What Helps Law Professors Develop as Teachers? -- An Empirical Study

The overall goal of this article is to provide concrete suggestions for how law schools can improve teaching and enrich law student learning. In doing so, it reviews and analyzes the data collected from two national surveys about the kinds of faculty development activities that are most effective in improving law professors’ teaching. One survey was designed to quantify how many law teachers engaged in twenty-two types of teaching development activities over the previous five years and to assess the effectiveness of each of those activities. The other survey focused on the effectiveness of a national conference on teaching and learning in law school. This article builds upon Improving Teaching and Learning in Law School: Faculty Development Research, Principles, and Programs, 12 WIDENER L. REV. 443 (2006), which presented the principles fundamental to effective faculty development programs. This article shows how these principles apply by providing data about the effectiveness of a wide range of teaching development activities

A Zoosporic Tribute from the Delphic Sibyl

Eight different zoosporic fungi were recovered from soil in the environs of the sanctuary and oracle of Apollo at Delphi, Greece. Two of these, Rhizophydium sibyllina and Phlyctochytrium neuhausii, are described as new species

Observations On Chytridiaceous Parasites Of Phanerogams. Xx. Resting Spore Germination And Epibiotic Stage Of Physoderma Butomi Schroeter

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Observations On Chytridiaceous Parasites Of Phanerogams. I. Physoderma Menyanthis De Bary

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Observations On Chytridiaceous Parasites Of Phanerogams. Xiv. Physoderma Calami

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Observations On Chytridiaceous Parasites Of Phanerogams. Iii. Physoderma Claytoniana And An Associated Parasite

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Observations On Chytridiaceous Parasites Of Phanerogams. Ii. A Preliminary Study Of The Occurrence Of Ephemeral Sporangia In The Physoderma Disease Of Maize

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Chytridiaceous Fungi With Unusual Sporangial Ornamentation

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Observations on chytridiaceous parasites of phanerogams

A hitherto unnoted species of Physoderma on the basal leaves of Juncus pelocarpus Mey. is described. The fungus produces light brown irregularlyplaced spots on the outermost leaves. The endobiotic system is composed in addition to rhizoids of non-septate or 1–2 septate turbinate cells, resting spores and ovate haustorial-bearing cells. Resting spores germinate by dehiscence of a lid and protrusion of a finger-like zoosporangium. No epibiotic stage has as yet been seen. The host range of the fungus has not as yet been studied. This is the first account of a Physoderma on a member of the Juncaceae.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/46150/1/203_2004_Article_BF00412201.pd

Determinants of the demand for regular farm labour in South Africa, 1960-2002

This paper estimates long-run price (wage) elasticities of demand for regular farm labour in South Africa using both Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression and a Two-stage Least Squares (2SLS) simultaneous-equation model for the period 1960-2002. Both models include a piecewise interactive slope dummy variable with 1991 as the threshold year to reflect South African (SA) commercial farmers’ expectations that farm labour costs would increase as new labour legislation was introduced from the early 1990s onwards. The long-run price (wage) elasticity of demand for regular farm labour in South Africa during 1960-1990 was estimated as -0.25 for OLS and -0.23 for 2SLS regression, respectively. For the period 1991-2002, this elasticity estimate rose to -1.32 and -1.34 for OLS and 2SLS regression, respectively. These results suggest that a marked structural decline in the demand for regular labour has occurred since 1991 that raises questions about the appropriateness of labour laws and minimum wage legislation that have increased the cost of regular farm labour in South Africa.Regular farm labour, SA agriculture, price (wage) elasticities of demand, Farm Management, Labor and Human Capital,