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Postsynaptic Ca2+, But Not Cumulative Depolarization, Is Necessary For The Induction Of Associative Plasticity In Hermissenda, Ronald F. Rogers, R. F. Matzel Jan 1993

Postsynaptic Ca2+, But Not Cumulative Depolarization, Is Necessary For The Induction Of Associative Plasticity In Hermissenda, Ronald F. Rogers, R. F. Matzel

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The neuronal modifications that underlie associative memory in Hermissenda have their origins in a synaptic interaction between the visual and vestibular systems, and can be mimicked by contiguous in vitro stimulation of these converging pathways. At the offset of vestibular stimulation (i.e., hair cell activity), the B photoreceptors are briefly released from synaptic inhibition resulting in a slight depolarization (2–4 mV). If contiguous pairings of light-induced depolarization and presynaptic vestibular activity occur in close temporal succession, this depolarization “accumulates” and has been hypothesized to culminate in a sustained rise in intracellular Ca2+ and a resultant Ca(2+)-mediated phosphorylation of K+ channels …

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Difficulties And Characteristics Of Students From Developing Countries In Using American Libraries, Ziming Liu Jan 1993

Difficulties And Characteristics Of Students From Developing Countries In Using American Libraries, Ziming Liu

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"Good Heavens!": An Old English Euphemism?, Dallin D. Oaks Jan 1993

"Good Heavens!": An Old English Euphemism?, Dallin D. Oaks

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It is commonly assumed that the expression good heavens! is a euphemistic one, originally coined to avoid a more direct reference to God. The OED, for example, seems to regard the word heavens as a "substituted expression" for God in the exclamation good heavens! While this substitution may in fact characterize how speakers use the expression now, it may not reflect the original meaning behind this expression.

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Developmental Appropriateness Of Kindergarten Programs And Academic Outcomes In First Grade, Diane C. Burts, Craig H. Hart, Rosalind Charlesworth, Michele Dewolf, Jeanette Ray, Karen Manuel, Pamela O. Fleege Jan 1993

Developmental Appropriateness Of Kindergarten Programs And Academic Outcomes In First Grade, Diane C. Burts, Craig H. Hart, Rosalind Charlesworth, Michele Dewolf, Jeanette Ray, Karen Manuel, Pamela O. Fleege

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This study explored the relationship between the developmental appropriateness of kindergarten classroom instruction and first-grade report card grade overall averages and average in reading, language, spelling, math, science, and social studies. the interactive roles that gender, SES, and kindergarten classroom type play in children's later achievement were also examined. The sample consisted of 166 first-grade children who had attended kindergarten classrooms with teaching practices identified as predominately developmentally appropriate or developmentally inappropriate. Findings indicated that first-graders from more appropriate kindergarten classrooms had higher reading averages than children from less appropriate kindergarten classrooms. Females had higher overall and subject area averages …

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Reflections On The Jeffersonian Ideal Of An Agrarian Democracy And The Emergence Of An Agricultural And Environmental Ethic In The 1990 Farm Bill, Linda A. Malone Jan 1993

Reflections On The Jeffersonian Ideal Of An Agrarian Democracy And The Emergence Of An Agricultural And Environmental Ethic In The 1990 Farm Bill, Linda A. Malone

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Finding Your Proper Niche In The Bibliotheca Academiae: Or, The Study Of Elephant Hunting Behavior, Richard Hacken Jan 1993

Finding Your Proper Niche In The Bibliotheca Academiae: Or, The Study Of Elephant Hunting Behavior, Richard Hacken

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Finding your proper place in academic libraries by an analysis of how you interact with elephants.

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Book Review Of Race, Law, And American History, 1700-1990, Davison M. Douglas Jan 1993

Book Review Of Race, Law, And American History, 1700-1990, Davison M. Douglas

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Visual Attention And Saccadic Eye Movements In Complex Visual Tasks, John M. Henderson Jan 1993

Visual Attention And Saccadic Eye Movements In Complex Visual Tasks, John M. Henderson

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An open peer commentary of Fischer and Weber's article "Express Saccades and Visual Attention" published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1993), 16, 553-610.

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Conventionalism And Contractarianism, Noel B. Reynolds Nov 1992

Conventionalism And Contractarianism, Noel B. Reynolds

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In this paper Noel B. Reynolds’s theory of law as convention is compared to the public choice contractarian theory of James M. Buchanan. While there are numerous similarities, major differences emerge. Only conventionalism can produce legal and political authority and norms to guide the use of that authority in maintaining the rule of law. The concept of constructive unanimity is introduced to overcome the ultimate failure of contractarianism to legitimate the authority of law.

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Ethnic Identity And Constitutional Design For Africa, Alemante G. Selassie Oct 1992

Ethnic Identity And Constitutional Design For Africa, Alemante G. Selassie

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A Symbolic Balanced Budget Amendment, Neal Devins Oct 1992

A Symbolic Balanced Budget Amendment, Neal Devins

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Linkages Among Preschoolers' Playground Behavior, Outcome Expectations, And Parental Disciplinary Strategies, Craig H. Hart, Michele Dewolf, Diane C. Burts Oct 1992

Linkages Among Preschoolers' Playground Behavior, Outcome Expectations, And Parental Disciplinary Strategies, Craig H. Hart, Michele Dewolf, Diane C. Burts

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To explore relationships among parent's self-reported disciplinary strategies, preschoolers' outcome expectations, and playground behavior. 136 mothers of preschool age children (age range 39-71 months) participated in home disciplinary style interviews. Measures of preschoolers' outcome expectations and observations of children's' prosocial, antisocial/disruptive, and nonsocial/withdrawn playground behavior were also obtained. results indicated that power-assertive mothers had preschoolers who engaged in more antisocial/disruptive behavior and who expected successful instruments outcomes for hostile methods of resolving peer conflict. Preschoolers with such outcome expectations also participated in more antisocial playground behavior.

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Librarians: A Thinking And Learning Styles Portrait, David Squires, Helen K. Hoopes, Gary P. Gillum Sep 1992

Librarians: A Thinking And Learning Styles Portrait, David Squires, Helen K. Hoopes, Gary P. Gillum

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Our research reflects the general tendencies and the challenges that develop when diverse thinking styles exist within any large organization, including libraries. After compiling and analyzing the various instruments used in this study, we concluded that the professional librarians in this sample tended to be verbally oriented and more satisfied with libraries than were the visual thinkers.

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Ideology, Status, And The Differential Success Of Direct Parties Before The Supreme Court, Reginald S. Sheehan, William Mishler, Donald R. Songer Jun 1992

Ideology, Status, And The Differential Success Of Direct Parties Before The Supreme Court, Reginald S. Sheehan, William Mishler, Donald R. Songer

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A substantial literature on lower federal courts and state courts suggests that the "haves" usually come out ahead in litigation because they possess superior resources for it and they reap advantages from their repeat player status. We investigate the success of 10 categories of litigants before the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Courts to determine whether the resources or experience of litigants has effects on Supreme Court outcomes paralleling those found in the courts below. While different categories of litigants are found to have very different rates of success, those differences do not consistently favor litigants with greater resources. A time …

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Sound Symbolic Involvement, Janis B. Nuckolls Jun 1992

Sound Symbolic Involvement, Janis B. Nuckolls

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This article examines an iconic form of communication, sound symbolism, which has been associated with oral cultures and implicated in paradigms of primitive mentality, I argue that Lowland Ecuadorean Quechua speakers use sound symbolic iconicity to create interlocutionary involvement. A speaker's performative foregrounding of a sound symbolic form simuhtes the salient qualities of an action, event, or process, and thereby invites a listener to project into an experience. This projected involvement, in turn, points the listener to deeper kinds of imaginative, intellectual, and emotional engagement with the narrative. The argument is based on an analysis of the formal and semantic …

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Worker Managed Firms, Democratic Principles, And The Evolution Of Financial Relations, Charles P. Rock, Mark A. Klinedinst Jun 1992

Worker Managed Firms, Democratic Principles, And The Evolution Of Financial Relations, Charles P. Rock, Mark A. Klinedinst

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The Public Performance Right In Libraries: Is There Anything Fair About It?, James S. Heller Apr 1992

The Public Performance Right In Libraries: Is There Anything Fair About It?, James S. Heller

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Two sections of the Copyright Act of 1976 permit public performances in libraries under certain circumstances. Professor Heller explains the public performance right in the context of both owners and users of copyrighted works, and proposes a fair use standard that could provide much needed guidance on the use of copyrighted videocassettes in libraries.

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Race And Ethnic Variation In The Schooling Consequences Of Female Adolescent Sexual Activity, Renata Forste, Marta Tienda Mar 1992

Race And Ethnic Variation In The Schooling Consequences Of Female Adolescent Sexual Activity, Renata Forste, Marta Tienda

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Data from the National Survey of Families and Households are used to examine the influence of adolescent childbearing and marriage on the likelihood of high school completion among a cohort of women aged 20 to 29 in 1987. Use of event history techniques reveals striking differences by ethnicity. While the effect of teen marriage on school completion was significant only for whites, adolescent childbearing had much stronger deleterious effects for Latinas than for white or especially black teens. Attitudinal data are presented in an effort to explain these differences.

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Wife Abuse And The Political System: A Middle Eastern Case Study, Mary E. Hegland Jan 1992

Wife Abuse And The Political System: A Middle Eastern Case Study, Mary E. Hegland

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Although wife abuse is common in Iran, it is a subject which has received almost no attention from scholars and little has been written on it. The purpose of this article is to examine the problem, to show the connection between wife-beating and the Iranian political system, and to raise questions for further research. The data on which this analysis is based come from my own research as well as from published sources. The two case histories of wife abuse presented exemplify social process in a political system characterized by arbitrariness and the need to dominate. The degree to which …

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What Is The Relationship Between Workplace Literacy And Content-Based Instruction?, Rosemary C. Henze, Anne Katz Jan 1992

What Is The Relationship Between Workplace Literacy And Content-Based Instruction?, Rosemary C. Henze, Anne Katz

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The Mississippian Emergence - Smith, Bd, H. Edwin Jackson Jan 1992

The Mississippian Emergence - Smith, Bd, H. Edwin Jackson

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No abstract provided.

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The Teacher-Librarian As School Principal: A Natural Progression, Ken Haycock Jan 1992

The Teacher-Librarian As School Principal: A Natural Progression, Ken Haycock

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Focuses on the roles and responsibilities of teacher-librarian in administration. How teacher-librarians are no different from others in education or librarianship who accept challenges of greater responsibility; Five major areas of responsibilities of school administrator; Administrative tasks of the teacher-librarians; Difference between the abilities of principal and teacher-librarians; Skills of the teacher-librarians; Qualities of a successful teacher-librarian.

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Research Topics From The Program - Unanswered Questions: Gaps In Research On Reference Effectiveness, Jo Bell Whitlatch Jan 1992

Research Topics From The Program - Unanswered Questions: Gaps In Research On Reference Effectiveness, Jo Bell Whitlatch

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Collection Development Policy: Academic Library, St. Mary's University, Margaret Sylvia Jan 1992

Collection Development Policy: Academic Library, St. Mary's University, Margaret Sylvia

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A revised edition of the original collection development policy for the Academic Library (now the Louis J. Blume Library) published in ERIC. This guide spells out the collection development policy of the library of St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas. The guide is divided into the following five topic areas: (1) introduction to the community served, parameters of the collection, cooperation in collection development, and priorities of the collection; (2) considerations in collection development, including maintaining the collection, gifts, bibliographic instruction, circulation, and intellectual freedom; (3) selection of materials, including responsibility for selection, selection aids, and criteria for selection …

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Creating Informal Play Opportunities: Are Parents' And Preschoolers' Initiations Related To Children's Competence With Peers?, Gary W. Ladd, Craig H. Hart Jan 1992

Creating Informal Play Opportunities: Are Parents' And Preschoolers' Initiations Related To Children's Competence With Peers?, Gary W. Ladd, Craig H. Hart

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Preschoolers' social competence may depend on the frequency with which informal play activities are initiated by parents', children, and playmates. In this study, measures ofchildren's peer relations in informal and school contexts and the frequency of parents', children's, and peers' play initiations were obtained with 83 preschool children and their families on 2 occasions. Frequent parent initiations were associated with higher levels of prosocial behavior, lower levels of nonsocial behavior and, among boys, greater peer acceptance in preschool. Children who were more initiating of informal peer contacts displayed less anxious behavior in school and were better liked by their classmates. …

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Craft Specialization And Exchange Among The Virgin Anasazi, James R. Allison Jan 1992

Craft Specialization And Exchange Among The Virgin Anasazi, James R. Allison

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A large proportion of the culinary ceramics found on 11th century Anasazi sites in the Moapa Valley of Nevada were manufactured more that fifty miles to the east, in northwestern Arizona. This paper uses analyses of ceramics from sites in southeastern Nevada, northwestern Arizona, and southwestern Utah to more precisely define the regional distribution of these ceramics and to assess their degree of standardization in form and technology. Questions relating to the development of community specialization and interaction in egalitarian societies are--examined in light of these analyses.

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Searching On Cd-Rom In An Academic Environment, Margaret Sylvia, Leigh Kilman Nov 1991

Searching On Cd-Rom In An Academic Environment, Margaret Sylvia, Leigh Kilman

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Novice information searchers are overwhelmed with the amount of material retrieved with a simple keyword search. Training users to retrieve the optimal amount of information and the correct information is a challenge for librarians.

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Book Review: Turbulence In World Politics, James N. Rosenau, Harvey Starr Aug 1991

Book Review: Turbulence In World Politics, James N. Rosenau, Harvey Starr

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No abstract provided.

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A Comparison Of The Training Priorities Of Clerical Employees And Their Supervisors, Peter J. Haas Jul 1991

A Comparison Of The Training Priorities Of Clerical Employees And Their Supervisors, Peter J. Haas

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Determines whether and in which ways the priorities of local government employees differ from those of their supervisors using data from employees in the Santa Clara County, California. Respondent profiles; Priorities of employees and supervisors among specific training topics for employees.

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Perestroika, Phase Iii: Can The Ussr Learn From The Only Successful Reform?, Phillip J. Bryson Jun 1991

Perestroika, Phase Iii: Can The Ussr Learn From The Only Successful Reform?, Phillip J. Bryson

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In Phase I of Mikhail Gorbachev's tenure as chief director of the soviet economic strategy, the General Secretary seemed content to continue an approach his predecessors had referred to as plan "perfecting" (sovershenstvovanie). This approach which called merely for the development and implementation of modest improvements in the planning mechanism. It was the chosen alternative to economic reform, the approach which had been peremptorily rejected with the closing of the Kosygin reforms at the end of the 1960s.

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