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Examining the psychometric properties of the North Carolina Kindergartern Entry Assessment
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Author
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Lambert, Richard
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
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Description
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This report contains reliability and validity evidence for the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment system (KEA) using a statewide sample of kindergarten children. The KEA was designed as a formative, developmental, authentic, and criterio...
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Excess of genomic defects in a woolly mammoth on Wrangel Island
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Author
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Rogers, Rebekah L., Slatkin, Montgomery
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Subjects--Topical
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Genomes, Woolly mammoth
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Description
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Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) populated Siberia, Beringia, and North America during the Pleistocene and early Holocene. Recent breakthroughs in ancient DNA sequencing have allowed for complete genome sequencing for two specimens of wooll...
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Field-observed cracking of paired lightweight and normalweight concrete bridge decks
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Author
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Cavalline, Tara L., Calamusa, Jeremy T., Kitts, Amy M., Tempest, Brett Q.
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Subjects--Topical
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Lightweight concrete, Bridges--Design and construction, Concrete--Cracking
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Description
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Research has suggested that conventional lightweight concrete can offer durability advantages due to reduced cracking tendency. Although a number of publications exist providing the results of laboratory-based studies on the durability performance...
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Findings from the 2014 North Carolina kindergarten entry formative assessment pilot
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Author
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Lambert, Richard, Ferrara, Angela
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational evaluation, Early childhood education
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Description
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In response to the requirements of the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Grant and a mandate from the North Carolina (NC) State Legislature requiring the development of a kindergarten entry assessment, NC Superintendent June Atkinson organi...
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First 3 Induction Program 2013 report
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Author
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Lambert, Richard, Baddouh, Priscila
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Subjects--Topical
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First year teachers--Attitudes, First year teachers--Psychology
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Description
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High turnover rates affect diverse professional areas. Recruiting and training new employees is costly for profit and non-profit organizations. However, turnover in the teaching career costs quality and effectiveness in schools, in addition to the...
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First 3 Induction Program 2014 report
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Author
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Lambert, Richard, Baddouh, Priscila
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Subjects--Topical
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First year teachers--Attitudes, First year teachers--Psychology, First year teachers--Supervision of
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Description
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Teaching is a highly demanding career, in which as many as 50% of teachers who teach in low-income schools, and more than 30% of teachers regardless of school’s income exit the profession in the first five years (Darling-Hammond, and Sykes, 2003)....
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First 3 Induction Program report 2015
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Author
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Lambert, Richard, Baddouh, Priscila
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Subjects--Topical
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First year teachers--Attitudes, First year teachers--Psychology, First year teachers--Supervision of
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Description
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First 3 is an induction program that aims to help beginning teachers, in their first three years in the career, to learn what they need to excel. Year one is called the “Year of Survival”, and it goes through the five phases that teachers normally...
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First 3 effectiveness report
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Author
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Lambert, Richard, Baddouh, Priscila
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Subjects--Topical
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First year teachers--Attitudes, First year teachers--Psychology, First year teachers--Supervision of
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Description
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First 3 is a support program for beginning teachers, who are in their first three years in the teaching career, and undergraduate students. The program completed its third year, and this report summarizes the findings from the reports of 2012, 201...
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Forest loss is significantly higher near clustered small dams than single large dams per megawatt of hydroelectricity installed in the Brazilian Amazon
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Author
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Chen, Gang, Nickerson, Samuel, Fearnside, Philip M., Allan, Craig J., Hu, Tongxi, Carvalho, Luis, Zhao, Kaiguang
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Subjects--Topical
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Forests and forestry, Deforestation, Hydroelectric power plants, Dams, Remote sensing
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Description
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Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon is a prevalent form of development, but dams have widespread and long-term environmental impacts that include deforestation in the areas surrounding the dams. Small hydropower plants (SHPs) are often perceived as...
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From STM to nanomemory : a transfer of technology feasibility study
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Author
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Miller, Jimmie A.
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer software, Mathematics, Computer science
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Description
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Recent years have seen exponential increase in memory capacity for computer data storage. Increased bit density has been produced by decreasing feature sizes in microelectronic fabrication. As minimum microelectronic feature sizes are realized, ne...
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From matriculation to graduation : alignment of library data with university metrics to quantify library value
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Author
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Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper
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Subjects--Topical
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Libraries and students, Academic libraries, Longitudinal studies, Prediction of scholastic success
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Description
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To determine which engagement factors contribute to student success at a large, public, research university in the southeast, the university library, along with representatives from Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and other academic and support...
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GSI treatment preserves protein synthesis in C2C12 myotubes
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Author
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Arthur, Susan, Huot, Joshua, Marino, Joseph S., Thompson, Brian, McMullen, Charlotte
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Subjects--Topical
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Muscle proteins, Cells
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Description
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It has been demonstrated that inhibiting Notch signaling through γ-secretase inhibitor (GSI) treatment increases myogenesis, AKT/mTOR signaling, and muscle protein synthesis (MPS) in C2C12 myotubes. The purpose of this study was to determine if GS...
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Title
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Game design as environmental activism
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Author
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Brtis, Chelsea
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Video games, Environmental protection, Mass media--Study and teaching, Digital humanities
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Description
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Video games, like all media, act as a lens into how we as a society perceive our world. Through games we can see the environment being treated as a resource of unlimited consumption, non- reactive to harm, and something to be conquered. Game Desig...
