The Effectiveness of Loudoun Country Public Schools Teacher Cadet Program

The objectives of this study were to answer the following questions: 1. Determine if students who participate in the Loudoun County Public Schools Teacher Cadet program actually pursue a teaching degree or licensure; 2. Determine the percentage of Teacher Cadet completers who plan to pursue a teaching degree or licensure; 3. Determine if the teacher cadet program prepares students for higher education teaching programs; 4. Determine if the content of the current curriculum prepares students for their respective teaching area of interest

The Hawaiians: supplement 1983-1987

Supplement includes contents arranged by Author and Record number and Index.Scattered over two centuries of Hawaiian literature is a multitude of little- known and often forgotten publications depicting and analyzing ancient and modern Hawaiians and their culture. This bibliography will introduce and describe some of this body of writings to those seeking information about the Hawaiian people. The bases for inclusion in this compilation are Hawaiian subject matter, English language format, and accessibility. Although the imprints cited were chosen irrespective of academic field or level, the selections reflect the compiler's historical bent and the publisher's discipline. The annotations are descriptive, rather than critical, and are based on a personal examination of each text. Entries are numbered and arranged alpha¬betically by personal or corporate author, or lacking these, by title. Multiple works of an author appear chronologically. Since most of the items are in the Hawaiian Collection, there are no location symbols except for HAM, Hamilton Library collection; HHS, Hawaiian Historical Society Library; and R, Judith Rubano's Culture and Behavior in Hawaii. Hawaiian diacritical markings—the kālele leo or macron, indicating a stressed vowel, and the 'u'ina or hamza, representing a glottal stop—are not used unless they appeared in titles. Newspaper articles are omitted since the Index to the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin contains numerous references from 1929 to the present. The series on Hawaiian culture that Charles Kenn wrote for the University of Hawaii newspaper, Ka Leo O Hawaii, in the early 1930s, however, is cited. Legends are generally excluded because of the extensive listings in the Hawaii Library Association's Hawaiian Legends Index and Amos Leib's Hawaiian Legends in English. Children's books are left out. Articles from Imua I Ke Kumu, Ko Kakou, Laulima, and Mo'olelo, the local high school Foxfire journals, are included

History of the College of Hawaii

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1966Forty years ago Arthur Lyman Dean delivered the University of Hawaii's commencement address in which he described the institution's college era. His discourse, later published as the Historical Sketch of the University of Hawaii, remained the standard work on the College of Hawaii. Later accounts not only suffered from brevity and inaccuracy, but they also continued to portray the College without reference to the Island community. This thesis attempts to place the College in proper perspective and provide a basis for future studies by filling in gaps and correcting errors found in the present state of University chronology. The Minutes of the Board of Regents were my main source of information ..

Ant Diversity in Two Southern Minnesota Tallgrass Prairie Restoration Sites

There is little basic information about ant species richness and abundance in tall grass prairie restorations despite the importance of ants to plant community structure and function. We compared ant abundance and richness, vascular plant cover and richness, and soil compaction at two southern Minnesota grassland restoration sites, a prairie reconstruction and a prairie remnant undergoing rehabilitation. We collected a total of 3,523 ants from 12 different species. Plant species richness ranged from 45 in the prairie reconstruction to 95 in the remnant prairie. We found five more species of ants and significantly higher mean ant species richness per plot in the more heterogeneous prairie remnant with higher plant diversity, especially forbs, than in the prairie reconstruction where plant species diversity was lower. Our study found 10 new ant species records in Le Sueur and Nicollet counties, Minnesota. Because of the paucity of information about ant species in the upper Midwest, it is difficult to fully compare our results to those of other restored or natural areas in the area. Our study provides an important baseline census for two different types of tallgrass prairie restorations

Rebirth, reform, and resilience: universities in transition, 1300-1700

(print) 367 p., [1] p. of plates ; 24 cmUniversities in transition, 1300-1700JAMES M. KITTELSON : OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Introduction : The Durability of the Universities of Old Europe 1 -- HEIKO A. OBERMAN : UNIVERSITY OF TUBINGEN University and Society on the Threshold of Modern Times : The German Connection 19 -- LEWIS W. SPITZ : STANFORD UNIVERSITY The Importance of the Reformation for Universities : Culture and Confession in the Critical Years 42 -- EDWARD GRANT : INDIANA UNIVERSITY Science and the Medieval University 68 -- WILLIAM J. COURTENAY : UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN The Role of English Thought in the Transformation of University Education in the Late Middle Ages 103 -- JOHN M. FLETCHER : UNIVERSITY OF ASTON IN BIRMINGHAM University Migrations in the Late Middle Ages with Particular Reference to the Stamford Secession 163 -- PAUL W. KNOLL : UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The University of Cracow in the Conciliar Movement 190 -- GUY FITCH LYTLE : UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS The Careers of Oxford Students in the Later Middle Ages 213 -- JAMES H. OVERFIELD : UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT University Studies and the Clergy in Pre-Reformation Germany 254 -- M. A. SCREECH : UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON Two Attitudes toward Hebrew Studies : Erasmus and Rabelais 293 -- JOHN M. FLETCHER and JULIAN DEAHL : UNIVERSITY OF ASTON IN BIRMINGHAM European Universities, 1300-1700 : The Development of Research, 1969-1979, with a Summary Bibliography 324 -- Notes on Contributors 359 -- Index 36

Minnesota Low Carbon Fuels Standard Study

The project was managed by the Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota.Under a Minnesota Department of Commerce, Office of Energy Security contract, the University of Minnesota investigated and developed modeling and analytical frameworks with available data in order to compare the greenhouse gas, economic, and environmental implications of various low carbon fuel standards (LCFS) policies for vehicles operated on Minnesota public roads. This report provides findings of work performed under this contract. A low carbon fuels standard (LCFS) would require any person producing, refining, blending, or importing transportation fuels in Minnesota to reduce these fuels' average carbon intensity (AFCI), measured across the full fuel cycle: feedstock extraction, production, transport, storage, and use. An LCFS is expected to lower overall emissions from the transportation fleet. The framework was used in part to analyze a performance-based LCFS that measures progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions on a lifecycle basis and the economic and environmental impacts on each transportation fuel and production pathway as compared to the state's current policies to replace gasoline consumption with 20 percent ethanol by 2013, and to replace diesel consumption with 20 percent biodiesel by 2015.Minnesota Department of Commerce, Energy Foundation, and the U of M Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environmen

Multicenter randomized controlled trial on Duration of Therapy for Thrombosis in Children and Young Adults (the Kids-DOTT trial): pilot/feasibility phase findings

BACKGROUND: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on pediatric venous thromboembolism (VTE) treatment have been challenged by unsubstantiated design assumptions and/or poor accrual. Pilot/feasibility (P/F) studies are critical to future RCT success. METHODS: The Kids-DOTT trial is a multicenter RCT investigating non-inferiority of a 6-week (shortened) versus 3-month (conventional) duration of anticoagulation in patients aged \u3c 21 years with provoked venous thrombosis. Primary efficacy and safety endpoints are symptomatic recurrent VTE at 1 year and anticoagulant-related, clinically relevant bleeding. In the P/F phase, 100 participants were enrolled in an open, blinded-endpoint, parallel-cohort RCT design. RESULTS: No eligibility violations or randomization errors occurred. Of the enrolled patients, 69% were randomized, 3% missed the randomization window, and 28% were followed in prespecified observational cohorts for completely occlusive thrombosis or persistent antiphospholipid antibodies. Retention at 1 year was 82%. Interobserver agreement between local and blinded central determination of venous occlusion by imaging at 6 weeks after diagnosis was strong (k-statistic = 0.75; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.48-1.0). The primary efficacy and safety event rates were 3.3% (95% CI 0.3-11.5%) and 1.4% (95% CI 0.03-7.4%). CONCLUSIONS: The P/F phase of the Kids-DOTT trial has demonstrated the validity of vascular imaging findings of occlusion as a randomization criterion, and defined randomization, retention and endpoint rates to inform the fully powered RCT

Effect of Operating and Sampling Conditions on the Exhaust Gas Composition of Small-Scale Power Generators

Small stationary diesel engines, like in generator sets, have limited emission control measures and are therefore responsible for 44% of the particulate matter (PM) emissions in the United States. The diesel exhaust composition depends on operating conditions of the combustion engine. Furthermore, the measurements are influenced by the used sampling method. This study examines the effect of engine loading and exhaust gas dilution on the composition of small-scale power generators. These generators are used in different operating conditions than road-transport vehicles, resulting in different emission characteristics. Experimental data were obtained for gaseous volatile organic compounds (VOC) and PM mass concentration, elemental composition and nitrate content. The exhaust composition depends on load condition because of its effect on fuel consumption, engine wear and combustion temperature. Higher load conditions result in lower PM concentration and sharper edged particles with larger aerodynamic diameters. A positive correlation with load condition was found for K, Ca, Sr, Mn, Cu, Zn and Pb adsorbed on PM, elements that originate from lubricating oil or engine corrosion. The nitrate concentration decreases at higher load conditions, due to enhanced nitrate dissociation to gaseous NO at higher engine temperatures. Dilution on the other hand decreases PM and nitrate concentration and increases gaseous VOC and adsorbed metal content. In conclusion, these data show that operating and sampling conditions have a major effect on the exhaust gas composition of small-scale diesel generators. Therefore, care must be taken when designing new experiments or comparing literature results

Cause-Specific Mortality in the Unionized U.S. Trucking Industry

Background: Occupational and population-based studies have related exposure to fine particulate air pollution, and specifically particulate matter from vehicle exhausts, to cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer. Objectives: We have established a large retrospective cohort to assess mortality in the unionized U.S. trucking industry. To provide insight into mortality patterns associated with job-specific exposures, we examined rates of cause-specific mortality compared with the general U.S. population. Methods: We used records from four national trucking companies to identify 54,319 male employees employed in 1985. Cause-specific mortality was assessed through 2000 using the National Death Index. Expected numbers of all and cause-specific deaths were calculated stratifying by race, 10-year age group, and calendar period using U.S. national reference rates. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated for the entire cohort and by job title. Results: As expected in a working population, we found a deficit in overall and all-cancer mortality, likely due to the healthy worker effect. In contrast, compared with the general U.S. population, we observed elevated rates for lung cancer, ischemic heart disease, and transport-related accidents. Lung cancer rates were elevated among all drivers (SMR = 1.10; 95% CI, 1.02–1.19) and dockworkers (SMR = 1.10; 95% CI, 0.94–1.30); ischemic heart disease was also elevated among these groups of workers [drivers, SMR = 1.49 (95% CI, 1.40–1.59); dockworkers, SMR = 1.32 (95% CI, 1.15–1.52)], as well as among shop workers (SMR = 1.34; 95% CI, 1.05–1.72). Conclusions: In this detailed assessment of specific job categories in the U.S. trucking industry, we found an excess of mortality due to lung cancer and ischemic heart disease, particularly among drivers