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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mental Health And Substance Abuse Services Preferences Among American Indian People Of The Northern Midwest, Melissa Lynn Walls, Kurt D. Johnson, Les B. Whitbeck, Dan R. Hoyt
Mental Health And Substance Abuse Services Preferences Among American Indian People Of The Northern Midwest, Melissa Lynn Walls, Kurt D. Johnson, Les B. Whitbeck, Dan R. Hoyt
Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications
This study examines factors that influence preferences between traditional cultural and western mental health and substance use associated care among American Indians from the northern Midwest. Personal interviews were conducted with 865 parents/caretakers of tribally enrolled youth concerning their preferences for traditional/cultural and formal healthcare for mental health or substance abuse problems. Adults strongly preferred traditional informal services to formal medical services. In addition, formal services on reservation were preferred to off reservation services. To better serve the mental health and substance abuse treatment needs of American Indians, traditional informal services should be incorporated into the current medical model.
An Introduction To Relevance Ranking Systems, Scott Childers
An Introduction To Relevance Ranking Systems, Scott Childers
UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications
An introduction to the concept of relevance rankings systems used by internet search engines and the impact on librarians.
The Art Of Leasing Negotiation In A Frenzied Environment, Bruce Johnson, Allen Prosch, Aaron Raymond
The Art Of Leasing Negotiation In A Frenzied Environment, Bruce Johnson, Allen Prosch, Aaron Raymond
Cornhusker Economics
Let’s face it. The farm economy across much of Nebraska has literally been turned upside down in the past few months by the “Ethanol Gold Rush.” Demand for corn has shot corn prices upward beyond $3.00 per bushel, when only a year earlier the harvest prices hovered around $1.50. Many expect these new price levels to hold, at least for the 2007 crop season.
December 2006 - Staff Meeting Minutes
Antecedents Of Transactional, Transformational, And Servant Leadership: A Constructive-Development Theory Approach, Marilyn J. Bugenhagen
Antecedents Of Transactional, Transformational, And Servant Leadership: A Constructive-Development Theory Approach, Marilyn J. Bugenhagen
Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Scholarship
This field study examined the antecedents of transactional, transformational, and servant leadership behaviors measured on continuum of constructive-development development theory.
Data collected from 54 leaders and 409 followers from community and educational leadership programs across the United States. A multi-level analysis conducted using hierarchical linear modeling combining leaders’ perception of their leadership behaviors, followers rating of leaders’ behaviors and measure of leaders’ level of constructive-development order.
Using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Avolio & Bass, 2004) and Servant Leadership Questionnaire (Barbuto & Wheeler, 2006) and correlated with constructive-development Order using the Subject-Object Interview (Kegan,1982; Lahey, Souvaine, Kegan, Goodman, & Felix, 1988) …
Making The Competition Irrelevant - The Blue Ocean Strategy, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel
Making The Competition Irrelevant - The Blue Ocean Strategy, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel
Cornhusker Economics
What if you were involved in a business where all the market trends were showing a decline, indicating limited potential for growth? Here is the reality - your primary customer no longer sees your product or service as important. Other products and services have simply pushed you out. Technology and globalization are making it increasingly difficult to compete. Your realistic assessment tells you that the cost cutting strategies you have been implementing can only take the business so far. In essence, the business appears to be going nowhere.
Thinking Of Changing Your Mind, Now That You Already Planted Wheat?, Matt Stockton, Roger K. Wilson
Thinking Of Changing Your Mind, Now That You Already Planted Wheat?, Matt Stockton, Roger K. Wilson
Cornhusker Economics
Because wheat prices had increased dramatically this past year relative to other commodity prices, and seemed to remain strong, some producers decided to plant wheat this fall on acres that traditionally were planted to corn or soybeans. With the recent upswing in the corn market these producers may now be wondering if they should stick with the wheat they already planted or reconsider their plans and plant corn.
Communicating Ethnicity: A Phenomenological Analysis Of Constructed Identity, Laura L. Pierson
Communicating Ethnicity: A Phenomenological Analysis Of Constructed Identity, Laura L. Pierson
College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses
This dissertation uses phenomenology, along with a constructionist framework, to explore the ways an ethnic community in central Texas constructs and communicates its cultural identity. The first goal of this study (RQ1) was to describe how the people of Norse, Texas experience ethnicity. The second goal of this study (RQ2) was to discover how this ethnicity was communicatively constructed and maintained. The third goal of this study (RQ3) was to learn how the relationship between ethnic identity and communication contributes to the creation of shared meanings within the community. The fourth goal (RQ4) of this study was to describe the …
Most Popular Downloads -- November 2006
Most Popular Downloads -- November 2006
Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information
Most Popular Full-Text Downloads for November 2006 from DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Includes listing of 366 documents, with linked URLs and number of times downloaded. Also total number of files downloaded, and total number of downloads for November 2006.
Types Of Communication Triads Perceived By Young-Adult Stepchildren In Established Stepfamilies, Leslie A. Baxter, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Leah A. Bryant
Types Of Communication Triads Perceived By Young-Adult Stepchildren In Established Stepfamilies, Leslie A. Baxter, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Leah A. Bryant
Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications
This study was an analysis of the kinds of residential parent-stepparent-stepchild triadic communication structures expressed in interviews with 50 college-aged children from established stepfamilies. In an interpretive analysis of the interview transcripts, four communication structures were identified. In the linked triad the stepchild relied on indirect communication with the stepparent through his or her residential parent. The outsider triad was characterized by the stepchild communicating primarily with the residential parent with limited awareness of interdependence with the stepparent. In the adult-coalition triad the stepchild perceived that the residential parent and stepparent had formed a coalition, leading to cautious and distrustful …
Corruption And Democratic Performance, Levente Littvay
Corruption And Democratic Performance, Levente Littvay
Department of Political Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This dissertation introduces new quantitative methods to comparative politics. These include an approximately unbiased missing data treatment, a first order autoregressive multilevel model for the analysis of cross-sectional longitudinal data, approaches for the separation of cross-sectional and longitudinal predictor effects to identify aggregation bias and a model for the empirical analysis of causal direction. Methods are demonstrated on a model replicating past research on the causes of corruption adding democratic performance as a predictor, than a new model of democratic performance is developed to test Warren’s theoretical propositions that corruption is by nature undemocratic, and finally the causal direction between …
The Market Acceptance And Welfare Impacts Of ‘Terminator’ Technology, Marianna Khachaturyan, Amalia Yiannaka
The Market Acceptance And Welfare Impacts Of ‘Terminator’ Technology, Marianna Khachaturyan, Amalia Yiannaka
Cornhusker Economics
An Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) system is effective when infringers can be identified, successfully sued for damages and deterred from further infringement. The effectiveness of IPRs in plant varieties is limited due to high detection costs of unauthorized use of seed that embodies intellectual property (e.g., genetically modified (GM) seed) and high enforcement costs. Seed companies have traditionally performed limited research and development (R&D) in self-pollinating plants mainly because seed saving limits their ability to recoup their investment.1
Economics Of Management Options For Lake Mcconaughy, Ray Supalla, Thomas V. Buell
Economics Of Management Options For Lake Mcconaughy, Ray Supalla, Thomas V. Buell
Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature
The amount of water stored in Lake McConaughy reached a historical low in the Fall of 2004 and again in 2006. In 2005 and 2006 CNPPID irrigators received less than a full supply of Lake McConaughy water for the first time since the system came on line over 60 years ago. Electric power interests, recreation interests and the regional economy have also been adversely affected by low water levels. What, if anything should the State of Nebraska do to minimize the adverse impacts from this situation and/or prevent it from developing again in the future?
The most critical policy issue …
The Cost Of Reducing Irrigation, Ray Supalla
The Cost Of Reducing Irrigation, Ray Supalla
Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature
For several decades Nebraska has proudly and appropriately regarded irrigation development as an important source of economic growth. However, in some parts of the state we now have too much of a good thing! To meet our Compact obligations to Kansas and Colorado in the Republican Basin and to comply with the proposed Cooperative Agreement for the Platte Basin we must find a way to consume less irrigation water. The cost of reducing irrigation and the equity implications will depend on what methods the state uses to achieve this objective.
We recently estimated the costs to irrigators and to the …
Water Optimizer: A Tool For Decision Support And Policy Analysis, Derrel L. Martin, Ray Supalla
Water Optimizer: A Tool For Decision Support And Policy Analysis, Derrel L. Martin, Ray Supalla
Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature
Water Optimizer is a tool for analyzing alternative water management strategies when the available water supply is limited. It can be used by producers to determine the profit maximizing crops to produce and the optimum amount of water to apply to each crop, given a particular water supply. It can also be used to evaluate the economic consequences of public policies which expand or reduce the amount of irrigation.
The Water Optimizer model can compute the profit maximizing strategy for producers located in any county in Nebraska where there is significant irrigation. This can be done for three different soil …
Deracialization Or Racialization: The Making Of A Black Mayor In Jackson, Mississippi, Byron D. Orey
Deracialization Or Racialization: The Making Of A Black Mayor In Jackson, Mississippi, Byron D. Orey
Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications
In 1997, Harvey Johnson made history by becoming the first black to be elected as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Four years prior, Johnson failed to make the Democratic primary runoffs. The following research question is addressed: what explains Johnson’s victory in 1997, when compared to his defeat in 1993? In answering this question, I rely heavily on elite-level interviewing and newspaper accounts. I also examine the black and white vote for Johnson, using aggregate-level election and census data. Gary King’s Ecological Inference technique is used to examine these data. Based on the findings, I conclude that Johnson ran a deracialized …
Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection Bibliography - Volume Ii: English And European Languages (2000), Shaista Wahab
Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection Bibliography - Volume Ii: English And European Languages (2000), Shaista Wahab
Digitized Afghanistan Materials in English from the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection
In December 1995, the first volume of this bibliography was published. Volume I included all the Pashto and Dari language titles that were in the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection at that time. Volume II includes English and European language materials. This volume contains titles that were added to the Collection prior to January 1998. The Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection is one of the largest collections of research materials on Afghanistan and serves scholars from around the world.
November 2006 - Staff Meeting Minutes
Guidelines For Preparing Pdf Documents, Paul Royster
Guidelines For Preparing Pdf Documents, Paul Royster
Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information
Brief guidelines for making PDF files from MS Word or InDesign (or other) software systems. 2 pages; non-technical.
The Narrative Of Lieutenant Colonel L.R. Stacy, C.B., Bengal Native Infantry, Whilst In The Brahooe Camp, Inducing The Submission Of Nasseer Khan, Only Son Of The Late Meer Meerab Khan, Khan Of Khelat; And In The Subsequent Operations Of General Nott's Army In Its March To And Its Return From Kabul. (1884) , Lewis Robert Stacy
Digitized Afghanistan Materials in English from the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection
19th century history of Afghanistan and the relationship between Afghanistan and Britain.
Retailing Patterns Across Nebraska In 2005, David J. Peters
Retailing Patterns Across Nebraska In 2005, David J. Peters
Cornhusker Economics
Understanding your local trade area is important because retail sales taxes are an important source of revenue for local governments; and the geographic concentration of retailing directly affects smaller communities. This analysis provides some base information that allows a better understanding of local trade areas. It should be considered a first step in developing a larger trade area plan and strategies for expanding the retail sales base. Pull factors are the best method to summarize the relative success of an area’s retail sector. Pull factors estimate the relative proportion of retail sales that a county draws from outside its borders, …
The ‘Meat-Ax’ On The Desktop: A Digital Edition Of Cather's Early Journalism, Andrew Jewell
The ‘Meat-Ax’ On The Desktop: A Digital Edition Of Cather's Early Journalism, Andrew Jewell
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
Willa Cather's work as a journalist, writing for mostly Lincoln and Pittsburgh newspapers when she was in her twenties, is a remarkable and wide-ranging body of work that offers significant insights into major critical questions about Cather and American literary and cultural history. Since her writings were largely critical responses to theatrical productions, books, and music, the articles provide a detailed and rich record of her emerging aesthetic sensibilities during this crucial period of development. Additionally, since she covered such a wide variety of performances, companies, and works, her journalism offers a detailed view of the culture of the 1890s …
Researching With The Web Of Science & Refworks, Dana W. R. Boden
Researching With The Web Of Science & Refworks, Dana W. R. Boden
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
No abstract provided.
The Economics Of Dry Distillers Grain As A Creep Feed For Yearling Cattle, Matt Stockton
The Economics Of Dry Distillers Grain As A Creep Feed For Yearling Cattle, Matt Stockton
Cornhusker Economics
With the expected increase in ethanol production, one may expect an increase in production of its by-product, distiller’s grain. This by-product can be either sold as wet distiller’s grain (WDG) or as dry distiller’s grain (DDG). The value of DDG prices is expected to continue to fall relative to the value of corn, making this a much talked about alternative for feeding livestock of many different species. While much of the attention for the use of this by-product feed has been directed toward intensive livestock production such as dairy, hogs and fed cattle, recent work at the West Central Research …
Nebraska Network 21 — Summary Of Visionary Food Systems Curricula Action Team, Governor’S Task Force On Agriculture And Natural Resources Education, Dick Fleming
Nebraska Network 21: Papers and Reports
Nebraska Network 21 was established as a result of a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources to creatively meet the learning needs of Nebraskans in the 21st century. One outcome was establishment of the Visionary Food Systems Curricula Action Team. The Action Team held Summit I on Reinventing Agriculture and Natural Resources Education on Feb. 10, 1998 and Summit II on Nov. 19, 1998. Both Summits attracted more than 100 Nebraskans from across the state. Following Summit II, the Legislative Committee proposed establishing a group that would maintain …
Market Journal Toolbox, Becky Small, Darrell R. Mark
Market Journal Toolbox, Becky Small, Darrell R. Mark
Cornhusker Economics
Producers often rely on cash market sales without the use of forward contracting, futures hedging and other risk management tools for several reasons. Some producers perceive that the use of hedging lowers their net price or increases price variability on average. Others view hedging as a risky price enhancement mechanism that is reliant on being able to successfully forecast futures prices. Selling crops or livestock that have not yet been raised, paying margin calls and dealing with brokers are all viewed as risk-inducing activities for some farmers and ranchers. Many producers indicate their use of forward contracting and hedging is …
Most Popular Downloads -- October 2006
Most Popular Downloads -- October 2006
Digital Commons / Institutional Repository Information
The 200 most-often downloaded documents (plus ties) from the UNL Digital Commons for October 2006. Includes links to the documents.
10 Tips For Turning Your Career Dreams Into Reality, Carla Kimbrough
10 Tips For Turning Your Career Dreams Into Reality, Carla Kimbrough
College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Faculty Publications
Few things excite me like the chance to teach about turning dreams into reality. Add the opportunity to talk one on one with dreamers, and I have the makings of a perfect day. I had the chance to do both at the 2006 SPJ Convention & National Journalism Conference in Chicago.
So how do you turn your dreams into reality? Start by turning your dreams into a goal that's specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic and time sensitive. From there, incorporate these 10 tips into your life.
Perceptions Of Latin American Immigration Among Rural Nebraskans, Rebecca J. Vogt, Randolph L. Cantrell, Miguel A. Carranza, Bruce B. Johnson, Alan J. Tomkins
Perceptions Of Latin American Immigration Among Rural Nebraskans, Rebecca J. Vogt, Randolph L. Cantrell, Miguel A. Carranza, Bruce B. Johnson, Alan J. Tomkins
Publications from the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI)
In an earlier Nebraska Rural Poll report (August 2006), rural Nebraskans were asked their opinions of newcomers in general to their community. Some parts of rural Nebraska have seen significant growth of a specific group of newcomers, Latin American immigrants. How do rural Nebraskans view recent immigrants from Latin America? How do they view various immigration policies? Do their views differ by community size, the region in which they live, or their education level?
This report details 2,482 responses to the 2006 Nebraska Rural Poll, the eleventh annual effort to understand rural Nebraskans’ perceptions of current issues and conditions. Respondents …