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Four Positions of Leadership in Planning, Implementing, and Sustaining Faculty Learning Community Programs
This chapter describes four new leadership areas in the development of faculty learning community programs and provides perspectives and resources that these leaders can use to engage their work. -
Freezing impairment of male reproductive behaviors of the freeze-tolerant wood frog, Rana sylvatica.
The wood frog (Rana sylvatica), a temperate-zone anuran that overwinters within the frost zone, is adapted to tolerate the freezing and thawing of its tissues. Because the effects of freezing on complex neurobehavioral ... -
Full-Cycle Assessment of Critical Thinking in an Ethics and Science Course
Enhancing critical thinking skills for undergraduate students is important across the curriculum and between disciplines. We report on a method of improving critical thinking skills, which was studied through an Ethics and ... -
Functions of personal experience and of expression of regret
Although learning and preparing for future behavior are well-established functions of regret, social functions have been largely ignored. We suggest a new model of the functions of regret, the Privately Experienced versus ... -
Gamification in SE Courses
The sources and styles of student motivation have changed as the use of computing technology has become more ubiquitous. Instructors observations often lead to the conclusion that students’ attention span has shorten. ... -
Giving up the keys: How driving cessation affects engagement in later life
Purpose of the study. Many older adults consider driving vital to maintaining their preferred lifestyle and engagement with society, yet it is normative for individuals to eventually stop driving. This study examined the ... -
The Graduate Student Advisor (GSA): An Expert System for SAN Graduate Student Advising
(1992-12-01)The Graduate Student Advisor (GSA) is an experimental expert system that advises graduate students in systems analysis. It simulates a faculty advisor in suggesting the schedule of courses a student should take based on ... -
Graphical Programming of Simulation Models in an Object-Oriented Environment
(1988-07-01)Graphical programming has been used in conjunction with conventional simulation languages via block diagrams or activity networks. Its beneficial effects on programming and modeling in simulation have been accepted by ... -
Graphical User Interface Environment for Developing Workcell Control Programs
(1995-07-01)A forms-based development environment for writing manufacturing workcell programs is described. The environment is a Microsoft Windows application that allows a programmer to describe a sequence of operations and associated ... -
Heteroglossia and Philosophers of Education
Essay commentary on Rene Arcilla's question regarding the predicament of the contemporary philosopher of education. I use the example of Cornel West to illustrate how his philosophical work exemplifies the concept of ... -
Heterothermy in Northern Cardinals
(2014-12-10)These data were used in the article on Northern Cardinal heterothermy published in the journal Animal Biologging. -
How educational intermediaries connect research and practice
Knowledge brokers seek to transform education practice by sharing research, but are they effective at achieving this goal? -
How far to the road not taken? The effect of psychological distance on counterfactual direction.
Upward and downward counterfactuals serve the distinct motivational functions of selfimprovement and self-enhancement, respectively. Drawing on construal level theory, which contends that increasing psychological distance ... -
How to Use PyMOL
Tutorial video for using PyMOL to accompany “Using PyMOL to Explore the Effects of pH on Non-Covalent Interactions between Immunoglobulin G and Protein A: A Guided-Inquiry Biochemistry Activity”. Authors: Zahilyn D. ... -
HPWS data
The research focus was to examine the relationship between high-performance work system (HPWS), firm financial performance (FFP), firm innovation and improvement (FII), and firm capacity for learning and transforming ... -
HypIR: Hypertext Based Information Retrieval
(1992-08-01)Information Retrieval (IR), which is also known as text or document retrieval, is the process of locating and retrieving docri)nents that are relevant to the user queries. In hypertext environments, docuinent databases are ... -
Ice nucleating active bacteria reduce the cold-hardiness of the freeze-intolerant Colorado potato beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae).
In laboratory experiments, a freeze-dried concentrated form of the icenucleating active bacteria, Pseudomonas syringae, was used to decrease the supercooling capacity of field-collected diapausing Colorado potato beetles, ... -
Ice nuclei in soil compromise cold hardiness of hatchling painted turtles, Chrysemys picta.
Hatchling painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) commonly overwinter within their natal nests and survive exposure to temperatures as low as -12 degrees C by supercooling. We report that the supercooling capacity of hatchling ...