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Review: Daniel Belgrad, The Culture Of Spontaneity: Improvisation And The Arts In Postwar America (Chicago, 1998), Wendy Martin Dec 1999

Review: Daniel Belgrad, The Culture Of Spontaneity: Improvisation And The Arts In Postwar America (Chicago, 1998), Wendy Martin

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Book review.


One-Year Prospective Prediction Of Violence Perpetration Among High Risk Youth From Personal And Social-Environmental Variables, Alan W. Stacy, Steve Sussman, Thomas R. Simon, Clyde W. Dent, Jill M. Steinberg Jan 1999

One-Year Prospective Prediction Of Violence Perpetration Among High Risk Youth From Personal And Social-Environmental Variables, Alan W. Stacy, Steve Sussman, Thomas R. Simon, Clyde W. Dent, Jill M. Steinberg

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Objective: Measures of drug use, law-abidance beliefs, sensation seeking, fear of victimization, high-risk group identification, self- protection needs and behaviors, and demographics were investigated as longitudinal predictors of violence perpetration among 870 high-risk adolescents. Method: Self-reports from the same youth were obtained 1-year apart. Results: In addition to baseline violence perpetration, marijuana use, relatively youn1 age, male sex, high-risk group self-identification, low perceived efficacy of the police department, and nonavoidance of dangerous places predicted later perpetrated violence. Conclusion: Personal and social factors beyond baseline violent behavior predict risk for future violent behavior.


The Future Of War, Robert J. Bunker Jan 1999

The Future Of War, Robert J. Bunker

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Review: Strategy And The Revolution In Military Affairs: From Theory To Policy, Robert J. Bunker Jan 1999

Review: Strategy And The Revolution In Military Affairs: From Theory To Policy, Robert J. Bunker

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Columba Stewart, Cassian The Monk, Vincent L. Wimbush Jan 1999

Book Review: Columba Stewart, Cassian The Monk, Vincent L. Wimbush

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This is a book review.


Was Joseph Smith A Gentleman? The Standard For Refinement In Utah, Richard Bushman Jan 1999

Was Joseph Smith A Gentleman? The Standard For Refinement In Utah, Richard Bushman

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

The question of refinement cut even more deeply in Utah in the early days when the governance of the territory was at issue. The Latter-day Saints worked with a double handicap in striving to win respect from eastern travelers: in addition to the usual doubts about civilization in the West, the visitors were skeptical about Mormon religious fanaticism. Travelers came expecting that the poor credulous fools who submitted to the rule of Brigham Young would lack education, manners, taste, and intelligence—in short,would be as degraded as the woodcutters Trollope sighted along the banks of the Mississippi. The Saints for their …


A Poet, A Planter, And A Nation Of Farmers, Richard Bushman Jan 1999

A Poet, A Planter, And A Nation Of Farmers, Richard Bushman

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

For the past few days in Harpers Ferry we have been inventing and reinventing American nationalism in a marvelous variegation of scholarly papers. We have heard about nationalism and travel, nationalism and antislavery women, nationalism and male identity--and southern artisans, and black nationalists, and even luxury hotels. Although we try to put ironic distance between ourselves and the more egregious forms of nationalism, the papers seem to share the popular fascination with American identity. We cannot resist staring into history and asking who we are as a nation, how did we come to be so wonderful, and why have we …


Extensions Of Power Transition: Applications To Political Economy, Jacek J. Kugler Jan 1999

Extensions Of Power Transition: Applications To Political Economy, Jacek J. Kugler

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

This is a paper about theory in political economy terms and political economy in theoretical terms. It unifies power transition theory and applies it to the central questions that now confront political economists. Will trade wars emerge as the security challenge declines? What are the economic effects of integration, trade and growth? How will economic patterns influence international power relationships? This paper offers a preliminary bridge whereon practitioners and theorist may meet to assess the challenges that lie at the intersection between politics and economics. The economic collapse and political dissolution of the Soviet Union left policymakers and scholars searching …


Customizable And Ontology-Enhanced Medical Information Retrieval Interfaces, Gondy Leroy, K.M. Tolle, Hsinchun Chen Jan 1999

Customizable And Ontology-Enhanced Medical Information Retrieval Interfaces, Gondy Leroy, K.M. Tolle, Hsinchun Chen

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

This paper describes the development and testing of the Medical Concept Mapper as an aid to providing synonyms and semantically related concepts to improve searching. All terms are related to the userquery and fit into the query context. The system is unique because its five components combine humancreated and computer-generated elements. The Arizona Noun Phraser extracts phrases from natural language user queries. WordNet and the UMLS Metathesaurus provide synonyms. The Arizona Concept Space generates conceptually related terms. Semantic relationships between queries and concepts are established using the UMLS Semantic Net. Two user studies conducted to evaluate the system are described.


Higher Dimensional Warfighting, Robert J. Bunker Jan 1999

Higher Dimensional Warfighting, Robert J. Bunker

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

This article will build upon earlier battlespace research by discussing higher dimensional warfighting and its potential impact upon future operations. Further, it will cover linear and nonlinear projections of the future battlefield, highlight recent research concerning five-dimensional {cyber} battlespace, analyze concepts and technologies underlying bond-relationship targeting and cybershielding and explore warfighting implications of redefined battlespace.