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Review Of Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet By Jamie Ford, Kevin Clouther Nov 2008

Review Of Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet By Jamie Ford, Kevin Clouther

Writer’s Workshop Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


First Kiss, With Only Shakespeare To Protect Me, Kathleen Zamboni Mccormick Nov 2008

First Kiss, With Only Shakespeare To Protect Me, Kathleen Zamboni Mccormick

Westview

No abstract provided.


Genies, Nicholas Meriwether Nov 2008

Genies, Nicholas Meriwether

Westview

No abstract provided.


The Choice, Michele Charles Nov 2008

The Choice, Michele Charles

Westview

No abstract provided.


A Tribute To Robert Cooperman, James Silver Nov 2008

A Tribute To Robert Cooperman, James Silver

Westview

No abstract provided.


Echoes, Ken Hada Nov 2008

Echoes, Ken Hada

Westview

No abstract provided.


His Life, Barbara Eknoian Nov 2008

His Life, Barbara Eknoian

Westview

No abstract provided.


Birds Redux, Gay Baines Nov 2008

Birds Redux, Gay Baines

Westview

No abstract provided.


Mining For Happiness, Earl Coleman Nov 2008

Mining For Happiness, Earl Coleman

Westview

No abstract provided.


People-Watching At Ruby Tuesday, Bonnie Lyons Nov 2008

People-Watching At Ruby Tuesday, Bonnie Lyons

Westview

No abstract provided.


Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Nancy Kassell Nov 2008

Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Nancy Kassell

Westview

No abstract provided.


The Books, Hilda Weiss Nov 2008

The Books, Hilda Weiss

Westview

No abstract provided.


Early November, 2007: A Tomb In Yoknapatawpha, Valerie Reimers Nov 2008

Early November, 2007: A Tomb In Yoknapatawpha, Valerie Reimers

Westview

No abstract provided.


Two Worlds, Carol Hamilton Nov 2008

Two Worlds, Carol Hamilton

Westview

No abstract provided.


Sheriff Dennehy, Once The Posse Returns, Robert Cooperman Nov 2008

Sheriff Dennehy, Once The Posse Returns, Robert Cooperman

Westview

No abstract provided.


William Eagle Feather Hears Of The Death Of John Sprocket, 1876, Robert Cooperman Nov 2008

William Eagle Feather Hears Of The Death Of John Sprocket, 1876, Robert Cooperman

Westview

No abstract provided.


William Eagle Feather Changes His Name, Robert Cooperman Nov 2008

William Eagle Feather Changes His Name, Robert Cooperman

Westview

No abstract provided.


Hair Filled With Sun: The Colorado Rockies, Late 19th Century, Robert Cooperman Nov 2008

Hair Filled With Sun: The Colorado Rockies, Late 19th Century, Robert Cooperman

Westview

No abstract provided.


Finds The Path Mourns, Robert Cooperman Nov 2008

Finds The Path Mourns, Robert Cooperman

Westview

No abstract provided.


Transformational Teacher Leadership In Rural Schools, Kirk David Anderson Nov 2008

Transformational Teacher Leadership In Rural Schools, Kirk David Anderson

The Rural Educator

In this paper, the author explores the rural school context and its teacher leaders as a third transformational leadership prototype adding to Leithwood and Jantzi’s (1999) two transformational leadership prototypes of females and new teachers in the elementary school. The author helps illuminate new understanding of rural schools and their highly interactive decision making styles where teacher leaders are a source of creativity development of unique forms of leadership. If researchers focus on teachers as leaders in rural schools, specifically those who operate outside of traditional leadership roles, there exists a promising area of new understanding for educational leadership as …


Leadership Behaviors Of Superintendent/Principals In Small, Rural School Districts In Texas, Maria T. Canales, Carmen Tejada-Delgado, John R. Slate Nov 2008

Leadership Behaviors Of Superintendent/Principals In Small, Rural School Districts In Texas, Maria T. Canales, Carmen Tejada-Delgado, John R. Slate

The Rural Educator

In this study, 206 teachers, 35 school board presidents, and 37 superintendents/principals (n = 278) were surveyed regarding their views of effective leadership behaviors demonstrated by school leaders with dual role responsibilities through serving as both a school principal and as a superintendent in small rural school districts. Data were collected through use of the Leadership Behavior Description Questionnaire Form XII and the Leadership Behavior Description Questionnaire Form XII Self. Of the 12 leadership domains assessed through use of this measure, statistically significant differences were yielded on 6 of the 12 leadership areas: Representation; Demand Reconciliation; Tolerance of Uncertainty; Persuasiveness; …


Relationships Between District Size, Socioeconomics, Expenditures, And Student Achievement In Washington, Vince Diaz Nov 2008

Relationships Between District Size, Socioeconomics, Expenditures, And Student Achievement In Washington, Vince Diaz

The Rural Educator

The purpose of this article is to describe the relationship between district size, socioeconomic status, actual levy percentages, and their predictive influence on the 2003 Washington Assessment of Student Learning results for 4th and 7thgrade students in Reading and Mathematics. The convenient sample was 82 Washington State 2nd-Class school districts with enrollments between 500-2,000 students. The results indicated: (a) no significant correlations between achievement anddistrict size; (b) socioeconomic status was the best predictor of achievement; and (c) actual levy percentages and student outcomes were significantly correlated in the positive direction.


Rural Research Brief: Math Infusion In Agricultural Education And Career And Technical Education In Rural Schools, Shawn Anderson Nov 2008

Rural Research Brief: Math Infusion In Agricultural Education And Career And Technical Education In Rural Schools, Shawn Anderson

The Rural Educator

No abstract provided.


Rural Teachers’ Best Motivating Strategies: A Blending Of Teachers’ And Students’ Perspectives, Patricia L. Hardré, David W. Sullivan, Natasha Roberts Nov 2008

Rural Teachers’ Best Motivating Strategies: A Blending Of Teachers’ And Students’ Perspectives, Patricia L. Hardré, David W. Sullivan, Natasha Roberts

The Rural Educator

This paper extracts and elaborates rural secondary teachers’ most effective reported motivating strategies. From the data generated by two years of mixed method research in rural secondary schools, these strategies emerged as among the most successful. Selection of best practices was based on a synthesis of what both teachers and students reported as making the greatest positive impact on their school-related motivation. Strategies are illustrated by multiple detailed examples from teacher interviews.


Rural Community Input To School District Strategic Planning: An Action Research Model Using Focus Groups, Brent L. Winand, Carla Edlefson Nov 2008

Rural Community Input To School District Strategic Planning: An Action Research Model Using Focus Groups, Brent L. Winand, Carla Edlefson

The Rural Educator

A rural superintendent used action research principles in conducting a series of focus groups with community members, students, and staff. The focus group data informed strategic planning. At the end of a carefully designed process, district administrators found more agreement among residents than they had expected. Community members were grateful for the opportunity to participate, and the district’s strategic plan contained important goals that would not have been recognized without community input. Administrators believed conducting the focus groups themselves brought more benefit than if they had hired a consultant, because of the interaction with community members. The result was a …


Adolescents And Teachers As Partners In A School-Based Research Project To Increase Physical Activity Opportunities In A Rural Community, James Rye, Nancy O'Hara Tompkins, Darlene Mcclure, Jacqueline Aleshire Nov 2008

Adolescents And Teachers As Partners In A School-Based Research Project To Increase Physical Activity Opportunities In A Rural Community, James Rye, Nancy O'Hara Tompkins, Darlene Mcclure, Jacqueline Aleshire

The Rural Educator

Schools are an important resource in combating the physical inactivity and obesity epidemics in rural economically depressed areas. Through a University-community partnership, teachers and adolescents in a rural West Virginia county with one of the highest obesity rates in the state developed a school-based research intervention to increase physical activity opportunities. The intervention included walking routes, educational sessions, and pedometers. A survey about barriers to physical activity revealed that “lack of willpower” was a barrier of concern among program participants (mostly school employees) and had a statistically significant (p = .0033) pre to post mean score decrease during the year …


Iceland Letter Of Intent, Iceland Minister Of Finance Nov 2008

Iceland Letter Of Intent, Iceland Minister Of Finance

Documents

No abstract provided.


Relaxations In Ba2bisbo6 Double Complex Perovskite Ceramics, Manoel Carvalho Castro Jr., Carlos William De Araujo Paschoal, Frank C. Snyder, Michael W. Lufaso Nov 2008

Relaxations In Ba2bisbo6 Double Complex Perovskite Ceramics, Manoel Carvalho Castro Jr., Carlos William De Araujo Paschoal, Frank C. Snyder, Michael W. Lufaso

Chemistry Faculty Research and Scholarship

The electric properties of the complex double perovskite Ba2BiSbO6 have been investigated using impedance spectroscopy in the frequency range from 1 Hz up to 1 MHz and in the temperature range from room temperature up to 560 K. There are two contributions to the electrical properties due to the grain and grain boundary. The oxygen vacancies play an important role in the conductivity and strongly increase the dielectric constant at high temperatures. The analysis of the frequency dependence of the conductivity clearly shows the structural phase transition of this compound near 515 K.


A Requiem For My New York Times Home Subscription, Kenneth Anderson Nov 2008

A Requiem For My New York Times Home Subscription, Kenneth Anderson

Popular Media

This very short (2000 words) online opinion piece addresses the question of why the author gave up home delivery of the New York Times. It argues that, quite apart from issues of political bias, the New York Times has successively moved to turn itself from a newspaper into a magazine, and, in facing the pressures of the Internet economic model, into a device for creating, caring for, and feeding the newspaper's "online communities" - a business model increasingly based on selling cultural participation in shared-bias-communities. The Times is moving toward a content model that presumes that its readers read it …


The Parkinson's Disease Protein Α-Synuclein Disrupts Cellular Rab Homeostasis, Aaron D. Gitler, Brooke J. Bevis, James Shorter, Katherine E. Strathearn, Shusei Hamamichi, Linhui Julie Su, Kim A. Caldwell, Guy A. Caldwell, Jean-Christophe Rochet, J. Michael Mccaffrey, Charles Barlowe, Susan Lindquist Nov 2008

The Parkinson's Disease Protein Α-Synuclein Disrupts Cellular Rab Homeostasis, Aaron D. Gitler, Brooke J. Bevis, James Shorter, Katherine E. Strathearn, Shusei Hamamichi, Linhui Julie Su, Kim A. Caldwell, Guy A. Caldwell, Jean-Christophe Rochet, J. Michael Mccaffrey, Charles Barlowe, Susan Lindquist

Dartmouth Scholarship

α-Synuclein (α-syn), a protein of unknown function, is the most abundant protein in Lewy bodies, the histological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). In yeast α-syn inhibits endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-to-Golgi (ER→Golgi) vesicle trafficking, which is rescued by overexpression of a Rab GTPase that regulates ER→Golgi trafficking. The homologous Rab1 rescues α-syn toxicity in dopaminergic neuronal models of PD. Here we investigate this conserved feature of α-syn pathobiology. In a cell-free system with purified transport factors α-syn inhibited ER→Golgi trafficking in an α-syn dose-dependent manner. Vesicles budded efficiently from the ER, but their docking or fusion to Golgi membranes was inhibited. Thus, …