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Curricular Approaches To Developing Positive Interethnic Relations, Rosemary C. Henze Jan 1999

Curricular Approaches To Developing Positive Interethnic Relations, Rosemary C. Henze

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This article examines whether and in what ways curricular approaches can be helpful in building positive interethnic relations in a large, ethnically diverse high school. Through this case study of curricular reform, the author documents four curricular approaches teacher leaders used to explicitly address issues of race and ethnicity and explores the impact of these approaches on student learning. By tracing the process of curricular change, the case illuminates how teacher leaders and administrators created the conditions for these curricular reforms to be sustainable.

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Demonstration: A Robust Web Data-Extraction Technique With High Recall And Precision, Deryle W. Lonsdale, D. M. Campbell, Yihong Ding, David W. Embley, K. Hewett, D. L. Jackman, S. S. Jeffries, Y. S. Jiang, D. Lewis, Stephen W. Liddle, Y. K. Ng, A. L. Peacock, D. J. Seer, R. D. Smith, S. H. Yau, M. Xu, L. Xu Jan 1999

Demonstration: A Robust Web Data-Extraction Technique With High Recall And Precision, Deryle W. Lonsdale, D. M. Campbell, Yihong Ding, David W. Embley, K. Hewett, D. L. Jackman, S. S. Jeffries, Y. S. Jiang, D. Lewis, Stephen W. Liddle, Y. K. Ng, A. L. Peacock, D. J. Seer, R. D. Smith, S. H. Yau, M. Xu, L. Xu

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Our demo shows how to extract and structure data found in data-rich, unstructured, multiple-record Web documents. Users may either apply pre-built extraction applications or build and apply their own. The demo is significant because it (1) attacks an important data-centric problem and (2) uses database technology to produce good results with minimal effort.

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Bearing False Witness: The Clinton Impeachment And The Future Of Academic Freedom, Neal Devins Jan 1999

Bearing False Witness: The Clinton Impeachment And The Future Of Academic Freedom, Neal Devins

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When Y2k Causes "Economic Loss" To "Other Property", Peter A. Alces, Aaron S. Book Jan 1999

When Y2k Causes "Economic Loss" To "Other Property", Peter A. Alces, Aaron S. Book

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Historical Essays On Meteorology, 1919-1995, Theodore S. Feldman Jan 1999

Historical Essays On Meteorology, 1919-1995, Theodore S. Feldman

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Defending Truth, Cynthia V. Ward, Peter A. Alces Jan 1999

Defending Truth, Cynthia V. Ward, Peter A. Alces

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Propositions For Information Technology: Planning For Success, Ken Haycock, G. Jopson Jan 1999

Propositions For Information Technology: Planning For Success, Ken Haycock, G. Jopson

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In Canada, the West Vancouver School Board proposed 13 propositions about the selection, management, and effective use of information technology. For each proposition, the senior management included a full outline of the current status, a plan of action, the name of the staff member responsible, and a time line. An external assessment of implementation of each proposition and of the impact on achievement was undertaken. The propositions, clustered in the areas of vision, statement of beliefs, student learning goals, definition, social issues, learning issues, clarification of roles and responsibilities, integration of information delivery systems, community-based information infrastructure, and assessment, are …

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The Impact Of Scheduling On Cooperative Program Planning And Teaching (Cppt) And Information Skills Instruction, Ken Haycock Jan 1999

The Impact Of Scheduling On Cooperative Program Planning And Teaching (Cppt) And Information Skills Instruction, Ken Haycock

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Sig Directors Present Plan To Restructure Asis Special Interest Groups, Samantha K. Hastings Jan 1999

Sig Directors Present Plan To Restructure Asis Special Interest Groups, Samantha K. Hastings

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Call Screening - Is It Really A Problem For Survey Research?, Michael W. Link, Robert W. Oldendick Jan 1999

Call Screening - Is It Really A Problem For Survey Research?, Michael W. Link, Robert W. Oldendick

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Dam Nation: A Geographic Census Of American Dams And Their Large-Scale Hydrologic Impacts, William L. Graf Jan 1999

Dam Nation: A Geographic Census Of American Dams And Their Large-Scale Hydrologic Impacts, William L. Graf

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Newly available data indicate that darns fragment the fluvial system of the continental United States and that their impact on river discharge is several times greater than impacts deemed likely as a result of global climate change. The 75,000 dams in the continental United States are capable of storing a volume of water almost equaling one year's mean runoff, but there is considerable geographic variation in potential surface water impacts. In some western mountain and plains regions, darns can store more than 3 year's runoff, while in the Northeast and Northwest, storage is as little as 25% of the annual …

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Looking At Communities And Markets, Lan Cao Jan 1999

Looking At Communities And Markets, Lan Cao

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An Outreach Support Group For International Students, Timothy B. Smith, Li-Chen Chin, Arpana Inman, Jennifer Hudson Jan 1999

An Outreach Support Group For International Students, Timothy B. Smith, Li-Chen Chin, Arpana Inman, Jennifer Hudson

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International students often face challenges in adjusting to their new environment without the use of available local supports, such as counseling. Suggestions are provided for forming an outreach support group that enhances international student participation by minimizing stigma associated with mental health services and by addressing both practical and emotional issues.

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Identities And Racial Attitudes Of South African And American Adolescents: A Cross-Cultural Examination, Timothy B. Smith, Christopher R. Stones Jan 1999

Identities And Racial Attitudes Of South African And American Adolescents: A Cross-Cultural Examination, Timothy B. Smith, Christopher R. Stones

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Issues of group identity and prejudice have played a large role in the history of South Africa. This study examined differences among Xhosa-speaking Black, so-called Coloured, English-speaking White, and Afrikaans-speaking White adolescents within a context of social change. Data was collected from 818 high school students using a questionnaire that assessed aspects of these groups' perceptions of themselves (their identities), attitudes toward other racial groups (their prejudices), and beliefs about changes in the socio-political environment. Several statistically significant differences between the groups were found. Comparative analyses on identity and attitude variables performed with 263 White American adolescents were also statistically …

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Integrating Translation Technologies Using Salt, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Gerhard Budin, Alan K. Melby, Sue Ellen Wright, Arle R. Lommel Jan 1999

Integrating Translation Technologies Using Salt, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Gerhard Budin, Alan K. Melby, Sue Ellen Wright, Arle R. Lommel

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The acronym SALT stands for Standards-based Access to multilingual Lexicons and Terminologies. The objective of the SALT project is to develop and promote a range of tools that will be made available on the World Wide Web to various user groups, in particular translators, terminology managers, localizers, technical communicators, but also tools developers, database managers, and language engineers. The resulting toolkit will facilitate access and re-use of heterogeneous multilingual resources derived from both NLP lexicons and human-oriented terminology databases.

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Some Thoughts On The Evidentiary Aspects Of Technologically Produced Or Presented Evidence, Fredric I. Lederer Jan 1999

Some Thoughts On The Evidentiary Aspects Of Technologically Produced Or Presented Evidence, Fredric I. Lederer

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The Case For Sound Symbolism, Janis B. Nuckolls Jan 1999

The Case For Sound Symbolism, Janis B. Nuckolls

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proposal that linguistic sounds such as phonemes, features, syllables, or tones can be meaningful, or sound-symbolic, contradicts the principles of arbitrariness and double articulation that are axiomatic to structural linguistics. Nevertheless, a considerable body of research that supports principles of sound symbolism has accumulated. This review discusses the most widely attested forms of sound symbolism and the research programs linked to sound symbolism that have influenced linguists and anthropologists most. Numerous reports of magnitude sound symbolism in the form of experimental studies and comparative surveys have been integrated into a biologically based theory of its motivation. Magnitude sound symbolism also …

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Economic Theory, Trader Freedom And Consumer Welfare: State Oil Co. V. Khan And The Continuing Incoherence Of Antitrust Doctrine, Alan J. Meese Jan 1999

Economic Theory, Trader Freedom And Consumer Welfare: State Oil Co. V. Khan And The Continuing Incoherence Of Antitrust Doctrine, Alan J. Meese

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Questions Of Race And Gender: Evangelina Cisneros And The Spanish-Cuban-American War, Anne Fountain Jan 1999

Questions Of Race And Gender: Evangelina Cisneros And The Spanish-Cuban-American War, Anne Fountain

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At the turn of the century, the name "Evangelina Cisneros" (known in Cuba as Evangelina Cossio) was a household term throughout the United States. Newspapers and books described her daring escape from a Havana prison, and pleas on her behalf flourished--including a request for clemency by Queen Victoria and an eloquent letter from the wife of Jefferson Davis. Although the Cisneros saga has all but disappeared in the general historical references to the eighteen nineties, her prison predicament and her prominence in the press of the times reflect fundamental issues of race and gender that are part of the socio­-political …

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Review Of Mastered By The Clock: Time, Slavery, And Freedom In The American South By Mark M. Smith, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Dec 1998

Review Of Mastered By The Clock: Time, Slavery, And Freedom In The American South By Mark M. Smith, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

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Ubiquitous Molecular Substrates For Associative Learning And Activity-Dependent Neuronal Facilitation., Louis D. Matzel, Andrew C. Talk, Isabel A. Muzzio, Ronald F. Rogers Nov 1998

Ubiquitous Molecular Substrates For Associative Learning And Activity-Dependent Neuronal Facilitation., Louis D. Matzel, Andrew C. Talk, Isabel A. Muzzio, Ronald F. Rogers

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Recent evidence suggests that many of the molecular cascades and substrates that contribute to learning-related forms of neuronal plasticity may be conserved across ostensibly disparate model systems. Notably, the facilitation of neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission that contribute to associative learning in Aplysia and Hermissenda, as well as associative LTP in hippocampal CA1 cells, all require (or are enhanced by) the convergence of a transient elevation in intracellular Ca2+ with transmitter binding to metabotropic cell-surface receptors. This temporal convergence of Ca2+ and G-protein-stimulated second-messenger cascades synergistically stimulates several classes of serine/threonine protein kinases, which in turn modulate receptor function or …

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Bibliography, Cultural Studies, And Rare Book Librarianship: Tennyson's "Crossing The Bar" And The Cultural Significance Of Unauthoritative Texts, Patrick G. Scott Nov 1998

Bibliography, Cultural Studies, And Rare Book Librarianship: Tennyson's "Crossing The Bar" And The Cultural Significance Of Unauthoritative Texts, Patrick G. Scott

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For a conference discussion of textual bibliographers and rare book librarians on the topic "Who needs textual studies?," this paper examines three different appearances of Alfred Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar": (1) a manuscript facsimile, (ii) its reuse as a hymn and in a giftbook; and (iii) the paperback Armed Services Edition distributed to US troops overseas during World War II, and argues that with the shift from literary studies to cultural studies such later "unauthoritative texts" have a new importance for scholars and students, and deserve increased attention from bibliographers, collectors, and rare book librarians. Originally presented at the …

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On My Mind: Youth Adult Spaces, Anthony Bernier Oct 1998

On My Mind: Youth Adult Spaces, Anthony Bernier

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Book Review Of Forced Justice: School Desegregation And The Law And Race Relations Litigation In An Age Of Complexity, Davison M. Douglas Oct 1998

Book Review Of Forced Justice: School Desegregation And The Law And Race Relations Litigation In An Age Of Complexity, Davison M. Douglas

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Epithets As Antilogophoric Pronouns, Stanley William Dubinsky, Robert Hamilton Oct 1998

Epithets As Antilogophoric Pronouns, Stanley William Dubinsky, Robert Hamilton

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Library Home Page Design: A Comparison Of Page Layout For Front-Ends To Arl Library Web Sites, David L. King Sep 1998

Library Home Page Design: A Comparison Of Page Layout For Front-Ends To Arl Library Web Sites, David L. King

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The author examined the home pages of all 120 libraries in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in order to compare design similarities and differences. This was accomplished by first filling out a questionnaire on each home page and then tabulating the findings using simple averages and medians. Areas examined were: backgrounds, document headers, document footers, document body, page length, number of steps to library home page from parent institution Web site, and domain name servers. A typical home page is discussed using the averages of these results.

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Pareto Optimality And The Rule Of Law, Noel B. Reynolds Aug 1998

Pareto Optimality And The Rule Of Law, Noel B. Reynolds

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In 1959, James M. Buchanan criticized the collectivist misuse of Pareto optimality by the "new welfare economists" and made a first attempt to extend that individualist concept into the political realm. Over the following three decades he further developed his political application of Pareto’s insight to buttress an essentially economic analysis of political exchange that would justify the processes of constitutional democracy in the same way Pareto efficiency justifies free markets. In this paper I will explain why Buchanan’s particular formulations will not work and propose a more comprehensive solution that accomplishes Buchanan’s announced purpose. I will argue that a …

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Overcoming Tradition And Modernity: The Search For Islamic Authenticity, By Robert D. Lee, Shahrough Akhavi Aug 1998

Overcoming Tradition And Modernity: The Search For Islamic Authenticity, By Robert D. Lee, Shahrough Akhavi

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Self-Enforcing Union Contracts: Efficient Investment And Employment, John T. Addison, John B. Chilton Jul 1998

Self-Enforcing Union Contracts: Efficient Investment And Employment, John T. Addison, John B. Chilton

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Baldwin (1983) asks whether a firm can credibly deter union opportunism that would lead to underinvestment. We show that the punishments Baldwin considers credible exclude tougher threats that only have the appearance of being self-destructive. If the firm's discount factor is sufficiently close to one, union opportunism can indeed be deterred. Moreover, we show that given the firm's discount factor, a shorter lifetime of capital does not necessarily promote efficiency. Although, as Baldwin emphasizes, it does enhance the firm's ability to punish union opportunism, it also creates adverse incentives for the firm to engage in opportunistic employment cuts.

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Status Processes And Mental Ability Test Scores, Michael J. Lovaglia, Jeffrey W. Lucas, Jeffrey A. Houser, Shane R. Thye, Barry N. Markovsky Jul 1998

Status Processes And Mental Ability Test Scores, Michael J. Lovaglia, Jeffrey W. Lucas, Jeffrey A. Houser, Shane R. Thye, Barry N. Markovsky

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The expected consequences of a score on an ability test can constrain individual performance. The authors predict that status processes, including status differences and the differences in rewards and costs that result, will produce differences in ability test scores between high-status and low-status individuals. In three controlled experi- ments, participants randomly assigned low status scored lower on a standard test of mental ability (the Raven Progressive Matrices) than did participants assigned high status. For both men and women, the difference in ability test score between low-status and high-status participants was about half a standard deviation. The results suggest the need …

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