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Striving And Surviving: The Phenomenology Of The First-Year Teaching Experience, Michael D. Smith

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Despite the enduring relative popularity of teaching as a career, the research literature on teacher preparation suggests that there is growing concern about the state of the field. With each passing year, the demographic realities within k-12 classrooms bring new challenges for the teacher preparation enterprise. Shortages in high need communities and increasing numbers of provisionally certified (or uncertified) teachers represent two areas of concern. Notwithstanding the extraordinarily increasing cultural and linguistic diversity now found among the student population, the teacher population has failed to diversify in kind. The number of new teachers who are ill-prepared to respond to this …

Robust Protective Factors That Help Youths With A Parent Experiencing Depression Achieve Positive Adjustment, Hsing-Jung Chen

Theses and Dissertations

Based on a resilience framework, the purpose of this study was to address knowledge gaps about minority youths who lived in rural and poor areas, had a primary caregiver with a diagnosis of depression, and faced multiple psychosocial stressors. Three research objectives included: 1) To explore the association between ecological protective factors and four developmental outcomes-emotional adjustment, behavioral adjustment, school performance, and educational aspiration; 2) To identify the robust protective factors; and 3) To explore the interactive relationships between risk and robust protective factors. Families (N=126) where the primary caregiver had a diagnosis of major depression and had a child …

From Choice To Reproductive Justice: De-Constitutionalizing Abortion Rights, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Essay argues that the right to abortion constitutionalized in Roe v. Wade is by some measure at odds with a capacious understanding of the demands of reproductive justice. No matter its rationale, the constitutional right to abortion is fundamentally a negative right that rhetorically keeps the state out of the domain of family life. As such, the decision privatizes not only the abortion decision, but also parenting, by rendering the decision to carry a pregnancy to term a choice. It thereby legitimates a minimalist state response to the problems of pregnant women who carry their pregnancies to term and …

Staff Council Meeting Minutes, Georgia Southern University, Staff Council

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

No abstract provided.

The Parthenon, November 18, 2009, Marshall University

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

Coming Distractions: The Wobbling Pivot

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Prominent Qing specialist Pamela Crossley of Dartmouth College has a new book coming out in February, The Wobbling Pivot, China Since 1800: An Interpretive History, which is aimed at general readers and is designed to be suitable as well for classes devoted to modern Chinese history. One theme in the book that is likely to be of special interest to those who follow this blog is her frequent discussion of similarities and differences over time in patterns of unrest and the way that the state and its representatives respond to challenges from below. Focusing largely on tensions and modes of …

The Bates Student - Volume 139 Number 07 - November 17, 2009, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.

East Bay Energy Consortium Siting Study Kickoff Meeting, November 17, 2009, East Bay Energy Consortium

East Bay Energy Consortium Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Upperclassmen Selected As Homecoming King And Queen, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2009

• Junior Ron Nelson and senior Sharetta Wynn were voted Homecoming King and Queen for Winthrop’s Homecoming Fall 2009.
• They accepted their crowns Saturday, Nov. 14, during halftime of the men’s basketball game against Limestone College.

Jerry Richardson Donates To Winthrop In Honor Of His Wife, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2009

• A full tuition scholarship for a rising senior will be available in the fall of 2010.
• The recipient will be announced at Convocation each year.

School Of Medicine Academic Plan, 2009-2014

Annual Reports - Education

The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is the only public medical school in the state and one of only three public medical schools in the New England. Consequently, it plays a pivotal role in education, research, and healthcare delivery in both the state and the region. The primary mission of the School of Medicine is education at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels for practitioners, teachers, and researchers, conducted in an environment of exemplary patient care, research, and public service.

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Finance And Service Committee Meeting, Tuesday, November 17, 2009, Arts & Sciences Finance And Service Committee

Finance and Service Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

A New Class Of Minimum Power Divergence Estimators With Applications To Cancer Surveillance, Nirian Martin, Yi Li

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Ala Aclu Censor Miami School Board Over Cuban Book - Loses Battle In School Library, Ginny Maziarka

West Bend Community Memorial Library (Wisconsin), 2009

No abstract provided.

11-17-2009 Swosu Music Department To Present Handel's The Messiah, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2009

The SWOSU Community Chorus will perform the Christmas portion of George Frideric Handel's The Messiah on both Sunday and Monday, November 29-30, in Weatherford.

11-17-2009 Swosu Panorama Series Hosting Postsecret Creator This Thursday, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2009

PostSecret Project creator Frank Warren will speak at Southwestern Oklahoma State University this Thursday, November 19, on the Weatherford campus.

2009-2010 Master Of Music Recital - Daniel Furtado (Piano), Daniel Furtado

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, November 17, 2009, Daily Egyptian Staff

November 2009

No abstract provided.

Exploring What It Means To Be A Catholic In Ireland Today, Eamon Maher

Articles

No abstract provided.

Academic Senate - Meeting Minutes, 11/17/2009, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Gsu Lincoln Laureate Honored, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Each year an outstanding senior from each of the four-year degree granting institutions of higher learning in Illinois is named a Student Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois.

This year’s Lincoln Laureate from Governors State University is Adam Taylor of Matteson. According to those who nominated him, Taylor exemplifies the characteristics of Lincoln Laureates who are chosen for their commitment to the principles of democracy and humanity as embodied by Abraham Lincoln. Taylor has been an active and contributing member of the GSU community through his work as president of the Student Senate, participant in the Brother 2 Brother …

11-17-2009 (The Liberty Champion Volume 27, Issue 10)

2009 -- 2010

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News November 17, 2009, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2009

No abstract provided.

Developing G-Rim And Participants Tests For Specific Commercial Programs For The Florida Natural Gas Association, Florida Solar Energy Center, Richard Raustad

FSEC Energy Research Center®

The Florida Solar Energy Center performed an economic assessment for 7 common commercial appliances. This assessment calculates the gas rate impact measure and participants test score for selecting natural gas equipment over comparable electric equipment over a 20-year period. This type of analysis provides an indication whether or not the specific appliance program favors the end use customer and/or the utility company as economic beneficiaries. Given the project assumptions, all natural gas equipment types, with the exception of the pool heat pump water heater, show measures greater than 1 indicating that the natural gas appliance will have lower life-cycle costs …

Spartan Daily November 17, 2009, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 133, Issue 40

Graduate Sessions 9: Keller Easterling, James Lucas, Mark D. Linder, Cameron Lassiter

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

Keller Easterling is an architect, professor, urbanist, and writer whose books Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America offer original and provocative conflations of spatial theory and contemporary design.

Procter Family (Sc 2077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2077. Genealogical notes and correspondence relating to the Procter, Carson and Dinwiddie families. Includes a certified copy of the will of Evan Shelby, father of Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky.

Pope, Leemon (Sc 2085), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2085. Partial courtship letter, written from Galveston, Texas, possibly by Leemon Pope. He writes of his church attendance, his business associates and his success in his work at an insurance company.

Fcic Interview With Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, Phillip Angelides, Thomas Borgers

Documents

No abstract provided.

Expression And Function Of Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1 Alpha In Human Melanoma Under Non-Hypoxic Conditions, Caroline N. Mills, Sandeep S. Joshi, Richard M. Niles

Biochemistry and Microbiology

Background

Hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1α) protein is rapidly degraded under normoxic conditions. When oxygen tensions fall HIF-1α protein stabilizes and transactivates genes involved in adaptation to hypoxic conditions. We have examined the normoxic expression of HIF-1α RNA and protein in normal human melanocytes and a series of human melanoma cell lines isolated from radial growth phase (RGP), vertical growth phase (VGP) and metastatic (MET) melanomas.

Results

HIF-1α mRNA and protein was increased in RGP vs melanocytes, VGP vs RGP and MET vs VGP melanoma cell lines. We also detected expression of a HIF-1α mRNA splice variant that lacks part …