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The Bison, December 3, 2010

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes Dec 3, 2010, A-State Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

December 2-3, 2010 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Regular Sessions, Board Of Trustees, Central Washington University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes for the Regular Sessions of the Board of Trustees at Central Washington University, December 2-3, 2010.

Network Science: Using Information Technology To Enable Collaboration, Arden L. Bement Jr.

PPRI Digital Library

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: December 03, 2010, Eastern Illinois University

December

No abstract provided.

Flyer News, Vol. 58, No. 18 (Dec. 3, 2010), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

December 3, 2010, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Concert Choir's "A Festival Of Nine Lessons And Carols" This Weekend, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The annual Carol Concert will feature magical creatures, beautiful voices, and an English style meal.

The Pragmatic Influences On Thou And Ye In Some Middle English Romances, Aislinn Meyer

Honors Thesis and Capstone Projects

The standard explanation of the semantics of power and solidarity for second person Middle English pronoun choice, advanced by Roger Brown and Albert Gilman and accepted by many Middle English scholars since, has proven insufficient to explain many choices between thou and ye that fictional characters make. This paper applies the discourse theories of pragmatics and politeness, developed by Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson, to the relatively untouched data set of non-Chaucerian romances in order to account for some of those anomalies. By examining the pronouns of address in Floris and Blancheflour, Havelok the Dane, Ywain and Gawain, …

And Justice For All: Developing Rule Of Law In The Balkans, Ryan M. Lowry

Department of Political Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to bring to justice those who had committed the worst crimes during the conflicts in the Balkans during the 1990s. From the outset, this institution was envisioned to temporarily process indicted war criminals. The domestic courts in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia were seen as being corrupt and ill equipped to handle such cases; rule of law was absent or severely lacking in these countries. As the Tribunal winds down, however, both international and domestic actors have emphasized the need to strengthen their judicial systems that will create a …

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, December 3, 2010, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

December

No abstract provided.

Minutes, Graduate Curricula And Assessment Committee Meeting, December 3, 2010, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Kate Tiedemann College Of Business. Graduate Curricula And Assessment Committee

Kate Tiedemann College of Business Graduate College Curricula and Assessment Committee

Minutes of the December 3, 2010, meeting of the Graduate Curricula and Assessment Committee.

The Echo: December 3, 2010, Taylor University

2010-2011 (Volume 98)

Policy changes give athletes head start – Taylor tops the list again – Help heads to Haiti – In Briefs – Project seeks growth in Bible use – The Bubble – Former Taylor student serves in Zambia – World Voices – Global connection to take a stand: World AIDS Day 2010 – On This Day in History – US urges China to intervene in Korean Peninsula conflict – Around the World in 30 Seconds – Breaching the Bubble – Mr. Swipes – Family fest fundraiser – Dashing blindly through the snow – Noche de Baile (Dance Night) – Winter survival …

Crusader, December 3, 2010, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

The student newspaper for the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Articles include coverage of campus events and issues, sports, editorials and special features.

“Did You Call Me?” 5-Month-Old Infants Own Name Guides Their Attention, Eugenio Parise, Angela D. Friederici, Tricia Striano

Publications and Research

An infant's own name is a unique social cue. Infants are sensitive to their own name by 4 months of age, but whether they use their names as a social cue is unknown. Electroencephalogram (EEG) was measured as infants heard their own name or stranger's names and while looking at novel objects. Event related brain potentials (ERPs) in response to names revealed that infants differentiate their own name from stranger names from the first phoneme. The amplitude of the ERPs to objects indicated that infants attended more to objects after hearing their own names compared to another name. Thus, by …

Art Club Holiday Sale Showcases Work By Student, Faculty, And Area Artists, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The Art Club Holiday Sale is a favorite destination for unique, one-of-a-kind gifts.

Innovating Continuous Review Policies With Rfid, Angela Garza

Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Inventory accuracy is critical for NASA astronauts in space. In 2004, astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) nearly had to de-man their outpost due to the fact the replenishment of consumables were uncertain. Automated Identification Technologies (AITs) such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) can be utilized to minimize the occurrence of situations like this one. RFID has been used to aid inventory management systems by providing real time availability of the item information including location and status. The benefit of RFID over barcodes is immense as it allows users to employ continuous review models. Barcodes are only capable of …

A Rhetoric Of Change: Church Growth And Social Change At The Richmond Outreach Center, Rebekah Holbrook

Theses and Dissertations

The Richmond Outreach Center “The ROC” is an independent soulwinning megachurch in Richmond, Virginia. This thesis explores how rhetoric plays a role in the rapid growth of this urban church and considers the church’s response—rhetorically and politically—to the city’s social issues. Through a rhetorical analysis of sermons and written texts by Geronimo Aguilar, the ROC’s founder and pastor, it is concluded that Aguilar has generated a rhetoric of change that says social change must come to Richmond and that everyone, both rich and poor, are responsible for change. Aguilar galvanizes an audience to seek social change because he articulates roles …

Facial Expression Discriminates Between Pain And Absence Of Pain In The Non-Communicative, Critically Ill Adult Patient, Mamoona Arif-Rahu

Theses and Dissertations

BACKGROUND: Pain assessment is a significant challenge in critically ill adults, especially those unable to communicate their pain level. At present there is no universally accepted pain scale for use in the non-communicative (cognitively impaired, sedated, paralyzed or mechanically ventilated) patient. Facial expressions are considered among the most reflexive and automatic nonverbal indices of pain. The facial expression component of pain assessment tools include a variety of facial descriptors (wincing, frowning, grimacing, smile/relaxed) with inconsistent pain intensity ratings or checklists of behaviors. The lack of consistent facial expression description and quantification of pain intensity makes standardization of pain evaluation difficult. …

Montana Kaimin, December 3, 2010, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Parental Emotion Invalidation, Emotion Inhibition, And Rumination In Relation To Adolescent Depression, Janelle Victoria Williams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study tested a conceptual model which incorporated parental emotion invalidation of sadness, emotion inhibition, and rumination as contributing factors to depressive symptoms in adolescence. Adolescents completed questionnaires measuring their own emotion inhibition, rumination, and depression as well as their perceptions of their parents' invalidating reponses towards their sadness. Parents completed questionnaires measuring their perceptions of their invalidating responses towards their adoelscents' sadness, their perception of their adoelscents' sadness inhibition, and their perception of their adolescents' depressive symptoms. Path analyses were conducted to examine the direct and indirect relations among the four variables. Results showed that emotion inhibition and rumination …

A Phenomenological Study Of High School Students' Perceptions Of English, Richard C. Casey Jr.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of the study was to explore high school English students' perspectives regarding the value associated with English and literature classes. The primary questions addressed in this study were focused on perceptions and atttitudes toward literature and real world value. The participants in this study were 15 high school seniors from a rural, public school and 15 high school seniors from an urban, private school. A phenonmenological study was designed to gather information on the following related questions:a)How does teaching style affect the perceptions that students have towards their English class?b)Do students see any real world value or application …

The Voices Of Four Principals: An Exploration Of The Four Dimensions Of Leadership As Used By Middle School Leaders In Transforming Low Performing Schools Into Schools That Meet And/Or Exceed Local, State, And National Standards, Tanisha Lashan Hunter-Heaston

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

For more than 50 years, education professionals have pondered over the phenomenon of failing schools. Despite years of educational reform efforts, America remains a Nation at Risk (1983). Towards the turn of the 21st century, America was well into it's third attempt to remedy one of its' major maladies, scholastic insufficiency. In the midst of schools failing to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), decreasing graduation rates, and increasing teacher turn-over rates, stands the school leader. No Child Left Behind (NCLB)mandates, Race to the Top dollars, and other numerous policies attempt to provide incentives for regions and leaders who change failing …

A Cognitive Model Of College Choice And The Influence Of Visual-Verbal Redundancy In Student Recruitment Messages, Tracy Rutledge

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Two studies investigated a cognitive model of college choice and the effect of visual-verbal redundancy in student recruitment messages on the decision factors. The proposed model integrated the college choice model (Hossler & Gallagher, 1987) with the effortful decision-making and enactment model (Bagozzi, Dholakia, & Basuroy, 2003) and contained 14 latent variables: goal feasibility, positive anticipated emotions, negative anticipated emotions, decision process importance, decision process effort investment, decision process confidence, subjective norm, attitude, perceived behavioral control, goal desire, goal intention, behavioral desire, behavioral intention, and plan enactment. The model was tested on self-report data from students in three high schools …

Effect Of Professional Development On Inclusive Practices In A West Tennessee School District, Millicent Achieng' Mackonya

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Introduction of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has placed demands on school districts and teachers. Teachers have always been required to improve students’ academic achievement at all costs. To meet the demands of NCLB of improving education achievement for children with disabilities, school districts have introduced inclusive settings in their educational systems, thus, the need for professional development. The participants in this study were special education and a few general education teachers from a West Tennessee School District.All the participants were female. The purpose of this study was to find out if the teachers had gained knowledge on effective inclusive …

An Exploratory Study Into The Impact Of Work Design On The Self-Efficacy Of Workers With Low Literacy Skills, Michael Kenneth Holt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

As trends in the labor market indicate growing worker shortages, the problem of incorporating workers with low literacy skills into the workplace becomes more important. There are significant numbers of low literate workers in the labor market who pose hard dollar costs on business and society due to literacy related mistakes.Organizations have been moving toward more participative work designs in efforts to attract and maintain satisfied and motivated workforces. There are significant skill sets required to become successful team members. Many of these skills are outlined in management literature, but one glaring oversight is dealing with the issue of low …

Welcome Center Receives 2011 Minnesota Construction Association Award, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The award recognizes resourceful blending of construction techniques and professionals.

Morris Receives 10-Year Reaccreditation From The Higher Learning Commission, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The Higher Learning Commission is an independent corporation of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Morris Receives 10-Year Reaccreditation From The Higher Learning Commission, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The Higher Learning Commission is an independent corporation of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Chimes: December 3, 2010, Calvin College

Chimes

Bump, set, spike: Knights win championship by Jon Behm

Capella makes a joyful noise by Brandon Van Dyke

Project combines poetry and justice by Jasmine Wilson

Christmas tree lays roots by Aleesa Ribbens

Unknown Picasso works discovered by Josh Delacy

Peer into anatomy at the Bodies Revealed exhibition by Bridgette Keehl

Calvin sprints into top ten by Tim Clover