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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 …

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 East Texan, 2010-12-02, Texas A&M University-Commerce

All Issues

Volume XCV, number 13 of The East Texan, a student newspaper published at Texas A&M University-Commerce. This edition of the paper includes a holiday special.

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 …

Graduate Students Display Educational Technology At Dec. 1 Showcase, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2010

• Jones said the 21 students in his class chose a technology that, when used appropriately, can make a positive impact on learning.
• He plans to have the technology showcase event advertised as a professional development opportunity for area teachers in the future.

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 …

Assessing Multicultural Art Education: What Approaches Are Currently Being Used In Virginia Public High Schools?, Laura Nichols

Theses and Dissertations

This study utilized a survey of Virginia public high school teachers to examine how teachers understand multicultural education, how frequently they teach from this perspective, what cultures are represented, what teaching strategies they use, and what, if any incentives would encourage them to teach in this way more frequently. Through analysis of the findings, three major themes emerged which describe participants’ views of the purpose of multicultural education. These themes are “exposure” to other cultures, “understanding” of the way cultures interact and of the context surrounding a culture’s art, and promoting “equity” in the classroom environment and by encouraging students …

Toxicity Of Phase I Radiation Oncology Trials: Worldwide Experience, C. Glass, R. B. Den, A. P. Dicker, Y. R. Lawrence

Bodine Journal

Introduction: Informed consent involves understanding the risks and benefits of trial enrollment. This is challenging in the phase I setting since true quantitative information is never known. We therefore performed an analysis of published radiation oncology (RO) phase I trials emphasizing patient outcomes. To our knowledge, no such systemic analysis has previously been published.

American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 52nd Annual Meeting October 31 - November 4, San Diego, CA

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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. …

Workshop: Service Design For Social Innovation: A Strategic Approach To Strengths And Weaknesses, Anders Emilson, Anna Seravalli

ServDes Conference Series

The workshop will focus on the challenges of service design for social innovation. Starting from the participants experience in research; practice/action research and education; the workshop will be aimed at brainstorming about which skills; methods and role could respond to the weaknesses of design pointed out by different actors working within the field of social innovation.

Kansas Studies Institute Enters Second Year

Imprint

The Kansas Studies Institute enters its second year with two projects related to Kansas artists.

Imprint Early Fall 2010 Full Issue

Imprint

The full issue for Imprint, Early Fall 2010.

Moroccan Scholar To Speak

Imprint

Rachida Kerkech, chair of the English department, Ecole Normale Superieure, Rabat, Morocco, will be the JCCC Scholar in Residence April 12-16 (2010).

Imprint April/May 2010 Full Issue

Imprint

This is the complete issue of Imprint for April/May 2010.

Sorghum The Crop Of Yesterday,Today And Tomorrow, S. Simunji

INTSORMIL Presentations

Explains that sorghum will be a crop that survives climate change. Discusses the opportunities and challenges for sorghum crop development in Zambia.

Philanthropy - Making Your Dollars Make Sense, Jeanne Potter

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

Alumni In The News

Cal Poly Magazine

No abstract provided.

A Literature Review On Crossbreeding In Dairy Cattle, Philip Owens

Dairy Science

The objective of the literature review was to determine whether or not crossbreeding is a profitable and a viable option for the dairymen of today by reviewing the literature and experiments that have been conducted throughout the world by today’s dairy professionals and leaders. The Dairy market today is increasingly competitive and more and more dairymen are considering crossbreeding to decrease health costs and increase profitability. Price premiums from cheese plants are given to milk producers for high components like protein and fat. In recent studies done by universities and research facilities around the world, results have found promising numbers …

Methane Digesters, Thomas Van Steyn

Dairy Science

Anaerobic digestion has many different avenues for opportunity in use on farms. The objective of my senior project is to determine the economic viability of alternative methane digesters on a dairy. Currently the conversion of animal manure to biogas through the process of anaerobic digestion is widely used in Europe. In the U.S. anaerobic digesters have become increasingly in demand by environmental groups and dairymen. Digesters environmental impact involves the benefit by capturing the biogas that comes off animal manure. Methane, a green house gas, is the one with the most concern that is captured by methane digesters. The biogas …

Regalia-Induced Resistance In Powdery Mildew-Infected Grapevine Plants Correlates With The Induction Of Chalcone Synthase, Thomas Crottogini

Horticulture and Crop Science

No abstract provided.

Quantitative Hedge Fund Selection, Melvyn Teo

Research Collection BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre

Prior research has shown that small funds, young funds, and local funds outperform their older, larger, and distant counterparts. According to the literature, hedge fund performance is driven by fund capacity constraints, managerial incentives, and local information. I revisit these studies on hedge funds and test whether their results hold up in recent data. By doing so, I lay the foundations for a quantitative hedge fund selection framework.

Innovative Entrepreneurs' Workbook: A Guide For Innovators And Entrepreneurs, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Research Collection Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

This is a workbook for individuals who have decided to start their long winding entrepreneurial journey. It is organized into four parts. The first part introduces the aspiring entrepreneur to the process of identifying an innovation opportunity and refining for market readiness. The second part provides insights into a product or service development. The third part lays out the key steps involved in building a new company. This part includes IP strategy for a startups, a topic rarely discussed in many text books or workbooks. The last part will discuss the art of securing the early deals. This book was …

Lynx Tale, Winter 2010, Lindenwood University

Lynx Tale

The Lynx Tale was a Lindenwood University-Belleville student centered newspaper that informed students on upcoming events and news on campus.

The Cord (December 1, 2010)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

December 2010, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

What Planet Are You On? Six Steps to Simplify Remote Management Managing people and projects from different cities, states, time zones, or countries is infinitely more difficult. You might as well be on different planets. Jim Bain gives us some tips that can make sure that they are on the same planet as their remote team members

The Impact of Caregiving on Business Did you know that the average cost to employers per working caregiver is $2,110 per year. This costs U.S. employers $33 billion a year. However, programs designed to help employees deal with eldercare and other caregiving issues …