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Academic Data Series, 2012-13 Edition, Office Of The Controller, Wright State University

Academic Data Series

A compilation of statistics extracted from the University's Banner System and Ohio Department of Higher Education resources for 2012-2013.

The Effectiveness Of Virtual Learning Tools For Millennial Generation Students In A Community College Criminal Justice Degree Program, Lawrence Snyder

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

An analysis of data from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement and multiyear analysis of pretest/posttest scores in introductory criminal justice courses revealed there was a systemic decline in student engagement and achievement. Because of this analysis, a commercial virtual learning tool (CJI) that purported great success in improving student engagement and performance was identified and implemented on the college's course management application in the spring of 2010. CJI, a comprehensive learning tool that incorporated Web 2.0 activities, such as video, simulations, and study aids, was designed to improve student engagement and performance. The inclusion of Web 2.0 activities …

2013 Biennial Faculty Activities Report, University Of Northern Iowa, University Of Iowa, Iowa State University

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Report of faculty activity broken down by rank and compared to the other Regents institutions

Get On The Plane: Why Understanding The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Best Done By Traveling There, Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Katie Lonze

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

International travel seems necessary for understanding international conflict and yet, bringing entire classes of students to the locus of the conflict can be daunting. This essay uses one such example of a class trip to demonstrate the potential learning that occurs with international travel and why, particularly when studying international conflict, onsite learning is crucial.

The genesis of this trip comes from the favorite learning experiences in college: two different international trips taken by author Andrea Schneider ("Andrea"). The first was during her junior year in a seminar on Greek-Turkish relations. The class traveled to both Greece and Turkey, meeting …

Dna Methylation Profiling Revealed Promoter Hypermethylation-Induced Silencing Of P16, Ddah2 And Dusp1 In Primary Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Goot Heah Khor, Gabriele Ruth Anisah Froemming, R.B. Zain, Mannil Thomas Abraham, Effat Omar, Su Keng Tan, Aik Choon Tan, Vincent Vui King Chong, Kwai Lin Thong

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

BACKGROUND: Hypermethylation in promoter regions of genes might lead to altered gene functions and result in malignant cellular transformation. Thus, biomarker identification for hypermethylated genes would be very useful for early diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic treatment of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). The objectives of this study were to screen and validate differentially hypermethylated genes in OSCC and correlate the hypermethylation-induced genes with demographic, clinocopathological characteristics and survival rate of OSCC. METHODS: DNA methylation profiling was utilized to screen the differentially hypermethylated genes in OSCC. Three selected differentially-hypermethylated genes of p16, DDAH2 and DUSP1 were further validated for methylation status …

Пещеры Сборник Научных Трудов Peshchery (Caves) Collection Of Scientific Transactionspeshchery (Caves) Interuniversity Collection Of Scientific Transactions

KIP Articles

П 78 Пещеры: сб. науч. тр. / Естественнонауч. ин-т Перм. гос. нац. иссл. ун-та. - Пермь, 2013. - Вып. 36. - 179 с. ISBN 978-5-7944-1556-8 ISBN 978-5-7944-2261-0 (Вып. 36) Сборник содержит материалы по геологии, генезису, биотическим комплексам пещер, их охране. Даны рецензии на издания по карсту и спелеологии, библиография по карсту и пещерам за 2012 г. Издание рекомендуется спелеологам, геологам, географам, экологам, биологам, а также тем, кто интересуется карстом и пещерами. СОДЕРЖАНИЕ ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ...4 ГЕОЛОГИЯ И ГЕНЕЗИС ПЕЩЕР...5 Пронин К.К. Некоторые итоги спелеологической программы «Морские пещеры Украины» Ланской Г.Ю. Любительская спелеология в Бельгии ОТЛОЖЕНИЯ ПЕЩЕР...26 Степанов Ю.И., Кадебская О.И., Тайницкий А.А., …

Using Isotopes Of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Species And Water To Separate Sources Of Recharge In A Cave Spring, Northwestern Arkansas, Usa, Katherine J. Knierim, Erik Pollock, Phillip D. Hays

KIP Articles

Blowing Spring Cave in northwestern Arkansas is representative of cave systems in the karst of the Ozark Plateaus, and stable isotopes of water (δ18O and δ2H) and inorganic carbon (δ13C) were used to quantify soil-water, bedrock-matrix water, and precipitation contributions to cave-spring flow during storm events to understand controls on cave water quality. Water samples from recharge-zone soils and the cave were collected from March to May 2012 to implement a multicomponent hydrograph separation approach using δ18O and δ2H of water and dissolved inorganic carbon (δ13C–DIC). During baseflow, median δ2H and δ18O compositions were –41.6‰ and –6.2‰ for soil water …

Do Carbonate Karst Terrains Affect The Global Carbon Cycle?, Jonathan B. Martin, Amy Brown, John Ezell

KIP Articles

Carbonate minerals comprise the largest reservoir of carbon in the earth’s lithosphere, but they are generally assumed to have no net impact on the global carbon cycle if rapid dissolution and precipitation reactions represent equal sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon. Observations of both terrestrial and marine carbonate systems indicate that carbonate minerals may simultaneously dissolve and precipitate within different portions of individual hydrologic systems. In all cases reported here, the dissolution and precipitation reactions are related to primary production, which fixes atmospheric CO2 as organic carbon, and the subsequent remineralization in watersheds of the organic carbon to dissolved CO2. …

Compliance In The Ether: Cloud Computing, Data Security And Business Regulation, J. Nicholas Hoover

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.

Lessons From A Plague, Max D. Siegel

Student Articles and Papers

This Article argues that we ought to examine this country’s early AIDS crisis for lessons on addressing HIV in the twenty-first century and to improve the ongoing social movement of sexual minorities in the United States. In the 1980s and early 1990s, AIDS focused sexual minorities’ advocacy efforts as both liberationists working to deregulate sexuality and integrationists seeking entrance to heterosexual privilege recognized that their agendas needed to account for this new crisis. Over time, a liberationist response to AIDS emerged and dominated the social movement because sexual minorities needed to publicly defend their differences in order to stay alive. …

American Dreams, Trafficking Nightmares, Mariana C. Minaya

Student Articles and Papers

Under the H-2 visa scheme, American employers rely on labor recruiters to venture abroad, find prospective employees, and commit them to an employment contract for seasonal or temporary work on American farms, construction sites, hotel staffs, and other businesses. Rogue recruiters, operating in foreign countries far from the view of their American employers or law enforcement, are in effect free to employ a variety of unscrupulous means for enticing and obtaining prospective recruits. They may lie about the nature of the work that awaits the recruits in the United States, charge them illegal fees that leave them in crushing debt, …

Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2013-2014, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a downloadable PDF version of the University of Rhode Island course catalog.

Journal Of The Book Of Mormon And Other Restoration Scripture Volume 22 Issue 2, Neal A. Maxwell Institute For Religious Scholarship

Journal of Book of Mormon Studies

No abstract provided.

Tattoos & Ip Norms, Aaron Perzanowski

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

The Duty To Capture, Jens David Ohlin

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

When Is It Ok To Limit Direct Democracy?, Shaun Bowler

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Rage Against The Machine: A Reply To Professors Bierschbach And Bibas, Erik Luna

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Up Or Out: Why "Sufficiently Reliable" Statistical Risk Assessment Is Appropriate At Sentencing And Inappropriate At Parole, Pari Mcgarraugh

Minnesota Law Review, Vols. 1-106:1 (1917-2021)

No abstract provided.

Cyber-Conflict, Cyber-Crime, And Cyber-Espionage, David Weissbrodt

Minnesota Journal of International Law, Vols 1-28:1 (1992-2019)

No abstract provided.

The Locality Rule Lives! Why? Using Modern Medicine To Eradicate An “Unhealthy” Law, 61 Drake L. Rev. 321 (2013), Marc Ginsberg

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

The "locality rule" places a geographical dimension on the professional standard of care in medical negligence litigation. It requires the measurement of a physician's conduct by a standard focusing on the geographical location of the treatment provided. This Article traces the origin of the locality rule, discusses its related practical problems, focuses on the states in which it exists, suggests that the rule is archaic, and explains how modern medicine (undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, state medical licensure, board certification, continuing medical education and practice guidelines) is well positioned to eradicate it.

Dynamic Energy Federalism, Hari M. Osofsky, Hannah J. Wiseman

Articles

U.S. energy law and the scholarship analyzing it are deeply fragmented. Each source of energy has a distinct legal regime, and limited federal regulation in some areas has resulted in divergent state and local approaches to regulation. Much of the existing energy law literature reflects these substantive and structural divisions, and focuses on particular aspects of the energy system and associated federalism disputes. However, in order to meet modern energy challenges — such as reducing risks from deepwater drilling and hydraulic fracturing, maintaining the reliability of the electricity grid in this period of rapid technological change, and producing cleaner energy …

Teaching The Civil Rights Movement: A Phenomenological Study Of Central Florida Teachers, Barbara Houser

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Teaching the civil rights movement can be challenging. Many history textbooks contain the national story of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, the march to Selma, Alabama, and not much more. Classrooms across the United States follow this path of nationalizing the civil rights movement. This interpretation is only a small part of the civil rights crusade that existed throughout the United States, including in the state of Florida. Teaching only the national story, especially when the local exists, can ignore the human, ordinary element of this movement. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the lived experience …

Commencement Program (December 2013), Csusb

CSUSB Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

The Contested Vision For Agriculture's Future: Sustainable Intensive Agriculture And Agroecology, Drew L. Kershen

Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

Heavy Metals In Traditionally Used Fruits Among The Lakota, Joanita M. Kant

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Heavy metals concentrations in soils and plants on and near Pine Ridge Reservation (PRR), SD, are a cause of concern to Oglala Lakota tribal government, particularly because of current and past uranium mining nearby, as well as familiarity with occasional selenium poisoning in livestock. In this study, concentrations of As, Ba, Pb, Se, and U were determined using ICP-OES for selected traditionally edible berries and small fruits, and the soils in which they grow. Results indicated that the heavy metals are likely of natural origin, and ingestion of these culturally important fruits at levels reported in interviews among the Lakota …

Sagebrush Ecosystem Characterization, Monitoring, And Forecasting With Remote Sensing: Quantifying Future Climate And Wildlife Habitat Change, Collin G. Homer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems constitute the largest single North American shrub ecosystem and provide vital ecological, hydrological, biological, agricultural, and recreational ecosystem services. Disturbances continue to alter this ecosystem, with climate change possibly representing the greatest future disturbance risk. Improved ways to characterize and monitor gradual change in this ecosystem are vital to its future management. A new remote sensing sagebrush characterization approach was developed in Wyoming which integrates three scales of remote sensing to derive four primary continuous field components (bare ground, herbaceousness, litter, and shrub), and four secondary components (sagebrush, big sagebrush, Wyoming sagebrush, and shrub …

Impacts Of Land Cover Changes On Ecosystem Services Delivery In The Black Hills Ecoregion From 1950 To 2010, Suzanne Cotillon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Environmental degradation generated by land use choices and human activities is the first driver of change in the provision of ecosystem goods and services. One of the challenges in ecosystem services research is to evaluate the contribution of each land cover unit to ecosystem services delivery while considering multiple services. In this thesis, I develop a framework to assess the capacity of many land covers to independently produce ecosystem services (i.e., potential production) and the capacity of the whole landscape to deliver multiple services to the population (i.e., potential supply). In the first part, this methodology is used to report …

Do Trademark Lawyers Matter?, Deborah Gerhardt, Jon J. Lee

Faculty Articles

This Article empirically examines whether lawyers make a difference in prosecuting federal trademark applications and, if so, how much. Working from a wealth of data the USPTO released in 2012, we examine 5,489,586 federal trademark applications filed since 1984 to determine how much legal representation correlates with success rates in various stages of the trademark application process. First, we show how trademark publication and registration rates have changed over time. Against that background, we examine how these rates differ if the applicant had legal counsel. By illustrating these differences over time, we assess whether trademark registration has become more accessible …

Bryant University Undergraduate Course Catalog 2013 - 2014, Bryant University

Bryant University Undergraduate Course Catalog

No abstract provided.

Using Screencasting To Promote Database Trials And Library Resources, Michelle Emanuel

Library Publications

At the University of Mississippi, screencasting was used to promote a database trial to the ARTStor Digital Library. Using Jing, a free product used for recording and posting screencasts, and a Snowball USB microphone, 11 videos averaging 3 minutes in length were posted to an online topic guide. Screencasting was used as a quick, creative, and cost-effective marketing strategy to appeal to multiple stakeholders. The short videos, focused in content and message, were an effective tool to push patrons to the database trial.