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Exploring The Impact Of A Cd Rom On Arabic Language Learners' Acquisition Of The Arabic Language And Culture, Abdelhak Bouhaja

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The purpose of this study and thesis was to determine the impact of using a CD including authentic Arabic material to improve Arabic language learners' reading and listening proficiency, as well as to increase their familiarity with Arabic culture. The CD contained several components including film clips, songs, and short stories reflecting various aspects of Arabic culture and history. An open-ended questionnaire and an interview were administered to elicit students' perceptions of the CD's usefulness or lack thereof in improving their Arabic proficiency. Although students reported an interest in learning the Arabic language using the CD ROM, they seemed to …

Black Elk Speaks Says So : Elders On Telling About Traditional Tribes, James A. Starkewolf

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

In this action research thesis, Indian elders give suggestions on storytelling curriculum about traditional tribes. To see where we are going, we must know where we have been, who we come from, what we do and should do, and how to sense the hand of the Trickster. Human beings are rooted in traditional tribes, ancient future societies such as those we are documenting. Indian Country is a world apart, under siege and, as renowned activist Leonard Peltier has said, prison is the fastest growing reservation. Educational standards require children know of broken treaties, massacres, and internecine warfare, but not that …

Historic Genetic Diversity Of The Endangered White Abalone (Haliotis Sorenseni), Heather L. Hawk

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

In the 1970's, white abalone populations in California suffered catastrophic declines due to over-fishing, and the species has been listed under the Endangered Species Act since 2001. Genetic diversity of a modern population of white abalone was estimated to be significantly lower than similar Haliotis species, but the effect of the recent fishery crash on the species throughout its range was unknown. In this investigation, DNA was extracted from 39 historic and 27 recent dry abalone shells from California, and 18 historic dry shells from Baja California, Mexico. The DNA from the shells was of sufficient quality for the reproducible …

Supplemental Schedules For The Year Ended June 30, 2009, Clemson University

Annual Comprehensive Financial Report

No abstract provided.

The C8 Health Project: Design, Methods, And Participants, Stephanie J. Frisbee, A Paul Brooks Jr, Arthur Maher, Patsy Flesborg, Susan Arnold, Tony Fletcher, Kyle Steenland, Anoop Shankar, Sarah S. Knox, Cecil Pollard, Joel A. Halverson, Veronica M. Vieira, Chuanfang Jin, Kevin M. Leyden, Alan M. Ducatman

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Background

The C8 Health Project was created, authorized, and funded as part of the settlement agreement reached in the case of Jack W. Leach, et al. v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (no. 01-C-608 W.Va., Wood County Circuit Court, filed 10 April 2002). The settlement stemmed from the perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA, or C8) contamination of drinking water in six water districts in two states near the DuPont Washington Works facility near Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Objectives

This study reports on the methods and results from the C8 Health Project, a population study created to gather data that would allow …

Ada News Convention Daily - 2010 Day 2, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.

Ada News Convention Daily - 2010 Day 3, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.

Ada News Convention Daily - 2010 Day 1, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

The ADA News Daily (also called the ADA News Convention Daily) is a special edition of the ADA News published each day during American Dental Association Annual Sessions.

Town Of Henniker, New Hampshire. 2009 Annual Report., Henniker Town Representatives

Henniker, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Yours In Service, Rachael Alexander

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

Can Weak Substitution Be Rehabilitated?, V. Kerry Smith, Mary F. Evans, H. Spencer Banzhaf, Christine Poulos

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

This paper develops a graphical analysis and an analytical model that demonstrate how weak substitution can be used for non-market valuation. Weak complementarity and weak substitution represent preference restrictions that allow us to develop equivalent price changes to describe quantity or quality changes in non-market goods. The price changes are Hicksian equivalents in that they yield the same utility changes as would the quantity or quality changes. After discussion of several potential applications of weak substitution, the paper develops the parallel between the restriction and recent strategies from modeling differentiated goods.

Dewitt Wallace Library Annual Report 2009-2010, Teresa A. Fishel, Jacquelyn F. Betsworth

Annual Report - DeWitt Wallace Library

No abstract provided.

Aquilegia, Vol. 34 No. 1, Spring 2010, Newsletter Of The Colorado Native Plant Society, Bob Henry, Thomas Grant, Josh Pollock, Brian Kurzel, Al Schneider, Sheri Hagwood, Jan Loechell Turner, Ron Van Nimwegen E.

Aquilegia - Colorado Native Plant Society

No abstract provided.

Aquilegia, Vol. 34 No. 2, Summer 2010, Newsletter Of The Colorado Native Plant Society, Bob Henry, William A. Weber, Jan Loechell Turner, Charlie Turner, Jessica Clement, Luke Tembrock, Brian Kurzel, Al Schneider

Aquilegia - Colorado Native Plant Society

No abstract provided.

Aquilegia, Vol. 34 No. 3, 2010, Newsletter Of The Colorado Native Plant Society, Bob Henry

Aquilegia - Colorado Native Plant Society

No abstract provided.

Aquilegia, Vol. 34 No. 4, Fall 2010, Newsletter Of The Colorado Native Plant Society, Bob Henry, Jan Loechell Turner, Panayoti Kelaidis

Aquilegia - Colorado Native Plant Society

No abstract provided.

Aquilegia, Vol. 34 No. 5, Winter 2010, Newsletter Of The Colorado Native Plant Society, Bob Henry, Steve Popovich, Scott F. Smith, Jenny Neale, William A. Weber, Donald L. Hazlett

Aquilegia - Colorado Native Plant Society

No abstract provided.

Conservation Blueprint, A Guidebook For Protecting Place And Prosperity In Arrowsic, Bath, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Brunswick, Georgetown, Harpswell, Phippsburg, Richmond, Topsham, West Bath And Woolwich, Sagadahoc Region Rural Resources Initiative, Steve Walker

Publications

No abstract provided.

University Of Southern Maine Undergraduate Catalog 2010-2011, University Of Southern Maine

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Concurrent Simulation Of The Eddying General Circulation And Tides In A Global Ocean Model, Brian K. Arbic, Alan J. Wallcraft, E. Joseph Metzger

United States Navy: Publications

This paper presents a five-year global simulation of HYCOM, the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model, that simultaneously resolves the eddying general circulation, barotropic tides, and baroclinic tides with 32 layers in the vertical direction and 1/12.5° (equatorial) horizontal grid spacing. A parameterized topographic wave drag is inserted into the model and tuned so that the surface tidal elevations are of comparable accuracy to those in optimally tuned forward tide models used in previous studies. The model captures 93% of the open-ocean sea-surface height variance of the eight largest tidal constituents, as recorded by a standard set of 102 pelagic tide gauges …

Malondialdehyde–Acetaldehyde Adduct Is The Dominant Epitope After Mda Modification Of Proteins In Atherosclerosis, Michael J. Duryee, Lynell W. Klassen, Courtney S. Schaffert, Dean J. Tuma, Carlos Hunter, Robert P. Garvin, Daniel R. Anderson, Geoffrey M. Thiele

United States Department of Veterans Affairs: Publications

Antibodies to malondialdehyde (MDA)-modified macromolecules (adducts) have been detected in the serum of patients with atherosclerosis and correlate with the progression of this disease. However, the epitope and its formation have not been characterized. Studies have shown that excess MDA can be degraded to acetaldehyde, which combines with proteins to from a stable dihydropyridine adduct. To investigate, mice were immunized with MDA adducts in the absence of adjuvant and showed an increase in antibodies to MDA adducts and the carrier protein as the concentration of MDA was increased. In fact, a number of the commercially available antibodies to MDA-modified proteins …

A Flow Cytometric Assay To Quantify In Vivo Bacterial Uptake By Alveolar Macrophages, Adam M. Pitz, Greg A. Perry, Heather C. Jensen-Smith, Martha J. Gentry-Nielsen

United States Department of Veterans Affairs: Publications

Our laboratory has developed a flow cytometric assay to quantify alveolar macrophage (MФ) phagocytosis of bacteria within a live animal. MФs collected by bronchoalveolar lavage from rats infected transtracheally with Syto 9-labeled bacteria are fluorescently labeled for identification and analyzed by flow cytometry to quantify their bacterial uptake.

Acetyl-L-Carnitine Protects Neuronal Function From Alcohol-Induced Oxidative Damage In The Brain, Travis J. Rump, P. M. Abdul Muneer, Adam M. Szlachetka, Allyson Lamb, Catherine Haorei, Saleena Alikunju, Huangui Xiong, James Keblesh, Jianuo Liu, Matthew C. Zimmerman, Jocelyn Jones, Terrence M. Donohue Jr., Yuri Persidsky, James Haorah

United States Department of Veterans Affairs: Publications

The studies presented here demonstrate the protective effect of acetyl-L-carnitine (ALC) against alcoholinduced oxidative neuroinflammation, neuronal degeneration, and impaired neurotransmission. Our findings reveal the cellular and biochemical mechanisms of alcohol-induced oxidative damage in various types of brain cells. Chronic ethanol administration to mice caused an increase in inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and 3-nitrotyrosine adduct formation in frontal cortical neurons but not in astrocytes from brains of these animals. Interestingly, alcohol administration caused a rather selective activation of NADPH oxidase (NOX), which, in turn, enhanced levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and 4-hydroxynonenal, but these were predominantly localized in astrocytes …

Me-Em 2010 Annual Report, Department Of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Annual Reports

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Wittgenstein Tests Mr. Justice Holmes: On Holmes's Proposal To Separate Legal Concepts From Moral Concepts, Thomas D. Eisele

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

No abstract provided.

2009 Annual Report Town Of Madison, Nh., Madison Town Representatives

Madison, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Timber Talk, Vol. 48, No. 2, June 1, 2010

Timber Talk: Nebraska Forest Industry Newsletter

Lumber Market News; Hardwood Lumber Price Trends—Green; Hardwood Lumber Price Trends—Kiln Dried; Softwood Lumber Price Trends; New Home for NFS; Walnut Quarantine; Tips to Preserve Color of ‘White’ Wood; Quarter and Rift; Nebraska Forestry Industry Spotlight; The Making of a Briquette;.. Coming Events; The Trading Post.

Annual Report Of The Town Of Roxbury, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2009., Roxbury Town Representatives

Roxbury, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Provost 2010 Commemorative Edition

Madison Magazine

Madison is an official publication of James Madison University and is produced quarterly for alumni, parents of JMU students, faculty and staff members, and friends of the university. It is produced by the Division of University Advancement. Editorial and advertising offices: JMU, 220 University Blvd., MSC 3610, Harrisonburg, VA 22807.

Corporate Social Innovation, Jared Tham

Social Space

CSR has long been perceived as an afterthought in the corporate world. However, perceptions are shifting, and CSR is becoming part of the innovation paradigm of a corporation, creating what is arguably a turning point in the history of the CSR movement.