Recently added articles from Michigan Academician:
Principles and practices for library outreach to first-year students.
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Academic libraries recognize that outreach is best undertaken as soon as students arrive on campus for their first year. Librarians have designed creative methods for engaging incoming students with the resources and services provided by the campus library. Such ...
Voices of culturally and linguistically diverse parents: a story of Korean parents of preschoolers.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the story of Korean immigrant parents with preschool-age children regarding their preschool involvement and maintaining their cultural heritage. Data collection consisted of a questionnaire with forced-choice items and open-ended ...
Learning outcomes, instructional design, and the 50-minute information literacy session.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Scheduled librarian interaction with undergraduates is very often limited to one 50-minute class period per semester, commonly known as a "one-shot" session. One-shots present the challenge of providing instruction on use of the library and its resources, topic ...
Defining Italian-Americans: the Ethnicity industry and the Bicentennial celebration 1974-1976.
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT This article uses the Italian-American experience to examine President Gerald Ford's attempts to harness the "New Ethnicity" and use it to solidify the conservative resurgence of the 1970s. The New Ethnicity was a vocal assertion of white ethnic identity by the ...
Supporting students with disabilities in higher education.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT The number of students with disabilities attending pustsecondary education institutions is growing. This study surveyed high school special education teachers who were asked to identify the skills, programs and supports they perceived as necessary for students with ...
Inter- and intraspecific patterns of genetic variation in three species of West Michigan Ranid frogs: a preliminary report.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Detailed molecular studies of portions of the cytochrome b and 12S rRNA genes in three species of common West Michigan frogs, Rana clamitans, R. pipiens, and R. sylvatica, reveal different patterns of genetic variation and different recent evolutionary histories for the ...
Age-specific survival and space use of white-tailed deer in southern Michigan.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Assessments of age-specific space use and demographics are important for managing popular game species, such as the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Habitat management relies on knowledge of space use, and abundance estimation models (e.g., sex-age-kill) ...
Towards a history of privatizing public lands in Michigan 1785-1860.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The pre-1860 history of federal and state efforts to privatize public lands in Michigan is covered under six operational and policy themes: (1) quieting Native American claims to their lands, (2) surveying and platting the state's land, (3) reviewing the federal and ...
Community of learners: multiple voices in the reflective practitioner process.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT James Carey offers two models of communication in his 1988 book, Communication As Culture; Essays on media and society. White Carey typically speaks to media specialists, Carey's models offer educators several different methods for sharing information with students, ...
Soil development on a l,500-year-old beach ridge plain, Sturgeon Bay, NW Lower Michigan.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This study examines the development of the beach ridge plain at Sturgeon Bay, Michigan, and the soil formation in the ridges. A preexisting average ridge formation rate of 35.7 years was used to establish an absolute age chronology, spanning about 1,500 years back in ...
Sex, violence, and saints' images: Paul Verhoeven's 1985 film Flesh + Blood.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The medieval cult of the saints and sex-and-violence action movies do not normally intersect. One interesting example where they do is the film Flesh 4-Blood (1985) by the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven. Verhoeven established his European reputation with such innovative films as Turkish ...
The relationship between the lunar cycle and adolescent misbehavior: fact or fiction?(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This study examined the relationship between problem behavior referrals and various phases of the lunar cycle using 427 middle school (6th - 8th grade) students as subjects. Teacher referrals for violations of the. school's behavior code lucre analyzed to determine if ...
Community design and community health: issues in building a holistic model in Michigan.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This invesigation lops a conceptual community health model and operationalizes that model by focusing on the physical environment and community health relationship utilizing a data inventory for the state of Michigan. Furthermore, this study identifies data gaps, ...
Coprolites, cololites, and fish fossils in the Mississippian Michigan Formation, Western Michigan.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Fossilized vertebrate excrement (coprolites) and digestive-tract contents (cololites) are identified in the Mississippian Michigan Formation, exposed in old gypsum mines in the Grand Rapids area (Kent County). In western Michigan the formation consists of cyclical ...
Recent activity of the retrotransposable B2 element in hamsters and its use as a phylogenetic marker.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT A recent analysis of DNA sequences of hamsters, in the rodent subfamily Cricetinae (family Cricetidae, superfamily Muroidea), generated a significant phylogenetic restructuring among the genera Tscherkia, Cricetus, Allocricetulus and Cricetulus. We present an analysis ...
The prince, prudence, and property in Giles of Rome.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... In the history of medieval political thought no virtue has been more pivotal than prudence. After Thomas Aquinas the defenders of monarchy in France increasingly made prudence the princely virtue par excellence by making it the basis of justice, the exercise of the common good, and the ...
Enlightenment elements in the thought of Hryhorij Skovoroda.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION The work of Hryhorij Skovoroda (1722-94), the most famous Ukrainian thinker of the eighteenth century, has elicited a large secondary literature in the two centuries since his death. (1) Soviet writers have generally described Skovoroda as a materialist and ...
The Qualified Legal Compliance Committee under Sarbanes-Oxley: enlisting independent directors to enhance corporate integrity.
Mar 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley) (1) imposes specific requirements on corporate attorneys that have broad implications on corporate governance and corporate organization. With the adoption of Sarbanes-Oxley, Congress and the SEC seek to limit ...
Administration.
Jan 01, 2008 ... Courts of the 21st Century: Technological Applications in the Courts. Todd Fichtenberg, University of Michigan--Flint, Department of Computer Science, Flint, MI 48502 During the winter of 2005, I was invited to perform an internship at the National Center for State Courts ...
Anthropology.
Jan 01, 2008 ... Grandmothers, Evolution and the Law. Judith K. Brown, Oakland University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rochester, MI 48309 In spite of the ever-increasing life span of our older citizens, the sharing of a residence by the three-generation family has become ...