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Yesterday's Maps, Today's Tragedies, Richard A. Lobban Dec 1996

Yesterday's Maps, Today's Tragedies, Richard A. Lobban

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Attitudes and consciousness about Africa are much shaped by the borders between its nations, peoples and other resources. Thus, the history of the cartography of Africa informs us not only about the continent's past, but much of what constitutes its present and, perhaps, its future.


Early Agriculture In The Maya Lowlands, Mary D. Pohl, Kevin O. Pope, John G. Jones, John S. Jacob, Dolores R. Piperno, Susan D. Defrance, David L. Lentz, John A. Gifford, Marie E. Danforth, J. Kathryn Josserand Dec 1996

Early Agriculture In The Maya Lowlands, Mary D. Pohl, Kevin O. Pope, John G. Jones, John S. Jacob, Dolores R. Piperno, Susan D. Defrance, David L. Lentz, John A. Gifford, Marie E. Danforth, J. Kathryn Josserand

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Wetland research in northern Belize provides the earliest evidence for development of agriculture in the Maya Lowlands. Pollen data confirm the introduction of maize and manioc before 3000 B.C. Dramatic deforestation, beginning ca. 2500 B.C. and intensifying in wetland environments ca. 1500-1300 B.C., marks an expansion of agriculture, which occurred in the context of a mixed foraging economy. By 1000 B.C. a rise in groundwater levels led farmers to construct drainage ditches coeval with the emergence of Maya complex society ca. 1000-400 B.C. Field manipulations often involved minor modifications of natural hummocks. Canal systems are not as extensive in northern …


The Japanese Civil Service And Economic Development: Catalysts Of Change Eds. Hyung-Ki Kim, Michio Muramatsu, And T. J. Pempel, Robert C. Angel Dec 1996

The Japanese Civil Service And Economic Development: Catalysts Of Change Eds. Hyung-Ki Kim, Michio Muramatsu, And T. J. Pempel, Robert C. Angel

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No abstract provided.


Review Of Private Means, Public Ends: Voluntarism Vs. Coercion, Edited By J. Wilson Mixon, Jr., Fred Foldvary Nov 1996

Review Of Private Means, Public Ends: Voluntarism Vs. Coercion, Edited By J. Wilson Mixon, Jr., Fred Foldvary

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A review of Private Means, Public Ends: Voluntarism vs. Coercion, edited by J. Wilson Mixon, Jr.The Foundation for Economic Education. 1996 • 150 pages. $14.95 paperback.


Remotely Possible? Simple Remote Access To The Network, Margaret Sylvia Nov 1996

Remotely Possible? Simple Remote Access To The Network, Margaret Sylvia

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Remote access to the library is possible without a magic wand. we have seen increased use of the library in recent years, either because of, or despite, the possibility of remote access. One reason may be that some full-text material is still only available inside the library. Remote access was first implemented in the St. Mary's University Academic Library in 1991, shortly after the installation of the first network in the library. Various options for remote access are compared and contrasted, including the EA/2 solution.


A Reexamination Of Balassa's Productivity Bias Hypothesis, Mohsen Bahmani Oskooee, Farhang Niroomand Oct 1996

A Reexamination Of Balassa's Productivity Bias Hypothesis, Mohsen Bahmani Oskooee, Farhang Niroomand

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No abstract provided.


Ancient Peoples And Landscapes, H. Edwin Jackson Oct 1996

Ancient Peoples And Landscapes, H. Edwin Jackson

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No abstract provided.


Collaboration In A Continuum Of Learning: Developing The Next Generation Of Leadership, Fred W. Roper, Daniel D. Barron, Carla J. Funk Oct 1996

Collaboration In A Continuum Of Learning: Developing The Next Generation Of Leadership, Fred W. Roper, Daniel D. Barron, Carla J. Funk

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No abstract provided.


East Africa Diary: October 1996, Keith Clouten Oct 1996

East Africa Diary: October 1996, Keith Clouten

Faculty Publications

Diary of my 1996 visit to Solusi and Baraton, as well as the workshop I did for librarians in Nairobi.


Privatizing Public Lands, B. Gardner Delworth Jul 1996

Privatizing Public Lands, B. Gardner Delworth

Faculty Publications

The federal government owns and controls more than 4 7 percent of the land in the Western United States'. The Interior department has jurisdiction over approximately 450 million acres, most of it used primarily for livestock grazing and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The federal forests, managed by the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture, contain about 325 million acres and include some of the prime timbergrowing lands in the world. Vast acreage's are also found in the national parks and Indian reservations. Most of federal land is used by recreationists of many types and is …


Increasing Husbands' Involvement In Domestic Labor: Issues For Therapists, Kipling S. Rasmussen, Alan J. Hawkins, Kenneth P. Schwab Jun 1996

Increasing Husbands' Involvement In Domestic Labor: Issues For Therapists, Kipling S. Rasmussen, Alan J. Hawkins, Kenneth P. Schwab

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As a result of the dramatic increase in women's participation in the work force, more relationship therapists are seeing couples who are dissatisfied with how domestic labor is divided in their homes. Although, this issue may seem therapeutically straightforward, there are many aspects which make its renegotiation surprisingly problematic and complex. This article is an effort to delineate some of these issues such as engaging men in therapy, exploring emotional issues connected with housework, and the mechanism of gatekeeping. Also included is a therapeutic framework for addressing client concerns about domestic responsibilities.


A Home Of Her Own: (Writing) A Family Story Of Separation And Second Chances, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D. Apr 1996

A Home Of Her Own: (Writing) A Family Story Of Separation And Second Chances, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

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On March 16, 1996, I interviewed my mother, Beth Tillmann, about her parents' divorce and her life as a foster child. From detailed notes taken during our phone conversation and from family stories told to me throughout my life, I constructed a narrative titled "A Home of Her Own." Its structure and tone mimic the way my mother speaks about the dissolution of her family of origin and her attachments to and separations from those who tried to help her rebuild a sense of home. After the story, I discuss what narrative representations of loss offer the writer, the participant, …


The Impact Of Recent Litigation On Interlibrary Loan And Document Delivery, James S. Heller Apr 1996

The Impact Of Recent Litigation On Interlibrary Loan And Document Delivery, James S. Heller

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Professor Heller discusses how two recent federal copyright law decisions, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music in the United States Supreme Court and American Geophysical Union v. Texaco in the Second Circuit, may affect the interlibrary loan and document delivery services provided by libraries.


Theory, Science, And 'Micro-Macro' Bridges In Structural Social Psychology, Barry N. Markovsky Apr 1996

Theory, Science, And 'Micro-Macro' Bridges In Structural Social Psychology, Barry N. Markovsky

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Social psychology stands to benefit from multilevel theories that link it to both lower and higher levels of analysis. Making the link, however, requires a level of theoretical rigor heretofore relatively uncommon in the social sciences. After refuting several common objections to this brand of theorizing, I offer a rationale and a set of criteria for multilevel theory construction.


Community And The Economy: The Theory Of Public Cooperation, Mark A. Klinedinst Mar 1996

Community And The Economy: The Theory Of Public Cooperation, Mark A. Klinedinst

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No abstract provided.


Book Review: Contexts Of International Politics, By Gary Goertz, Harvey Starr Mar 1996

Book Review: Contexts Of International Politics, By Gary Goertz, Harvey Starr

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No abstract provided.


Social Construction And White Attitudes Toward Equal Opportunity And Multiculturalism, Michael W. Link, Robert W. Oldendick Feb 1996

Social Construction And White Attitudes Toward Equal Opportunity And Multiculturalism, Michael W. Link, Robert W. Oldendick

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As the United States moves from being a predominantly biracial to a multiracial society, racial attitudes continue to become more diverse and more complex. Scholars need to address these changes not only in terms of black and white Americans, but also how these changes involve and affect other racial groups, particularly Asian and Hispanic Americans. This inquiry looks at some of these complexities by examining how social construction differentials in the minds of white Americans affect their attitudes toward the issues of equal opportunity and multiculturalism. The analysis shows that differences in the cognitive images whites hold of minority groups …


Technology Augmented Litigation--Systemic Revolution, Fredric I. Lederer Jan 1996

Technology Augmented Litigation--Systemic Revolution, Fredric I. Lederer

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This article reviews key aspects of high technology litigation, including technology augmented court records, two-way video arraignment and testimony, and technology based evidence display, and posits some of the critical jurisprudential and pragmatic issues posed by the use of such technologies


Review Of Hibbitts' Last Writes?, I. Trotter Hardy Jan 1996

Review Of Hibbitts' Last Writes?, I. Trotter Hardy

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No abstract provided.


Theological Librarianship: Toward A Profile Of A Profession, Andrew J. Keck, Rashelle S. Karp Jan 1996

Theological Librarianship: Toward A Profile Of A Profession, Andrew J. Keck, Rashelle S. Karp

Faculty Publications

Theology touches almost everyone at one time or another. The librarians who maintain, preserve, and disseminate theological information are critical to the perpetuation of theological study and enlightenment. However, the literature of librarianship is strangely silent on the topic of theological librarianship and especially on issues that are unique to theological librarians--those who work with theologically or religiously focused collections or libraries that support the education and training of people preparing for the ministry.


The Nazca Lines, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1996

The Nazca Lines, Andrew Sluyter

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No abstract provided.


Veracruz (State), Andrew Sluyter Jan 1996

Veracruz (State), Andrew Sluyter

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No abstract provided.


Effects Of Wage Discrimination On Employment And Firm's Location, Yeung-Nan Shieh Jan 1996

Effects Of Wage Discrimination On Employment And Firm's Location, Yeung-Nan Shieh

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No abstract provided.


Higher-Order Associative Processing In Hermissenda Suggests Multiple Sites Of Neuronal Modulation., Ronald F. Rogers, Louis D. Matzel Jan 1996

Higher-Order Associative Processing In Hermissenda Suggests Multiple Sites Of Neuronal Modulation., Ronald F. Rogers, Louis D. Matzel

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Two important features of modern accounts of associative learning are (1) the capacity for contextual stimuli to serve as a signal for an unconditioned stimulus (US) and (2) the capacity for a previously conditioned (excitatory) stimulus to "block" learning about a redundant stimulus when both stimuli serve as a signal for the same US. Here, we examined the process of blocking, thought by some to reflect a cognitive aspect of classical conditioning, and its underlying mechanisms in the marine mollusc Hermissenda. In two behavioral experiments, a context defined by chemosensory stimuli was made excitatory by presenting unsignalled USs (rotation) in …


The Interactive Effects Of Disability, Race, And Gender On Job Placement Decisions, Dianna Stone, Erik Eddy, Megumi Hosoda, Scott Behson Jan 1996

The Interactive Effects Of Disability, Race, And Gender On Job Placement Decisions, Dianna Stone, Erik Eddy, Megumi Hosoda, Scott Behson

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No abstract provided.


What Does One Do With White People Who Stay?, Terence E. Hays Jan 1996

What Does One Do With White People Who Stay?, Terence E. Hays

Faculty Publications

This article is a retrospective of Terence Hays and his early ethnographic experiences with the Ndumba and with those who had almost no contact with Europeans. Hays draws on other works by those who also played the "pioneer" role in their field work and discusses how the society has handled the impact from the first contact of the "true pioneers" who had arrived almost 20 years prior to Hays and the others. Many of the Highlanders already were drawing on their previous experiences with the Europeans to deal with them as a constant in their lives. Hays notes that even …


Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958) Biologist, Margaret Sylvia Jan 1996

Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958) Biologist, Margaret Sylvia

Faculty Publications

A biography of the biologist Rosalind Elsie Franklin whose work on x-ray crystallography contributed to Watson and Crick's elucidation of the structure of DNA.


Comment On The L, Susan Grover Jan 1996

Comment On The L, Susan Grover

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No abstract provided.


Green Helmets: A Conceptual Framework For Security Council Authority In Environmental Emergencies, Linda A. Malone Jan 1996

Green Helmets: A Conceptual Framework For Security Council Authority In Environmental Emergencies, Linda A. Malone

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No abstract provided.


Book Review Of Toxic Debts And The Superfund Dilemma, Ronald H. Rosenberg Jan 1996

Book Review Of Toxic Debts And The Superfund Dilemma, Ronald H. Rosenberg

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No abstract provided.