Michigan Academician articles from January 2008

Michigan Academician archives from January 2008

Administration.
January 1, 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...

Anthropology.
January 1, 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...

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.
January 1, 2008... Rapid Pacing of Weak Stimuli in the Heart. Deborah Janks and Bradley J. Roth, Oakland University, Department of Physics, Rochester, MI 48309 With the development of pacemakers and defibrillators comes an important question: what are the...

Botany & plant ecology.
January 1, 2008... Analysis of Katnin p60 Homologs in Plants. Rebecca Kelbel and Regina McClinton, Grand Valley State University, Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Allendale, MI 49401 Unlike animal cells, plant cells display a variety of microtubule arrays...

Communication.
January 1, 2008... Chat-rooms: Good Advice or Bad Medicine. Diana Hadad, Wayne State University, Department of Communication, Detroit, MI 48201 An exploratory content analysis of health-oriented chat-rooms examined the degree to which such venues offer...

Computers.
January 1, 2008... Self Organizing Sensor Networks Maximal Coverage Using Autonomous Mobil Nodes. Swapna Ghanekar, Fatma Mili and Imad Elhajj, Oakland University, Computer Science and Engineering, Rochester, MI Advances in sensing and communication technology...

Economics.
January 1, 2008... Are Residual Economic Relationships Normally Distributed? Testing an Assumption of Neoclassical Economics. Thomas Bundt, Robert P. Murphy, Hillsdale College, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Hillsdale, MI 49242 ...

Education.(Company overview)
January 1, 2008... Beyond the Words: How Nonverbal Communication Makes a Difference in Learning. Mary K. Lose, Oakland University, Department of Reading and Language Arts, Rochester, MI 48309 Nonverbal elements such as gestures, facial expressions, and use of...

Environmental Science and ecology.
January 1, 2008... Removal of Methylene Blue From Aqueous Solutions Using Tar Sands. Lua'y Zeatoun, and Musab Tamimi, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Irbid, 22110, Jordan The adsorption of Methylene Blue, a...

French & Italian language & literature.
January 1, 2008... Une lecture sociocritique des prefaces balzaciennes. Amy Parker, University of Toronto, Departement d'Etudes Francaises, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S1J4 II est entendu qu'un texte avance les valeurs sociales. II va de soi que l'auteur,...

Geography.
January 1, 2008... China's Progress in Environmental Protection: A View from the Farm Sector. Gregory Veeck, Western Michigan University, Department of Geography, Kalamazoo, MI 49008 Recent American assessments of China's environmental problems have been...

Geological Sciences.
January 1, 2008... The Mineralogy of Sand From Glacial Deposits of the Lake Michigan Lobe, Southwestern Michigan. Edward Hansen and Keiko Kito, Hope College, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Holland, MI 49423 We investigated the mineralogy...

Germanic Languages & Literatures.
January 1, 2008... Knowing India, Traveling India: Joseph Dahlmann's Indische Fahrten. Perry Myers, Albion College, Department of German, Foreign Languages, and Cultural Studies for Special Purposes, Albion, MI 49224 Joseph Dahlmann (1861-1930), a Jesuit...

Health & Human Services.
January 1, 2008... Experiences of Parental Advocacy in Autism. Irene Carter, University of Windsor, School of Social Work, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B3P4 This study explores the positive and negative outcomes of twenty-two advocates in self-help groups for...

History.
January 1, 2008... Re-Interpreting Champlain's Map of 1632: The Great Lakes. Robert J. Thaler, Saginaw Valley State University, Department of Sociology, University Center, MI 48710 A renewed examination of Samuel de Champlain's famed map of 1632 suggests...

History of Science and technology.
January 1, 2008... An Overview of Papers and Documents of the Behaviorist, Theodore Christian Schnierla, Housed at the Archives of History of American Psychology. Gary M. Lange, Saginaw Valley State University, Department of Biology, University Center, MI 48710...

Language & literature.
January 1, 2008... Sympathy for the Other: British Attempts at Understanding the American Indian. Rachel McCoppin, University of Minnesota, Native Studies, Lengby, MN 56651 Among all of the flashy, terrifying accounts of the savage Indian in the often...

Library & information science.
January 1, 2008... The Diversity Resources Project. Aparna Zambare, Central Michigan University Libraries, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 This paper will discuss how we developed the Diversity Resources Project in the Central Michigan University Libraries and how...

Medieval studies.
January 1, 2008... Admiracion operum Dey: Con/Sub/version in the Text of Teresa de Cartagena. Norma H. Richardson, Central Michigan University, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 Within the span of a century,...

Philosophy.
January 1, 2008... The Possibility of Many Valued Logic. Michelle M. Monagin, Oakland University, Department of Philosophy, Rochester, MI 48309 I investigate the possibility of modeling ethical intuitions using many valued logic. In standard deontic logic,...

Political Science.
January 1, 2008... Accountability in the Lake Huron Basin: the International Joint Commission Perspective. Bryan W. Coyer, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI 48128 The Lake Huron water basin is comprised of the second largest Great Lake, the fifth...

Psychology.
January 1, 2008... Marital Satisfaction, Decision-Making Power and Length of Marriage in American Couples: A Cultural Examination. Lindsay L. Yeager, Yobany Pardo, and Carol Weisfeld, University of Detroit Mercy, Department of Psychology, Detroit, MI 48221 ...

Rhetoric & composition.
January 1, 2008... Debate as a Critical Thinking Carnival: Tis to Laugh! Denise Heikinen, Michigan Technological University, Department of Humanities, Houghton, MI 49931-1295 In my paper I take a fresh look at how formal debate can work as a process leading...

Sociology.
January 1, 2008... Satisfaction Differences Among the Madonna University Campuses. Bevin Rae Fusik, Madonna University, Department of Sociology, Livonia, MI 48150 The purpose of this research was to establish a snapshot of the current satisfaction of...

Spanish language, literature & culture.
January 1, 2008... Mujer y memoria en Pedro Paramo. Dianne M. Zandstra, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 Juan Rulfo en su novela hace hablar a difuntos mexicanos, fuera de los limites del tiempo y del espacio que conlleva la vida humana. La mujer en...

Zoology.
January 1, 2008... The Influence of the Age of Silk on Courtship Behavior in the Wolf Spider Schizocosa ocreata. Alyssa Farley and David Clark, Alma College, Department of Biology, Alma, Ml 48801; J. Andrew Roberts, Ohio State University--Newark, Department of...

Administration.
January 1, 2008... Tax Planning for Clergy, Gary Hayes and Debra McGilsky, Central Michigan University, School of Accounting, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 Clergy represent one of the few professions subject to tax laws unique just to them. As a result, anyone who...

Anthropology.
January 1, 2008... Diversity of a Superimposed Alu Dimorphic Variant in Human Populations. Nageswara R. Alla and David H. Kass, Eastern Michigan University, Department of Biology, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Alu represents the predominant family of short interspersed...

Biochemistry/molecular Biology.
January 1, 2008... Mycobacterium chlorophenolicum and Its Ability to Survive in the Presence of Pentachlorophenol. Rachael Glassford, and Darin McCarthy, Calvin College, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 Pentachlophenol (PCP),...

Botany & plant ecology.
January 1, 2008... Keynote Address: The Rare Flora of Michigan; Status and Research Needs for Conservation. Michael Penskar, Senior Conservation Scientist-Lead Botanist, Michigan Natural Features Inventory. The Integrin-binding Peptide, RGD, Causes Cell Death...

Communication.
January 1, 2008... Integrated Marketing Communication: The Data Warehouse Solution. James D. Christian, Francis Marion University This paper introduces the concepts of data warehousing within the context of an integrated marketing communication program....

Computers.
January 1, 2008... Some Results on Synchronization in Colored Digraphs. Ranjan Chaudhuri, Eastern Michigan University Let G=(V,E) be a strongly connected digraph in which the out-degree of each vertex is equal to two. A red-blue coloring of G is a coloring...

Economics.
January 1, 2008... Cigarette Excise Taxes and Consumption Change. Soo K. Sieber, Oakland University Smoking causes not only mortality and morbidity problems in the United States but also causes social and external costs to nonsmoking taxpayers. The tobacco...

Education.(Company overview)
January 1, 2008... What Progress in Michigan? Including Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Regular Education Classrooms. Phil Smith, Eastern Michigan University To what extent are students with intellectual disabilities included in regular education...

Environmental Science & ecology.(reports)
January 1, 2008... Effects of the Biological Pesticide, Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, on Frog Larvae Development. Meredith Harleton and Janet L. Vigna, Grand Valley State University, Department of Biology Chemical insecticides are pervasively applied to...

French & Italian.(reports)
January 1, 2008... Exploring Cultural Topics through Webpages. Gisella Licari, Grand Valley State University This presentation will introduce a wiki tool as a highly effective alternative to PowerPoint presentations and webpages. The wiki tool is a...

Geography.
January 1, 2008... Slant Drilling in Michigan: Diffusion of a Critical Resource Extraction Technology. Robert V. Brady, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI 49307 Slant drilling, also called directional drilling has been an important technology used in...

Geological Sciences.
January 1, 2008... Paleoenvironmental Changes Recorded in Diatom Assemblages from a Small Coastal Dune Lake Near Holland, Michigan. Trevor Daly, Geological and Environmental Sciences Department, Hope College, Holland MI Twenty nine diatom genera have been...

Germanic Languages & Literatures.
January 1, 2008... Private Life in the Public Sphere in Early Modern Freiburg. Regina Smith, Grand Valley State University The quaint old cities of Germany offer a charming picture, often leading us to project an idealized image of life in earlier times....

Health & human services.
January 1, 2008... Mapping and Intervention for Preventing Pressure Injury. Jessi Wenzel, University of Michigan--Flint; Faculty Sponsors: Janet Barnfather, Department of Nursing, University of Michigan-Flint; Maureen Thum, Department of English, University of...

History.
January 1, 2008... Retrieval of Mary Magdalene Symbols. Mary K. Hagley, Adrian College, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Adrian, MI 49221 As a Christian, I want to retrieve symbols of women from within my tradition and remain faithful to it. As a...

History of science & technology.
January 1, 2008... Galilean Mathematics. K. Sundaram, Lake Michigan College Husserl's analysis of Galilean physics is contained in his book The Crisis of European (or Western) Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. In this work, Husserl intended to open...

Language & literature.
January 1, 2008... Father Knows Best: Renaissance Masculinity Modeled on Stage in William Shakespeare's I Henry IV. Bonnie McLean, Andrews University William Shakespeare's I Henry IV (1596-97) acknowledges a fascination with Renaissance masculinity,...

Library & information sciences.
January 1, 2008... Material Requests in an Electronic Environment. Joe Badics, Eastern Michigan University In an effort to communicate more efficiently between the library and users, paper forms have been phased out and replaced by their electronic...

Medieval studies.
January 1, 2008... The Ubiquitous Dwarf in Chivalric Romance. Basil A. Clark, Saginaw Valley State University, Department of English, University Center, MI 48710-0001 Any reader of chivalric romance will be both struck by how frequently a dwarf appears in...

Philosophy.
January 1, 2008... The Purpose of Hegel's Science of Logic. Daniel Fidel Ferrer, Central Michigan University Libraries, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) only published two major philosophical works. His other writings are mostly expanded...

Political Science.
January 1, 2008... The Democratic Peace in the Indo-Pakistani Dyad. Sathyan Sundaram, Lake Michigan College, Department of Political Science, Benton Harbor, MI 49022 Scholars have offered a number of explanations for the outbreak of war with regard to...

Psychology.
January 1, 2008... Effects of Reminiscence in Eyewitness Recall. Justin Hazel, University of Michigan-Flint, Department of Psychology, Flint, MI 48506 The purpose of this study is to measure the amount of reminiscent details given in eyewitness testimony....

Rhetoric & composition.
January 1, 2008... What Role Should Technology Play in First-year Writing Courses? Anne Becker, Catherine Haar, and Robert Lamphear, Oakland University Computer technology and the Internet have introduced a new challenge for first-year writing instruction,...

Slavic & Eastern European studies.
January 1, 2008... Some Nuances in Pascal that Thomas G. Masaryk Overlooked. Steve J. Van Der Weele, Calvin College When recalling the achievements of the venerable Thomas G. Masaryk (1850 -1937)--teacher, historian, leader of the Czech Republic and its...

Sociology.
January 1, 2008... An Analysis of United Nations Strategies for Youth Participation in International Development. Rina Egbo, University of Windsor, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Windsor, Ontario Canada, Recently, youth have been receiving wide...

Spanish language, literature & culture.
January 1, 2008... La evantescencia de la realidad en la poesia sudamericana actual. Ronald Haladyna, Ferris State University En la poesia sudamericana actual siguen vigentes los temas que siempre han interesado a los poetas--el amor y el desamor; la...

Zoology.
January 1, 2008... Spotted Turtle Activity and Movements in Southwestern Michigan. Jessica Gradel and John W. Rowe, Alma College, Biology Department, Alma, MI 48801 We used radiotelemetry to study habitat use, activity and movements of Spotted Turtles...