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Findling, Robert L.; Johnson, Jacqueline L.; McClellan, Jon; Frazier, Jean A.; Vitiello, Benedetto; Hamer, Robert M.; Lieberman, Jeffrey A.; Ritz, Louise; McNamara, Nora K.; Lingler, Jacqui; Hlastala, Stefanie; Pierson, Leslie; Puglia, Madeline; Maloney, Ann E.; Kaufman, Emily Michael; Noyes, Nancy; Sikich, Linmarie – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: To examine the long-term safety and efficacy of three antipsychotics in early-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Method: Patients (8 to 19 years old) who had improved during an 8-week, randomized, double-blind acute trial of olanzapine, risperidone, or molindone (plus benztropine) were eligible to continue on the same medication…
Descriptors: Maintenance, Safety, Schizophrenia, Drug Therapy
Collins, Michael T. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study is to develop a costing model for maintenance and operations expenditures among 16 single-campus California community college districts and assess the impact of a variety of variables including size of student enrollment, physical plant age, acreage, gross square footage, and general obligation facility bonds on district…
Descriptors: Expenditures, School Maintenance, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
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Chiatoh, Blasius A. – International Review of Education, 2011
Advocating mother tongue education implies recognising the centrality of linguistic and cultural diversity in quality and accessible education planning and delivery. In minority linguistic settings, this need becomes particularly urgent. Decades of exclusive promotion of foreign languages have rendered the educational system incapable of…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, Language of Instruction, African Languages
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White, Katherine M.; O'Connor, Erin L.; Hamilton, Kyra – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
Background: Although class attendance is linked to academic performance, questions remain about what determines students' decisions to attend or miss class. Aims: In addition to the constructs of a common decision-making model, the theory of planned behaviour, the present study examined the influence of student role identity and university student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Maintenance, Correlation, Academic Achievement
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Acheson, Daniel J.; Hamidi, Massihullah; Binder, Jeffrey R.; Postle, Bradley R. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
Verbal working memory (VWM), the ability to maintain and manipulate representations of speech sounds over short periods, is held by some influential models to be independent from the systems responsible for language production and comprehension [e.g., Baddeley, A. D. "Working memory, thought, and action." New York, NY: Oxford University Press,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Speech, Maintenance, Semantics
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Dickie, John; McDonald, Geraldine – Literacy, 2011
Samoan school children living in New Zealand were given disposable cameras and asked to photograph examples of the uses of reading and writing outside the school. Interviewed later, they explained their photographs including information about literacy in church and family. Rote learning and oral presentation of biblical texts that were read and…
Descriptors: Photography, Literacy, Rote Learning, Foreign Countries
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Santos, Maricel G.; McClelland, Jeff; Handley, Margaret – TESOL Journal, 2011
The concept of transnationalism in many disciplines has deepened appreciation for stories of immigrant adaptation in today's globalizing world--stories that reveal shifting conceptualizations of "home," the everyday practices (e.g., cooking) that help families establish meaningful connections to home, as well as the struggles to maintain those…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cultural Maintenance
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Poppe, Donna – General Music Today, 2011
This article reports research conducted in the northeastern corner of Egypt's Nile Delta during an excavation at the Mendes archeological dig site in July-August, 2007. Donald Redford, Professor at Pennsylvania State University, accepted the author as the only nonarcheologist that year. In addition to duties of measuring, registering, and storing…
Descriptors: Singing, Foreign Countries, Music, Anthropology
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Hunt, Geoffrey; Moloney, Molly; Evans, Kristin – Youth & Society, 2011
This article analyzes the construction of ethnic identity in the narratives of 100 young Asian Americans in a dance club/rave scene. Authors examine how illicit drug use and other consuming practices shape their understanding of Asian American identities, finding three distinct patterns. The first presents a disjuncture between Asian American…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Drug Abuse, Youth, Asian Americans
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Moore, Pam – Tech Directions, 2011
With President Obama's goal to have one million electric vehicles (EV) on the road by 2015, the electric vehicle technician should have a promising and busy future. "The job force in the car industry is ramping up for a revitalized green car industry," according to Greencareersguide.com. An electric vehicle technician will safely troubleshoot and…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional Personnel, Industry, Motor Vehicles, Energy
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Lourie, Megan – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2011
Maori language education policy documents reflect an underlying ambivalence about the desired outcomes for non-Maori learners participating in "as-a-subject" Maori language learning. The view of the Maori language as a national language may be in the process of being replaced by a view that identifies the language primarily as a cultural…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Ethnicity, Official Languages, Biculturalism
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Coughlin, Judy; Montague, Marjorie – Journal of Special Education, 2011
This study investigated the effects of cognitive strategy instruction on the mathematical problem solving of three adolescents with spina bifida. Conditions of the multiple-baseline across-individuals design included baseline, two levels of treatment, posttesting, and maintenance. Treatment 1 focused on one-step math problems, and Treatment 2…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Problem Solving, Mathematics Skills, Cognitive Processes
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Pamo, Billies – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2011
This article focuses on the 3 San communities in South Africa: the !Xun, the Khwe, and the [image omitted]Khomani San. The !Xun and Khwe communities are living in Platfontein, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape. The [image omitted]Khomani San community is living in Upington and in the southern Kalahari, which are also in the Northern Cape. This…
Descriptors: Committees, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, African Languages
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Karan, Mark E. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
Forecasting of ethnolinguistic vitality can only be done within a well-functioning descriptive and explanatory model of the dynamics of language stability and shift. It is proposed that the Perceived Benefit Model of Language Shift, used with a taxonomy of language shift motivations, provides that model. The model, based on individual language…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Attitudes, Language Skill Attrition, Models
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Moring, Tom; Husband, Charles; Lojander-Visapaa, Catharina; Vincze, Laszlo; Fomina, Joanna; Manty, Nadja Nieminen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
This article addresses the relationships between media, media use and language retention. In pursuing this aim, we explore the utility of ethnolinguistic vitality (EV) as a fruitful conceptual tool. The extant research on the relationship between the media and language retention and development provides an encouragement to pursue in more detail…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Bilingualism, Language Research, Case Studies
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