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A New Model Of 4-H Volunteer Development In Science, Engineering, And Technology Programs, Bradley S. Barker, Neal Grandgenett, Gwen Nugent

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

New initiatives centered on science, engineering, and technology (SET) in 4-H may be moving away from the long-established adult volunteer delivery model. This shift in delivery may be due to a lack of availability of adult volunteers who possess the necessary SET competencies to effectively lead 4-H clubs. One way to offset this trend may be to blend traditional face-to-face training with continuous training efforts that include asynchronous on-line training modules, synchronous Web-based meetings, and self-directed learning. This new 4-H SET Volunteer Competencies Training Model is being tested in the Nebraska 4-H Robotics and GPS/GIS program.

Interactive Technology And Gaming To Enhance Understanding In Mathematics, Sarah Loturco

Mathematical and Computing Sciences Masters

Integrating math and technology has been shown to enhance the educational future of children today. The integration of interactive technology through the use of electronic whiteboards and gaming to enhance student understanding in mathematics was investigated. High school students (N~80) reviewed content through an electronic whiteboard and gaming. It was shown that gaming through the use of electronic whiteboards increased student achievement in mathematics by ensuring a deeper understanding of the material presented.

Making Time To Teach Internet Literacy In The Elementary Classroom, Allison Schlageter

Mathematical and Computing Sciences Masters

The demands placed on today’s students are growing. They are not only expected to be competent in core subjects, but also to develop technological skills that are essential for success in the 21 st century. Pressure is transferred to teachers as they seek to create dynamic environments in which a complex synthesis of knowledge can take place. The following study reveals the major components of 21 st century technological skills. Major skills are organized into ten objectives, each of which was introduced through mini-lessons. Using this technique, 23 fourth grade students completed independent internet research to learn about food chains …

Enhancing Mathematical Literacy, Jennifer Mullen

Mathematical and Computing Sciences Masters

Many students struggle on standardized tests simply because they do not have the reading skills or vocabulary knowledge base to understand what a test question is asking them to do. This is particularly true with standardized mathematics testing. This study examines vocabulary instruction and its connection to improving mathematical literacy and improving standardized test performance. A vocabulary strategy was implemented that required students to connect mathematical terms, with common everyday language, formalized mathematical definitions, and mathematical symbols. After being exposed to this new strategy, students were given assessments that tested their knowledge of vocabulary and ability to perform on a …

Editor's Note, Joseph Drew

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

The Great River Of Mainstream Civilizations Led With Major Linguae Francae, Kazutake Miyahara

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

The Compass Rose Vol. Xxiii, No. 1, University Of Texas At Arlington Library Special Collections & Archives

The Compass Rose

The purpose of The Compass Rose is to raise awareness of Special Collections' resources and to foster the use of these resources. The newsletter also reports significant new programs, initiatives, and acquisitions of Special Collections. The issues included here are scans of print newsletters from the 1990s and 2000s. Current issues and posts of The Compass Rose can now be accessed on the UTA Libraries Compass Rose Blog.

Water As A Public Good: The Status Of Water Under The General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, Bryant Walker Smith

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The article argues that water is not a "product" under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) due to the widespread and consistent assertion of public ownership over water resources through municipal and international law, which precludes its treatment as a tradable commodity under GATT. This "public-ownership consensus" implies that water resources remain under state control, and GATT's trade disciplines should not apply to water in its natural state.

National Park Law In The U.S.: Conservation, Conflict, And Centennial Values, Denise E. Antolini

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Feedlot Waste On Water Pollution Under The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (Npdes), Kate Celender

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Gently Modified Operations: How Environmental Concerns Addressed Through Customs Procedures Can Successfully Resolve The Us-Eu Gmo Dispute, David E. Sella-Villa

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Evangelism Lessons Learned Abroad That Have Implications At Home, Tom Steffen

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

This article will address my journey in evangelism among the Ifugao of the Philippines and years of consulting and teaching on the topic at home and abroad. It will seek to take the things I've learned in cross-cultural settings and demonstrate possible implications and applications for a postmodern, post- Christian, post-literate, post-denominational, post-commitment generation in the USA.

Low-Level Pharmaceuticals And Personal Care Products In The Waters Of Michigan, Lisa M. Anderson

Dissertations

The results of this research are the product of a two year study funded by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality with monies from the Clean Michigan Initiative. Low-level (part per billion range) pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the waters of Michigan were investigated. Five rivers in the State were sampled; including the Clinton, Grand, Kalamazoo, Muskegon, and Saginaw. Groundwater samples were obtained from two shallow municipal water wells also; one on the Grand River and one on the Kalamazoo River. The wells were sampled to determine if PPCPs in the river water were being drawn in by …

An Exploratory Analysis Of Public Resource Online Auctions, Chunxiang Zhang

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

The purpose of this study is to provide an exploratory analysis of public resources’ allocation through online auctions. Online auctions are new ways of public resource allocation in China, but they are promising because of its broad participation and low transaction costs. In addition, compared to traditional administrative allocation mechanisms, auction methods could resolve the rent-seeking problem. One important point for an online auction is to design a certain set of rules to attract the targeted people to realize the rule-maker’s goal. But why can a certain set of rules affect the participants’ actions? To answer this question, it is …

Culture Industry Policy In China And The United States: A Comparative Analysis, Guan Ping Qin, Hao Wei, Xi Wang

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

It is a consensus that culture industry is assuming a more important economic development function in most countries of the world today. As a result of this consensus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate, through a comparative analysis, how China can improve its existing public policies to nurture an environment where culture industry develops and prospers. The paper focuses its discussion on the difference between China and the United States with emphasis on each country’s efforts in funding culture industry in order to participate in the global competition among different culture industries.

In the middle of the twentieth …

Sino-Us Comparison Of First Year Programs: Kennesaw State University Vs. Lushan College Of Guangxi University Of Technology, Shujie Liang

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

First-year programs play a key role for first-year students’ successful transition to higher learning at Kennesaw State University. The Department of First-Year Programs runs these programs very well and has a strong national reputation. The Department was built in 2007 but the relevant first-year programs have been performed close to 20-year.

Lushan College of Guangxi University of Technology, which is a new local college formed under the Chinese higher education reform in 2005, also runs first-year programs for first-year students.

This paper combines the writer’s internship experience in the Department of First-Year Programs at Kennesaw State Department and work experience …

Type 1 Diabetes In The Bb Rat: A Polygenic Disease, Robert H. Wallis, Kesheng Wang, Leili Marandi, Eugene Hsieh, Terri Ning, Gary Y.C. Chao, Janice Sarmiento, Andrew D. Paterson, Philippe Poussier

ETSU Faculty Works

OBJECTIVE-Two type 1 diabetes susceptibility genes have been identified in the spontaneously diabetic biobreeding diabetes-prone (BBDP) rat, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) (RT1) class II u haplotype (Iddm1) and Gimap5 (Iddm2). The strong effects of these have impeded previous efforts to map additional loci. We tested the hypothesis that type 1 diabetes is a polygenic disease in the BBDP rat. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS-We performed the most comprehensive genome-wide linkage analysis for type 1 diabetes, age of disease onset (AOO), and insulitis subpheno- types in 574 F2 animals from a cross-intercross between BBDP and type 1 diabetes-resistant, double congenic ACI.BBDP- …

The Voice, Spring 2009: Volume 54, Issue 3, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

English 100: Giving Students the Chance to Succeed in College; But Is It Worth the Cost?; Students Begin New Year in Slum; Getting Published; Zevenbergen Shares His Lean Enterprise Expertise with Several Local Businesses; Graphics Students Redesign Library Signs; Book Culling Benefits Literacy Programs; Music Majors Get Early Start on Teaching; Guitar Lessons Grow in Popularity; Biotechnology Program is Awarded Grant; Experiencing History Through Writing; Dordt Ag Scholarship Awarded by Growmark; Family Communication Course Gets Students Thinking About Their Families; Engineering Offers Civil Emphasis; Living in a Beehive; Students "Drop in the Bucket" for Wells; Faculty News; In Memory of …

Panorama April 2009, Southern Adventist University

Panorama Parent Newsletter

This issue of the Panorama parent newsletter contains a calendar of events, a profile on Professor Giselle Hasel, highlights student missions, and several thoughts from students.

Contributors, Alan Clinton, John Sundholm

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.

The Bg News April 1, 2009, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. April 1, 2009. Volume 99-Issue 126.

Special Feature: Pack Observing Art Basel>, Walter K. Lew (Editor), Alan Clinton (Editor), Jeremy James Thompson (Designer)

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

From the fourth paragraph of the Editor's Introduction:

In this new logic we must formulate new ways of learning about art and its relation to space, which is a primary goal of the Pack Observation collective headed by Walter K. Lew. In this special section-- a prelude to a complete print version to be co-published by Reconstruction, Canal_138, and Autotypograph-- which documents the collectives; "representation" of Art Basel Miami Beach, often characterized as a "bake-sale" of modern art, the P.O. combines art, found material, photography, poetry, and narrative as a means of simultaneously interrogating Art Basel and meditating on …

Invalidity Of Covenants Not To Compete In California Affects Employers Nationwide, Sheri Wardwell

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

In Edwards v. Arthur Andersen LLP, the Supreme Court of California rejected the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ “narrow restraint” exception to California Business and Professional Code section 16600 regarding the unenforceability of covenants not to compete (CNCs). Edwards affirms that, unless the agreement falls within a statutory exception, CNCs in employment agreements are invalid as a matter of law in California because of California's strong interest in protecting employee mobility as codified in section 16600. Despite California’s strong public policy against CNCs, an employee who wins the race to a California courthouse may not necessarily benefit from section …

Vietnamese Water Puppet Theatre: A Look Through The Ages, Derek Gaboriault

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Through scenes depicting heroism, courage, perseverance, and others, Vietnamese Water Puppet Theatre serves as a tool for fostering nationalism, creating and solidifying a cultural identity, and serving as a reminder to the Vietnamese of their agrarian past. Water puppetry has endured many setbacks like the Vietnam War for example, however troupes like the Thăng Long Theatre Troupe and Central Puppet Theatre Troupe are able to dually serve to attract tourists and have a strong connection with many of the Vietnamese. Tuồng and Chèo Theatre have coexisted alongside Water Puppet Theatre and has helped reiterate the importance of traditional theatre within …

Borrelia Burgdorferi Ebfc Defines A Newly-Identified, Widespread Family Of Bacterial Dna-Binding Proteins, Sean P. Riley, Tomasz Bykowski, Anne E. Cooley, Logan H. Burns, Kelly Babb, Catherine A. Brissette, Amy Bowman, Matthew L. Rotondi, M. Clarke Miller, Edward Demoll, Kap Lim, Michael G. Fried, Brian Stevenson

Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Faculty Publications

The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, encodes a novel type of DNA-binding protein named EbfC. Orthologs of EbfC are encoded by a wide range of bacterial species, so characterization of the borrelial protein has implications that span the eubacterial kingdom. The present work defines the DNA sequence required for high-affinity binding by EbfC to be the 4 bp broken palindrome GTnAC, where ‘n’ can be any nucleotide. Two high-affinity EbfC-binding sites are located immediately 5′ of B. burgdorferi erp transcriptional promoters, and binding of EbfC was found to alter the conformation of erp promoter DNA. Consensus EbfC-binding …

Polyglutamine Disruption Of The Huntingtin Exon 1 N Terminus Triggers A Complex Aggregation Mechanism, Ashwani K. Thakur, Murali Jayaraman, Rakesh Mishra, Monika Thakur, Veronique M. Chellgren, In-Ja L Byeon, Dalaver H. Anjum, Ravindra Kodali, Trevor P. Creamer, James F. Conway, Angela M. Gronenborn, Ronald Wetzel

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Simple polyglutamine (polyQ) peptides aggregate in vitro via a nucleated growth pathway directly yielding amyloid-like aggregates. We show here that the 17-amino-acid flanking sequence (HTT^NT) N-terminal to the polyQ in the toxic huntingtin exon 1 fragment imparts onto this peptide a complex alternative aggregation mechanism. In isolation, the HTT^NT peptide is a compact coil that resists aggregation. When polyQ is fused to this sequence, it induces in HTT^NT, in a repeat-length dependent fashion, a more extended conformation that greatly enhances its aggregation into globular oligomers with HTT^NT cores and exposed polyQ. In a second …

Geneva International Centre For Humanitarian Demining 2008 Annual Report, Gichd

Global CWD Repository

Annual narrative report on the work of the GICHD in 2008.

Linking Mine Action And Development | Official Development Cooperation Agencies, Gichd

Global CWD Repository

Mine action programmes often are not linked early and strongly enough with key development actors. Despite the availability of extensive research documenting the need for greater coordination between mine action and development organisations, concrete guidance for practitioners and policy-makers on how to link mine action with development has been lacking. In response, the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Development has published guidelines on how to ensure mine action promotes development in mine-affected countries. More specifically, the guidelines seek to:

• Increase awareness that landmines and other remnants of conflict block development in many affected countries

• Strengthen coordination between mine action and …

Comparison Of Students' Performance In The Traditional Oral Clinical Examination And The Objective Structured Clinical Examination, Talal M. Bakhsh, Abdulrahman M. Sibiany, Faisal M. Al-Mashat, Abdulrahman A. Meccawy, Fatma K. Al-Thubaity

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To find out whether the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) using standardized patients allows the same evaluation of students as the traditional oral clinical examination (TOCE) using real patients. METHODS: The results of 4 cohorts of students (904 students) in the end of posting examination (using the TOCE), and the end of year examination (using OSCE) during the academic years 2003-2006 at King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Medicine, Jeddah, Kingdom of saudi Arabia were analyzed retrospectively. Spearman9s correlation coefficient was calculated for comparison of performance in the different parts of the 2 examinations. RESULTS: There was a strong positive …

The Effects Of Salvinorin A On The Novel Object Recognition Task In Male Rats, Larissa A. Haliw

Masters Theses

A recent increase in the recreational use of the plant Salvia divinorum and its derivative salvinorin A, an atypical naturally occurring kappa opioid receptor ag onist with hallucinogenic properties, by teens and young adults has contributed to a growing concern regarding the psychological effects of this drug. Salvia divinorum is presently a legal alternative to illegal hallucinogens and it is widely available over the Internet and in stores for a nominal cost making it a potential candidate as a drug of abuse. To date, no investigations have ex plored the effects of salvinorin A in memory assays. The novel object …