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Members In Large Public Accounting Firms, November 2008, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

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Island Times, Nov 2008, Kevin Attra

Island Times Newspaper, 2008

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Peaks Island Star : November 2008, Vol. 28, Issue 11, Service Agencies Of The Island

Peaks Island Star, 2008

The Peaks Island Star is the newsletter of the island's service agencies and other community news.

Impact Of Reward On Floral Mimics Lantana Camara (Verbenaceae) And Epidendrum Radicans (Orchidaceae), November 2008, Kara Zwickey

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The fitness of a non-rewarding plant species can be increased by the addition of another plant species with similar flowers and reward present if pollinators are unable to distinguish between the two species (Bierzychudek 1981). Floral mimicry occurs between species when three ecological conditions are met: the model and mimic species must coexist within flight range of an individual pollinator, plant species must share pollinator species, and pollinator individuals visiting one plant must also visit one or both of the other plant species (Bierzychudek 1981). Non-rewarding Epidendrum radicans (Orchidaceae) has been shown to be a Batesian mimic of rewarding Lantana …

John Hazen White School Of Arts & Sciences Newsletter, November 2008, Vol. 14, Issue 1, Mary Barszcz Ed.

School of Arts & Sciences Newsletter

In 1995, with Gwenn Lavoie as its editor, the first issue of the John Hazen White School of Arts & Sciences Newsletter was published. The newsletter continues to share information about and publicize events sponsored by the School of Arts & Sciences and the accomplishments of that school's faculty. Three issues are published during each academic year by the School of Arts & Sciences Publicity Committee and editor Mary Barszcz.

Focus On Research, Patrick Hardigan

FOCUS On Research Newsletter

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How To Get Answers To Our Questions: - Finding And Understanding Scientific Literature, Barbara A. Bushman

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

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Localised Galvanic Corrosion Processes In Thermal Spray Coated/Cast Aluminium Alloy Systems, David Culliton, Tony Betts, David Kennedy

Conference Papers

Cast Aluminium Alloys, because of the propensity of aluminium to react with impurities and alloying elements, are prone to developing IM impurities during the solidification process. These IM phases can act, in some fluids, as initiation sites for localised corrosion processes, resulting in degradation phenomena, such as pitting. Whilst Thermal Spray coatings can improve the wear resistance of Cast Aluminium Alloys, their corrosion performance may be hampered by the presence of through porosity within the coating.

The present work details some preliminary studies of the localised corrosion processes occurring at the interface area between a Thermal Spray coating and a …

A Mapping Of Ethnic Entrepreneurship In Ireland, Thomas Cooney, Anthony Flynn

Reports

The research findings presented in this report represent the first major attempt to map in a systematic fashion ethnic entrepreneurial activity in Ireland. The rapid transformation of the demographic profile of Ireland in this decade through unprecedented levels of immigration has stimulated debate on the economic and social policy implications of the new multi-racial Ireland. One facet to this policy debate is the potential for non-Irish nationals to bolster indigenous business activity. It was the aim of this research to capture the essential nature of ethnic entrepreneurship in Ireland in 2008 with a view to better informing policy formulation as …

Mental Rotation In Human Infants: A Sex Difference, David S. Moore, Scott P. Johnson

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

A sex difference on mental-rotation tasks has been demonstrated repeatedly, but not in children less than 4 years of age. To demonstrate mental rotation in human infants, we habituated 5-month-old infants to an object revolving through a 240° angle. In successive test trials, infants saw the habituation object or its mirror image revolving through a previously unseen 120° angle. Only the male infants appeared to recognize the familiar object from the new perspective, a feat requiring mental rotation. These data provide evidence for a sex difference in mental rotation of an object through three-dimensional space, consistently seen in adult populations.

Evaluating Online Health Information: Beyond Readability Formulas, Gondy Leroy, Stephen Helmreich, James Cowie, Trudi Miller '08, Wei Zheng '08

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Although understanding health information is important, the texts provided are often difficult to understand. There are formulas to measure readability levels, but there is little understanding of how linguistic structures contribute to these difficulties. We are developing a toolkit of linguistic metrics that are validated with representative users and can be measured automatically. In this study, we provide an overview of our corpus and how readability differs by topic and source. We compare two documents for three groups of linguistic metrics. We report on a user study evaluating one of the differentiating metrics: the percentage of function words in a …

Signs Of Our Times, November 2008

Signs of Our Times

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Providence, RI

Signs of our Times Finding Aid

The Effect Of Managed And Traditional Care Insurance Plans On Horizontal Inequity In Access To Health Care In The United States, Frank Puffer, Elizabeth Pitney Seidler

Economics Department Working Papers

This study examines income inequity in access to health care in the United States. Given the predominant and growing presence of managed care organizations as a source of medical insurance and care in both the private and public settings, replacing traditional indemnity plans as a lower cost prophylactic alternative, we speculate that the presence of Managed Care Organizations would reduce, if not eliminate, any pro wealthy bias in access to health care for the insured population in the U.S. We rely on previously developed methodology from the EcuityII project, incorporating the health inequity index (HIWV), to estimate income inequity in …

Reviewed Work(S): Habana Blues By Benito Zambrano, Salvador Oropesa

Publications

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Transforming E-Learning Into Ee-Learning: The Centrality Of Sociocultural Participation , Sandra B. Schneider, Michael A. Evans

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

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Designing For The Student: Users' Styles And Department Web Sites, Trevor Hall, Ryan Jensen, Daniel Mclean

Innovate: Journal of Online Education

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Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News November 1, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2008

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Pcaob Inspection Process: An Objective, Comprehensive Assessment Is Justified, Bernard H. Newman, Mary Ellen Oliverio

Faculty Working Papers and Articles

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) is charged with performing inspections of registered accounting firms. (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Section 104) Basically, inspections are to “assess the degree of compliance. . . with the Act, the rules of the Board, the rules of the Commission, or professional standards. The inspection process has many aspects. Matters that have been discussed include timeliness of reports, extent of public disclosure of findings, qualifications of inspections, and the nature of the inspection process. Only the last identified matter, the nature of the inspection process, is the subject of this paper. After a review …

Communicating For Influence: Christian Proclamation From The Margins, Brian A. Ross

Doctor of Ministry

It is my opinion that North American Christianity needs to re-consider how it communicates to young adults about following after the person of Jesus Christ. The Church should seek to understand the present cultural milieu and the implications of influencing from below. Established Christianity formerly held a position of prestige and relative power. Due to cultural and epistemological shifts this is no longer the situation. The message of Christ is still relevant in the new millennium, but the standard approaches to communicating and thus influencing others in this new world are at times no longer relevant. Much of organized Christianity …

Model For Teaching Musical Discernment In The Christian Secondary School, Zachary J. Vreeman

Master of Education Program Theses

Recent technological advances in recording and reproducing music have greatly changed the way that members of this culture interact with music. With an ever-expanding wealth of recordings, students in Christian secondary schools are faced with an increasing number of musical choices and must be equipped to discern musical activity in a God-glorifying way. This study researches the factors influencing students' musical attitudes over which schools have the most control, describes a biblically-based Christian attitude towards music, and finally proposes a model based on that research for teaching musical discernment from a distinctly Christian standpoint. The proposed model includes the establishment …

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Word Ways

Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents

Even More Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

Here is the latest collection of consecutive palindromic triads, an already familiar challenge to the readership of Word Ways. For any tyros, we briefly recap the rules.

Mnemonics For Number Sequences, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

One of the most frequently-occurring uses for a mnemonic is to remember a sequence of integers. As always, the question is one of efficiency versus memorability: how much must the original integer sequence be expanded? The obvious solution to the problem, that of letting the number of letters in a word stand for the integer (with ten letters for the digit zero) is extremely inefficient, representing a five-fold inflation.

All The Perfumes Of Arabia, Leonard R. N. Ashley

Word Ways

Politics and economics have recently brought into sharp focus the Arabic languages, but there was a time when contact between different civilizations was more civilized and when Arabic had an immense effect on the humanities and sciences in the western world. That is why academics and judges and ministers, etc., still wear robes derived from Arab dress. Here we suggest Arabic's influence on western languages.

Seven And Thirteen, Dave Morice

Word Ways

As the superstitious know for a fact and the substitous deny as mere superstition, the numbers 7 and 13 influence our lives far more than any other number lower than a googol. They are the Yin-Yang of Fortune, the Comedy and Tragedy of Kismet, the Abbott and Costello of Fate, the Sweet and Sour Sauce of Destiny.

Simon Says, Simon Nightingale

Word Ways

This begins a yearly column from Simon Nightingale and his wife Bridget. Dr. Nightingale is a second generation metagrobologist (His father Bill had started their collection of over 1000 puzzles many years ago.). The answer to this rebus appears in Answers and Solutions.

The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle By David Wroblewski, Ecco Press 2008, Lacey Echols

LAS Faculty Book Reviews

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Assessment Matters #5, Nov 2008, Assessment In Action Committee

Assessment Matters @ WMU

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Wmu International News November 2008, Haenicke Institute For Global Education

WMU International News

In this issue:

WMU joins Internationalization Laboratory of the American Council on Education

Japan university awards honorary doctorate to WMU emeritus physics professor

Fall activities feature flags, apples, Halloween and Chicago

Quenching the Middle East’s thirst for water is desired outcome for WMU geoscience researchers

New innovative summer program in Egypt

International lady Broncos share tips for succeeding on the field and in the classroom

Love of linguistics leads to ESL career for Ila Baker

Examining The Effects Of Linguistic Accommodations On The Colorado Student Assessment Program—Mathematics, Marisol Enriquez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act changed assessment for English Language Learners (ELLs). Under the law, states must validly assess ELLs' English Language Proficiency (ELP) and content knowledge. The law shed light on the achievement of ELLs while also creating challenges for states in validating state assessment and accountability systems. Test accommodations are used for ELLs to reduce threats to test score validity and measure academic achievement as accurately and fairly as possible. Since ELLs are working towards proficiency in English, they face linguistic and socio-cultural barriers under the confines of large scale assessment. A limited body of research …