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Influence Of Learning Strategies Stad Using Portfolio Assessment And Academic Ability To Concept Training Junior High School Students In Biology Education, Puspani Puspani Dec 2013

Influence Of Learning Strategies Stad Using Portfolio Assessment And Academic Ability To Concept Training Junior High School Students In Biology Education, Puspani Puspani

Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

This study is a quasi-experimental research (quasi experimental) which aims to: (1) examine the effect of STAD learning strategies using a portfolio assessment to the understanding of concepts and critical thinking skills, (2) test the effect of academic ability to understanding of concepts and critical thinking skills students, (3) test the interaction effect of STAD strategy using portfolio assessment and academic ability to the understanding of concepts and critical thinking skills of students. Research using the draft "non-pretest-posttest control group design equivalent" version 2x2 factorial. Data analysis to test for normality and homogeneity, followed by analysis of covariance (Anacova) and …


Instructional Materials Physics High School With Multi Representation Approach, Yuvita Widi Astuti Dec 2013

Instructional Materials Physics High School With Multi Representation Approach, Yuvita Widi Astuti

Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

One effort to improve understanding of concepts and problem-solving skills in learning physics is to provide instructional materials in accordance with the characteristics of the students and help students learn. The purpose of this study are: (1) developing a high school physics teaching materials especially materials Rotation Dynamics and Equilibrium Rigid objects using multiple representations approach to improve the understanding of physics concepts, (2) test the effectiveness of instructional materials development results. This research method is the development of research using Dick & Carey model tailored to the needs of research. The research instrument used in the form of feasibility …


Learning Cube And Beams With Rme Approach To Cultivating Creativity Students Mts, Muhammad Anwarul Huda Dec 2013

Learning Cube And Beams With Rme Approach To Cultivating Creativity Students Mts, Muhammad Anwarul Huda

Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

Learning is applied at the school is centered on the teacher, the students are not free expend his ideas. Mathematics learning can foster students' creativity is learning to approach Realistic Mathematics Education (RME). This study uses a Class Action Research (PTK) which aims to foster the creativity of students. The experiment was conducted on students of class VIII MTs Miftahul Ulum Kropak Village district. Kab riverbanks. Probolinggo. Subject interview 3 students consisting of one highly capable students, one student capable of being, and one low-ability students. The selection of interview subjects based on the results of the initial test and …


Relations In The School Facilities Tkj Practicum, Conformity Prakerin Place, And Competence Tkj Students With Skills Competency Test Results, Dian Fitri Perwitasari Dec 2013

Relations In The School Facilities Tkj Practicum, Conformity Prakerin Place, And Competence Tkj Students With Skills Competency Test Results, Dian Fitri Perwitasari

Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

This study aims to (1) determine the relationship TKJ lab facilities at the school with skills competency test results; (2) determine the suitability of a relationship prakerin with skill competency test results; (3) determine the relationship of competency TKJ students with skills competency test results; and (4) determine the relationship between TKJ lab facilities at the school, where prakerin suitability and competence TKJ students together with the results of the competency test of skill. Research using quantitative research correlational approach. The research sample was determined by using simple random sampling technique, which amounted to 75 students from two schools namely …


Practical Implications Of Current Intimate Partner Violence Research For Victim Advocates And Service Providers, Barbara Hart Jd, Andrew J. Klein Phd Dec 2013

Practical Implications Of Current Intimate Partner Violence Research For Victim Advocates And Service Providers, Barbara Hart Jd, Andrew J. Klein Phd

Justice Policy

This guide uses a question-and-answer format to inform victim advocates and service providers of the findings of published research on intimate partner violence (IPV) and their relevance for practice. The first of 13 sections of the guide poses and answers 11 questions pertinent to the issue, “What is intimate partner violence?” The issues addressed include the various behaviors and circumstances that constitute IPV, whether men and women are equally likely to be victims or perpetrators of IPV, and whether women’s use of IPV is different from men’s.The second major section poses and answers 12 questions related to IPV …


Department Of Audit, 2013 Annual Report, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury. Dec 2013

Department Of Audit, 2013 Annual Report, Tennessee. Comptroller Of The Treasury.

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.


Using Software-Based Decision Procedures To Control Instruction-Level Execution, William B. Kimball Dec 2013

Using Software-Based Decision Procedures To Control Instruction-Level Execution, William B. Kimball

AFIT Patents

An apparatus, method and program product are provided for securing a computer system. A digital signature of an application is checked, which is loaded into a memory of the computer system configured to contain memory pages. In response to finding a valid digital signature, memory pages containing instructions of the application are set as executable and memory pages other than those containing instructions of the application are set as non-executable. Instructions in executable memory pages are executed. Instructions in non-executable memory pages are prevented from being executed. A page fault is generated in response to an attempt to execute an …


Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women's All-Time All-Conference, Great Northwest Athletic Conference Dec 2013

Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women's All-Time All-Conference, Great Northwest Athletic Conference

Track and Field

No abstract provided.


Numerical Modeling Of Infrared Thermography Techniques Via Ansys, Hayder Abdulnabi Thajeel Dec 2013

Numerical Modeling Of Infrared Thermography Techniques Via Ansys, Hayder Abdulnabi Thajeel

Masters Theses

"Several inspection techniques have been developed over years. Recently, infrared thermography (IRT) technology has become a widely accepted as a nondestructive inspection (NDI) technique for different fields and various applications as well. Infrared thermography stands as one of the most an attractive and a successful NDI technique that has ability to detect the object's surface/subsurface defects remotely based on observing and measuring the surface's emitted infrared heat radiation by using an infrared camera. The finite element modeling FEM ANSYS was successfully used for the modelling of several IRT techniques; such as Pulsed Thermography (PT) and Lock-in Thermography (LT) that can …


Natural Disasters, Access To Justice, And Legal Services, Jordan Ballard, Julia Howard-Gibbon, Branda Muñoz Furnish, Aaron Scheinwald Dec 2013

Natural Disasters, Access To Justice, And Legal Services, Jordan Ballard, Julia Howard-Gibbon, Branda Muñoz Furnish, Aaron Scheinwald

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fighting For Educational Stability In The Face Of Family Turmoil, Michael R. Mastrangelo Dec 2013

Fighting For Educational Stability In The Face Of Family Turmoil, Michael R. Mastrangelo

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.


Social Entrepreneurship That Truly Benefits The Poor: An Integrative Justice Approach, Nicholas J. C. Santos, S.J. Dec 2013

Social Entrepreneurship That Truly Benefits The Poor: An Integrative Justice Approach, Nicholas J. C. Santos, S.J.

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

The phenomenal growth of social entrepreneurship over the last decade has ably demonstrated how technology, innovation, and an entrepreneurial spirit can afford better solutions to the vexing social and environmental problems of our time than can traditional aid and charity- based efforts. In most cases, but not always, the poor and disadvantaged have benefited from the growth of social entrepreneurship. In order to ensure that social entrepreneurship does indeed benefit the poor, it is imperative that there be normative guidelines for fair and just engagement with impoverished populations. A model that has been presented in the marketing and public policy …


Front Matter, Iajbs Ateneo De Manila University Dec 2013

Front Matter, Iajbs Ateneo De Manila University

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

No abstract provided.


Scaling Social Ventures: An Exploratory Study Of Social Incubators And Accelerators, Guillermo Casasnovas, Albert V. Bruno Dec 2013

Scaling Social Ventures: An Exploratory Study Of Social Incubators And Accelerators, Guillermo Casasnovas, Albert V. Bruno

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

This article addresses the specific role of programs that attempt to help social ventures scale. We utilize combined experience in the Momentum Project from ESADE Business School and the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University, as well as an exploratory study of 40 social incubator and accelerator programs around the world, to frame the issues. We make a comparison among different programs and classify them as social incubators and social accelerators according to targeted social ventures and portfolio of resources offered. We note opportunities for research on social entrepreneurship and discuss relevant issues for both academics and practitioners …


Full Issue, Iajbs Ateneo De Manila University Dec 2013

Full Issue, Iajbs Ateneo De Manila University

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

No abstract provided.


Social Venture Business Model Archetypes: Five Vehicles For Creating Economic And Social Value, Jennifer I. Woolley, Albert V. Bruno, Eric D. Carlson Dec 2013

Social Venture Business Model Archetypes: Five Vehicles For Creating Economic And Social Value, Jennifer I. Woolley, Albert V. Bruno, Eric D. Carlson

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

Social ventures balance the economic and social dimensions of value creation to alleviate the problems created by shared collective issues. While much is known about economic value creation in conventional firms, little empirical work has focused on social ventures. As the number of social entrepreneurs continues to increase, the challenge of creating both economic and social value has emerged as an important research topic. In this article, we examine 124 social ventures from around the world to gain insight into ways social ventures pursue economic and social value creation. Five social venture business model archetypes emerge from the data. We …


The Role Of Ict In Scaling Up The Impact Of Social Enterprises, Ramon Fisac-Garcia, Manuel Acevedo-Ruiz, Ana Moreno-Romero, Thane Kreiner Dec 2013

The Role Of Ict In Scaling Up The Impact Of Social Enterprises, Ramon Fisac-Garcia, Manuel Acevedo-Ruiz, Ana Moreno-Romero, Thane Kreiner

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can help social enterprises and other organizations working on global sustainability issues and in the human development sector in general scale their social impact. The flexibility, dynamism, and ubiquity of ICTs make them powerful tools for improving relationships among organizations and their beneficiaries, multiplying the effects of action against many, if not all, aspects of global unsustainability, including poverty and exclusion. The scaling of social impact occurs in two different dimensions. On one hand, ICTs can increase the value proposition of a program or action (depth scaling) in different ways: providing accurate and fast needs …


Social Entrepreneurship As Practical Social Justice, Thane Kreiner Dec 2013

Social Entrepreneurship As Practical Social Justice, Thane Kreiner

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

No abstract provided.


The Art Of Rural Business, Nancy Wimmer Dec 2013

The Art Of Rural Business, Nancy Wimmer

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

Grameen Shakti has mastered the art of rural business. Sixteen years ago, the Bangladesh-based renewable energy company was a pioneer in an unexplored market. It had to learn its business from scratch, including how to market solar technology while finding ways to benefit local communities. This would take time, and so Shakti began its business with a plan to become sustainable. The company’s later success—allowing five million people to benefit from light, electricity and additional income— demonstrates what an entrepreneurial approach can achieve in a tough rural environment. It is not magic—what has evolved into a mature business model and …


The Role Of Human Capital In Scaling Social Entrepreneurship, Dawn Harris, Yasemin Kor Dec 2013

The Role Of Human Capital In Scaling Social Entrepreneurship, Dawn Harris, Yasemin Kor

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

In this article, we discuss the importance of human assets in growing and scaling a social venture in order to achieve its objectives and attain financial sustainability. We focus on the three key dimensions of how a social enterprise’s human assets contribute to the effectiveness of the company’s operations and its missions: 1) human capital acquisition, 2) human capital development, and 3) human capital retention. In discussing and unpacking these three dimensions, we draw from rich insights and real- life examples from two social ventures we studied: Solar Sister of Uganda and E-Health Point of India. These inductively-generated research insights …


Coffelt V. State Respondent's Brief Dckt. 40515 Dec 2013

Coffelt V. State Respondent's Brief Dckt. 40515

Not Reported

No abstract provided.


Sns Reaal Transfers Property Unit To Dutch State, Seenews Netherlands Dec 2013

Sns Reaal Transfers Property Unit To Dutch State, Seenews Netherlands

Documents

No abstract provided.


Impacts From Winter–Early Spring Elk Grazing In Foothills Rough Fescue Grassland, Tanya M. Thrift, Tracy K. Mosley, Jeffrey C. Mosley Dec 2013

Impacts From Winter–Early Spring Elk Grazing In Foothills Rough Fescue Grassland, Tanya M. Thrift, Tracy K. Mosley, Jeffrey C. Mosley

Western North American Naturalist

Foothills rough fescue (Festuca campestris) grasslands provide important foraging habitat for wildlife and livestock in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada. Foothills rough fescue is sensitive to grazing during late spring–early summer but is believed to be more tolerant of grazing during winter–early spring. We evaluated vegetation and soil impacts from long-term winter–early spring grazing at 2 intensities (HG = heavy grazing, LG = light grazing). We studied a foothills rough fescue grassland in west central Montana, USA, that had been grazed almost exclusively by Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) during winter–early spring for …


Insect Prey Eaten By Hoary Bats (Lasiurus Cinereus) Prior To Fatal Collisions With Wind Turbines, Ernest W. Valdez, Paul M. Cryan Dec 2013

Insect Prey Eaten By Hoary Bats (Lasiurus Cinereus) Prior To Fatal Collisions With Wind Turbines, Ernest W. Valdez, Paul M. Cryan

Western North American Naturalist

Wind turbines are being deployed all across the world to meet the growing demand for energy, and in many areas, these turbines are causing the deaths of insectivorous migratory bats. One of the hypothesized causes of bat susceptibility is that bats are attracted to insects on or near the turbines. We examined insect remains in the stomachs and intestines of hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus) found dead beneath wind turbines in New York and Texas to evaluate the hypothesis that bats die while feeding at turbines. Most of the bats we examined had full stomachs, indicating that they fed …


An Arizona Bark Scorpion (Centruroides Sculpturatus) Found Consuming A Venomous Prey Item Nearly Twice Its Length, Michael M. Webber, Matthew R. Graham Dec 2013

An Arizona Bark Scorpion (Centruroides Sculpturatus) Found Consuming A Venomous Prey Item Nearly Twice Its Length, Michael M. Webber, Matthew R. Graham

Western North American Naturalist

Arizona bark scorpions (Centruroides sculpturatus Ewing) are commonly found throughout the Sonoran Desert in southwestern North America, and they are well known for being the most venomous scorpion in the United States. Despite their medical significance, C. sculpturatus remains ecologically understudied, and little is known regarding its natural foraging and feeding behaviors. Here, we present the first documented case of C. sculpturatus feeding on the Sonoran Desert centipede (Scolopendra polymorpha Wood) in the wild.


Los Alacranes de Corteza de Arizona (Centruroides sculpturatus Ewing), por lo general, se encuentran en todo el Desierto de Sonora, en el sudoeste …


The Birth Of The Greenback, Dawinder S. Sidhu Dec 2013

The Birth Of The Greenback, Dawinder S. Sidhu

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Obesity Reduces Left Ventricular Strains, Torsion, And Synchrony In Mouse Models: A Cine Displacement Encoding With Stimulated Echoes (Dense) Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Study, Sage P. Kramer, David K. Powell, Christopher M. Haggerty, Cassi M. Binkley, Andrea C. Mattingly, Lisa A. Cassis, Frederick H. Epstein, Brandon K. Fornwalt Dec 2013

Obesity Reduces Left Ventricular Strains, Torsion, And Synchrony In Mouse Models: A Cine Displacement Encoding With Stimulated Echoes (Dense) Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Study, Sage P. Kramer, David K. Powell, Christopher M. Haggerty, Cassi M. Binkley, Andrea C. Mattingly, Lisa A. Cassis, Frederick H. Epstein, Brandon K. Fornwalt

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Obesity affects a third of adults in the US and results in an increased risk of cardiovascular mortality. While the mechanisms underlying this increased risk are not well understood, animal models of obesity have shown direct effects on the heart such as steatosis and fibrosis, which may affect cardiac function. However, the effect of obesity on cardiac function in animal models is not well-defined. We hypothesized that diet-induced obesity in mice reduces strain, torsion, and synchrony in the left ventricle (LV).

METHODS: Ten 12-week-old C57BL/6 J mice were randomized to a high-fat or low-fat diet. After 5 months on …


Net Primary Productivity Of Subalpine Meadows In Yosemite National Park In Relation To Climate Variability, Peggy E. Moore, Jan W. Van Wagtendonk, Julie L. Yee, Mitchel P. Mcclaran, David N. Cole, Neil K. Mcdougald, Matthew L. Brooks Dec 2013

Net Primary Productivity Of Subalpine Meadows In Yosemite National Park In Relation To Climate Variability, Peggy E. Moore, Jan W. Van Wagtendonk, Julie L. Yee, Mitchel P. Mcclaran, David N. Cole, Neil K. Mcdougald, Matthew L. Brooks

Western North American Naturalist

Subalpine meadows are some of the most ecologically important components of mountain landscapes, and primary productivity is important to the maintenance of meadow functions. Understanding how changes in primary productivity are associated with variability in moisture and temperature will become increasingly important with current and anticipated changes in climate. Our objective was to describe patterns and variability in aboveground live vascular plant biomass in relation to climatic factors. We harvested aboveground biomass at peak growth from four 64-m2 plots each in xeric, mesic, and hydric meadows annually from 1994 to 2000. Data from nearby weather stations provided independent variables …


Rodent-Mediated Interactions Among Seed Species Of Differing Quality In A Shrubstepe Ecosystem, Karen H. Beard, Craig A. Faulhaber, Frank P. Howe, Thomas C. Edwards Jr. Dec 2013

Rodent-Mediated Interactions Among Seed Species Of Differing Quality In A Shrubstepe Ecosystem, Karen H. Beard, Craig A. Faulhaber, Frank P. Howe, Thomas C. Edwards Jr.

Western North American Naturalist

Interactions among seeds, mediated by granivorous rodents, are likely to play a strong role in shrubsteppe ecosystem restoration. Past studies typically consider only pairwise interactions between preferred and less preferred seed species, whereas rangeland seedings are likely to contain more than 2 seed species, potentially leading to complex interactions. We examined how the relative proportion of seeds in a 3-species polyculture changes rodent seed selectivity (i.e., removal) and indirect interactions among seeds. We presented 2 rodent species, Peromyscus maniculatus (deer mice) andPerognathus parvus (pocket mice), in arenas with 3-species seed mixtures that varied in the proportion of a highly …


Dementia In Maine: Characteristics, Care, And Cost Across Settings [Chartbook], Julie T. Fralich Mba, Stuart Bratesman Mpp, Louise Olsen, Catherine Mcguire Bs, Tina Gressani, Karen Mauney, Catherine Gunn, Romaine Turyn Dec 2013

Dementia In Maine: Characteristics, Care, And Cost Across Settings [Chartbook], Julie T. Fralich Mba, Stuart Bratesman Mpp, Louise Olsen, Catherine Mcguire Bs, Tina Gressani, Karen Mauney, Catherine Gunn, Romaine Turyn

Disability & Aging

This report provides a baseline picture of the current use of services by people with and without dementia in Maine.