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The Structures Of Scientific Relativism, Charles J. Dougherty

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Few recent works have generated as much intellectual discussion as Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Yet given the impact this book has had on our understanding of science-its role in the demise of logical positivism, in the current outpouring of interest in the history of science, and in changes in science education - perhaps it is time now, some ten years after Kuhn's provocative Postscript, for still another look at his thesis. That is the purpose of this study. First, those elements of Kuhn's book which committed him to a scientific relativism are reconstructed. Secondly, …

New Host And Locality For Kathlania Leptura (Rudolphi) (Nematoda: Oxyurata: Kathlanidae), Daniel R. Brooks, Jack Frazier

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Marine testudines are known to host two species of kathlanid nematodes, Kathlania leptura (Rudolphi, 1819) Travassos, 1918 and Tonaudia tonaudia (Lane, 1914) Travassos, 1918, Each species has been reported infrequently but exhibits a wide geographic distribution. Both K. leptura and T. tonaudia have been reported from Ceylon and from the Mediterranean Sea near Egypt, and K. leptura has been reported also from the coast of Brazil (Skrjabin, Shikhobalova, and Lagodovskaya, 1964, in Skrjabin (ed,) Essentials of Nematodology, vol. 13, part 3, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, English translation, 1976, TT75-50011, U.S. Department of Commerce, NTIS, Springfield, Virginia 22151), This …

Newsletter Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 2, Number 3, September 1980.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

No abstract provided.

Computers For Word People: Review Of A Guide To Computer Applications In The Humanities By Susan Hockey And Computer Methods For Literary Research By Robert L. Oakman., David J. Nordloh

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Any mention of computers among humanists is likely to arouse strong passions, but they are no longer simply the older, more absolute passions of disdain on the one hand for any diabolical plot to train a machine to do human-or, in cases of concordancing and indexing, vaguely inhuman-work, or on the other a wholehearted acceptance of electric salvation from drudgery. They are now more complex emotions: interest in dramatic possibilities but uncertainty about ways to proceed, or happy installation of computer components and processes but an expensive fear that someone, somewhere, is doing the same work better and faster and …

A Dialogue: Peter Shaw And Robert J. Taylor On Editing The Adamses, Peter Shaw, Robert J. Taylor

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This dialogue is a feature of the Newsletter intended to promote that exchange of ideas for which the Association of Documentary Editing exists. Mr. Shaw was asked to focus his comments both on things done well and on things that might have been done differently-the latter request being an invitation to describe those alternatives to which an editor may, rightly, have said No. The review, with Mr. Shaw's name deleted, was sent to Mr. Taylor, who was asked to comment on the observations. Again, the intention is to foster instructive dialogue. Although the etiquette of some scholarly periodicals suggests that …

The Education Of Editors, Fredson Bowers

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Ever since the pre-meeting of this organization that I attended in Lawrence, Kansas, the association of historian-editors and of literature-editors has seemed to me to be an auspicious one. Each of our sides has a chance to discuss its own special disciplinary problems in a necessary and useful manner, but always with the consciousness that we are also talking to a similarly oriented group, though in another field. However, in addition, I note that some programming has deliberately fostered what it may be pompous to call "cross-fertilization" but what at least offers the opportunity to survey the one discipline's general …

Tort Recovery For Invasion Of Privacy: L.B. 394 (Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 20-201 To -211, 25-804.01 (Supp. 1979)), Steven P. Amen

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. The Protection of Privacy under L.B. 394 … A. The Original Goal … B. Protection against Appropriation of Name or Likeness … C. Protection of Solitude and Seclusion … D. False Light

III. Conclusion

On Responsibility In Ethnography, Mary Jo Deegan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Ethnographers have a serious responsibility to the people they study, the audience they address, and their colleagues to be both discrete and insightful about the human condition. Accordingly I read Kotarba's article with deep regret and professional distress. It is theoretically confused, methodologically unsound, and ethically questionable. Justification of these assertions is presented in the following pages.

[Kotarba, Joseph A. 1979 "The accomplishment of intimacy in the jail visiting room." Qualitative Sociology 3(Sept.) : 80-103.]

Federally Registered Pesticides For Vertebrate Control , R.W. Matheny

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

list of registered pesticides

Setting Up An Effective Urban Blackbird Roost Control Program, Sally S. Erdman

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

The City of Denton is situated 35 miles north of north-central Texas. This area is within one of the major N-S corridors for migratory birds. It is also far enough south so that winters are generally mild and open. The average rainfall of 30 inches sustains good stands of pecan and several species of oak, which serve as excellent roost sites for blackbirds. For the past several years, summering flocks of blackbirds have chosen Denton as a roosting site. Interviews with oldtimers here indicate that flocks of birds have always been around. It is only in recent years that their …

Water Current, Volume 11, No. 6, November/December 1979

Water Current Newsletter

Search Committee for NWRC Director
Research Priorities
Water Resources Seminar Series
Summary Report on Water-Facts Computer Game
Speakers at AWRA Conference
MRBC Approves FY 1982 Priorities
Progress Report on Implementation of Water Policy Initiatives
OWRT Announces Final Distribution of FY 79 and FY 80 Matching Grant Awards
Amending Water Legislation Introduced
Interagency Task Force Lists National Priorities
208 Planning Phased Out
Research Review: Development of a Manual on Alternative Irrigation Management Practices and Their Efforts on the Environment in the Great Plains

Pigeon Associated People Diseases, Walter Weber

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Feral pigeons (Columbia livia) are not harmless birds. Many potential infections of humans silently exist in pigeons which are not apparent. They have the potential for transmission of over 30 diseases to humans plus another ten to domestic animals. Environmental pollution from pigeon droppings is quite evident. Air pollution involves more than noxious gases from automobile exhausts and belching smokestacks. One serious air pollutant is air-borne fungi, which are agents for infectious diseases. There is much information written about the problem, but it remains primarily in the professional journals and technical references, neatly stacked away on library shelves. …

Attitudes Of Canadians Toward The Control Of Red-Winged Blackbirds, Robert G. Clark, Rodger D. Titman, J. Roger Bider

Bird Control Seminars Proceedings

Each year across Canada, millions of dollars of damage to agricultural crops can be attributed to vertebrate pests. Estimates for 1975 indicated that approximately $240,000,000 damage was incurred by agricultural pests (Solman et al. 1975). Worldwide impact of these pests must certainly be staggering, especially during the current trend of rising production costs and demand for food. In Canada and the United States, pest control programs may be attacked by increaseingly active and vocal environmental groups. Recently, the killing of blackbirds (Icteridae) and starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) in Kentucky and Tennessee evoked strong objection (Graham 1976, 1978; Jackson 1976). As a …

The Probe, Issue 2 - October 1979

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Contents:

WHEN IS A PELT NOT WORTH TAKING?
NEWS FROM DISNEY WORLD, D.C.
NADCA TAKES A STAND AT "SCOPE" HEARINGS
THERE'S A NEW KOOK ON THE BLOCK
ADC LOSES ANOTHER SHELL GAME
NADCA MEMBERSHIP IS A PRIZE
TRAP TIPS
Vice-President Homer S. Ford
Region I Director - Willard E. Nelson
Region II Director - Clyde R Madsen
Region III Director - Wesley R. Jones
Region IV Director - John C. Jones
Region V Director - Howard A. Merrill
Bird related topics

Faculty Development With English Departments: Composition Resources, Fred Gilliard

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

College English departments generally teach classes in literature, composition, and language. The latter two have suffered because of preoccupation with the former, but have recently been more heavily emphasized in classrooms. Supposed declines in the communication skills of students earned notoriety through press releases about low SAT scores in the mid-1970's, raising a popular consciousness about basic skills; since the appearance of Newsweek's "Why Johnny Can't Write" in 1976, English teachers in the public schools and their teachers in the universities have-along with television, elective courses, a permissive society, etc.-been held accountable for the "communication crises." Unresolved debate continues …

Pod Quarterly: The Journal Of The Professional And Organizational Development Network In Higher Education (Summer 1979)

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Cover Page

Contents Page includes Editorial, Articles, Departments, Evaluation, POD Core Committee, Feedback Forum.

Contributors, Summer 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Attraction Increases And Decreases As A Function Of Emotion-Attribution And Appropriate Social Cues, Richard A. Dienstbier

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

To study the impact of startle-induced arousal on attraction, blindfolded subjects in a “vestibular function” study were startled by a loud noise accompanying the sudden backward tilt of the dental chair in which they were seated. In Study I startled male subjects indicated (on a “postexperimental” questionnaire) greater attraction toward a pretty female experimenter than did control subjects. Study II demonstrated the reverse, with startled male subjects disliking a male experimenter more than controls. In Study III, female subjects startled by a male experimenter indicated greater attraction than controls, although the pattern of their responses differed from males. While an …

Faculty Development: An Historical Perspective, Rosemary Park

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

On this program concerned with faculty development I have been asked to speak about the past, when there was no concept of faculty development as we know it and little concern on the institution's part or on the profession's for the growth and continuing vitality of the teaching staff. It was an age of unshared authority and of free enterprise where some succeeded and others failed, and no one cared to know why.

My brief account of more than 300 years of educational history may induce a comparative euphoria, and in that sense it belongs to the end of this …

Book Reviews, Spring 1979

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Teaching Students by Donald Bligh et al., reviewed by Glenn F. Nyre

On College Teaching, ed. by Ohmer Milton, reviewed by Luann Wilkerson

Helplessness: On Development, Depression, and Death by Martin E. P. Seligman, reviewed by Lance C. Buhl, Ph.D.

Nueva Especie Del Género Acanthobothrium Van Benedem 1849; Cestode: Tetraphyllidea De Myliobatis Peruvianus Garman 1913, Ruperto Severino L., Luz Sarmiento B.

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Se describe Acanthobothrium gonzalesmugaburoi n.sp. (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea: Onchobotriidae) hallado en la válvula espiral de 10 ejemplares de "raya aguila" Myliobatis peruvianus Garman, 1913, procedentes del litoral peruano. Difiere de las demás especies del género, por el número y distribución de los testículos y por la longitud total del gancho. Huésped y localidad se señalan por primera vez.

1978-1979 Pod Members

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

No abstract provided.

The Book Of The Pawnee: Pawnee Stories For Study And Enjoyment, Marge Critcher, Carolyn Boyum, Patti Huff, Paul A. Olson, Rosemary Bergstrom

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I. Meeting the Pawnee ............................... 1

II. Pawnee Beliefs .................................. . 3

The Pawnee Creation Story ...................... 3

The Boy Who Was Sacrificed ..................... 8

III. Pawnee Hero Stories ............................. 14

Lone Chief ................................. 14

Little Warrior's Counsel. ................ . . . .... 27

IV. Pawnee Folk Tales ............................... 30

The Snake Brother ........................... 30

Mosquitoes ................................. 37

V. Boy Stories .................................... 39

The Boy Who Talked with Lightning .............. 39

The Boy and the Wonderful Robe ............... .42

The Boys, the Thunderbird, and the Water Monster .. 50

VI. Coyote Stories .................................. 54

Coyote and the Blind Buffalo ................... …

A Few Great Stories Of The Santee People, Edna Peniska, Paul Robertson, Robert Frerichs, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Told by Many Nineteenth Century Santee and by Edna Peniska and Paul Robertson of the Modern Santee.

Gathered and Edited by Robert Frerichs and Paul A. Olson.

The fact that every known culture and civilization has acquired some sort of set of sacred stories is important. The eleven sacred stories in this work have multiple purposes. They possess a value as sheer entertainment; they also tell truths and lessons which explain the meaning of existence. Thus the Santee listener could fmd his place in the world and achieve an inner harmony through hearing stories. The characters in these stories are …

Call For Sessions And Directory Information

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Call for Sessions

Address Changes/Corrections to 1978-1979 POD Directory

Directory Supplement

Ec79-1205 Landscaping Your Home, Clark Jenson, Donald Steinegger

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Extension Circular 79-1205 is about landscaping your home.

The Book Of The Omaha: Literature Of The Omaha People, Paul A. Olson, Wallace Wade Miller (Thio-Um-Baska)

Department of English: Faculty Publications

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface ..................................... ix

I. The Creation .................................. 1

II. When Man Came to the Earth .................... .4

III. The Bringing to the Creation of a New Life ........... 5

IV. The Osage Creation Story ........................ 7

V. The Child is Placed in the Cosmos, in the Tribe, and in the Tribe's Fight .............. 9

VI. The Sacred Pole ............................... 15

VII. The Divisions of the Tribe and Colors .............. 19

VIII. Corn ....................................... 22

IX. The Buffalo Hunt ............................. 27

X. Ponca Buffalo Ritual (related) ................... .46

XI. The Corn Song

XII. Another Osage Creation Story .................... …

The New Humanists In Nebraska: A Study Of The Mid-West Quarterly (1913-1918), R.D. Stock

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

Contents

INTRODUCTION.................... vii

CHAPTER 1: THE NEBRASKA HUMANISTS................... 1

Section One: Prosser Hall Frye.......................... 1

Section Two: Sherlock Bronson Gass....................... 6

Section Three: Philo M. Buck, Jr..................... 10

Section Four: Hartley Burr Alexander..................... 13

Section Five: Louise Pound........................ 16

Section Six: W. G. Langworthy Taylor.......................... 19

CHAPTER 2: MAJOR THEMES AND OTHER WRITERS IN THE Mid-West Quarterly........................... 24

Section One: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Literary Criticism....................24

Section Two: Education.................... 28

Section Three: Political Philosophy: Justice, Colonialism, the First World War............ 31

CONCLUSION...................... 38

NOTES.......................... 43

INDEX TO THE Mid-West Quarterly.......................... 49

INDEX...........................53

Reviewing The Reviewers, William B. Willcox

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The present level of reviewing for our editions is, to my mind, lower than that of the editing itself. Leave aside the occasional critics, high priests of ipsissima verba, who bemoan our textual impurities; look at the average, run-of-the-mill review. It normally contains a paragraph of mild praise for the editing, a paragraph on what the editee, if there is such a word, was doing in the period covered (this can often be written from the jacket blurb), and a paragraph that points out a few errors or, for lack of them, challenges a few specific editorial comments. The result …

Recent Books Of Note--October 1979

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Let the Oppressed Go Free, 1861-1867, Volume V of The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison. Edited by Walter M. Merrill--Selected Studies in Bibliography, by G. Thomas Tanselle.