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A Magic Tour, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

The map depicts a tour of several U.S. cities and it turns out to have a curious magical property. We invite the reader to join the magic tour at any city of his or her choice. Starting with your chosen city, spell the name of that city counterclockwise along the tour until you arrive at a city to spend the night.

Pseudoantonyms, A. Anil

Word Ways

Pseudoantonyms or contrantonyms are pairs of apparent antonyms that instead are synonyms of sorts. The two forms must be able to be the same part of speech. For example, tied up and tied down by the Lilliputians. Pseudoanyonyms are not to be confused with Susan Thorpe's double negative Pseudo-opposites in the November 2010 Kickshaws.

Prism #52, February 2011, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Teaching Lexicography And Lexicology Among The Aliterates, John Taylor

Word Ways

As I pondered how to frame the topic announced in the title of this paper, I realized that first of all I had to embark on a journey of intellectual archaeology. In the nine different courses I regularly teach, in composition, literature, and linguistics courses alike, I emphasize the use of a desk dictionary as a curricular survival tool, especially in this current mania of standardized testing. When exactly did I begin to have my deep, abiding passion for dictionaries and how did that influence the development of my career as a professor of English and applied English Linguistics? For …

Numerical Charades Part 4, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Numerical Charades Part 4 introduces a new type of numerical tautonym. The letters of the word TABLE, for example, assigned their alphabetical values (a=1, b=2 ... z=26), make 20.1.2.12.5. By splitting TABLE into two parts, specifically TA and BLE, and using the 2 functions + and -, T-A=19 and B+L+E also =19, making TA.BLE a numerical tautonym represented by 19.19. The words listed below use 2 or more of the four functions + - x ÷ and parentheses where necessary. A particular function can be used any number of times. A word can be split at any point along …

Using Family Literacy Training To Address Summer Reading Loss, Janet L. Deck

Selected Faculty Publications

Maintaining reading proficiency throughout summer months is problematic for struggling readers. Conceptually framed by sociocultural constructivism, the purpose of this study was to determine parents‘ knowledge and understanding of effective research-based literacy instruction and to establish the participants‘ perceived effect of their participation in family literacy training on their elementary children‘s reading achievement. In this qualitative case study, the influence of family literacy training on summer literacy practices of three families with elementary children was examined. Data were collected using individual interviews with three parents. Interview transcripts were analyzed using an inductive analytical approach. The results of this study demonstrated …

Prior, Free And Informed Consent As A Right Of Indigenous Peoples And Nationalities, Wilson Fermin Aguinda Salazar

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

The thesis titled Prior, Free and Informed Consent as a Right of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities' is a study that seeks to determine whether indigenous peoples and nations can or cannot ban in their lands and territories a national interest activity or development project proposed by the State and by private companies. The research begins with the study of the right to self-determination of peoples, their entitlement to this right and the concept of people within international law. With this analysis, the present study discusses whether the Prior, Free and Informed Consent (PFIC) is or is not an expression of …

Temporally Legal: My Traveling Across Borders Of Im/Migration, Hsin-I Cheng

Communication

The United States remains one of the most desirable nations for higher education , with 623,805 enrolled international students, which constitutes 3.5% of the total enrollment in the 2007 - 2008 academic year. Among them, some choose to stay after completing their education and become what Motomura (2006) describes as the "Americans in waiting:' 1bis refers to those who obtained legal Permanent Residency (PR) status as green card holders, but not U.S . citizenship. Having PR status is imperative before one becomes a naturalized citizen with all rights given to a U.S.-born citizen.

This group of intern ational students , …

Enabling And Understanding Failure Of Engineering Structures Using The Technique Of Cohesive Elements, H. Jiang, Xiaosheng Gao, T. S. Srivatsan

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Research

In this paper, we describe a cohesive zone model for the prediction of failure of engineering solids and/or structures. A damage evolution law is incorporated into a three-dimensional, exponential cohesive law to account for material degradation under the influence of cyclic loading. This cohesive zone model is implemented in the finite element software ABAQUS through a user defined subroutine. The irreversibility of the cohesive zone model is first verified and subsequently applied for studying cyclic crack growth in specimens experiencing different modes of fracture and/or failure. The crack growth behavior to include both crack initiation and crack propagation becomes a …

Databases And Dynamism, Michal Shur-Ofry

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Databases are generally perceived in legal scholarship as static warehouses, storing up valuable facts and information. Accordingly, scholarship on copyright protection of databases typically concentrates on the social need to access their content. This Article seeks to shift the focus of the debate, arguing that the copyrightdatabases debate is not merely a static "access to information" story. Instead, it is a dynamic story of relations, hierarchies, and interactions between pieces of information, determined by database creators. It is also a story of patterns, categories, selections, and taxonomies that are often invisible to the naked eye, but that influence our perceptions …

Mechanisms For Eliciting Cooperation In Counter-Terrorism Policing: Evidence From The United Kingdom, Tom R. Tyler, Stephen J. Schulhofer, Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

This study examines the effects of counterterrorism policing tactics on public cooperation amongst Muslim communities in London, U.K. It tests a procedural justice model developed in the context of studying crime control in the United States. The study reports results of a randomsample survey of 300 closed and fixed response telephone interviews conducted in Greater London’s Muslim community in February and March 2010. It tests predictors of cooperation with police acting against terrorism. Specifically, the study provides a quantitative analysis of how perceptions of police efficacy, greater terrorism threat, and the choice of policing tactics predict the willingness to cooperate …

Vol. 6, No. 2, Winter 2011

Cornerstone

No abstract provided.

Getting Exercised About Nothing, Dermot Campbell, Marty Meinardi, Charles Pritchard, Yi Wang

Conference papers

The Dynamic Speech Corpus (DSC) being developed at the Technological University Dublin aims at being a learning corpus as well as exemplifying natural, dialogic interaction recorded at industry-standard quality so as to avail of DIT’s slow-down technology. The availability of time-scaling means that materials can be developed which fulfil Richard Cauldwell’s ambition of ‘spending more time with the signal’. Literally. By slowing the signal down to 40% without tonal distortion, the learner has 2.5 times as long to study how an utterance was said, not just what was said. This makes it possible to create new types of listening exercises …

School-Community Partnerships In Australian Schools, Michele Lonsdale

Program monitoring and evaluation

This report is based on an analysis of the data provided by Australian schools in their 2009 Schools First Impact Award applications. The data described the nature of the partnerships that schools had established with community and business groups, the reasons for these partnerships, the kinds of programs that were developed and implemented, and the effectiveness of the partnership/program.

These applications are a rich source of information about school–community partnerships in Australia. The report is organised around the following seven questions:

What types of schools established partnerships?

Who partnered with schools?

What were the main reasons for setting up these …

"Some Portion Of Misconduct": The Argument For A Negligence Standard For Expecting Discharge Of Debts Incurred Through Defalcation, Alyssa Miller

William & Mary Business Law Review

The United States Circuit Courts are currently split on the correct standard for defalcation: that is, they are split on what level of mental culpability a fiduciary must possess before bankruptcy courts exclude debts incurred through misconduct from discharge. The First, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Circuits apply a recklessness standard. The Fourth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits apply a negligence standard. The time has come to resolve the circuit split because the inter-jurisdictional nature of business in the twenty-first century creates a danger that fiduciaries will not have notice of potential liability if standards for liability vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. …

Confidentiality And Common Sense: Insights From Philosophy, Thomas Morawetz

San Diego Law Review

In this Article, I will consider two aspects of the controversy that help explain why it is static. I will consider the significance of empirical evidence that lawyers and clients find the rules morally troubling. Zacharias plausibly assumes that such evidence carries compelling weight. I will also look at the nature of morality itself and the extent to which professional rules should be expected to conform to morality.

Sticky Metaphors And The Persistence Of The Traditional Voluntary Manslaughter Doctrine, Elise J. Percy, Joseph L. Hoffman, Steven J. Sherman

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article begins with a curious puzzle: Why has the traditional voluntary manslaughter doctrine in criminal law-the so-called "heat of passion" defense to a charge of murder-proven so resistant to change, even in the face of more than a half-century of seemingly compelling empirical and normative arguments in favor of doctrinal reform? What could possibly account for the traditional doctrine's surprising resilience? In this Article, we propose a solution to this puzzle. The Article introduces a new conceptual theory about metaphor-the "sticky metaphor" theory-that highlights an important aspect of metaphorical language and metaphorical thought that has been almost completely overlooked …

Culture, Context, And The Taste For Redistribution, Erzo F. P. Luttmer, Monica Singhal

Dartmouth Scholarship

Is culture an important determinant of preferences for redistribution? To separate culture from the economic and institutional environment ("context"), we relate immigrants' redistributive preferences to the average preference in their birth countries. We find a strong positive relationship that is robust to rich controls for economic factors and cannot easily be explained by selective migration. This effect is as large as that of own household income and appears stronger for those less assimilated into the destination country. Immigrants from high-preference countries are more likely to vote for more pro-redistribution parties. The effect of culture persists strongly into the second generation. …

Parma Eldelamberon 19, Edited By Christopher Gilson. Reviewed By Edward J. Kloczko., Edward J. Kloczko

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.

Parma Eldelamberon 18, Edited By Christopher Gilson, Et Al. Reviewed By Edward J. Kloczko., Edward J. Kloczko

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.

Communicating Risk To Student Populations, Matt Stanley

DRU Workshop 2011 Presentations - Disaster Resistant University Workshop: Building Partnerships in Mitigation

Campus emergency managers often face challenges in encouraging participation by student populations. Students are often unconcerned about hazard mitigation on college campuses and are limited in the range of personal actions they can take. Communicating risk is complicated by social, cultural, linguistic, and technological barriers. Unlike crisis communication which is often acute, time sensitive information that dictates a sense of urgency or need for self-protection, risk communication usually requires long-term outreach and message saturation to prompt changes in behavior. Since student populations have little vested interest and usually only spend a few years on campus, risk communication requires early intervention …

A Content Analysis Of Crisis Management Websites At Four-Year Institutions Along The Gulf Coast, Steven Mccullar

DRU Workshop 2011 Presentations - Disaster Resistant University Workshop: Building Partnerships in Mitigation

College and university websites have become a very important tool in crisis communication over the past few years, especially after events such as the devastation from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Gustav and shootings at institutions such as Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois, University of Texas, and Northern Alabama.  Stakeholders are turning to the university websites when a crisis occurs. It has become important for higher education institutions to have specific websites that deal with the possibility of a crisis.  This discussion takes a look at websites in the Gulf Region through the research process of content analysis. The goal of this …

Using Fotonovelas To Promote Healthy Eating In A Latino Community, Melanie Sberna Hinojosa, David A. Nelson, Ramon Hinojosa, Angelica Delgado, Bernadette Witzack, Magdalisse Gonzalez, William Elliott, Jennifer Steiner, Maria Fontanez, Rene Farias

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

A Clinical Practicum Experience To Prepare Teacher Candidates For Classroom Literacy Instruction, Karen C. Waters

Education Faculty Publications

There is a pervasive reading crisis in the United States. Critics, including policymakers, educators, literacy scholars, and professional educational organizations have openly accused university teacher preparation programs of not preparing candidates to deliver effective reading instruction. This qualitative study used narrative inquiry to explore ways in which teacher candidates' participation in a research-based university clinical practicum contributed to their pedagogical understanding of literacy instruction. Conceptually this study was based on constructivism and the ideas of Dewey, Freire, Vygotsky, and Schön. Data collection included multiple interviews and observations to determine how teacher candidates' participation in clinical practicum affects their assumptions about …

Scaling Policy Preferences From Coded Political Texts, Will Lowe, Kenneth Benoit, Slava Mikhaylov, Michael Laver

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Scholars estimating policy positions from political texts typically code words or sentences and then build left-right policy scales based on the relative frequencies of text units coded into different categories. Here we reexamine such scales and propose a theoretically and linguistically superior alternative based on the logarithm of odds-ratios. We contrast this scale with the current approach of the Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP), showing that our proposed logit scale avoids widely acknowledged flaws in previous approaches. We validate the new scale using independent expert surveys. Using existing CMP data, we show how to estimate more distinct policy dimensions, for more …

Report: The Illinois State University Faculty-Staff Newsletter, February 1, 2011, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Report (1966-2012)

Illinois State University bi-weekly employee newsletter.

Factors Influencing Adoption And Implementation Of Cooking With Kids, An Experiential School-Based Nutrition Education Curriculum, Ann Diker, Lynn M. Walters, Leslie Cunningham-Sabo, Susan S. Baker

Journal of Extension

Little research has been conducted to examine factors leading to adoption and implementation of nutrition education curricula. Data from two Web-based surveys (n = 313) and 27 interviews were used to explore how Diffusion of Innovations' perceived attributes contributed to adoption and implementation of Cooking with Kids (CWK) food and nutrition education curriculum. Results suggest programs that create or adapt nutrition education curricula for use in schools should emphasize experiential methods and ease of use to increase adoption and implementation. Perceived simplicity predicted intended use. Ensuring that users have adequate information and planning time to overcome barriers is essential.

Why Does The Public Cooperate With Law Enforcement? The Influence Of The Purposes And Targets Of Policing, Tom R. Tyler, Stephen J. Schulhofer, Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

This study addresses the extension of the “procedural justice” model for understanding public cooperation with law enforcement to new policing contexts and new minority populations. The study draws on four recent surveys of public reactions to policing ag

The Issue Of Methodology Adopted By Mustafa Abdel-Raziq And Its Effects, Amina Abd-Allah

Theses and Dissertations

This academic thesis deals with the issue of methodology as used by Muṣṭafā Abdel-Rāziq (1885 - 1947). It is an issue that represents the essence of his academic philosophical thought. Muṣṭafā Abdel-Rāziq is considered one of the leading religious reformists, and he was the faithful disciple of f Muḥammad ʿAbdū, the second founder of this trend with Jamāl al- Dīn al-Afghanī. Muṣṭafā Abdel-Rāziq added a dimension of more breadth and accuracy by expanding on the contemporary range of general thought transforming it to an academic specialist thought. Abdel-Rāziq is the founder of the current academic discipline. This foundation is based …

Remapping Borders And Boundaries In The Middle East: Amitav Ghosh And Mourid Barghouti, Reem Yasser Zaki Abd El-Barr

Theses and Dissertations

The Middle East map has undergone a remarkable change since the rise of geopolitical borders in the early twentieth century. These borders constructed by colonial powers and maintained by postcolonial ones have not only divided the region into nation-states but have also entailed boundaries between people on the basis of national, cultural, linguistic and religious differences. This study examines how borders and boundaries are contested and subverted in two Third World narrative productions set in the Middle East: In an Antique Land (1992) by the Indian-Bengali writer Amitav Ghosh and Ra'aytu RÄ m AllÄ h (1997), a memoir by the …