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The U.S. Supreme Court Speaks on Voluntary School Integration Plans: Policy and Practice Implications for Educational Leaders
(NASSP Bulletin, 2009-03-01)This article addresses important legal issues surrounding voluntary school integration plans and explores policy and practice implications of the Seattle and Louisville cases. School policy guidance for how school districts ... -
Ukrainian NGOs as Opinion Makers: How Media Organizations Communicate about Progress in New Democracy with Western Donors
(Universitat Ramon Llull, Facutlat de Ciencies de la Comunicacio Blanquerna, 2015)In the last 20 years, multiple media NGOs in Ukraine have been actively protecting the freedom of speech in the country with help of many Western donors who supported the development of its independent media system. Through ... -
Ultrahigh Resolution Pulsed Laser-Induced Photoacoustic Detection of Multi-Scale Damage in CFRP Composites
(2020-03-20)This paper presents a photoacoustic non-destructive evaluation (pNDE) system with an ultrahigh resolution for the detection of multi-scale damage in carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites. The pNDE system consists ... -
Ultrasound-Mediated DNA Transformation in Thermophilic Gram-Positive Anaerobes
(PLos One, 2010-09-04)BackgroundThermophilic, Gram-positive, anaerobic bacteria (TGPAs) are generally recalcitrant to chemical and electrotransformation due to their special cell-wall structure and the low intrinsic permeability of plasma ... -
Uncovering Validity Criteria for Stories Managers Hear and Tell
(The American Review of Public Administration, 1990-12-01)}Policymakers and managers rely to a large extent on stories told to them for information that shapes problem formulation and decision. But what can give them confidence in such stories? In this article, one of several ... -
Undergraduate Conductors’ and Conducting Teachers’ Perceptions of Basic Conducting Efficacy
(Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2014-10-23)The purpose of this study was to examine undergraduate conductors’ and conducting teachers’ perceptions about basic conducting efficacy. At the beginning and end of the semester, undergraduate students (N = 19) enrolled ... -
Undergraduate Conductors’ and Conducting Teachers’ Perceptions of Basic Conducting Efficacy
(2014)The purpose of this study was to examine undergraduate conductors’ and conducting teachers’ perceptions about basic conducting efficacy. At the beginning and end of the semester, undergraduate students (N = 19) enrolled ... -
The Underlying Structure of Ethical Beliefs toward War
(Journal of Peace Research, 1989-05-01)Behavioralists have tended to neglect the study of ethics as unimportant to an understanding of political behavior and its various manifestations, such as international conflict. In our analysis we examine the attitudes ... -
Understanding the Differences Between Vendor Types in Local Governance
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2013-11-01)It is commonly posited that for-profit, nonprofit, and other government vendors have fundamental differences, which make one or the other the superior choice depending on the circumstances of service delivery. Past research, ... -
Understanding Variation in the Practice of Employee Discipline: The Perspective of the First-Line Supervisor
(Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2003-03-01)First-line supervisors' responses to employee-related problems can vary widely from one supervisor to another. Assuming fair and consistent disciplinary activity is valued by organizations, then discovery of the factors ... -
Unifying subject agreement across clause types in Estonian
(2016)Estonian negated indicative clauses show no agreement, whereas Estonian negated imperative clauses show agreement twice: once on the main verb and once on the negation word ära. This contrasts with affirmative clauses, ... -
Unilateral fatiguing exercise and its effect on ipsilateral and contralateral resting mechanomyographic mean frequency between aerobic populations
(2017-02-27)The purpose of this investigation was to establish a better understanding of contralateral training and its effects between homologous muscles following unilateral fatiguing aerobic exercise during variable resting postural ... -
Unprecedented high-resolution view of bacterial operon architecture revealed by RNA sequencing
(2014-07-08)We analyzed the transcriptome of Escherichia coli K-12 by strand-specific RNA sequencing at single-nucleotide resolution during steady-state (logarithmic-phase) growth and upon entry into stationary phase in glucose minimal ... -
Up, Down, Over, Under: Spatial Relationship Words
(Intervention in School and Clinic, 1984-05-01)A series of workable techniques that help LD children understand and read spatial relationship words -
Urban Environments Aid Invasion of Brown Widows (Theridiidae: Latrodectus geometricus) in North America, Constraining Regions of Overlap and Mitigating Potential Impact on Native Widows
(2021-12-07)Urbanization is a major cause of biotic homogenization and habitat fragmentation for native communities. However, the role of urbanization on the success of biological invasions on a continental scale has yet to be explored. ... -
Usability Evaluation of a Paratransit Mobile Application
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2013-09-01)TransitMobile is a mobile application that provides logistic information to drivers in Oklahoma community-based paratransit operations. Passenger reservation information is transferred from the home agency to in-vehicle ... -
The Use and Effectiveness of Caregiver Interventions for Alzheimer's Patients
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Use of 1D Unsteady HEC-RAS in a Coupled System for Compound Flood Modeling: North Carolina Case Study
(2022-02-22)The research presented herein develops and compares an ADCIRC and ADCIRC/HEC-RAS (1D) paired model for the purpose of compound flood modeling within the Tar River and Pamlico Sound basins of North Carolina. Both the ADCIRC ... -
Use of a High Involvement Instructional Method to Enhance Students' Learning of Distribution Concepts
(Journal of Marketing Education, 1990-12-01)An innovative instructional method using high student involvement was employed to improve the teaching of distribution concepts. Student groups conceptualized and developed a videotape case study examining components of a ... -
Use of Drama Students as “Clients” in Teaching Abnormal Psychology
(Teaching of Psychology, 1982-04-01)