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2007 Featured Authors
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Arlyn Anderson |
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Changes at the BBC World |
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This project documents BBC World Service's move from shortwave to Web radio in broadcasting to North America, Australia, and New Zealand. As the medium of shortwave (High frequency, 3000 kHz-30,000 kHz) had been the dominant, and for some time, the only, medium of international broadcasting, and as the BBC World Service is considered by most standards to be the leader in international radio broadcasting, the World Service's move marked a significant shift in the history and structures of state-sponsored international broadcasting. The announcement and implementation of the cuts also raised a strong and coordinated outcry among World Service and shortwave advocates. |
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Arlyn Anderson. Changes at the BBC World Service: Documenting the World Service’s Move From Shortwave to Web Radio in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. Journal of Radio Studies 12 (2005). |
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Jan Berry |
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A Student and RN Partnered Clinical Experience |
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It is a challenge in the present health care milieu to develop clinical experiences supporting nursing student learning in the “real world” of nursing. A partnering model was developed for a senior nursing clinical experience. The study investigated student perception of meeting objectives and student satisfaction in an RN partnered clinical course, examined RN partner surveys for perceptions of clinical experience, and developed strategies to improve satisfaction with clinical experience for nursing students and their RN partners based on findings of themes from surveys and literature review. The student & RN evaluations demonstrated a positive regard for the experience and the students evaluated the meeting of the objectives and satisfaction at a greater level than previous classes. |
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Janice Berry. A Student and RN Partnered Clinical Experience. Nursing Educator 30 (2005). |
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Jan Bogstad |
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Shifting Ground: Subjectivities in Cherryh’s Slavic Fantasy Trilogy |
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Cherryh is a versatile writer having published large bodies of science fiction and fantasy. Her high-fantasy is derived from her studies in languages, history, folklore, and ethnography. Her Slavic folklore trilogy, Rusalka, Chernevog, and Yvegenie, is here analyzed for its transformation of Slavic folklore, which has been variously analyzed as a ‘science’ by Propp or the unconscious by Todorov. She critiques simplistic assumptions about human views of ‘magical’ phenomena questioning the portrayal of easy human adjustment to shifting frames of knowledge, like chaos theory, entropy, extended life, forces operating according to laws beyond human comprehension, by presenting the troubling deformations of the naturalized, consensus reality in the subjective, affective universe of the individual. |
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Jan Bogstad. "Shifting Ground: Subjectivities in Cherryh’s Slavic Fantasy Trilogy," The Cherryh Odyssey.
Borgo/Wildside Press, 2004. |
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Charlene Burns |
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Altruism in Nature as Manifestation of Divine Energeia |
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Christian theological attempts to integrate scientific claims about altruism in nature have not been completely successful largely because Western theologies - particularly some Protestant versions - lack a theologically grounded ontological basis for speech about altruism, agape, and other forms of love. Patristic theologies of divine essence, energeia and logoi, most fully developed in Eastern Orthodox thought, provide just such an ontological basis upon which Christian thought can stand in order to demonstrate that altruism in nature does not challenge religious claims that moral behavior has transcendent meaning but rather suggests that it is itself a manifestation of the divine will. |
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Charlene Burns. "Altruism in Nature as Manifestation of Divine Energeia." Zygon 41(2006). |
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Michael Christopherson |
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Showing at the Circa Gallery in Minneapolis, MN |
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The five sculptures created for my solo exhibition at the Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota represent a return to workmanship which is intentionally crisp, precise and non-objective. It is a union of my early formal art training in abstract minimalist sculpture and from my roots in the Patternmaking trade which is a skill I learned from my father. This approach invites the mix of references to painting , sculpture and fine woodworking. |
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Michael Christopherson. Circa Gallery. Minneapolis, MN (2006). |
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Mark Clark |
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"Dean-based |
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This book is intended for anyone interested in the Latina/o experience in education (but, in particular for Latina/o students interested in pursuing doctorates). It starts with the K-12 experience, moves through undergraduate circumstances and culminates with graduate expectations and realities. The editors have provided student, faculty and administrator perspectives for consideration and review. The ultimate goal is to get more Latina/o students pursuing doctorates and going into faculty positions on college campuses. A truly unique feature of the book is the personal reflections of Latina/o students themselves. My chapter dealt with what Deans (and other college-level administrators) can do to enhance the potential of increased Latina/o enrollments. |
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Mark Clark. “Dean-based Leadership." The Latina/o Pathway to the Ph.D. ED. Abriendo Caminos. Stylus Publishing: 2006. |
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Obika Gray |
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Demeaned But Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica |
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This book describes how a seemingly powerless group – the urban poor of Jamaica – won benefits and honor for themselves by being indispensable to politicians and by asserting their own claims on a society that dishonored them. The publication shows how the social power of this demeaned group altered the identity of Jamaican politics, affected the character of Jamaican democracy, and enhanced the status of a hitherto marginal group. The book concludes that even as the urban poor accumulated significant social power and notoriety, this development undermined democracy and deepened the criminalization of politics and society in this country. |
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Obika Gray. Demeaned But Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica. The University of the West Indies Press, 2004. |
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Jonathon Halbesleben |
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Emotional Exhaustion and Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Motivation |
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The purpose of this paper was to examine the ways that employee burnout impacts performance at work. In survey study of firefighters and a group of working adults in a variety of occupations, we found that when people are burned out they reduce the work that is expected of them on the job and “extra” work that might help their organization. However, burned-out employees were more willing to help out their coworkers. In the paper, we propose that burnout leads people to be careful how they manage their work motivation and we discuss ways to reduce burnout. |
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Jonathon Halbesleben and William Matthew Bowler. "Emotional Exhaustion and Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Motivation." Journal of Applied Psychology 91 (2007). |
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Sean Hartnett |
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Tainter Lake |
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Since 1986, Sean Hartnett has produced over 30 bathymetric maps of lakes and rivers in western Wisconsin. Most of these maps serve as official Department of Natural Resources (DNR) lake maps, and often were associated with more comprehensive studies pertaining to lake health and water quality. Sean has developed a series of mapping methodologies that integrate GIS and GPS technologies to render 3D lake terrain maps based on thousands of GPS depth survey points. Thousands of copies are printed, with blue shaded bathymetry data overlaying aerial photography. The featured Tainter Lake map was funded by a cooperative grant from the Tainter/Menomin Lake Improvement Association, the Wisconsin DNR and Xcel Energy. Student Phil Holleran, a co-author, was funded by the Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. |
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Sean Hartnett. "Tainter Lake Bathymetric Map." Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Lake Map, 2006. |
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Robert Hooper |
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Geology, Western Whitesail Lake Map Area |
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The Whitesail Lake map area in west-central British Columbia (NTS 93E) was the focus of a two-year bedrock mapping project. The primary objective of the investigation was to provide a comprehensive evaluation of economic mineral potential. Three UW-Eau Claire faculty and eight students worked with scientists from the Geological Survey of Canada and the University of British Columbia in this remote and inaccessible area to integrate regional bedrock mapping, stratigraphic and structural analyses, geochronology, plutonic and volcanic geochemistry, isotopic analyses and mineral assays into a comprehensive assessment of the geological framework and economic mineral potential of the region. This project resulted in the publication of two papers, numerous UW – Eau Claire Faculty/Student Collaborative Research Projects and four 1:50,000 scale maps. . |
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J. Brian Mahoney, Lori Snyder, and Robert Hooper. "Geology, Western Whitesail Lake Map Area (93E4, 5, 6, 11, 12) British Columbia; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5585, scale 1:50,000 (2007). |
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Eric Jamelske |
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A Contingent Valuation Study and Benefit-cost Analysis of the Switch to Automated Collection of Solid Waste with Single Stream Recycling in Madison, WI ; and |
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Given the consumer-oriented nature of the society we live in today, waste management and in particular recycling have become very important policy issues. My research focuses on analyzing a fundamental change to the curbside recycling program in Madison, Wisconsin. This work is designed to provide valuable information to municipal policy-makers as they seek to improve their own waste management and recycling programs. In addition, this research also has educational value to faculty and students in environmental and resource management programs at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. |
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Eric Jameslke. "A Contingent Valuation Study and Benefit-cost Analysis of the Switch to Automated Collection of Solid Waste with Single Stream Recycling in Madison, WI" and "Assessing the Support for the Switch to Automated Collection of Solid Waste with Single Stream Recycling in Madison, WI." Public Works Management and Policy, 10 & 11: 2005, 2006. |
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Debra Jansen |
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Attentional |
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Everyday life is full of numerous demands for attention that affect functioning. For elders, examples of these attentional demands include negotiating public transportation and driving, sensory losses, and physical discomforts and worries that make it harder to concentrate and complete tasks. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between attentional demands and the ability to manage daily activities for a group of 54 community-dwelling elderly men and women. As theorized, the elders with more attentional demands perceived themselves as having greater difficulty managing tasks. Nursing interventions to decrease attentional demands and promote effective functioning for elders are needed. |
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Debra Jansen. "Attentional Demands and Daily Functioning Among Community-Dwelling Elders." Journal of Community Health Nursing, 23: 2006. |
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Jianjun Ji |
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Assessing the Life-Satisfaction of the Chinese Rural Elderly |
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Though studies on life satisfaction are not new, research on the life satisfaction of the Chinese rural elderly is rare. Using the 1992 China National Rural and Urban Elderly Survey Data, this paper attempts to explore the status and the determinants of the life satisfaction of the rural Chinese elderly. Applying the methods of descriptive statistics, Chi-square, and multiple linear regression analysis, this study explores four areas of the determinants of life satisfaction in terms of demographic characteristics, economic status, social aspects, and psychological well-being. The findings show statistically significant and consistent support to the underlying hypotheses. Of particular interest, among the four areas of determinants, psychological well-being has the strongest effect on the degree of life satisfaction perceived by the rural elderly. |
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Jianjun Ji. "Assessing the Life-Satisfaction of the Chinese Rural Elderly." American Review of China Studies, 6:
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Ryan Jones |
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'You Know What I Mean?’: The Pedagogical Canon of ‘Cannonball’ Adderley |
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Beginning with Adderley’s college training in music education, this article follows the saxophonist from his humble days as a band teacher in Florida through his work with figures like Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Adderley’s lifelong compulsion to teach guided his career in a variety of important ways. Both his later work leading groups of his own and his tireless efforts to promote fledgling artists including Wes Montgomery, Nancy Wilson, and Chuck Mangione stand as a testament to the educational values Adderley upheld. His career offers a moving counterexample to the cliché, “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” |
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Ryan Jones. "‘You Know What I Mean?’: The Pedagogical Canon of ‘Cannonball’ Adderley.” Current Musicology, 79/80: 2006. |
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Paul Kaldjian |
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Rural Wisconsin, Latino Labor, |
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Most of the work I do is related to food and food systems – why we eat what we eat and the issues and activities involved in connecting the people, places and practices of food production with those of its consumption. As the discipline that embraces space, place and nature-society relations, geography is well suited to this. My research is most rewarding when it addresses community or social needs. This investigation into Latino migrant labor in rural Western Wisconsin is one example. It attempts to provide context, clarification and perspective to immediate needs and a deliberation that is easily derailed by fears, misunderstandings and distant rhetoric. Local leaders are using this paper to help with migration education in our region. |
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Paul Kaldjian and Lawrence Hoffman. "Rural Wisconsin, Latino Labor, |
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Maureen Mack |
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Finding Center: |
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Today's females in America are equipped with a "you go girl" attitude and given opportunities that were not extended to their mothers. However, amid this world of dramatically different experiences, girls and young women are not taught to negotiate these new horizons in the face of persisting false and debilitating stigmas. At school, in the community, and on the job, women are still seen as sexual objects and secondary players. Finding Center draws upon the contemporary circumstances that affect the lives of girls and young women and provides up-to-date information and empowering tools to transform external pressures into internal strengths. Chapters include "Alcohol in the Family," "New Age Schooling," and the final chapter, "A Beautiful Girl - A Beautiful Woman," which dispels the idea of popular beauty standards and provides readers with an internal standard of value. |
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Maureen Mack. "Finding Center: Strategies to Build Strong Girls & Women."
New Horizon Press, 2007. |
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J. Brian Mahoney |
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Geology, Western Whitesail Lake Map Area |
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The Whitesail Lake map area in west-central British Columbia (NTS 93E) was the focus of a two-year bedrock mapping project. The primary objective of the investigation was to provide a comprehensive evaluation of economic mineral potential. Three UW-Eau Claire faculty and eight students worked with scientists from the Geological Survey of Canada and the University of British Columbia in this remote and inaccessible area to integrate regional bedrock mapping, stratigraphic and structural analyses, geochronology, plutonic and volcanic geochemistry, isotopic analyses and mineral assays into a comprehensive assessment of the geological framework and economic mineral potential of the region. This project resulted in the publication of two papers, numerous UW – Eau Claire Faculty/Student Collaborative Research Projects and four 1:50,000 scale maps. . |
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J. Brian Mahoney, Lori Snyder, and Robert Hooper. "Geology, Western Whitesail Lake Map Area (93E4, 5, 6, 11, 12) British Columbia; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5585, scale 1:50,000 (2007). |
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Bill Ogden |
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Estimating the Cost of Capital for the Startup or Small Business: |
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For a startup company, estimating the value of the owner's invested capital (the number of shares times the value per share) is difficult because most new companies are not publicly traded. To estimate the value of the owner's investment, we must know the company's average cost of capital. Estimating the average cost of capital requires that we know the company's total value. However, we cannot estimate total value without knowing the average cost of capital. In this paper, we develop an Excel-based algorithm for resolving this cost - value circularity issue. We include an example valuation. |
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William Ogden. "Estimating the Cost of Capital for the Startup or Small Business: Resolving the Valuation Circularity Problem." Journal of Business Entrepreneurship: 18, 2006. |
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Joel Pace |
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Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867 |
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Transatlantic Romanticism is the first anthology to offer texts from American, British, and Canadian Romantic (late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth-century) writers in one binding and with a comparative framework. Due to the way literature curricula were constructed, the literature of these three countries has been taught separately. However, recent scholarship has uncovered staggering similarities and considerable cross-pollination. As research began to spur curricular revision, the need for an alternative to assigning three separate single-nation anthologies became apparent. This anthology meets the growing demand for a coherent and flexible transatlantic Romantic reader. |
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Joel Pace. Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867. Longman/Pearson, 2006 |
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James Phillips |
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IR Spectrum of CH3CN-BF3 in Solid Neon: Matrix Effects on the Structure of a Lewis The B-N Distance Potential of CH3CN–BF3 Revisited: |
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The first publication reports the measured vibrational frequencies of the complex CH3CN-BF3 in a sample of solid neon (at a temperature of about 6K). These data are compared to frequencies in other environments (e.g., the solid-state, solid argon, and the gas phase) and collectively, they depict a continuum of structural changes that occur in various environments. These observations conflict with decades of chemical dogma in which molecular structure is viewed as an immutable property not affected by interactions between a molecule and it surroundings. The second paper reports a computational study that reveals a few of the key physical underpinnings of this unique behavior. Also, it resolves a long-standing discrepancy between the calculated and measured gas-phase structures of the CH3CN-BF3 complex. |
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James Phillips. "IR Spectrum of CH3CN-BF3 in Solid Neon: Matrix Effects on the Structure of a Lewis Acid-Base Complex" and "The B-N Distance Potential of CH3CN–BF3 Revisited: Resolving the Experiment-Theory Structure Discrepanc and Modeling The Effects of Low-Dielectric Environments."Journal of Physical Chemistry B:11, 2007. |
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Patti See |
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Love’s Bluff |
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From the book jacket: |
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Patti See. Love’s Bluff. Plainview Press, 2006. |
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Reiko Shinno |
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Medical Schools and the Temples for the Three Progenitors in Yuan China: |
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The Yuan dynasty, established by Genghis Khan’s grandson in the late 13th century, gave doctors more prestige than any other dynasties in Chinese history, as the result of complex cross-cultural interactions among Mongols, Western and Central Asians, and Chinese. Most importantly, the government combined local medical schools and temples for the highly-respected Three Progenitors (Sanhuang). In the eyes of the contemporary people, this development meant that medicine was recognized as respectable learning. This article is a chapter of my future book, Doctors and Clients in Yuan China (1206-1368): The Confluence of Mongol Rule, the Learning of the Way, and Medical Innovations. |
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Reikko Shinno. "Medical Schools and the Temples for the Three Progenitors in Yuan China: A Case of Cultural Interactions," Harvard Journal of
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Vicki Snider |
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Myths and Misconceptions About Teaching: What Really Happens in the Classroom |
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Dr. Snider describes six teaching myths that hinder reform in education. These myths affect all students, but especially hurt low-performing students - those with disabilities or risk factors. Dr. Snider examines the beliefs that guide teaching practices. She uses current research on teaching to illustrate the faulty premises that underlie the myths and how they ultimately affect children and adolescents. The six myths are: the myth of process, myth of fun & interesting, myth of eclectic instruction, myth of good teachers, myth of learning style, and myth of disability. |
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Vicki Snider. Myths and Misconceptions About Teaching: What Really Happens in the Classroom. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. |
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Lori Snyder |
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Geology, Western Whitesail Lake Map Area |
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The Whitesail Lake map area in west-central British Columbia (NTS 93E) was the focus of a two-year bedrock mapping project. The primary objective of the investigation was to provide a comprehensive evaluation of economic mineral potential. Three UW-Eau Claire faculty and eight students worked with scientists from the Geological Survey of Canada and the University of British Columbia in this remote and inaccessible area to integrate regional bedrock mapping, stratigraphic and structural analyses, geochronology, plutonic and volcanic geochemistry, isotopic analyses and mineral assays into a comprehensive assessment of the geological framework and economic mineral potential of the region. This project resulted in the publication of two papers, numerous UW – Eau Claire Faculty/Student Collaborative Research Projects and four 1:50,000 scale maps. . |
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J. Brian Mahoney, Lori Snyder, and Robert Hooper. "Geology, Western Whitesail Lake Map Area (93E4, 5, 6, 11, 12) British Columbia; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5585, scale 1:50,000 (2007). |
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Marie Stadler |
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This article presents the developmental continuum of children’s storytelling skills and provides examples at each of the five levels (adapted from Applebee, 1978): labeling, listing, connecting, sequencing and narrating. The examples are taken from a study of 14 preschoolers with and without speech and language impairments. The authors connect these important narrative skills to the development of communication, literacy and cognition. Strategies to facilitate development from one level to another are described. These strategies can easily be embedded within naturalistic contexts such as dialogue, reading, and play, as well as adult-directed activities. |
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Marie Stadler and Gay Cuming Ward. "Supporting the Narrative Developemtn of Young Children," Early Childhood Education Journal: 33, 2005. |
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Lois Taft |
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Strategies to Promote Success on the NCLEX-RN: An Evidence-Based Approach Using The ACE Star Model of KnowledgeTransformation |
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An evidence-based approach to nursing education involves the use of research to guide teaching/learning strategies. The ACE Star Model of Knowledge Transformation was a useful tool for developing and implementing an evidence-based approach to promoting success on the nursing licensure exam, NCLEX-RN. A review of the literature identified educational strategies intended to improve success on the exam. These strategies included an assessment test, a simulated exam, and an independent study module integrated into a senior course. Evaluation of the strategies revealed improved scores on the NCLEX-RN. Pass rates rose from 87.76 percent in fall 2001 to 94.81 percent in fall 2004. |
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Susan Bonis, Lois Taft, and M. Cecilia Wendler. "Strategies to Promote Success on the NCLEX-RN: An Evidence-Based Approach Using The ACE Star Model of Knowledge," Transformation Nursing Education Perspectives: 28, 2007. |
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Ingrid Ulstad D'Arcy Becker |
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Gender Differences in Student Ethics: |
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Investigations of gender differences in student ethics have yielded conflicting results. Some studies show no gender differences and others show significant differences. This study investigates whether gender effects persist when a student’s major, psychological gender and impression management are included in the analysis. Prior research has considered these variables individually as they relate to ethics, and each one would theoretically cause gender differences to disappear. Students at three universities participated in our research. Results from 515 students reveal significant gender differences that do not fade as the three additional variables are included in the analysis. |
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D'Arcy Becker and Ingrid Ulstad. Gender Differences in Student Ethics: |
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Catya von Karolyi |
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Issue Awareness in Young Highly Gifted Children: Do the Claims Hold Up? |
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Hollingworth (1942) asserted that children’s interest in “questions of origin and destiny” emerges around ages 12 -13 (p. 279) and that an early interest indicates giftedness. Many in the field agree. To test these claims, I compared highly gifted and typical 7- to 9- year-olds using data drawn from three sources: self report, parent report, and children’s responses to issue-laden drawings. The highly gifted group’s response to drawings revealed considerably more issue awareness than did self report data. Parents’ reports strongly supported the hypothesis that highly gifted children have early issue awareness. The disparity between children’s and parents’ perceptions of these same phenomena is striking. |
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Catya von Karolyi. "Issue Awareness in Young Highly Gifted Children: Do the Claims Hold Up?." Roeper Review, 28:2006 |
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James Walker |
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Wavelet-Based Image Processing |
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The 1990's witnessed an explosion of wavelet-based methods in the field of image processing. This paper focuses on wavelet-based image compression. It describes the connection between wavelets and vision and how wavelet techniques provide image compression algorithms that are clearly superior to the present JPEG standard. In particular the wavelet-based algorithms known as SPIHT, ASWDR, and the new standard JPEG2000, are described and compared. This comparison shows that, in many respects, ASWDR is the best algorithm. Applications to denoising are also briefly referenced and pointers supplied to other references on wavelet-based image processing. |
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James Walker. "Wavelet-Based Image Processing." Journal of Applicable Analysis, 85: 2006 |
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Matt Waters |
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Media and Its |
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"Media and Its Discontents" is a review article of a seminal volume on the Median Empire in the mid-first millennium BCE, and its place in the historiographic tradition in relation to its predecessor, the Assyrian Empire, and its successor, the Achaemenid Persian Empire. The Medes have been given a prominent place in this "continuity" of empires, primarily thanks to the Greek historian Herodotus. However, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian evidence offers an entirely different perspective of the Medes as a loose confederation of tribes lacking both centralization and lasting cohesion. This article develops and supports this alternate perspective, and it emphasizes the Elamite civilization and tradition in Iran as key to the continuity of empires. |
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Matt Waters. "Media and Its Discontents." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 125: 2007. |
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Evan Weiher |
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Rebuilding Community |
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Ecology investigates the “distribution and abundance of organisms” and so the focus has largely been on studying the population dynamics of individual species. It has proven exceedingly difficult to expand population-dynamic approaches to entire communities of many species. This paper summarizes recent advances by the coauthors and others to promote an alternative path that is based on measurable traits of species as currencies for understanding their ecological performance. This view is somewhat heretical, given the historical ascendance of population The paper was highlighted in Nature, where it was suggested that after 150 years of Darwinian population-based thinking, the pendulum may now be swinging back toward the pre-Darwinian functionalist Georges Leclerc, the Comte de Buffon. |
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Evan Weiher. "Rebuilding Community Ecology from Functional Traits." Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21: 2006. |
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Todd Wellnitz |
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Herbivory, Current Velocity and Algal Regrowth: How Does Periphyton Grow When the Grazers Have Gone? |
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What happens to stream algae after invertebrate grazers have eaten it? Does it grow faster or differently from un-grazed algae? To address these questions, an experiment conducted in streamside channels documented the re-growth of algae following grazing by two mayfly species. We found that algal re-growth did not depend on which mayfly species ate it; rather, it was the duration of grazing that mattered. The longer algae was grazed, the faster it grew. We also found that current velocity was important for determining algal recovery, such that grazed algae re-grew more rapidly in slow than in fast current. These data suggest that past herbivory leaves a “legacy” by influencing algal growth well after the grazing has stopped. |
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Todd Wellnitz. "Herbivory, Current Velocity and Algal Regrowth: How Does Periphyton Grow When the Grazers Have Gone?" Freshwater Biology, 51: 2006. |
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Scott Whitfield |
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Resonance-Induced Deviations of Beta From 2.0 for Rare Gas S-Subshell |
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This research deals with the fundamental interaction between light and matter, namely the behavior of the electrons which are ejected, photoionized, from a gaseous sample of atoms when irradiated by soft x-rays. Soft x-rays have wavelengths shorter than visible light. In particular this research has investigated the intensity of the photoionized electrons from the rare gases krypton and xenon as a function of the direction in space in which the electrons are emitted. Our research has shown that the spin of the electrons can play an important role in the direction of their emission. This phenomenon would not normally be expected for subshell electrons, the particular class of electrons investigated in our study. |
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Scott Whitfield, R Wehlitz, H R Varma, T Banerjee, P C Deshmukh, and S T Manson. "Resonance-Induced Deviations of Beta From 2.0 for Rare Gas S-Subshell
Photoionization." Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 39: 2006. |
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Barbara Young |
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Music for Heart's-ease |
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While scholars continue to investigate the social and biological bases of music's appeal, it has long been acknowledged that there are remarkable parallels between musical and emotional experience. Music for Heart’s-ease draws on the idea of art as experience, selecting from four centuries of piano repertoire pieces that speak to the listener about the graver aspects of the human condition. Through a variety of means - Baroque counterpoint, Classic era clarity, Romantic emotionality, or the informality of present-day self-expression - each selection has the potential to provide catharsis at some stage of the process of dealing with grief or loss. Music for Heart's-ease, intended for distribution to those experiencing major life stresses, reminds us of this capacity for catharsis: an inestimable benefit to individuals, a fascinating subject for further study, and one of music's greatest values for society. |
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Barbara Young. "Music for Heart's-ease." Tonheim Records, 2006. |
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