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Middle Eastern Studies Program Newsletter - V3.1, Middle Eastern Studies Program

Middle Eastern Studies Program - Newsletters

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Graduate Catalog And Student Handbook 2009-2010, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice Graduate Course Catalogs

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Effective Practices In Undergraduate Stem Education Part 1: Examining The Evidence, Labov B. Jay, Susan R. Singer, Melvin D. George, Heidi A. Schweingruber, Margaret L. Hilton

Biology Faculty Work

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The Net Generation And E-Textbooks, Arlene J. Nicholas, John K. Lewis

Faculty and Staff - Articles & Papers

The traditional college student of today is part of the Net Generation who has been raised in an era of instant access. Their communication and learning is complemented by the Internet, a major influence on this cohort (Roberts, 2005). The regular method of contact is text messaging, instant messaging and cell phones. Learning methods for the Net Generation includes Internet tools such as Web-CT, Blackboard, online courses, online journals and i-pod downloads. Students were surveyed for their attitudes on using and learning with e-textbooks. Their views depict the changing attitudes towards media as precipitated by network connectivity popular with this …

Anthropolgy Discipline Goals And Methods 2009, Assessment Of Student Learning Committee

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

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General Education Survey Of Graduating Seniors: Trends 2002-2009, Umm Institutional Research

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

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Anthropology Discipline Assessment Report 2008/2009, Anthropology Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

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Biology Discipline Assessment Report Spring 2009, Biology Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

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Biology Discipline Assessment Plan 2009, Biology Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

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Chemistry Discipline Assessment Report 2008/2009, Chemistry Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

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Is A Sense Of Inequity An Ancestral Primate Trait? Testing Social Inequity In Cotton Top Tamarins, Julie J. Neiworth, Elizabeth T. Johnson, Katherine Whillock, Julia Greenberg, Vanessa Brown

Psychology Faculty Work

To address a controversy in the literature concerning whether monkeys show an aversion to inequity, individuals of a New World monkey species, cotton top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) were tested in an offering task and in a bartering task. At issue was whether the monkeys rejected rewards because of a violation of expectancy of the preferred reward, or whether they rejected rewards because of a sensitivity to socially mediated inequity. The data from both tasks indicated that the subjects were more likely to reject when preferred rewards were presented, either because of another animal eating the reward (the social condition) or …

Thinking About Me: How Social Awareness Evolved, Julie J. Neiworth

Psychology Faculty Work

—Humans seem unique in their consideration of others’ goals, motivations, intentions, and needs. But the human form of social awareness did not spring from nowhere; certain mechanisms shared across primates formed the foundation from which these processes derived. A review of recent nonhuman primate research points to particular ancestral mechanisms, including an interest in images moving in synchrony with self, a mirror neuron system that responds in the same way to actions made by the self and by others, and inherited social tolerance that provided the bases for social thinking. Still there is a gap in tracking social awareness from …

The Argonaut, 2009, University Of Lynchburg

The Argonaut (Yearbook)

The Argonaut from 2009.

Fall Report: August-November 2008, Bill Pranty

Florida Field Naturalist

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Context Of Blue Jay (Cyanocitta Cristata) Mimicking Cooper’S Hawk (Accipiter Cooperii) Cackle, Jack P. Hailman

Florida Field Naturalist

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First Record Of Least Grebes (Tachybaptus Dominicus) Nesting In Florida, Lee M. Hasse, O. David Hasse

Florida Field Naturalist

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The Effects Of Fire On The Breeding Ecology Of Florida Grasshopper Sparrows ( Ammodramus Savannarum Floridanus ) And Bachman’S Sparrows (Aimophila Aestivalis), Dustin W. Perkins, W. Gregory Shriver, Peter D. Vickery

Florida Field Naturalist

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Sampling Techniques For Sediment Pore Water In Evaluation Of Reactive Capping Efficacy, Donald E. Wise

Master's Theses and Capstones

Contaminated sediments are a significant problem that has adverse effects on human, animal and plant health. Heavy metal contamination, with dissolved metals being the most bioavailable form, has been occurring since man first started living in communities around water bodies. Pore water provides contaminated metals a medium for transport from the sediment to the water body. Determining the toxic metal concentration in pore water is essential to any remediation plan. In-situ dialysis samplers or peepers were investigated in this thesis as a tool for evaluating metal contamination in sediments. Peeper performance was compared to direct suction samplers. Both samplers were …

The Effect Of Particle-Associated Viruses On Disinfection Processes In Water Treatment, Jessica L. Tokson

Master's Theses and Capstones

This research focused on what accelerates or hinders virus-particle association, how the addition of turbidity affects both chlorine and ultraviolet light disinfection, and if sonication can disrupt virus-particle associations exposing viruses to disinfection methods.

A decrease in pH, from 7--4, was found to accelerate association by 2-logs. Calcium increased association by 2.74-logs, and total organic carbon decreased association by 0.36-logs.

An addition of 5 NTU, the maximum turbidity level allowed by USEPA for unfiltered drinking water supplies, affected both chlorine and UV light disinfection showing differences in the rate of kill per dose. The association of viruses and particles can …

Comparative Genomics Exploration Tools, Shilpa M. Kulkarni

Master's Theses and Capstones

Comparative Genomics focuses on elucidating the genetic differences between different species or different strains of the same species by the comparative analysis of DNA sequences to identify functional elements and regulatory regions. This thesis describes the design and development of two software tools to support comparative genomics research. These tools were specifically developed to support the analysis and assembly of sequence data produced from innovative new DNA sequencing technology from 454 Life Sciences using the PicoTiterPlate(TM) device. This technology will dramatically affect comparative genomics research. Currently available software tools were developed to handle traditional shotgun sequences averaging 500-1000 base pairs …

Thermal Exchange Processes Within Shallow Fractured Bedrock: Applications For Standing Column Wells, Sarah B. Mckone

Master's Theses and Capstones

This research investigates thermal properties of fractured bedrock for the purpose of better understanding the sustainability of standing column well (SCW) geothermal heating systems. The three objectives are to quantify effective thermal conductivity and heat capacity of the fracture network; measure heat exchange between the fluid and the fractured surfaces; and estimate time of thermal breakthrough into a pumping well. Single and dipole well tests are performed to meet these objectives. Single well data is compared with an analytical heat flow model to estimate thermal conductivity and heat capacity. Dipole well data is compared to a model of the Kolditz …

Nanoscale Approaches For Biomolecule Separation And Detection, Swati Goyal

Bioengineering Theses - Archive

Nanotechnology has the potential to contact and impact the biological interactions at the most basic chemical and physical levels. New approaches to nanodevices allow high sensitivity and specificity with low sample requirement. Such devices are potential candidates for early disease detection at molecular levels and have important implications in associated therapeutics.This research work focuses on two different areas: developing devices for DNA detection, protein enrichment and exploring material properties to fabricate microscale/nanoscale structures. In one approach, hairpin probe DNA was used to detect fmol of ss-DNA from k-ras oncogene. In another approach, nanochannel based device was developed to selectively increase …

Focal Point, Volume 23 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute

Research and Training Center - Focal Point

Stigmatization can result in exclusion of and discrimination against the stigmatized individual. This issue of Focal Point provides state-of-the-art information about stigmatization, its causes and consequences, and strategies and programs for alleviating it.

No Cracks In The Wall: The Standing Barrier And The Need For Restructuring Animal Protection Laws, Kristen Stuber Snyder

Cleveland State Law Review

American society's perception of animals has come a long way since the country was founded over 200 years ago. However, the court system has been slow to evolve along with these views, and the standing requirement maintains a barrier for those wishing to enforce protection through litigation. While protective legislation currently exists, it does not provide the necessary means of enforcement to accomplish its objectives. Thus, the enactment of new legislation is necessary to ensure animals in this country exist under decent and humane conditions.

2009 Georgia Southern University Softball Media Guide, Georgia Southern University

Women's Softball Records

• Georgia Southern 2009 Softball Media Guide

Validation Of Inverse Seasonal Peak Mortality In Medieval Plagues, Including The Black Death, In Comparison To Modern Yersinia Pestis-Variant Diseases, Mark R. Welford, Brian H. Bossak

Earth, Environment & Sustainability: Faculty Publications

Background: Recent studies have noted myriad qualitative and quantitative inconsistencies between the medieval Black Death (and subsequent ‘‘plagues’’) and modern empirical Y. pestis plague data, most of which is derived from the Indian and Chinese plague outbreaks of A.D. 1900615 years. Previous works have noted apparent differences in seasonal mortality peaks during Black Death outbreaks versus peaks of bubonic and pneumonic plagues attributed to Y. pestis infection, but have not provided spatiotemporal statistical support. Our objective here was to validate individual observations of this seasonal discrepancy in peak mortality between historical epidemics and modern empirical data.

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The Hidden Human And Environmental Costs Of Regulatory Delay, Catherine O'Neill, Amy Sinden, Rena I. Steinzor, James Goodwin, Ling-Yee Huang

Faculty Scholarship

Each year dozens of workers are killed, thousands of children harmed, and millions of dollars wasted because of unjustifiable delays in federal regulatory action. Such delays in regulatory action have become commonplace, part of the wallpaper of Washington’s regulatory process for the protector agencies—the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), EPA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and OSHA. Despite its significance, the problem of regulatory delay and the costs it generates has been virtually ignored in the debate over the general wisdom of the U.S. regulatory system over the last 30-plus years. Opponents …

"So There We Were--" : The Stories Told By Chief Petty Officers In The United States Navy, Explored Through A Complexity Lens, Patricia Joanne Reily

Doctoral Dissertations

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University Place, Sarah Digiulio, David Marc, Krista Flynt, Timeka Williams, Christine Yackel, Jay Cox

Syracuse University Magazine

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Opening Remarks: Exploration And Discovery, Jay Cox

Syracuse University Magazine

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