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Introduction Of Joyce Hecht, Delivered At The Enrichment Dinner On June 6, 2006, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Introduction of Joyce Hecht, delivered at the Enrichment Dinner on June 6, 2006 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

Renewing The Community? Pork Barrelling? Maintaining The Status Quo? What's The Agenda?, K Lavon Wright

Capstone Projects – Politics and Government

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina there are thousands of businesses in the City of New Orleans closed. In an attempt to diminish financial loss, retain local businesses, and attract investment the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development initiated the process of amending HUD guidelines to fit the city’s current economic status, and expand the existing Renewal Community boundaries to include the entire city. Simultaneously, the state legislature in collaboration with the U.S. Congress worked towards a more inclusive incentive package, the Gulf Opportunity Zone. Analysis found in this paper gives increased evidence of communication bottlenecks in federal government, and how …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 68, June 5, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 030, Number 40, June 5, 2006, Grand Valley State University

2005-2006, Volume 30

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

The Co-Evolution Of An Accessible But Secure Virtual Space For Collaborative Activities, Kate Crawford, Helen M. Hasan

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This paper describes, analyses and interprets a research and development process taking place over several years concerning the evolution of a socio-technical system. By ‘socio-technical system’ we mean a dynamic system that is socio-culturally situated and involves both human activity and technical elements. The system design, that is the focus of this research, brings together the human and technical dynamics of the intricate and highly engaging processes of effective collaboration. In particular, an investigation of the various integrated elements of the socio-technical system has provide us with the insight and confidence to build a virtual environment that actually supports innovative …

Insurance Against Misinformation In The Securities Market, Tom Baker

All Faculty Scholarship

Prepared at the request of the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada, this study describes and evaluates evaluate a new capital markets insurance concept: securities misinformation insurance. This new insurance would compensate investors for losses caused by securities law violations. The most powerful objection to this new concept is that investors do not need a new insurance program for securities misinformation losses. Individual and institutional investors already can spread securities misinformation losses by holding a diversified portfolio. Nevertheless, a securities misinformation insurance program has the potential to provide systemic benefits: improved compliance with securities laws (resulting from cost …

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, June 4, 2006

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, CAN

Playoffs In The "New" Nhl, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

This is for all those out there who have been watching something other than the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Whether you have been mesmerized by American Idol, following the fortunes of the NBA, or been caught up in the new baseball season, the time has come to abandon these minor matters and focus on the Stanley Cup Finals. The new NHL has arrived. What is really new are not just the rules, but the fact that the same rules applied by the referees in the regular season are being followed in the playoffs.

Letter To Jack Bissett Regarding Donation By Seaall, June 2, 2006, Claire Germain, Susan Fox

Correspondence

A letter from Claire Germain and Susan Fox thanking Jack Bissett and SEAALL for a donation to the AALL & West/George A. Strait Minority Scholarship Endowment.

Effective Training Workshop Design: A Focus On Improving The Effectiveness Of Teams, Joni Marti

Theses and Graduate Projects

Organizations spend billions of dollars a year training their employees, yet most of this is wasted due to poorly designed training. Inappropriate time allotments, lack of management and organizational support, and ill-suited methods for adult learners all contribute to this waste.

Knowledge transfer to the workplace is the true measure of effective training, yet many corporations measure cost or hours of training completed. Organizations can be more effective by designing their training with factors that result in the greatest impact on the adult learner. Based on current literature on adult education these key factors are a modular format, interactive delivery …

Collaborative Leadership And The Design Of A School-Based Chemical Health Service System, Susan K. Hedlund

Theses and Graduate Projects

This work-related project used strategies of collaborative leadership behavior to facilitate the design and implementation of a county-wide, comprehensive, and coordinated school-based chemical health service system. People involved in the design included representatives from school districts, county government departments, chemical dependency treatment agencies, nonprofit organizations, and a parent. The goal of this project was to create an effective, sustainable, and cohesive collaboration through the use of a facilitation process that illustrated the principles of collaborative leadership. The project demonstrated that interagency collaboration, along with effective leadership skills, can be successful in achieving meaningful system change that benefits adolescents and their …

Foreign Direct Investment And Technology Transfer To Nigerian Manufacturing Firms: Evidence From Empirical Data., Nasiru Musa Yauri

Economic and Financial Review

The paper investigates the vertical effects of FDI on Nigeria manufacturing firms. Specifically, the paper asks, do Nigerian manufacturing firms benefits from FDI? As an investigation into the vertical effects of FDI , the paper attempts to establish whether manufacturing firms in Nigeria that receives FDI benefit from technology flows which comes along with foreign capital. The paper employs data from the World Bank Nigerian manufacturing survey, 2001.

Determinants Of Workers' Remittances: The Case Of Turkey: A Review., Magnus O. Abeng

Economic and Financial Review

The paper is focused on the determinants of workers remittances using Turkey as a case study.

Are Immigrants Remittance Flows A Source Of Capital For Development?: A Review, Phebian N. Omanukwue

Economic and Financial Review

The paper seeks to develop a remittance model that would indicate if immigrant remittances were a source of capital flows for development.

Developing Indicators And Measures Of Civic Outcomes For Elementary School Students, Bernadette Chi, Joann Jastrzab, Alan Melchior

Civic Engagement

Over the past decade, public attention on the importance of the civic development and education of youth has grown. To address these concerns, the East Bay Conservation Corps (EBCC) Charter School opened in 1996 with the explicit mission to prepare and engage students grades K through 12 as caring citizens who are capable and motivated to fully participate in our democracy. While content standards and assessments readily exist to articulate the academic and artistic development of students, youth civic development, especially at the elementary level, has been under-conceptualized. What is needed is a more robust, comprehensive developmental framework for citizenship …

Presentation - Cultivating Future Scholars: A Cross-Campus Collaboration On An Original Research Project, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.

University Library Faculty Publications

Presentation on a collaboration with a sociology faculty member, a Writing Consultant, and the Quantitative Reasoning Consultant to provide research and writing support for sociology undergraduates engaging in original research projects.

Taking Liberties, Matt Kozusko

English Faculty Publications

The 'place' scholars have assigned to the stage in early modern London is as much a reflection of the procedures of contemporary literary criticism as a reflection of the cultural function of popular drama in the early modern period. Modern critics are often not engaged in re-examining available data, preferring instead to rest on a conjectural paradigm or heuristic that has hardened, over the past couple of decades, into a New Historicist version of 'fact'. Critics have collapsed boundaries and important distinctions in London jurisdiction and geography in the interest of a unified critical narrative that characterizes the theatre as …

Tips, Volume 26, No. 1, 2 & 3, 2006, Wolf P. Wolfensberger

Training Institute Publication Series (TIPS)

• Bulletin on the Establishment of the Citizen Advocacy Foundation of America (CAFA)

• The State of OW' Schools

• Evidence of School Disfunctionality/Failure

• Poor Skills & Performance in Math

• Poor Knowledge of/Performance in Science

• Poor Knowledge of History

• American Ignorance About Geography

• Poor Literacy (Reading, Writing)

• Grade Inflation & Social Promotion

• Everyone Being Identified as "Disabled"

• Teacher Quality & Qualifications

• Graduation Rates

• Schools Being Expected to Make Up for/Deal With the Collapses of Parenting & of Societal Functionality

• "Junk" Eating Up Educational Time

• Junking Kids' Time With …

2006 June-Newsletter, Nancy Rockey

Life Renewal Archive

No abstract provided.

Maine Women's Insider (June 2006), Maine Women's Giving Tree Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

The Growth Of Nonprofits, Michael L. Jones

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Counseling And Katrina: The Challenges Of Practice In The Aftermath Of The Hurricane, William C. Levin, Louise Graham, Maxine Rawlins, Michael Kocet

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Faculty Research: Violence And Family In Northern Ireland, Patricia J. Fanning, Ruth Hannon

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Japan's Worker Co-Operative Movement Into The 21st Century, Robert C. Marshall

Anthropology Faculty and Staff Publications

The pace of Japan’s economy is picking up again after more than a decade of stasis. During this long period of economic stagnation, the many personnel practices favoring employees known by the rubric “lifetime employment” have been subjected to increased criticism by pro-investor, neo-liberal voices. Yet other less-well-amplified voices in Japan offer an alternative criticism of, and look for opportunity in, the changing status quo as well. In the last quarter of the 20th century efforts to create worker-owned and democratically governed businesses in Japan began to emerge with the support of a wide variety of economic actors -- among …

Woman To Woman: A Music Therapist's Experience Of Working With A Physically Challenged And Non-Verbal Woman, Carolyn Arnason

Music Faculty Publications

The phrase "woman to woman" implies that relationships between women have particular qualities and levels of understanding that value the female perspective (Gilbert & Scher 1999). This case study describes my experience as a female music therapist and pianist working for four years with Sarah (pseudonym), a physically challenged, intelligent woman who is non-verbal. Salient aspects of the improvisational music therapy sessions were use ofself as music therapist, building a collaborative relationship, working with subtle and non-verbal responses, interpretive flexibility and musical transparency. There were also dimensions of the therapeutic process that enlarged the musical relationship such as silence, "being …

Adverse Impact Of A History Of Violence For Women With Breast, Cervical, Endometrial, Or Overian Cancer, Susan C. Modesitt, Alisa C. Gambrell, Hope M. Cottrill, Lon R. Hays, Robert J. Walker, Brent J. Shelton, Carol E. Jordan, James E. Ferguson

Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women Publications

The experience of physical and sexual violence (victimization) is common among U.S. women and is associated with adverse health consequences. The study objectives were to estimate the prevalence of victimization in women with cancer and to examine associations with demographics, cancer screening, and cancer stage.

METHODS:

From 2004 to 2005, 101 women with breast, cervical, endometrial, or ovarian cancer were interviewed to collect demographics, cancer screening history, health care access/use, and violence history. Chisquare and Fisher exact tests were used test risk-factor associations. A multinomial logistic regression model was used for multivariable analysis.

RESULTS:

The prevalence of a history of …

Report On First Nations’ Housing, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

This report provides a national, statistical portrait of the housing situation in First Nations communities. Following a brief overview of socioeconomic conditions, statistics are presented related to: housing repair needs, crowding, household amenities, water quality and the presence of smoke, mold and mildew. These results are further broken down by individual (e.g. income, education) and community (size and remoteness) characteristics.

Report On Selected Indicators By Gender, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Report On First Nations Seniors’ Report On Selected Indicators By Gender Health And Wellbeing, N.A.

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Patient Care News: June 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Pandemic Influenza Preparation

Vaccinations Micromedex: PMIs & IV Compatibility

Acute Response Team 8 Nursing Research Award Winners

Surgery Delays Clinical Ladder