Instructor's Manual Research Articles

Electric Bill Data

The Electric Bill dataset contains monthly household electric billing charges for ten years. In addition, there are values for such potential explanatory variables as temperature, heating and cooling degree days, number in household, and indicator variables for a new electric meter and new heat pumps. The values provide a real dataset to use for applications ranging from simple graphical analysis through a variety of time series and causal forecasting methods. The dataset also is suited to spreadsheet applications for break-even calculations and optimization. With knowledge of the utility's tiered rate function, the bill amount can be converted to an estimate of the number of kilowatt hours used. A series of assignment questions is included and the accompanying Instructor's Manual provides solutions.Supplemental data for this article can be accessed on the publisher's website.

BOOK AND MATERIAL REVIEWS: Psychological consultation and collaboration in school and community settings (3rd ed.); Psychological consultation and collaboration in school and community settings: A casebook (3rd ed.); Psychological consultation and collaboration in school and community settings: Instructor's manual with test bank (3rd ed.)

(2002). BOOK AND MATERIAL REVIEWS: Psychological consultation and collaboration in school and community settings (3rd ed.); Psychological consultation and collaboration in school and community settings: A casebook (3rd ed.); Psychological consultation and collaboration in school and community settings: Instructor's manual with test bank (3rd ed.) Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 265-269.

Counseling Simulations: An Interactive CD-ROM Approach

SUMMARY The Microcounseling Skills Simulation Program uses interactive CD-ROM technology to provide realistic situations to which students can learn and evaluate their microcounseling skills. The contents of the CD-ROM contain simulated counseling sessions first recorded on videotape and videodisc. The initial products consisted of four simulated counseling sessions, documentation consisting of an instructor manual, student worksheets, and scripts of the counseling sessions. This article will relate the process of creating a Microcounseling Skills Simulation Program and its conversion of the videodisc to a CD-ROM. This CD-ROM will include only one of the simulated counseling sessions. (The CD-ROM is being used as a resource activity for a Guided Correspondence Course currently offered on the World Wide Web.)

Psychology of Women and the Potential for Influencing Students' Lives: An Interview with Margaret W. Matlin

Lori Van Wallendael is an associate professor of Psychology and coordinator of the Women's Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She teaches courses in psychology of women, general psychology, cognitive science, history and systems of psychology, research methods, and psychology and law, among others. Her research interests include human decision making, eyewitness and earwitness memory, and juror intuitions about memory issues. Margaret W. Matlin is a distinguished teaching professor at SUNY Geneseo. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Canadian Psychological Association. During her teaching career, she has been the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2) Award, and the American Psychological Foundation's Distinguished Teaching in Psychology Award. She is the author of Cognition (5th ed., 2001), The Psychology of Women (4th ed., 2000), Psychology (3rd ed., 1999), and the coauthor (with Hugh Foley) of Sensation and Perception (4th ed., 1997). She has also authored or coauthored 21 instructor's manuals, student study guides, and test-item files as well as 8 chapters in books and 45 published articles.

Thinking about Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives

Like the first edition of this distinctive and widely adopted textbook, the second edition brings into the classroom an overview of how images of social problems can shape not only public policy and social services, but also the ways in which we make sense of ourselves and others. It introduces two primary changes from the first edition. First, this edition devotes some attention to the new social movements that emphasize social change through identity transformation rather than through structural change. Second, it also looks more closely at the importance of emotions in constructing public consciousness of social problems. Although Thinking About Social Problems can be used as a stand-alone short text and a corrective on received notions of studying the objective indicators of one problem a week, Donileen Loseke and Joel Best have provided an accompanying reader, Social Problems: Constructionist Readings, which can be used by those who wish to teach the course with reference to empirical examples of social problems examined from constructionist perspectives. Finally, an instructor's manual on a CD-ROM will be available for instructors who adopt the edition.

Preserving Diversity the U.S. Way

Conserving Earth's Biodiversity, with E.O. Wilson . Edward O. Wilson and Dan L. Perlman. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2000. CD-ROM with User's Guide. $39.95. ISBN 1-55963-773-0. CD-ROM with User's Guide and Instructor's Manual. $39.95. ISBN 1-55963-774-9. Wilson and Perlman's introduction to biodiversity and conservation biology combines slide shows, animation, and interactive maps with a small number of interactive models and quizzes. Readers are encouraged to explore concepts and facts using links to related web sites for every topic, which are provided through the publisher's own site.

Advanced human nutrition

Advanced Human Nutrition, Second Edition provides an in-depth overview of the human body and details why nutrients are important from a biochemical, physiological, and molecular perspective. Figures help illustrate the content and bring the meaning to life to enhance the reader's understanding. Complex pathways, for example, are presented in a student-friendly fashion, as are diagrams that illustrate metabolism and the molecular functions of nutrients. Multiple elements within the text, such as Here's Where You Have Been and Here's Where You Are Going, help drive home key points from the chapter and provide real-world examples to bring the content to life. Topics covered include: * cell aging, damage and repair systems * human nutrition, digestion, and absorption with relation to organs, exocrine and endocrine functions, histology, and absorptive activities * microflora and satiety/hunger mechanisms * macronutrients during exercise and the role of liquids and sports drinks * prevalent diseases in western cultures such as coronary heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis An Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint Presentations, and a TestBank are available are free downloads.

Modern Physics, 3rd edn

The number of broadly based physics texts written at a level corresponding to second year and above of UK physics degrees is limited. This is such a book thoroughly updated in a third edition, the first edition having been published 20 years ago. The book is unusual in that the reader is referred to the Freeman website www.whfreeman.com/physics for some additional sections. It will be interesting to see whether this proves to be an attractive feature. The coverage reflects the US emphasis on topics and contains both theoretical and experimental details. It should not be regarded as an introductory text although it is clearly written. Thus the first two chapters take the reader straight into relativity, concentrating mainly on special relativity but going on to general relativity. From here the reader is led to ideas of quantization of charge, light and energy, followed by an exploration of the nuclear atom, wavelike properties of particles and Schr�dinger's equation. Solution of this equation for the hydrogen atom introduces a section on spectroscopy. The next chapter on statistical physics includes Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics and brings to a close Part 1, which concentrates on the theoretical groundwork. Consistent with its title, the book does not cover traditional aspects of thermodynamics and electromagnetic theory. Part 2 is entitled `Applications' and begins with a chapter on molecular structure and spectra. Lasers and masers are included here but geometrical, physical and nonlinear optics get limited or no coverage. Solid state physics follows but, despite the title of the book, there is little on modern devices, although the section on superconductivity mentions high temperature materials. The chapters on nuclear physics, fission, fusion reactors and medical applications and a chapter on particle physics are comprehensive. Finally a chapter on astrophysics and cosmology is referred to, but the reader must find this at the website. As this is an attractive chapter it is a pity that it is not printed within the book. Although viewing the chapter on the Web gives the benefit of full colour, it is not easy to read the textual information off the screen. Within the printed material, there are good diagrams with the addition of a single colour, burgundy, a colour that is wasted on those of us who are red-green colour-blind! Each chapter is provided with an impressive number of graded problems (it is not easy to provide such a comprehensive range of problems at this level) and numerical answers are given in the back for every third problem. There is a student solution manual available for these problems and a complete instructor's solution manual has also been produced. It is therefore a useful book for both students and lecturers.

Eutrophication of Lake Wingra: A Chemistry-Based Environmental Science Module

The paper describes the development and field test of a curriculum module for introductory chemistry by an interinstitutional, interdisciplinary team representing the disciplines of chemistry, biology, political science, environmental management and computer visualization. The module was designed to show that a serious and common worldwide environmental problem, the eutrophication of freshwater lakes, is directly related to the chemical reactions of phosphates. The module, which includes a student manual, an instructor's manual, and a computer visualization component, is based on a case study of Lake Wingra in Madison, Wisconsin. The module was field tested at two sites, after which 80% of students gave it a high overall rating. Attitude questionnaires administered before and after the unit was taught showed that students increased their interest in environmental problems, increased their understanding of the complexity of the problems, and had a higher level of personal commitment to address environmenta...

Essentials of Health Care Finance

Essentials of Health Care Finance stands firmly in its place as the leading textbook on healthcare finance. No other text so completely blends the best of current finance theory with the tools needed in day-to-day practice. Useful for all course levels as well as a professional reference, this text offers a comprehensive introduction to the field. The Seventh Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the current economic environment in the healthcare industry, with thoughtful descriptions and 'real-world' examples. As the not-for-profit health care sector has increasingly come under attack by legislators seeking new sources of tax revenue, this edition also features a new chapter on assessing community benefits including an examination of the new Schedule H of the IRS 990 form. Ancillary instructor materials for the Seventh Edition have been significantly expanded and updated. PowerPoint lecture slides now include selected examples from the chapters. Electronic versions of many of the charts and tables in the chapters are provided to enable the instructor to re-create and modify existing examples. An expanded set of test questions with detailed answers will be provided for each chapter. New excel spreadsheets for selected chapters will be created to help both the students and the instructors perform a variety of financial analysis tasks with spreadsheet templates. The instructor's manual has been revised to include key learning points, chapter overviews, and guidelines for class discussion.

Outcome of raising blood pressure in patients with penetrating trunk wounds

In many countries, the management of patients with traumatic wounds follows the guidelines from the American College of Surgeons Advanced Trauma Life Support Program for Physicians (ATLS) 1 American College of Surgeons. Shock. In: American College of Surgeons, ed. American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma. Advanced trauma life support program for physicians: instructor manual, 1997. Google Scholar but the protocol relating to penetrating wounds has recently come under scrutiny. Investigators have suggested that under ideal conditions delaying fluid resuscitation until operative intervention may improve survival. 2 Bickell WH Wall Jr, MJ Pepe PE et al. Immediate versus delayed fluid resuscitation for hypotensive patients with penetrating torso injuries.. N Engl J Med. 1994; 331: 1105-1109 Crossref PubMed Scopus (1692) Google Scholar Raising the blood pressure in these patients may lead to increased haemorrhage caused by dislodgement of thrombus. 3 Shafton GW Clive CJ Dennis C Harris B Fundamentals of physiologic control of arterial hemorrhage.. Surgery. 1965; 58: 851-856 PubMed Google Scholar Intravenous fluids may also dilute coagulation factors 4 Bickell WH Bruttig SP Millnamow GA OBenar J Wake CE The detrimental effects of intravenous crystalloid after aortotomy in swine.. Surgery. 1991; 110: 529-536 PubMed Google Scholar and lower blood viscosity, decreasing resistance to flow around an incomplete thrombus. 5 Bickell WH Bruttig SP Millnamow GA OBenar J Wake CE Use of hypertonic saline/dextran versus lactated Ringer's solution as a resuscitation fluid after uncontrolled aortic hemorrhage in anesthetized swine.. Ann Emerg Med. 1992; 21: 1077-1085 Summary Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (149) Google Scholar We tested the hypothesis that raising blood pressure between admission and operation in patients with penetrating wounds to the trunk had a deleterious effect on outcome, under a more realistic worst-case scenario.

Arguing about public issues: What can we learn from practical ethics?

As most rhetoric teachers know from experience, arguments about controversial issues slide easily into disputes with an ethical edge. In Writing Arguments, John Ramage and John Bean note that the line between ethical arguments ... and other kinds of disputes is often pretty thin. Even issues that seem involve straight-forward practical values, Ramage and Bean explain, turn out have an ethical (352). And the ethical dimension is especially strong in controversies that involve not simply disagreements but deep conflicts, such as the kinds of topics that are found in many controversy-oriented anthologies. For example, Robert Miller's The Informed Argument (4th ed.) has units on gun control, AIDS in the workplace, sexual harassment, immigration policies, culture and curriculum, and freedom of expression. Thayle Anderson and Kent Forrester's Point Counterpoint (2nd ed.) includes units on the wilderness, funeral practices, advertising, sex differences, bilingual education, obscenity, and the internment of Japanese residents during World War II. These kinds of topics involve serious disputes about what practices we should permit, whose rights we should protect, which are most important, which policies are fairest, etc. Recognizing that controversial issues often invite ethical arguments, some textbook authors have begun discuss principles of moral philosophy and methods from applied ethics, specifically as a way for students tackle disputes with an ethical edge. For example, Ramage and Bean include a section titled An Overview of Major Ethical Systems, in which the authors present the Utilitarian focus on consequences, the Kantian ethic of principles, and finally a comparison and integration of these approaches. The reason for knowing about these different ethical systems is that they provide strategies for examining controversial issues, such as capital punishment. In another textbook-the fifth edition of Writing and Reading Across the CurriculumLaurence Behrens and Leonard Rosen include a unit on Business Ethics, including essays that discuss moral theory as well as some cases for analysis. As stated in the Instructor's Manual for the text, the authors included this unit in order to introduce freshmen the subject of ethics . . . offer models for making ethical decisions; provide cases upon which students can test those models; and raise difficult, debatable questions about values (71).

The Marketing research guide

The Marketing Research Guide carries you step-by-step through the complete marketing research process, providing worksheets, sample proposals, questionnaires, and a copy of a final report to give you insight into the tools and techniques of marketing research. Essential concepts are presented clearly yet concisely, enabling marketing professionals to refer to this book over and over again.The Marketing Research Guide was chosen for Choice's 34th annual Outstanding Academic Books (OAB) list. This prestigious list includes books reveiwed in Choice during 1997 that meet the selection criteria of excellence in scholarship and presentation; significance in regard to other literature in the field; and recognition as an important, often the first, treatment of a specific subject in print or electronic format.To facilitate the use of The Marketing Research Guide as a text for courses in marketing research, the authors have designed a comprehensive, 250-page instructor's manual. Its sample syllabus, suggestions and formats for marketing research projects, sample test questions, and guidelines for students conducting assignments will help professors as they guide their students to an understanding of the role of information in decisionmaking and the techniques involved in acquiring information for marketing decisions.With its broad overview of marketing research, The Marketing Research Guide takes you systematically through the research process, from design to execution. Along the way, you will learn about: decision-making information, planning, and forecastingtest marketingdeveloping valid and reliable measurement instrumentsdata-collecting methodsdesigning a questionnairedetermining sampling frame and selecting sampling methoddata-summary methods and research reportsmail survey design and mailing proceduresfull product testing techniques and proceduresA complete, 250-page Instructor's Manual--that includes a sample syllabus, assignments, and 75 transparency masters--accompanies the book. Multiple choice and true/false questions at the end of each chapter help you develop outlines of your own marketing research projects, while the appendices provide examples that help you visualize what your own reports should look like. Another useful feature is the description of the major forecasting, sampling, and analysis techniques without the use of mathematical formulas--a quality sure to be appreciated by marketers and students ambivalent toward mathematics. The Marketing Research Guide is ideal for managers who must negotiate, evaluate, and use marketing research as a part of the decision-making process, as well as for individuals involved in the research process who need to review marketing research procedures or find examples of specific techniques.

Active compression-decompression cardiopulmonary resuscitation — Instructor and student manual for teaching and training: Part II: A Student and Instructor Manual

Active compression-decompression cardiopulmonary resuscitation — Instructor and student manual for teaching and training: Part II: A Student and Instructor Manual

The Constitutional Law of the European Union by James D. Dinnage and John E Murphy Anderson Publishing Co. 1996, xli + 731 pp. (Documentary Supplement, Anderson Publishing Co. 1996, xi +233 pp; Instructor's Manual, Anderson Publishing Co. 1996 ix + 197 pp.)

Journal Article The Constitutional Law of the European Union by James D. Dinnage and John E Murphy Anderson Publishing Co. 1996, xli + 731 pp. ( Documentary Supplement , Anderson Publishing Co. 1996, xi +233 pp; Instructor's Manual , Anderson Publishing Co. 1996 ix + 197 pp.) Get access Bruce Carolan Bruce Carolan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Yearbook of European Law, Volume 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 665–668, https://doi.org/10.1093/yel/16.1.665 Published: 01 November 1996

Using Academic Integrity to Teach Engineering Ethics

AbstractEthics can be taught by using case studies to which students can relate. Since all students appreciate and understand problems of academic dishonesty, the nature of ethical problems in academics can be used to illustrate ethical problems encountered in professional engineering. If students can be sensitized to the value of ethical behavior while in school, they will carry this understanding over to their profession. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that academic integrity can be used to introduce the basic concepts of professional engineering ethics. A videotape and instructor's manual using this pedagogical technique is described.

Editorial page

How long do you expect it will be before some college or university, together with a major publisher, packages a set of online curriculum materials that blows your socks off? We've seen textbooks grow into a forest of materials -- the textbook itself, a study guide, an instructor's manual, a set of transparencies, one or more test banks, etc. Will it really be much of a leap to package these materials into a spiffy distance-learning format? We've seen many colleges and universities offer courses, programs, and entire degree offerings in an online format. Is it much of a leap to imagine one aggressive school seeking to capture the market? We know that professional organizations frequently make recommendations on curricular guidelines; the more such guidelines are adopted the more the image of the organization is enhanced, which naturally leads to greater adoption of the guidelines. So is it much of a leap to imagine an organization officially endorsing one set of online curriculum materials, in exchange for, say a royalty fee paid for each student participant?

The effects of a burn prevention program on child-care providers

Since fire and burns are the second leading cause of injury to young children up to age 4, fire and burn prevention education and training must reach the people who care for young children to be effective. Increasingly larger percentages of young children are cared for in out-of-home settings, including child-care centers and family child-care facilities. The majority of children, however, are still cared for by their parents or other relatives, for all or part of the day. Thus, there was a need for an injury prevention program for child-care providers in different settings. A group of experts in a variety of fields developed a burn prevention curriculum as part of a comprehensive injury prevention project. These experts represent a variety of related fields, including injury prevention, early childhood education, child-care administration, instructional design, and evaluation. Operators of child-care facilities, parents, and care providers were involved in the planning and implementation of a training workshop. The program was tested with 141 child-care providers at seven sites. Subjects included child-care center staff, family child-care operators, and parents of young children. Materials included an instructor manual, coursebook, video, and test booklet. Subjects' knowledge, attitudes, and practices intentions were tested before and after the training. Subjects also completed a program evaluation. Results indicated significant improvement in knowledge, attitudes, and practices intentions for the total group and for subjects at each site. Gains made by center staff and family day-care providers were significant on all three measures, as they were for parents on knowledge and practices. Measures of attitudes and injury prevention practices indicated a high level of acceptance of program goals. A large majority of the subjects said the program was useful and interesting. An analysis of the test results by objective indicated that subjects had improved their knowledge scores on each objective. They had the highest achievement on topics related to understanding characteristics of burns and understanding the hazards and prevention techniques related to smoke, matches, lighters, and hot surface burns. An important finding was that child-care providers in different environments can be instructed in burn prevention using the same program. Injuries are not accidents. If they were random, unpredictable acts of God, it would make little sense to talk about preventing them. But injuries can be scientifically understood and societally controlled by modifying physical agents, environments, and behaviors. Injury is not mysterious. It will take a concerted effort by a large and varied group of individuals in order for injury prevention to succeed.

Reviews : Lifeskills at Home, by Suzanne Y. Pecoraro, Debra Magee, Phyllis Smith, and Bobbie VanSchaik-Louis (1994). Diabetes Education Society, 535 De troit Street, Denver, CO 80206. 17 pages plus 4-color lifeskills flipchart. Price: $125 for instructor's manual, flip chart, 10 patient books, 10 Healthy Choice posters, 9 patient handouts (for reprinting), and 2 assessment forms; instructor's manual, flip chart,

Reviews : Lifeskills at Home, by Suzanne Y. Pecoraro, Debra Magee, Phyllis Smith, and Bobbie VanSchaik-Louis (1994). Diabetes Education Society, 535 De troit Street, Denver, CO 80206. 17 pages plus 4-color lifeskills flipchart. Price: $125 for instructor's manual, flip chart, 10 patient books, 10 Healthy Choice posters, 9 patient handouts (for reprinting), and 2 assessment forms; instructor's manual, flip chart,

Mass communication law and ethics

A survey of 145 mass media law instructors in 1987 found that although two-thirds of the respondents devoted 10 percent or less of their courses to ethics, they overwhelmingly agreed that should be a significant part of teaching media law. Almost half said is a necessary corollary to law but that legal topics should not be dropped to make room. A similar percentage said that, in class, they distinguish between legal boundaries and standards of in determining appropriate media conduct. This is the first book to explicitly combine law and rather than separate them as is traditionally done. Many journalism and mass communication programs now include ethics in the title for the media law course -- a recognition that journalism graduates must be grounded in and that a combined course is the most feasible and effective way of accomplishing this goal. Sadly, most journalism students complete their degrees with limited, if any, understanding of the symbiotic relationship between media law and ethics. Each chapter in this book includes a discussion of the ethical dimensions of that specific legal topic to demonstrate where the law ends and begins. Every journalist must establish a personal code of ethics, but the standards can best be understood within the context of mass media law. The question should not be simply How do I avoid a lawsuit?, but rather How do I do what is right? To help students and professors more easily grasp the concepts of the laws and the surrounding them, this volume offers a supplemental student study guide, instructor's manual, and annual updates.