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Peru: Open For Business, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

South America’s third-largest economy seeks to capitalise on growing global trade

Poor, Rural Women: Spirituality, Religion, And Wellness Across The Life Span, Carman Sue Gill, Casey Barrio Minton, Jane Myers

Adultspan Journal

No abstract provided.

College Of Arts And Sciences E-News Issue 30: October 2015, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• WMU-Cooley Law School Receives $418,000 Grant
• WMU, Wayne State team up to improve health of state's foster youths
• State of the University address, awards to highlight 2015 Convocation
• 2015 Alumni Achievement Awards
• Rochester hires new city manager
• Dr. Elizabeth Warburton Receives Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to Israel

The Unspoken Bond: The Complex Relationship Between Etruria And Greece, Christopher S. Saladin

Classics: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

The Greeks of the Archaic and Classical periods clearly knew about and interacted with the Etruscan people, who contemporaneously dominated the Italic peninsula. Yet, despite the evidence of heavy interaction between the two civilizations, there is little mention of the Etruscans in our Greek sources. In this essay, I examine surviving Greek sources to determine the extent of Greco-Etruscan relations and how the Greeks perceived identity. Through my research, I found that the Greek and Etruscan societies were quite interconnected and had a tremendous impact upon each other, yet their interaction with each other remains strangely undocumented and mysterious.

What A Relief! Variations On Printmaking, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

2015-2016

What (is) a Relief?

Relief printmaking was the first printmaking process invented, and has its origins in seals in China around 255 BCE. At its most basic, one can think of a stamp as a relief print. The artist uses tools to cut away portions of the matrix (a wood block, linoleum sheet, Styrofoam, etc.), leaving behind a raised image area, which is then printed on a substrate (paper, fabric, etc.). To this day, relief printmaking is still the most accessible form of printmaking because a press is not required to make a print – just the matrix, ink, pressure …

Fulcrum, Newsletter Of The Furman University Libraries. Issue 07, Jenny Colvin

Libraries Institutional Records

Learn how the library evaluated one department's periodicals holdings, read about two new faculty and staff members, and read one English faculty member's experience with our research services.

The issue also includes News from the Stacks, an alumni profile, database features (60 Minutes and Web of Science), professional activities from Furman Library staff and faculty, information on our new on-demand workshop offerings.and updates from the Digital Collections Center, Special Collections and Archives and the Furman University Scholar Exchange.

Ex Libris, Fall 2015, West Virginia University. Library.

Ex Libris: The WVU Libraries Magazine

Preserving the dreams and aspirations of Storer College

Crown Of The Continent And The Greater Yellowstone Magazine - Summer/Fall 2015, University Of Montana, Missoula

Crown of the Continent and the Greater Yellowstone Magazine

Table of Contents: A Little Hair of the Bear -- The Pirates of Juvi Bay: Glacier Park Netters Make Progress Against Invasive Lake Trout -- Where Have All the Boreal Toads Gone? -- Hope On the Range -- Sunset to Sunrise In A Beloved National Park -- Book Review -- Springs, Geysers and Lemonade -- Reservoir is Super-sized, But No Increase in Danger -- The River Leaves Yellowstone Lake -- The Geology of Wildflowers -- Bark Beetles are Decimating Our Forests. That Actually Might Be A Good Thing. -- Book Reviews -- Field Notes

Creating Acceptance And Awareness Of Mild Student Disabilities Through Teacher Preparation, Ivy Ruggiero

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

General education classrooms are changing to become more inclusive for students with mild disabilities. However, teachers are not always provided with the necessary communication tools to help these atypical students integrate effectively within the classroom. The objective of this capstone project is to help teachers appropriately discuss disabilities in the classroom as well as in the community. We addressed this matter through the creation and implementation of an educational brochure for teachers coupled with the instruction of hands-on learning centers about disabilities to collegiate future teachers. Through these efforts we provided educators/staff throughout Monterey Peninsula Unified School District and local …

The Importance Of Highly Effective School Library Media Programs On School Learning Environments, Alexandra M. Juch

EDL Sixth Year Theses

The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics of a previously identified successful school library program (SLMP) in a Connecticut public school. The primary goals of this research are to answer these questions by conducting a single case study to examine the nature of this previously identified SLMP so that promising practices identified from this study can be applied to other SLMPs in Connecticut public schools. The data collection methods embodied both qualitative and quantitative instruments that included surveys, interviews and documents. Qualitative data analysis included preparation, familiarization, coding and general meaning that was entered into a table …

Spuds! Potatoes And Change In The English Language, Hannah Steele

Bakerman Student Research Awards

Languages are dynamic and fluid constructions.Their evolution cannot be stopped unless they die out at most merely slowed.By studying the evolution and adoption of potato-related terms in english,linguists can clearly see the active nature of language change through a variety of influences,the relation of the terminology to standardization,and a demonstration of the principle of linguistic relativity.

Simulated Use Of 'First-Order' Ponds To Reduce Peakflow In An Eroding River System, J. Thad Scott, Brian E. Haggard

Arkansas Water Resources Center Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Fall 2015, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

Augustana Magazine

No abstract provided.

At A Crossroads: Midtown, Inc. 2005-2015, Amanda Rees, Caleb Ashburn, Cheltzie Brown, Eric Derhammer, Jessica Dixon, Kelsie Hughes, Rachel Knapp, Morgan Robinson, Anastasia Romain

Columbus Community Geography Center

Established in 2005, MidTown, Inc., a self-identified community development organization, celebrated its 10^th anniversary in 2016. After a decade’s work, the organization is presently reviewing its activities as it takes a moment to consider its future trajectory. To facilitate this process MidTown, Inc. partnered with Columbus State University’s Columbus Community Geography Center to support MidTown, Inc.’s efforts. In fall 2015, nine students in CSU’s urban geography course, taught by Dr. Amanda Rees, researched and completed this report including: Celeb Ashburn, Cheltzie Brown, Eric Derhammer, Jessica Dixon, Kelsie Hughes, Rachel Knapp, Morgan Robinson, Anastasia Romain, and C.E. Sturgeon. An online …

Exploring Effects Of Intrinsic Motivation And Prior Knowledge On Student Achievements In Game-Based Learning, Youngkyun Baek, Yan Xu, Sanghoon Han, Jungwon Cho

Educational Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study investigates the effects of students’ intrinsic motivation and prior knowledge on student achievement in learning Chinese in a game-based learning environment. A total of 140 fourth-grade students from an elementary school in South Korea participated in this study. An instructional game called “Hanjamaru,” which is designed to teach Chinese characters, was implemented for four weeks. During the experiment, students’ prior knowledge, intrinsic motivation in gaming, and achievements learning Chinese were quantitatively measured. Findings from this study demonstrate that both students’ prior knowledge and intrinsic motivation affect their achievements in learning Chinese. Also, there students’ prior knowledge and intrinsic …

Cape Verde And Its Diaspora: Economic Transnationalism And Homeland Development, João Resende-Santos

Journal of Cape Verdean Studies

This study examines the historical role of the diaspora in Cape Verde’s socioeconomic development. It analyzes the prospects and limitations of its diaspora as a transnational economic development resource. While it is policy oriented, the study offers a conceptual framework to analyze its diaspora engagement policies and efforts since 1975. Cape Verde has emerged as a success story. The diaspora’s contribution was one of the four essential factors behind this relative success: migration and remittances, overseas development assistance, large scale public investments, and reasonably sound policies and stewardship of public finances. Today Cape Verde confronts an adverse set of conditions …

Histoire De L’Immigration Capverdienne En Côte D’Ivoire, Jean-Baptiste Tavares

Journal of Cape Verdean Studies

No abstract provided.

Mutually Assured Survival: An Analysis Of Globalization’S Influence On Nuclear Disarmament, Ryan Zehner

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Nuclear arms have revolutionized the ways by which human beings are able to harm one another. Omnipresent in the status quo is a nuclear tension, and whether subtly or more overtly, this tension underlies a great many international relationships. While Westphalian paranoia and neorealist power perceptions encourage populations to continue placing their faith in nuclear umbrellas and deterrence strategies, scholars and activists increasingly claim that without the realization of universal disarmament, humanity concedes to the inevitability of future nuclear detonation.

New disarmament initiatives concentrate heavily on the implications of nuclear weaponry in a sense that supersedes the security of only …

Environmental Education In Vietnam: A Case Study At Le Loi Elementary School, Emily Heck Heck

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The purpose of the research I conducted for this Independent Study Project was to get an in-depth understanding of how elementary school teachers and students think about the environment, environmental problems, and how to include environmental themes in education in Vietnam. I chose to focus on primary school-aged children, as they are a generation growing up in an era of global warming and daunting threats to the environment brought on by human activity. I conducted my research at Le Loi Elementary School in Hue, Vietnam, where I used a variety of research methods to learn from teachers and students including …

Hurdles To Health: An Exploration Of The Social Determinants That Affect Attitudes Toward Hpv Vaccination In Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Megan Rogers

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

In 2014, the Brazilian government began supplying free, preventative human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines for girls between the ages of 9 and 13. This public health campaign has the potential to greatly reduce the high HPV infection rate in Brazil, but without targeted education and information to supplement this medical intervention the program is predicted to have a smaller impact. This study aims to assess how well information about the HPV vaccine is currently reaching young Brazilian girls and their families. Data was gathered by interviewing professionals who work in STD education, women’s issues, and healthcare advocacy, as well as one …

Simon Says (Fall 2015), David Owings, Florence Wakoko-Studstill, Paul Luft, Jacqueline Radebaugh

Library Newsletters

In this issue:

• 20th Anniversary of GALILEO
• So Silent… So Deadly… So Final… Tarantulas!
• Library Assessment
• Collection Spotlight: Nursing Reference Collection
• New Electronic Resources
• Upcoming Library Events
• Upcoming Library Exhibits
• CSU Libraries Connected

Ethical Decision Making: The Lived Experiences Of African American Women Leaders In Western Kentucky, Greta G. Jones

Dissertations

The purpose of the phenomenological qualitative study was to determine the way in which 10 African American women leaders in organizations in Western Kentucky made difficult decisions based on their ethical values. African American. The constructs reviewed in the study include ethics, decision making, leadership, and African American women. Empirical Phenomenology was used as the methodological approach for this qualitative study in order to understand the lived experiences that shaped the ethical values in the workplaces among the women. According to the findings, the seven overarching themes that emerged from the participant narratives are: (1) professing Christian, (2) ethical foundation …

Dipl 6717 Conflict And Forced Population Movements In Africa, Assefaw Bariagaber Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

A few years after the African decade of independence (the 1960s), conflicts and the accompanying forced population movements spread dramatically, and the peoples of Africa faced enormous political, security, and economic challenges. The euphoria of independence from colonial powers that began in 1957 with the independence of Ghana and Guinea immediately gave way to dictatorships, political oppression, and instability and endless conflicts. The early optimism, which was shared by almost all of the newly-liberated peoples, was replaced by uncertainty and even hopelessness. While it is true that there have been a few countries that faired better, and the state of …

Ua41 University College Connection, Dennis K. George, Dean, Wendi Kelley, University College

UC Publications

No abstract provided.

The Dichotomy Between Colonial Heritage And National Identity In The Senegalese Education System, Kyra Ghosh

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

For my Independent Study project, I decided to examine the dichotomy between colonial heritage and national identity in the Senegalese education system. Among many other topics, I was interested in looking at language use in the classroom, material covered, grading systems, and recent reforms in education. I went about my research by conducting an ethnographic study in two middle/high schools (public and private) in Dakar. In order to narrow my research within the schools, I decided to focus on observing history and civic education classes to better understand the dichotomy. I interviewed students, teachers, administrators, and observed the school setting …

Historical Perspectives On A National Heroine: R.A. Kartini And The Politics Of Memory, Amber Woodward

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

R.A. Kartini is an Indonesian national heroine, considered Indonesia’s founding feminist. Because of her inherently political status as a woman, a Javanese subject of Dutch colonialism, and an aristocrat, her memory has been used in diverse ways throughout history. In this paper I examine four main periods in which Kartini’s image has been dictated due to current political and social climates: Dutch imperialism, Indonesian independence, the New Order, and the present day. This paper is based on three weeks of research and fieldwork, including eight interviews with eleven informants, who had a diverse range of educational backgrounds and knowledge of …

College Of Health Sciences Newsletter, October 2015, Irvin B. Harrell (Ed.)

Ellmer College of Health Sciences Newsletters

October 2015 issue of Old Dominion University's College of Health Sciences Newsletter.

Appalink, Appalachian Studies Association

Appalink

No abstract provided.

Volume 44 Number 1, Eiu College Of Education

Eastern Education Journal

No abstract provided.

Promoting Predators And Compassionate Conservation, Arian D. Wallach, Marc Bekoff, Michael Paul Nelson, David Ramp

Conservation Collection

No abstract provided.