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Dorothea And The 'Key To All Mythologies', Daniel Tyler

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

In Middlemarch, the 'dead hand' of Edward Casaubon, which seeks to take hold of his wife's future, is applied by two documents. The first is the codicil to his will which endeavours to prohibit Dorothea marrying Will Ladislaw by imposing the condition that to do so she must relinquish her inheritance. The second is the 'Synoptical Tabulation' in which he expresses the intention to have her continue his work on the 'Key to all Mythologies'. As early as 1873, it was observed by Henry James that the subsequent narrative is dominated by the repercussions of the codicil: 'Mr Casaubon's death …

Review Of Such Silver Currents: The Story Of William And Lucy Clifford, M. Chisholm

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

This is the first biography to record the shared and separate lives of an unusual couple, a mathematical genius called William Clifford and his literary wife, Lucy. Their biographer, M. Chisholm, has had to confront the problem of different lives and interests since the Cliffords shared only four years of marriage, but she has arranged a considerable amount of research sensibly, showing where their concerns diverged and coincided. During their time in London (1875-9) the Cliffords were at the centre of a fascinating group of celebrities, literary and scientific, who were drawn to their Sunday afternoon salons. We are likely …

Review Of Our Town On The Plains: J. J. Pennell's Photographs Of Junction City, Kansas, 1893-1922 By James R. Shortridge, Alfred Young Man

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The nineteenth-century settlement of the Great Plains coincided with a number of technological developments, including improved railroad equipment, the steel plow, and the agricultural combine. Photography was among these technical developments, ensuring that the process of settlement would be both celebrated and recorded. The history of Junction City, Kansas, is bound up with such technological developments. Located near the junction of the Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers, it grew close by the site of Fort Riley in north central Kansas and became a railroad town and county seat by the 1870s. By 1890 the community was prosperous and its economy …

What Do The Faculty Think? The Importance Of Concerns Analysis In Introducing Technological Change, Heekap Lee, Amy Lawson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Change management strategies tend to focus on the inherent characteristics of the proposed change. However, there is a personal side to change and it is reflected in what are called perceptions or personal concerns. To manage change successfully, facilitators must take measures to understand the personal concerns had by those who are required to implement the change. Moreover, this concerns analysis should be done early in the project, ideally before the change is implemented. The purposes of this chapter are to explain the importance of conducting a concerns analysis and to propose a theoretical framework for concerns analysis. The framework …

Harnessing The Potential Of Online Faculty Development: Challenges And Opportunities, Timothy P. Shea, Pamela D. Sherer, Eric V. Kristensen

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This chapter explores several issues regarding the current state of online faculty development resources. First, it describes the breadth and depth of today’s online teaching and learning resources. Then, it explains the benefits of designing an institutional teaching and learning center portal as a means for organizing and focusing resources. Finally, it discusses the importance of the faculty developer’s role in harnessing these resources for individual and institutional advantage. The online portal provides a powerful tool for institutional change on a scale heretofore impossible for most, and puts faculty development at the center of an institution’s mission.

The Millennial Learner: Challenges And Opportunities, Suandra Y. Mcguire, Dennis A. Williams

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Students enrolled in college today are, in many respects, quite different from students enrolled a few decades ago. Learners today seem more focused on being credentialed, and less concerned with obtaining a broad-based, liberal arts education. Today’s faculty may find it challenging to provide engaging learning activities for this generation of students. Millennial educators must instill in students a desire to think critically and provide them with strategies that will make them more efficient learners. Campus learning centers and faculty development centers can work together to foster an academic climate that helps all students to realize their full academic potential.

The Graphic Syllabus: Shedding A Visual Light On Course Organization, Linda B. Nilson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Students rarely understand how a course is organized from the week-by-week topical listing in traditional syllabi. This chapter explains a teaching tool called a graphic syllabus, which elucidates (and may improve) course design/organization and increases student retention of the material. It may resemble a flow chart or diagram or be designed around a graphic metaphor with another object. Included here are materials, experiences, and graphic syllabi from a workshop conducted several times on how to compose one (involving about 115 faculty and faculty developers). Graphic representations of text-based material appeal to the visual learning preferences of today’s students and complement …

A Modified Microteaching Model: A Cross–Disciplinary Approach To Faculty Development, John P. Hertel, Barbara J. Millis, Robert K. Noyd

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Three departments at the United States Air Force Academy successfully used a microteaching model to train new faculty. Like other models, its structured approach used videotaping and peer coaching. The model also contained several unique features, including a cross-disciplinary approach to supplement feedback from department members and focused small group feedback with built-in preparation time. Thus, this model results not only in enhanced teaching performance, but also in departmental and institutional collegiality.

Bibliography, Volume 20 (2002)

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Bibliography for volume 20 (2002) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.

The Nebraska Death Penalty Study: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Robert F. Schopp

Nebraska Law Review

A symposium-issue introduction to the articles resulting from a panel discussion at the February 2002 “Nebraska Death Penalty Study: An Interdisciplinary Symposium” at the University of Nebraska.

Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 4 - Age Differences Among Judges Regarding Maternal Preference In Child Custody Decisions, Leighton Stamps

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Over the last 30 to 40 years, sweeping changes have occurred in societal attitudes toward divorce. These changes have been reflected in the laws governing divorce and child custody as well as in the increasing rate of divorce in the United States. Just as divorce laws have changed, making the divorce process much less difficult, there have also been dramatic changes in custody and visitation statutes. From the mid-1800s until the 1960s, maternal preference was the general rule in the large majority of judicial custody decisions. During this period, the mother’s “natural ability” to nurture the child was considered as …

Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 4 - Complete Issue

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 4 - Index Of Volume 38

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 4 - Editor's Note

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

In the lead article in this issue, court consultant Roger Hanson examines the implications of the changing role of the judge. He rightly notes that judging today is not exactly what it was 30 years ago and asks how changes in the perceptions of the proper judicial role have affected the behavior of judges. For most of us, we tend to do our jobs on a daily basis without conscious thought about the various roles we play (e.g., law applier, mediator, policy maker), let alone the expectations of others about our performance of each of those roles. Although Hanson draws …

Court Review: Volume 38, Issue 4 - Drug Treatment Programs: Policy Implications For The Judiciary, Arthur H. Garrison

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Drug use in the United States has been cited for the growth in American prisons over the past decade. Heroin, once considered a drug to be avoided and scorned, has had resurgence in use by middle-class youth and white-collar professionals due to the increased purity of the drug and the lack of need to use needles for ingestion. Naltrexone has been used as a method of helping heroin addicts to end their drug dependency, but such programs have limitations in their use and effectiveness. This paper is drawn from an evaluation of a drug treatment program in Wilmington, Delaware. The …

2002 Trafficking In Persons Report, U.S. Department Of State

Human Trafficking: Data and Documents

Over the past year, at least 700,000, and possibly as many as four million men women and children worldwide were bought, sold, transported and held against their will in slave-like conditions. In this modern form of slavery, known as “trafficking in persons,” traffickers use threats, intimidation and violence to force victims to engage in sex acts or to labor under conditions comparable to slavery for the traffickers’ financial gain. Women, children and men are trafficked into the international sex trade for the purposes of prostitution, sex tourism and other commercial sexual services and into forced labor situations in sweatshops, construction …

Alcohol And Young People: Promoting Benefits And Reducing Risks (In Chinese), Ian Newman

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Behind The Veil? Catharine Sedgwick And Anonymous Publication, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Catharine Sedgwick's name appeared on the title page of only one of her books published during her lifetime, her 1835 Tales and Sketches, a volume collecting pieces that had originally appeared in the annually published "gift books" in the preceding nine years. Sedgwick is the earliest writer included in Mary Kelley's influential book on women's authorship, Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America, and Kelley claims that women writers published anonymously or pseudonymously because of the great anxiety that appearing in public through the medium of print caused them: "The literary domestics could write and, as …

Ec02-179 Managing Livestock Manure To Protect Environmental Quality, Michael A. Reynolds, Brian L. Benham, Richard B. Ferguson, Christopher G. Henry, Charles A. Shapiro, James P. Stack, Charles S. Wortmann

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This book covers the land application part of manure management. With increasing regulations, the livestock producer needs to understand the scientific principles that affect manure transformations and how to use these principles to manage the manure for maximum fertilizer value with minimal environmental impact. Improved land application of manure is one part of the solution, but we suggest that the producer evaluate the quantity of nutrients arriving on the farm as feed, animals, and fertilizer compared to the total that is exported. Achieving a nutrient balance will reduce potential environmental hazards often associated with animal agriculture.

Evolving Questions And Comparative Perspectives In Cultural/Historical Perspective: Lessons From Research In Ngecha, Kenya, Carolyn Pope Edwards

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

In studying human development in cultural-historical context, we must integrate multiple levels of analysis and strive to identify culture’s imprint inside the contexts of socialization. Issues of methodology are complex. This paper argues that both comparative and historical-interpretive studies are valuable and indeed generative for each other, using as an example an international, collaborative research project focused on East African women and changing childrearing values. The site was Ngecha, a Gikuyu-speaking community in the Central Province of Kenya, during a period of rapid social change from an agrarian to a wage earning economy shortly after national independence (1968-1973). The experiences …

Performing Marriage: Marriage Renewal Rituals As Cultural Performance, Leslie A. Baxter, Dawn O. Braithwaite

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This interpretive study examined how the marriage renewal ritual reflects the social construction of marriage in the United States. Two culturally prominent ideologies of marriage were interwoven in our interviews of 25 married persons who had renewed their marriage vows: (a) a dominant ideology of community and (b) a more muted ideology of individualism. The ideology of community was evidenced by a construction of marriage featuring themes of public accountability, social embeddedness, and permanence. By contrast, the ideology of individualism constructed marriage around themes of love, choice, and individual growth.

Passing The Torch Of Wildlife And Fisheries Management: Comparing The Attitudes And Values Of Younger And Older Conservation Professionals, Robert M. Muth, Rodney R. Zwick, Martha E. Mather, John F. Organ

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

Wildlife-related values in American society are undergoing considerable change. Within the last few decades, non-consumptive recreational use of wildlife has increased dramatically; groups that subscribe to animal protection values (ranging from animal welfare to animal rights to animal liberation) are exercising increasing influence over wildlife policy, and the ranks of people who practice wildlife rehabilitation have grown significantly. In this time of questioning and change, it should not be surprising that the attitudes and values of conservation professionals are in transition as well. Within many agencies and academic institutions, the traditional focus on game management (Geist et al. 2001) is …

A Study Of Sign Language In Clump Anzees, Kelli Bacon

Nebraska Anthropologist

One of the hot topics in anthropology concerns the debate over chimpanzee communicative and lingual abilities. This paper will offer evidence gatheredfrom studies by Allen and Beatrice Gardner, Roger Fouts, Maury and Jane Temerlin, Herbert S. Terrace, T G. Bever, and Sheri Roush who all used American Sign Language (Ameslan) to teach their students Washoe, Lucy, Bruno, Booee, Cindy, Thelma, Nim, Moja, Pili, Tatu, Dar, Loulis, and Ally. Each of the studies lfas tailored differently, but many of the results were the same. This, in itself, might be evidence for some level of lingual ability, but some scholars such as …

Justifying Capital Punishment In Principle And In Practice: Empirical Evidence Of Distortion In Application, Robert F. Schopp

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction . . . . . 806

II. Judicial Opinions: Inappropriate Application . . . . . 808

A. Justice Blackmun in Callins . . . . . 808

B. The Roots in Furman and the 1976 Cases . . . . . 809

C. Principle and Practice . . . . . 811

D. Empirical Evidence . . . . . 814

III. CP as Constitutional or Just Only If Applied Precisely . . . . . 815

A. The Initial Argument . . . . . 815

B. CP Kills People . . . . . 817 …

Death Penalty Research In Nebraska: How Do Judges And Juries Reach Penalty Decisions?, Richard L. Wiener

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction . . . . . 757

II. Aggravating Factors as Predictors of the Death Sentence Outcomes . . . . . 764

III. Number of Aggravating Factors, Mitigation, and Predicting Death Sentences . . . . . 768

IV. Socioeconomic Status of Victims and Sentence Outcomes . . . . . 772

V. Minorities Advancing to the Penalty Phase in Capital Cases . . . . . 773

VI. Conclusion . . . . . 776

Evaluating Empirical Research Methods: Using Empirical Research In Law And Policy, Jennifer K. Robbennolt

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction . . . . . 777

II. Social Science Methods and Legal Questions . . . . . 779

A. Archival Research – The Nebraska Death Penalty Study . . . . . 780

B. Experimental Research – Death Qualification and Penalty Phase Instructions . . . . . 785

III. Obstacles to Evaluating Empirical Methodology . . . . . 789

A. Biased Assimilation . . . . . 790

B. Methodological Background . . . . . 795

IV. Strategies for Evaluating Empirical Research . . . . . 797

A. Explore the Tensions . . …

Teaching And Learning In Honors, Cheryl L. Fuiks, Larry Clark

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs

Introduction Rinda West
A Review of the Research on Personality Characteristics of Academically Talented College Students Larry Clark
Fundamental Issues In Honors Teaching: Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom on the Wired Campus Larry Crockett
Community Building In Honors Education Linda Rutland Gillison
Teaching Critical Thinking In the Honors Classroom Laird Edman
Cooperative Learning In Honors Education Cheryl L. Fuiks
Honors Composition: Thoughts on Pedagogy Stewart Justman
Promoting CriticaL Thinking Through Classroom Discussion William Taylor
Using Technology In the Honors Classroom Larry Clark and Larry Crockett
A Review of Pedagogy In Honors Courses Cheryl L. Fuiks and Linda Rutland Gillison
Conclusions …

Summary Of Working Group Activities, Cyril Arney

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

HFW 2002

Shape of the 20th Century

Carl Jung (1875-1961)

Shape of human progress

What is correct HFE model?

The problem redefined

Behavioral Science

Behaviorism

Human behavior is complex

The Conclusions

Effectively Including Human Factors In The Design Of New Facilities, Johan Hendrikse, Kevin Mcsweeney, Eileen B. Hoff, Paul Atkinson, Gerry Miller, George Connor, Ben Poblete, Rick Meyer, Pat O'Connor, Hilde Heber

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

Human error is a major cause of incidents in the offshore industry. For example, in the Gulf of Mexico region in 1998, 38% of all incidents were attributed to human error with an additional 9% of incidents resulting from slips, trips, and falls (MMS 2000-021, OCS Report). Human Factors, when integrated during the design of a new offshore facility, can reduce the potential for human error and the occurrence of unfortunate incidents.

Quite often the implementation of Human Factors (HF) during design is disregarded because of the notion that it will add unacceptable costs. Review of the cost/benefit data contained …

Application Of Human Factors In Reducing Human Error In Existing Offshore Facilities, Jeffrey Thomas, Clifford C. Baker, Thomas B. Malone, John T. Malone, Christina L. Hard, Ivan C. L. Rezende, Sally Caruana, Mark Witten

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

Human factors engineering (HFE) is the scientific and engineering discipline concerned with improving human performance and reducing human error in complex systems. HFE represents a merging of behavioral science and systems engineering and is directed at integrating people into the workplace. The discipline had its start in the aviation and aerospace industries.

The objective of HFE is to minimize the potential for human error and accidents by ensuring that the human can perform assigned activities as efficiently and effectively as possible. At a very basic level, a definition of human error can be “any deviation from expected human performance” (Senders …