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Divining Peace From Political Terrorism In Mozambique: A Case For Negotiating With Terrorists, Kevin H. Ellsworth

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Marriott School Of Management: Study Of Alumni Perceptions On Various School Of Management Functions, Brent Powell, Ken Ozawa, Don Tweet, Todd Hendricks

Student Works

The Marriott School of Management (MSM) has interest in finding out how alumni and supporters perceive the MSM, and the effectiveness of their communication. The MSM's primary communication with the alumni is Exchange magazine. Larry MacFarlane, editor of Exchange (under the direction of K. Fred Skouson, Dean of the Marriott School of Management), has requested Image Marketing to find out how the alumni perceive the MSM and Exchange magazine. This research will help in directing their strategic plan to students, alumni, and recruiters. Image Marketing is comprised of Brent Powell, Ken Ozawa, Don Tweet, Todd Hendricks and Thomas Jones.

Boethius Among The Navajo, Donald F. Duclow

Quidditas

The title "Boethius among the Navajo" may require some explaining. This essay comes from my teaching of "The Healing Journey," a cross-disciplinary course on suffering and healing. Taking a page from Viktor Frankl, the course centers on the role of meaning in responding to illness and grief and in promoting recovery. Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy has represented the classical tradition in the course, and the social science readings included, among others, an essay entitled "Navaho Medicine" by Donald Sandner, a Jungian analyst. In addition, Sandner's book, Navaho Symbols of Healing, provides a detailed, careful study of Navajo medicine men …

Employment-Based Health Insurance And Job Mobility: Is There Evidence Of Job-Lock?, Brigitte C. Madrian

Faculty Publications

This paper assesses the impact of employer-provided health insurance on job mobility by exploring the extent to which workers are "locked' into their jobs because preexisting conditions exclusions make it expensive for individuals with medical problems to relinquish their current health insurance. I estimate the degree of job-lock by comparing the difference in the turnover rates of those with high and low medical expenses for those with and without employer-provided health insurance. Using data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, I estimate that job-lock reduces the voluntary turnover rate of those with employer-provided health insurance by 25 percent, from …

Wendell J. Ashton: Advocate, Publisher, Civic Leader, Val L. Peterson

Theses and Dissertations

Wendell J. Ashton has been described as a pacesetter in the communications field in the Intermountain West. He was a trailblazer in public relations in the early days of his career at Gillham Advertising. His life has been filled with challenges such as publisher of the Deseret News, director of the LDS Church Communications Department, principal in Gillham Advertising, and various civic and community activities.

Ashton's communications career was one of innovator and pioneer as he helped forge the public relations industry in the Intermountain West. His career has followed in the footsteps of many other professionals such as …

The Effect Of Health Insurance On Retirement, Brigitte C. Madrian

Faculty Publications

FOR DECADES health insurance in the United States has been provided to most nonelderly Americans through their own or a family member's employment. This system of employment-based health insurance has evolved largely because of the substantial cost advantages that employers enjoy in supplying health insurance. By pooling large numbers of individuals, employers face significantly lower administrative expenses than do individuals. In addition, employer expenditures on health insurance are tax deductible, but individual expenditures are generally not.¹

Despite these cost advantages, there is widespread dissatisfaction with this system of employment-based health insurance. Many people are excluded because not all employers …

My Parents' Lives, Hazel R. Morse

The Bridge

Scandinavians settled with those of their own kind and

language, being drawn by relatives and friends who had

gone before them, but also through newspapers circulated

among them. Den Danske Pioneer was widely read among

Danes and may well have been the source of information

about the settling of northeastern Montana. Mr. E. F.

Madsen, an immigrant and intellectual who had made a

scouting trip to that area about 1905 urged other Danes to

settle together and establish a Danish colony.

Mary Dilberg's Memories, Charles Berg, Edel Berg

The Bridge

Mary Jensen Dilberg wrote the following account, in

English, in 1972. She was born in Aarhus, Denmark, on

November 4, 1891, sent out to earn her own living at age 12

and journeyed to America by herself in 1911 where she

spent time in Red Lodge, Montana, Ord, Nebraska, and

finally settled in Bothell, Washington, near Seattle, where

she spent most of her adult life except for a four year return

to Nebraska from 1919 to 1923.

Effects Of Soil Structure On Burrow Characteristics Of Five Small Mammal Species, John W. Laundré, Timothy D. Reynolds

Great Basin Naturalist

Burrows of small mammals can impact a variety of soil processes including organic turnover, aeration, and mineralization rates. The structure of burrows, depth, length, and complexity can influence the extent of the impact burrows have on soil processes. Soil properties, in turn, are thought to affect burrow structure. To increase our understanding of burrow-soil dynamics, we compared maximum depth, total volume, total length, volume:length ratio, and complexity of burrows of five small mammal species with bulk density of soil texture in multiple regression analyses. Burrows of Wyoming ground squirrels (Spermophilus elegans) were deeper, longer, and more complex as …

Temporal And Spatial Patterns Of Small Mammal Density And Species Composition On A Radioactive Waste Disposal Area: The Role Of Edge Habitat, John D. Boone, Barry L. Keller

Great Basin Naturalist

Small mammal populations inhabiting radioactive waste disposal areas could be important vectors of contaminant redistribution, given sufficiently high numbers. Earlier studies conducted at the Subsurface Disposal Area (SDA) in southeastern Idaho found small mammal densities equaling or exceeding densities in native habitat. Our live-trapping study was conducted in 1988 and 1989 to assess the role of edge habitat (where SDA crested wheatgrass [Agropyron cristatum] plantings and native sagebrush habitat are separated by an earthen dike) in facilitating use of this highly modified site by small mammals. Small mammals had a significantly greater density in SDA edge habitat than …

Full Issue, Vol. 53 No. 4

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Human Fatalities Caused By Venomous Animals In Utah, 1900–90, Richard C. Straight, James L. Glenn

Great Basin Naturalist

An examination of death certificates at the Utah Bureau of Health Statistics from 1900 through 1990 indicates that Utah has a very low incidence of human fatalities due to venomous bites and stings. During this 91-year period, 20 fatalities were recorded from bee (10) or hornet (1) stings, spider bites (4), and rattlesnake bites (5). There were eight additional fatalities during the early part of this century recorded "insect bite," "apparently insect bite," or "unknown agent poisoning," some of which may have included spiders. No deaths were recorded from Gila monster or scorpion evenomizations, although in 1962 one death in …

Seasonal Trends And Colonization Patterns Of Macroinvertebrate Assemblages In Two Streams With Contrasting Flow Regimes, Christopher T. Robinson, G. Wayne Minshall, Lynn Van Every

Great Basin Naturalist

Patterns of colonization by macroinvertebrates were examined in two streams that differ in flow regime: a snowmelt system and a mesic groundwater system. Experiments were conducted during spring runoff, summer baseflow, and winter baseflow using artificial substrata. Colonization patterns reflected seasonal changes in benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages and life histories in each stream. The density and biomass of benthic organisms were approximately 3× greater in winter than in either spring or summer for both streams. Similarly, colonization was greater in winter than in spring or summer for both streams. In spring, colonization patterns were different between streams, with colonization being imperceptible …

The Early Development Of East Asian Studies In Southern California, Ken Klein

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Half A Century Of Japanese Cataloging At Columbia University, Miwa Kai

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

O. H. Ammann's Return To New York, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann, Rudolf Meyer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Dear L.

Just returned from the snow-covered mountain heights of the St. Gotthard on a long ski ride. Am spending a few hours in this beautiful place, which, however, is at present quite desolate. The lake, the Pilatus look wonderful. If nothing intervenes I shall be home in 4 weeks. Shall go to Basel tonight and later to Kilchberg for a few days.

Othmar H. Ammann's Return To Switzerland, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Two beautiful and quiet days have already passed since we parted. The sea is so quiet and the sky so peacefully clear as to make one forget all dangers and sorrows. Besides, the pure air is so invigorating that I feel already much better and stronger than in New York, I am looking with confidence and pleasure to the future. I feel that my body and brain need a complete restoration and I will be the more vigorous and able to work afterwards. And how · about you? I still ·see the last looks from your dear eyes and the …

Letters From 1915 To The End Of The War, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann

Swiss American Historical Society Review

My dear parents,

Tomorrow the last steamship that can bring you our Christmas greetings is leaving, so that means: hurry. Just a few words, but from the heart.

One is carried along here in the non-ending stream of business so much that one can hardly catch one's breath in order to appreciate the ideal side of life. However, with the approach of the holidays, spirits are lifted. With great excitement and wonderment, young and old await the festive days. What will Christmas bring, how will the New Year begin? This is what each one is asking himself and with thousands …

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

Othmar H. Ammann's Military Service, Lilly Ammann, Othmar Ammann, Gustav Lindenthal

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Finally I get to write you a few lines from duty. As Papa probably has already informed you, I went from Basel to Monthal, where I met Mama and Werner, as well as Rosa and Manja Labhart from Moscow. Werner was very happy. He is thin but looks strong and healthy. He did not want to answer my question of whether he would like to come back to America with me after the war. But I am decided about bringing him back with me. On the same evening I also visited Onkel Hermann and David in Zurich. I also met …

Janet L. Abu-Lughod. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350., George Von-Der-Muhl

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Ttuantin-Suyo, Alphonso Lingis

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Women Of Covenant: The Story Of Relief Society By Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon And Maureen Ursenbach Beecher; Women And Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism Edited By Maxine Hanks; Natural Allies: Women's Associations In American History By Anne Firor Scott, Mary Stovall Richards

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Improvisor, A. H. Watkins

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Index, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

The Story Of The Truth, The Way, The Life, James B. Allen

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

John C. Calhoun, Jr., Meets The Prophet Joseph Smith Shortly Before The Departure For Carthage, Brian Q. Cannon

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Out Of Obscurity: The Emergence Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In “That Vast Empire” Of Russia, Gary L. Browning

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Full Report

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

Differential Responses To Nitrogen Form And Concentration For Oryzopsis Hymenoides And Elymus Lanceolatus, Robert S. Nowak, Cheryl L. Nowak, Jay E. Anderson

Great Basin Naturalist

In a greenhouse experiment, effects of nitrogen form and concentration on productivity and dry matter allocation differed between two species native to semiarid ecosystems of the Great Basin. Aboveground production of green surface area and of dry matter were consistently enhanced by increased nitrogen for the rhizomatous grass Elymus lanceolatus, but not for the bunchgrass Oryzopsis hymenoides. These differences were likely due to inherently low growth rates of O. hymenoides. Aboveground dry matter allocation also differed between the two species. O. hymenoides had more leaves per tiller with increased nitrogen, whereas leaf size but not number increased …