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A CASE STUDY OF THE ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAMS OF A NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICT
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Author
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Harris, Letitia
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
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Description
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As the United States struggles with issues regarding the rapidly increasing immigrant population, so do public schools struggle with providing the youth of this non-English speaking population a quality education. Because of the requirements and s...
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A COMPARATIVE EXPLORATION OF CULTURE CHANGE IN NURSING HOMES: THE RESIDENTS' PERSPECTIVE
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Author
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Murray, Louise
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational leadership, Gerontology
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Description
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The need to provide an environment that ensures both quality care and quality of life for residents of nursing homes has long been recognized. The culture change movement in nursing homes emphasizes both principles. This mixed-methodology research...
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A Case Study of Hispanic Middle School Students In An ESL Classroom: Discourses In Academic Reading Instruction
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Author
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Andrews, Horace
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
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Description
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This case study examined student teacher interaction that took place in one ESL middle school classroom with 29 Latino/a students learning to read in English. Observations in classrooms and interviews with teachers were conducted over a ten month ...
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AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SUCCESS OF ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVES
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Author
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Foreman, Brian
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Educational leadership, Organizational sociology
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Description
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ABSTRACTBRIAN KEITH FOREMAN. An investigation of the success of organizations involved in community engagement initiatives. (Under the direction of DR. DAVID M. DUNAWAY)Organizations seeking to invest human and financial resources in community-bui...
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Braid Indices in a Class of Closed Braids
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Author
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Hinson, Kenneth
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Mathematics
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Description
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A long-standing problem in knot theory concerns the additivity of crossing numbers of links under the connected sum operation. It is conjectured that if L1 and L2 are links, then Cr(L1#L2)=Cr(L1)+Cr(L2), but so far this has been proved only for ce...
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CHARACTERIZATION OF ENGINEERED SURFACES
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Author
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Verma, Ritwik
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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In the recent years there has been an increasing interest in manufacturing products where surface topography plays a functional role. These surfaces are called engineered surfaces and are used in a variety of industries like semi conductor, data s...
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Complex photonic crystals for broadband "all-angle" self-collimation
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Author
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Chuang, Yi-Chen
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics
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Description
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Self-collimation is a dispersion property of many photonic crystals (PCs), in which light beam can propagate free of divergence in the PCs. While self-collimation is a desired property for applications related to wave guiding and light collection,...
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DRUG CONTROL POLICIES: THE CASES OF COLOMBIA AND THE UNITED STATES
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Author
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Bottia, Martha
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Government policy, Criminology
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Description
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The consumption, production and trafficking of illicit drugs is one of the major problems facing nearly all societies today. Unfortunately, illicit drugs have the ability to disintegrate persons, families and, in some extreme cases, entire societi...
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Effective Data Parallel Computing on Multicore Processors
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Author
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Byun, Jong-Ho
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Computer engineering
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Description
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The rise of chip multiprocessing or the integration of multiple general purpose processing cores on a single chip (multicores), has impacted all computing platforms including high performance, servers, desktops, mobile, and embedded processors. Pr...
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Effects of task training on kindergarten students' performance on early literacy measures
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Author
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Mackiewicz, Sara
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Special education, Reading, Educational tests and measurements
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Description
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The use of early literacy screening measures helps determine which students are at risk for future reading difficulties. However, there has been some recent concern related to the classification validity of screening measures (Hintze, Ryan, & Ston...
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Electromagnetic Wave Phenomena In Periodic Metastructures
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Author
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Schenk, John
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Optics, System theory
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Description
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There is an active effort toward the development of negative index metamaterials for application in high-resolution imaging. In particular, engineering an artificial material exhibiting an index of exactly -1, may permit sub-wavelength imaging. Th...