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Volume 10, Issue 13: December 2, 2010, Women's Studies & Gender Studies Program

Women's Studies & Gender Studies: Digest Magazine

No abstract provided.

Getting Families Involved In Students’ Education Through Home Visits At Midwestern Charter Schools, Hakan Solak

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Home visits are a model of communication after school time when school staff members actually go into students homes to foster a relationship among students, families, and teachers. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how home visits take place in a single charter school and how families are involved in the educational process of students at Midwestern Charter Schools.

Thirteen participants from Chicago Math and Science Academia (CMSA) were interviewed via an open-ended questionnaire. Additionally, two home visit observations were made by the primary investigator in the natural setting of the homes of two students. Through this …

Small Rural School Districts In Nebraska: A Case Study Of Challenges And Solutions, Michael R. Montgomery

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this study was to determine the problems faced by small, rural Nebraska school districts. For this study, 15 possible challenges were identified (a) student enrollment, (b) instructional programs, (c) instructional support services, (d) extra curricular activities, (e) hiring and retaining administrative staff, (f) hiring and retaining teaching staff, (g) hiring and retaining non-certified staff, (h) building and grounds, (i) transportation services, (j) food services, (k) school finances, (l) student assessment, (m) accountability school performance, (n) family support, and (o) community support. There were no data on this topic for the state of Nebraska. The case for this …

Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Networking, Dalei Wu

Department of Computer Electronics and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Multimedia communications, especially real-time video communications, is expected to be the major application of the next-generation wireless networks. However, bringing delay-sensitive and loss-tolerant multimedia services based on the current wireless Internet is a very challenging task. In this dissertation, we address cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia networking from both theoretical and practical perspectives. In the first part of the dissertation, we propose cross-layer optimization frameworks for real-time video communications over wireless networks, where the expected received video quality is adopted as the objective function. With the user-centric objective function, we first study content-aware video communications in single-hop wireless networks by exploring …

A Comprehensive Analysis Of Lte Physical Layer, Fahimeh Rezaei

Department of Computer Electronics and Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) introduced Long Term Evolution (LTE) as the 3rd generation of mobile communication standards. LTE Release 8 describes a mobile communication standard which supports up to 300 Mbps of data transmission in downlink using the OFDM scheme as well as up to 75 Mbps throughput for uplink using the SC-FDMA modulation. In this thesis, an in-depth study of LTE performance based on Release 8 is conducted for uplink and downlink under different scenarios. The main objective of this study is to investigate a comprehensive analysis of physical layer throughput of LTE Release8 based on standard …

The Bg News December 2, 2010, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 2, 2010. Volume 101-Issue 67.

The Shifting American Community And The Rise Of Social Media: Exploring Social Media In Grassroots Non-Profits, Casandra Fritzsche

Capstone Projects – Politics and Government

No abstract provided.

The Prospector, December 2, 2010, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: 2010 Grads

Spectrum, Volume 27, Issue 10, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Search Committee Works Hard to Appoint New President -- Late Night Library Time -- Trotting Before Turkey Day -- Greek Life Growing Among Campus Community -- He Said/She Said -- Editorials -- 2010's Most "Glamorous" Honored.

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

Three Pirates Earn Nscaa All-Southeast Region Honors, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Soccer News (Archived)

Three Pirates Earn NSCAA All-Southeast Region Honors. Three members of the Armstrong Atlantic State University women's soccer squad earned All-Southeast Region honors, announced today by the National Soccer Coaches' Association of America (NSCAA). Junior defender Kelli Bahr was named to the first team, while senior defender Carey Patterson and sophomore forward Kristina Pascutti were named to the second team.

A Case Study Of The Impact Of Filmmaker Decisions In The Construction Of A Documentary: Helen Whitney's (2007) The Mormons, Elizabeth Joy Mott

Theses and Dissertations

Informed by theories of media framing, exemplification, and non-fiction film production, this case study used as its sample for textual analysis the typed transcripts from the final cut of Helen Whitney's (2007) documentary film, The Mormons, and the interview transcripts of the 15 key commentators interviewed for the documentary. These theories suggest that (a) media producers condense topics in the media by selecting information that connects news stories to a larger context and imbues them with symbolic value; (b) verbal and visual examples have been shown to be more easily retrieved in memory than abstract ideas and are consequently …

Science On The Back Burner? Exlploring Significant Differences In Test Scores, Rhonda Hardin Harrington

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study was a retrospective study evaluating whether the implementation of Smart Start Legislation had an impact on Stanford Achievement tests and Arkansas state benchmark tests in science, math, and literacy scores for fifth-grade students in Arkansas. Smart Start focuses on strong accountability stressing well defined, high educational standards in math and reading. The purpose of this study was to examine if there was a significant difference in test scores of students affected by public policy mandates requiring a teaching focus on math and literacy. The specific research questions were, Is there a significant difference in math scores pre and …

A Point-Of-Purchase Messaging Program Increases Sales Of Identified Healthy Items In A University Food Court, Sarah Leslie Bursi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The obesity epidemic in the United States is effecting the college population. College populations across the country are served by contract foodservice companies that are looking for strategiesto promote the purchasing of healthy menu items. To determine if sales of identified healthy items increased in a University food court, in this study, the Point-of-Purchase(POP) messaging technique was implemented. The sales data for 2 low-calorie,low-fat menu items was collected for 11-weeks. The 11-week time period was subdivided into a 6-week baseline phase, 4-week intervention phase, and 1-week follow-up phase. During the intervention 4-POP interventions were implemented to represent each week of …

2010-12-02 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for December 2, 2010.

Action Research: Can It Be A Means For Helping Teacher Candidates Learn About Student Diversity?, Alisa Bates, Laura S. Pardo

i.e.: inquiry in education

This paper describes the use of action research in a teacher education course as a way to support novice teachers in meeting the learning needs of a diverse student population. Our experiences as instructors in teacher education courses led us to look for strategies that could support novices’ attempts to meet students’ diverse needs because students viewed this as one of their greatest challenges as beginning teachers. We explore action research as one such strategy to respond to this learning need. We examine this practice for supporting novice teachers and consider three cases of student learning as examples. Our findings …

Universal Design For Learning: A Collaborative Framework For Designing Inclusive Curriculum, Xiuwen Wu

i.e.: inquiry in education

The purpose of this article is twofold: 1) to introduce the concept of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) by going to its origination in the field of architecture—the Universal Design, in order to illustrate the inclusive nature of UDL, 2) to shed light on one of the most important aspects of UDL—collaboration. The UDL framework provides teachers with a unified framework to collaborate on the development of an accessible and inclusive curriculum through flexible pedagogy and tool use. Developed for all students, the UDL framework aims to expand all teachers’ expertise in teaching diverse learners and depends on collaboration for …

The Critical Friends Group: A Strategy For Developing Intellectual Community In Doctoral Education, Tracie Costantino

i.e.: inquiry in education

A key recommendation from the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate project is for doctoral programs to focus on developing intellectual communities that are knowledge-centered and multigenerational. In this article I describe a graduate art education course, Writing Critique in Art Education, which uses the Critical Friends discussion protocol to facilitate a heterogeneous intellectual community for doctoral and master’s level students. Using a practitioner inquiry methodology, I investigated how the use of a Critical Friends protocol influenced the development of an intellectual community in this course, and how the intellectual community supported students’ growth as educational researchers, future teacher educators, and …

Inquiry As Stance: Practitioner Research For The Next Generation., Della R. Leavitt

i.e.: inquiry in education

No abstract provided.

The Concept Of Value In Design Practice - An Interview Study, Katarina Wetter Edman

ServDes Conference Series

Use and the value thereof are implicit in the design discourse and therefore rarely explicitly spoken of; although they are at the core of design practice. With the recent turn to a service dominant logic perspective; the service marketing discourse opens up for understanding value as value-in-use and value-in-context. This paper empirically explores and describes ways in which professional designers themselves express “value-in-use”. The findings suggest that professional designers do not focus explicitly on value as a standalone concept; but conceptualize value-in-use through contextualization and an extensive use of emotions.

Creating Scenarios For Regional Projects: Service Design For Multifunctional And Collaborative Food Networks, Daria Cantù, Giulia Simeone

ServDes Conference Series

This paper presents a strategic and service design approach to create scenarios for regional projects through an action-research strategy. The intent is to reflect on the basis of an on-going project; insisting on the Agricultural Park South Milano; lightening the actions taken and their contributions to the scenario building process.

This paper presents a strategic and service design approach to create scenarios for regional projects through an action-research strategy. The intent is to reflect on the basis of an on-going project; insisting on the Agricultural Park South Milano; lightening the actions taken and their contributions to the scenario building process.

Service Innovation Through Touch-Points: The At-One Touch-Point Cards, Simon Clatworthy

ServDes Conference Series

In this paper we review the area of touch-point innovation in services and specifically describe the development and use of a card-based toolkit developed in the AT-ONE project - the AT-ONE touch-point cards. These cards have been developed to assist cross functional teams during the first phases of the new service development (NSD) process. This paper describes the development of the tools; their intended use and their evaluation. The results show that the toolkit assists the innovation process and helps develop team cohesiveness. The card-based approach offers a tangibility that teams find useful; and that offers multiple usage alternatives. Discussion …

Spicing Up Public Journeys - Storytelling As A Design Strategy, Sandra Viña, Tuuli Mattelmäki

ServDes Conference Series

The paper is based on an ongoing research that aims at studying how storytelling approaches can be applied in designing public customer journeys and service environments. It first introduces briefly how storytelling has been applied in designing service experiences then introduces the research project Spice and its context and approach. Finally; the paper describes and reflects upon an example case and; how storytelling has been applied in gathering and creating stories as well as creating concept ideas.

Adapting Service Design Tools To Facilitate Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations, G. Teal, A. S. Macdonald, P. J. Moynihan

ServDes Conference Series

This paper describes an ongoing multidisciplinary research project which is developing and prototyping a new food service for older hospital patients. This is a multi-faceted project combining the skills of designers; food sensory scientists; dietitians; medical sociologists; ergonomists and technologists with a diverse group of end users and stakeholders to map the existing food service and identify opportunities for re-design. This paper describes how three design methods/tools conventionally used by designers have been adapted and used to collaborate with colleagues from different non-design disciplines.

Case: Innovating Implementation And Design Of Services Within The Public Sector, Stuart G Bailey

ServDes Conference Series

No abstract provided.

Exploring Networked Innovation; Results Of An Exploration And The Setup Of An Empirical Study, Katinka Bergema, Rianne Valkenburg, Maaike Kleinsmann, Cees De Bont

ServDes Conference Series

The growing complexity of societal problems and the increasing need to co-design contexts together with the service or product; force companies to collaborate in innovation. This networked innovation requires people to design together; who not only come from different disciplines; but also come from different organisations and companies. The collaboration in networked innovation therefore adds another level of complexity in addition to the (better known) collaboration in mono- and multidisciplinary teams and introduces new issues.

The growing complexity of societal problems and the increasing need to co-design contexts together with the service or product; force companies to collaborate in innovation. …

Service Design And Healthcare Innovation: Fr0m Consumption To Co-Production And Co-Creation, Karine Freire, Daniela Sangiorgi

ServDes Conference Series

In the last decades the economy saw two significant changes in the way value has been conceived and created: the introduction of the value-constellation model and the advent of the open innovation movement. This paper will report on how these paradigmatic changes are mirrored in public services reform; with a focus on healthcare services; and on how Design practice and research are contributing to this shift. The authors will use four case studies of healthcare design-driven service innovation as a way to reflect on which models and approaches designers have been using and to evaluate the actual results and impacts …

Service Design For Tourism Smes - The Concept Of Service Design And Its Application On The Alpine Zoo In Innsbruck; Austria, Marc Stickdorn, Anita Zehrer

ServDes Conference Series

No abstract provided.

Characteristics Of Value Co-Creation In A Learning Environment By Service Design And Service-Dominant Logic Frameworks, Jussi Haukkamaa, Pia Yliräisänen-Seppänen, Eija Timonen

ServDes Conference Series

Presently; educational institutions exist as complex networks of expertise that fulfil the needs of their stakeholders and respond to the challenges of a transforming society. Therefore; educational services are subject to a constant design process in co-operation with the customers and other stakeholders. Co-operation between parties is strongly related to the value co-creation; since the customer is the co-producer of the value according to the concept of service-dominant logic.

Service design research has paid little attention to the value of co-creation in networked education services. This paper focuses on value co-creation in service-dominant logic and service design frameworks using a …

Svid City Move, Eva-Karin Anderman, Claes Frössén

ServDes Conference Series

SVID City Move Interdesign is the main activity in a project about how to relocate people and societies in a positive way; despite unwanted reasons. City Move Interdesign took place in Gellivare from March 22 to April 4; 2009. City Move Interdesign was arranged by SVID in cooperation with Icsid; the Gellivare Municipality; the County Administrative Board of Norrbotten; the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise; Energy and Communications; LKAB and the European union/European Regional Development Fund.

SVID City Move Interdesign is the main activity in a project about how to relocate people and societies in a positive way; despite unwanted reasons. …