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A case study of professional change: The impact of the National Gerontological Social Work Competencies Survey
Our society is aging and this demographic change necessitates that all social workers have basic competency in gerontology. This article describes the results of a competency survey conducted in 2000, and how these results ... -
Case Tool for Developing Process Control Specifications in Dairy Manufacturing
(1994-12-01)A computer aided software engineering (CASE) tool designed to assist the task of developing the specification of control software for programmable logic controllers for dairy process manufacturing is described. The CASE ... -
Cell Programming Language Investigation of Extensions For Flow Control and Error Recovery in the Language
(1994-11-01)The Cell Programming Language (CPL) is a simple programming language which allows the students and faculty to easily program a workcell on a personal computer as the workcell controller. However, the original version of ... -
A Change Will Do Us Good: Threats Diminish Typical Preferences for Male Leaders
The current research explores role congruity processes from a new vantage point by investigating how the need for change might shift gender-based leadership preferences. According to role congruity theory, favorability ... -
Characteristics of Tenure-Line Faculty in Leadership Preparation Programs: An Analysis of Academic Preparation and Administrative Experience
This study investigated the credentials of 755 tenure-line educational leadership faculty members, using data collected through an online questionnaire. Findings disclosed that research institutions were significantly ... -
Charter schooling and democratic justice
As the mixed achievements of charter schools come under more intense political inspection, the conceptual underpinnings of current charter school reform remain largely unexamined. This article focuses on one moralpolit ... -
Children Ages 6-12 Learning Optical Spatial Reasoning during Educational Video Game Play: An ERP/JTF study examining the role of cognitive load.
This is the final powerpoint from a presentation at the 2018 SERC Spatial Conference in Canberra Australia. We examine concept learning of children ages 6-12. Children learn a Naive Optics concept through the use of a brief ... -
Citizenship in our Time: Community Service, Town Meeting, Protest March, or Drag Show
How is citizenship properly enacted in the contemporary era? How are contemporary discourses of citizenship constructing and reconstructing our meanings of the terms of citizenship? To answer these questions, I have recently ... -
City of Springboro: Citizen Attitudes and Public Opinion Survey Results
Final report of community survey conducted by the Center for Public Management and Regional Affairs at Miami University. -
Cold hardiness and overwintering strategies of hatchlings in an assemblage of northern turtles.
Field and laboratory studies were conducted during 1989-1994 to investigate the overwintering strategies of hatching turtles representing four families native to western Nebraska. Whereas hatchling snapping turtles (Chelydra ... -
Cold-hardiness and evaporative water loss in hatchling turtles.
North American turtles hatch in late summer and spend their first winter either on land or underwater. Adaptations for terrestrial overwintering of hatchlings in northern regions, where winter thermal and hydric regimes ... -
Cold-hardiness in the Antarctic tick, Ixodes uriae.
Ixodes uriae White (Ixodidae, Acarina) is the predominant tick on the Antarctic peninsula.This species has a circumpolar distribution in both hemispheres and is associated with or known to parasitize 48 species of seabirds. ... -
Cold-hardiness of a laboratory colony of lone star ticks.
The cold-hardiness of a lone star tick, Ambylomma americium (L.) laboratory colony was characterized. Fed and unfed larvae, fed and unfed nymphs, and unfed adults did not survive exposure to -17C for 7 d. After an 8-d ... -
Cold-shock injury and rapid cold-hardening in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis.
Direct exposure to -10 C, in the absence of tissue freezing, causes high mortality in Sarcophaga crassipalpis: this result suggests that injury is due to cold shock. However, brief acclimation at 0 C enables larvae, ... -
College and Career Readiness and the Every Student Succeeds Act
Purpose: This study addressed the current policy push to improve students’ college and career readiness (CCR) as manifested within the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and examined CCR policy in the state of Illinois as ... -
Community and Adolescence in Four Societies
This study disputes the assumption that adolescence is a universal life stage as described by Erikson. Data were collected about twelve communities in four countries: the United States, India, New Zealand, and Romania. The ... -
Compact genome of the Antarctic midge is likely an adaptation to an extreme environment
The midge, Belgica antarctica, is the only insect endemic to Antarctica, and thus it offers a powerful model for probing responses to extreme temperatures, freeze tolerance, dehydration, osmotic stress, ultraviolet radiation ... -
Comprehensive Description and Critical Analysis of Object-Oriented Software Development
(1991-08-01)Object-orientation and the object model underlie a simple, intuitive, and useful approach to software development that has great potential for significantly improving the software development process. Object-orientation ... -
Compressed Bit-sliced Signature Files An Index Structure for Large Lexicons
(1999-04-01)We use the signature file method to search for partially specified terms in large lexicons. To optimize efficiency, we use the concepts of the partially evaluated bit-sliced signature file method and memory resident data ... -
Computer Simulation Results from System Dynamics Model of Agriculture System
(1988-01-01)This paper discusses the results of simulation from an extensive System Dynamics model of agriculture system. A computer simulation model is written in Dynamo with System Dynamics techniques to study the complex agriculture ...