The books contributed to this Digital Commons@Georgia Southern collection are authored or edited by the faculty of Georgia Southern University.
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Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability
Charles W. Champ, Georgia Southern University and Deborah K. Shepherd, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
1-1-2007
Chapter Summary: Control charts for controlling the process mean are affected by changes in the process standard deviation. Therefore it is important to also control the process standard deviation. Various control charting methods have been developed for this purpose. Two commonly recommended statistical methods for controlling the process standard deviation are the moving range (MR) and the range (R) charts. The designs of MR and R charts are discussed in this article and each is illustrated with an example.
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Integrated Operations Management: A Supply Chain Perspective
Mark D. Hanna, Georgia Southern University and W. Rocky Newman, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1-1-2007
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Solutions Manual to Accompany Integrated Operations Management: A Supply Chain Perspective
Mark D. Hanna, Georgia Southern University and W. Rocky Newman, Miami University, Oxford, OH
1-1-2007
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This Georgia rising : education, civil rights, and the politics of change in Georgia in the 1940s
Patrick Novotny, Georgia Southern University
1-2-2007
This Georgia Rising is a study of Georgia's political changes during the Second World War and in the postwar era, with a particular emphasis on Georgia's higher educational system as well as early struggles for civil rights and social change in the 1940s.
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Lizard Ecology: The Evolutionary Consequences of Foraging Mode
Stephen M. Reilly, Ohio University; Lance D. McBrayer, Georgia Southern University; and Donald B. Miles, Ohio University
7-2007
Book Summary: The foraging mode of lizards has been a central theme in guiding research in lizard biology for three decades. Foraging mode has been shown to be a pervasive evolutionary force molding the diet, ecology, behavior, anatomy, biomechanics, life history, and physiology of lizards. This 2007 volume reviews the knowledge on the effects of foraging mode on these and other organismal systems to show how they have evolved, over a wide taxonomic survey of lizard groups. The reviews presented here reveal the continuous nature of foraging strategies in lizards and snakes, providing the reader with a review of the ... Read more
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Computer Graphics Using Java 2D and 3D
Hong Zhang, Georgia Southern University and Y. Daniel Liang, Georgia Southern University
2007
This Java based graphics text introduces advanced graphic features to a student audience mostly trained in the Java language. Its accessible approach and in-depth coverage features the high-level Java 2D and Java 3D APIs—offering an elegant and easy-to-understand presentation of 2D and 3D graphics without compromising the fundamentals of the subject.
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Learning to Teach: Critical Approaches to the Field Experience
Natalie Adams, University of Alabama - Huntsville; Christine Mary Shea, East Carolina University; Delores D. Liston, Georgia Southern University; and Bryan Deever, Georgia Southern University
2006
Book Summary: This text is designed to assist preservice and inservice teachers in creating a critical and reflective dialogue with themselves, their assigned classroom cultures, and the larger school environment. It engages readers in a series of classroom and school-based activities, observations, and exercises that can be used in any teacher education course with a field component. Different from other field experience guides, this text aims to disrupt traditional conceptions of teacher education and field experiences--by emphasizing the problematic nature and dynamics of public schooling, and encouraging readers to seek a greater awareness of their own attitudes toward and connections ... Read more
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Eastern Cherokee Fishing
Heidi M. Altman, Georgia Southern University
2006
Cherokee identity as revealed in fishing methods and materials.
In Eastern Cherokee Fishing, life histories, folktales, and reminiscences about fish gathered from interviews with Cherokee and non-Cherokee people provide a clear and personal picture of the changes in the Qualla Boundary (Eastern Band of the) Cherokee in the last 75 years. Coupled with documentary research, these ethnographic histories illuminate changes in the language, culture, and environment (particularly, aquatic resources) since contact with Europeans and examine the role these changes have played in the traditions and lives of the contemporary Cherokees.
Interviewees include a great range of informants, from native ... Read more
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Reforming Priests and Parishes: Tuscan Dioceses in the First Century of Seminary Education
Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University
10-5-2006
Book Summary: Reforming Priests and Parishes consists of case studies of diocesan seminaries in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Republic of Lucca from 1563-1660s. The major cases are Arezzo, Siena, Volterra and Lucca, and the dioceses and institutions are examined in their financial, educational, and religious milieux. Several other cases--Florence, Montepulciano, Pienza, and Pisa--are treated in less detail to provide contextual interpretative focal points. Most of the seminaries have never been treated in English-language studies before, and no comparative study exists in any language. All of the case studies contain in-depth analysis of rare primary source material.
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Free Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball
Ronald W. Cox, Florida International University and Daniel Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University
2006
As early as the 1880s, baseball owners and sportswriters were decrying the greediness of players as the leading threat to the national pastime. Nearly a century later in 1976, the Player’s Association was able to finally tear down baseball’s permanent reserve clause—the contract language that essentially bound a player to a single team until he was released or traded—and owners and sportswriters again insisted that the competitive balance of the game was threatened by player greed. The rhetoric from the baseball establishment did not match the on-field reality. From 1981 to 1993, the first significant era of free agency in ... Read more
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The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia
Christopher E. Hendricks, Georgia Southern University
11-15-2006
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A Longitudinal Follow-Up Study of Participants in Cervical and Prostate Health Education Programs in Southeast Georgia
Gerald R. Ledlow, Georgia Southern University
1-1-2006
Book Summary:
Introduction: The cervical cancer mortality rate (Southeast Georgia 2001 – 2005) was 3.3 / 100,000 compared to 2.5 / 100,000 nationally. Likewise, the region’s prostate cancer mortality rate for African-Americans (2001 – 2005) was 63.7 / 100,000 compared to 59.4 / 100,000 nationally. In 2006 – 2008, education programs were developed for school – based delivery for mothers/daughters cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination and community – based delivery for prostate screening information to African – American males; programs were delivered in Southeast Georgia. Late in 2008, a study determined the success of the programs.
Methods: Educational program ... Read more
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Jewish Intellectuals and the University
Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University
2006
Book Summary: Marla Morris explores Jewish intellectuals in society and in the university using psychoanalytic theory. Morris examines Otherness as experienced by Jewish intellectuals who grapple with anti-Semitism within the halls of academia. She claims that academia breeds uncertainty and chaos.
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Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses
William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University; William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University; and Peter M. Taubman
2006
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.
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Maple By Example
Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University
4-4-2005
Maple by Example, Third Edition, is a reference/text for beginning and experienced students, professional engineers, and other Maple users. This new edition has been updated to be compatible with the most recent release of the Maple software. Coverage includes built-in Maple commands used in courses and practices that involve calculus, linear algebra, business mathematics, ordinary and partial differential equations, numerical methods, graphics and more.
* Updated coverage of Maple features and functions
* Backwards compatible for all versions
* New applications from a variety of fields, including biology, physics and engineering
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Latin America in the New International System: Challenges and Opportunities
Jose de Arimateia da Cruz, Georgia Southern University and Eduardo R. Gomes
2005
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Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing
Ray R. Hashemi, Georgia Southern University
4-4-2005
Georgia Southern University faculty member Ray Hashemi co-edited Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing alongside Henry Selvaraj, Pradip K. Srimani, A. Spink, E. Regentova, A. Abraham, J. Thomas, S. Vasikarla, N. Nedjah, L. Mourelle, M. Mirto, M. Cannataro, J. Domingo-Ferrer, Y. A. Aslandogan, S. Dua, M. Garuba, E. Lawerence, N. Goharian, M. Eyadat, S. I. Ahamed, P. Douglas, C. Willow, Y. Kim, M. Yang, and V. Muthukumar.
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Popular Culture Primer
John A. Weaver, Goergia Southern University
1-31-2005
The Popular Culture Primer is an introductory text that traces the history of popular culture and cultural studies. Besides covering the traditional subjects such as the influence of the Frankfurt School and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, this book will cover the cultural studies of science and technology and other subjects that are generally ignored in introductory texts, such as science fiction, fan cultures, and childhood studies. It looks at the impact that these topics have on our understanding of education and popular culture. The Popular Culture Primer is an essential assigned text for any classroom devoted to teaching ... Read more
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Differential Equations with Mathematica
Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University
2-16-2004
The Third Edition of the Differential Equations with Mathematica integrates new applications from a variety of fields,especially biology, physics, and engineering. The new handbook is also completely compatible with recent versions of Mathematica and is a perfect introduction for Mathematica beginners.
* Focuses on the most often used features of Mathematica for the beginning Mathematica user
* New applications from a variety of fields, including engineering, biology, and physics
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Mathematica By Example
Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University and James P. Braselton, Georgia Southern University
1-19-2004
This third edition of Mathematica by Example is completely compatible with recent Mathematica versions. Highly readable and informative, this volume is geared toward the beginning Mathematica user, and focuses on the most often used features of this powerful tool. The book covers popular applications of mathematics within different areas including calculus, linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations.
Key Features:
* Fully compatible with recent releases of Mathematica
* Includes CD-ROM containing all input used in text
* Focuses on the beginning Mathematica user
* Covers all the basics needed to get up and running with Mathematica, especially ... Read more -
Judge Faye Sanders Martin: Head Full Of Sense, Heart Full Of Gold
Rebecca Davis, Georgia Southern University and Sandra Peacock, Georgia Southern University
11-1-2004
On a cold winter day in the midst of the Depression, the hardworking wife of a farmer and Primitive Baptist preacher in South Georgia gave birth to her 11th child, a daughter named Faye. Money was scarce, times were hard, and from the moment she could walk, Faye worked, doing whatever it took to keep the ninety-acre farm going. No one could have predicted that this little girl would grow up to be the first woman attorney in the country, the first woman appointed to the Georgia Superior Court bench, and the first woman chief superior court judge in Georgia. ... Read more
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American Politics: Transformation and Change
Jose de Arimateia da Cruz, Georgia Southern University; Becky Kohler da Cruz; and Andre J. Dowdle
2004
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Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses
William F. Pinar, Louisiana State University; William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern University; Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University; and Peter M. Taubman
2004
Georgia Southern faculty member William M. Reynolds co-authored Understanding Curriculum: An Introduction to Historical and Contemporary Discourses.
