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The Use Of Collaboration In Nongovernmental Organization Public Policy Advocacy, Randy Barrack

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to explore the definitions, benefits, and challenges of collaborations as used by nongovernmental organizations in their pursuit of public policy advocacy, and more specifically the role of NGOs as advocates in the public policy process. A qualitative design using a case study approach was used to examine the collaborative strategies and techniques used by the 12 statewide education NGO members of the Virginia Education Coalition in pursuit of their advocacy goals in public policy. The direction of this study was guided by the following questions: (1) What is collaboration, and when, how, and why …

Final Report: Space Coast Clean Cities Coalition Programmatic Support, Florida Solar Energy Center, William Young

FSEC Energy Research Center®

This Final Report summarizes the work performed by the Florida Solar Energy Center for U.S. Department of Energy for the National Clean Cities Program to reduce emissions and energy consumption of transportation vehicles. This report describes the activities and events of Florida Space Coast Clean Cities Coalition encompassing a nine county area in east central Florida. FSEC administers the Coalition and support the Coalition Board of Directors with meetings, workshop, reports, mailing list, membership, activities, questionnaires, fuel pricing, alternative vehicle and infrastructure deployment.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, November 30, 2009, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting agenda from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

2009-11-30 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2009

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, November 29, 2009, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2009

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, November 29, 2009, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2009

No abstract provided.

Family Businesses Must Be Run More ‘Professionally’, Alex Stewart

Management Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Lady Pirates Notch First Win, 88-81 Over Pfeiffer, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Basketball News (Archived)

Lady Pirates Notch First Win, 88-81 Over Pfeiffer. Senior Lauren Hall hit all five three-point attempts en route to a game-high 24 points, while junior Arpine Amirkhanyan notched a double-double with 19 points and 15 rebounds as the Armstrong Atlantic State women's basketball squad collected its first win of the 2009-10 season with an 88-81 win over visiting Pfeiffer on Sunday afternoon at Alumni Arena.

No. 4 Florida Southern Outlasts Pirates, 80-70, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Basketball News (Archived)

No. 4 Florida Southern Outlasts Pirates, 80-70. The No. 4-ranked Florida Southern Moccasins received a game challenge from the short-handed Armstrong Atlantic State Pirates, but pulled away late to pick up an 80-70 men's college basketball victory on Sunday afternoon at Alumni Arena.

November 28, 2009 (Pages 6713-6856), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 39 (2009)

No abstract provided.

The Efficacy Of Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback On Intermediate-High Esl Learners' Writing Accuracy, Soon Yeun Lee

Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the efficacy of dynamic written corrective feedback (DWCF) on intermediate-high students' writing accuracy when compared to a traditional grammar instruction approach. DWCF is an innovative written corrective feedback method that requires a multifaceted process and interaction between the teacher and the students in order to help the students improve their writing accuracy. The central principle of DWCF is that feedback should be manageable, meaningful, timely, and constant. The research question was raised based on the positive effects of DWCF found in advanced-low and advanced-mid proficiency level students (Evans et al., in press; Evans, Hartshorn, & Strong-Krause, 2009; …

Progresses In Electrocatalysis Of Nanomaterials—Tuning The Surface Structure And Property Of Electrocatalysts, Yan-Xia Jiang, Na Tian, Zhi-You Zhou, Sheng-Pei Chen, Shi-Gang Sun

Journal of Electrochemistry

The property of an electrocatalyst depends strongly on its surface structure.The study of surface structure-catalytic functionality is the base of design and preparation of electrocatalysts of high activity,high stability and high selectivity at microstructure level.In this paper,based mainly on our results concering hydrogen and oxygen adsorption-desorption,ethylene glycol oxidation and CO₂ reduction,the research progresses in tuning the surface structure and property of electrocatalysts are summarized.This paper overviews firstly the cyclic voltammetric characteristics,electrocatalytic properties of platinum single crystal planes lying on different crystallographic zones of the unit stereographic triangle of face-centered cubic(fcc) metals.Next,the innovation of electrochemical methods to control the surface …

Research Progress Of Synergistic Effect Of Metal Oxides On Pt-Based Catalysts, Hui-Ping Yuan, Xun Guo, Xin-Ping Qiu, Wen-Tao Zhu, Li-Quan Chen

Journal of Electrochemistry

In this paper,the work of Pt-based catalysts modified by metal oxides as the anode catalysts of direct methanol fuel cell(DMFC) is reviewed.The relationship between the structure and the composition of the catalysts and the reaction mechanism,exiting problems and developing direction are discussed.

Index Of Recent Literatures In Electrochemical Technique And Its Applications, Editorial Office Of J.Electrochem.

Journal of Electrochemistry

No abstract provided.

Health Care And The Un Disability Rights Convention, Michael Ashley Stein, Penelope J S Stein, Dorothy Weiss, Raymond Lang

Popular Media

No abstract provided.

Eleanor Capogrosso V. Advisory Committee On Judicial

2009 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, November 27, 2009, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The November 27, 2009, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper, November 25, 2009, George Fox University Archives

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of George Fox University.

The Anchor, Volume 123.10: November 25, 2009, Hope College

The Anchor: 2009

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Mothers' Perceptions Of Website Information In Solving Behavioral Problems In Children With Disabilities, Heather Collins

Theses and Dissertations

This research investigated the needs of mothers in regard to designing an educational website for parents/caregivers of children with disabilities. This research was designed to provide information to inform outreach efforts of Brigham Young University's Family HOPE (Happiness, Optimism, Promise, and Excellence) Project. This project assists families struggling with child behavior problems. Results from this study provided an initial understanding of the potential for a website to offer support to families not directly served through the Family HOPE project. Participants included 26 adult females, 25 mothers and one female caregiver. Each participant was the primary caregiver of a child with …

Volume 47, Number 14: November 25, 2009, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Today - November 25, 2009, Loma Linda University

TODAY

Inside this issue:

-- Jamaican governor-general visits Loma Linda University
-- ThankSharing program evokes spirit of gratitude and volunteerism
-- Big Hearts for Little Hearts Loma Linda Guild hosts ‘Food, Fashion, and Fun’ to benefit LLU Children’s Hospital
-- More than 6,000 participate in second annual ‘Believe and Walk for the Cure’
-- Promising research suggests a method for healing difficult wounds
-- The skies thunder over LLU Children’s Hospital during the 11th Annual Cops for Kids Fly-in
-- Fourth graders from surrounding communities receive free bicycles
-- School of Religion to present two events December 4 and 5
-- …

Classification, Clustering And Data-Mining Of Biological Data, Thomas Triplet

School of Computing: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The proliferation of biological databases and the easy access enabled by the Internet is having a beneficial impact on biological sciences and transforming the way research is conducted. There are currently over 1,100 molecular biology databases dispersed throughout the Internet. However, very few of them integrate data from multiple sources. To assist in the functional and evolutionary analysis of the abundant number of novel proteins, we introduce the PROFESS (PROtein Function, Evolution, Structure and Sequence) database that integrates data from various biological sources. PROFESS is freely available at http://cse.unl.edu/~profess/. Our database is designed to be versatile and expandable and …

The Chemistry Of Lipid Signal Molecules In Insects, Sean M. Putnam

Department of Entomology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

I report on the chemical identification of lipid signaling molecules in three species of insects and describe the chemical isolation of a bacterial product that inhibits eicosanoid biosynthesis. Chapter 2 reports that eicosanoids mediate nodulation reactions to bacterial infection in newly-emerged, but not forager honeybees. Cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase inhibitors attenuate nodulation, which is reversed in the presence of arachidonic acid. Older adult honeybees do not produce bacterial-induced nodules, and they have fewer circulating hemocytes, from which I infer that foraging honeybees express a physiological trade-off between maintaining a biologically expensive hemocytic immune system and flight activity associated with foraging. Chapters …

Memorandum Opinion - In Re The Reserve Fund Securities And Derivative Litigation, Paul G. Gardephe

Documents

No abstract provided.

Total Storm Management Manual, Indiana Department Of Transportation

JTRP Other Publications and Reports

No abstract provided.

Sarah Winikoff '10 Receives 2009 U Of M Seed Award, University Relations

Campus News Archive

University of Minnesota, Morris student Sarah Winikoff ‘10, Edina, is one of 13 recipients of the 2009 Scholarly Excellence in Equity and Diversity (SEED) Award.

Dopamine-Stimulated Dephosphorylation Of Connexin 36 Mediates Aii Amacrine Cell Uncoupling, W Wade Kothmann, Stephen C Massey, John O'Brien

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Gap junction proteins form the substrate for electrical coupling between neurons. These electrical synapses are widespread in the CNS and serve a variety of important functions. In the retina, connexin 36 (Cx36) gap junctions couple AII amacrine cells and are a requisite component of the high-sensitivity rod photoreceptor pathway. AII amacrine cell coupling strength is dynamically regulated by background light intensity, and uncoupling is thought to be mediated by dopamine signaling via D(1)-like receptors. One proposed mechanism for this uncoupling involves dopamine-stimulated phosphorylation of Cx36 at regulatory sites, mediated by protein kinase A. Here we provide evidence against this hypothesis …

Deteksi Pemalsuan Citra Berbasis Dekomposisi Nilai Singulir, Dewi Yanti Liliana, T. Basaruddin

Makara Journal of Science

Image Fakery Detection Based on Singular Value Decomposition. The growing of image processing technology nowadays make it easier for user to modify and fake the images. Image fakery is a process to manipulate part or whole areas of image either in it content or context with the help of digital image processing techniques. Image fakery is barely unrecognizable because the fake image is looking so natural. Yet by using the numerical computation technique it is able to detect the evidence of fake image. This research is successfully applied the singular value decomposition method to detect image fakery. The image preprocessing …

Warts-And-All: The Real Practice Of Service Design, Yoko Akama

ServDes Conference Series

Service design practice; discourse and education are still nascent in Australia where most designers are trained in fields such as industrial design; architecture; communication design; and to a lesser degree; interaction design (a field that is equally nascent). Academic research on service design has so far been limited (Kimbell and Seidel 2008) and much of the knowledge generated from business contexts has been proprietary (Tether 2008). These factors have led to a lack of critical engagement in examining and investigating the complex contexts that surrounds service design projects. This also adds to the challenging obstacles for designers seeking to establish …