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2014 Ncod Pastoral Week Program

National Catholic Office for the Deaf (NCOD) Conferences

Documents from the 2014 NCOD Pastoral Week held in Las Vegas, NV in 2014

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"What Does This Graph Mean?" Formative Assessment With Science Inquiry To Improve Data Analysis, Andrea Dawn Leech

Dissertations and Theses

This study investigated the use of formative assessment to improve three specific data analysis skills within the context of a high school chemistry class: graph interpretation, pattern recognition, and making conclusions based on data. Students need to be able to collect data, analyze that data, and produce accurate scientific explanations (NRC, 2011) if they want to be ready for college and careers after high school. This mixed methods study, performed in a high school chemistry classroom, investigated the impact of the formative assessment process on data analysis skills that require higher order thinking. We hypothesized that the use of evaluative …

Self-Efficacy In Low-Level English Language Learners, Laura F. Blumenthal

Dissertations and Theses

Accounting for differences in second language proficiency attainment is an important area of inquiry in the study of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Accounts of the language acquisition process have generally come from cognitive or psychological perspectives, which view language learning as primarily an internal mental/emotional process, or from sociocultural or critical perspectives that emphasize the influence of the learner's social environment. Research on variability in language learning has also failed to take into account the learning experiences of low-level learners.

This study adopted a social-psychological perspective on language acquisition that focused on the role of self-efficacy in learning, and applied …

Chimes: January 17, 2014, Calvin College

Chimes

Committee votes to open library on Sundays, but future uncertain by Ryan Struyk & Hayley Cox

Business class explores possibility of new master's programs by Ben Rietema

Student senate joins push to renovate Johnny's by Daniel Paulson

Record breaking snowstorm hits Midwest by Ben Rietema

Calvin students aim to improve book buying experience by John Muyskens

Knights fall to hot-shooting Hope by Jacob Kuyvenhoven

Band to return to Calvin by Nick Keeley

Modeling The Impact Of Traffic Conditions On The Variability Of Mid-Block Roadside Pm2.5 On An Urban Arterial, Adam Moore

PSU Transportation Seminars

Modeling Impact of Traffic Conditions on Variability of Midblock Roadside Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations on an Urban Arterial: This paper presents an innovative modeling of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations as a function of very high resolution meteorological and traffic data. Peak period measurements were taken at a mid-block roadside location on an urban arterial commuter roadway. To capture the impact of dynamic traffic conditions, data were analyzed at 10-second intervals, with substantially higher resolution than typical roadside air quality study designs. Particular attention was paid to changes in traffic conditions, including fleet mix, queuing and vehicle platooning over the …

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Zach S. Henderson's Librarians are on the move!
• New Database Content: IEEE/ IET Electronic Library (IEL)

Tending The Flowers, Cultivating Community: Gardening On New York City Public Housing Sites, Lauren Sepanski Fcrh '12

The Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal

Founded in 1934, The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the nation’s oldest and largest public housing agency. Nearly half a million people live in NYCHA’s 334 housing developments located throughout the five boroughs. If a NYCHA resident wants to garden, he or she may submit a garden application to his or her development’s management office and begin to garden in a place approved by the development’s manager. Some developments have preordained places for their residents to garden, complete with fences. In other developments, residents simply choose a place on the development’s grounds, such as a part of a …

The Santa Clara, 2014-01-16, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.

Giants Among The People, Evan Barrett

Highlands College

A Montana Public Radio Commentary by Evan Barrett.

Published newspaper columns written by Evan Barrett on this topic, which vary somewhat in content from this commentary, appeared in the following publications:

Havre Daily News, January 31, 2014

Missoulian, February 7, 2014

Ravalli Republic, February 12, 2014

Montana Standard, February 15, 2014

Helena Independent Record, April 23, 2014

Snap And Food Consumption, Hilary W. Hoynes, Leslie Mcgranahan, Diane W. Schanzenbach

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

In this paper we describe the relationship between SNAP and food consumption. We first present the neoclassical framework for analyzing in-kind transfers, which unambiguously predicts that SNAP will increase food consumption, and then describe the SNAP benefit formula. We then present new evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey on food spending patterns among households overall, SNAP recipients, and other subgroups of interest. We find that a substantial fraction of SNAP-eligible households spend an amount that is above the program’s needs standard. We also show that the relationship between family size and food spending is steeper than the slope of the …

The Shipping Container: So Simple Yet So Powerful, Michael Hemesath

Administration Publications

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Multicultural Training On Counseling: A Meta-Analysis, Todd Wilson Dunn, Dr. Tim Smith

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The past two decades have seen a proliferation in the amount of publications on multicultural counseling. For example, over 1000 published reports investigating multicultural counseling and the cultural contexts of psychology have appeared in psychological literature since 1995. Many of these studies have identified serious flaws in traditional methods of helping minority populations with emotional or psychological disturbances, while demonstrating that alternative “culturally sensitive” methods can improve treatment outcomes. Although the sudden proliferation of literature on multicultural counseling clearly indicates growing popular interest in the topic, responsible scientific practice dictates that any body of literature should be systematically evaluated and …

Review Of Systematic Review Methods: The Science Of Research Synthesis, Julia H. Littell, Brandy R. Maynard

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Does Outstanding Student Debt Reduce Asset Accumulation?, William Elliott, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Ilsung Nam

Center for Social Development Research

In this study, the authors use the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to assess whether student loan debt is associated with total assets. They find that median 2009 assets for households with no outstanding student loan debt ($207,000) are higher than they are for households with outstanding student loan debt ($174,000). Multivariate statistics indicate that a household with a four-year college graduate, outstanding student loan debt, and median assets ($451,520) in 2007 had $136,73 (36%) less home equity in 2009 than a household with a similar household with no outstanding student loan debt. The main policy implication of this study …

Peer Conversations About Inter-Racial And Inter-Ethnic Friendships, Lana Lee Buckholz

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to understand how early adolescents talk about cross-racial and cross-ethnic friendships. Gordon Allport's intergroup contact theory provided the framework for studying the elements needed for inter-racial and inter-ethnic friendship formation. Qualitative data were drawn from four separately recorded peer group conversations. Participants (n=18) were recruited from Parrish Middle School in Salem, Oregon. Patterns that emerged from the data were sorted, categorized and identified according to the tenets of intergroup contact theory or extensions of intergroup contact theory. Analysis also looked at the use of metaphors and storytelling among adolescents. Results showed that while intergroup …

Contentdm And Content Pro: A Comparison And Evaluation, Elizabeth Byrne

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper examines two Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) to determine their suitability to provide access to digital photographic surrogates from a library’s archival photographic collection. The two DAMS examined are OCLC’s CONTENTdm (CDM) and Innovative Interfaces Inc.’s (III) Content Pro (CP). While both have been widely adopted, a literature review reveals that very little has been written about CP compared to CDM. Both use metadata schemes that are interoperable, reusable, and extensible and it is determined that both CDM and CP’s DAMS’ attributes recommend them. However, further work is needed to select one over the other. This includes consulting …

Quality-Space Theory In Olfaction, Benjamin D. Young, Andreas Keller, David Rosenthal

Publications and Research

Quality-space theory (QST) explains the nature of the mental qualities distinctive of perceptual states by appeal to their role in perceiving. QST is typically described in terms of the mental qualities that pertain to color. Here we apply QST to the olfactory modalities. Olfaction is in various respects more complex than vision, and so provides a useful test case for QST. To determine whether QST can deal with the challenges olfaction presents, we show how a quality space (QS) could be constructed relying on olfactory perceptible properties and the olfactory mental qualities then defined by appeal to that QS of …

Emotional Competence In Children With Specific Language Impairment, Jennifer George, Jessica Berg, Dr. Martin Fujiki

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Children with SLI (Speech Language Impairment) have difficulty with the comprehension and expression of language. SLI is distinct and separate from intellectual ability and children with SLI have non-verbal IQs within the normal range. Many children with SLI have not only language deficits, but social deficits as well.

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 34, January 16, 2014, Grand Valley State University

Volume 48, July 1, 2013 - June 2, 2014

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

Contingent Valuation Methodology: Evaluation Of Benefits Of Improving Water Quality In The Lake Tai Region, Zongda Tu

Undergraduate Economic Review

Environmental economics is a relatively new field in the subject of economics. While the developing countries are growing and developing rapidly, the conflict between economic development and environmental preservation is becoming more and more irreconcilable. This methodology paper addresses the relationship between the water quality in the Lake Tai Region in China and economic benefits, and presents the contingent valuation methdology (CVM) to evaluate benefits.

Economic Impact Of The Commercial Fisheries On Local County Economies From Catch In All California National Marine Sanctuaries 2010, 2011 And 2012, Vernon R. Leeworthy, Desiree Jerome, Kelsey Schueler

Working Papers

This report estimates the economic impact of commercial fishing within all California National Marine Sanctuaries (CA NMS) according to the California Ocean Fish Harvester Economic Model (COFHE). The methodology applies county multipliers to estimates of harvest revenue from CA NMS in order to calculate output, income, value added and employment. This report also describes a profile of the commercial fish industry in the CA NMS. CA NMS includes all existing National Marine Sanctuary sites in California: Channel Islands (CINMS), Monterey Bay (MBNMS), Cordell Bank (CBNMS) and Gulf of the Farallones (GFNMS).

The three-year average for 2010 to 2012 finds that …

Putin Playing Olympic Games With Centuries-Old Ethnic Conflicts, Nicholas Hayes

University Chair in Critical Thinking Publications

No abstract provided.

Ddasaccident833, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

On the 15th of January 2014 at [International demining organisation] task CBU 849, an uncontrolled detonation of a US M series M42 or M46 sub-munitions occurred while International demining organisation] searcher [Victim No.1] was cutting the vegetation and led to an injury with him and the site supervisor [Victim No.2].

[Victim No.1] sustained injuries from fragmentations of the detonated submunition in the head, in both eyes and in the right jaw. Whilst The supervisor [Victim No.2] got injuries from the fragmentations in the left thigh, elbow of the left hand [arm] and small fragments in the left eye.

Based on …

Professor Michael Gillespie To Lecture On Central Illinois Poverty And Hunger At Lake Land College, Lakeland Community College

Coles County Poverty Data Project

Lake Land College will host Michael Gillespie, assistant professor of Sociology at Eastern Illinois University, on Tuesday, Jan. 28 from 1 – 2 p.m. Gillespie will present “The Geography of Poverty and Hunger: The Case in East Central Illinois” in the Lake Land College theater.

Every Day, Maggie Mason Smith

Publications

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the January 15, 2014 meeting.

Helin Annual Conference Opening Remarks (2014), Rosita E. Hopper

Library Staff Publications

In the thirtieth anniversary year of the Higher Education Library & Information Network (HELIN), Rhode Island's primary academic library consortium, the chairman of the HELIN Board of Directors reflects on thirty years of progress in librarianship, the timelessness of its core principles, and the conviction that consortium collaborations are key to the continuing success of libraries.

Bihemispheric Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Enhances Effector-Independent Representations Of Motor Synergy And Sequence Learning., Sheena Waters-Metenier, Masud Husain, Tobias Wiestler, Jörn Diedrichsen

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

Complex manual tasks-everything from buttoning up a shirt to playing the piano-fundamentally involve two components: (1) generating specific patterns of muscle activity (here, termed "synergies"); and (2) stringing these into purposeful sequences. Although transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the primary motor cortex (M1) has been found to increase the learning of motor sequences, it is unknown whether it can similarly facilitate motor synergy learning. Here, we determined the effects of tDCS on the learning of motor synergies using a novel hand configuration task that required the production of difficult muscular activation patterns. Bihemispheric tDCS was applied to M1 of …

It's Time To Convert The – In Your Life To !, Maritza Martinez

UCF Forum

The beginning of a new calendar year is always a good time to reflect on the previous 12 months and set some goals for the future.

Kentucky River Folklife Project (Fa 654), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folkllife Archives Project 654. Chiefly interviews, photographs, slides, and tape logs for a summer 1989 project conducted by the Kentucky Folklife Program, in conjunction with other supporting agencies and institutions, about folklife and folklore along the Kentucky River. Project results were presented to the public in two formats: a traveling exhibit and narrative stage presentations.