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Mozart & Friends, December 5, 2011 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

'Echoes Of War'

News Releases

No abstract provided.

A Reflexive Approach To Capability Valuation And Determination In Sustainable Human Development: The 2010 Hillsborough County Transit Referendum, Eric James Fiske

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Sustainable Human Development (SHD), rooted in Amartya Sen’s development theory on the capability approach, envisions achieving sustainable human capabilities at the local and global levels. One major area of contention within this field of research concerns determination and valuation of capabilities. How a community decides which capabilities should be developed is as important as the development itself. Some capability scholars argue that a small group of experts or “philosophers” should make this determination, while others argue that a deliberative democratic process needs to be followed. I seek to reconcile these two positions by introducing a third way of determining and …

Concerns About Teen Sexting Overblown, According To New Unh Research, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

The Bg News December 5, 2011, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 5, 2011. Volume 102-Issue 48.

December 5, 2011

The Gavel Gazette

No abstract provided.

The Collegian (2011-12-05), Rene Cardona Jr.

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 64. No. 15

Ewell V. State Respondent's Brief Dckt. 38373

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.

Revisiting "Hapworth": The Catharsis Of Buddy Glass, Brian Mctague

Theses and Dissertations

J.D. Salinger's "Hapworth 16, 1924," his last published work, is notorious for the initial critical silence it received, as well as the subsequent general consensus that it was a text to revile if not avoid. This thesis proposes that while "Hapworth" is a difficult and perplexing piece, there is a good deal about it that deserves if not outright praise, then a close critical re-examination. Assuming the "author" of the story is not the seven-year-old version of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" suicide Seymour Glass, as the story purports, but his grieving younger brother Buddy, who has spent the years …

Faculty Senate Agenda, December 5, 2011, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Faculty Evaluation Committee Annual Report - Pamela Martin
• Athletic Council Report - Ken White
• Retention and Student Success Report - John Mortensen
• EPC Items (October and November)
• PRPC Section 405.7.2. 405.8.3, and 403.3.2 Title changes for the newVice President for Research and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies (Second Reading)
• PRPC Section 402.3.2, 402.3.4 Vacancies (First Reading)
• Presidential Task Force on Curriculum

Usu Faculty Senate Minutes, December 5, 2011, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• PRPC -Section 405.7.2, 405.8.3, and 403.3.2( Second Reading) Title changes for the new Vice President for Research and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies
• PRPC -Section 402.3.2 and 402.3.4 (First Reading) Vacancies in the Faculty Senate
• The Presidential Task Force on Curriculum - Norm Jones

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College Of Humanities And Social Sciences, December 5, 2011, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

The Utah State University English Department requests that its English master’s degree specialization in Technical Writing, which was approved for online delivery in 1998 as a 30-credit Plan B specialization, be changed to a 33-credit Plan C specialization.

Living With Hiv: Views Through The Blog, Linda Eastham

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to develop a greater clarity of how HIV infected individuals live and work within the sphere of HIV infection as represented through unsolicited, personal narratives posted on blogs. Existing, single author, personal blogs were identified via a search engine. Blogs were defined as the blog author's postings and all responses, whether written by the blog author or a reader respondent. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were developed to respect indicators of bloggers' intentions for privacy, e.g., blogs which required a password were excluded. A total of 14 blogs met inclusion criteria. Actions to …

Organizational Capacity To Absorb External Knowledge: An Exploratory Study Of Public And Nonprofit Decision Makers' Perceptions Of Impediments And Facilitators, Linda S. Birtley

Theses and Dissertations

Research indicates that many youth-serving agencies do not adopt evidence-based innovations in the field of youth violence prevention. This qualitative study was designed to explore a sample of community-based decision makers’ perceptions of why innovative, evidence-based programs and practices for the prevention of violence by youth are, or are not, adopted at the local level. The rationale for this study was that knowledge of evidence-based innovations in youth violence prevention originates primarily from research scientists who are external to the organizations that are the intended recipients of the innovations. Prior research has not viewed the failure to adopt evidence-based innovations …

The Cuahsi Community Hydrologic Information System (Invited), David G. Tarboton, D. R. Maidment, I. Zaslavsky, Daniel Ames, J. L. Goodall, R. P. Hooper, Jeffery S. Horsburgh

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Hydrologic information is collected by many individuals and organizations in government and academia for many purposes, including general monitoring of the condition of the water environment and specific investigations of hydrologic processes. Comprehensive understanding of hydrology requires integration of this information from multiple sources. The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) has developed a Hydrologic Information System (HIS) to provide better access to data by enabling the publication, cataloging, discovery and retrieval of hydrologic data using web services. This paper describes HIS capability developed to promote data sharing and interoperability in the Hydrologic Sciences with …

Parliament’S Role In Economic Governance, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

In a democratic system of government, some checks and balances are placed under the constitution of a country. In Pakistan, the executive branch has dominated the scene historically with the judiciary asserting itself in recent years. The parliament has so far remained subdued in many aspects of its work, particularly in the case of economic visioning, long-term planning, oversight of policymaking, the monitoring of implementation and accountability of the executive. Had the parliament been more active, it is possible that the judiciary would not have taken suo motu cognisance of many cases linked to economic governance. It is a pity, …

Evaluating The Success Of Benefit Fraud And Compliance Act In Affecting Wages And Offers For Seven Common H1b Occupations In Virginia, 2002-2010, Khalafala Alsadig

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the role of the Benefits Fraud and Compliance Act (BFCA) in affecting H1B hiring policy in the state of Virginia, as it pertained to seven computer science-related occupations. By employing an independent samples t-test approach, it was discovered that there was a statistically significant difference in H1B actual wages, proposed wages, and per-employer offers before and after BFCA.

Tooele County 4-H Youth Garden: An Interactive Approach, Stephen Sagers, Linden Greenhalgh, Darlene Christensen, Terra Sherwood

Journal of Youth Development

The Tooele City 4-H Youth Garden program was designed to provide a non-traditional recreational activity for a growing youth population. Children ages 5-18, assisted by parents and other family members, tend an 8’x 15’ garden plot. A small registration fee covers 4-H enrollment. Tooele City provides land, water, employees, maintenance and equipment. Participants provide their own seed and labor, must attend an orientation in the spring, commit to work at least once each week in the garden, and attend periodic club meetings during the growing season. Club meetings cover basic gardening principles and specific issues related to individual garden plots. …

Adaptive Physical Education And Aquatics For Students With Disabilities: A Teacher's Unique Experience, Jennifer Cheryl Blassingame

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Students with the most severe disabilities have special needs that cannot be addressed with general education curriculum modifications in a traditional prekindergarten-12th grade environment (Heward, 2006). It is essential that expert teachers with specialized educational background and training are prepared to adapt daily lessons to accommodate all students. Thus, the purpose of this autoethnographic research was to study the personal and professional life experiences of an expert teacher that led to integrating physical education, sensory integration, and assistive technology into a unique pedagogical approach to teach students with multiple disabilities. This approach allowed these students to be as productive as …

Reported Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption And Body Composition In Urban Southern College Students, Sarah J. Achelpohl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Objective To determine the impact of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on body composition in urban southern college students.Design This study is a cross-sectional quantitative survey design evaluating the relationships among sugar-sweetened beverage consumption frequency, body mass index, and body fat percentage in urban southern college students while controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity and analyzed using Pearson correlations.Subjects Fifty-three subjects between 17 and 25 years of age were included in the study and were enrolled at the University of Memphis.Results This study revealed a significant linear relationship between sugar-sweetened soda and body mass index and body fat percentage in Caucasian students. …

Devastated Utopias, Or How To Leave A Legacy: Communist Art & Personality Cults In 20th Century Russia, China And Cambodia, Natalie Ruth Koho

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The rise of Marxist regimes altered the stylistic course and purpose of art. Although a new style, Socialist Realism, was formed to reflect communism's visual intentions, this style borrowed and adapted older artistic traditions to increase the reception and understanding of new communist ideologies. The artistic blend of old and new also reflected a trend within communist leadership; Stalin and Mao particularly came to resemble powerful monarchs of the previous imperial eras. Although greatly influenced by Maoist thought, the Khmer Rouge communist regime contrasts both the Chinese and Soviet model by producing an extremely low amount of art and shrouding …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Eagle Nation on Parade Unveils First Round Concepts Commemorating Traditions Held By Georgia Southern University and Bulloch County

The Laboca Survey Of The Extended Chandra Deep Field-South: Clustering Of Submillimetre Galaxies, Ryan C. Hickox, J. L. Wardlow, Ian Smail, A. D. Myers

Dartmouth Scholarship

We present a measurement of the spatial clustering of submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) at z = 1–3. Using data from the 870 μm LABOCA submillimetre survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South, we employ a novel technique to measure the cross-correlation between SMGs and galaxies, accounting for the full probability distributions for photometric redshifts of the galaxies. From the observed projected two-point cross-correlation function we derive the linear bias and characteristic dark matter halo masses for the SMGs. We detect clustering in the cross-correlation between SMGs and galaxies at the > 4σ level. Accounting for the clustering of galaxies from their …

Development Of Self-Stressing System For Bridge Application With Emphasis On Precast Panel Deck System, Marcelo Ferreira Da Silva

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Steel girder bridges often utilize continuity over the pier to reduce interior forces on the spans. In continuous structures with composite concrete decks, the location of maximum negative bending moment is over the interior supports. This moment produces tensile stresses in the concrete deck and compressive stress in the bottom flanges of the girders. The tensile stress in the deck leads to cracking which allow intrusion of moisture and road salt, causing corrosion of the reinforcement and supporting girders. Continued maintenance is required to forestall the deterioration; however, replacement of the deck is eventually required.

To overcome this problem, a …

Indirect Feedback: A Dialoguing Approach To Assessment, Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Ricardo Tejeiro, Anthony Edwards, Estefania Campos

Higher Learning Research Communications

Whilst there is consensus in the current literature that feedback plays a fundamental role to student performance and learning, there is also debate about what makes it effective. Particularly, some assessment instruments, like the National Student Survey in the United Kingdom, reveal that evaluation and feedback are systematically amongst the areas that students are less satisfied with. This paper aims to describe the ‘indirect feedback’ (IF) technique, which was utilised by the principle author in his previous tenure as a Professor at the University of Cadiz (Spain) and to reflect on how it can be applied to overcome some of …

What's Holding Back Clean Energy Lending In Central America?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

The Washington-based Inter- American Development Bank earlier this year announced the approval of a $30 million medium- term financing facility for a Honduran bank to support loans to environmentally sustainable projects. The bank is developing a portfolio of loans to small- and medium-sized businesses in biofuels and other sustainable sectors. How important is lending to small- and medium-sized energy companies for their success? What challenges do banks face in Central America, in terms of regulatory measures or political uncertainty, as they seek to tap the SME market and emerging-industry businesses like those in the clean energy sector?

Jared Sampson's Mom, Dallas Woodburn

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.

Winner Of $174 Mil, Norman Waksler

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.

Garbage Picker Of Memory, Meg Tuite

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.