Award Winning Research Articles

Teaching Effectively: Award Winning Faculty Share Their Views

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the phenomena of effective teaching for award winning faculty instructors at the University of Missouri. Nine university faculty members were selected to participate in this study based on their recognition as award winning instructors and by nomination from their respective college’s academic dean. Each participant took part in a semi–structured interview with a member of the research team. After analysis, several themes were identified and fell into two broad categories dealing first with the act of effective teaching and second, the act of becoming and evolving as an effective teacher. One sub–theme was the need to focus on students. While all acknowledged the importance of course content, they noted that if the focus is not on the student, content is of little consequence. Additionally, sub–themes indicated that effective teaching required dialogue, was relevant and led to critical thinking and progression which caused students to think about content in a new way. Further, themes describing teaching as scholarship and teaching and learning being a process of growth emerged. These themes provide valuable insight into how award winning faculty instructors think about their teaching.

Award Winning Green Organometallic Chemistry: The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEEditor's PageNEXTAward Winning Green Organometallic Chemistry: The Presidential Green Chemistry ChallengeJohn A. GladyszCite this: Organometallics 2011, 30, 22, 6059Publication Date (Web):November 21, 2011Publication History Published online21 November 2011Published inissue 28 November 2011https://doi.org/10.1021/om201014tCopyright © 2011 American Chemical SocietyRIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views696Altmetric-Citations2LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (62 KB) Get e-AlertsSUBJECTS:Green chemistry,Liquids,Organometallic chemistry,Organometallic reactions Get e-Alerts

Award Winning Physicist and Author, Robert "Bob" C. Hilborn, Picked to Serve as AAPT Associate Execu

Award Winning Physicist and Author, Robert "Bob" C. Hilborn, Picked to Serve as AAPT Associate Execu

Robert de Niro’s Raging Bull: The History of a Performance and a Performance of History

Cet article fait une utilisation des archives de Robert De Niro, récemment acquises par le Harry Ransom Center, pour fournir une analyse théorique et historique de la contribution singulière de l’acteur au film Raging Bull (Martin Scorcese, 1980). En utilisant les notes considérables de De Niro, cet article désire montrer que le travail de cheminement du comédien s’est étendu de la pré à la postproduction, ce qui est particulièrement bien démontré par la contribution significative mais non mentionnée au générique, de l’acteur au scénario. La performance de De Niro brouille les frontières des classes de l’auteur, de la « star » et du travail de collaboration et permet de faire un portrait plus nuancé du travail de réalisation d’un film. Cet article dresse le catalogue du processus, durant près de six ans, entrepris par le comédien pour jouer le rôle du boxeur Jacke LaMotta : De la phase d’écriture du scénario à sa victoire aux Oscars, en passant par l’entrainement d’un an à la boxe et par la prise de soixante livres. Enfin, en se fondant sur des données concrètes qui sont restées jusqu’à maintenant inaccessibles, en raison de la modestie et du désir du comédien de conserver sa vie privée, cet article apporte une nouvelle perspective pour considérer la contribution importante de De Niro à l’histoire américaine du jeu d’acteur.

Bayham, Jude. “A General Equilibrium Analysis of Biofuel Market Policies.” MS Thesis, University of Idaho. Outstanding Masters Thesis Honorable Mention

American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsVolume 93, Issue 2 p. 650-651 Award Winning Paper Bayham, Jude. “A General Equilibrium Analysis of Biofuel Market Policies.” MS Thesis, University of Idaho. Outstanding Masters Thesis Honorable Mention First published: 01 January 2011 https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aaq196Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume93, Issue2January 2011Pages 650-651 RelatedInformation

Cobourn, Kelly M. “Incentives for Individual and Cooperative Management of a Mobile Pest: An Application to the Olive Fruit Fly in California.” University of California, Davis. Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation

American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsVolume 93, Issue 2 p. 652-652 Award Winning Paper Cobourn, Kelly M. “Incentives for Individual and Cooperative Management of a Mobile Pest: An Application to the Olive Fruit Fly in California.” University of California, Davis. Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation First published: 01 January 2011 https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aaq198Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume93, Issue2January 2011Pages 652-652 RelatedInformation

Colson, Gregory. “Improving Nutrient Content Through Genetic Modification: Evidence from Experimental Auctions on Consumer Acceptance and Willingness to Pay for Intragenic Foods.” Iowa State University. Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention.

American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsVolume 93, Issue 2 p. 654-654 Award Winning Paper Colson, Gregory. “Improving Nutrient Content Through Genetic Modification: Evidence from Experimental Auctions on Consumer Acceptance and Willingness to Pay for Intragenic Foods.” Iowa State University. Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention. First published: 01 January 2011 https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aaq199Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume93, Issue2January 2011Pages 654-654 RelatedInformation

Hintermann, Beat. “Pricing Carbon: Allowance Price Determination in the EU ETS.” University of Maryland. Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention

American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsVolume 93, Issue 2 p. 652-653 Award Winning Paper Hintermann, Beat. “Pricing Carbon: Allowance Price Determination in the EU ETS.” University of Maryland. Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention First published: 01 January 2011 https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aaq200Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume93, Issue2January 2011Pages 652-653 RelatedInformation

Chantarat, Sommarat. “Pro‐Poor Risk Management: Essays on the Economics of Index‐based Risk Transfer Products.” Cornell University. Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention

American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsVolume 93, Issue 2 p. 653-653 Award Winning Paper Chantarat, Sommarat. “Pro-Poor Risk Management: Essays on the Economics of Index-based Risk Transfer Products.” Cornell University. Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention First published: 01 January 2011 https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aaq197Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume93, Issue2January 2011Pages 653-653 RelatedInformation

Rushin, Johnna. “Agricultural Economics or Agribusiness, What's in a Name?” Oklahoma State University, Undergraduate Paper Competition, second place

American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsVolume 93, Issue 2 p. 663-663 Award Winning Paper Rushin, Johnna. “Agricultural Economics or Agribusiness, What's in a Name?” Oklahoma State University, Undergraduate Paper Competition, second place First published: 01 January 2011 https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aaq204Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume93, Issue2January 2011Pages 663-663 RelatedInformation

Economists’ Hubris - The Case of Award Winning Finance Literature

In this fifth article in the Economists’ Hubris series, we investigate the practical applications of eight papers that won best-article awards in 2008 and 2009 from the Journal of Finance or the Journal of Financial Economics, the two leading journals in finance. We find that these articles are unlikely to help financial executives improve the way they evaluate risk or manage either risk or their institutions. Finance academics appear to live in a parallel universe, completely oblivious to the nature of the financial services sector that they purport to study. Some of the papers do challenge long-held beliefs, which is very encouraging, but academics still need to go much further than that to write articles that are of any practical value.

Robust high performance reinforcement learning through weighted k-nearest neighbors

The aim of this paper is to present (jointly) a series of robust high performance (award winning) implementations of reinforcement learning algorithms based on temporal-difference learning and weighted k - nearest neighbors for linear function approximation. These algorithms, named k NN‐TD ( λ ) methods, where rigorously tested at the Second and Third Annual Reinforcement Learning Competitions (RLC2008 and RCL2009) held in Helsinki and Montreal respectively, where the k NN‐TD ( λ ) method (JAMH team) won in the PolyAthlon 2008 domain, obtained the second place in 2009 and also the second place in the Mountain-Car 2008 domain showing that it is one of the state of the art general purpose reinforcement learning implementations. These algorithms are able to learn quickly, to generalize properly over continuous state spaces and also to be robust to a high degree of environmental noise. Furthermore, we describe a derivation of k NN‐TD ( λ ) algorithm for problems where the use of continuous actions have clear advantages over the use of fine grained discrete actions: the Ex 〈 a 〉 reinforcement learning algorithm.

Representations of Deafness and Deaf People in Young Adult Fiction

Representations of Deafness and Deaf People in Young Adult Fiction

Award Winning: Don't cut

Award Winning: Don't cut Get access ITNOW, Volume 52, Issue 3, May 2010, Pages 4–5, https://doi.org/10.1093/itnow/bwq159 Published: 24 April 2010

Dental research award win

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Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Award Winning Papers from the IEEE CS Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

The three articles in this special section are selected papers from the IEEE CS Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition that was held in Anchorage, AL, in June 2008.

Now Available Online via the Award Winning ACS Web Editions Platform

Now Available Online via the Award Winning ACS Web Editions Platform

Award Winning Teaching Practice — Part I

Award Winning Teaching Practice — Part I

Comparison of two methods of conducting the fit and strong! program

Fit and Strong! is an award winning, evidence-based, multiple-component physical activity/behavior change intervention. It is a group- and facility-based program that meets for 90 minutes 3 times per week for 8 weeks (24 sessions total). We originally tested Fit and Strong! using physical therapists (PTs) as instructors but have transitioned to using nationally certified exercise instructors (CEIs) as part of an effort to translate Fit and Strong! into community-based settings, and have tested the impact of this shift in instruction type on participant outcomes. We used a 2-group design. The first 161 participants to sequentially enroll received instruction from PTs. The next 190 sequential enrollees received instruction from CEIs. All participants were assessed at baseline, at the conclusion of the 8-week Fit and Strong! program, and at the 6-month followup. We saw no significant differences by group on outcomes at 8 weeks or 6 months. Participants in both groups improved significantly with respect to lower-extremity strength, aerobic capacity, pain, stiffness, and physical function. Significant differences favoring the PT-led classes were seen on 2 of 5 mediators, self-efficacy for exercise and barriers adherence efficacy. Participant evaluations rated both types of instruction equally highly, attendance was identical, and no untoward health events were observed or reported under either instruction mode. Outcomes under the 2 types of instruction are remarkably stable. These findings justify the use of CEIs in the future to extend the reach of the Fit and Strong! program.

Ovation Products celebrates SMT Vision Award win for innovative dispensing technology

Ovation Products celebrates SMT Vision Award win for innovative dispensing technology