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Infusing Music In An Academic Curriculum, Katelyn E. Frevert Jun 2009

Infusing Music In An Academic Curriculum, Katelyn E. Frevert

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this teacher research was to examine the effects of music on student comprehension, cooperative learning and the surrounding learning community. This study was conducted within a third grade inclusion classroom. The students were exposed to educational songs in mathematics, writing and science. The students were also provided with the opportunity to create their own songs about matter and showcase them through their production of music videos. Data for this study was collected through video recordings, student interviews, teacher interviews, and teacher/researcher observations and journal. This study demonstrated that music has a positive effect on the learning environment …

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Holy Cross Libraries Annual Report Fy2009, James E. Hogan Jun 2009

Holy Cross Libraries Annual Report Fy2009, James E. Hogan

Holy Cross Libraries Annual Reports

At the end of the fiscal year, the Director of the Holy Cross Libraries issues an annual report that provides a review of library services, details budgets and regular operations, and highlights programs, projects and activities that were initiated, sponsored or assisted by the Libraries.

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June 17, 2009 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina Jun 2009

June 17, 2009 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

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The Spinnaker Vol. 33 No. 1, University Of North Florida Jun 2009

The Spinnaker Vol. 33 No. 1, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

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An Economic Background For Alaska Flower Growers, James D. Auer, Joshua Greenberg Jun 2009

An Economic Background For Alaska Flower Growers, James D. Auer, Joshua Greenberg

Miscellaneous Publications

No abstract provided.

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Natural Resource News, Vol. 09, No. 1 (June 2009), N/A N/A Jun 2009

Natural Resource News, Vol. 09, No. 1 (June 2009), N/A N/A

Natural Resource News

No abstract provided.

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Hotline Press Newspaper- June 16,2009 Vol 27 No 1, Hotline Press Newspaper Jun 2009

Hotline Press Newspaper- June 16,2009 Vol 27 No 1, Hotline Press Newspaper

Hotline Press Newspaper 2009

No abstract provided.

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International Investment Arbitration: Winning Losing And Why, Susan D. Franck Jun 2009

International Investment Arbitration: Winning Losing And Why, Susan D. Franck

Scholarly Articles

None available.

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Global Learning Through Partnered Inquiry, Rebecca Hovey Jun 2009

Global Learning Through Partnered Inquiry, Rebecca Hovey

Lewis Global Studies Center Staff Publications

The emergence of Global Learning associated with the internationalization of U.S. higher education signals a convergence of international/global studies and international education with the potential to dramatically innovate and transform the academy. Over the past decade the original aim of international education to foster intercultural understanding has become linked with the aims of international studies to enhance our knowledge of the world, and in particular, the ways in which new knowledge is created through non-western epistemologies and cultural perspectives. This paper seeks to situate the emerging discourse and initiatives around global learning in an understanding of the transformation potential of …

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Monitor Newsletter June 15, 2009, Bowling Green State University Jun 2009

Monitor Newsletter June 15, 2009, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

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Partner Selection Of Strategic Alliance For A Liner Shipping Company Using Extent Analysis Method Of Fuzzy Ahp, Ji-Feng Ding Jun 2009

Partner Selection Of Strategic Alliance For A Liner Shipping Company Using Extent Analysis Method Of Fuzzy Ahp, Ji-Feng Ding

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

This paper applies the modified extent analysis method of fuzzy AHP approach for selecting suitable partners of strategic alliance for a liner shipping company. An empirical survey for selecting partners is studied to find out the most appropriate company based on the proposed fuzzy AHP algorithm. To facilitate the main issue for selecting a partner, a hierarchical structure of partner selection for a liner shipping company with seven criteria, thirty-two sub-criteria, and three alternatives was constructed to perform the empirical survey via AHP expert questionnaires. When the operations of fuzzy AHP algorithm are computed, the optimal alternative is selected as …

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Eastern Washington University Commencement Program, 2009, Eastern Washington University Jun 2009

Eastern Washington University Commencement Program, 2009, Eastern Washington University

Commencement Programs

Program for Eastern Washington University's spring commencement in 2009

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The Role Of Religious Education In The Development Of “Universal Responsibility”, Hing Wan Cheng Jun 2009

The Role Of Religious Education In The Development Of “Universal Responsibility”, Hing Wan Cheng

Conference on “Improving the Human Destiny"

This paper highlights two major issues of the time: Clash of civilizations as suggested by Samuel Huntington and the problem with secularization. The author thinks that both issues are related to (ancient) religions. To resolve these issues, the paper suggests the adoption of “Universal Responsibility” brought forward by Dalai Lama and discusses the role of religious education to have it installed.

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June 11-12, 2009 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Regular/Special Sessions, Board Of Trustees, Central Washington University Jun 2009

June 11-12, 2009 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Regular/Special Sessions, Board Of Trustees, Central Washington University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes for the Regular/Special Sessions of the Board of Trustees at Central Washington University, June 11-12, 2009.

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War And Hiv In Latin America, Shawn Smallman Jun 2009

War And Hiv In Latin America, Shawn Smallman

International & Global Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Conflict has shaped the HIV pandemic from its inception, from the spread of HIV-1 in Central Africa, to the diffusion of HIV-2 from Portuguese Africa to the globe. At the same time, the relationship between HIV and conflict has been non-linear and poorly understood. Nancy Mock and her colleagues have been almost the only scholars to propose a model to understand this relationship. Their work suggests that several key variables (such as the time scale of the conflict, the characteristics of the parties involved, and the geographic scale of the fighting) explain wide variations in how warfare appears to have …

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Gulf Coast Faculty Council Minutes - June 12, 2009, Usm Gulf Coast Faculty Council Jun 2009

Gulf Coast Faculty Council Minutes - June 12, 2009, Usm Gulf Coast Faculty Council

Gulf Coast Faculty Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Happiness And Development : The Effect Of Mental Well-Being On Economic Growth, Ben Li, Yi Lu Jun 2009

Happiness And Development : The Effect Of Mental Well-Being On Economic Growth, Ben Li, Yi Lu

Conference on “Improving the Human Destiny"

This paper examines the impact of overall happiness of citizens on economic growth across countries. We first document a robust positive correlation between overall happiness level and economic growth across countries, and then exploit the variation in sex imbalance, a factor that impedes normal mating and thus causes unhappiness, to instrument happiness and identify its causal impact on economic growth. Our results show that happiness has a positive causal effect on economic growth. Other things being equal, a one-standard-deviation increase in happiness raises growth rate by approximately two percentage points. In addition, we find that life expectancy and investment ratio …

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Preparing Usm For The Future 2009-2014, University Of Southern Maine Jun 2009

Preparing Usm For The Future 2009-2014, University Of Southern Maine

Strategic Planning

The University of Southern Maine (USM) has ambitious goals as northern New England’s outstanding public, regional, comprehensive university. As USM embarks on the next stage of its academic evolution, it commits itself to fulfilling its potential as a dynamic, innovative, and rigorously mission-focused 21st- century institution. Dedicated to providing its students with a high-quality, accessible, and affordable education, USM is a center of discovery, scholarship, creativity, and public service that benefits its region, its state, the nation, and the world.

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Democracy By Design: The Institutionalization Of Community Participation Networks In Los Angeles, Christopher Weare Jun 2009

Democracy By Design: The Institutionalization Of Community Participation Networks In Los Angeles, Christopher Weare

Working Papers

The paper uses network theory to examine the institutionalization of community governance in Los Angeles. Since the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 mandated the created of neighborhood level bodies to foster “maximum feasible participation” in program development and implementation, we have witnessed rapid growth in local participative bodies. Their success in developing legitimacy and promoting government accountability, however, has been highly varied. Scholars have attributed this variation to a number of centralized design features (e.g. the degree of political support, the provision of organizational resources, the training for participants) and community characteristics (e.g. social capital, community capacity, SES). Others point …

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Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, June 11-12, 2009 Jun 2009

Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, June 11-12, 2009

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on June 11-12, 2009.

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Culture And Landslide Risk In The Central Andes Of Bolivia And Peru, Nicholas Roberts Jun 2009

Culture And Landslide Risk In The Central Andes Of Bolivia And Peru, Nicholas Roberts

Studia UBB Geologia

Culture and its heritage play a major role in determining landslide risk in the Central Andes. Examples of some of these many possible influences are provided from natural and social science literature and from the author’s recent work in Bolivia. Landslide risk appears to have generally increased throughout the last millennium, due largely to anthropogenic modification of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and coping capacity. These changes result from both local and distant pressures and from contemporaneous and pervious cultural factors. Consequently, holistic examination of landslide risk necessitates consideration of culture and its heritage.

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Teaching Principal Plate Tectonic Processes By Means Of Analogue Modeling, Hans-Peter Steyrer Jun 2009

Teaching Principal Plate Tectonic Processes By Means Of Analogue Modeling, Hans-Peter Steyrer

Studia UBB Geologia

No abstract provided.

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The Power Of Deep Time In Geoscience Education: Linking ‘Interest’, ‘Threshold Concepts’, And ‘Self-Determination Theory’, Roger Trend Jun 2009

The Power Of Deep Time In Geoscience Education: Linking ‘Interest’, ‘Threshold Concepts’, And ‘Self-Determination Theory’, Roger Trend

Studia UBB Geologia

No abstract provided.

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Interview Of James Bacchus Conducted By Rosine Plank-Brumback On June 10, 2009, Institute Of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center Jun 2009

Interview Of James Bacchus Conducted By Rosine Plank-Brumback On June 10, 2009, Institute Of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center

The Oral History Project of the World Trading System

Interview of James Bacchus, Former WTO Appellate Body Member and Former U.S. Congressman (D-FL), conducted by Rosine Plank-Brumback on June 10, 2009.

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20090610: Academic Affairs, 1953-2008, Academic Affairs Jun 2009

20090610: Academic Affairs, 1953-2008, Academic Affairs

Guides to University Archives

These items include materials from the office of Academic Affairs at Marshall University from 1953-2008. Items were received in 2010 and include notable materials from or about the department's organizational records during the assigned period. This inventory was created at an earlier date and contains outdated "location" information. Materials within this specific collection include Faculty Development Committee; Biotechnology Development Center Information; NCA Institutional Annual Reports; Academic Advising Staff Policies; other university policies that could fall under HR; folders with titles featuring VARIOUS majors. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents.

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Cephalopods Of The Broad Caribbean: Distribution, Abundance, And Ecological Importance, Heather L. Judkins Jun 2009

Cephalopods Of The Broad Caribbean: Distribution, Abundance, And Ecological Importance, Heather L. Judkins

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Broad Caribbean region is defined as the Gulf of Mexico, and the coastal and marine areas of the Caribbean Sea, including the chain of islands forming the Greater and Lesser Antilles, Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, and the gulf coasts of the United States, Central and South America (Stanley, 1995). The cephalopods of the Broad Caribbean were examined in terms of distribution, abundance, and ecological importance. A suite of 5190 preserved cephalopod specimens were identified and catalogued to produce regional maps of cephalopod distribution within the Broad Caribbean. Eighteen range extensions were noted for known species. Regional species richness …

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Does Sorting Make A Difference In The Sat’S Prediction Of Course Grades And Cumulative Gpa At Macalester College?, Yuen Ting Liu Jun 2009

Does Sorting Make A Difference In The Sat’S Prediction Of Course Grades And Cumulative Gpa At Macalester College?, Yuen Ting Liu

Economics Honors Projects

This paper estimates the predictive power of the SAT for college success. Most studies use GPA as a proxy for college success, but GPA is subject to differing grading standards across instructors and departments. Using individual course grades of Macalester College students from 1996 to 2005, this paper uses fixed effects to control for students sorting themselves into particular departments and courses. After controlling for sorting by major, a general trend emerges: the Math SAT is more predictive for science and math-related social science majors while the Verbal SAT is more predictive for language majors. After controlling for sorting by …

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An M-Star Model Of Dynamic, Endogenous Interdependence – A.K.A. Network-Behavior Coevolution – In The Social Sciences, Jude C. Hays, Aya Kachi, Robert J. Franzese Jun 2009

An M-Star Model Of Dynamic, Endogenous Interdependence – A.K.A. Network-Behavior Coevolution – In The Social Sciences, Jude C. Hays, Aya Kachi, Robert J. Franzese

Working Papers

Spatial interdependence, the interdependence of outcomes across units, is theoretically and substantively ubiquitous and central across the social sciences. The empirical clustering of outcomes on some dimension(s), spatial association, is also obvious in most contexts. However, outcomes may exhibit spatial association for three distinct reasons. Units may be responding similarly to similar exposure to similar exogenous internal/domestic or external/foreign stimuli (common exposure), and/or units’ responses may depend on others’ responses (contagion). A third possibility arises when the putative outcome affects the variable along which clustering occurs (selection: e.g., homophily). Severe empirical difficulties confront the accurate estimation and distinction of these …

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Research Methods & Applications, Nancy J. Busch, Joan Giesecke Jun 2009

Research Methods & Applications, Nancy J. Busch, Joan Giesecke

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

Expectations and outcomes
Purpose: This workshop is an introductory / intermediate look at research methods, practices and strategies. Participants will learn tools and techniques for turning interesting questions into researchable topics.
Learning Objectives: 1)To build knowledge and skills in identifying a good research project. 2)To conceptualize a realistic research project that is likely to be completed and published.

The "Document" (at right) is a pdf version of the PowerPoint presentation. The PowerPoint slides are attached below as an "Additional file."

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Getting To The Grassroots: Feminist Standpoints Within The Welfare Rights Movement, Cynthia Edmonds-Cady Jun 2009

Getting To The Grassroots: Feminist Standpoints Within The Welfare Rights Movement, Cynthia Edmonds-Cady

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This article presents historical evidence of how standpoints were used in women's participation in the welfare rights movement from 1964-1972. Results of a qualitative study using archival sources and oral history interviews are presented. An intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender, informed by feminist standpoint theory, provides lessons for current social movement work. Findings reveal that class-based standpoints were strong motivators for the recipients of welfare in their movement participation. Genderbased standpoints were important in non-recipients' participation in the movement; however, race formed a strong standpoint for the African American non-recipients in this study. Participants in social movements may …

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