Using curriculum-based measures for assessing achievement in children who may have potential risk-factors for reading difficulty

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Brandright

Trademark law is guilty of overprotection. This overprotection pits both a company’s in-house attorneys against its own marketing professionals and the company itself against its most loyal customers. The result appears illogical, at best, to consumers witnessing the effects of this clash between a company’s marketing needs and perceived legal requirements

The USSR and The GDR: Mutual Collapse

The Soviet Union had a number of satellite states, where communist puppet regimes were propped up in order to serve the interests of the Soviet Union. The Eastern Bloc was established with the goal of spreading the Soviet style of government, regardless of its unpopularity. The only reason that the communist regimes in these states were able to survive was because of Soviet support. This meant that the decline of the Soviet Union and the individual bloc states fed into each other. This is examined through the case of the German Democratic Republic and its relations with the Soviet Union

Challenge course : research, design, and plan

Ball State University offers an extensive variety of recreational and leadership opportunities but no challenge course. Administrators have determined that there is a need and interest in the challenge course facility and its curriculum. The BSU challenge course will be available for students to use as an educational, developmental, recreational, and therapeutic medium to enhance both personal and professional growth (Attarian, 2005). The course will provide an environment for students to strengthen skills such as: problem solving, self-efficacy, self-concept, trust, teamwork, and communication. The purpose of this creative project is to research, plan, and design a challenge course that meets the needs of the Indiana region and could be implemented at BSU. The Hults Farm that is managed by the Field Station and Environmental Education Center at BSU has been chosen to propose the site design. The project objectives were to: (1) designate appropriate land for construction; (2) research a variety of challenge course elements; (3) research factors that are unique to the Indiana region; (4) assess budget concerns and constraints. BSU has been presented a working document with designs and management plans of a potential challenge course that may one day be implemented at BSU or used for other areas in the state of Indiana.Department of Natural Resources and Environmental ManagementThesis (M.A.

Supplemental Training and Injury Prevention in the Sport of Ultra-Running

By definition, ultra-marathon running is a sport that covers any distance above the 26.2-mile marathon distance in a single race. The mountains of Virginia host many ultra-marathon races that attract endurance runners from all over the nation to participate. Training is an essential component of running an ultra. Although there is not one specific way to train for an ultra, there is research that correlates the success of the top ultra-runners and their training preferences regarding supplemental training and injury prevention. To gain a more complete understanding of how to prepare for a successful ultra-marathon, an online survey was created and sent to all runners who participated in four local ultra-marathons. The findings were compared and contrasted to published literature on the subject matter

Non-conformal higher spin supercurrents

In four spacetime dimensions there exist two off-shell formulations for the massless multiplet of superspin $(s+\frac 12)$, where $s=2,3, \dots$. These supersymmetric higher spin gauge theories, known as longitudinal and transverse, are dual to each other and describe two massless fields of spin $(s+\frac 12)$ and $(s+1)$ upon elimination of the auxiliary fields. They respectively reduce, in the limiting case of $s=1$, to the linearised actions for the old minimal and the $n=-1$ non-minimal ${\cal N}=1$ supergravity theories. Associated with these gauge massless theories are non-conformal higher spin supercurrent multiplets which we describe. We demonstrate that the longitudinal higher spin supercurrents are realised in the model for a massive chiral scalar superfield only if $s$ is odd, $s=2n+1$, with $n= 1,2, \dots$.Comment: 12 pages; V2: typos corrected; V3: published versio