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Eulogy For Guy Vander Jagt, Delivered On June 28, 2007, Arend D. Lubbers Jun 2007

Eulogy For Guy Vander Jagt, Delivered On June 28, 2007, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Eulogy for Guy Vander Jagt, delivered on June 28, 2007 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

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Self-Esteem As A Predictor Of Treatment Outcome Among Women With Eating Disorders, Suzanne F. Plowman Jun 2007

Self-Esteem As A Predictor Of Treatment Outcome Among Women With Eating Disorders, Suzanne F. Plowman

Theses and Dissertations

Current empirical evidence suggests that true recovery from eating disorders is not possible without a corresponding improvement in body image and self-esteem. Ten studies in current literature evaluate this relationship between self-esteem and clinical eating disorders during inpatient treatment or during follow-up studies but do not provide both pre- (baseline) and post-treatment self-esteem scores. As a result, many questions about the nature of the relationship between eating disorders and self-esteem remain unanswered. The purpose of this study was to empirically investigate whether a comprehensive measure of self-esteem, given to women at the beginning of inpatient treatment for eating disorders, reliably …

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Putting Emotional Reactivity In Its Place? Exploring Family-Of-Origin Influences On Emotional Reactivity, Conflict, And Satisfaction In Premarital Couples, Brandt C. Gardner, Dean M. Busby, Andrew S. Brimhall Jun 2007

Putting Emotional Reactivity In Its Place? Exploring Family-Of-Origin Influences On Emotional Reactivity, Conflict, And Satisfaction In Premarital Couples, Brandt C. Gardner, Dean M. Busby, Andrew S. Brimhall

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this research was to develop a structural equation model that tested the effects of emotional reactivity on the relational health of a representative sample of 736 premarital couples. We hypothesized that partners’ perceived family-of-origin experience would be predictive of partners’ reports of their own and their partners’ emotional reactivity. These reports were hypothesized to predict partners’ reports of their own and their partners’ ability to manage conflict, which were hypothesized to predict relationship satisfaction. Overall, the model fit the data quite well, with particularly interesting differences by gender. We discuss the model’s fit within the larger body …

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Achieving Family Health Literacy: The Case For Insuring Children, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Peter Shin, Barbara Debuono Jun 2007

Achieving Family Health Literacy: The Case For Insuring Children, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Peter Shin, Barbara Debuono

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

One aspect of the SCHIP reauthorization debate that has received more limited attention than it deserves is the relationship between children's health insurance coverage and family health literacy. That is, to what extent is children's health insurance associated with higher health literacy, and to what extent is reduced parental health literacy linked to lower rates of health insurance among children? This association is extremely important, since there is strong evidence of a link between health literacy and the appropriate use of health care. Evidence suggests that when previously uninsured children are covered by health insurance, parents at all income levels …

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Ddasaccident468, Hd-Aid Jun 2007

Ddasaccident468, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

[The Victim] was part of an [Demining group] Mine Clearance Team was clearing an area of ground that they knew was definitely mined with PMN anti-personnel mines, laid very close together, at intervals of less than one metre between one mine and the next. The day was not a normal working day but nothing untoward had happened during the previous twenty-four hours that might affect operations at the site. [The Victim] was working unsupervised in the middle part of the site; the drills and procedures he was using were probably not in accordance with SOP and the site was inadequately …

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Prospectus, June 27, 2007, Aaron Geiger, Donna Mayer, Judy Seyb Jun 2007

Prospectus, June 27, 2007, Aaron Geiger, Donna Mayer, Judy Seyb

Prospectus 2007

No abstract provided.

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Non-Resident Father Involvement And Adolescent Well- Being: Father Effects Or Child Effects?, Daniel Hawkins, Paul R. Amato, Valarie King Jun 2007

Non-Resident Father Involvement And Adolescent Well- Being: Father Effects Or Child Effects?, Daniel Hawkins, Paul R. Amato, Valarie King

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Is active fathering by nonresident fathers a cause or a consequence of adolescent well- being? Past studies of nonresident father involvement have assumed a father effects model in which active parenting by fathers improves adolescent adjustment. A child effects model, in which fathers respond to levels of well-being among their adolescent offspring by becoming more or less involved parents, could also account for the positive association between active fathering and adolescent adjustment. We utilize nationally representative data from the 1995 and 1996 waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to estimate the cross-lagged associations between nonresident …

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Trade Liberalization, Economic Growth, And Poverty Reduction: Recent Evidence From Pakistan, Ishrat Husain Dr. Jun 2007

Trade Liberalization, Economic Growth, And Poverty Reduction: Recent Evidence From Pakistan, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Talks, Speeches, & Discourse

Standard economic theory starting from Ricardo to the neoclassical model is quite clear about the benefits of trade between nations based on comparative advantage and relative factor endowments (Hecksher-Ohlin). The main conclusions of the free trade model are that all countries gain from trade and world output is increased; that the countries will tend to specialize in products that use their resources abundantly; and given identical technologies and production throughout the world, factor prices will equalize across trading countries. By enabling countries to move beyond their production possibility frontiers trade is assumed to stimulate growth by securing capital as well …

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The Department Of Agricultural Economics: Relevant, Responsive, Respected, Alan E. Baquet Jun 2007

The Department Of Agricultural Economics: Relevant, Responsive, Respected, Alan E. Baquet

Cornhusker Economics

The Department of Agricultural Economics is committed to being relevant and responsive to the needs of Nebraskans. These basic principles guide our teaching, research and extension/outreach programs.

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Encouraging Lifelong Learning For Engineering Management Undergraduates, Susan L. Murray, Stephen A. Raper Jun 2007

Encouraging Lifelong Learning For Engineering Management Undergraduates, Susan L. Murray, Stephen A. Raper

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The current ABET guidelines place an emphasis on life-long learning for our undergraduate students. What is life-long learning? How can we encourage students to consider global issues, current events, or even anything "that isn't going to be on the next test"? In this paper we present survey results evaluating habits of undergraduate students entering an engineering management program and seniors related to life-long learning including attending professional society meetings, reading trade publications, reading business related books, and other learning outside of the classroom activities. This paper also presents a two semester effort to increase life-long learning activities among undergraduate engineering …

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Nebraska's Library Depository Retrieval Facility, Debra Pearson, Nancy J. Busch Jun 2007

Nebraska's Library Depository Retrieval Facility, Debra Pearson, Nancy J. Busch

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

High-density storage of library materials, while becoming more commonplace, is still uncharted territory for many academic libraries. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries undertook the challenge of planning, construction and implementation of a Library Depository Retrieval Facility (LDRF) as a preservation and money-saving solution for expanding collections and decreased funding. The project was a library-system wide undertaking, with project management being the chosen method of organizational structure and process. This article describes the process in several phases, from initial discussions through development of a program statement, funding, planning, construction, load-in, and operations. The discussion will provide those considering a similar project …

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Door-In-The-Face: Understandings Of Scholarship For Academic Instruction Librarians, Shilpa Shanbhag Jun 2007

Door-In-The-Face: Understandings Of Scholarship For Academic Instruction Librarians, Shilpa Shanbhag

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

As academic librarians, we prescribe an intellectual framework to students by referring to the ‘family of terms scholar-scholarly-scholarship ' and by touching upon the mechanics of peer-review in our instruction. While there are rich and varied perceptions of scholarship underlying information literacy literature, there have been no reports of attempts to make them visible to students. In this article I present the door-in-the-face technique to enable instruction librarians to reflect on the ideals of scholarship underlying instruction. In psychology, the door-in-the-face technique is a method of persuasion whereby asking a big outrageous request to be rejected and following it with …

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Tracer Study : Melacak Jejak Lulusan Fkm Ui (Hasil Study Kualitatif Tracer Sarjana Kesehatan Masyarakat Fkm Ui 2006), Ahmad Syafiq, Sandra Fikawati Jun 2007

Tracer Study : Melacak Jejak Lulusan Fkm Ui (Hasil Study Kualitatif Tracer Sarjana Kesehatan Masyarakat Fkm Ui 2006), Ahmad Syafiq, Sandra Fikawati

Kesmas

Salah satu indikator penting keberhasilan pendidikan tinggi adalah sumbangsih lulusannya dalam masyarakat dan pembangunan. Tracer study dapat menyediakan informasi mengenai sumbangsih dan keterlibatan alumni di masyarakat termasuk dinamika di dunia kerja. Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat UI (FK-MUI) sudah melaksanakan tracer study kuantitatif pada tahun 2003 yang menginformasikan beberapa aspek terkait dengan lulusan dan keberadaannya di dunia kerja. Penelitian ini merupakan tracer study kualitatif untuk melengkapi gambaran yang diperoleh pada tracer study pertama tersebut dan mencoba menggali lebih dalam informasi mengenai pengalaman pembelajaran di FKMUI, pengalaman bekerja, dan kepuasan lulusan dan pengguna lulusan terhadap pendidikan di FKMUI. Wawancara mendalam dilakukan terhadap 24 …

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Faculty-Librarian Collaboration On Developing Reading Skills In Tertiary Institutions, Isabella Idomu Awale-Ale Jun 2007

Faculty-Librarian Collaboration On Developing Reading Skills In Tertiary Institutions, Isabella Idomu Awale-Ale

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A quiet revolution is taking place in the Nigerian higher education system. Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), prevailing unemployment, and competition by graduates for limited employment spaces are forcing faculty to rethink the curriculum in most academic disciplines, in terms of content and teaching for functional education and nation building. This paper looks at higher education in Nigeria and the role of academic librarians as partners in promoting skills for entrepreneurial education in Nigeria. It reviews the state of ICT in some Nigerian universities and hindrances to the effective use of university libraries in Nigeria for instructional purposes. The paper concludes …

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 97, June 25, 2007 Jun 2007

Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 97, June 25, 2007

Central Florida Future

Security deadlines advanced to fall; Lightning strikes Pegasus Pointe; Concern for UCF's gopher tortoises; Faculty and staff won't get raise in 2007-08.

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Kendala Pengawasan Melekat Bahan Habis Pakai Pasien Gakin (Unit Rawat Inap Rs Persahabatan Tahun 2006), Ernawaty Ernawaty Jun 2007

Kendala Pengawasan Melekat Bahan Habis Pakai Pasien Gakin (Unit Rawat Inap Rs Persahabatan Tahun 2006), Ernawaty Ernawaty

Kesmas

Pelaksanaan pengawasan atasan langsung (waskat) dalam penggunaan bahan habis pakai/obat dan pemberian obat untuk pasien gakin adalah sangat penting. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengidentifikasi berbagai komponen unit pengawasan yang lemah dan berbagai faktor yang berhubungan meliputi struktur organisasi, kebijaksanaan pelaksanaan berikut tindakan koreksi terhadap penyimpangan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif dengan menggunakan sumber data primer dan sekunder, yang meliputi pengamatan pasif, telaah dokumen dan wawancara mendalam terhadap berbagai informan yang terkait. Untuk menilai keabsahan data dilakukan kembali triangulasi sumber, member chek, diskusi dengan teman sejawat dan melakukan analisis kasus negatif. Hasil penelitian menemukan kendala dalam proses pelaksanaan pengawasan …

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Analisis Utilisasi Resep Antibiotik Pasien Rawat Jalan Tingkat Pertama (Rjtp) Di Puskesmas Tebet Jakarta Selatan, Tahun 2005, Nurlaili Isnaini Jun 2007

Analisis Utilisasi Resep Antibiotik Pasien Rawat Jalan Tingkat Pertama (Rjtp) Di Puskesmas Tebet Jakarta Selatan, Tahun 2005, Nurlaili Isnaini

Kesmas

Kecenderungan peningkatan penggunaan antibiotika di Pelayanan Kesehatan Dasar merupakan penggunaaan obat yang tidak rasional dan akan menghambat penurunan angka morbiditas dan mortalitas penyakit. Pemberian antibiotika yang berlebihan akan meningkatkan resistensi bakteri dan meningkatkan pembiayaan obat. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengetahui gambaran utilisasi obat antibiotika Hasil penelitian menemukan bahwa persentase resep obat pasien RJTP yang berisi antibiotika 37,74 %. Proporsi terbesar pemanfaatan obat antibiotika pada pasien RJTP di Puskesmas Tebet tahun 2005 ditemukan pada kelompok usia dewasa (12-65 tahun) yaitu sebesar 56,5 %, pasien yang bayar sendiri yaitu sebesar 89,8 %, penyakit infeksi lain selain ISPA yaitu sebesar 61,6 % dan …

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Developing Students' Awareness Of Plagiarism: Crisis And Opportunities, Amrita Madray Jun 2007

Developing Students' Awareness Of Plagiarism: Crisis And Opportunities, Amrita Madray

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Plagiarism is an important issue for higher education. Research shows that college students do not always understand the the process of research and writing. This misapprehension of the research and writing process can lead students to plagiarize without intending to do so. The library can be a leader in raising students' awareness, and can partner with teaching departments in developing ways to educate students about plagiarism. This study examines students' understanding of plagiarism as it relates to their ability to write research papers. Freshmen were given a pre-test, followed by instruction on plagiarism and how to avoid it, and then …

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Eating And Substance Use: A Comparison Of Latter-Day Saint And Non-Latter-Day Saint College Females, Monika Sandberg Jun 2007

Eating And Substance Use: A Comparison Of Latter-Day Saint And Non-Latter-Day Saint College Females, Monika Sandberg

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined differences between Latter-Day Saint (LDS) and non-Latter-Day Saint (non-LDS) females across six universities in the United States regarding desire to engage in substance use and eating behaviors in response to negative emotion. Additionally, this study explored differences between LDS and non-LDS females regarding body image, as well as body image differences between LDS females residing inside Utah and outside Utah. Findings suggested that non-LDS females were more likely to experience increased urges to use substances in response to negative emotion than LDS females, consistent with LDS doctrine teaching the avoidance of substance use. LDS females also did …

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Skeptical Medical Reference: Helping Patrons Find Critical Resources For Consumer Health Issues, Samantha Hypatia Thompson, Ambrose A. Thompson Jun 2007

Skeptical Medical Reference: Helping Patrons Find Critical Resources For Consumer Health Issues, Samantha Hypatia Thompson, Ambrose A. Thompson

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

With the popularization of the Internet, there has been a vast proliferation of consumer health material available to the public. Unfortunately, this has only accelerated a pre-existing trend- the fact that much of the material made available is unproven, unreliable, or outright fraud. This requires librarians to make a choice: are they passive and uncritical dispensers of information or are they critical educators who help patrons choose the best information available? In this article we examine the issues facing librarians in this matter and presents skeptical materials that may help librarians to answer critical health questions.

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Standards For Proficiencies For Instruction Librarians And Coordinators, Chad M. Kahl, Clara Fowler, Carla Wilson Buss, Susan Vega Garcia Jun 2007

Standards For Proficiencies For Instruction Librarians And Coordinators, Chad M. Kahl, Clara Fowler, Carla Wilson Buss, Susan Vega Garcia

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

As the role of instruction and information literacy continues to grow in the academic library, librarians are faced with a need to develop a more focused set of skills to teach effectively in library instruction programs. At the same time, many libraries struggle to offer meaningful training and professional development to improve instruction, especially without a set of established standards for what makes a good instructor. This document is intended to help instruction librarians define and gain the skills needed to be excellent teachers in library instruction programs and to foster collaborations necessary to create and improve information literacy programs. …

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Learning Commons Collaborations [Ala, June 2007], Anne Moore Jun 2007

Learning Commons Collaborations [Ala, June 2007], Anne Moore

Library Commons

Discusses the collaboration at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst between the library, information technology, the writing center, advising, mentoring, and dining services to create a collaborative facility for students.

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Exploring And Forging Collaborative Relationships Between An Information Commons And Others On Campus: The Indiana Experience [Ala 2007], Carolyn Walters Jun 2007

Exploring And Forging Collaborative Relationships Between An Information Commons And Others On Campus: The Indiana Experience [Ala 2007], Carolyn Walters

Library Commons

No abstract provided.

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Take My Advice: Collaboration Between Librarians And Academic Advisors [Ala 2007], Margaret H. Burger Jun 2007

Take My Advice: Collaboration Between Librarians And Academic Advisors [Ala 2007], Margaret H. Burger

Library Commons

Author describes a successful collaboration between librarians and academic advisors in regards to "walk-up advising" and academic advisors professional development.

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Forging Commons Partnerships [Ala 2007], D. Russell Bailey Jun 2007

Forging Commons Partnerships [Ala 2007], D. Russell Bailey

Library Commons

No abstract provided.

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From Awareness To Action: The Rhetorical Limits Of Visualizing The Irreparable Nature Of Global Climate Change, Richard D. Besel Jun 2007

From Awareness To Action: The Rhetorical Limits Of Visualizing The Irreparable Nature Of Global Climate Change, Richard D. Besel

Communication Studies

In this paper I examine a recent artistic attempt to publicly visualize a future at risk, Alexis Rockman’s mural painting Manifest Destiny. By turning to J. Robert Cox’s work on the “Locus of the Irreparable,” I contend that Manifest Destiny compels viewers to see the irreparable nature of global climate change in terms of the unique, precarious, and timely. Arguing that Rockman’s creation is a visual example of the rhetoric of the irreparable, I put Cox’s work into conversation with recent efforts to understand the nature of visual rhetoric. However, despite the attention-grabbing nature of Rockman’s work, the production of …

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Adapting The One-Minute Paper For Active Learning, Richard Holtzman Jun 2007

Adapting The One-Minute Paper For Active Learning, Richard Holtzman

History and Social Sciences Faculty Journal Articles

This paper suggests a simple exercise that facilitates active learning by embedding regular opportunities for student participation within the structure of an undergraduate course. This exercise involves the use of in-class participation assignments, which are adaptations of a popular classroom assessment technique, the one-minute paper. While likewise serving as an assessment tool, the suggested exercise is also able to address an additional range of instructional challenges, such as stimulating critical thinking, facilitating engagement with course materials, encouraging participation, and motivating preparation.

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No Shhing: Giving Voice To The Silenced: An Essay In Support Of Critical Information Literacy, John J. Doherty Jun 2007

No Shhing: Giving Voice To The Silenced: An Essay In Support Of Critical Information Literacy, John J. Doherty

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The Information Literacy agenda of academic libraries has recently been critically examined to uncover some of its inherent problems. This paper frames these discussions in the critical theoretical perspective present in educational research, suggesting that the emergence of critical information literacy is long overdue and in need of serious examination by library practitioners who wish to empower student learning.

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Ddasaccident568, Hd-Aid Jun 2007

Ddasaccident568, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

On the morning of 21st June 07 at approximately 0616hrs [Demining group] BAC Teams commenced operations at CBU 071. At approximately 1104hrs, an uncontrolled explosion occurred in the plantation at UTM 728309/3676516. An [Demining group] searcher, Mr. [the Victim] who was conducting search operations in the area of the detonation was not directly involved in causing the detonation but he was in the immediate area of the detonation where he was conducting sub surface clearance operations.

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Relationship Web: Realizing The Memex Vision With The Help Of Semantic Web, Amit P. Sheth Jun 2007

Relationship Web: Realizing The Memex Vision With The Help Of Semantic Web, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Relationship Web takes us from "which document" could have information I need to "what's in the resources" that gives me the insight and knowledge I need for decision making. Dr. Vannevar Bush outlined his vision for Memex in a 1945 Atlantic Monthly article [1]. Describing how the human brain navigates an information space in what he called trailblazing, Dr. Bush said, "It operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain." …

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