A significant proportion of the population of the United States suffers from chronic pain, a category of disease that is not yet well understood by healthcare professionals. A majority of this group is made up of women; individuals who often have to convince healthcare professionals that their symptoms are real...
There is little, if any, direct fossil evidence of the cardiovascular, respiratory,
reproductive or digestive biology of dinosaurs. However, a variety of data can be used
to draw reasonable inferences about the physiology of the carnivorous theropod
dinosaurs (Archosauria: Theropoda).
Extant archosaurs, birds and crocodilians, possess regionally differentiated,
vascularized and...
This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
These 20 minute presentations were given during the second day of the code4lib Conference held Feb. 15-17, 2006 at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
Providing transformational learning opportunities for undergraduate students demands changes to teaching practices. In large-enrollment introductory courses, graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) play an important role in facilitating student learning in small group environments. However GTAs are not provided the pedagogical development necessary to support them to be effective in their teaching...
Learning assistant (LA) programs are gaining increasing popularity as a means to shift instructional practice in STEM classrooms. In these programs, trained undergraduate students join the instructional team and support student-centered active learning pedagogies. Their professional development is typically supported through a seminar. In facilitating small group collaborative learning, LAs...
Approximately 2,000 workers in the United States sustain work-related eye injuries that require medical treatment every day. While the majority of eye injuries are not fatal, they can cause temporary or permanent vision loss and result in a decrease in the quality of life of the individuals affected. Unlike blindness...
These presentations, lightning talks and breakout reviews were given on the third day of the code4lib Conference held Feb. 15-17, 2006, at LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
The lightning talks were fast paced 5 minute talks on topics of the speaker's choosing.
Titles of the 5 minute talks:
1. Total Eclipse Of My Brain (Ed Summers)
2. [Link PURLs|http://purl.org/net/linkpurl] and Firefox (Devon Smith)
3. Call to Action: Deprecate OAI Sets! (Rob Sanderson)
4. Cross-Site Scripting Attacks (Eric...
