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Year 2000 Overview: Governmental Responses To Pregnant Women Who Use Alcohol Or Other Drugs, Lynn M. Paltrow, David S. Cohen, Corinne A. Carey

David S Cohen

No abstract provided.

Contest And Consent: A Legal History Of Marital Rape, Jill Elaine Hasday

Jill Elaine Hasday

No abstract provided.

Bioeconomic Household Modelling For Agricultural Intensification, Gideon Kruseman

Gideon Kruseman

The study develops a bio-economic modelling framework that permits simultaneous assessment of the effects of technology change and policy measures on household welfare and agro-ecological sustainability indicators. The bio-economic modelling framework expands traditional farm household models to incorporate direct consumption utility functions, to allow for multiple objectives and to permit a meaningful interface with biophysical process models. The resulting model combines econometrically estimated equations in a mathematical programming framework. Model outcomes are analysed using metamodelling tecyhniques.

The bio-economic modelling framework is relevant for policy analysis related to resource degradation in developing countries. The model is applied to Cercle de Koutiala …

Wage Shocks And North American Labor-Market Integration, Raymond Robertson

Raymond Robertson

No abstract provided.

Disorder Eating, Acculturation, And Treatment-Seeking In A Community Sample Of Hispanic, Asian, Black, And White Women, Fary M. Cachelin, Catherine Veisel, Emilia Barzegarnazari, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore

Ruth Striegel Weissman

North Carolina State University Summer Transition Program – A High School To College Bridge Program For Enhancing Undergraduate Engineering Education, Tony L. Mitchell, Alisa Hunt-Lowery, Sarah A. Rajala

Sarah A. Rajala

The NC State University College of Engineering is an internationally recognized producer of engineers and computer scientists who are prepared to make an immediate contribution to the workforce. Our research faculty are recognized around the world for cutting edge research. Essential to our mission and continued success is a steady stream of top-notch students who contribute to and celebrate ethnic, academic and gender diversity. Each year an entering freshman class of 1100 new engineering students includes 20% women and 20% underrepresented minority students. The rate at which they persist through our undergraduate program is impacted by how they adapt during …

North Carolina State University Center For Minority Engineer Development, Tony L. Mitchell, Sarah A. Rajala, Laura J. Bottomley, Mary Clare Robbins

Sarah A. Rajala

North Carolina State University, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, is the largest state-supported university of the sixteen-campus University of North Carolina educational system. The College of Engineering at NC State University is among the best in the country, offering outstanding degree programs and preparing students for exciting and rewarding careers. Our graduates are heavily recruited internationally for positions in a variety of settings, including business management, construction, transportation, hardware and software development, computer engineering and design. The College of Engineering comprises 10 departments offering 16 BS, 17 MS, and 14 Ph.D. degree programs and conducts the largest undergraduate and …

A Brazilian Challenge To Lewis's Explanation Of Cult Mediumship, James M. Donovan

James M. Donovan

Recruitment into peripheral possession trance cults has been explained as attempts to compensate for socio-economic deprivation and jural impotence. This model, best developed by I.M. Lewis, is reviewed and its predictions tested against two types of Brazilian data. Firstly, national census figures of religious affiliation are compared with measure of socio-economic stress for a diachronic analysis. A second, synchronic analysis involves 62 respondents in Rio de Janeiro who completed questionnaires on socio-economic status, cultic affiliation, and perceptions of stress and gender inequality. The results offer only weak support for Lewis's original model, which may therefore profit from supplementation from other …

Pest Risk Assessment For Importation Of Solid Wood Packing Materials Into The United States, Judith E. Pasek, Harold H. Burdsall Jr, Joseph F. Cavey, Andris Eglitis, Robert A. Haack, Dennis A. Haugen, Michael I. Haverty, Charles S. Hodges, Daniel R. Kucera, John D. Lattin, William J. Mattson, David J. Nowak, Joseph G. O'Brien, Richard L. Orr, Ronaldo A. Sequeira, Eugene B. Smalley, Borys M. Tkaxz, William E. Wallner

Judith E Pasek

A wide variety of exotic tree pests can readily be transported into the United States on untreated wooden pallets, crating, bracing, and other solid wood packing materials (SWPM). Recent introductions of forest pests associated with importation of SWPM demonstrate that current United States import regulations are inadequate to exclude such pests. Nearly all (97 percent) of the quarantine-significant tree pests found by port inspectors are associated with SWPM. In spite of current bark-free import requirements, about 9 percent of maritime shipments contain bark, which provides habitat for numerous organisms. A pest risk assessment was conducted for the SWPM pathway to …

Review Blues, Carol Gill

Carol Gill

Performance assessments can be a shattering experience, writes Carol Gill, who looks at one way of making them more objective

“‘A Warlike Demonstration': Legalism, Violent Self-Help And Electoral Politics, In Decatur, Illinois, 1894-1898.”., Sundiata K. Cha-Jua

Sundiata K Cha-Jua

This project addresses the limitations of previous lynching research. It explores the racial-class struggle unleashed in Decatur, Illinois, a middle-sized northern industrial town, after the lynching of Samuel J. Bush in 1893. This work examines Bush’s efforts to save his own life and his commentary on his accuser. Thus, I treat him as an active agent rather than as a passive victim. Moreover, by examining the black community’s social networks, institutional structures, and leadership, I provide a detailed analysis of its racial-class capacities. By focusing on the organizing activities of the black community, this case study explores a wider range …

Caring And Gender (Book Review), Linda Treiber

Linda A. Treiber

Review of the book "Caring and Gender," by Francesca M. Cancian and Stacey M. Oliker.

Learning Technologies Project 2000 Student Data : Executive Report, Katherine Dix

Dr Katherine Dix

Race, Gender, And Status: A Content Analysis Of Print Advertisements In Four Popular Magazines, Melvin E. Thomas, Linda A. Treiber

Linda A. Treiber

Community Health Nurses Bring Health Care To The People, Linda Treiber

Linda A. Treiber

No abstract provided.

Badi‘A Masabni, Artiste And Modernist: The Egyptian Print Media’S Carnival Of National Identity, Roberta Dougherty

Robin Dougherty

Our Data, Ourselves: Privacy, Propertization, And Gender , Ann Bartow

Ann Bartow

This Article starts by providing an overview of the types of personal data that is collected via the Internet, and the ways in which this information is used. The author asserts that because women are more likely to shop and share information in cyberspace, the impact of commodification of personal data disproportionately impacts females, enabling them to be "targeted" by marketing campaigns, and stripping them of personal privacy. The author then surveys the legal terrain of personal information privacy, and concludes that it is unlikely that the government will step in to provide consumers with substantive privacy rights or protections. …

The Effects Of Parents Educational Attainment On The Rentension Of African American Students At Predominately White Institutions, Tiffany Gayle Chenault

Tiffany Chenault

Seed Fairs In Seed Security Programmes, Sarah Kimakwa

Sarah Kimakwa

No abstract provided.

Mental Health Parity: National And State Perspectives 2000: A Report To The Florida Legislature, Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Ardis Hanson, Richard Coe, Sara A. Kuppin

Ardis Hanson

By failing to appropriately treat adults and children with severe mental illness, we incur enormous social costs through payments for disability benefits (Medicaid, SSI, SSDI), increased medical expenses, accidents and suicides, avoidable criminal justice proceedings, lost productivity, and increased need for homeless shelters and services. People who are underinsured are forced by arbitrary caps and limits to increasingly rely on the public sector. By providing parity for mental health, Florida will bring mental health into the mainstream of health care and become a leader in dispelling the prejudice that surrounds treatment of persons with severe mental illness.

Variations In College Students’ Perceptions Of Campus Drinking Norms And Susceptibility To Peer Influence Across Year In School And Gender, Katherine Novak, Lizabeth Crawford

Katherine B. Novak

Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society. April, 2000. Chicago, IL.

Science, Mathematics And Engineering Graduate Education And Students Of Color, Linda Serra Hagedorn

Linda Serra Hagedorn

Despite the country's general shortage of science, mathematics and engineering (SME) professionals (Holden, 1994), undergraduate education in these fields continues to be more of a "weeding-out" than a cultivation process (Miller, 1993). It may therefore come as little surprise that these fields are predicted to remain dominated by one gender (males) and one race (White) (Grandy, 1997). While the likelihood of students of color entering science, mathematics or engineering fields is slim, for the small number of undergraduate minority students who manage to major in SME the likelihood of remaining in the field and enrolling in subsequent graduate level education …

The Measurement Properties Of Fitness Measures And Health Status For Persons With Spinal Cord Injuries, Malcolm W. Stewart, Sandee L. Melton-Rogers, Sarah Morrison, Stephen F. Figoni

Sarah Morrison, PT, MBA, MHA

Black Athletes At The Millenium, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

No abstract provided.

Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton E. Key

Newton Key

The professionalization of history was tightly bound to nationalism. Historians in early modern Europe distinguished between story and inventory: chronology and chorography. The latter was the domain of the local antiquarian and county historian. Even as local history professionalized and cut its antiquarian/chorographical roots, the profession still marginalized it, and local history was mainly published by antiquarian or local societies. Even those who carved out a field distinct from national history, such as the German genre of Landesgeschicte (regional or provincial history), were considered subordinate if not actually suspect endeavors by the profession. Recently, however, European historians have embraced the …

Will And Should The U.S. Supreme Court Allow Rape Victims Such As Christy Brzonkala Access To The Federal Courts To Redress Their Civil Rights As Victims Of Gender Motivated Violence Under The Civil Rights Action Created By Vawa?, Kristine Botsford Mullendore

Kristine Botsford Mullendore

No abstract provided.

Biology For Feminists, Katharine K. Baker

Katharine K. Baker

No abstract provided.

Too Racy For The Smithsonian, Linda Niemann

Linda G. Niemann

No abstract provided.

David Punter, Gothic Pathologies: The Text, The Body And The Law, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

No abstract provided.

Relation Of Therapeutic Alliance And Perfectionism To Outcome In Brief Outpatient Treatment Of Depression, David C. Zuroff, Sidney J. Blatt, Stuart M. Sotsky, Janice L. Krupnick, Daniel J. Martin, Charles A. Sanislow, Sam Simmens

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

Prior analyses of the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program demonstrated that perfectionism was negatively related to outcome, whereas both the patient's perception of the quality of the therapeutic relationship and the patient contribution to the therapeutic alliance were positively related to outcome across treatment conditions (S. J. Blatt, D. C. Zuroff, D. M. Quinlan, & P. A. Pilkonis, 1996; J. L. Krupnick et al., 1996). New analyses examining the relations among perfectionism, perceived relationship quality, and the therapeutic alliance demonstrated that (a) the patient contribution to the alliance and the perceived quality of the …