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November 2008: Friends Festival, Living Abundantly, Dacus Library

Dacus Focus

No abstract provided.

The International Joint Commission And Great Lakes Diversions: Indirectly Extending The Reach Of The Boundary Waters Treaty, A. Dan Tarlock

All Faculty Scholarship

The 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty (Treaty) is a model of, international water resources cooperation because it provides a permanent dispute mechanism, the six member International Joint Commission (IJC). Thus, both Canada and the United States have much to celebrate on the 100th anniversary of the Treaty. However, the most interesting aspect of the Treaty is the regime's ability to evolve through state practice beyond its original dispute resolution function, despite the inconsistent support for IJC involvement in transboundary water issues of the United States. The Treaty has been severely criticized by governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), especially in, Canada, for …

Distributing Discipline: Race, Politics, And Punishment At The Frontlines Of Welfare Reform, Richard Fording, Joe Soss, Sanford F. Schram

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

Numerous studies have confirmed that race plays an important role in shaping public preferences toward both redistribution and punishment. Likewise, studies suggest that punitive policy tools tend to be adopted by state governments in a pattern that tracks with the racial composition of state populations. Such evidence testifies to the enduring power of race in American politics, yet it has limited value for understanding how disciplinary policies get applied to individuals in implementation settings. To illuminate the relationship between race and the application of punitive policy tools, we analyze sanction patterns in the TANF program. Drawing on a model of …

Table Of Contents, Research Trends Editorial Board

Research Trends

No abstract provided.

Custom Data Fuels Oecd's Innovation Strategy, Research Trends Editorial Board

Research Trends

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has recently decided to develop an Innovation Strategy to help governments boost innovation performance. We speak to Hiroyuki Tomizawa, Principal Administrator in the Economic Analysis and Statistics Division of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry at the OECD.

Eigenfactor: Pulling The Stories Out Of The Data, Research Trends Editorial Board

Research Trends

The Eigenfactor project was set up to provide an alternative way of measuring journal influence and is generating a lot of interest. But the team is doing much more than ranking journals. Jevin West tells us the Eigenfactor story.

Geographical Trends Of Research Output, Research Trends Editorial Board

Research Trends

While journal publication can be easily compared with the number of researchers in a given country, the number of articles published does not follow the same pattern; some countries produce a very high number despite having few researchers while others have tens of researchers producing relatively few articles. We take a look behind the numbers.

Mapping Unknown Regions, Richard Klavans, Kevin W. Boyack

Research Trends

Maps of science help us visualize and conceptualize how different scientific disciplines relate to each other. Although many maps assume a hierarchy of disciplines, Richard Klavans and Kevin Boyack believe the structure should be circular.

Why Am I Cited…?, Research Trends Editorial Board

Research Trends

Citations are one of the principal drivers of scientific conversation and, as such, are subject to intense scrutiny. But what motivates citations, and what helps or hinders a paper’s potential to become a future citation classic? We speak to two highly cited Dutch researchers for their views.

Grouping & Regrouping Using Mixintools: An Exploratory Study, Richard G. Berlach, Keith Mcnaught

Education Conference Papers

On a regular basis, teachers find it necessary to place children into groups for instruction. Random assignment is typically the norm when group composition is immaterial to the task. When member-sensitive groups need to be created, teachers might associate specific assignment with colours, numbers or other coding systems. Mixintools offers the teacher a strategy for creating groups in an enjoyable, expedient and variable fashion. Or does it? The purpose of this research was to determine whether the resource had any value from the perspective of both the teacher and the student. Data were sourced from three primary schools and one …

How ‘Old’ Is Old St. Joe’S?, Maribeth Frinzi '05

Ask the Abbot

Abbot Pennings answers a question about the history of St. Joe's Church, archived from the SNC website.

The Use Of A Summary Journal Assignment To Promote Theory And Practice Integration In Experientially Based Courses, Adele Baruch Phd, Ju Hong-Chittaphong, Christine Potaczala

Faculty Publications

The authors discuss the use of a summary journal, an assignment designed to facilitate the integration of theory and course experience in practice-based Counsellor Education courses. The reflections on the assignment are provided by the instructor and two students, from two different practice-based courses. The summary journal does appear to provide an opportunity for students to compare their own experiences with formal theory presented in class and in texts, although the quality of this integration varies. The provision of prior student summaries appears to be helpful to those students who are inexperienced in constructing theoretical meaning out of their own …

Cost Of Lifetime Immunosuppression Coverage For Kidney Transplant Recipients., Timothy F. Page, Robert Woodward

Health Management & Policy

On January 1, 2000, Medicare extended the coverage of immunosuppression medications from 3 years to life for elderly and disabled kidney transplant recipients. This research estimates the impact of extending this lifetime coverage to all kidney transplant recipients on Medicare's cash flows. The study finds that extending coverage to all kidney transplant recipients would have increased Medicare's net cash outflows if the coverage were extended for patients of all income levels. There is evidence that extending coverage to only patients in the lowest income quartile could have resulted in a net cost savings to Medicare.

Medical Education Digest, Vol. 10 No. 6 (November/December 2008), Nova Southeastern University

Medical Education Digest

No abstract provided.

Sfa Weather Station-November 2008, Arthur Temple College Of Forestry And Agriculture, Stephen F. Austin State University

Weather Station Data

No information on when the report was closed was found.

Back Cover: Din Of Morning, Kate Marshall Flaherty

Spiritan Magazine

No abstract provided.

Healthy You, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Healthy You

No abstract provided.

Prey Behavior, Age-Dependent Vulnerability, And Predation Rates, Susan Lingle, Alex Feldman, Mark S. Boyce, W. Finbarr Wilson

Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Variation in the temporal pattern of vulnerability can provide important insights into predator-prey relationships and the evolution of antipredator behavior. We illustrate these points with a system that has coyotes (Canis latrans) as a predator and two species of congeneric deer (Odocoileus spp.) as prey. The deer employ different antipredator tactics (aggressive defense vs. flight) that result in contrasting patterns of age-dependent vulnerability in their probability of being captured when encountered by coyotes.We use longterm survival data and a simple mathematical model to show that (1) species differences in age-dependent vulnerability are reflected in seasonal predation rates …

An Aspect-Based Approach To Checking Design Constraints At Run-Time, Yoonsik Cheon, Carmen Avila, Steve Roach, Cuauhtemoc Munoz, Neith Estrada, Valeria Fierro, Jessica Romo

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Design decisions and constraints of a software system can be specified precisely using a formal notation such as the Object Constraint Language (OCL). However, they are not executable, and assuring the conformance of an implementation to its design is hard. The inability of expressing design constraints in an implementation and checking them at runtime invites, among others, the problem of design drift and corrosion. We propose runtime checks as a solution to mitigate this problem. The key idea of our approach is to translate design constraints written in a formal notation such as OCL into aspects that, when applied to …

On Chromatic Numbers Of Space-Times: Open Problems, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

No abstract provided.

Reaching Children Communally: School Improvement Through Teacher Collaboration, Peter H. Roukema

Master of Education Program Theses

From a Christian understanding of both learning and community, this research examines the impact of teacher collaboration on student achievement and school culture in North American schools. Particularly in high schools, due to structural chal1enges, lack of administrative support and teacher satisfaction with the status quo, peer collaboration is not common. Five cases are examined. The first three demonstrate a positive connection between teacher collaboration and school improvement. The fourth demonstrates that teacher evaluation can also benefit from a much more participatory role for the teacher. The last case examines some of the challenges of centering col1aboration in high school …

Focus: A Newsletter For Physician Office Staff, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Focus

No abstract provided.

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Thierry Apoteker On The Threat Of Global Stagflation, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Managing director Thierry Apoteker and his team at French company T-A-C (Thierry Apoteker Consulting) have correctly predicted many of the economic shocks that the world has seen in the past three months. In a recent presentation hosted by the International Trading Institute, Singapore Management University, Apoteker made a convincing case for worldwide inflation and recession, known as stagflation.

Chinese Identity In Post-Suharto Indonesia: Cy Hoon's New Book, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

Hoon Chang Yau, Asian Studies professor at Singapore Management University, was born in Malaysia, raised in Brunei and educated in Australia. His new book, Chinese Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Culture, Politics and Media, was launched recently in Singapore. It is an in-depth analysis of the evolution of the Chinese community in Indonesia, and their efforts to define a unique and complex identity in the post-Suharto era.

Proliferation Of Ftas A Challenge To The Wto?, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

The proliferation of FTAs in recent years, resulting from an impasse in negotiations for a multilateral agreement, is of concern to the WTO. At a seminar organised by the Singapore Management University’s School of Law, two WTO experts, professors William Davey and Mitsuo Matsushita, explained why more countries want to sign FTAs and the implications for the world trading system.

Bibliometrics: From "Bean Counting" To Academic Accountability, Ruth A. Pagell

Research Collection Library

No abstract provided.

The Lab Report, Volume 02, Issue 06, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Mellon Foundation gives $10 Million to Promote New Plays
• Student Spotlight: Nicole B. Adkins (Nikki)
• Guest Profile: Bonnie Metzgar
• Roanoke and No Shame Get International Press
• Area Highlight: Taubman Museum of Art
• From the Director: Picking the right program for you

Markus Library Newsletter, November 2008, Library Staff

Library Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Lwv Bulletin, November, 2008, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area

League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area Bulletin 2000-2009

The Bulletin is published by the League, which is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.