Hiring tenure track faculty is one of the most important decisions in higher education. Hiring outcomes shape faculty careers, the process is costly and time consuming and, ultimately, hiring significantly impacts the character of academic departments . . .

Simulation activities have been used in teaching various topics in political science. Most literature on this methodology focuses on elaborate, time consuming activities. This article examines the creation and use of a one-session budget balancing sim . . .

Rationale, aims and objectives: A valid tool to measure clinical competency early in medical school could identify students who may require special educational attention. The overall aim is to assess the relationship between students’ scores on an . . .

This article explores the process through which teachers go as they engage in teacher research that attempts to answer ‘burning questions’ about their practice. It reports on the experiences of 45 in-service teachers enrolled in an MA in Education pro . . .

Discusses the results of a study of two cohorts of preservice teachers, placing them in structured situations in which they are asked to respond to film clips focusing upon linguistic exclusion in schools. Model for learning activities; Attitude and o . . .

Purpose - The purpose of this article is to present a series of reflections on future scenarios distributed to Taiga Forum participants in March 2006. Design/methodology approach - Permission was obtained to reprint the scenarios, and select nation . . .

This paper provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of agricultural trade using a gravity model. The data set covers bilateral trade in agricultural goods for 152 countries over the periods 1990–1993 and 1999–2002. The estimations support c . . .

As students participate in corporate communication classes, they may, on occasion, use the term culture to make sense of their experiences. The authors use Mino's idea of a learning paradigm to shift the emphasis away from teaching traditional theorie . . .

(Discussion): We began by discussing the ideological traditions of Finland and the US. In essence, equal opportunity and equity are grounded on different types of goals for schooling. These goals in turn shape policy design. For example, in a system i . . .

This study analyzes parent and professional organizations’ effectiveness in national special education policy from 1975 to present. Of specific interest are the relationships among groups’ policy victories, how groups construct their political message . . .

This study examines student achievement and prevalence of students with disabilities in Finland and the United States (U.S.), by analysing international test scores, national reports, and special education legislation. The variables of interest includ . . .

A new fluorescence-based biosensor is presented. The biosensing scheme is based on the fact that a fluorophore in close proximity to a metal film (<100 Å) experiences strong quenching of fluorescence and a dramatic reduction in the lifetime of the exc . . .

The fastest simple, kinetically two-state protein folds a million times more rapidly than the slowest. Here we review many recent theories of protein folding kinetics in terms of their ability to qualitatively rationalize, if not quantitatively predic . . .

The concept of quasi-continuity and the new concept of almost compactness for a function are the basis for the extension of the contraction principle in large deviations presented here. Important equivalences for quasi-continuity are proved in the cas . . .

A visual method for adding fractions is introduced. The similarities between this and another method are studied. A formal definition is introduced in an intuitive and visual way. The multiplication is discussed as well as analogies between addition a . . .

Exploring links between housework and larger political economies and cultures, this article surveys discussions of paid and unpaid domestic labor in mostly urban settings in Latin American historiography. The focus is on inter-related questions: Who d . . .

The structural integrity of vertebral trabecular bone is determined by the continuity of its trabecular network and the size of the holes comprising its marrow space, both of which determine the apparent size of the marrow spaces in a transaxial CT i . . .

The clinical recognition of abnormal vascular tortuosity is important in the diagnosis of many diseases. This paper presents a novel approach to the quantification of vascular tortuosity, using robust metrics based on unit speed parameterizations of t . . .

This paper defines business ethics as a series of behaviors that adhere to values held by the individual manager, the manager's supervisors and subordinates, general society and, most importantly, the manager's customers and clients. The concept of bu . . .

Hiring tenure track faculty is one of the most important decisions in higher education. Hiring outcomes shape faculty careers, the process is costly and time consuming and, ultimately, hiring significantly impacts the character of academic departments . . .

Ecosystem-based management (EBM) and the related concept of large marine ecosystems (LMEs) are sometimes criticized as being too broad for many management and research applications. At the same time there is a great need to more effectively develop su . . .

Spanning sets for vertex operator algebras satisfying difference-zero and difference-one conditions have been extensively studied in the recent years. In this paper, we extend these results. More specifically, we show that for a suitably chosen genera . . .

Quasimodules for vertex algebras are generalizations of modules for vertex algebras. These new objects arise from a generalization of locality for fields. Quasimodules tie together module theory and twisted module theory, and both twisted and untwiste . . .

The purpose of this study is to develop a better understanding of the discourse strategies employed by students and a chemistry teacher as they engaged in various activities in the classroom. More specifically, the paper examines how discourse support . . .

In this paper, we introduce an enhancement to the Neurosolver, a neuromorphic planner and a problem solving system. The enhanced architecture enables contextual learning. The Neurosolver was designed and tested on severalproblem solving and planning t . . .

Over the past two decades, civil gang injunctions have been increasingly instituted in California, Texas, and other parts of the Southwest. Most of the existing research on injunctions focuses on the efficacy and constitutionality of this novel law . . .

Structures and energies of complexes of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) with hydroxyl (OH) and hydroperoxyl (HO2) radicals have been studied using ab initio and density functional theory. Two isomers of the complex between OH and DMS were found, one dipole-dip . . .

The broad absorption of Cl3 radical was observed between 1150 and 1350 nm using cavity ring-down spectroscopy at 213–265 K and 50–200 Torr with He, N2, Ar, or SF6 diluents. The absorption intensity of Cl3 increased at lower temperature and higher pres . . .

Buffer-gas pressure broadening for the (0 00 3) ← (0 00 0) band of N2O was investigated with continuous-wave cavity ring-down spectroscopy within the temperature range of 243–353 K. The measured absorption profiles were analyzed with Voigt functions. . . .