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A Pedagogical And Educational Examination Of The First Month At The Piano By Mana-Zucca, Laura Helene Keith

Open Access Dissertations

The First Month at the Piano by Mana-Zucca, published in 1935, is a pioneering piano method to be taught by rote, supporting sound before sight learning theories, to the pre-school student. It differs from the Suzuki method in that The First Month at the Piano uses short, repetitive patterns, intrinsic to the Edwin Gordon Music Learning Theory. The First Month at the Piano has been compared to educational theories and has been found to follow Lev Vygotsky's theory of scaffolding and Jerome Bruner's principles of structure, readiness for learning, and motivation. The First Month at the Piano has been shown …

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - December 6, 2009, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the December 6, 2009 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler

Contents Include:

• USA Mourns Loss of Radiology Chair

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 6, 2009, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2009

No abstract provided.

Study The Effect Of Position On The Time Of Astronomical Twilight, Fouad M. Abdulla, Anas Salman Taha

Baghdad Science Journal

Twilight is that light appear on the horizon before sunrise and after sunset, Astronomically it is known that sunrise and sunset are effected by high above sea level, but the effect of high above sea level on the time of astronomical twilight still not decided and controversy among astronomers, in This research we studies the effect of high above sea level on the time of astronomical twilight, through adding the equation correct high above sea level to equation computation of twilight and then calculate of changing in the time of twilight for different highest (0-10000) meters above sea level , …

Speaker Authentication Using Vector Quantization, Bushra Q. Al-Abudi, Mohammed S. Mahdi

Baghdad Science Journal

In this paper, the role of the vector quantization in the speaker authentication system was studied. Vector quantization based speaker authentication system was considered in two phases; training and testing. The training phase concerned with enrolling the speaker models to build the codebook. The codebook generated from a set of feature vectors belong to each sample of speaker's voice. The testing phase includes matching the unknown input speaker with the models. The matching is performed by evaluating the similarity measure between the unknown speech sample and the models in the speaker database to authenticate the input speaker. A weighted similarity …

Mean-Field Solution Of The Mixed Spin-1 And Spin-5/2ising System With Different Single-Ion Anisotropies, Fuad. T. Ibrahim

Baghdad Science Journal

The mixed-spin ferrimagnetic Ising system consists of two-dimensional sublattices A and B with spin values S_A=-1 and S_B=5/2 respectively .By used the mean-field approximation MFA of Ising model to find magnetism(m_B, m_A). In order to determined the best stabile magnetism , Gibbs free energy employ a variational method based on the Bogoliubov inequality. The ground-state (Phase diagram) structure of our system can easily be determined at T=0 , we find six phases with different spins values depend on the effect of a single-ion anisotropies D_B, D_A .these lead to determined the second , first orders transition ,and the tricritical points …

Determination Of Glutathione Peroxidase (Gsh-Pex) Activity In Sera & Rbcs Of Iraqi Women With Breast Tumors, Peri H. Saifullah, Fatin F. Al-Kazzaz, Zayzafoon N. N. Al-Azawi

Baghdad Science Journal

Breast tumor patients generally have more oxidative stress than normal females. This was clear from non significant decrease in RBCs and serum of GSH-Pex activity in all groups of patients. The study had found that free radicals in malignant breast tumors were higher than benign tumors; therefore the GSH- Pex might be used as markers for prognosis of the disease.

Engaging Youth Through Volunteer Service Travel: In Service Of The Common Good, Andrew Bailey, Keith Russell

Journal of Youth Development

Volunteer Tourism is becoming a popular topic in the travel literature. These experiences combine the adventure of travel with opportunities to serve the communities visited. This burgeoning field of tourism may provide an attractive outlet for generating positive developmental assets and for encouraging future civic engagement. This paper highlights a study which explored the relationship of wisdom and social capital and also discussed the influence of a voluntourism experience on wisdom and social capital domains. The sample consisted of 68 high school youth from the various high schools in Illinois. Results indicate that wisdom and social capital are positively and …

Dmitri Shalin Interview With Dean Maccannell About Erving Goffman Entitled "Some Of Goffman’S Guardedness And Verbal Toughness Was Simply A Way Of Giving Himself The Space And Time That He Needed To Do The Work That He Really Loved", Dean Maccannell

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

This conversation with Dean MacCannell, Professor of Environmental Design at the University of California Davis, was recorded over the phone on July 7, 2009. The initial exchange lasting a minute or so is reconstructed from memory. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”.

Skateboard Park Participation: A Means-End Analysis, Marni Goldenberg, Wynn Shooter

Journal of Youth Development

Skateboarding has become a highly visible and popular activity. However, many negative stereotypes remain associated with the activity and its participants (Jones & Graves, 2000). In contrast to the negative stereotypes, skateboarding seems to provide many individuals, and youth in particular, with an important outlet for physical activity, leisure, and personal development. The purpose of this study was to investigate why skateboarders chose to visit skateboard parks, to identify outcomes of participating in skateboarding at skateboard parks, and to identify the underlying values that guide skateboarders’ choice of this specific setting. The conceptual framework for the reported study was provided …

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 5, 2009, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Gpsa Council Meeting, 12/5/2009, Graduate And Professional Student Association

GPSA Meeting Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Ex. 277-Us-400, Dudley W. Reiser

Hedden-Nicely Collection, All

The affidavit and direct testimony of Dudley W. Reiser, Ph.D.

Ex. 277-Us-401, Dudley W. Reiser

Hedden-Nicely Collection, All

Cirrrculum Vitae of Dudley W. Reiser, Ph.D.

Ex. 279-Us-400 (Corrected), Dudley W. Reiser

Hedden-Nicely Collection, All

The affidavit and direct testimony of Dudley W. Reiser, Ph.D.

Ex. 280-Us-401, Dudley W. Reiser

Hedden-Nicely Collection, All

Cirrrculum Vitae of Dudley W. Reiser, Ph.D.

Ex. 280-Us-400 (Corrected), Dudley W. Reiser

Hedden-Nicely Collection, All

Affidavit and direct testimony of Dudley W. Reiser.

Ex. 281-Us-401, Dudley W. Reiser

Hedden-Nicely Collection, All

Cirrrculum Vitae of Dudley W. Reiser, Ph.D.

Ex. 281-Us-400, Dudley W. Reiser

Hedden-Nicely Collection, All

Affidavit and direct testimony of Dudley W. Reiser.

Ex. 277-Us-401, Dudley W. Reiser

In re Klamath River (Klamath Tribe)

Cirrrculum Vitae of Dudley W. Reiser, Ph.D.

Ex. 277-Us-400, Dudley W. Reiser

In re Klamath River (Klamath Tribe)

The affidavit and direct testimony of Dudley W. Reiser, Ph.D.

Ex. 279-Us-400 (Corrected), Dudley W. Reiser

In re Klamath River (Klamath Tribe)

The affidavit and direct testimony of Dudley W. Reiser, Ph.D.

Ex. 280-Us-401, Dudley W. Reiser

In re Klamath River (Klamath Tribe)

Cirrrculum Vitae of Dudley W. Reiser, Ph.D.

Ex. 280-Us-400 (Corrected), Dudley W. Reiser

In re Klamath River (Klamath Tribe)

Affidavit and direct testimony of Dudley W. Reiser.

Ex. 281-Us-401, Dudley W. Reiser

In re Klamath River (Klamath Tribe)

Cirrrculum Vitae of Dudley W. Reiser, Ph.D.

Ex. 281-Us-400, Dudley W. Reiser

In re Klamath River (Klamath Tribe)

Affidavit and direct testimony of Dudley W. Reiser.

Fabrication Methods For Creating Flexible Polymer Substrate Sensor Tags, Jack L. Skinner, Harvey Ho

Mechanical Engineering

The authors describe the design, fabrication, and testing of a passive wireless sensor platform utilizing low-cost commercial surface acoustic wave filters and sensors. Polyimide and polyethylene terephthalate sheets are used as substrates to create a flexible sensor tag that can be applied to curved surfaces. A microfabricated antenna is integrated on the substrate in order to create a compact form factor. The sensor tags are fabricated using 315 MHz surface acoustic wave filters and photodiodes and tested with the aid of a fiber-coupled tungsten lamp. Microwave energy transmitted from a network analyzer is used to interrogate the sensor tag. Due …

The Echo: December 4, 2009, Taylor University

2009-2010 (Volume 97)

Students given three square meals – American health care getting a makeover – Remedy.fm needs cure for drop in funding – In Brief – Taylor alum and former Crip unite for hope – Panel speaks on homosexuality – The Bubble – China takes new steps in space program – Encouraging global missions: Urbana 2009 – Around the World in 30 Seconds – World Voices – On This Day in History – A Winter Blunderland – Students rate professors on the Web – Freshman reflect on first semester – Missed connections – The Adventures of Alissa & Adrienne – Yo, Adrienne! …

Accelerated Internationalization In Born Globals: An Analysis Of Factors Influencing Their Rapid Internationalization, Leland G. Hoover

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Born Global (BG) firms are entrepreneurial ventures that internationalize at or near founding, overcoming the barriers that restrain most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from increased global trade. While research on SME barriers to internationalization is emerging, research on how BGs rapidly overcome these barriers remains under-explored. This study fills this void in the BG literature by analyzing factors influencing rapid internationalization. A survey was conducted of BGs and SMEs in the U.S. and U.K. This survey study found that BGs overcome information barriers more readily than other SMEs and a predictive factor is previous international experience. Additional research topics …

The Docket (December 4, 2009), William & Mary Law School

The Docket

No abstract provided.