Pointing the Way

Pointing the Way looks at reading and writing activities and how they are introduced and worked with in the initial lessons of a beginning English class, using Silent Way charts. The first sections deal with why it is important to work with reading and writing skills in the first stages of learning English as a foreign language. A section of lesson plans follows, demonstrating how the activities are integrated into the lessons. The Activity sections are last and include activities to use at the beginning level and after

The Effects of Electronic Commerce on the Traditional Shopping Center Lease

The Internet, in addition to its wealth of information, has introduced America to a new way to purchase goods. Along with this new way to shop comes the potential for conflict between the way the retail industry has done business in the past and this new technology. Traditional shopping center leases contain clauses which base the tenant\u27s rent on a percentage of the sales from that store. To ensure its profits, landlords require tenants not compete within a certain radius of the shopping center. With the birth of electronic commerce, customers are ordering their goods directly from retailers online and not entering malls, which, in turn, causes lower profits for landlords. Shopping center tenants who also sell online have the potential to breach their shopping center leases. Therefore, to protect themselves, tenants should draft lease language to address electronic commerce. Section I of this article will discuss the specifics of shopping center leases and explain how electronic commerce works. Section II will explain the problem and demonstrate how courts have addressed similar problems in the past. And, finally, Section III will propose two different solutions to the problem-a legal one, through drafting, and a technological one

Assessing the Data Management Needs of Academic Researchers

This was part of a panel presentation given with Lizzy Rolando, Georgia Tech. If properly documented, preserved, and made accessible, datasets can serve not only as the raw material underlying books and journal articles but also as stand-alone outputs of scholarly research. Academic librarians, with a long history of being stewards of scholarly documents, are increasingly taking up the task of being stewards of research data. Developing services that support research data management requires input from stakeholders across campus--faculty and student researchers, librarians, information technology experts, and other support staff. In our presentation we will discuss and reflect on recent efforts at Emory University to gather that input, including (1) identifying and collaborating with campus partners, (2) administering a campus-wide survey of faculty practices and perspectives on research data management, and (3) conducting in-depth interviews with individual researchers about their data management needs. We will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with this type of assessment, our approaches to analyzing and synthesizing findings from different components of our assessment, and our plans for disseminating our findings across campus and to the greater academic community

Failure to Protect: Why the Individual Insurance Market Is Not a Viable Option for Most U.S. Families

Based on the Commonwealth Fund 2007 Biennial Health Insurance Survey, examines access to and affordability of individual insurance. Reviews obstacles to obtaining coverage, such as health issues and costs, and out-of-pocket costs of those who obtain it

Losing Ground: How the Loss of Adequate Health Insurance Is Burdening Working Families: Findings From the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Surveys, 2001-2007

Highlights declining health coverage and rising deductibles for American adults and the implications for medical costs, debt burdens, and access to health care. Examines socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the uninsured and underinsured

Out of Options: Why So Many Workers in Small Businesses Lack Affordable Health Insurance, and How Health Care Reform Can Help

Based on the 2007 Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, examines small business employees' limited access to health insurance and contributing factors. Explores how small businesses and employees could benefit from proposed reforms

On the Construction of Fiber-Optic Cables

In recent years, much research has been devoted to the improvement of RAID; however, few have enabled the analysis of active networks. After years of structured research into thin clients, we prove the visualization of virtual machines. Our focus in this paper is not on whether red- black trees can be made flexible, omniscient, and modular, but rather on introducing an algorithm for context-free grammar (Toph)

Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help

Assesses the scope of the health insurance problem facing young adults, its causes and implications, and offers policy changes that could help them stay insured as they make the transition to independent living

Health Coverage for Aging Baby Boomers: Findings From The Commonwealth Fund Survey of Older Adults

Examines healthcare quality and access by baby boomers in working families. Offers recommendations for expanding coverage, including options for savings accounts and early participation in Medicare

Intergenerational Relationships across the Life Course: Links with Adolescent Well-Being

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2015. Major: Family Social Science. Advisor: Jodi Dworkin. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 72 pages.Grounded in the life course perspective, the author used data from three generations of the Youth Development Study (YDS) to conduct two studies on intergenerational relationships between parents and children. Using growth mixture modeling, Study 1 identified prospective patterns of perceived closeness with fathers (n = 913) and mothers (n = 966) from adolescence into adulthood over 24 years in the first generation (G1 -- G2). Analyses identified a continuous, slightly increasing pattern of perceived closeness with fathers. Three quadratic, latent class patterns of perceived closeness with mothers fit the data best: high closeness over time, average but decreased closeness in adulthood, and low but increased closeness in adulthood. Demographic and family correlates are discussed. In a subset of second generation, parent-adolescent dyads (n =262), Study 2 examined the relationship between G1- G2 patterns of perceived closeness and G3 well-being and perceived closeness with parents in adolescence. The mean trajectory of G2 perceived closeness with grandfathers did not predict perceived closeness with parents, depression, or well-being in G3 adolescents; nor did patterns of G2 perceived closeness with grandmothers differentiate levels of depressed mood, self-esteem, or closeness with mother in G3 adolescents. A marginal difference in G3 closeness with fathers was found by G2 patterns of closeness with mothers, such that those in families with G2 low but increased closeness reported lower closeness with fathers compared to those in families with high G2 closeness over time