008).

A Tutorial With A Twist: How Plagiarism Advances Library Instruction, Mark D. Jacobs, Sandra R. Hussey

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2006

Plagiarism and other academic integrity violations might be viewed as yet another issue of concern to the whole university, but the responsibility of no one department or unit. For Georgetown University librarians it proved to be an opportunity to combine forces with others on campus to reach students in a new way. The presenters will report on a collaborative, campus-wide effort to introduce key academic integrity issues by teaching all new students library research skills, and acquainting them with other relevant academic support services. The librarians faced several challenges in creating the tutorial including presenting complex ethical issues clearly, limiting …

Voices Of Women In The Field: What I Learned About Leadership, Linda Walline

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The most important thing I have learned about leadership development is that it is a continuous process. I recognize that my family, peers, education, job changes, supervisors, and mentors have all influenced how I approach life and how I lead. As a woman of the baby boomer generation, I can celebrate that my peers are some of the first women to win top leadership positions in industry and academia. We have brought forth our own leadership styles and are still learning how to balance work, family, and relaxation. As I reminisced about my career, I recognized that as a new …

Women Leaders And Entrepreneurs: Learning From One To Teach The Other, Margareta Smith Knopik Ph.D., Tammy Moerer Ph.D., A.P.R.

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Motivated, visionary, energetic, hard working, creative, tough-minded, responsible, inspiring. Do these words describe leaders or entrepreneurs or both? This paper summarizes research conducted in the fields of leadership and entrepreneurship throughout the past 30 years, attempting to identify similarities and differences between female leaders and entrepreneurs. The purpose is to use what is found to develop recommendations and strategies designed to strengthen leadership and entrepreneurship education. Those of us who teach economics introduce and discuss the factors of production: raw materials, labor, capital, and entrepreneurial ability. The first three are tangible and relatively easy to explain; however, the fourth, entrepreneurial …

The Shapley Value Of Phylogenetic Trees, Claus-Jochen Haake, Akemi Kashiwada '05, Francis E. Su

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

Every weighted tree corresponds naturally to a cooperative game that we call a tree game; it assigns to each subset of leaves the sum of the weights of the minimal subtree spanned by those leaves. In the context of phylogenetic trees, the leaves are species and this assignment captures the diversity present in the coalition of species considered. We consider the Shapley value of tree games and suggest a biological interpretation. We determine the linear transformation M that shows the dependence of the Shapley value on the edge weights of the tree, and we also compute a null space …

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

UNM Academic Program Review

UNM Biology 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.

Wetland Carbon Sinks In The Glaciated North American Prairie, University Of North Dakota. Energy And Environmental Research Center

EERC Brochures and Fact Sheets

Fact sheet about Prairie Pothole Region wetlands and their potential to sequester carbon. Coordinated by Ducks Unlimited Canada, U.S. Geological Survey, and Plains CO₂ Reduction (PCOR) Partnership. [This item is an outdated or superseded version and retained for historical purposes only. It may no longer reflect current information, policies, or practices.]

The Design Of An Autonomous Recycling Robot, Eric Davidson

Grace Allen Scholars Theses

For my thesis project, I worked in a team with five electrical and a mechanical engineer, to design and build an autonomous robot. This robot needs to be able to locate, collect, sort, and store to recycle beverage containers to be able to compete in the 2009 IEEE Southeast Conference Hardware Competition. The robot consists of a U-shaped base, with a robotic arm with a front-loaded shovel connected to the arm. Ultrasonic pings are then used to find and position the robot towards the container. Then front sweepers are used to sweep the container into the shovel. To realize that …

Transposon Exaptation In Mammalian Evolution, Donald Hucks

Biology Theses - Archive

A growing body of work suggests that the exaptation of transposon-derived sequences to perform beneficial cellular functions has played a significant role in eukaryotic evolution. In chapter 1, we present an analysis of 10 exapted pogo transposons in the human genome. We present evidence that all 10 are restricted to tetrapods, and that 8 of the 10 arose early in mammalian evolution, in several independent exaptation events involving diverse pogo lineages. We show that all 10 have been subject to stringent selection throughout mammalian evolution, with pseudogenization having occurred only infrequently. In 4 of these genes, we observed no cases …

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 …