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November 27, 2012, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Mapping Marketing Library Services Related Literature In Lis Open Access Journals, Anna Kaushik

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Open access initiative explores the new way to access scholarly literature free of cost which published in diverse online journals on different subjects. This study aims to identify growth and publication patterns of marketing library and information services related literature published in LIS open access journals by various bibliographic points of view. The results of the study demonstrated that maximum quantity of articles published in marketing library services, most productive year count as 2002 and huge amount of articles focused on library marketing theme. Results further revealed that wide spectrum of articles published in foreign open access LIS journals by …

The Way They Should Go, Benjamin Larry Marshall

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This thesis is a novel in 28 chapters, an original work of fiction that explores the perspective of a young woman's coming of age in a family whose values she grows to reject. Set in contemporary Alabama, the story includes elements of boar hunting, a mission trip to Cairo, and a few morrally ambiguous decisions from people she loves and respects.

South Of Heaven, Patti Frye Meredith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

South of Heaven, set in Carthage, North Carolina, tells the story of two estranged sisters forced to sink or swim under the same leaky roof. Fern McQueen is at peace with her mid-life-self. She is content to watch over her son and her beloved aunt who carries secrets in a black patent leather purse while her mind slips away. But Fern’s peace ends when her reckless past is resurrected. Meanwhile, her sister Leona’s carefully crafted life in Raleigh begins to unravel when her doctor husband is accused of Medicaid fraud. To avoid the humiliation and snubs from her unforgiving social …

Urban Elementary And Middle School Teachers' Perceptions Of Instructional Time, Resources And Facilities And Their Relationship To Student Academic Achievement Reading And Mathematics, Rosalind Renee Martin Mrs.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Federal and state laws rely on multiple indicators to measure and improve student performance. However, inadequate attention has been directed at school climate as a means to improve student academic achievement even through there is a diverse body of research linking school climate to student achievement and academic performance (Kober, 2001; Loukas & Robinson, 2005; Shindler, et al 2004). The specific purpose of this study is to examine elementary and middle school teachers' perceptions of school climate dimensions such as: use of instructional time, access to resources, and adequate facilities, in relationship to students academic achievement in an urban school …

The Role Of The Gonads And Incest Avoidance In The Regulation Of Sexual Behavior In Damaraland Mole-Rats, Sara Nicole Carter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The Damaraland mole-rat (DMR; Fukoymys damarensis) is one of a small number of mammals that are eusocial. In this mating system, only a single pair reproduce while the other remaining colony members are non-reproductive. Non-breeders exhibit sexual behavior only when paired with unfamiliar opposite-sex individuals. The role of the gonads in the regulation of reproductive behaviors in non-breeders remains unknown; however, inbreeding avoidance has been hypothesized to account, in part, for the lack of reproductive behavior in non-breeding individuals. The mechanism that regulates incest avoidance also remains unknown. The aims of this study were twofold; first, to investigate the role …

Writing To Understand Our Lives And Languages: A Case Study Of An Immigrant Women's Writing Group, Jessica D. Swan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Writing groups have empirical support for their ability to give voice to stories, improve language skills, and result in personal and social transformations. However, the research into their effectiveness among English Language Learners (ELLs) is limited. This case study of an immigrant women's writing group in Memphis, Tennessee, examined the effects of participation on the language skills, identities, and communities of the women. Ten (10) women who were all non-native English speakers participated in a writing group held over the course of ten (10) weeks for two (2) hours each week. The structure of the writing group allowed for personal …

Pidgin In The Classroom: Hawai`I'S English Standard Schools, Americanization, And Hawaiian Identity, 1920-1960, Katherine J E Fox

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

From 1924 to 1960 some of Hawai`i's public schools were segregated institutions. Unlike the segregated schools of the mainland, the main goal of the English Standard schools, as they were known, was to ensure that English-speaking children be taught in environments free from Pidgin and other native languages spoken by the majority of Hawai`i's school children. Because this segregation was linguistically-based, it was possible for children of all races and ethnicities to attend English Standard schools, but there can be no doubt that they were heavily dominated by white students in the early years of the program, much to the …

Prosody And Kinesics Based Co-Analysis Towards Continuous Gesture Recognition, Pratiksha Subedi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The aim of this study is to develop a multimodal co-analysis framework for continuous gesture recognition by exploiting prosodic and kinesics manifestation of natural communication. Using this framework, a co-analysis pattern between correlating components is obtained. The co-analysis pattern is clustered using K-means clustering to determine how well the pattern distinguishes the gestures. Features of the proposed approach that differentiate it from the other models are its less susceptibility to idiosyncrasies, its scalability, and simplicity. The experiment was performed on Multimodal Annotated Gesture Corpus (MAGEC) that we created for research on understanding non-verbal communication community, particularly the gestures.

Testing Firstsearch And Umi Databases In Technological University Libraries, Charles Townley

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Free Improvisation Information Service Over The Internet, Peter Stubley

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Network At Work: Tailoring Digital Information, Irma Pasanen-Tuomainen, Talikka Pasanen-Tuomainen, Marja Pasanen-Tuomainen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

The Multi-Media Approach To Preservation And Presentation Of Special Collections, Jean Hofacket, Cory S. Lund

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Educate - A User Education Program For Information Retrieval And Handling, Nancy Fjällbrant

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Nordic Net Centre (Nnc) And Nordic Webindex: Two Nordic Information And Networked-Technology Projects, Jörgen Eriksson

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Cutting The Pie In A New Way - Towards A New Structure For Scientific Publication, Erik Sandewall

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Bibsys - An Information System For The Norwegian Academic Community, Roy Gundersen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

Scholarly Communication - Historical Development And New Possibilities, Nancy Fjällbrant

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Ticker, November 26, 2012

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The End Of Time: Some Thoughts On The Last Days, John Bird, Teaching And Learning Center

The Weekly Reader

No abstract provided.

The Chanticleer, 2012-11-26, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Lanthorn, Vol. 47, No. 28, November 26, 2012, Grand Valley State University

Volume 47, July 2, 2012 - June 3, 2013

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

The Statesman, V. 56, I. 13, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 56, i. 13

Current, November 26, 2012, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Columbia Chronicle (11/26/2012), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from November 26, 2012 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 40 pages and is listed as Volume 48, Number 13. Cover story: "Reintroducing: Student Government Association" Editor-in-Chief: Heather Schröering

President's Weekly Perspective, 11/26/2012, Robert G. Frank

President Frank's Administration

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Maintenance Report, Program Of Accountancy Assurance Of Learning, 2011-2012, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

Academic Learning Compacts

A report by the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's College of Business on how it is following the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business' (AACSB) guidelines.

2012 November 26 - Graduate Council Minutes, College Of Graduate And Continuing Studies, East Tennessee State University

Graduate Council Agendas and Minutes

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May It Please The Court: Questions About Policy At Oral Argument, Cynthia K. Conlon, Julie M. Karaba

Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy

This Article examines the questions that Supreme Court Justices ask during oral argument. The authors content-coded questions asked in fifty-three cases argued during the October 2009, 2010, and 2011 terms—a total of 5,115 questions. They found that the Justices vary significantly in the extent to which they ask about different aspects of a case, including threshold issues, precedent, facts, external actors, legal argument, and policy. They also found that the Justices were more likely to ask policy-oriented questions in education cases than in constitutional cases that did not arise in a school setting. The authors included a case study of …

Pilot Evaluation Of The Text4baby Mobile Health Program, William D. Evans, Jasmine L. Wallace, Jeremy Snider

Prevention and Community Health Faculty Publications

Background

Mobile phone technologies for health promotion and disease prevention have evolved rapidly, but few studies have tested the efficacy of mobile health in full-fledged programs. Text4baby is an example of mobile health based on behavioral theory, and it delivers text messages to traditionally underserved pregnant women and new mothers to change their health, health care beliefs, practices, and behaviors in order to improve clinical outcomes. The purpose of this pilot evaluation study is to assess the efficacy of this text messaging campaign.

Methods

We conducted a randomized pilot evaluation study. All participants were pregnant women first presenting for care …