Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

2009

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 27601 - 27630 of 31145

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Positioning Libraries To Support The Goals Of Higher Education Institutions: The Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute, Sharon A. Weiner, Patricia Senn Breivik, Timothy Caboni, Dennis Clark Jan 2009

Positioning Libraries To Support The Goals Of Higher Education Institutions: The Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute, Sharon A. Weiner, Patricia Senn Breivik, Timothy Caboni, Dennis Clark

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

This article describes the genesis of Vanderbilt University's Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute as an outcome of a particular philosophy. That philosophy is based on the concept that to fulfill their potential contributions, academic libraries need to direct their planning, resources, and services to support the priorities of their parent institutions. This article addresses the need for campus-focused leadership training; higher education leadership training for academic librarians; and the higher education context for libraries. It describes why Vanderbilt's Peabody College of Education and Human Development initiated a professional development institute for librarians. It describes the institute's history, curriculum, and assessment …

Go to article

Cues To Contrastive Focus In Romanian, Alis Manolescu, Daniel J. Olson, Marta Ortega-Llebaria Jan 2009

Cues To Contrastive Focus In Romanian, Alis Manolescu, Daniel J. Olson, Marta Ortega-Llebaria

School of Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

In this study we measured patterns of pitch alignment, pitch range and duration in relation to broad and contrastive focus in Romanian. In declarative sentences with broad focus, speakers place a pitch accent on each lexically stressed syllable with peaks that become progressively lower towards the end of the sentence. In prenuclear accents peaks align with the post-tonic syllable. In declarative sentences with contrastive focus, speakers use strategies based on pitch and duration in order to build a maximum contrast between the word under focus and those in pre- and post-focal contexts: an expanded pitch range under focus and a …

Go to article

Extensive Training Is Insufficient To Produce The Work-Ethic Effect In Pigeons, Marco Vasconcelos, Peter J. Urcuioli Jan 2009

Extensive Training Is Insufficient To Produce The Work-Ethic Effect In Pigeons, Marco Vasconcelos, Peter J. Urcuioli

Department of Psychological Sciences Faculty Publications

Zentall and Singer (2007a) hypothesized that our failure to replicate the work-ethic effect in pigeons (Vasconcelos, Urcuioli, & Lionello-DeNolf, 2007) was due to insufficient overtraining following acquisition of the high- and low-effort discriminations. We tested this hypothesis using the original work-ethic procedure (Experiment 1) and one similar to that used with starlings (Experiment 2) by providing at least 60 overtraining sessions. Despite this extensive overtraining, neither experiment revealed a significant preference for stimuli obtained after high effort. Together with other findings, these data support our contention that pigeons do not reliably show a work-ethic effect.

Go to article

Building The Latin America We Want: Supplementing Representative Democracies With Consensus-Building, Mariana Hernández Crespo Jan 2009

Building The Latin America We Want: Supplementing Representative Democracies With Consensus-Building, Mariana Hernández Crespo

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This article is about using consensus-building to create channels for meaningful participation in public decision-making, in order to supplement representative democracies in Latin America. I argue that the addition of a consensus-building mechanism into the legislative process will create the necessary forum for stakeholders to contribute to the framing and resolution of issues of public concern. Furthermore, as Susskind has argued, allowing citizens to participate at the beginning of decision-making processes will make legislative outcomes more legitimate and decrease the level of political dissatisfaction.

Go to article

State Regulation Of Arbitration Proceedings: Judicial Review Of Arbitration Awards By State Courts, Stephen K. Huber Jan 2009

State Regulation Of Arbitration Proceedings: Judicial Review Of Arbitration Awards By State Courts, Stephen K. Huber

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

The thesis of this Article can be stated simply and concisely: States possess the power to adopt standards for the conduct of arbitration proceedings and review of arbitration awards that are significantly different from federal law standards. The major objective of this Article is to explore the most important possibilities for reform of arbitration law and practice at the state level. State law standards will be of increasing importance in the reformation of arbitration practice. This Article focuses on the standards of review of arbitration awards employed by state courts, because the power to vacate an arbitration award is the …

Go to article

Yada, Yada, Yada: Seinfeld, The Law And Mediation, Paul Devendorf Jan 2009

Yada, Yada, Yada: Seinfeld, The Law And Mediation, Paul Devendorf

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This Note will first explore the popularity of Seinfeld and discuss the influence of Seinfeld on legal culture. Part III details cultivation theory and explores the possible influences Seinfeld may have in shaping its viewers' impressions of formal law. Specific instances in-which Seinfeld has ridiculed formal legal practices and offered social criticisms of the legal profession are analyzed in Part IV. Part V describes a specific episode of Seinfeld and illustrates the consequences of parties' refusal to reach mutually satisfactory resolutions, the need for mediation to resolve highly contentious disputes, and the inadequacy of the legal system to provide an …

Go to article

Judges Gone Wild: Why Breaking The Mediation Confidentiality Privilege For Acting In "Bad Faith" Should Be Reevaluated In Court-Ordered Mandatory Mediation, Samara Zimmerman Jan 2009

Judges Gone Wild: Why Breaking The Mediation Confidentiality Privilege For Acting In "Bad Faith" Should Be Reevaluated In Court-Ordered Mandatory Mediation, Samara Zimmerman

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This Note focuses on the reasons why a good faith requirement or a bad faith exception for breaking mediation confidentiality is objectionable and offers an alternative for the Florida court system that, if implemented, could mitigate such disadvantages. I will discuss "the intersection between [a] court-ordered mediation, the confidentiality of which is mandated by law ... and the power of a court to control proceedings," and persons who appear before it by sanctioning conduct that taking place in mediation. Part II of this Note will begin by providing a background to the Doe v. Francis civil case. It will highlight …

Go to article

Application Of Cascade Theory To Online Systems: A Study Of Email And Google Cascades, April Mara Barton Jan 2009

Application Of Cascade Theory To Online Systems: A Study Of Email And Google Cascades, April Mara Barton

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Go to article

From The Editors, Lauren Fitzgerald, Melissa Ianetta Jan 2009

From The Editors, Lauren Fitzgerald, Melissa Ianetta

The Writing Center Journal

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Biofuels, Bioenergy, And Bioproducts From Sustainable Agricultural And Forest Crops, Michael D. Casler, Rob B. Mitchell, Jim Richardson, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr. Jan 2009

Biofuels, Bioenergy, And Bioproducts From Sustainable Agricultural And Forest Crops, Michael D. Casler, Rob B. Mitchell, Jim Richardson, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr.

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

This issue of BioEnergy Research highlights the Short Rotation Crops International Conference held in Bloomington, Minnesota in August 2008. This is the first special issue of BioEnergy Research, with several additional special issues planned in the next year, focused on the three U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers (Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, BioEnergy Science Center, and Joint BioEnergy Institute), and emerging technologies for biodiesel production. The purpose of these special issues is to highlight emerging research efforts in the areas of biomass, biofuels, and bioenergy. The Short Rotation Crops International Conference represented a unique opportunity for communication …

Go to article

Rochdale (22bo654) And Dry Bayou (22co666) : A Study Of Lower Mississippi Valley Hopewell Interaction, Joshua Engle Jan 2009

Rochdale (22bo654) And Dry Bayou (22co666) : A Study Of Lower Mississippi Valley Hopewell Interaction, Joshua Engle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Geophysical Prospection And Excavation At An Early Woodland Ceremonial Circle In Bourbon County, Ky, Edward R. Henry Jan 2009

Geophysical Prospection And Excavation At An Early Woodland Ceremonial Circle In Bourbon County, Ky, Edward R. Henry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Transcript: Workshop On The Future Of The Legal Course Book, Edward Rubin, Kellye Testy, Ronald Collins, David M. Skover Jan 2009

Transcript: Workshop On The Future Of The Legal Course Book, Edward Rubin, Kellye Testy, Ronald Collins, David M. Skover

Seattle University Law Review

Most every law school right now is thinking about its curriculum. The Carnegie Report certainly was a big factor in spurring that, although curricular reform is something that law schools, of course, are always engaged in. It moves at a glacial pace sometimes. One of the things that really struck us here at Seattle University, as everyone started to talk about Carnegie and started to talk about curricular reform, is that it was, frankly, a bit of old news to us. Seattle University School of Law has always prided itself on being at the forefront of legal education in many …

Go to article

Civil Rights Museums And Public Memory In The South, Rebecca Batey Jan 2009

Civil Rights Museums And Public Memory In The South, Rebecca Batey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Go to article

The First Libertarian Free Will / Jesse Aaron Switzer, Jesse Aaron Switzer Jan 2009

The First Libertarian Free Will / Jesse Aaron Switzer, Jesse Aaron Switzer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Effect Of Using Threadfin Shad As Forage For Channel Catfish Fed Daily Or Every Third Day, Bartholomew W. Green, Peter Perschbacher, Gerald Ludwig Jan 2009

Effect Of Using Threadfin Shad As Forage For Channel Catfish Fed Daily Or Every Third Day, Bartholomew W. Green, Peter Perschbacher, Gerald Ludwig

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

We evaluated whether stocking threadfin shad Dorosoma petenense as a forage fish in multiple-batch production ponds for channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus could substitute for formulated feed when channel catfish were fed daily or every 3 d. A completely randomized design in a 232 factorial arrangement was used for the experiment, which was conducted in twelve 0.1-ha earthen ponds. Prespawn adult threadfin shad were stocked at 404 kg/ha in six of the ponds, whereas the remaining ponds received no threadfin shad. Channel catfish stockers (0.35 kg/fish) were stocked at 5,040 kg/ha, and fingerlings (28.2 g/fish) were stocked at 14,820 fish/ha. Channel …

Go to article

Wus And Stm-Based Reporter Genes For Studying Meristem Development In Poplar, Y. Bao, P. Dharmawardhana, R. S. Arias, M. B. Allen, C. Ma, Steven H. Strauss Jan 2009

Wus And Stm-Based Reporter Genes For Studying Meristem Development In Poplar, Y. Bao, P. Dharmawardhana, R. S. Arias, M. B. Allen, C. Ma, Steven H. Strauss

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

We describe the development of a reporter system for monitoring meristem initiation in poplar using promoters of poplar homologs to the meristem-active regulatory genes WUSCHEL (WUS) and SHOOTMERISTEMLESS (STM). When ~3 kb of the 5' flanking regions of close homologs were used to drive expression of the GUSPlus gene, 50–60% of the transgenic events showed expression in apical and axillary meristems. However, expression was also common in other organs, including in leaf veins (40 and 46% of WUS and STM transgenic events, respectively) and hydathodes (56% of WUS transgenic events). Histochemical GUS staining of explants during callogenesis and shoot …

Go to article

Vegetation Of Utah, R. Douglas Ramsey, Neil E. West Jan 2009

Vegetation Of Utah, R. Douglas Ramsey, Neil E. West

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

In order to organize and facilitate management of Utah’s ecosystems, generalization of the ecological variation found across the state is necessary. Ecosystems involve complex interactions between environment and biota, and there have been many efforts to generalize and categorize these interactions in order to gain a better understanding of their structure and organization. The most common method of categorizing ecological variations across large landscapes today incorporates the ecoregion concept. Ecoregions are geographic delineations of landscapes containing ecosystems linked by similar climatic, geologic, soil, and landform characteristics. The primary characteristics used to delineate ecoregions vary depending on the overall goal of …

Go to article

Sexual Attitudes And Perceptions Of Gendered Sexual Roles From The Perspective Of Urban South African Women, Duduzile Phindile Mashinini Jan 2009

Sexual Attitudes And Perceptions Of Gendered Sexual Roles From The Perspective Of Urban South African Women, Duduzile Phindile Mashinini

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Cease To Exit, Eric Edwin-Joseph Benac Jan 2009

Cease To Exit, Eric Edwin-Joseph Benac

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Effects Of Collaborative Action Research And Biology Journaling Notebooks On High School Student Achievement, Elsa Joan Clark Clement Jan 2009

Effects Of Collaborative Action Research And Biology Journaling Notebooks On High School Student Achievement, Elsa Joan Clark Clement

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Mother Tongue, Amanda Love Giracca Jan 2009

Mother Tongue, Amanda Love Giracca

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Why Can’T They Write Right? Teaching Grammar In The Composition Classroom, Sarah J. Johnson Jan 2009

Why Can’T They Write Right? Teaching Grammar In The Composition Classroom, Sarah J. Johnson

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Group Cohesion And Performance In University Concert Bands, Steven J. Miller Jan 2009

Group Cohesion And Performance In University Concert Bands, Steven J. Miller

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

A Comparison Of Conditioning Levels Between Off-Season And Competition Season For Division Ii Women’S Volleyball, Amy J. Molenaar Jan 2009

A Comparison Of Conditioning Levels Between Off-Season And Competition Season For Division Ii Women’S Volleyball, Amy J. Molenaar

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

The Comparison Of Co-Stimulatory Surface Molecule Expression On Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells Infected With Two Strains Of Influenza Virus, Jessie M. Simmon Jan 2009

The Comparison Of Co-Stimulatory Surface Molecule Expression On Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells Infected With Two Strains Of Influenza Virus, Jessie M. Simmon

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Steward Of The Forest: A Bow Hunter’S Journey, Joseph K. Slocum Jan 2009

Steward Of The Forest: A Bow Hunter’S Journey, Joseph K. Slocum

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Self-Portrait As Western Saddle, Casey Thayer Jan 2009

Self-Portrait As Western Saddle, Casey Thayer

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

An Exploratory Study Of The Seniority Rights Culture Within Several Mid-Sized Michigan Police Departments, Michael E. Walleman Jan 2009

An Exploratory Study Of The Seniority Rights Culture Within Several Mid-Sized Michigan Police Departments, Michael E. Walleman

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Miss Those Men, Sarah J. Wangler Jan 2009

Miss Those Men, Sarah J. Wangler

All NMU Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

First Prev Next Last