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The Educational Aspirations/Attainment Gap Among Rural Alaska Native Students, Aaron Doyle

The Rural Educator

Indigenous students in rural Alaska hold high educational aspirations and yet few students realize their educational goals (Hamilton & Seyfrit, 1993; Kleinfeld & McDiarmid, 1986; McDiarmid & Kleinfeld, 1981). Our purpose in this study was tounderstand why so many Alaska Native students from small, isolated communities “drift” after high school, neither entering the postsecondary programs they aspire to, nor engaging in paid work. The contribution of this study is to clarify the reasons for the “educational aspirations-achievement gap,” in other words, why so many Alaska Native rural students have high educational expectations, and yet remain directionless in adult life. This …

The Perceptions Of Math And Math Education In Midville, Illinois, David M. Lucas, Jamie Fugitt

The Rural Educator

By means of a qualitative research method known as folknography, a concerted effort was made to discern perceptions of math and math education in the rural Midwest. A community that will be referred to as Midville, located in the state of Illinois, was chosen as the target population for this study. The community and surrounding region stands over one hundred miles from the nearest metro complex. The study was conducted in May of 2006. After completion of the initial field work, data were collected, analyzed, and summarized, producing this document.

Workshop To Support Vertical Articulation At Discovery Canyon Campus, Niki Miscovich

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

This project is presented in the form of a PowerPoint, which is designed to guide reading and writing teachers at Discovery Canyon Campus through a work session on curriculum alignment. The researcher reviews research on how vertical articulation and aligned curriculum contributes to higher student achievement as well as strategies for effective professional development sessions for teachers. The project is part of the longer process of developing an aligned curriculum at the researcher's school, which encompasses grades kindergarten through 12. The goal of this second step in the process is to evaluate the current curriculum against state standards so teachers …

November 14, 2009 (Pages 6533-6644), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 39 (2009)

No abstract provided.

Business Ethics: How To Develop Ethical Awareness And Introspection In Our Students, Kathleen Szczepanek

Presentations and other scholarship

I developed a business ethics course addressing the need to provide a foundation in business ethics for Business Studies students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). The purpose of the course was to ensure that our students develop an awareness for appropriate practices and behaviors as they enter a place of work. The design of the course was based on current literature connected to the best business practices that are based on ethical values and behaviors.

Two-Stage Decompositions For The Analysis Of Functional Connectivity For Fmri With Application To Alzheimer's Disease Risk, Brian S. Caffo, Ciprian M. Crainiceanu, Guillermo Verduzco, Stewart H. Mostofsky, Susan Spear-Bassett, James J. Pekar

COBRA Preprint Series

Functional connectivity is the study of correlations in measured neurophysiological signals. Altered functional connectivity has been shown to be associated with numerous diseases including Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment. In this manuscript we use a two-stage application of the singular value decomposition to obtain data driven population-level measures of functional connectivity in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The method is computationally simple and amenable to high dimensional fMRI data with large numbers of subjects. Simulation studies suggest the ability of the decomposition methods to recover population brain networks and their associated loadings. We further demonstrate the utility of these …

The Murray Ledger And Times, November 14, 2009, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Student Learning Minutes 11/13/2009, Assessment Of Student Learning Committee

Assessment of Student Learning Minutes (Inactive)

No abstract provided.

The Thermodynamic And Ground State Properties Of The Tip4p Water Octamer, E. Asare, A-R. Musah, E. Curotto, David L. Freeman, J. D. Doll

Chemistry Faculty Publications

Several stochastic simulations of the TIP4P [W. L. Jorgensen, J. Chandrasekhar, J. D. Madura, R. W. Impey, and M. L. Klein, J. Chem. Phys. 79, 926 (1983)] water octamer are performed. Use is made of the stereographic projection path integral and the Green’s function stereographic projection diffusion Monte Carlo techniques, recently developed in one of our groups. The importance sampling for the diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm is obtained by optimizing a simple wave function using variational Monte Carlo enhanced with parallel tempering to overcome quasiergodicity problems. The quantum heat capacity of the TIP4P octamer contains a pronounced melting peak …

V. 77, Issue 8, November 13, 2009

Archway (1946-2020)

No abstract provided.

Millie Max V. Republican Committee Of Lancas

2009 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Jermaine Chatman

2009 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Michael Austin V. Jeffrey Beard

2009 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles:

• Lintner, Jonathan. Wood Selig: WKU Gold Mine for Future Coaches – Football
• Stewart, Colleen. Regional Campus Enrollment Growing – WKU Glasgow, WKU Elizabethtown/Radcliff/Fort Knox, WKU Owensboro
• Hicks, Billy. City’s TIF District Strugglers – Tax Increment Financing, Downtown Redevelopment
• Wilson, Laurel. Crew Recycles Tailgating Trash – Facilities Management
• Harris, Shakia. Student Government Association Strengthen Attendance Policy
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: Football Coach Search
• Open Letter to Search Committee: Western Should Choose Wisely – Football
• Rice, Adam. Sports Program Needs Overhaul – Athletics
• Dooper, Jennifer. Friendship Valuable, Worth Remembering …

The Tiger Vol. 103 Issue 23 2009-11-13, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Minutes - November 13, 2009, Usm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Bison, November 13, 2009

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, November 13, 2009, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Ucc Minutes Nov 13, 2009, Undergraduate Curriculum Council

Undergraduate Currirculum Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Dilute Sulfuric Acid Pretreatment Of Switchgrass In Microwave Reactor For Biofuel Conversion: An Investigation Of Yields, Kinetics,, Oscar Martin

Theses and Dissertations

Lignocellulosic materials provide a raw material source for biofuel conversion and offer several advantages over fossil fuels- usage of a renewable resource, reduced greenhouse emissions, a decreased dependence on foreign oil, and stimulation of the agricultural sector. However, a primary technological challenge in converting lignocellulosic biomass into fuel is overcoming the recalcitrance of its matrix to enzymatic hydrolysis. To overcome these problems for chemical processing, naturally occurring cellulose biomass must be pretreated before it can be further processed using enzymatic hydrolysis or bioconversion. The goal of this work was to develop a model that predicts the glucose yield (pretreatment and …

An Unstructured Finite Volume Method For Incompressible Flows With Complex Immersed Boundaries, Lin Sun, Sanjay Mathur, Jayathi Y. Murthy

PRISM: NNSA Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems

A numerical method is developed for solving the 3D, unsteady, incompressible flows with immersed moving soldis of arbitrary geometrical complexity. A co-located (non-staggered) finite volume method is employed to solve the Navier-Stokes governing equeations for flow region using arbitrary convex polyhedral meshes. The solid region is represented by a set of material points with known position and velocity. Faces in the flow region located in the immediate vicinity of the solid body are marked as immersed boundary (IB) faces. At every instant in time, the influence of the body on the flowis accounted for by reconstructing implicitly the velocity the …

Parameter Estimation For The Lognormal Distribution, Brenda Faith Ginos

Theses and Dissertations

The lognormal distribution is useful in modeling continuous random variables which are greater than or equal to zero. Example scenarios in which the lognormal distribution is used include, among many others: in medicine, latent periods of infectious diseases; in environmental science, the distribution of particles, chemicals, and organisms in the environment; in linguistics, the number of letters per word and the number of words per sentence; and in economics, age of marriage, farm size, and income. The lognormal distribution is also useful in modeling data which would be considered normally distributed except for the fact that it may be more …

Daily Eastern News: November 13, 2009, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.

Volume Cxxvii, Number 9, November 13, 2009, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Hawks' Eye -- November 13, 2009, Roger Williams University

Hawk's Herald

No abstract provided.

Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Undergraduate Council Meeting, November 13, 2009, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. Undergraduate Council

USF St. Petersburg Undergraduate Council

Minutes for the November 13, 2009, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Undergraduate Council.

City Of Idaho Falls V. Fuhriman Respondent's Brief Dckt. 36721

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Sandspur, Vol 116, No 09, November 13, 2009, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, November 13, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

November

No abstract provided.

Estate Planning For 2010 And Beyond, Ronald D. Aucutt

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

No abstract provided.